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The Fury
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Gillian Bellaver's family is one of the wealthiest in the world. Robin Sandza's father Peter is a government assassin. The two teenagers seem to have nothing in common. Yet they are spiritual twins, possessing a horrifying psychic energy that threatens humanity. While dangerous and fanatical men vie...
Women of War
Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In their variety, the memoir, poetry, and fiction included in this exciting new anthology show the transitory nature of the literature of southern women who lived through a violent and defining crossroads in their lives. In rare and rediscovered excerpts and verses these women writers evidence the...
America 1844
Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The year 1844 saw a momentous presidential election, religious turmoil, westward expansion, and numerous other interwoven events that profoundly affected the U.S. as a nation. Author and journalist John Bicknell details these compelling events in this unusual history book. He explains how the election...
by Francois Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, François Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-language edition--is an essential read for fans and scholars of Chinese literature and the art of poetry in general.
Since its first publication in French in 1977,...
Wild Geese Returning
Chinese Reversible Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.
For nearly two thousand years, the condensed...
by J.A MacCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
The author compares Celtic mythology and religion with the beliefs of early Scandinavian society. Vikings and Norsemen who raided British shores ruled parts of Britain for centuries. The religion of the Scandinavians was the same as the religious beliefs and practices of their fellow Teutonic and...
Columbus: His Enterprise
Exploding the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
"The book is an idea that has finally found its time."--Publisher's Weekly "I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years."--Kurt Vonnegut
by Lucas Klein
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Selected as one of the sixty-five masterpieces for the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works
The fu, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature, most popular between the 2nd century b.c. and 6th century a.d. Unlike what is usually considered Chinese poetry, it is a hybrid...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
This work brings together eight Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics. When first gathered into one volume in 1908, the book was entitled Round the Fire Stories, since the author recommended that they be read ideally "'round the fire upon a winter's night." According to Barzun & Taylor...
Hiwassee
A Novel of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
This Stunning Novel is set near the end of the Civil War in the mountainous farm country of North Carolina—bordering on the Hiwassee River—a region where neighbor turned on neighbor and helpless families were preyed on by deserters from both armies and by violent gangs pretending to be military...
Mother and Me
Escape from Warsaw 1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
When bombs began to fall on Warsaw, Julian's world crumbled. His beloved governess Kiki returned to her family in Lodz; Julian's stepfather joined the Polish army and the grief-stricken boy was left with the mother whom he hardly knew. Resourceful and determined, his mother did whatever was necessary...
Middling Folk
Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Telling the stories of those who quietly conducted the business and built the livelihoods that made their societies prosper or fail, this account shows how one Scots-Irish American family, the Hammills-millers, wagon makers, and blacksmiths-lived out their lives against the backdrop of the American...
In the Fields and the Trenches
The Famous and the Forgotten on the Battlefields of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
From a Hall of Fame pitcher to a U.S. president, learn what an incredible impact World War I made on young men and women When it started, many thought the Great War would be a great adventure. Yet as those who saw it up close learned, it was anything but. In the Fields and the Trenches traces the...
Threshold of Fire
A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
It is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorious cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government. There is the Prefect Hadrian, a powerful...