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A New Baby Is Coming! by R. W. Alley (Illustrator)
Category: Parenting | Series: Elf-Help Books for Kids
Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. The act of framing – not frames in themselves – provides a creative and critical approach to English as a subject. Re-frami ...Show more
A New History of England A New History of England by Jeremy Black
Category: History | Series: Classic Histories Ser.
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first century in somewhat reduced circumstances. Jeremy Black steers his way through the l ...Show more
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
Category: Culture | Series: New History of Western Philosophy
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy - the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us ...Show more
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
Category: History | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along - a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and edit ...Show more
A Night of Secret Surrender by Sophia James
Category: Fiction | Series: Gentlemen of Honour Ser.
He was her first love... Now she'll risk all to save him. Celeste Fournier once gave her innocence to the man she loved. Years later, that same man, Major Summerley Shayborne, is in Paris, and in danger! Celeste's world has changed beyond recognition, but she knows she must help Shay flee. Yet their sco ...Show more
A Passion for Haunted Fashion by Rose Pressey
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Haunted Vintage Mystery Ser.
Vintage clothing store owner Cookie Chanel agrees to be in charge of costumes for a production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Sugar Creek Theater. She's surprised to find the specter of a young woman in the theater--and a desperate killer waiting in the wings. Includes fashion tips. Original.inal. ...Show more
A Past Unearthed - Return of the Condor Heroes Volume 1 by Jin Yong; Gigi Chang (Translator)
Category: Fantasy | Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes Ser.
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" New Yor ...Show more
A Past Unearthed - Return of the Condor Heroes Volume 1 by Jin Yong
Category: Fantasy | Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes Ser.
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" ...Show more
A People's History of Europe - From World War I to Today by Raquel Varela
Category: History | Series: People's History Ser.
This concise people's history of Europe tells the story of the last hundred years of a very old continent and the ordinary people that shaped the events that defined it from World War I to today. From the Russian Revolution, through May '68 and the Prague Spring, to the present day, we hear from femi ...Show more
A People's History of Tennis by David Berry
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: People's History Ser.
Pristine lawns, tennis whites, strawberries and cream, tennis is synonymous with the upper echelons of society, but scratch beneath the surface and you'll quickly discover a different history, one of untold struggles on and off the courts. From the birth of modern tennis in Victorian Britain to the ...Show more
A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution by Raquel Cardeira Varela
Category: World History | Series: People's History Ser.
On the 25th April 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Portugal's fascist Estado Novo government as the Portuguese people flooded the streets of Lisbon, placing red carnations in the barrels of guns and demanding a 'land for those who work in it'. This became the Carnation Revolution - an international ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Magnus Pym, high-ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on- for a missing husband, a devoted father and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of ...Show more