Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic ExpeditionIn August 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. Their goal was to be the first men to cross Antarctica, ...9999903238287Caroline Alexander
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of FundamentalismWhen Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Here Mark Edmundson traces Hit...9999903237006Mark Edmundson
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
The Fall of the Soviet EmpireThe author of this volume was present during the final decade of the Soviet empire, first for Reuters, then for the Washington Post. While Dobbs watched, playwrights and elctrician...9999903234357Michael Dobbs
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
This work sets out to show how the rise of Nazism and World War II could have been avoided. From the end of World War I when British and French hubris made a strong League of Natio...9999903230854Richard Lamb
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
jueves, 21 de noviembre de 2024
When Dr Ben Givens left his home in Seattle - heading east with his Winchester and his hunting dogs in tow - he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered m...9999903227632Guterson, David
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2024
When Delaney Mossbacher runs over a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes the man to hospital. He leaves him $20 before returning to his privileged life in ...9999903220244BOYLE, T.CORAGHESSAN
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 12 de noviembre de 2024
ÿþIinadequate acknowledgement of women short story writers in standard anthologies is a cause for wonder or affront. How else, indeed, can you view it, given the riches overlooked?...9999903217565Boyle, T.Coraghessan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2024
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: the dazzling international bestseller from the author of The Virgin Suicides . a rollicking family epic like no other!9999903217053Eugenides, Jeffrey
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 8 de noviembre de 2024
Having become an instant local celebrity when he discovered a giant squid on the beach, 13 year-old Miles O'Malley now has to deal with some life-changing events which will accompa...9999903213000Jim Lynch
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
In this parallel world Karen inhabits the body of a fox and becomes the guide to a young man called Mowl who is caught up in a complex and dangerous mix of politics and religion. A...9999903211457N. M. Browne
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 1 de noviembre de 2024
Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention C...9999903206743Louis Sachar,
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
A NovelIn the award-winning film The Piano, writer/director Jane Campion created a story so original and powerful it fascinated millions of moviegoers. This novel stands independent of th...9999903203254Jane Campion Kate Pulling...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
Inis has run away from her husband and children. Her new neighbour Trixie is eighty-four years old and a hymn-singing Salvation Army veteran. Trixie's life is one of apparent calm ...9999903202615Lesley Glaister
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
A Holocaust Girlhood RememberedRuth Kluger is one of the child-survivors of the Holocaust. In 1942, at the age of eleven, she was deported to the Nazi "family camp" Theresienstadt with her mother. They would mov...9999903202554Ruth Klüger
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
'So, what do you do?' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter ... But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on...9999903200932Richard Price
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
A multi-generational novel set over the course of a day, The Other Side centers on the journey of Vincent and Ellen MacNamara. Married for sixty-six years, the two have seen their ...9999903200574Mary Gordon
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during the Second World War and taken to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist and huma...9999903199731Michaels, Anne
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer's countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state...9999903198239Nadine Gordimer
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
sábado, 12 de octubre de 2024
So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who w...9999903193876Richard Horne Helen Szirt...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
viernes, 4 de octubre de 2024
'I'm sick of all this pointless glamour,' his glamorous girlfriend said. 'I want a simple life.' If only Connor McNab had listened. Now Philomena is off to California, allegedly ...9999903187981Jay McInerney
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 17 de septiembre de 2024
Fifteen-year-old Michael and his friend Francis both feel betrayed when someone at their private school learns of Evgard, a secret fantasy world they created together, but when a s...9999903187820B. R. Collins
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 17 de septiembre de 2024
I Like it Like ThatBlair moves in with Serena and they're back to being best friends. But will the love-fest last or will they end up tearing out one another's newly highlighted hair? Nate is on the ...9999903187509Cecily von Ziegesar
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 17 de septiembre de 2024
The bestselling modern classic by Louis Sachar, with a plot that tangles and untangles, holding the reader in glorious suspense right up to the very end.9999903175278Louis Sachar
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
In the late 1930s, Erneste falls in love with Jakob. However, for Jakob, their affair was just a fling and he flees Switzerland for a new life in America. Three decades later, Erne...9999903170594Alain Claude Sulzer
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
Ben Warner is dizzy with boredom, working for the summer at Cod Almighty, his local fish and chip shop, when one evening a sexy young woman called Lila arrives with a bizarre invit...9999903169055Lucy Eyre
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
miércoles, 31 de julio de 2024
Today is Thursday. Today is 'hole' day. So, naturally, everyone is wearing their 'holiest' clothes. Even the class teacher, Mrs North...But she is soon to find out from Principle M...9999903152750Louis Sachar
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 2 de julio de 2024
There used to be a writer by the name of Merle Miller, who wrote that people in Hollywood are always touching you - not because they like you, but because they want to see how soft...9999903142935Bochco, Steven
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 11 de junio de 2024
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