Non Fiction category: 7616 books

Does your son play video games for hours but dreads reading? Does he think history is just a bunch of boring old facts? What if you could give him the excitement of screen time and at the same time spark his love of reading and history? Now you can, with these exciting tales of World War II...

Does your son play video games for hours but dreads reading? Does he think history is just a bunch of boring old facts? What if you could give him the excitement of screen time and at the same time spark his love of reading and history? Now you can, with these exciting tales of World War II...

This is the true story of Grace O’Malley, or Granuaile, who ruled on land and sea in Connaught over 400 years ago. A Pirate Queen and Chieftain, she became a legend. We meet Grace as a young girl on Ireland’s west coast. Her father is a strong chieftain and loves the sea. Despite her parents’...

“Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history.” —The New York Times Book Review Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story—and more. It’s an unflinching look at the U.S. government’s...

The Young Readers' edition of the bestselling adult non-fiction title Many critics believe Adam Gilchrist is the greatest wicketkeeper/batsman to have played the game, but Adam's huge popularity does not rest solely on his incredible track record. To his millions of fans around the world, it...

Fantastically Great Women Who Made History is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Kate Pankhurst's hugely successful, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, number one best-selling children's non-fiction title. This beautiful title looks at the stories, accomplishments and adventures of...

Shipwrecked! Murder and mutiny in remotest Patagonia by Alexandra Pratt Published by Moriarty Press It's 1740, and a British warship is wrecked on a remote island in Patagonia. But that is only the first of Midshipman Isaac Morris's problems. When mutiny among the crew leads to murder,...

Young readers will love this Han Solo book, packed with characters and adventures from the new Star Wars™ movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story™. Discover the new heroes, villains, aliens, droids, and vehicles from the movie, plus fan-favorites Han, Chewie, Lando, and the MillenniumFalcon. Improve your...

Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Peruvian and Japanese. Each of them is Latino. Thirteen young Latinos and Latinas living in America are introduced in this book celebrating the rich...

L'oppressione delle donne è una delle poche reliquie rimaste dai tempi antichi, un insieme di pregiudizi che gravemente ostacola il progresso dell'umanità. La donna fa da complemento all'uomo e lo migliora. Deve essere considerata un valore aggiunto al seno di una famiglia e non un animale da dominare, da possedere, da sottomettere.

A non-fiction children’s book based on an event in the author’s fathers life. This story is set in a small village located in Nigeria during the 1950’s. It is a story of discovery and family, with a touch of humor that comes from the innocence of a child.  

«La terra vergine non va dissodata in superficie con un aratro leggero, ma in profondità con un vomere affilato.» (Dagli appunti di un proprietario agronomo - Incipit di Terra vergine) Terra vergine è l'ultimo romanzo dello scrittore russo Ivan Turgenev, pubblicato nel 1877. Narra il fallimento dei giovani populisti del movimento dell'andata al popolo del 1874.

Edizione aggiornata con una prefazione di Vanni Santoni e una postfazione di Wu Ming 2 La storia e le storie dell’animazione robotica giapponese dalla sua nascita, nel 1972 con Mazinger Z, fino alla soglia degli anni Ottanta, in cui si individua un compimento dei temi emersi nel decennio...

Inspiré d'un fait divers dont tout le monde se souvient, ce récit alterne le témoignage direct d'un père privé de sa fille et les sentiments de la jeune fille, qu'elle exprime dans son Journal tenu au fil des évéments. Un homme s'enferme dans une grue, à plusieurs mètres de haut, avec le...