Herman: 1212 books

Il capitano Achab che con la sua baleniera e il suo equipaggio va a caccia dell'enorme balena bianca è entrato nell'immaginario collettivo ed è una vera e propria icona della narrativa moderna. 'Moby Dick' racconta di questo avventuroso duello, lasciando ampio spazio a riflessioni e osservazioni...

An affair with a much older voice teacher leads a young girl into early marriage, leaving behind her Brooklyn family and friends for a new life shadowed by her husband's Old World expectations. Decades later, with her child now pursuing an art career in New York, mother and son come to terms with the...

Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking...

When a call for a Holy War unites the Arab world, a politically and militarily weakened U.S. president dispatches a squadron of F-15 fighter planes to the volatile Middle East. Reprint. NYT.

Call to Duty is a novel of epic scope and breathtaking adventure that races at mach speed between two deadly wars -- one waged five decades ago against a madman with dreams of world domination, the other to be fought tomorrow against well-armed dealers in poison and death. For there are times that...

When fear becomes a weapon...When a few good men go bad...America will be consumed by the fire that burns within.

The dreaded nuclear nightmare came some years after Americas unsuccessful Middle Eastern Wars. A Soviet submarine off the Californian coast accidentally fired a missile causing a violent chain reaction throughout the world. Months after the initial firing most of the globe has been turned into a radiation...

Madeline Turner, the first female U.S. President, has already weathered global crises during the first months of her administration. But the balance of power has suddenly shifted dangerously and dramatically in Europe—the Russian government has fallen into the hands of a criminal—and a fearsome,...

After losing her panpipes, shy Trill convinces some other music-talent fairies to try less traditional instruments in the upcoming Oceanside Symphony concert.

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hangzhou : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

He has been writing poetry over the past 45 years and seem to enjoy ro-mantic poetry more so than any other form. However, he has shown the ability to write other forms,including the writing of speeches. He began writing around 15 years old as a first year high schooler. By the time he became a senior...

This collection of poems contains dreams and visions that arise from a deep place within the collective unconscious and take form in images and words. The poems represent people and things that have inspired the author and transcend the darkness often found within us. They are a journey from that darkness into the light.

This is the story about an alliance between two families that saved the land and preserved the living 'ohana by heroic commitment to what it is to be Hawaiian. Over two centuries, the continuity in family leadership and the persistent use of education and partnership are woven into the 'Ohana's tapestry...

In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to...