Hughes: 1804 books
伊斯坦堡三城記
Istanbul:A Tale of Three Cities
Language: Chinese
Release Date: December 1, 2017
★牛津、劍橋最會說故事的歷史學家，花費10年心血琢磨愛戀的絕美之城！
★《絲綢之路》作者彼得．弗蘭克潘驚嘆：極富趣味，研究更是無懈可擊！
★《1453：君士坦丁堡的陷落》作者羅傑．克勞利盛讚：深具開創性，是值得矚目的成就！
★《經濟學人》《金融時報》《科克斯書評》《書單》《圖書館學刊》《紐約書訊》《華爾街日報》《衛報》《英國金融時報》《週日泰晤士報》《天主教先驅報》……英美各大媒體搶先報導、好評不斷！
★作家及節目主持人謝哲青、金鐘獎節目主持人吳鳳、PChome...
by Kathryn Hughes
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Le roman le plus bouleversant du moment
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À plusieurs décennies d’intervalle...
Deux histoires d’amour brisées en plein vol.
Deux destins de femmes au coeur meurtri.
Une simple enveloppe peut-elle contenir la clé du bonheur ?
Et le chagrin d’une...
The Complete Detective
The Life and Strange and Exciting Cases of Raymond Schindler, Master Detective
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
To anyone who has followed his career, Ray Schindler was the greatest detective of the mid-twentieth century. He was a pioneer in scientific detection before modern forensic science, and he handled more than 10,000 cases covering almost every crime recorded on the police blotter.
Rupert Hughes...
Hanging the Peachtree Bandit
The True Tale of Atlanta's Infamous Frank DuPre
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
On December 15, 1921, gunshots echoed across Atlanta's famous Peachtree Street moments before a handsome young man darted away from Kaiser's Jewelers. Frank DuPre left in his wake a dead Pinkerton guard and a missing ring. As Christmas shoppers looked on in panic, he raced through the Kimball House Hotel...
by Daniel Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Fifty-five of Daniel Hughes's final poems, containing distinctly insightful and literate meditations on themes of love, art, and hope.
by Alison Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A stumpy tail, mismatched paws, a long, drooly snout and the biggest dog heart that ever beat. In a celebration of what makes a pet unique, a little girl imagines how an odd assortment of parts combined to make the perfect dog. With spare, inviting text from Alison Hughes and charmingly offbeat illustrations...
Crime Wave
The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Crime movies inhabit dark and desperate worlds, yet they account for many of Hollywood's most triumphant successes. In full acknowledgement of this achievement, 'Crime Wave' offers an authoritative and informative, stimulating and entertaining guide to the crime movie phenomenon, from its early days...
The Big Sea
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers,...
Wild, Wicked & Wanton
101 Ways to Love Like You're in a Romance Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Are your days of being wild, wicked, and wanton long gone? Have you ever really lived--and loved--that way, anyway? Or does your inner romantic only come alive when you're flipping through the pages of your favorite bodice-ripper?
In Wild, Wicked, & Wanton, bestselling romance writers Christie...
by Lee Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
**A Kiwi cowboy and his stubborn horse (nicknamed 'Goddammityou-sonavabitch') ride through America.**Here's how an 'averagely dumb city-slicker' looking for something to do on his summer holiday saw Dances With Wolves and was seduced by the lure of the West. Together with a small stubborn horse rescued...
The Idea of Home
Autobiographical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
The Idea of Home is a collection of five autobiographical essays, in which John Hughes reflects on growing up in the Hunter Valley coal-mining town of Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, from which his mothers family fled during the Second World War.
Murder on Moloka'i
Surfing Detective Mystery Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
When Boston heiress Adrienne Ridgely strides into his Honolulu office, Surfing Detective Kai Cooke likes what he sees, but doubts what he hears. Adrienne’s sister, environmental activist Sara Ridgely-Parke, plunged to her death from a mule on Moloka‘i – the first fatal incident on the soaring...
Stilicho
The Vandal Who Saved Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The period of history in which Stilicho lived was one of the most turbulent in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal revolts and...
by Brenda Kimsey Warneka, Carol Hughes, Lois McFarland
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive…and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since...