Jo Jo: 4296 books

Three years ago, during a chance encounter in Cuba, I was asked why I'd never been to Ecuador. I mumbled, for I could think of no good reason. And so thought I'd better find out more for myself. What treasures I discovered! From ancient Inca sites constructed on top of settlements build...

Solomon's Oak is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her Central California farm. She makes ends meetby hosting weddings in the chapel her husband had...

Freed by seismic activity, fireworms stream out of the vents and lava pools of the volcano and head for the surface. With a volcano about to erupt and the rest of his team missing or dead, volcanologist Mags Lewis is following protocol and wondering how he'll get out of this mess. His boss...

¿Cómo atrapas a un asesino cuando tú eres el principal sospechoso? En la cuarta entrega de la serie, el atormentado detective Harry Hole tendrá que cruzar la línea que separa lo legal de lo ilegal para resolver unos crímenes que no son lo que en un principio parecían. Las cámaras...

What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is life like for young people living on the fringe of global cities in late modernity,...

Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield are back with more wonderful ideas for fun outdoors even in the most challenging weather! Imagine -    jumping in the biggest puddle you can find! -      Or running barefoot and feeling squidgy mud ooze up between your toes!   -      Or run up the nearest hill...

This darkly gothic collection of stories explores the unsettling borderland between reality and the supernatural. Ranging from early twentieth-century France to 1960s South Wales and contemporary Europe, Jo Mazelis' singular vision and poetic language creates characters caught up in events and...

Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period. Jo Labanyi's...

How can we save America's wilderness areas? Wilderness and the Common Good argues that the answer to this question lies in the actions of America's citizens. Beginning with The Wilderness Act of 1964, Dr. Jo Arney examines the state of American environmental policies and how they intersect with individual...

Dünyada romanları 15 milyon satan İskandinav polisiyesinin 1 numarası Jo Nesbo "İntikam arındırır" Çağdaş polisiyenin en etkileyici başkahramanlarından Harry Hole ile tanışın... Oslo'da bir banka soygunu sırasında banka görevlisi öldürülünce,...

This is a fascinating window into the development of the women's movement in the words of those who moved it. Compiled and introduced by the UK-based anarchist-intellectual collective Dark Star, Quiet Rumours features articles and essays from four generations of anarchist-inspired feminists, including...

In time for the bimillennium of Ovid's relegation to Tomis on the Black Sea by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Jo-Marie Claassen here revises and integrates into a more popular format two decades of scholarship on Ovid's exile. Some twenty articles and reviews from scholarly journals have been shortened,...

While driving in the Italian countryside, eleven-year-old Jackie's father suddenly collapses at the wheel. Fear for her father's life quickly turns to terror when two Italian men kidnap her and drive to their remote home in the countryside. Jackie soon discovers that her captors are actually a family,...

“A demonstration of outstanding skills on the river of American literature.” —Entertainment Weekly "Bonnie Jo Campbell has built her new novel like a modern-day craftsman from the old timbers of our national myths about loners living off the land, rugged tales as perilous as they...