Jonathan: 5623 books
Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life
George Frideric Handel’s Messiah in Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world’s greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring …
In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland’s leading historians,...
by Jonathan Aquino
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
The original form of the magazine stories first appeared in Manila Bulletin and Philippine Star from 2005 to 2013 in my job as a freelance writer. I revised them all in the summer of 2016 in a way that they might become more rewarding to all the readers. We all need to find inspiration wherever we...
Mystery
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Victims.
The closing of the grand old Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna, who go there one last time for cocktails. But even more poignant—and curious—is...
by Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, classified by date of publication: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Juvenilia - Volume I by Jane Austen...
by Voltaire, Golden Deer Classics, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2019
50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics) Inhalt: Voltaire - Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Joseph von Eichendorff - Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein oder Der...
by Jonathan Edwards, R. A. Torrey, Andrew Murray
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This fantastic compilation brings you 5 of the greatest Christian classics on the Holy Spirit. Do you want to understand what the Scripture teaches about the Holy Spirit and get to know Him better in your own life? Are you interested in how the Holy Spirit has worked in revivals? If so, then this...
Gielgoodies! The Wit and Wisdom (& Gaffes) of John Gielgud
The Wit and Wisdom of John Gielgud
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
‘John Gielgud was not just a great actor: he was also a formidable wit, a brilliant raconteur – and a very naughty boy.’ – Simon Callow from the prologue.
This delicious feast of ‘Gielgoodies’, compiled by Gielgud’s biographer, reveals a less well‐known side to this celebrated...
Tall Ships and Tall Tales
a life of dancing with history
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Over the last 40 years, Jonathan King has brought history to life, re-enacting events such as the First Fleet’s voyage across the high seas to Botany Bay, the mutiny against ship’s captain William Bligh on the Bounty, Matthew Flinders’ troubled circumnavigation of Terra Australis, Ernest Shackleton’s...
by William Gibson, Mark Teppo, Bruce Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Before email,
before the world wide web,
before hackers,
Before sexting,
before always-on GPS,
before titanium implants,
before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,
before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,
there was cyberpunk.
And science fiction...
Royals and the Reich:The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany
The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of the Princes of Hesse and the important...
The Balfour Declaration
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue...
Hollywood's Last Golden Age
Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created...
Night Moves
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The master of the psychological thriller makes all the right moves in this new novel of spellbinding suspense.
Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That’s when...
American Wasteland
How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
What Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic and Brian Wansink did for mindless eating, Jonathan Bloom does for food waste. The topic couldn't be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset...