Leon: 1324 books

O diabo está à espreita Poucos escritores penetraram tão fundo na alma dos seus personagens quanto Leon Tolstói, dono de uma técnica narrativa certeira­ e cristalina. É o que pode ser visto em "O diabo", conto escrito em 1898. De origem autobiográfica – e provavelmente em razão...

When Leon was eight years old, his grandfather took him to a one-man stage performance titled, Papirena Kinder , or Paper Children. It told the story of a bereaved old man who, despite having raised five children, had been abandoned by all of them in his old age. All he had of them were their childhood...

Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her best-selling mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. With The Jewels of Paradise, Leon takes readers beyond the world of the Venetian Questura in her first standalone novel.Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and...

"Against the backdrop of the 1956 Sinai War, Uris provides a riveting portrait of a man caught in personal crisis." – Library Journal Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political...

On July 20, 1969 the whole world stopped. It was a day in which a man who grew up on a farm without electricity would announce, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." In this, the first ever biography of Neil Armstrong, Leon Wagener explores the man whose walk on the...

"Leon Stein’s gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor, past or present, should read."—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of...

The Spenders Harry Leon Wilson, american novelist and dramatist (1867-1939) This ebook presents «The Spenders», from Harry Leon Wilson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- DEDICATION -03-...

Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson, american novelist and dramatist (1867-1939) This ebook presents «Merton of the Movies», from Harry Leon Wilson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- DEDICATION...

The Bolsheviki and World Peace Leon Trotsky, russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist (879-1940) This ebook presents «The Bolsheviki and World Peace», from Leon Trotsky. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01-...

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of “unfit” members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilization, the restriction of immigration and marriages,...

The Lady Prefers Dragons Wish Stones, book 2 Katalina Leon Why choose one loving dragonman when you can have two? When Devon, a 32-year-old photographer, pulls an unusual stone from a witch's wish bag, little does she know her wildest dreams of adventure and a love affair...

Ewing's Lady Harry Leon Wilson, american novelist and dramatist (1867-1939) This ebook presents «Ewing's Lady», from Harry Leon Wilson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- DEDICATION -03-...

Fifty years after his first novel, Battle Cry, took the world by storm, Leon Uris returns to the topic that first inspired him to write books that captivate, educate, and thrill -- the Marine Corps. In the years following the Civil War, first-generation Irish-American Zachary O'Hara, son of...

“Your situation is always ambiguous, isn’t it, Guido?”, his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon’s soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. “The world we live in makes that necessary,” Brunetti...