Lewis: 5152 books

How did the son of Irish immigrants outrow blueblood scullers from Oxford and Cambridge to become one of the most famous athletes of his time? Award-winning author Wendy A. Lewis recounts the compelling story of the "Boy in Blue," from his childhood on the Toronto Islands, where he rowed...

Una adaptación para chicos del cláSico de Lewis Carroll. Alicia es una pequeña niña que se encuentra descansando junto a su hermana a orillas del río, cuando de repente ve un conejo blanco que pasa apurado cerca de ella. ¿A dónde la llevará ese misterioso conejo? A una de las aventuras más...

This classic picture book is now available as an eBook read by the author! Come along for the ride as a busy toy locomotive makes its rounds through a bustling playroom. Featuring rhyming couplets and bright, bold illustrations brought to life by Kevin Lewis's lively narration, this story is sure to be a hit with young train lovers.

Come on. Come on, I thought to myself. I'd just lost him. I'd gotten so close, but then he vanished! I rushed over to the school. I knew Amelia Saunders was attending class today, and I had to make sure she was safe. That was when I saw him in the classroom. He was sitting in the seat next to her....

Mia Kazmaroff has a gift nobody wants. She's able to tell the story behind any object simply by touch. It's a gift that comes in handy when her only brother, a detective with the Atlanta Major Crimes Division, is murdered. Determined to find his killer, Mia reaches out to the one person in Atlanta...

**With an Introduction by Max Allan Collins The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant** London. The late 1960s. It's Christmastime and Jack Carter is the...

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions tempts its main character into breaking his vows. This edition is based on the first edition of 1796, which appeared before Lewis’s revisions to avoid charges of blasphemy.

It’s murder in Napa Valley in this “thrillingly knowledgeable, insider’s odyssey into the world of fine wines [and] . . . particularly lurid homicides” (Anthony Bourdain).   With a stroke of a pen, prominent wine critic Richard Wilson lives to elevate and, more often, destroy winemakers’...

Ted Stevens is a capable, respected trial attorney whose drinking problem and impending divorce have sent him on a downward slide. His appointment as defense counsel in a high-profile murder case seems to offer a chance at redemption. The opportunity, however, isn't without risks. The victim—a local...

Troy Brink responds to the urgent call of a friend only to find himself thrust into a struggle for control of a technology that powers three intelligent super-weapons. He clashes with a religious extremist group and a clandestine tech organization as he tries to make sense of the cryptic messages left behind by the weapons' creator.

A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker. Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The...

In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Flower Fables [Louisa May Alcott] Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks [Horatio Alger, Jr.] The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen] The Girl of the Golden West [David Belasco] The Professor [Charlotte Brontë] The Head of the House of...

Asian Delights Korean, Chinese And Japanese Delicious Recipes Cookbook is a must for anyone who loves the magnificent ancient history of these three exotic beautiful East Asian countries. You will be amazing and delighted to learn about the Asian Delights that exist in these three ancient countries...

From celebrated art historian, curator, and teacher Sarah Lewis, a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors—from innovation to the arts—are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both...