Samuel: 2879 books

"Why?" is absurdist and experimental work that was written by a writer who wanted to travel down new and intriguing paths of this important style of fiction- and prose-writing. "Why?" is an avant-garde mess of words that turn to sentences, to sections and then, to chapters. If...

Avril 2011, à Nantes, une femme, quatre enfants et deux chiens sont retrouvés enterrés sous la terrasse de leur maison. Seul manque le père de famille, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, désormais principal suspect. Tandis que l'enquête piétine, les théories se multiplient sur les réseaux sociaux,...

Nel folto di una foresta norvegese immersa nel silenzio, c’è qualcosa di inatteso. Qualcosa di crudele. La giovanissima vittima è impiccata a un albero e ha al collo l’unica traccia lasciata dall’assassino: un cartello con scritto Io viaggio da sola. La gravità del crimine spinge la polizia...

Compiled while Nelson Mandela was still in prison, 'In the Prison of His Day's is one of the earliest books about Mandela to have been published in the English language. 'This miscellany of writings was brought together to mark Nelson Mandela's seventieth birthday. Given that prison walls have surrounded...

For those who love New England, here is a matchless portrait by one of its most distinguished artists and observant admirers. Samuel Chamberlain photographed New England for more than forty years, examining it from every angle and capturing its unique spirit and enduring character with the lens of...

Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).

Today's arsenal of war contains some of the most sophisticated weapons ever seen on the battlefield. The technological revolution has drastically altered how war is fought and brought about the invention of some highly unusual (and effective) weapons. In the recent war with Iraq, we caught a glimpse...

International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime A six-year-old girl is found in the countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and...

Samuel Rawson Gardiner was a prominent historian who specialized in 17th-century English history.  Some of Gardiner’s best known books are on historical figures such as Oliver Cromwell, and events such as The Puritan revolution and the English Civil War.  This edition of The Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648 includes a table of contents.

The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices...

Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....

In this far-future classic, sexual attraction is a science, gender is a whole new construct, and information is both precious and perilous . . . With a burst of radiation to the brain, an angry young man is transformed into a dim-witted slave—suitable only for the most brutal work. But...

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines...

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the...