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Vice
One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. A riveting memoir by Baker, California's most-decorated police officer
Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm...
The Best Travel Writing 2010
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth,...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Written by locals, Fodor's Essential Vietnam travel guidebook offers expert advice and insider tips for all tastes and budgets. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease and make the most out of your visit to Vietnam. Join Fodor’s...
Laughter, The Best Medicine: Those Lovable Pets
Reader's Digest Funniest Pet Jokes, Quotes, and Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
People are funny, but so are the animals we love-and our day-to-day relationships with them can be even more entertaining. Dogs and cats obviously rule the comedic roost, but parrots, parakeets, and other talking birds are often an endless source of amusement as well. Even our connection to bunnies,...
by Jean d' Ormesson
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Ce livre - Dieu me pardonne ! - est un roman sur Dieu, sur son œuvre, sur les hommes et sur rien.
" Disons les choses avec simplicité, avec une espèce de naïveté : il me semble impossible que l'ordre de l'univers plongé dans le temps, avec ses lois et sa rigueur, soit le fruit du hasard....
by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2014
EXTRAIT:
POURQUOI ne vous dirais-je point cette histoire Madame ? Vous êtes trop spirituelle sans doute pour n’avoir pas des moments d’ennui comme une sotte ; — car les gens d’esprit de cette intéressante époque ont volé aux sots la faculté...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years.
Packed with information on more than 40 ports of call and a dozen ports of embarkation, Caribbean Cruise Ports of Call is a comprehensive guide to everything from sightseeing...
The Best Travel Writing 2008
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel...
Avrah Ka Dabra. Creo quel che dico
Vivere una vita felice risvegliandosi al Momento Presente
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Come i personaggi delle fiabe vittime di un incantesimo, così anche l'umanità è immersa in un sonno inconsapevole, che dura da millenni. La maggior parte degli esseri umani dorme pensando di essere sveglia e vive quindi in una condizione del tutto simile a quella degli schiavi. Vi state chiedendo...
Troublemaker
Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The 2010 candidate for Senate—and established political "troublemaker"*--voices the quiet anger in America today: where it comes from, what it's asking for, and where it's going from here
*Time Magazine
From the moment she upset a heavily-favored incumbent in the primary...
by Dan Emmett
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A rare inside look at the Secret Service from an agent who provided protection worldwide for President George H. W. Bush, President William Clinton, and President George W. Bush
Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's...
The End of Greatness
Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Presidency has always been an implausible—some might even say an impossible—job. Part of the problem is that the challenges of the presidency and the expectations Americans have for their presidents have skyrocketed, while the president's capacity and power to deliver on what ails the nations...
Bosnia's Million Bones
Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is now giving justice to families from Iraq to Bosnia
What would it be like to be tasked...
Fodor's Essential Greece
with the Best Islands
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
Greece is the ultimate Mediterranean getaway. Impossibly blue seas, gorgeous beaches, whitewashed alleyways draped in pink bougainvillea,...