She is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, author of such blockbuster exposes as 1904's The History of the Standard Oil Company, which actually contributed to the corporation's breakup in 1911. But in this 1900 work, as charming as it is important, American author IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) shows a softer side as she traces, with a laudatory and admiring spirit, the development...

Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great. Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation’s decline has continued. Today the danger is greater than ever before, and I have never...

Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years. She thought she needed the feeding tube, the surgeries, the wheelchair . . . Turns out her mother is a really good liar. After five years in prison, Patty Watts is finally free. All she wants is to put old grievances behind her, reconcile with the daughter who testified against her - and care for her new infant grandson. When Rose...

An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family’s own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. The West, he argues, is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. He...

For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all those living there were transferred to a single camp that became known as ‘the Jungle’. Until its dismantling in October 2016,...

When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy. Blurring the lines of...

Czytasz wciągającą historię kryminalną i ćwiczysz angielski!A Way Out of Hell to wyjątkowa książka do nauki języka angielskiego. Dzięki lekturze wciągającej historii poznasz współczesne angielskie słownictwo w kontekście, utrwalisz poprawne konstrukcje leksykalno-gramatyczne i przekonasz się, że nauka języka obcego może być przyjemnością!Opis fabuły:Wielka Brytania po tabloidowej aferze...

Czterech nastolatków spędza wakacje w leśnym domku dziadka jednego z chłopców.  Pewnego ranka starszy pan znika. Jedyne ślady, jakie po nim zostają, to tajemniczy medalion i biblioteka pełna dokumentów dotyczących rządowych prób nuklearnych i wycinków prasowych na temat zdarzeń w Strefie 51... Powieść science fiction The Eldritch Club to wyjątkowa propozycja dla...

No home library is complete without the classics! The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Other Stories brings together the essential works from Arthur Conan Doyle in an elegant, leather-bound, omnibus edition—a keepsake to be read and treasured. There is one literary detective who stands above all others, whose powers of deduction are known the world over, whose influence can...

The final volume of Virginie Despentes searing trilogy of urban life in a time of turmoil and uncertainty.

Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood From the 13 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove 'You can be whatever you want to be, but that's nowhere near as important as knowing that you can be exactly who you...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BUZZFEED, AND BOOKLIST As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of...

Heinrich Faust, ein angesehener Forscher und Lehrer zu Beginn der Neuzeit, zieht die Bilanz seines Lebens und kommt zu einem doppelt niederschmetternden Fazit: Als Wissenschaftler fehle es ihm an tiefer Einsicht und brauchbaren Ergebnissen, und als Mensch sei er unfähig, das Leben in seiner Fülle zu genießen. In dieser verzweifelten Lage verspricht er dem Teufel seine Seele, wenn es diesem...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood-along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. With a new bonus chapter In Talking as Fast...

A must-have gift for every collection-from the die-hard Maze Runner fan to the YA book lover just coming to the series to the binge reader who's catching up before wathcing the blockbuster movie franchise! This boxed set has all of the paperback books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order, and The Fever...

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller-nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or...

The biography of one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, which became the basis for the hugely successful Broadway show Hamilton.

Novela póstuma que consta de cinco partes. Un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX, por las ruinas de una cultura y una civilización en derrota A vertiginous journey through 20th century European history, through the ruins of a culture and a civilization in defeat. Posthumous novel that consists of five parts.

NATIONAL BEST SELLER The Familiar Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . . From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award-nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the...

The second novel in the critically acclaimed Captive Prince trilogy from global phenomenon C. S. Pacat-with an all-new chapter exclusive to the print edition. With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal...