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As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging memoir of his adventures aboard the sloop Spray. An immediate success...

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

O novo Alone in the Dark é o quinto episódio da série pioneira no gênero que misturou adventure e um tipo específico de suspense, no qual o medo vinha tanto da natureza horrenda dos inimigos como também devido aos escassos recursos para enfrentá-los....

After being away for a long time, twenty-one year old Steven is invited back home: his father wants him to meet his new stepmother, Meredith. She's a gorgeous woman, and it's clear that his father isn't satisfying all her needs. There's an immediate...

This is an updated and expanded edition of the runaway bestseller Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. As Keith Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of...

As Keith Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships - so that everyone wins. His form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity...

Alone

It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing "Alone Together" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and America's first...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...

‘The haiku in Alone at the Window resonate with warmth, wit and wisdom. The poet’s tender observations and clear imagery create an unfolding of meaning as the reader reflects on each poem. These moments of celebration are imbued with a sense of...

A young girl dreams at the seaside in communist Romania and slowly discovers that, like the sand, sun, and sea, life is complex and paradoxical-it is both ugly and beautiful, harsh and merciful, absurd and meaningful, ominous and promising. Though...

Gus D'Aoust (1897-1990) was a legend, an icon of the Northwest Territories. He was a well-known adventurer, explorer, hunter, and above all, a dedicated and passionate Barren Land trapper. In this inhospitable environment beyond the tree line, he...

The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to...

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless...

Moses was not happy in his marriage since his wife Katy was really conservative and attended church regularly with her friends who looked down at him. During a trip, an avalanche forced Moses to stay alone with Valerie, his wife's best friend. He...

'Molly isn't home Katrina. You just missed her.''Ok, I will be on my way.'But as she was planning to leave the house, Esther made that one move that Katrina never thought she would live to see. Esther decided to move forward and grabbed Katrina by...

A realistic portrait of a young girlís struggle to come to terms with her motherís death.

Eight sled dogs and one woman set out from Barrow, Alaska, to mush 2,500 miles. ALONE ACROSS THEARCTIC chronicles this astounding expedition.

All things must end.Recovering from a recent accident and faced with the prospect of spending another Christmas alone, Jessica accepts the invitation of an old flame to spend Christmas with him and his aged aunt at his manor house in the midst of the...

Ever popular with the grasping and greedy beauties of the Social world, the handsome Marquis of Elkesley is becoming disillusioned with their constant requests for expensive gifts and so he travels to Paris to forget them. There he receives a...

Bill Evans já gravou com excelentes músicos, como John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock e Gil Evans, entre outros. Ele é considerado um dos pianistas mais talentosos e influentes de jazz de todos os tempos. Neste trabalho, você encontrará grandes sucessos...

Perhaps it'apos;s a husband who'apos;s on the road, or one who is critically ill, or one trapped in a web of sin. Whatever the cause, there are times when the burden is on the wife. Susie Larson offers encouragement and shows how loneliness and...

When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself investigating the shooting of a man who had accused his wife of poisoning their son.

A detailed guide to self-employment for software and web developers-from identifying your target market, through to managing your time, finances, and client behaviorAbout This Book• Discover how to make money with software development skills.• Learn...

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a preacher, theologian, and philosopher of the 18th century. Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian, and one of America's greatest reformed preachers of the...

By Bread Alone is an interdisciplinary analysis of the global food situation and food production prospects. It examines the problems posed by the new international order, as well as the policy alternatives open to mankind. It also discusses the role...

When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads ‘I’m travelling alone’. In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a...

When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself investigating the shooting of a man who had accused his wife of poisoning their son.

Ela tem apenas 16 anos, canta, dança, compõe e já está dando o que falar. Com personalidade roqueira e jeito de menina, a mineira Lu Alone é a perfeita combinação de uma forte atitude com altas doses de feminilidade e carisma. Lu é a primeira cantora...

Uncovers the true history of American orphanages, revealing what it was like to eat, sleep, study, and play in such institutions, why children were sent to live there in the first place, and what happened to them after they left.

Convinced that Tatiana's mother is a double agent sent to betray her father, Gaia is determined to dislike Tatiana and prove Natasha's guilt, while Josh takes Heather to Loki, who injects her with the anti-fear serum.

When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the elite Massachusetts State Police SWAT Team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself confronted by vicious rumors and a legal minefield as he investigates the shooting of a man who...

Alone With the Horrors

A collection of short works written over the course of thirty years is complemented by the writer's personal account of how the stories were written and an assessment of their flaws and merits.

Exhausted and burnt-out after dealing with a series of major homicides, Mars Bahr and his partner are assigned to investigate the unsolved, sixteen-year-old case of a missing girl, but their search for answers uncovers the subsequent death of the...

Since receiving her husband's diagnosis of AS, Katrin Bentley's marriage has improved substantially. This book shares the struggle of one couple to rescue their marriage. It is uplifting and humorous, and includes plenty of tips to making an...

The trip of a lifetime - that'apos;s what it was supposed to be, paid for with money Gran left thirteen-year old Sam in her will, but when the small plane taking Sam and his Dad back to the airport crashes in the jungle, Sam is left alone and...

If you think this book is about a battered woman who broke free and escaped torment, this book is not quite that. This is a story about a woman and her struggles while alone in the mist of traditional life events. Graduating high school, dating,...

Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at...

This is the story of 835 Naval Air Squadron as told by one of its surviving officers. It tells the story of the outstanding fleets of flying and the importance of the Merchant Navy in the Second World War.

The harrowing and heartfelt account of an adventurer's desire to feel true peace and isolation. Richard E. Byrd spent five months alone operating the meteorological station at the advanced base camp in the long dark nights of Antarctic winter. The...

Alone In Berlin - Penguin Modern Classics

Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of...