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While she is determined not to marry the man that her parents have chosen for his wealth, Lovelace, a rakish city gentleman, is intent to seduce Clarissa, the virtuous, youngest daughter of the Harlowe household.

Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first...

Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl, named for one of the book's characters, seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. By the author of Man...

A translation of Thucydide's history of the wars between Athens and Sparta is critically introduced

The History of the Lord of the Rings

«¿Cómo cuentas tu participación en el relato más grande de la historia? Lo pregunto porque es lo que tengo que hacer. Soy Zoë Boutin-Perry: miembro de una colonia aislada en un letal mundo pionero. Sagrado icono de una raza de alienígenas. Jugadora y...

In a distant future in which humankind has engineered itself into new forms capable of spaceflight, terraforming, and deep ocean exploration, an interstellar voyage comes face to face with an alien technology that reveals a terrifiying and previously...

Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl, named for one of the book's characters, seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. By the author of Man...

When Mr. Polly grows tired of his wife's nagging and his job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters, he concludes that the only way to escape his sad existence is by burning his shop to the ground and killing himself.

A New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, with one million copies in print! 'Terrifyingly fun! Delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs.'--Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy Kid Ever since the...

In the new, reduced trim size edition of National Geographic’s award-winning World Atlas for Young Explorers, we’ve punched up the content with the very latest maps, data, and essays about the world and all that is in it. More than 200 color images...

Esta história começa em Vila Viçosa com o casamento do duque de Bragança, futuro D. João IV com D. Luísa de Gusmão, que encheu os salões do palácio para um magnífico e requintado banquete. Com a subida ao trono em 1640 e o início da Dinastia de...

Chronicles the romantic adventures of mysterious orphan Tom Jones, a reckless yet personable young man, as he falls in love with the unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of a neighboring squire.

A Universal History of Iniquity

Garlic cloves and wooden stakes are no match for centuries of the undead's mischief and seduction. Here are thirteen original and imaginative stories that reveal the vampiric truths behind certain historical happenings.

While she is determined not to marry the man that her parents have chosen for his wealth, Lovelace, a rakish city gentleman, is intent to seduce Clarissa, the virtuous, youngest daughter of the Harlowe household.

An innovative collection of short stories blends state history with personal history--all complementing a novella which is told through the eyes of a boy writing a research paper entitled 'The Complete History of New Mexico.' Original.

Struggling with his wife's illness, his daughter's return home, and memories about a past affair, sixty-five-year-old botany professor Uncas Metcalfe finds his routine upended by a menacing older student and his family's growing impatience with his...

Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers lost historical information that reveals the secret life of the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly...

La presente antología recoge los episodios más significativos de diversas historias de procedencia dispar, pero famosas todas ellas por hablar de los secretos del corazón. Un recorrido desde el mundo clásico hasta el Romanticismo español, siempre...

Presents a collection of 'what if' stories that offer an alternate version of actual historical events in an anthology with works by Kim Stanley Robinson, Greg Bear, Ward Moore, Gregory Benford, and Susan Schwartz.

Excerpt from An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth, and Terrestrial Bodyes, Especially Minerals: As Also of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs; With an Account of the Universal Deluge, and of the Effects That It Had Upon the Earth Ation, Which...

It's all up to Gordon now. His partner has been captured. His superior officer has been neutralized. And his distress calls to P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) have gone unanswered. That means he must fight the aliens alone!...

Excerpt from The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Geoffrey told it for true, - not as a mere fiction. Here is his account of the way he happened to know it, and of his reason for...

It's all up to Gordon now. His partner has been captured. His superior officer has been neutralized. And his distress calls to P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) have gone unanswered. That means he must fight the aliens alone!...

All twins Josh and Emma want to do is get out of the creepy Good Times Travel Agency where their little sister, Libby, has led them. But the peculiar shop owner encourages them to open one of his guidebooks first --- and they suddenly find themselves...

In the new, reduced trim size edition of National Geographic’s award-winning World Atlas for Young Explorers, we’ve punched up the content with the very latest maps, data, and essays about the world and all that is in it. More than 200 color images...

Four teenage travelers traverse the universe saving those in need...though not always in the way you'd expect...in fact...never! Along the way they meet aliens, phantoms and other interdimensionals--including everyone's favorite, Catbug....

BLUE MONDAY comes to IMAGE COMICS for the first time in FULL COLOR!Before the upcoming release of the new storyline, THIEVES LIKE US, experience the Pepsi-fueled misadventures of Bleu L. Finnegan, comics' favorite blue-haired, Buster Keaton-obsessed,...

Miembro de la Academia Catalana de Gastronomía y colaborador en diversos medios informativos. como «La Vanguardia». «El País». «Avui» y «El Periódico». sobre temas de historia y política nacional e internacional. el CONDE DE SERT 1940 es un autor...

Discusses the native Americans known as the Anasazi, who migrated to southwestern Colorado in the first century A.D. and mysteriously disappeared in 1300 A.D. after constructing extensive dwellings in the cliffs of the steep canyon walls.

'Craig's artwork once again elevates the piece, giving a sleek style to the players, and a Tarantinoesque setup to each panel. Bloody fun.' -Booklist Volume 2 is here! It's 1988 and Marcus Lopez is getting settled into life at Kings Dominion for the...

More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent of the country's labor force, currently make up the nonstate sector. These include self-employed workers and micro-entrepreneurs, sharecropping farmers, members of new cooperatives, and buyers...

When originally published in 1999, Words That Built a Nation was hailed for bringing together the United States' most important historical essays, speeches, and documents into one accessible collection for kids. Now, this history lovers' must-have is...

“A Criança e a Vida Familiar no Antigo Regime” é praticamnete a única obra que propõe uma abordagem histórica da infância.

Excerpt from The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Geoffrey told it for true, - not as a mere fiction. Here is his account of the way he happened to know it, and of his reason for...

No tempo em que eu ainda trepava às árvores, vivia na nossa aldeia, a uns dois quilómetros da nossa casa, um homem a quem chamavam senhor Sommer. Ninguém sabia qual era o seu nome de baptismo e também ninguém sabia se ele tinha ou não uma profissão.

An illustrated, abridged, version of Toynbee's twelve-volume work on the process of history

Offers an introduction to mythology from the Paleolithic period to the 'great western transformation' that used science to discredit myth.

La Mejor Historia/the Best Story

A Little History of the World

After an attack from the Joker left former Batgirl Barbara Gordon paralyzed, she took on the mantle of Oracle, the premiere computer hacker in the DCU. Now, she kicks tail as the leader of a covert ops team populated by the top heroines in the world...