Old Is Gold
-
The Big Roads"Travelers hitting the highways this summer might better appreciate the asphalt beneath their tires thanks to this engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system."--Los Angeles Times Perhaps nothing changed the face of America more than the creation of the interstate system....
- €24,14 EUR
- €24,14 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a FireIf burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago almost forty years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of ninety-two children and three...
- €24,14 EUR
- €24,14 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco: A Gallery of Fakers and Frauds, Rascals and Robber Barons, Scoundrels and ScalawagsAuthor: Charles F. AdamsPublisher: Silverstowe BookPublished: 08/01/2012Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781618090577This title is not returnable
- €24,14 EUR
- €24,14 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Mainers on the TitanicMainers on the Titanic traces the stories of passengers on that fateful ship who had ties to Maine. Many of them were wealthy summer visitors to Bar Harbor, but there were other residents of state aboard as well. Their tales are retold, along with...
- €24,14 EUR
- €24,14 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Hatchet Men: The Story of the Tong Wars in San Francisco's ChinatownRichard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco's exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon's fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with thugs, prostitutes, gamblers, and warlords preying on...
- €24,14 EUR
- €24,14 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Where Silence ReignsWhere Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the pre-eminent modern poet of solitude and inwardness, seeking to reconcile his personal conflict between the claims of life and the claims of art. His subjects are commonplace,...
- €24,14 EUR
- €24,14 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond ReproachAward-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Meryl Gordon's Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach is "an even-handed and fascinating portrait of a wealthy family torn apart by money, jealousy, and emotional distance" (USA Today). The fate of...
- €24,14 EUR
- €24,14 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression"A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one." --The New Yorker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz's brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence--the long echo of the...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy"Kati Marton's True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism....A fresh take on espionage activities from a critical period of history" (Washington Independent Review of Books). True Believer reveals the life...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor: 48 Stories for Fritz BauerA book about bitter fates--both already known and yet to unfold--and the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center....
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Words I Never WroteA chance discovery inside a vintage typewriter case reveals the gripping story of two sisters on opposite sides of World War II in this captivating novel for readers of Lilac Girls and The Women in the Castle. "Spins a captivating tale of two young...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Alchemy of a BlackbirdFor fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a "beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship" (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) based on the true story of the 20th-century painters and tarot devotees Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. In...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Night TravelerFour generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the "timely must-read" (People) The German Girl. Berlin,...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human BeingFrench philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin Classic One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
BomberLen Deighton - one of the masters of twentieth-centuryespionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, thetwenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid. Skilled Royal Air Force bomber...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of LibertyThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth. In reality, she was the inspiration of...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
London Match: A Bernard Sampson NovelBernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within hisdepartment of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agentnearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes to defect.But when a British KGB agent makes a sweeping confession with a...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Mexico Set: A Bernard Sampson NovelWhen disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted inMexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to takethe final step and defect. With his domestic life in shambles and his careerheading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re-liability. And he knowsStinnes...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Berlin Game: A Bernard Sampson NovelBerlin Game begins with a plea from "Brahms Four," one of Britain's most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed in London, is tasked with...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Resist, Endure, Escape: Growing Up in Nazi and Communist HungaryAuthor: Susan F. DarvasPublisher: Summit Crossroads PressPublished: 07/17/2019Pages: 234Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53dISBN: 9780999156544About the AuthorDarvas, Susan F.: - Born in Hungary in 1934, Susan grew up during WWII. After surviving the Holocaust she fled Hungary during the Revolution in...
- €24,12 EUR
- €24,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per