Two young women in a land shattered by war test the limits of their strengthLovely Julia Hoffman has always enjoyed the carefree life of her well-to-do Philadelphia family. But when she fails to attra

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.

Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era, including the motivations and ex...(展开全部)

"Ordeal by Fire" blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story - that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, t...(展开全部)

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the grea...(展开全部)