Carr: 1514 books

By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned tours--through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha country, to sites near Interstate 55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and South Mississippi, and along the sun-struck Gulf Coast--this book captures...

The first book in Philippa Carr’s celebrated Daughters of England series is at once a love story, a mystery, and an epic historical saga set during the tumultuous reign of Henry VIII Damask Farland, named after a rose, is captivated by the mysterious orphan Bruno. Discovered upon the abbey...

Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays 02. Alice Duer Miller - The Burglar And The Wizard 03. Berthold Auerbach - Christian Gellert's Last Christmas 04. Bret Harte - How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar 05. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol 06. L. Frank Baum - A Kidnapped Santa Claus 07....

A Season in the Big House: An Unscripted Insider Look at the Marvel of Michigan Football by George Cantor chronicles the 2005 season while offering exclusive perspectives from fans, head coach Lloyd Carr and a writer who has written about Michigan for four decades.

“Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we’re talking about when we’re talking about cat videos.” —New York magazine   Are cat videos art? This essay collection, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, addresses not just our fascination...

The legend of the magician Faust and his compact with the Devil comes from remote antiquity. At first in the form of folk tales in many lands, through ballads and the primitive drama it found its way into literature. It remained for the master-poet, Goethe, to fuse all the elements of the legend into...

As a professional bear hunter for 41 years, Carr has written a real page-turner.

In her third book author Molly Carr has for the moment abandoned the Watson-Fanshaw Detective Agency in favour of discovering as much as possible about Doctor Watson. Radically different in style from her first two books the investigation will nevertheless be of interest to students of military history...

For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère's I Am Alive and...

An anthology of the world’s best literary espionage, selected by a contemporary master of the genre, Alan Furst. Here is an extraordinary collection of work from some of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. Inspired by the politics of tyranny or war, each of these writers chose...

«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di suicidarsi, ma invano. L’inchiesta ha rivelato che non era affatto un medico come sosteneva e, cosa ancor più difficile da credere, che non era nient’altro. Da diciott’anni mentiva, e quella...

«Quello che mi interessa è poter scrivere un reportage nello stesso modo in cui scriverei un libro» afferma Emmanuel Carrère. Così, della «Giungla» di Calais, non ci racconta il fango, la violenza e la miseria del campo, bensì tutto quello che c'è attorno: la rabbia e la frustrazione di una...

«Propizio è avere ove recarsi» è una delle risposte che dà "I Ching" a chi lo interroga. E così, più di una volta nella sua vita, Emmanuel Carrère è partito per recarsi in qualche luogo. Si è lanciato sulle tracce di Dracula in Romania dopo la caduta di Ceauşescu; ha trascorso...

Victoria Van Wyck has always been a super-rich wild child with a penchant for being a little more free-spirited than anyone else. But when her parents become the targets of international assassins, Victoria is forced to flee from her exclusive high school in Switzerland to the anonymity of small town...