Perkins: 799 books

"The air was filled with the groans of men whose thoughts were not of war but of home. In the final moment no one cared if lands and kings were victorious. The glimmer of a smiling child, the soft touch of a wife, the laughter heard around the hearth, and sounds of love were all that mattered. Steadily...

  The title, “There Isn't Any Grass On This Side Of The Fence” is really a metaphor of poverty stricken people who don't have a choice but to remain in their ill fated destitute state. These people, (as the subtitle indicates), have no money to even maintain a sufficient standard of living,...

Wouldn't it be useful to be able to accurately predict the weather simply by reading the clouds? Well, with this book, you can! TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data – a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affect the weather...

The Narrow Way is an honest account of a life, fully lived, under Gods all-seeing eye. Although a memoir, it is not a conventional one. No reader will like everything in this book, but every reader struggling with some aspect of lifesexual abuse, marriage, militarism, prison, the loneliness of the...

Twenty-four-year-old Velma longs to be treated as an adult, but her older sisters insist they know what is best for her future.   Tall, dark, and handsome, Jack is a soldier distantly connected to Velma's family. He sweeps Velma off her feet and asks her to marry him.   War looms on the horizon...

Up to every heart sad broken and written with tears, the hot story of her painful, and to the person who has the greatness of the same in the vanity of others. Let life go as it is with all its tragedies and pains and draw a smile on your lips, and singing a song may make you forget the worlds which...

The Fourth Gospel is at the same time a sublime work that has inspired and enriched the faith of countless Christians and a problematic text that has provided potent anti-Jewish imagery exploited in anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic discourse over the course of two millennia. The Fourth Gospel contains...

This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.

A collection of poems, extracts, anecdotes and sketches on snow and the snowflake, originally published in 1863. Includes several beautifully illustrated plates exhibiting the geometrical forms of snow-crystals.

Een heerlijk meidenverhaal in romantisch Parijs  Anna kijkt erg uit naar haar laatste jaar op school in Atlanta, waar ze een cool bijbaantje heeft, een lieve vriendin en waar haar secret crush opeens interesse in haar lijkt te hebben. Dan wordt ze door haar vader naar de kostschool in Parijs gestuurd....

De zeventienjarige Lola Nolan heeft alles goed voor elkaar. Ze heeft een beste vriendin Lindsey, een leuk bijbaantje met gezellige collega's en sinds kort een stoere, lieve vriend die ook nog een rockster is. Wanneer Calliope en Cricket Bell, de tweeling met wie ze vroeger bevriend was, terugkeren...

La historia de la literatura universal está plagada de ejemplos de mujeres malignas que han manipulado la voluntad de los hombres utilizando como armas su inteligencia y belleza, mostrando la debilidad del hombre ante las dulces palabras y el erotismo. Como fiel reflejo de la sociedad en que se desarrolla,...

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