Russell: 3438 books

From the award-winning author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel Immaculate Blue, which explores the lives of four people — Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia — and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the...

The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. The book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from...

"The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect Utopianism suffers...

After nearly killing her latest date, one-fourth vampire Emma Brandt finds herself back in the Vampire Community, whether she likes it or not. Throw in her nosy family, Vampire Security on her speed dial, and an ex-boyfriend who wants a second chance at forever, and you have a romantic comedy with some bite. And Then He Bit Me is a 40,000 word novella.

Sweethearts of Sumner County, Vol. 2 features four individually published, sweet romance short stories: Mel just got dumped by her boyfriend of four years. She might cry for a little while, but she's determined to find Mr. Right because she's got to get some use out of her infamous birthing...

Forever Kisses features three individually published, sweet romance short stories/ short novellas: Jules Russo's childhood wish finally comes true when Adam Blake asks her out. Her new date may not live up to her preconceived thoughts--he may just be more. Who knew that saving seats, peanut...

The present book was written some twenty years ago but it has not lost its topicality, for it contains an important re-assessment of the relations of two main­ streams of contemporary philosophy - the Analytical and the Dialectic. Adherents and critics of these traditions tend to assurnethat they...

For many people, Urdu is indelibly associated with a bygone era: the cultural renaissance of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the face of colonial oppression, heady mushairas and romantic poetry. For others, it brings to mind the gritty prose of the Progressive Writers portraying the grim...

Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention Americans fear crime, are rattled by race and avoid honest discussions of both. Anxiety, denial, miscommunication, and ignorance abound. Imaginary connections between minorities and crime become real, self-fulfilling prophecies...

There are worlds upon worlds upon worlds, all superimposed on top of one another, existing at one and the same time. The pixikins travel between them by means of a protective bubble. Tala slips on a banana skin, and into the realm of the pixikins. Everything is exactly the same and yet completely...

Pigeon Inlet is the setting for Ted Russell's stories, written for radio between 1953 and 1961. Here you will meet not only Uncle Mose, but other characters whose names have become synonymous with traditional outport life: Grampa and Grandma Walcott, Skipper Joe, Aunt Sophy, Jethro Noddy, and—of...

My Danish Sweetheart Volume III William Clark Russell, english writer best known for his nautical novels (1844-1911) This ebook presents «My Danish Sweetheart Volume III», from William Clark Russell. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly...

From seeing ghostly apparitions, to having out-of-body experiences, contact with deceased loved ones and visions of the future, Pamela Russell's life has never been ordinary. However, it was not until she began healing that she fully understood the meaning of the messages that were being sent to her...