Includes some unusual, and many all-time favourites. Profusely illustrated.

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic memoir, Angela’s Ashes, about McCourt’s coming of age as an immigrant in America. Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

Provides a comprehensive survey of sailing vessels and methods, shipbuilding and navigation, nautical customs and lore, sea battles, and famous ships and seamen

In Mayfair in 1909, Mary Mizen, fresh from the country, is loosed on the lives of three people—wealthy, debauched Quintin Lavery, fiery young artist Leo de Morgan, and ethereal aristocrat Sibell Gifford. Their destinies are bound together until conflict threatens to destroy hopes of happiness.

As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of thirty thousand men, women and children. Almost two centuries later, in 1788, John Lemprière published his classical dictionary. This much is fact. Lawrence Norfolk tells us how the first two events led, inescapably, to the third. This amazing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery and multinational financial conspiracies, and leads a motley cast of scholars and eccentrics, drunk aristocrats and whores, assassins and octogenarian pirates through two centuries and three continents to the brink of French Revolution. John Lemprière reluctantly enters this world as an introverted scholar, obsessed by the myths of antiquity. At the end of this astonishing story he understands that it takes far more than learning to lay the ghosts of the past to rest.

Een artsenechtpaar en hun dochtertje komen in groot gevaar als hun hospitaalscheepje gekaapt wordt door een tanker die met dodelijk gas opstoomt naar Tokio.

In het Moskou van 1936 moet een kapitein van de Militia een reeks gruwelijke moorden onderzoeken; hij ontdekt gaandeweg dat het spoor wel eens kon leiden naar de gevreesde geheime dienst.

Roman.

The results of a survey on sex in America. The topics covered include: how often do people have sex and how many partners have they had; what kind of sex do they have; do many people cheat on their partners; and what percentage of Americans consider themselves to be homosexual.

An Italian Jew seeks solace for his sense of estrangement in death

The German occupation breaks up a harmonious community of Russian Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Belorussians and turns it into a ghetto that almost none survive

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Verschenen als deel 1 van de serie Werken uitgegeven door Gelre. Vereeniging tot beoefening van Geldersche geschiedenis, oudheidkunde en recht; met 30 illustraties, register en bibliografie en, na pagina 405, 66 bijlagen behorende tot de `Aanteekeningen betreffende de Kerk van Hattem`.

A group of women negotiate around the births, deaths, dramas and disappointments that litter their lives, but slowly and surely they begin to discover their real selves

Met 3 D-illustaties van de Big Bang tot het einde van het universum; los bijgevoegd een affiche `Journey into the Universe through time and space`, uitgegeven door de National Geographic Society in 1983

Toeristische conversatiegids.