New Yorker Stone Barrington travels across the Atlantic for a tale of international intrigue. While investigating a high-profile murder, Stone uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly games they play....
Europe
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
- Author:Raymond, Hélène, Mathé, JacquesSummary:
En Amérique du Nord comme en Europe, des agriculteurs renouvellent leur métier en construisant des relations directes avec les consommateurs, promouvant ainsi le plaisir et le goût des aliments authentiques. Ici, on redécouvre son...
- Author:March, CocóSummary:
If you struggle to achieve your personal potential and live as healthfully as possible, you can change your lifestyle! True Nutrition provides the tools you need to stop the cycle of unhealthful behaviors and undesirable outcomes. In...
- Author:Hacking, Lawrence, De Clercq, WilSummary:
The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who...
- Author:Walcott, DerekSummary:
Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
- Author:Robinson, Kim StanleySummary:
History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed by the Black Death. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? Robinson rewrites history and probes the most profound questions as only he...
- Author:North, Douglass CecilSummary:
First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the...
- Author:Ruiz Zafón, CarlosSummary:
It's wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. In...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud...
- Author:Lee, MackenziSummary:
A hilarious and swashbuckling stand-alone teen historical fiction novel, named one of summer's 20 must-read books by Entertainment Weekly! A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best...
- Author:Schmidt, JamesSummary:
In this course, Boston University professor James Schmidt offers a balanced assessment of the Enlightenment, considering both its achievements and its shortcomings and focusing not only on its most important intellectual achievements...
- Author:Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSummary:
This volume presents an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the salons of Paris, the philosophes, Voltaire himself, and more.
- Author:Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSummary:
In this volume, Will and Ariel Durant explore Europe's bumpy road toward the Enlightenment. This is the age of great monarchs and greater artists, as well the heyday of modern science and philosophy.
- Author:Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSummary:
This volume surveys the chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the French Revolution and its leaders, Napoleon's meteoric rise and...
- Author:Bellow, SaulSummary:
Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each...
- Author:Wolf, Joan M.Summary:
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while...
- Author:Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSummary:
This volume centers on the passionate rebel--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau condemned civilization as a disease, glorified the noble savage, and became the patron saint of the worldwide social upheavals of two centuries....
- Author:Peart, NeilSummary:
Neil Peart is an internationally critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-nominated author, and for more than thirty years has been the legendary drummer and lyricist for Rush, the most successful band in the history of Canadian...
- Author:Peart, NeilSummary:
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
The story of the Reesers, a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. They fled the Nazis and left behind four valuable oil paintings. It would take years for the Reeser family, led by matriarch Mari...