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His years in Paris were the making of Henry Miller. He arrived with no money, no fixed address, and no prospects. He left as the renowned if not notorious author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Miller didn't just live in Paris-he devoured it. It was a world he shared with Brassaï, whose work, first collected in Paris by Night, established him as one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century and the most exquisite and perceptive...

Der große Auftakt der neuen New-Adult-Reihe von Laura Kneidl Kate hat alles verloren: ihre Familie, ihren Job, ihr Zuhause. Seit Monaten schlägt sie sich alleine auf der Straße durch. Als sie eines Tages den attraktiven Henry bestiehlt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sich ihr Leben für immer verändern wird. Seiner Familie gehört das luxuriöseste Hotel ganz Londons - The Darlington. Das Hotel ist durch einen Skandal jedoch in Verruf geraten, und als...

It's the moment the world has been waiting for: the return of everyone's favorite musclebound punk/metal romantic odd couple, Henry and Glenn. Over the course of three short stories, our metal-dude heroes love, fight, hang out at the spa with Lars and James, squabble about property values with friendly satanist neighbors Hall and Oates, and work out their differences in therapy. It's hardcore. It's hilarious. It's a true testament to the power of...

He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father, she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage at the age of fifteen. Almost completely opposite in character, together they formed an unlikely but complimentary partnership. Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou have become famous as the Lancastrian king and queen who were deposed during the Wars of the Roses but there is so...

Hutchinson delves into the forces that shaped Henry VIII from his birth in 1491 to the birth in 1533 of his daughter Elizabeth. Hutchinson is admirable at pulling out amusing tidbits from the primary sources he obviously plumbed to write this breezy account of how Henry's cloistered youth influenced his public role as monarch. The early Tudors realized their hold upon the English throne would always be precarious, and thus ruthlessly eliminated rival...

In “Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble”, the appealing boy and his big drooly dog celebrate spring by finding a March flower good enough to eat, an April puddle big enough for a surprise splasher, and a May litter of kittens for Mudge to watch over. This lively tale of friendship is both heartening and humorous. Another chapter in a boy and his dog's life, “Henry and Mudge in the Green Time” takes place in the heat of summer with three adventures:...

Em seu livro Caminhada, Henry David Thoreau nos convida a viver na Natureza e a preservá-la. É um verdadeiro manual para aqueles que desejam se embrenhar na natureza em busca de silêncio e paz para a alma cansada da correria e do barulho ensurdecedor da sociedade. Thoreau nos desafia á entender que o homem faz parte da Natureza, sendo o homem um dos aspectos mais importantes de sua manifestação. Caminhada foi inicialmente apresentado em...

Gardeners disagree about many things-cannas, double petunias, the color magenta-but on one subject they are unanimous. Henry Mitchell was simply the best garden writer this country has ever produced. As Allen Lacy writes in his introduction to this, the final collection of Mitchell's gardening essays, "In a time when most garden writing was lethally dull and as impersonal as a committee report, Henry Mitchell was the great exception. He was often...

Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994. Wallace preyed on lower economic-class Black women between 17 and 35 years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust w

Henry and his dog Mudge have some Halloween fun in this fourth Ready-to-Read book of their adventures. Henry and his 180-pound dog Mudge are best friends forever. And when Halloween rolls around, they share jack-o'-lanterns and ghost stories with Aunt Sally.