An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton (Syrett Nicholas L.)(Pevná vazba)

An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton (Syrett Nicholas L.)(Pevná vazba)

In 1922 Robert Allerton-described by the Chicago Tribune as the 'richest bachelor in Chicago'-met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another

Grapes Of Wrath (Steinbeck John)(Pevná vazba)

An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES OF WRATH awakened the conscience of a

The Language of Thieves - The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family's Secret History (Puchner Martin)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author's hidden Nazi family history, from the author of The Written

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Massie Robert K.)(Pevná vazba)

Family Business - An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership (Glendinning Victoria)(Pevná vazba)

An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries (Rothschild Emma)(Pevná vazba)

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoul me in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened

Secret Letters: A Battle of Britain Love Story (Willis John)(Pevná vazba)

Epic: John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and the Greatest Tennis Season Ever (Cronin Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

A top tennis writer tells the story of the greatest Wimbledon, the greatest U.S. Open, and the greatest rivalry in the history of the gameThe epic 1980 Wimbledon final that ended with John McEnroe's defeat by his idol, Bjorn Borg, is considered the greatest tennis match ever. The U.S. Open final

The Best of Me (Sparks Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's story of love, lost dreams and redemption'Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen.'In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell

The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice (Love Bobby)(Pevná vazba)

The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York. Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (Tepper Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world

Valhalla: A Story of Love and Duty (Clark Alan Robert)(Pevná vazba)

May of Teck, only daughter of a noble family fallen from grace, has been selected to marry the troublesome Prince Eddy, heir to the British throne. Submitting to the wishes of Queen Victoria and under pressure from her family, young May agrees. But just as a spark of love and devotion arises

The Race for Hitler's X-Planes: Britain's 1945 Mission to Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology (Christopher John)(Pevná vazba)

* John Christopher tells the story of the 1945 British mission to Germany to capture the Nazis' secret advanced aviation technology ahead of the Americans and Russians, a technology that would define the balance of power in the phoney peace of the Cold War, launching an arms race that shaped the

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley (Sheckley Robert)(Paperback)

An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee (Edwards Robert D.)(Pevná vazba)

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee, is considered to be the Bible of market analysis. The first book to introduce a methodology for determining the predictable behavior of investments and markets, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends revolutionized technical

Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story (Peters Lisa Westberg)(Pevná vazba)

All of us are part of an old, old family. The roots of our family tree reach back millions of years to the beginning of life on earth. Open this family album and embark on an amazing journey. You'll meet some of our oldest relatives--from both the land and the sea--and discover what we inherited

Hidden Valley Road (Kolker Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the

The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against Isis (Coker Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS. The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit called 'the Falcons' came

The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the Love Lab (Gottman John M.)(Pevná vazba)

John and Julie Gottman, world-renowned for bringing an evidence base to couples therapy, report here the results of a second empirical revolution in understanding couples and families. This change is not based on their guesswork, but on state-of-the-art science. The book you hold in your hands

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Olsen Gregg)(Pevná vazba)

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors.After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami,

Port Royal - The Sunken City (Marx Robert F.)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. In 1692 an earthquake and tidal wave caused the city to sink beneath the sea. Robert F. Marx was one of the men caught up in the legends of buried treasure and this book describes the fulfillment of his childhood dream: a two-and-a-half year

1-3 John (Yarbrough Robert W.)(Pevná vazba)

Robert Yarbrough, coauthor of the bestselling Encountering the New Testament, offers a historical and theological commentary on the Johannine Epistles in this new addition to the BECNT series. The commentary features the author's detailed interaction with the Greek text, explores the relationship

Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth (Bellerjeau Claire)(Pevná vazba)

Time Tamed (Foulkes Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

The story of mankind's struggle to measure time - and the stunning timepieces that have changed the way we do