Civilization: A New History of the Western World

History

OSBORNE, Roger

Americas

Pegasus Books

This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the popular ballets and concertos to lesser known pieces. Brown enthusiastically and sensitively guides the reader through Tchaikovsky's music in the context of his life. His writing on the music is accessible and informative, both for the professional musician and the keen amateur listener. The biographical writing includes fascinating quotations from the composer's letters, and those of his friends; the Tchaikovsky that emerges, despite his periodic struggle with depression, is a man with a very positive attitude to life, and a kind and supportive friend to many around him. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Tchaikovsky, his music and the culture of the time.

Tchaikovsky

Biographies & Memoirs

BROWN, DAVID

Arts & Literature

Villains' Paradise: Britain's Underworld from the Spivs to the Krays

DONALD THOMAS

Europe

It's the story of a lurid murder in San Francisco. The case of Jordan Alexander, the accused socialite, would have never gone to trial if district attorney Peter Granucci hadn't been preparing to run for mayor. Granucci choses Destiny Mitchell, a young black woman, to prosecute Jordan, the mayor's best friend, in this difficult and highly publicized case. Jordan is accused of brutally murdering his wife in her Pacific Heights home. He denies any involvement and suggests that his wife was murdered by black gang members. It is a case that no one, including Granucci, believes Destiny can win. The shocking conclusion comes 14 years later in a dramatic courtroom showdown. Disturbingly violent at times, sexy, racially-charged and full of intrigue, "Legal Thriller" is perfectly set to be the next legal genre blockbuster.

Legal Thriller

McGee, Marcus

Literature & Fiction

In the moment American President Joseph Whitmore announces that Nostradamus, an 8-mile-wide metallic asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, the world is forever changed. Scientists predict that up to 95% of all life will perish in fire, flood and the resulting cosmic winter. Humans will cease to exist. As the world reacts to Whitmore’s ominous revelation, chaos ensues—moral depravity, starvation, terrorism, governmental collapse—and yet hope endures. Robert E. Lee, the leader of America’s consolidated militias, rejects the notion of a pending asteroidal impact. He accuses the federal government of duplicity, suggesting some covert, diabolical motive for the announcement. He and followers in Wyoming proclaim secession from the United States. Initially dismissed as paranoia, Lee’s seeds of distrust sprout in America as many begin to suspect that President Whitmore, Jett Turner, his Machiavellian National Security Advisor, and the Trilateral Commission, a powerful secret society, have a hidden agenda. In an underground fortress in Colorado’s Sangre di Cristo Mountains, scientist Don Smock heads the government’s secret Lazarus Project. Smock hopes to launch an ark containing 44 humans in cold stasis into outer space. At the end of cosmic winter, the ark will return humans to Earth. Geneticist Isabel Benoit will ensure the future human population will be superior to the one that perished. Animals, plants and other life forms are to be cryogenically preserved in the underground refuge, awaiting reintroduction by humans into Earth’s biosphere. Spiritual persons sense a higher design. Religious interpretation is varied. Adventists see the asteroid’s approach as the second coming of Christ. Some see it as Judgment Day, wherein the good will be raptured instantly to heaven and the wicked will be burned on Earth. Minister Jonah Williams believes that if we exercise faith, God may yet save us at the last possible moment. Others accept the event as the completion of an ageless cosmic cycle. Finally, there are a few who pursue truth. Davis Franklin is the computer expert charged with developing the software for the government’s Lazarus Project computers. In a world growing more chaotic as the days count down, Davis and friends desperately seek the truth that will either save the world or forever damn it.

The Last Year

L'insuffisance de développment en Haïti: Blocages et solutions (French Edition)

Reference

Delince, Kern

Foreign Language Study & Reference

The Tenor

The Tenor is a sweeping epic tale of historical fiction in the style of Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto" and De Burniere's "Captain Corelli's Mandolin." It swiftly moves from Pino Vaggi's youth in pre-war Italy, to his coming of age as a soldier in war-torn Greece, before ending in a shattering surprise finale at Maria Callas' historic final performance ever on the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 1965. It is based loosely on the stories and anecdotes that I learned from several of Maria Callas' personal friends and from nearly a dozen trips to Italy and Greece to research the subject.

Danish, Peter

Humor & Entertainment

The Tenor is a sweeping tale of historical fiction in the style of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto and De Burniere's Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It swiftly moves from Pino Vaggi's youth in pre-war Italy, to his coming of age as a soldier in war-torn Greece, before ending in a shattering surprise finale at Maria Callas' historic final performance ever on the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 1965. It is based loosely on the stories and anecdotes that the author learned from several of Maria Callas' personal friends and from nearly a dozen trips to Italy and Greece to research the subject.

This introduction to British history begins with the geographical description of the island itself which, Roy Strong believes, has shaped the nation, its people and its politics. Invasions, migrations, civil wars, and two world wars have all been influenced by Britainâ€s uneasy relationship with mainland Europe, while a desire for self-sufficiency produced the empire and the Industrial Revolution. This new edition has been extended to cover the years from 1996 to the 2016 EU referendum.

The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Selected as a Top Ten Book of the Year by The Washington Post: the newly discovered last novel by the author of The Three Musketeers. Rousing, big, spirited, its action sweeping across oceans and continents, its hero gloriously indomitable, the last novel of Alexandre Dumas―lost for 125 years in the archives of the National Library in Paris―completes the oeuvre that Dumas imagined at the outset of his literary career. Indeed, the story of France from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era: the Age of Napoleon. But no longer. Now, dynamically, in a tale of family honor and undying vengeance, of high adventure and heroic derring-do, The Last Cavalier fills that gap.

The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE

United States

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