Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Keywords: city, glass, ashes, bones, mortal, instruments
Number of Pages: 1520
Published: 2010-10-19
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 1442409525
ISBN-13: 9781442409521
In City of Bones, the handsome Jace introduces fifteen-year-old Clary Fray to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world. Shes sure that Valentine, the evil and powerful Shadowhunter, is responsible for her mothers disappearance, but shes about to discover much more. In the second book, City of Ashes, Clarys mother remains in a mysterious coma, and danger abounds now that the Shadowhunter world knows Valentine is still aliveand that Clary and Jace are his children. Will Valentine succeed in making the Mortal Instruments his f
Author: Editors of Wallpaper Magazine
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
Keywords: wallpaper, city, guides, press, phaidon, hanoi, guide
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-11-21
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0714847410
ISBN-13: 9780714847412
WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an ’Architour’, design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, the most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. In addition to looking beautiful,
Authors:Daniel Schechter, Josephine Quintero,
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: city, guide, mexico
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1740591828
ISBN-13: 9781740591829
Discover Mexico CityGape at the terrifying snake-skirted Aztec goddess Coatlicue at the National Anthropology MuseumMunch on tacos al pastor at 3am after a night dancing salsa with Cuban emigresMingle with yuppies and art punks among the fading art deco facades and flashy boutiques of the Colonia CondesaCry into your tequila as mariachis serenade you with songs of love and heartbreak in Plaza GaribaldiIn This Guide:Two authors, 63 days of in-city research, 12 walking toursFourteen day trips and excursions, including jaunts to the tourist-free calm of Tlaxcala, the pyramids of Teotihuacan and s
Author: Sherry Clark Thomas
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Keywords: city, story, gangster
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2007-08-11
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1432702327
ISBN-13: 9781432702328
This is a story of an independent gangster named Joe Pastronoco (Joe, Jr.) aka Joe Thomas who was raised from childhood in a criminal environment. His father Joe, Sr., and his father’s brother Salvatore were bootleggers during the 1900’s and they both were gangsters involved in a secret organization similar to the Mafia in Italy when Benito Mussolini was dictator. Salvatore was shot and left for dead in Italy but he managed to escape, and he came to America as a stowaway, lived on a farm and sent for his brother Joe, Sr. who left Italy with his wife and five siblings to live with h
Author: Eils Quinn
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: city, guide, quebec, amp, montreal
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 174104006X
ISBN-13: 9781741040067
The old-world grandeur and new-world hipness of Montreal and Quebec City will seduce you. Relive history in their cobblestone streets, discover their vibrant neighborhoods, party with their convivial locals, and embrace it all with joie de vivre...and an appetite. This savvy, indispensable guide’s Montreal-based author reveals the magic and magnificence of francophone Canada’s sparkling crown jewels. DISCOVER THE GEMS - spend days ambling through neighborhoods like ever-romantic Old Montreal and the uberhip Plateau with our Montreal walking tours, including one j
Author: Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: city, commercialization, sex, prostitution, york, eros, new
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1994-03-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393311082
ISBN-13: 9780393311082
Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize. .
Authors:Anne Libera, Second City Inc.,
Publisher: Northwestern University Pre
Keywords: improvisation, almanac, city, second
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2004-05-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0810118017
ISBN-13: 9780810118010
It all began in a converted Chinese laundry on Chicago’s north side on a cold December night in 1959. No one could have known that by the next century, The Second City would have established itself as the premier comedy institution in the world. Taking its act north, The Second City would build a second permanent home in Toronto where it would create the Emmy-Award winning television series "SCTV." Pioneering the use of improvisation in developing talent and creating satiric revue comedy, The Second City has become - in the words of the New York Times - "A Comedy Empire."The Second City
