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Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages. This volume features the Romanesque period's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans.This book offers a general introduction to the Romanesque period and discusses the...

It began with Eragon… it ends with Inheritance.Not so very long ago, Eragon-Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider - was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have...

A compelling and frank account of Rushdie's experience of going underground following the fatwa, the death sentence the Ayatollah Khomeini declared against him in 1989, for the publication of "The Satanic Verses". Rushdie moved from house to house with the constant presence of an armed police protection team, and adopted the name Joseph Anton,...

In 1998, a high-school teenage girl named Nicole Yarber is kidnapped, raped, and strangled to death. Her body is buried near Joplin, Missouri. What follows is the wrongful arrest of a black high-school football star named Donté Drumm.As Donté is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, the real murderer watches from...

What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life..? One morning, Julia and her...

In an Algerian convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. In Sweden, a birdwatcher is skewered to death in a pit of carefully sharpened bamboo poles. How are the deaths connected? It's up to Inspector Kurt Wallander to find out....