Books with Devil in the Title
Top 10 Books with Devil in the Title
: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, The Devil's Arithmetic, I Await the Devil's Coming, Devil's Cub, Devil in a Blue Dress, The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway, Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery, The Devil in Vienna, Devil in Winter
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 0739303406 |
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0142401099 |
I wish I could say I liked this book. I thought I would. I know it's critically acclaimed and a well-known story. But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
The book is meant to educate young people about the Holocaust, but it had a lot of historical inaccuracies. The idyllic shtetl world at the beginning...
I Await the Devil's Coming
| Author | Mary MacLane |
| ISBN | 1612191940 |
Mary MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten.
In...
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099465833 |
Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, has established a rakish reputation that rivals his father's, living a life of excess and indulgence. He is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe...
When a jobless World War II vet named Easy Rawlins is hired to find a woman, he finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and murder. Can Easy find Daphne Monet without becoming another victim? And what secrets is Daphne Monet carrying?
Devil in a Blue Dress is a throwback to the pioneers of noir like...
The Life and Loves of a She Devil
| Author | Fay Weldon |
| ISBN | 0340589353 |
Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic...
Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway
| Author | Mike Carey |
| ISBN | 1563897334 |
From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Lucifer Morningstar, the former Lord of Hell, is unexpectedly called back into action when he receives a mission from Heaven. Given free reign to use any means necessary, Lucifer is promised a prize of his own choosing if he fulfills this holy request. But once he completes...
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
| Author | Paul Collins |
| ISBN | 0307956458 |
Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins’ remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued – a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done. Still our nation’s...
| Author | Doris Orgel |
| ISBN | 0142402362 |
Inge Dorenwald and Lieselotte Vessely have been best friends for most of their thirteen years. They share secrets, fears, hopes and even the same birthday. It never mattered that Inge was Jewish and that Lieselotte was the daughter of a Nazi SS officer—until now. Hitler and Nazism are infiltrating...
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Four young ladies enter London society and band together to each find a husband. Has the third "Wallflower" now met her match?
A Devil's Bargain
Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to...
Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining,...
| Author | David Fulmer |
| ISBN | 0156027283 |
Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering...
| Author | Sarwat Chadda |
| ISBN | 0141325879 |
This was a powerful, gritty, very dark story. In fact, I am quite surprised that this was released as a young adult book, other than the age of the protagonist, Billi. Billi SanGreal lives a grim existence as the daughter of the leader of the very small remains of the once-powerful Knights Templar. They...
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF
| Author | Amy Reeder |
| ISBN | 1302900056 |
LUNELLA LAFAYETTE IS AN INHUMAN PRETEEN GENIUS WHO WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD!
That job would be a lot easier if she wasn't living in mortal fear of her latent Inhuman gene. There's no telling what she'll turn into - but Luna's got a plan. All she needs is an Omni-Wave Projector. Easy, right? That...
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN | 0618485392 |
The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.
Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits...
| Author | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| ISBN | 0805062998 |
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration.
In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear...
Invented by Nikola Tesla in 1923, Atomic Robo went on to be a soldier, a scientist, an entrepreneur, and an explorer whose adventures span the globe. This one begins, if you couldn't guess from the title, in the vast expanse of the south Pacific. The year is 1951. World War II concluded just six years ago,...
Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1593070950 |
A murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the nobleman vampire, Vladimir Guirescu. Nazi scientists, revived in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, prepare for the...
| Author | Tim Pratt |
| ISBN | 1597801895 |
The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the...
The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
| Author | Julia Flynn Siler |
| ISBN | 1101875267 |
A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom
From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's...
| Author | Joyce McDonald |
| ISBN | 0385731078 |
This book was fabulous! A real page turner, and a real position that people go through; knowing who to trust. I really sympathized with the characters in this book, and I enjoyed the easy read!
Devil on My Heels by Joyce McDonald (this review was my February 2010 book report, I got an A!)
Dove...
| Author | Kate Ross |
| ISBN | 0140263640 |
The Regency dandy and amateur sleuth Julian Kestrel is back in his fourth mystery -- and this time he confronts murder far from home in the sensuous, turbulent Italy of the 1820sWith flawless period detail and a dapper English detective reminiscent of Lord Peter Wimsey, Kate Ross is charming fans of...
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 1906210187 |
The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie; but in order to escape the...
| Author | Jacques Cazotte |
| ISBN | 0946626731 |
ilk okumam değil ama en az 16-17 sene oldu..hiçbişii anlamamışım o zaman.
"şeytanın bir adama aşık olması aman da 18. yüzyıl" falan dersek 2-3 yıldız yeter; ama düğüm şurda çözülüyor;
" che vuoi?" yani ne istiyorsun?
aşk üstüne okumayı hiç sevmem ama buna...
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in recent years and one of the strangest! Recalling the agony of growing up obsessive compulsive and a religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behavior like tirelessly scrubbing her...
