The Old Man and the Sea - A True Story of Crossing the ...
Octogenarian Anthony Smiths journey was originally inspire...
The Tiger Cubs and the Chimp - The True Story of How An...
When two baby white tigers on an animal preserve get into ...
The Monkey and the Dragon: A True Story about Friendshi...
The Monkey and the Dragon: A True Story about Friendship, Mu...
The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French ...
With his monumental work ''The Old Regime and the Revolution...
The Old Man And The Sea - A True Story Of Crossing The Atlantic B
The End of the Day - shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year 2017
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR 2017***Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache Sunday TimesExtraordinary . . . wildly impressive Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.Charlie meets everyone but only once. Som...
The Storm Weaver and the Sand
When the three runaways Sal, Shilly and Skender finally arrive at the remote island of the Haunted City, home of the Sky Wardens, Sals great-aunt, the Syndic, is determined to keep them under control. And if that means imprisonment, so be it. But the Syndic isnt the least of Sals worries. The ghosts that live behind the ancient glass of the city are restless and no one knows why or wh...
THE HARLOT AND THE SHEIKH/MISS BRADSHAW'S BOUGHT BETROTHAL/THE COWBOY'S CINDERELLA
The Harlot and the Sheikh Marguerite KayePrince Rafiq vowed to restore the pride of his kingdom by winning a prestigious horse race. To ensure success he hires an English expert. But Rafiq is shocked when his new employee is introduced
as Miss Stephanie Darvill!Stephanie is determined to leave her shameful past behind she will prove to Rafiq she deserves his trust! But this hard-hearted des...
Dinosaurs of the Upper Triassic and the Lower Jurassic - 25 Dinosaurs from 227-175 Million Years Ago
Praise for Dinosaurs on My Street by David West: The illustrations are center stage
plenty of strong appeal for dinosaur buffs School Library Journal. A series about the prehistoric giants. This series of six books is for dinosaur enthusiasts and novices alike. It covers dinosaurs living in the six periods that make up the Mesozoic Age, which spanned prehistoric time from 250 million yea...
Rainbow Fish and the Sea Monster's Cave
Its Rainbow Fishs most challenging adventure yet, for he must brave the Sea Monsters Cave, rumored to be the most dangerous place in the ocean, to find healing algae to cure the ailing bumpy-backed fish. Warned by his friends about the dreadful denizens of the deepthe giant rock monsters, the five-eyed globe fish, and the horrible creature with a thousand armsRainbow Fish, accompanied by...
The Right Way, The Wrong Way and the Railway - Great Victorian Rail Stories
The Right Way, the Wrong Way and the Railway takes a real warts and all look at the Victorian Railways. Eight years in the making, this book abounds in history, humour, railway stuff-ups and the typical stupidity which often went with The Job. From the mysteries of safeworking to suburban shenanigans, from close shaves to the downright bizarre, this book has it all right across the state ...
Yoga And The Quest For True Self
Not only a superb form of physical exercise, yoga is an ancient system for personal growth that promises happiness and peace in daily life, as well as enlightenment the soul awake in this lifetime. Now, Stephen Cope who is a trained psychotherapist as well as a yoga teacher explains this path of transformation in vivid personal experiences and modern psychological terms to which we al...
Command and Control - Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
The documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlossers book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of Americas nuclear aresenal. The documentary will air on PBSs American Experience on January 10th. A myth-shattering expose of Americas nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosse...
A History of the Crusades I - The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
The first volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runcimans A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and inste...
Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome
`Four Seasons in Rome charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerrs varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, and the first year of parenthood. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats the chroniclers of Rome ...
Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gate...
The acclaimed travel writers youthful journey as an 18-year-old across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the authors exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to...
The White Cat and the Monk - A Retelling of the Poem 'Pangur Ban'
From the illustrator of Footpath Flowers, Sydney Smith, and award-winning author, Jo Ellen Bogart, comes a retelling of the classic Old Irish poem, Pangur Ban the poem that inspired the character of Pangur Ban in the Academy Award nominated animation, The Secret of Kells. The monk in the poem leads a simple life he studies his books late into the evening, searching for meaning. His cat, ...
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Book 2)
Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. You cant tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Its not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball becomes a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants and that was only the beginning. Now Camp Half-Blood is under attack, and unless I can get my hands on the Golden Fleece, the whole camp will be invad...
The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden
It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows there is a problem. Such is the case right now with our wounded feeling function- our inability to find joy, worth, and meaning in life. Robert A. Johnson, the celebrated author of He, She, and We, revisits two medieval tales and illuminates how this feeling function has become a casualty of our modern tim...
The Sky Warden and the Sun
Sals life has been thrown into turmoil. Homeless and haunted by a past he never suspected he had, he is unsure where he is running to but Shilly is very clear on what she wants. She wants to find Lodos old teacher and learn from him. To search for the Mage Van Haasteren they must head north to the Interior, where Sals mother was born. But even if they reach the Interior there is no guaran...
He-man And The Masters Of The Universe Minicomic Collection
The toy juggernaut Masters of the Universe and its subsequent action figure lines featured memorable pack-in minicomics that aided in playtime for children across the world. This oversized hardcover collection features sixty-eight U.S. releases, including all minicomics from the 80s Masters of the Universe line, the 80s Princess of Power line, and the 80s and 90s He-Man line, plus an intro...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese
On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of submission. Burlesque and the Art of the TeeseI advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute. Im a good dancer and a nice girl, but Im a great showgirl. I sell, in a word, magic. Burlesque is a ...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Scots
Mr and Mrs Dursley, o nummer fower, Privet Loan, were prood tae say that they were gey normal, thank ye awfie muckle. They were the lest fowk ye wid jalouse wid be taigled up wi onythin unco or ferlie, because they jist widnae hae onythin tae dae wi joukery packery like yon. 2017 will see an auspicious alignment of anniversaries. J. K. Rowlings world-beating debut novel Harry Potter and the Ph...
Cherub Complete Collection Books 1-12 - The Recruit; The Dealer; Maximum Security; The Killing; Divine Madness; Man vs. ...
An undercover teen agent discovers the ups and downs of espionage in all twelve books of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has plenty of actionnow available together in a collectible paperback boxed set! CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talentedand all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist. It is a tough job, but these agents have ...
The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
`A biographical orrery intricate, complex and fascinating The Observer#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobelreturns with a captivating, little-known true storyof women in science In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or human computers, to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each nig...