A Hero Born

Reducere. The Hero Twins tells the story of two brothers born to Changing Woman and trained by the Holy People to save their people from the naayee , a race ...

George R.R. Martin drew on Tolkien, who was inspired by Medieval epics and Norse mythology. This collection of epic fantasy tales explores the them...

Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of General George Patton's death, a gripping firsthand account of World War II written by a ...

Reducere. "William Dietrich is a born stylist, moving characters around on an historical chessboard with the assured hand of a master novelist firing on all ...

Reducere. About the AuthorCHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL covered wars in Rwanda and Angola as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press before writing his best...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: J. Michael CleverleyBorn a Soldier is a tour of the mid-20th century's conflicts with the remarkable Larry Thorne. Capturin...

Reducere. When Larry is born with droopy ears, his parents don't know what to do. Larry is an outcast until he outwits the farmer with his lop ears. He bring...

DescriptionWatch out, mice This cat is a sumo champion A stray kitty gets a job in a sumo stable, chasing mice in exchange for food. But when eatin...

'A fascinating insight into one of the greatest artists of our lifetime.' Evening Standard'This is a personal friendship in writing... an endearing...

Reducere. A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk im...

DescriptionThorgal's family is once again reunited, but the future is bleak. The hero is unconscious, dying, and his wife and children are exhauste...

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

Meet Alan Turing. Famous mathematician, cryptographer, and...superhero!This next book in the My Super Science Heroes series shares the amazing stor...

The bestselling series from author Tappei Nagatsuki continues in this spin-off where some of your favorite characters capture the spotlightLong ago...

Reducere. The Next Generation of Duelist has arrived. Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Masked Hero vs. Vision Hero The next series of duels at Duel Academy are...

DescriptionIt's time for a new generation of Ultraman Decades ago, a being known as the Giant of Light joined together with Shin Hayata of the Scie...

DescriptionThe Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian ...

Reducere. "I am not a civil rights hero. I am a warrior, and I am on a mission from God." --James Meredith James Meredith engineered two of the most epic eve...

Reducere. It's time for a new generation of Ultraman! Decades ago, a being known as the Giant of Light joined together with Shin Hayata of the Science Specia...

A half-magic girl learns about heroism and taking action when she and her sister confront a wizard who endangers others for her own gain. Even and ...

Reducere. Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Reducere. Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Reducere. Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Since 2010 Tim Foley has been the driving force of a campaign to honour a man with a remarkable story. Tom Crean, the subject of the new book 'Crea...

Reducere. The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing's all-time great jockeys and the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1902. Born i...

Reducere. Audie Murphy, the son of an itinerant Texas farmhand, was born in 1925. The teenager enlisted in the US Army in 1942. At that time, he stood 5' 6" ...

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop,...

Reducere. Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its peo...

Reducere. Bestselling writer Tom King is back with a new epic that reinvents one of DC's classic science-fiction adventurers, Adam Strange, examining whether...

Reducere. King Herod is troubled, and all of Jerusalem with him. Who is this child born the King of the Jews? The Magi arrive from the East to pay homage to ...

Reducere. Jim Corbett became the hero of thousands of impoverished local families in the remote Indian region of Kumaon when, throughout the 1920s and 30s, h...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the first exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of ...

Reducere. Walt Disney Animation Studios' Moana is a sweeping, CG-animated comedy-adventure about a spirited teenager on an impossible mission to fulfill her ...

Reducere. Chris P. Bacon was born with malformed legs, but with the help of a wheelchair made of construction toys, he's become a hero to people with similar...

Reducere. Monkey King, China's most popular hero in lore and legend, has entertained and delighted children for centuries. Born from a rock, Monkey proclaims...

Reducere. From the Preface: My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, a...

Reducere. Homer A Tornado Wrapped in Barbed Wire takes us into the life of an unsung hero and the hardships Homer and too many others faced during the first ...

Reducere. The Lost Hero of Cape Cod tells the story of an extraordinary nineteenth-century mariner... and of a morale-boosting victory for the young United S...

Independent Publisher Book AwardsVarina Anne "Winnie" Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate pr...

Reducere. AN ELITE WARRIOR IN A LINE STRETCHING TO THE U.S. MARINES OF OLD EARTH IS BORN AND COMES INTO HER POWER IN A CLASSIC TALE OF HEROISM AND ADVENTURE ...

Reducere. Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength-and the will to realize his dest...

Reducere. From the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Seward and Stanton, here is the critically acclaimed and definitive biography of J...

Reducere. They say heroes are born, not made. That isn t the case with BYRON DURAND. For him, it was a little of both. As the heroic SPACE CADET, Byron was b...

Reducere. This is the true story of "Sirius, " the Port Authority police patrol dog who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Told by "Sirius...

Reducere. Walt Disney Animation Studios' Moana is a sweeping, CG-animated comedy-adventure about a spirited teenager on an impossible mission to fulfill her ...

"Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading ...

Reducere. Tyrion was a good person who had been born to a simple family and raised with love, but the world has shaped him for a different fate. Twisted by v...

Reducere. One of SF's most beloved rogues: the Stainless Steel Rat Slippery Jim DiGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat: the galaxy's greatest interstellar thief a...

DescriptionA wild, Jodorowsky-style graphic novel from Moldy Peaches cofounder Adam GreenIn War and Paradise, a graphic novel by creative polymath ...

Reducere. Every heroic fantasy has its hero - the dashing, handsome, fearless warrior who will rush into battle, slaughter the forces of evil, secure in the ...

Reducere. Be prepared for scenes of great action & heroics"I had a word with Sergeant Nolan, so I did, and said you weren't entirely bad unless you were cros...

DescriptionMurder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime narrative and cool, unsentimental appraisal of Scandinavian society (a...

The rites of passage entering into adulthood can feel like re-entering the Earth's atmosphere-dangerous and pressure fueled, desolate, with intensi...

The rites of passage entering into adulthood can feel like re-entering the Earth's atmosphere-dangerous and pressure fueled, desolate, with intensi...

Reducere. Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor, unique narrative voice, and new cover art--now in ...

Reducere. Incarnated angelic beings and starseeds are born with an inherent spiritual awareness that, sooner or later, leads them to question the nature of r...

All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games! Four Inklings get caught up in the Splatoon Turf Wars! The f...

Reducere. The town of Berlin on Maryland's Eastern Shore was founded on a 300acre tract of land called Burley, part of a land grant to Col. William Stevens t...

DescriptionLouis Riel is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and ill...

Reducere. A beautifully illustrated board book edition of the inspiring Disney Moana Little Golden Book. In the ancient South Pacific world of Oceania, Moana...

Nandi and Kyande are twin time travelers who live on post-Earth 2050. An evil scientist named Cecil Hawthorne controlled this new planet. He was on...

Reducere. 'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' - David WalliamsPhizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl!Exciting, bold...

DescriptionClad in bright suits that bespeak their daring deeds, these mini heroes live their daily lives assailed by all sorts of difficulty and d...

Reducere. As the Dark Trine's noose tightens around Kinderra, young Trine Mirana Pinal and her mentor, the Trine hero Tetric Garis, embark on a quest to lear...

Reducere. As the Dark Trine's noose tightens around Kinderra, young Trine Mirana Pinal and her mentor, the Trine hero Tetric Garis, embark on a quest to lear...

Reducere. What happens in Sherman's Lagoon doesn't always stay in Sherman's Lagoon. In this, the fourteenth collection of Sherman's Lagoon comic strips, we e...

Reducere. Sojourner Truth, one of the most revered figures in American history, explains her road to liberation, spiritual enlightenment and the development ...

Reducere. Bree Cordel Whitman is a Whitman by marriage, but sometimes she forgets she wasn't born into Grant and Audrey's family. Her late husband, Timothy W...

Reducere. She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simon Bolivar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in...

Andrew Jackson tells the story of one of our most controversial presidents. Born in the Carolina backwoods, Jackson joined the American Revolutiona...