Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival, Hardcover - Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Reducere. It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is lea...

Reducere. A beautiful omnibus edition of the award-winning biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietname...

DescriptionNadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though ...

The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Korm kur (Everest)...

Reducere. This companion novel to Skrypuch's Making Bombs for Hitler follows a boy who joins the underground Ukrainian resistance in the fight against Hitler...

Reducere. World War II may be over. But two sisters are far from safe.Inspired by true events, this is the latest gripping and powerful novel from the acclai...

Reducere. Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler) crafts a story of ultimate compassion and sacrifice based on true events during WWII.Th...

Reducere. When Mama goes to work, She wears her working clothes. She combs her hair, She packs a lunch, She takes her special bag. When Mama goes to work, I ...

Reducere. A riveting WWII account of survival at sea--Book 4 in the middle grade True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times...

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Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tracey WilliamsIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dim...

The harrowing story of the Zaandam cruise ship, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway - Covid-19 - days before the world shut...

There is only one bird species that hunts in summer and rears its young in winter: the Emperor Penguin. These extraordinary animals survive the rel...

Acclaimed naval historian Don Keith tells one of the most inspiring sea stories of World War II: the Japanese attack on the American oiler USS Neos...

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Reducere. Sea otters once ruled the Pacific Ocean, but the fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought this predator to near extinction. Tod...

Reducere. As American troops continue their steady exodus on the last day of their ground war in Vietnam, Lieutenant Joe Tallon is shot down by an enemy miss...

Between May 15 and July 9, 1944, over 440, 000 Hungarian Jews were deported and, most were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The sole exception was t...

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Sinking deep into debt, and encountering everything from a lost rudder to freak storms, Vann is on the verge of losing everything - including his l...

In Vietnamese, Uyen Luu demonstrates that Vietnamese food is just as easy to whip up as a bowl of pasta - all you need is a good bottle of fish sau...

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From the streets of Baltimore to the halls of the New Mexico Philharmonic, a musician shares his remarkable story in I'm Possible, an inspiring mem...

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"We returned to our loved ones, but we were never the same again. Most were markedly changed. Young boys had become mature older men, aged beyond t...

Reducere. Hope doesn't only want to listen to her father's stories about his voyages at sea, she wants to be part of those stories. And so, unbeknownst to he...

Reducere. Armenian Aram Haigaz was only 15 when he lost his father, brothers, many relatives and neighbors, all killed or dead of starvation when enemy soldi...

Reducere. As American troops continue their steady exodus on the last day of their ground war in Vietnam, Lieutenant Joe Tallon is shot down by an enemy miss...

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Reducere. Even as a teenager, John Beattie felt drawn to the ocean, but it was 25 years before his dreams of sailing the globe in his 35-foot yacht Warrior Q...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Vietnam, then keep reading...Before the Common Era, the area in and around what is now known as ...

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The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster UnbrokenA modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My...

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Description"Riveting." --The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted ...

A Sunday Times Bestseller'Superbly frank and unsentimental... The literature of the Falklands War would be much the poorer without this pithy, well...

Disasters At Sea - Dag Pike

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Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent-his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish...

Reducere. Take a trip to Vietnam without leaving your kitchen. Little Vietnam brings together 80 authentic recipes that capture the energy, color and excitem...

Reducere. Holocaust survivor, Sol Rosenberg, relates his inspiring story through his good friend Richard Chardkoff. From his stable family life in Warsaw to ...