Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Youngest and Most Daring Con Man in the History of Fun and Profit!

Now recognised as the nation's leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction intern...

Reducere. He has huge claws and enormous feet. He has a big tail and great big teeth. He's fierce, and everyone runs and hides from the biggest dinosaur of t...

Reducere. Huge clawsGreat big teethBut one little dinosaur doesn't hide--she knows her gargantuan grandpa is the sweetest dinosaur of all.

In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe...

Reducere. Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local part...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionA true story about real people, espionage, and combat including the "Green Beret Affair" that shocked the nation in 1969. From working w...

Reducere. Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist, having been released in limited numbers just after the turn of the twentieth century. Most,...

Filbert Bayi changed the way middle-distance runners competed. With his Catch Me If You Can approach, records fell dramatically - including two wor...

In Black Hole Chasers, award-winning investigative journalist Anna Crowley Redding presents the riveting true story of one of the most inspiring sc...

Reducere. Here was a young black boy who faced the hourly life-and-death reality of growing up in a humble town on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border, with the...

Reducere. The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Sh...

Reducere. A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of ...

Reducere. An Amazon Charts, #1 Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller.#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering...

The first book in a new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. The Hunt is the story of the secret m...

Publisher: Bonnier Books LtdAuthor(s): Gwen StraussNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 30Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the best way possible. . . No...

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year An Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the ...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "GRIPPING...THIS YARN HAS IT ALL." --USA TODAY * "A WONDERFUL BOOK." --Christian Science Monitor * "ENTHRALL...

The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective...

Reducere. The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the ...

The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause c l bre in seventeenth-century Rome, how ...

Reducere. Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came along, letters from New York City children to Santa Claus were destroyed, unopened, by the U.S. P...

The continued love story of how a town came together for one of their own.

Reducere. DescriptionAlan Turing: Enigma: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Cracked The CodeIf you have ever used a computer, you owe that joy to Alan...

The raucous, stranger-than-fiction tale of Sealand - the tiny island nation off the Suffolk coast.Illustrations: 16 Illustrations, unspecified

The raucous, stranger-than-fiction tale of Sealand - the tiny island nation off the Suffolk coast.

James Bolton was determined to find his own path after finding his father cheating on his mother. He studied to be a policeman and then, a detectiv...

The Amazing True Story of One Boy's Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion (UK Edition).

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan.

Reducere. Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As a...

Reducere. A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When...

Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm. Hell's Prisone...

Dixie Kiefer's reputation for durability began at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he broke an ankle and shattered a kneecap while playing football. A...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Christopher (Assistant Professor of History, Howard University) TozziNumber of pages: 336Collection: History of ...

Reducere. In the 1920s, drawn by spectacular vistas and colorful fall foliage, photojournalist Frank Hohenberger (1876-1962) traveled to the hills of Brown C...

Reducere. DescriptionNATIONAL BESTSELLER Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and on Today Best Nonfiction Books to Read in ...

Reducere. A swashbuckling tale of international intrigue, armed battles, and Swingin' Sixties radio pirates over a fifty-year history of the world's smallest...

Reducere. "Bill DeYoung's story of the construction of the original and second span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, of the accident in 1980 that destroyed it,...