Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas, Paperback - Spike Walker

Reducere. When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in Ja...

Reducere. No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death ...

Reducere. It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world. In January 1998, in t...

Reducere. The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David.On June...

Reducere. AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning h...

When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

Reducere. This is no typical undercover story. This is a human story. Whom will you root for?Follow Tee, an undercover cop, as he attempts to infiltrate a de...

Reducere. When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

Reducere. Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of A N.A. Salvage Tug, Paperback

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Kraig BeckerIllustration(s): 50 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

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 ...

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Staying Alive is the inspiring story of Joseph and his story of overcoming insurmountable odds and obstacles after being diagnosed with a serious i...

Four young men in a tiny lifeboat brave a dreadful storm to save dozens of lives in this illustrated chapter book adaptation (for readers 6-9) of t...

Reducere. In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, "an impressively researched" (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of A...

Reducere. A national bestseller—over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson tr...

Reducere. A masterpiece of historical adventure, Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the co...

Reducere. There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won't be able to fix on my own.But in them all, I know God will be there, calling me to l...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Kate SkylarkAuthor: Lucy GilbertThe second of Kate Skylark's co-written true child abuse stories. Steve Gilbert is a charmi...

Reducere. In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. T...

This beautiful picture book follows the journey of a young gray wolf who garnered nationwide attention when he became the first wild wolf in Califo...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the early years of Western Expansion to the present day, our history is marked by the heroic exploits of the rescuer and the rescue...

Tiggy is a high-born girl on the Isle of Fortune, forced to wear dresses, attend balls and (worst of all) comb her wild curls. But then the Pirate ...

It could happen to you. It happened to the girl next door... When Theresa was 15 she moved to a new school and fell for an older pupil, Daniel.

Reducere. Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his class...

Reducere. "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." --NatureA magnificent (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious ...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Annette McGivneyPure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's ques...

Deep in the ocean, TOPO THE OCTOPUS plays some relaxing music for AQUAMAN. While the SEA KING rescues a whale caught in the deadly current, his SUP...

Chadwick Chronicles: Vampire of the High Seas focuses on the story of Chadwick. Chadwick's mother is human, but his father is a vampire. Chadwick h...

Reducere. The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the...

Reducere. In his excellent book explaining naval strategy, Julian S. Corbett examines sound maritime strategy. Crucially, he advances the view that navies co...

Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct desce...

Publisher: Merrion PressAuthor(s): Lorna SigginsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 214 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in paperback, the book that Newsweek calls "wonderful, witty, and wise, " vividly recounts a time 100 years ago when a racehorse thr...

The story of what is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments.

In the spring of 2014, an American rap star unwittingly triggered an online hurricane with the ease of a tweet. Hitting an unprecedented nerve on T...

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!* The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and ...

The Catalpa Rescue is the gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history by the much-loved Peter FitzSimons.

Reducere. A Fan's Look at the Back to the Future Franchise"Brad Gilmore's book not only offers new perspectives and a deeper understanding of Back to the Fut...

Reducere. Here's the story of the Great Pyramid and the people who built it. In the author's telling, the Old Kingdom comes alive: a nation of farmers living...

It is one of the worst storms ever - the snow has not stopped for days and it is 30 degrees below zero. But somehow Balto must get through. He is t...

Publisher: FantagraphicsAuthor(s): Jacques TardiIllustration(s): 64 Illustrations, unspecifiedTranslator: Jenna AllenNumber of pages: 64Publication...

Reducere. "A new approach to dating." - NPRThere may be no formula for love, but that certainly doesn't mean there's no science behind it. In this fascinatin...