One Boy's War, Paperback - Nancy McDonald

Reducere. ENGLAND, SUMMER 1940. Following a brush with death on the Irish Sea, ten-year-old K fer Avigdor unexpectedly finds himself back in London. There, h...

This is an honest portrayal of the disillusionment and degradation of life and death in the trenches of World War I. The story is based on a real y...

Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursti...

Reducere. It's 1933 in Berlin. The Nazis have seized power, and for thirteen-year-old Amelie Mayer life is changing in ways she never could have imagined.Her...

Reducere. Berlin, April 1938. One night, eight-year-old K fer Avigdor uses his specialty toilet-paper roll binoculars to spy on his Mama and Aunt Charlotte. ...

Reducere. Building forts, excursions to the park, enduring art and music lessons with his buddies formed the fabric of Jim Ling's early childhood in the glit...

Reducere. Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and ne...

Professor Custard covers the life of Peter Gregory from his birth to the present day where he is a man of 75. Like many lives, it consists of a mix...

Reducere. A moving personal narrative in the form of a journal, this powerful poem tells the story of one boy's journey into war--and the horrible climax at ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Onwusa OpiahIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 120Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 14C...

Martin Morgan grew up in Denver, and his world changed abruptly when, at the age of twelve, a church-camp counsellor seduced him. This memoir prese...

Reducere. Pedro Pan, One Boy's Journey to America, is a tale of a 12-year-old boy's journey from Cuba to the United States. He takes part in a secret operati...

Reducere. In November 1941, the war that had been raging in Europe since 1939 and in China since 1937 was coming closer and closer to the United States. The ...

1941. It takes strength to work on the docks, but the war demands all hands on deck and the women are doing their best to fill the gap. Rosie is fl...

This funny, poignant, uplifting story about lockdown celebrates how - sometimes - just keeping on going makes you a hero.Publisher: Nosy Crow LtdAu...

Reducere. Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, ...

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

DescriptionProgressive faith is at a crossroads. Liberal pulpits ring with grand sermons about the arc that bends toward justice, and about progres...

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Reducere. On the Border of a Dream is an eye­-opening and uplifting autobiography that tells the true story of a boy from rural Mexico, who at a young age se...

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...

Reducere. This anthology of war literature includes some of the personal narratives, short stories, novel excerpts, drama, and poetry to come out of the Viet...

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Reducere. 'Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable' --Sebastian FaulksThis is the incredible true ...

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Reducere. New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and Chelsea Lately writer Heather McDonald's hilarious true story of finding herself in the predicamen...

Reducere. This autobiographical story recounts the author's experiences enduring her only son's drug addiction and the physical, emotional and spiritual turm...

Reducere. Written in the form of a letter to her granddaughter, the author of this little book describes her plantation childhood, her marriage and parenthoo...

An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.

Reducere. "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, Jesus] interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." (Luke 24: 27) Afte...

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination, " humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-h...

Reducere. This playful counting book shares the colorful highlights of the four seasons in charming illustrations. Count your way through the seasonsIn sprin...

An impartial expert's guide to taking control.

In a time when companies are outsourcing abroad, Habitat International, a Tennessee-based carpet manufacturer, has managed to achieve superior leve...

Reducere. Description1 Alone, among other men who are also alone. Sleep a little on deck as others keep watch. Wake up. Shake off the groggies. Clean the gun...

Ron Davies' story is that of an ordinary soldier from Essex and his experiences, by turns amusing and harrowing, in the Second World War.Publisher:...

'The sense of dread deepens as the snow falls in Ruth Ware's tensely plotted and deliciously cast alpine thriller' Louise Candlish, bestselling aut...

Eve is conscripted as a soldier and discovers just how South American countries are being exploited under the guise of western paternalism.