One Day in August

A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose.Illustrations: 16 Illustrations, black and white

Reducere. Strangled Eggs and Ham is the 6th book in the Country Store Mystery Series. Robbie Jordan's rustic country store is growing in popularity. But when...

A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): David O'KeefeIllustration(s): 1...

Reducere. Some days are just too crazy to be believed. Rebecca Graves has taken one such day from her hometown history and woven diverse events into a colorf...

Reducere. Inspired by one of the world's greatest novels, Ohio artist Matt Kish set out on an epic voyage of his own one day in August 2009. More than one hu...

An illustrated edition of the groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, Time's Person of the Year and the young climate activist who has become th...

DescriptionOn the night of 8 August 1944, the First Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, directing their advance towards Falaise, with the in...

Legendary economist Dr. Henry Kaufman shares a classic Wall Street story that has never been fully told: a firsthand account of the day in August 1...

Reducere. The words of this book's title are said aloud every day by thousands of people meeting together to help each other recover from addictions. The add...

Circumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures o...

What's worse than discovering you have a zombie problem? Imagine acquiring four more undead tag-alongs. . . . From the acclaimed illustrator of Flo...

Reducere. Short, memorable, daily doses of the Bible work like vitamins in your life! Take one a day. Take them to improve your health and well-being. You wo...

Spring stroll in the city What do I see? One giant shamrock. Two kites in a tree. Take a stroll through the city in springtime and experience the s...

Reducere. Description"Lourey skillfully mixes humor and suspense...the characters are wonderful and wacky, and the mile-a-minute pace never falters." --Bookl...

Reducere. At the heart of God's story is the hope that all things lost to man will one day be made new.The Bible presents a single narrative that begins in G...

Reducere. In August, 2017, the death knell sounded for yet another troubled American manufacturer: Appleton Coated, a historic mill in Wisconsin's historic p...

Reducere. A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we do...

Reducere. A layered critique of autocracy in Bangladesh from leading photojournalist Shahidul Alam, with letters from Arundhati Roy"On the night of 5 August,...

One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of pro...

Reducere. A boiling-hot August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath, exsanguinated. Bill Slider's colleague takes one look at the body and ...

Reducere. They said men wanted to go to bed with Marilyn Monroe, but marry Doris Day. As stars of the big screen, two women who were at times so strikingly s...

Reducere. Here is the autobiography of the little boy with golden curls in the paintings of his father, Pierre Auguste Renoir-the boy who became the director...

Allan B. Fredrickson's grandparents, Nels and Augusta Larson, raised eighteen children on their homestead in the Turtle Mountains in northern North...

Reducere. DescriptionMaximilian Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894. As a boy, he prayed the rosary every day and loved Mary, the Mother of God, with all his he...

Reducere. In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the mos...

Reducere. In August, 2017, the death knell sounded for yet another troubled American manufacturer: Appleton Coated, a historic paper mill in Wisconsin's Fox ...

August pullman stole the hearts of over a million readers in the bestselling, award-winning wonder. 365 days of wonder is a beautiful companion to ...

The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Publi...

The history of the Garden State is filled with well-known events and forgotten happenings. German Americans opened the nation's first kindergarten ...

Reducere. Bestselling author Tiffany Reisz returns with an imaginative tale of lust and magic, and the dangers unleashed when the two are combined...On the d...

Reducere. Elvis meets The Beatles. HOW did John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ever get to America in the first place? How did Elvis...

The glorious new novel from the international bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The SixFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & ...

Reducere. Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world foreverOn a quiet Monday morning in A...

Reducere. Published for the fiftieth anniversary of her tragic death, this definitive account dispels the rumors and sets the record straight on her last two...

Reducere. A masterful and comprehensive new chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Ant...

Reducere. A Black Hawk Down of the war in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the U.S. in 12 years of that conflict and a military investigation that covered ...

Reducere. In this "blisteringly innovative and outrageous" (The Observer) novel that the Los Angeles Times describes as "somewhere between Nabokov's Pnin and...

Reducere. In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a val...

Reducere. Arthur Berndt is fighting to survive his childhood but the odds are stacked against him. He lives in two worlds-the violent one he shares with his ...

DescriptionThe United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its prewar order of battle of sca...

Reducere. The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one woman's long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this eng...

Reducere. Part of the legacy left by the great Danish dancer, choreographer, and teacher August Bournonville ( 1805 - 1879) was a series of six complete clas...

Reducere. A graded reader for learners of English (EFL)Level 1 - A1/A2 Starter (1)Word count: 4, 816 Yuka Nakata studies English. Her family owns a ryokan (J...

Reducere. DescriptionAn integrated Catholic Language Arts program for 7th grade or to use over two years for 6th and 7th grade. Grammar and composition are t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertA "magisterial" (The New York Times) single-volume history of WWII It began with the German invasion of Polan...

Reducere. On January 22, 1936, Earl Kiser was buried with a leg he had lost in an accident 31 years before. On April 19, 1861, a water spaniel by the name of...

Reducere. A little bit of generosity goes a long way. This timeless story from India is about a poor boy's dream of having his own drum. His mother is very p...

A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure. "Publishers Weekly, "Starred Eel has troubles...

Reducere. On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby co...

A 2014 CASEY Award finalist for the best baseball book of the year. "For baseball fans of a certain age, it's the ugliest thing they've ever seen i...

Reducere. "Jillian Cantor beautifully re-crafts an American classic in Beautiful Little Fools, placing the women of The Great Gatsby center stage: more than ...

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency r...

Reducere. What remained of the badly decomposed body of twelve--year--old Tina Marie Andrews was discovered underneath a discarded sofa in the woods outside ...

Reducere. Anne Frank and her family lived a peaceful life in Frankfurt, Germany but they had to escape to Amsterdam with fellow Jews and go into hiding, as t...

Reducere. DescriptionIdora Park opened on May 30, 1899, as Terminal Park, a picnic area at the final trolley stop on the south side of Youngstown, Ohio. The ...

Reducere. August, 1968. Fifteen-year-old preacher's kid leaves her small Midwestern town (where pronouncing "tortilla" correctly meant you were bilingual, an...

Reducere. Have you ever looked up at the sky and seen a huge object coming towards you which you could not identify? Have you ever wondered what would happen...

Reducere. Have you ever heard the saying, "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach"? Well, Cat's stomach is bigger than a lot of things. He is always hungry, ...

Reducere. In the Gospel of Luke, we hear the angel's timeless proclamation to Mary, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among...

Reducere. Welcome to The Love Season--a riveting story that takes place in one day and spans decades; a story that embraces the charming, pristine island of ...

DescriptionThe circumstances that impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence were the ic...

DescriptionSt. John of the Cross, Spanish San Juan de la Cruz, original name Juan de Yepes y lvarez, (born June 24, 1542, Fontiveros, Spain--died D...

Reducere. It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson ...

Reducere. Two nations and a mother panda work together to nurture a "precious treasure" in the remarkable true story of a celebrity panda cub and his life at...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the blink of an eye, tragedy can change lives without warning. So was the case one warm August evening in rural southwest Virginia, w...

A haunting and unforgettable novel about love, loss, race, and desire in World War II era America. On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Wash...

The famous swashbuckling adventure When hot-blooded young d'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he finds himself challenged to a duel with...

Reducere. "The best book I read this decade." -Sharon Van Etten in Rolling Stone"Boy Swallows Universe hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt began on August 12, 1983, when a disturbed woman's bizarre accusation ignited hysteria across the small Southern California community...

Reducere. Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home, and a lovely wife, Amand...