Survivor on the River Kwai

Award-winning war fiction about three POWs who endure Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway.

The gripping and fascinating story of the man who was really in charge of the construction of the infamous bridge on the river Kwai, by his grandda...

Superb example of the ever popular Japanese POW memoir genre.

After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway Colonel Cary Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Ch...

Reducere. Escaping on the Danube River is their only hope for survival.Europe, 1939: Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Re...

Reducere. DescriptionOver 900, 000 copies sold in the series When kids step into the Imagination Station, they experience an unforgettable journey filled wit...

This volume is considered the most comprehensive monograph about the life and career of the female pioneer who integrated abstract painting, music,...

Reducere. 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 ...

Publisher: Troika BooksAuthor(s): Hilda OffenIllustration(s): Colour throughoutNumber of pages: 32Collection: Rita the RescuerPublication date: 201...

Reducere. Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan...

The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape forever. A witty, elegant, opinionated pilgrimage of t...

Reducere. A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the Americas On Sunday, ...

Dupa ce prizonierii de razboi britanici au construit un pod de cale ferata foarte important, in Burma ocupata de inamic, comando-urile Aliatilor pr...

Wounded Survivor is a highly personal memoir about surviving sexual abuse, dealing with the loss of loved ones, and living through mental and physi...

Reducere. "B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward int...

A breathtakingly original history of the slave rebellion that almost changed the face of the Americas.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Marjol...

DescriptionIn this remarkable first book, Hornik's poems carry a quiet power rooted in nature, place, and family. We find our own lives in hers--in...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): Carl HareNumber of pages: 100Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 46Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. Chad Diehl, a Columbia University doctoral candidate, introduces Raft of Corpses as the first official translation of the tanka poetry of Yamaguchi...

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Christine FeehanPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 233 x 153 x 39Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Publisher: SkyhorseAuthor(s): Matthew DowdNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 216 x 22Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. Pack your paints and your paddle; we're going on a 2, 552-mile creative adventure from source to sea on the mighty Mississippi River in a 14-1/2 fo...

DescriptionLights with no apparent source, heating her back while she walks along a riverbank, initiate American anthropologist Judith Hoch into an...

Reducere. DescriptionOn a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons are about to cross the dark Mississippi River into Iowa Territory on a tiny boat. Penny...

Rare and previously unpublished images throughout, this book tells the fascinating history of these hubs of business and activity.Publisher: Amberl...

The moving and inspiring story of an Auschwitz survivor who shares what he's learned about gratitude, tolerance and kindness.Publisher: Pan Macmill...

Reducere. "They didn't know what to do for me, or what to give me to relieve the pain ... I survived approximately one month in your Earth time..."As the rei...

Reducere. DescriptionOn Conquering Schizophrenia addresses the topic of schizophrenia like never written. Author Robert Francis offers a revelatory and break...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Anna LevinIllustration(s): 200 colour photographsNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Publisher: Unity Print and Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Andrew WilsonIllustration(s): Over 300 colour pictures; Over 300 colour picturesNumber of pages...

Reducere. Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventaz n, John Lane sets out wi...

A delightful collection of Khanty folktales introducing children of all ages to the animal persons of Siberia, among them Cuckoo Mother, Paki the B...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet Tara Thorpe - she's Cambridge Police's newest recruit... but her dark past is never far behind her. Perfect for fans of Faith Marti...

Reducere. At the age of four, Dr. Lise Deguire suffered third-degree burns on 65% of her body as the result of both maternal and corporate negligence. Agains...

Reducere. Melanie Survivor grew up in a loving middle-class family where abuse didn't exist. She had no idea when she met the suave, charming man that she wa...

Reducere. DescriptionIt has been said that while the famous battles of the American Revolution were fought in the North, the decisive battles were fought in ...

Reducere. A captivating history of the Civil War in northeast Florida "Captures in rich detail the competition between the Confederates and Unionists, blacks...

Medway TalesPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Wilf LowerNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 245 x 174 x 10Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Christine FeehanNumber of pages: 448Collection: Sunrise LakePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 2...

Reducere. Ross Cox was a fur trader for the Pacific Fur Company. In 1811 he sailed form New York, around the Horn, to Hawaii, and on to the Columbia River, e...