The Black Island, Paperback

Suitable for Tintin fans old and new, this book features the world's most famous travelling reporter who solves the mystery of the Black Island. Wr...

Reducere. The classic graphic novel. Investigating a mysterious plane crash, Tintin discovers he's onto something bigThe case leads Tintin to Scotland, where...

The first book about the republican internees and prisoners held on Spike Island by the British Army during 1921Illustrations: 8 Plates, black and ...

Reducere. The winds of change are about to fill the sails of young Jack Drayton...A penniless man living on a barge on the Thames in 1903 London, Jack Drayto...

A shocking graphic novel account of poverty and discrimination suffered by the Chagos Islanders when their eviction by the British enforced US mili...

JR Ralph Casimir (1898-1986) was a Pan-Africanist and poet from the Caribbean island of Dominica. This biography, lovingly written by his grand-dau...

Reducere. Colleges, schools, libraries and military bases in the US and abroad have been searching for ways to celebrate notable persons of color and to prov...

A practical introduction on various historic land records kept across the island of Ireland.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Chris PatonI...

Another hilarious, and yet very serious investigation led by Seamus the private detective. Who said turkeys couldn't solve mysteries?Illustrations:...

Reducere. Pele's magical haunt, the big island of Hawai'I encompasses spectacular and diverse landscapes, from shimmering bays to exhilarating 14, 000-foot v...

Reducere. BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY is a comprehensive instructional book that covers every element of photography. Henry Horenstein's books have been widely...

This acclaimed book is an insightful and human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most significant scholars of the Gaelic world, and of his...

Ben Passmore's necessary contribution to the dialogue around race in the United States, Your Black Friend is a letter from your black friend to you...

Throughout the Upper Mississippi Valley, George Davenport's name was widely known as a trader with the Sauk and Mesquakie, the U.S. Army, and settl...

Reducere. "... we were going to West Harbor to hear Negro Bennett preach in 1854 ... Bennett was about sixty years old at the time. I think the largest negro...

Lonely Planet's New Zealand's North Island is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discov...

A book to help children and families cope with the loss of a baby. Based on the author's personal experience.Illustrations: 39 Line drawings, black...

From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers' tales concerning black-maned ape-men as Theodore Hull - oc...

A boy who finds speaking difficult enters a hidden world of talking animals, a world where language is power. Can he find his voice to help the wol...

Climate Change and how to fight it explained in a hopeful and eco-friendly book. Published in collaboration with Friends of the Earth.Illustrations...

Reducere. Roatan is the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras in the Caribbean. Situated just 40 miles north of the mainland, the island is the most popular...

Another adventure for Libby and her magical wolfish best friend!Publisher: Little IslandAuthor(s): Lindsay J SedgwickIllustration(s): 32 Illustrati...

Join Tom and Zilla - the brother and sister spy duo - on their latest spy mission. Produced in association with catchUp, it encourages reluctant an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

Jump aboard the good(ish) ship, Black Biscuit with Steady Eddy, Cap'n Greentail and the rest of the Pie-Rat crew as they search for the lost treasu...

Barrier islands represent a complex coastal system that includes a number of different sedimentary depositional environments; Governments have also...

Reducere. Divided by state lines and the Mississippi River, the Quad Cities share a common haunted heritage. If anything, the seam that runs through the regi...

Set in Hamburg after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a story of how international events can affect the everyday lives of ordinary families.Pu...

This study examines Cypriot society from the crusader conquest of the island in 1191 to the Ottoman conquest of 1571. The author analyzes the ethni...

An ambitious yet accessible account of Britain's Neolithic Revolution that examines how the early agricultural settlers on our island shaped their ...

Reducere. Welcome back to Hawk Island and the village of Two Brooks. While the sea slowly kisses the sand on the small beach of Saint Carlos, preparations fo...

Reducere. In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft said, "We live on a placid island of ignoran...

Reducere. This book is a compilation of histories-both personal and general-including all Seabee units that served on Iwo but concentrating primarily on the ...

It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outs...

Reducere. Covering subjects ranging from the personal to the scientific, this is a collection of Stephen Hawking's essays and other pieces. They reveal him a...

Reducere. In this thrilling narrative, the reader is introduced to Arnold Josiah Ford - giant of black music; legendary black Jewish Rabbi; stalwart of the M...

A deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black DC Simon Serr...

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Reducere. Written by Warlock Asylum, The Moabitess Stone, is the highly-anticipated sequel to Elijah Muhammad's Message to the Blackman in America that offer...

Reducere. A LETTER OF RESIGNATION is a meditation on American history informed by the Black experience in the United States and neighboring island republics....

Kintana has grown up listening to stories of life at sea from her pa, an ex-pirate turned pet shop owner. So when a tall ship - The Nine Sails - be...

The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence ...

Paperback edition of the bestselling novel following a policeman and a criminal on the run in Boston in 1918. Takes in the aftermath of WWI, and th...

'Grace looked directly at the seal pup and spoke softly to it. 'I'll be back soon. Don't give up.' Grace is excited about her holiday, staying with...

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that...

Reducere. Beat the Devil Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys no...

Reducere. "One of the new tiger cubs has escaped from the reserve "When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel's island village, the rangers and...

Reducere. Treasure Island, a coming of age novel, is perhaps the best adventure story of all time. It is certainly the quintessential pirate tale, and togeth...

Reducere. For fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor's classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay. Phill...

Reducere. Small Island is an international bestseller. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Nov...

When disaster strikes on a school trip and the theatre group end up stranded on an island, everything starts to feel a little too like Shakespeare'...

The heartwarming and lyrical middle-grade story of Ailsa, a young girl who's spending the summer with her aunt and uncle on a remote island when sh...

Reducere. In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journe...

The mysterious black C-Bean is a remarkable device which - as Alice and her classmates have discovered - knows just about everything and can take t...

Reducere. This survey of totem poles from the Tlingit settlements of Alaska to the Kwakiutl villages of Vancouver Island examines the traditions that led to ...

A painfully shy old man has approached Professors Gadling, Gauntraker and Ampersand with an extraordinary archeological find: early human remains t...

Twelve year old Jim washed up on the island as a baby and has been brought up by a family of animals ever since - it's the only life he has ever kn...

When Simon Ellice and Susie Chesterfield drop anchor in the next bay on the tiny island of Cavallo, the Aquaviv family wonder what she sees in the ...

Reducere. Shakespeare's First Folio and the Sonnets, dated 1609, create a functioning Treasure Map, leading the diligent searcher to the Land of the Rosicruc...

Reducere. ``A monumental account of an urban travesty.... It] has all the earmarks of a classic.``--Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mysti...

Reducere. Maybe there's time for one last wish at Lighthouse Point...Courtney Davis is perfectly content with the new life she's found for herself and her so...

A collection of five plays (one of them, "The Coat", published for the first time in the UK) drawing on black urban experience, conceived by the au...

The latest entry in the 'Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean' series presents the study of the rural...

A vibrant miscellany of Irish life with an event for every day of the year, both recent - divorce, same-sex marriage & abortion referendums and Riv...

Fans of Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, the first book in Akunin's Pelagia trilogy, will be instantly mesmerized-and frightened-by this lates...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert Louis StevensonIntroduction by: John SutherlandFrom the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings ...

Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail north-east for some forty miles to a remote rock called Sulasgeir. Th...

Reducere. Conan is imprisoned on Ryker's Island -- but he promptly breaks out with the help of Deadpool! The taciturn barbarian and the Merc with a Mouth mak...

Millie's grandpa Big Frank is the Lighthouse Keeper. When Jack-o-the-Lamp comes to the island to automate the light, Millie is very worried. A big ...