The Long Ships, Paperback

This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England.

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Reducere. Flora Martus lived on Elba Isle near Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1900s. She, her brother, and her father were the lighthouse keepers there, and...

During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. T...

Everyone has heard of the USS Constitution and the USS Constellation. They were the first two ships commissioned into the United States Navy. But h...

Reducere. To boldly go where no losers have gone before...Some starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilisations. Some...

Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Jessie Thompson reluctantly moves with her mother and older sister to Savannah, Georgia, in the summer of 1943 to work as a welder...

Reducere. Chicamacomico transports us back to an earlier time on the Outer Banks, when folks on these isolated islands lived by their wits and determination....

Reducere. Long before the Jewish settlements in North America, Sephardic Jews came to the Caribbean, first as crew members on Columbus's ships. By the 1600s,...

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Reducere. Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe. Aro...

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Modern Fortran teaches you to develop fast, efficient parallel applications using twenty-first-century Fortran. In this guide, you'll dive into For...

20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne.Jules Verne's classic science fiction story 20, 000 L...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe most powerful starships ever constructed are taken. Thousands are dead. A fleet is in ruins...Lieutenant Abigail Cage never expected...

DescriptionIn the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval ...

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Reducere. Long-listed for the NBCC's John Leonard PrizeA Seattle Times Best Book of the YearThe gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of dis...

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DescriptionThis is the fully-illustrated story of the Royal Navy's escort carriers which battled against deadly U-Boats during the Battle of the At...

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Reducere. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as ``freedom's swift-winged angels.`` In 1813 th...

Reducere. Award winning comic writer and artist Wayne Vansant brings his gripping World War II saga of war in the Pacific to Guadalcanal and the Battle of Bl...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marina J. LostetterTravel to the remotest reaches of deep space in this wondrous follow-up to the acclaimed Noumenon--a tal...

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ire...

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Building scale models can be fun. This new printed book focuses on car kits. See how you can build a model kit, with ideas, pictures, and tips to h...

Reducere. The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II. This definit...

Reducere. The rag-tag crew of the Capricious is hunting down rogue AI, ancient colony ships, and the biggest treasure the universe has ever seen in the final...

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Reducere. Extra-Dimensionality is the key to understanding everything...By everything, we mean all the areas in which we have been deceived to believe the ph...

DescriptionNumbed by grief and harboring shameful secrets, Lt. Adler Paxton ships to England with the US 357th Fighter Group in 1943. Determined to...

Reducere. Follow Holmes and Watson as they traverse the streets of London and take on cases from the most unlikely of clients in these thirteen short mysteri...

Reducere. Twentieth-century sleuthing methods are linked with the romance and mystery of the past in this true story of a treasure hunt that has yielded mill...

DescriptionCurious kids itching for real-life Indiana Jones-like intrigue will get swept away with the next book in this spine-tingling series abou...

Reducere. A major history of technology and Western conquest For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to co...

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in ...

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Reducere. In 1942 alone, German U-Boats sank almost four million gross registered tons of Allied ships convoying goods and war supplies to the war ravaged Eu...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rhetta AkamatsuThey came in the holds of overcrowded ships, packed in among cargo and animals. They were sold to others to ...

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A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vera NazarianIt's one thing to Qualify... But do you have what it takes to Compete? With Earth about to be destroyed by an ...

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In 1943, Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied inva...

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Reducere. DescriptionSubmarine stories have a long and rich tradition of harrowing escapes and the sinking of enemy ships. When I first saw the boat I would ...