The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna, Hardcover - Michael Parfit

Reducere. The heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Pa...

Reducere. Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with hi...

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Reducere. A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to...

Reducere. WEREWOLF: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog is the raw, first-hand account of the life of a police K9 named "Brag" and his cop partner....

From the author of The Gran Tour, a portrait of an intergenerational friendship.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Ben AitkenNumber of pages: 336Publi...

Reducere. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed ra...

***NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2015*** A POIGNANT STORY OF LOSS AND SURVIVAL In the midst of a sugar cane field, within sight of skyscraper...

Reducere. The Hiltons is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary...

Reducere. Discover the true story of a wandering dog who had adventure in his heart and the rattling of rails in his soul. In the early days of the Australia...

Reducere. Description(Illustrated biography, immigrants) Young Ida lives in 1880s Sweden with her family. When she contracts scarlet fever, she almost loses ...

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***NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2015*** A POIGNANT STORY OF LOSS AND SURVIVAL In the midst of a sugar cane field, within sight of skyscraper...

Reducere. Elliot Rodger considered himself to be intelligent, refined, handsome, fashionable and charming. He spent years trying to be cool so women would li...

Reducere. #4 in the Young American Immigrants (nonfiction) children's series. Eleven-year-old Samuel is excited to sail with his family from South Africa to ...

Reducere. #1 in the Young American Immigrants (nonfiction) series. Experience a true American adventure through the eyes of a child who walked it. Nine-year-...

Reducere. The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve ball-playing boys. It was the1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one had e...

Reducere. DescriptionThe almost unbelievable, but true story of a teen-age boy's survival and triumph over hardship in a Russian slave labor camp -- ending i...

DescriptionA warm-hearted tale of wartime survival against a backdrop of evacuation and bombs. In June 1940, 10-year-old Pam Hobbs and her sister I...

The stranger-than-fiction case that has gripped Iceland for four decades.

Reducere. He escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rud...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Keith O'BrienNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 243 x 43Cover type: HardbackRede...

After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, ...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her siz...

The heartbreaking yet inspiring account of a young girl who suffered horrifically at the hands of nuns in the Nazareth House Convent in Northern Ir...

Reducere. In March, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary, followed soon after by Adolf Eichmann and his SS Sondercommando. His single goal was to elimi...

In the early 1970s, two young filmmaking brothers unloaded their camera and recording equipment on the collapsing front porch of a dilapidated mano...

Reducere. A historical novel based on a true story about an amazing early twentieth-century woman. She stood out in a crowd of friends and relatives from Cas...

Reducere. On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape...

Reducere. Kane Hodder. To fans, this name is synonymous with horror, an icon on the level of Bela Legosi, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price. Kane has appeared ...

Reducere. Nine months after their traditional Amish wedding, Joe and Esther left family and friends forever to live openly for Christ, and endured shunning a...

When author Victor Rash visited a bird rescue and encountered the bird that would eventually become Freddie Mercury, a blue-and-gold-scarlet macaw ...

A #1 New York Times Bestseller "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was o...

Million-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a trau...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

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 ...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestsellerA five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pion...

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Reducere. A national bestseller—over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson tr...

Reducere. "The Woman Who Wasn't There is a riveting real-life mystery, a probe into the inner depths of humanity. This is a page-turner for every American" (...

The shocking and amazing true story of the first female US District Attorney and travelling detective, who solved the case the NYPD had given up on.

A fascinating and powerful memoir about growing up black in the Falls road area of Belfast during the Troubles in the 1970s and 80s, and a moving t...

Reducere. DescriptionThis story reveals the remarkable life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, or "Beckoning, " who was kidnapped from his Yavapai tribe...

Gripping True Story of War and Romance, Hope and Miracles When the odds are impossible, love goes to work. In this thrilling true-life story, reade...

In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung dise...

The true story of the most remarkable escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall, from the creator of the acclaimed BBC podcast.Publisher: Hodder & Stough...

Reducere. They were held in brutal captivity--and managed to make it out alive. This is their story. The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gi...