The Year of the Bomb

In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's H...

Atomic Bomb Island tells the story of an elite, top-secret team of sailors, airmen, scientists, technicians, and engineers who came to Tinian in th...

Reducere. DescriptionIncendiary Devices: Investigation and Analysis is the first book on this subject written by an actual arson investigator and profiler wi...

Few modern military aircraft can claim the longevity and success of the legendary Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. First flown in the mid-1950s, the A-4 Skyhaw...

Reducere. The keto diet doesn't have to be eggs, bacon and MCT oil in your coffee, you can enjoy it too. 'A Year of Fat Bombs' is a collection of the most de...

DescriptionThe West was stunned when the Soviet Union dropped its first atomic bomb in August 1949 and a year later the Korean War showcased Russia...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paula MunierThe first in a gripping new series by Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones is full of complex twists, introducing...

One crazy year on the California coast--in 1975 a hippie skunkworks, bred in garages and shacks, launched the modern skater movement. Strap in for ...

Reducere. In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews dur...

Reducere. Since the official flag raising on July 9, 1945, the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) has become an integral part of global defense for the United ...

Reducere. DescriptionYellowstone is controlled by nature. Its beauty is breathless and tranquil. Crystal clear streams flow. Buffalo roam freely. It's what's...

DescriptionSherman Lead is the gripping story of a year flying the F-4 Phantom in combat during the Vietnam War, told through the eyes of a US Air ...

Reducere. DescriptionHiroshima Bugi is an ingenious kabuki novel that begins in the ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a new Rashomon Gate. Ronin Browne, the hum...

Reducere. The presidential election of 1920 was among history's most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy an...

Reducere. In September 2017, North Korea shocked the world by exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywhere in 25 years. Months earlier, it had ...

DescriptionA detailed account of the Royal Navy's near fatal expedition into the polar regions in 1773--with the young Horatio Nelson on board.In t...

New York City in June is no joke--and as a wave of violence engulfs the sweltering city, an even greater danger looms in this riveting thriller for...

Reducere. Nine years ago, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland tore apart two young lovers, consuming their hopes and dreams and changing their lives fore...

Reducere. "The Final Year" is part two of "None Stood Taller".Step back once again into Britain's wartime past. Relive the final year of WW2 and this inspira...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul KlebnikovFrom nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regi...

Reducere. The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element ...

"Well there it is. It won't work, but you must bloody well make it, " said the chief of Britain's military leaders, when he gave orders to begin pl...

Reducere. DescriptionOne crazy year on the California coast--in 1975 a hippie skunkworks, bred in garages and shacks, launched the modern skater movement. St...

Reducere. "Have it Read it Love it It's an eye opener " - W. H. An eyewitness account of the first postwar atomic bomb tests by award-winning author and atom...

DescriptionIt was Christmas Eve 1800. The streets of Paris were crowded with citizens. Some were shopping, some were eating and drinking. But other...

Reducere. It's late August, just when thousands of vacationers on beautiful Martha's Vineyard are preparing to go home so the kids can return to school. Ther...

Reducere. Named one of the best business books of the year (by Fortune and Newsweek), SONY is the intimate biography of one of the world's leading electronic...

When a nuclear bomb wrecks his hometown and rips his family apart, 15-year-old Danny has to learn the art of survival and fast. This title offers a...

Reducere. Hailed by critics and readers across the country for its wit, irreverence, and unflinching honesty, Doing Battle illuminates the events and experie...

Reducere. Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1945 to 1950. Even many decades after his death, the more we read ...

Reducere. 1963. It is a year stamped as one of the most turbulent during the Civil Rights movement. Centuries of racial oppression were confronted with peace...

Reducere. 'To attack and ambush, to snipe and raid is the job of the Australian Guerrilla. By rifle and grenade, by machine-gun and mortar to kill them, harr...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered on...

Reducere. The year is 2017. Lucy Pavlov is the CEO of PavSoft Industries, home of a revolutionary operating system that every computer in the world runs on. ...

Reducere. Christy AwardsSliding into the Rabbit Hole... Would She Ever Return? On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: b...

Reducere. Finally, a concise but comprehensive narrative of the geopolitics and atomic research that led to the creation of the Manhattan Project--the Americ...

Reducere. " A] remarkable saga.... Engrossing." --Booklist, starred review In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and...

A New York Times Bestseller A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick "Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, ex...

Reducere. DescriptionHELLFIRE BLURB Yellowstone is controlled by nature. Its beauty is breathless and tranquil. Crystal clear streams flow. Buffalo roam free...

Reducere. In 1971, a skyjacker with a briefcase bomb demanded a $200, 000 ransom and a parachute. Then he vanished out the jet's back door and became an inst...

Reducere. DescriptionOur world has ended five times. It's been fried, and then frozen.Gassed with poison; smothered with ash; and bombarded from space.Extinc...

Reducere. DescriptionYellowstone was not an ordinary volcano.It was a cannon of immense size, equal in destructive capabilityto all of mankind's nuclear weap...

Reducere. Radical subcultures in an unlikely place Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and regi...

Reducere. On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit histor...

Reducere. On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was j...

Reducere. Description"What if a wheezing, sneezing, allegedly house-trained, ticking time bomb of an orphan pug is the key to helping a family feel at home a...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilli...

Reducere. On August 6, 1945, 22-year-old Kaleria Palchikoff was doing pre-breakfast chores when a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima, Japan. A moment ...

Reducere. This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment a unit known as the Black Heart Br...

Reducere. "Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high-wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy." --Colson ...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed one of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction of 2018 "Geni's character-driven environmental thriller--think Silent Spring by way of Celeste Ng--...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer A. DoudnaAuthor: Samuel H. SternbergFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of Science News' Favorite Bo...

Reducere. A Firefighter's Story is a powerful memoir of a man's thirty-year career in a couple of exceptional and selfless professions. Richard A. Ehrlich sp...

A manual for training police and military snipers that presents training, equipment, range firing, and mission essential descriptions of the many p...

Reducere. Sakhalin Island or Karafuto as it is known in Japan changed hands a number of times during the course of its history. Each change had a far-reachin...

Reducere. Graffiti crews are willing to risk anything for their art. Called vandals, criminals, even creative terrorists, graffiti artists set out to make th...

Reducere. Twenty-three year old Arnold Gold is a Seattle-based odds-maker and computer genius. Described as a "part-time hacker and full-time virgin" by his ...

DescriptionA thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classics by Agatha Christie, that will leave...

Reducere. Just because you feel ordinary doesn't mean you aren't extraordinary to someone else. Sixty-two-year-old Elsie knows what she likes. Custard creams...

As a young band of brothers flies over German-occupied France, they come under heavy fire. Their B-17 is shot down and the airmen--stumbling throug...

Following a bomb attack, thirteen-year-old Sami and his family leave behind their lives in Syria. They begin a dangerous journey to seek asylum in ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Carnival at Bray meets West Side Story in Sarah Carlson's powerful YA debut; set in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland), altern...

Reducere. It's been nearly a year since Kazuma and his useless goddess began their life in another world. After saving the town of Axel from the Mobile Fortr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the jungle, no one can hear you scream.American movie star Scarlett Cox and her husband, hotel tycoon Salvador Brazza, head to Africa...

Reducere. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a new story in her SEAL of Protection: Legacy Series...Over the years, Stor...

'I cannot forget. The year is 1983. I am walking along a Belfast street with my sister, Ruth.'Ruth Porter was killed in a bomb blast in central Bel...

Reducere. The untold story behind Mega-City One's most famous telepath and Judge Dredd partner, Judge Anderson, in her first year on the job Mega-City One, 2...

DescriptionWhen a Russian coup elevates a ruthless new leader-Vera Koslova, the first female president of the Russian Federation- to power, the mil...

In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And forgave. He said...

Description"Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany."--The New Yo...