Yard War

Reducere. Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world's greatest de...

When the Civil War began in 1861 Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter, living on her family's plantation in...

DescriptionBeloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war corr...

Reducere. "Charles Todd hasn't made a misstep yet in his elegant series featuring Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge, and A Matter of Justice keeps the str...

DescriptionIn January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines. Her first ye...

August, 1939. As war looms, DI Walter Hardcastle is summoned to the office of Charles Marriot, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of CID at New Scotland...

Reducere. Description""A rough-and-tumble pop-culture look at the history of this storied game.""--National Review Online""The 100-Yard War"" showcases two g...

DescriptionLondon, 1914. The declaration of war with Germany has made the capital a dark, uncertain place, rife with fear and suspicion. As the pre...

Reducere. Fjord-like Hood Canal channels beneath the snowcapped Olympic National Park, creating a summer paradise of warm days and inspiring scenery as well ...

Reducere. DescriptionNot much larger than a few city blocks (219 acres, plus 72 acres of water), the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of the most historically signi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first government-owned navy yard in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the nation and the largest city in the young republic, was start...

Reducere. "Highly recommended--well-rounded, believable characters, a multi-layered plot solidly based on human nature, all authentically set in the England ...

Reducere. In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case ...

Reducere. Tales of vengeance delivered by the hidden hand of a ruthless master of disguisePractically everyone who has an appetite for the mystery, crime and...

DescriptionCould a mysterious music box hold the key to unlocking the puzzle behind a gruesome murder for Detective Inspector Silas Quinn? London, ...

DescriptionThis book recounts the historical and archaeological efforts to discover and recover three cannons wrapped up in the shroud of history a...

Reducere. On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News r...

Reducere. "Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation....A meticulously wrought puzzle."--New Y...

Reducere. Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and TeensThomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBrid...

Reducere. DescriptionBoys will love this curriculum created for writing about battles It contains 12 easy self-guided lessons covering the basics of creative...

Reducere. DescriptionThere may still be time for a despondent, mysterious old house with tiny pineapples carved on its eaves to fulfill the dream of one of i...

Reducere. DescriptionMarinship was a World War II shipyard built by the W.A. Bechtel Company to fulfill an urgent need for cargo ships to support soldiers al...

Reducere. Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his school-yard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become...

Reducere. In the wake of the Jacobite Rebellions, companies of trustworthy Highlanders were raised from royal clans to protect the populace, deter cattle ste...

From bestselling Scandinavian crime writer Åke Edwardson--whose books are international sensations in Europe--comes this gripping novel of suspense...

Reducere. It is 1941 and America teeters on the brink of war. Outgoing naval officer Ensign Jim Avery escorts British convoys across the North Atlantic in a ...

Reducere. In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London--each shot throu...

Reducere. In her acclaimed mysteries set in the age of the British Raj, Barbara Cleverly brilliantly captures a fascinating collision of cultures against a b...

Reducere. "Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation....A meticulously wrought puzzle."--New Y...

Reducere. From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense asks, "Could you hate your neighbor enough to pl...

Reducere. 1926. The war-ravaged vineyards of France. In this masterpiece of suspense from CWA Historical Dagger Award-winner Barbara Cleverly, a nameless sol...

August, 1939. As war looms, DI Walter Hardcastle is summoned to the office of Charles Marriot, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of CID at New Scotland...

Reducere. ``TAUT, ALMOST UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks.`` ...

Reducere. Description""A rough-and-tumble pop-culture look at the history of this storied game.""--National Review Online""The 100-Yard War"" showcases two g...

Reducere. The never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.***An ALA GLBT Round Table ...

Reducere. During the first quarter of the 20th century, the major naval powers of the world built hundreds of Dreadnought-style battleships. Today there is o...

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Macomber's Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous years f...

Reducere. On November 12, 1971, Bernard Patterson, a much decorated Vietnam War hero turned real-life version of Don Quixote, Butch Cassidy, and Robin Hood a...

Reducere. DescriptionA seemingly impossible mystery tests the keen mind and forensic skills of Joanna Blalock, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and the heir t...

Reducere. "Highly recommended--well-rounded, believable characters, a multi-layered plot solidly based on human nature, all authentically set in the England ...

Reducere. The Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the sprin...

Reducere. Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent i...

Reducere. ``Charles Todd hasn't made a misstep yet in his elegant series featuring Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge, and A Matter of Justice keeps the st...

Reducere. "If I meet any dragons I'll run away."When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Great War,...

Reducere. Set in England over a summer in the aftermath of the second world war, the book follows 16-year-old Robert Appleyard, son of a coal miner, who leav...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican versus Englishman--will it be a war of wits, or a battle to find their hearts? Alix hasn't had much luck in her life, but a tri...

Duncan MacLaughlin was an elite officer at London's New Scotland Yard. The best of the best.In this explosive book, he breaks the code of silence a...

Reducere. "I'm worried. . . .This damned black-out. I'm afraid of what may happen in the dark."Artists' model Althea Greville was, in life, known as somethin...

Reducere. Book 2 in The Heathcliff Lennox seriesWho killed Sir Crispin Gibbons? A wedding invitation and news of mischief that could be murder, takes Lennox ...

Reducere. It's 5th Grade, and the Dudes are ready to rule the school.The mission: Inflate the class economy, Rock down the walls, Race to the state capitol, ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICK Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction The daring and m...

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone hides secrets. Some provoke murder.Olivia Denis discovers her father kneeling over the body of a man...a man who supposedly dro...

Reducere. Although it was first published in 1947, Gilbert began this novel in the years immediately before World War II and didn't finish it until he return...

From the busy streets of London to the death pits of the Balkans, Ron Turnbull - both as a Scotland Yard murder detective and as an international w...

Reducere. An epic adventure--the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written. Eric Williams, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot dow...

Florida hosts some six million campers annually, and many of them stay at the state's public campgrounds and campsites-for reliability, affordabili...

Reducere. [An] excellent fair-play mystery...this British Library Crime Classic more than deserves that status.--Publishers Weekly, STARRED ReviewOn a dismal...

DescriptionFresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk Tolstoy's stories contain many of the most...

Reducere. It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying, Soho's nightlife is buzzing and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement.She ha...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kate Kingsbury"The author draws as much from Fawlty Towers as she does from Agatha Christie, crafting a charming...cozy del...

Reducere. While searching his grandmother's attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his ...

DescriptionWinter is here and as the nights get longer and the days colder, hearty heart-warming meals are in season. After hosting so many meals a...

Reducere. A Test of Wills : The First Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery The first novel to feature war-damaged Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge, A Test of W...

'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times ...

I've got one chance to prove myself and earn my place. Against all odds, I've snagged myself a spot at the elite Undercover Protectorate. It's basi...

Reducere. Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his school-yard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become...

On a foggy night in London, a party has gathered in an artist's studio during the wartime blackout. When the brutal murder of the miser next door i...

Reducere. Discover the ultimate manga experience with the One Piece Series! Luffy and the crew are on the move to find the hidden gold in Upper Yard but end ...

The Allotment Girls is an inspiring and heartwarming novel of wartime hardship, friendship and fortitude from Kate Thompson, author of the Secrets ...

England 1950, a country struggling to come to terms with peace in the grip of austerity and rationing. When the body of a man dressed in a pinstrip...