Year of the Jungle

Reducere. Fifty-year-old canoe racer-turned-explorer West Hansen is planning to kayak the Amazon River when he learns that everyone - cartographers, adventur...

Reducere. The protracted trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was the most controversial political event of the 1920s. Today, more than seventy years after their exec...

Reducere. This is the true story of a 17-year-old kid who quit high school in his junior year to join the Marines. After a short cruise with the 6th Fleet in...

Reducere. In November 1968, 20-year-old Norman W. VanCor, a Recon Marine, would step off a Continental Airlines plane onto the tarmac in Da Nang, South Viet ...

Reducere. 'The hole gapes still. It always will. And I fall in periodically.' Durban-based journalist Glynis Horning and her husband Chris woke one Sunday mo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rick St JohnA war that defined a generation. A band of paratroopers that defied the odds. A bond that couldn't be broken.In...

Reducere. This is the true story of a 17-year-old kid who quit high school in his junior year to join the Marines. After a short cruise with the 6th Fleet in...

Reducere. BEAST-GOD VERSUS APE-MAN The year was 1933. Filmmaker Carl Denham had captured the stupendous monster he had dubbed "King" Kong. But that was only ...

Reducere. Long ranked as one of the top zoos in America and even the world, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium's history has remained untold, until now. Beg...

Reducere. Not for God and Country is a true and definitive war story written by a decorated Marine who survived some of the harshest combat of the long, crue...

This book takes the houseplant look outside by exploring the wonders of lush, green, foliage plants that are hardy in the garden. These big-leaved,...

The legendary Tarzan work of artist Jesse Marsh remains an enduring, singular vision, captivating generations of comics readers and earning the acc...

Reducere. Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and an adventurer. In the early 1900s, he spent years mapping out the jungles of South America. Fawcett became obsesse...

Reducere. With the so-called end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his new friend Lola, the modern Maya girl who saved...

Reducere. A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the Americas On Sunday, ...

Reducere. A Marine's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath. John Musgrave had a small-town midwestern childhood that embodied...

Reducere. Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant's vibrant personal metamorphosis. Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a ...

Reducere. "Greenhouse Gardening: A Beginners Guide To Growing Fruit & Vegetables All Year Round" is for anyone who wants to know how to get the most out of t...

Reducere. DescriptionDeep in the Amazon lies the solution to the global energy crisis--a mysterious source of power that will end our dependency on oil.It's ...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 2013 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writer's Society of AmericaFinalist, 2013 Colby AwardWinner of the 2012 USA...

Reducere. From multi-award winning Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters comes a harrowing escape based on true tales of recent Amazon River pirate attacks. When rive...

Reducere. The moving yet humorous story of a girl struggling to care for herself and others in post-communist Slovakia. Emotionally neglected by her immature...

Reducere. Has Nostradamus predicted the coming Apocalypse along with a thousand other great events? His believers claim that in the 1500s he predicted histor...

The most decorated goalkeeper in Liverpool FC's 125-year history, Grobbelaar here tells his life story, from his birth in South Africa to his time ...

Magic is women's work; war is men's. But in the coming battle, none of that will matter.Men do not become mystics. They become warriors. But eighte...

The Unbelievable True Story of a Vietnamese Refugee Who Not Only Made the United States Her Home, But Learned the True Value of Hope, Love, and Rel...

Reducere. A mysterious treasure hunt helps to heal a broken family in critically acclaimed author Kristin Levine's first contemporary tale--perfect for fans ...

Reducere. Set during the French and American wars in South Vietnam, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is the true story of an orphan, Quang Van Nguyen, adopted by...

Reducere. In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael C. GrumleyONE OF MANKIND'S GREATEST LEGENDS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED. SOMETHING EVERY CIVILIZATION HAS SEARCHED FOR... B...

Since the mid-1950s, the psychoactive compound DMT has attracted the attention of experimentalists and prohibitionists, scientists and artists, alc...

Reducere. Not for God and Country is a true and definitive war story written by a decorated Marine who survived some of the harshest combat of the long, crue...

Reducere. Abandoned in the jungle of the Nepalese Borderlands, two-year-old Nandu is found living under the protective watch of a pack of wild dogs. From his...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Zack ZombieWhat does a Zombie do for Spring break? Find out in this next installment of the exciting and hilarious adventur...

Reducere. Muddy Jungle Rivers, a river assault boat Cox'n's memory journey of his war in Vietnam and return home, gives the reader a close-up look at life in...

Reducere. DescriptionCheeta the Chimp was just a baby in 1932 when he was snatched from the jungle of Liberia by the great animal importer Henry Trefflich. T...

Reducere. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist"A remarkable gi...

Reducere. Wait for God to Notice is a love letter to an adopted country with an unstable past and an undeniable endurance to heal. In 1975, Uganda's Finance ...

Reducere. Come along for fun on the farm, a jungle safari, and an underwater adventure—and make lots of new friends along the way! This beautiful anthology i...

DescriptionNow in Spanish, award-winning author Margarita Engle's lively middle grade novel in verse about a Cuban-American boy who visits his fami...

Reducere. "They'd never kill a reporter...." On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded ...

Reducere. The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more--unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay...

Reducere. Fans of the show Mad Men are dying to know how accurate it is. Was there really that much sex at the office? Were there really three-martini lunche...

Reducere. The concept of size is relative -- and takes on prehistoric proportions -- in a funny and reassuring tale from a maven of children's books. Some di...

Reducere. ""Harrell's work combines pop culture, innocence, friendship, and some of the seamier side of the circus background that only adults can appreciate...

Reducere. Slavery Of Faith...the quietly kept story of a young woman's escape through the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana the morning of the massacre November 1...

Reducere. With the so-called end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his new friend Lola, the modern Maya girl who saved...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rick St JohnA war that defined a generation. A band of paratroopers that defied the odds. A bond that couldn't be broken. I...

Reducere. Having already pedalled 18, 000 miles from Britain to Beijing, Charlie Walker's homeward leg carried him a further 26, 000 miles through Central As...

Reducere. 2022 is the Year of the Tiger!Teddy is a future tiger king, whose journey celebrates the new year. Thisedition features a bilingual Chinese transla...

Reducere. It's July, 1941, in a dusty Georgia farming town, and talk of war is in the air. Plucky Mae Lee Willis, almost eight, knows there's more to life th...

Reducere. At the height of the Vietnam War, a search and rescue squadron known as 'Vulture Squad' discovered dinosaurs existing within the confines of an iso...

Reducere. Jessie Belle Church hates her old coot of a boss for making her go on a stupid "Ancestry Quest" news assignment. After all, the thirty-year-old new...

Reducere. "Brilliant... a rollicking good read. Rich with often realistically crude boy lingo, No Good About Goodbye is an utterly charming teenage LGBTQ fal...

Reducere. "Greenhouse Gardening: A Beginners Guide To Growing Fruit & Vegetables All Year Round" is for anyone who wants to know how to get the most out of t...

Reducere. What if... Mars invaded Earth in 1987, and then again in 1938? Venus is a lush jungle planet abundant with life, and where dinosaurs still roam? Nu...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker brings an exotic tale of adventure and creates his most memorable character ever. The story of how I, ...

Reducere. A na ve plan to run away and cruel misfortune puts twelve-year-old Robert and his best friend Michael on a British naval vessel. When the boys are ...

* Ingrid Betancourt's astonishing, powerful and deeply moving account of her six-year ordeal in the Colombian jungle as a hostage of the terrorist ...

DescriptionIn this "hypnotic, violent, unsparing" (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the "haunting, twisting t...

DescriptionThe poet Kablr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interesting perso...

Reducere. From the author of the he award winning Fledgling Jason Steed, comes a brand new thrilling adventure. Jason Steed Absolutely Nothing is Mark A. Coo...

DescriptionStarting with a tiny brown monkey in the middle of a jungle, this unique geography perspective shows ever-widening views from mountain t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn her first year as a missionary to a small group of native women in the Ecuadorian jungle, Elisabeth Elliot faced physical and spiritu...

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...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist"A remarkable gi...

Reducere. "Greenhouse Gardening: A Beginners Guide To Growing Fruit & Vegetables All Year Round" is for anyone who wants to know how to get the most out of t...

Reducere. The unforgettable novel about one child soldier s struggle with friendship, courage, and resilience. Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent awa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Zack ZombieWhat does a Zombie do for Spring break? Find out in this next installment of the exciting and hilarious adventur...

Reducere. From multi-award winning Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters comes a harrowing escape based on true tales of recent Amazon River pirate attacks. When rive...