Search Results
Showing
1 - 20
of 255
query time: 0.03s
Author:
Publisher:
Viking
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump,"...
Author:
Series:
Amelia Peabody volume 12
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Intrepid archaeologist/sleuth Amelia Peabody and her family, back in Egypt in 1914 for another season of archaeological excavation, become caught up in the political turmoil sweeping the country, and when an exquisite artifact from a Giza dig is found where it ought not be, Amelia realizes her villainous arch-nemesis Sethos is at work.
Author:
Publisher:
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
An extraordinary, newly discovered account from an ordinary Canadian on the ground in the crucial battles of the First World War. What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War? Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt. Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers, Thunder in the Skies takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914,through training camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days Offensive, and...
Author:
Publisher:
Malarkey Books
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The Big West: a largely unexplored region of Calem, Central America, where time and gravity obey different laws, where sloped lakes and mineral snow decorate the landscape, and where a grand resort hotel existing simultaneously in three different eras hides from the modern world. As satellites rain from the sky during a solar storm, Geoff has come here to fulfill a mission he once believed in, but increasingly suspects is pointless. Is it just a malarial...
Author:
Series:
Amelia Peabody volume 12
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2000
Language:
English
Description:
In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. Peters' mysteries are so irresistible, The Washington Post Book World says, "the public library needs to keep her books under lock and key." This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds,...
Publisher:
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English
Description:
Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.
Author:
Series:
Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 460L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
A storm is brewing and Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are hurrying home for bed. But who can sleep with all that racket? It's not long before other friends show up seeking safety from the storm. Thunder and lightening sure can be scary, but it's easy to be brave together. When the clouds roll on and the sky is clear, it's all aboard for a bedtime ride! Beep! Beep! Shhh.
11. Thunder Boy Jr
Author:
Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 420L
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
12. The first battle
Author:
Series:
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 3
Lexile measure:
590L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Formats:
Description:
A latest entry in the prequel story arc reveals new details about the history of the warrior cats and follows the efforts of Clear Sky to violently divide the territories of the forest cats in spite of Gray Wing's efforts to promote peace.
13. Darkness
Author:
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards continues her penchant for "fantastic storytelling" (RT Book Reviews) with this next heart-pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life--and that of a handsome stranger--before they're swallowed up in darkness forever. BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist...
Author:
Series:
Dragon Masters volume 7
Lexile measure:
560L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Formats:
Description:
The Dragon Masters have two tasks: track down the newly hatched Lightning Dragon, and find his destined Dragon Master, a boy named Carlos, and convince him to trust them--but somebody else has dark plans for this particular powerful and wild dragon.
16. Path of stars
Author:
Series:
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 6
Lexile measure:
630L
Language:
English
Description:
When the dangerous Slash takes Star Flower hostage, her mate Clear Sky must rally the other four clans to his side in order to save her.
17. Overkill
Author:
Series:
Alex Hawke novels volume 10
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Description:
"Putting it all on the line to rescue his kidnapped son pits counterspy Alex Hawke against Russian President Vladimir Putin in this action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author Ted Bell. On a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps high above St.Moritz, Alex Hawke and his young son, Alexei, are thrust into danger when the tram carrying them to the top of the mountain bursts into flame, separating the two. Before he can reach Alexei, the boy...
Author:
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
"'Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an historical...
19. Cloud Riders
Author:
Publisher:
Hashtag Comics
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Princess Leilani is a skilled and gifted warrior, possibly the finest in all of Galemount, her gifts matched only by her arrogance and privilege. Join her on her journey of self-discovery as she finds out what life is like without her usual resources as she tries to find her way home to discover the secret of being a true Princess.
Author:
Series:
Publisher:
Marvel
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Collects Mighty Thor (2015) #1-5. When Dr. Jane Foster lifts the mystic hammer Mjolnir, she is transformed into the Goddess of Thunder, the Mighty Thor! Her enemies are many as Asgard descends further into chaos, and unrest threatens to spread throughout the Ten Realms. Yet she wages her greatest battle against a far more personal foe: the cancer killing her mortal form. When Loki steps back into Thor's life, will it ease her troubles or only add
...