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Second in the Drago Mystery Series. <br><br>A man literally in a tree puts Nick <br>on the trail of a hundred-year-old mystery that reaches into the present and brings bedlam to Bandon. <br><br>Nick Drago never was a cop. <br>Never a private detective. Didn't spy on the country's enemies or graduate law school. <br><br>Drago has been a logger, bouncer and DJ. Woodworker, welder and pilot. <br><br>The Oregon coastal town...
| Автор | Art LLC Spinella |
It may have been the greatest injustice of all.<br><br>A nation was uprooted.<br><br>A nation was ripped apart from its ancestral lands with its peoples' feet pointed west. So many died along the way.<br><br>The Five Civilized Tribes – the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole – rose to power on the land of their fathers, atop great smoky mountains, deep within vast timbered forests, lost among the mangroves, palmettos,...
| Автор | Caleb Pirtle III |
Guns. Women. Coal. Gold.<br><br>Nick and Sal have their hands full. <br><br>When gold was discovered in trees, Nick and Sal found themselves in the midst of a thousand year old question of who first settled the Northwest.<br><br>It ended badly with bystanders suffering the result of greed and mayhem (#2a).<br><br>A year later, Nick and Sal begin their hunt for the face behind the Tree Man crimes and get tangled in a new web of...
| Автор | Art Inc. Spinella |
The Warm Heart of Africa, fifty years in the making, is the story of Susan, one of the first Peace Corps Volunteers. It is also the story of Peter, a ninety-two year old African who became her salvation. She meets him soon after attempting to quit the Peace Corps…but failing. Peter is at first reticent to talk of his past, for fear of opening old wounds. With time, he learns to trust and slowly shares his stories with Susan, beginning with, "My father was the first man to see...
| Автор | Kevin M. Denny |
One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's plan and failed to claim its century, dwelling instead in the long shadow of the United States. <br><br>No more! Co-authors Brian Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis envision Canada's emergence as an economic and social power. They argue, while the United States was...
| Автор | Brian Lee Crowley |
Thirty seven years after the end of the Vietnam War an historic event occurred at busy Da Nang Airport, an Agent Orange hot spot where tonnes of the infamous herbicide were decanted and reloaded on to cargo planes for spraying across the country's lush fields and forests. Dioxin, the accidental contaminant in Agent Orange responsible for many tens of thousands of birth defects and early deaths, is regarded as probably the most poisonous of all the compounds ever devised by man. This...
| Автор | John Stapleton |
In the 1960s, Canada began a seismic shift away from the core policies and values upon which the country had been built. A nation of "makers" transformed itself into a nation of "takers". Crowley argues that the time has come for the pendulum to swing back – back to a time when Canadians were less willing to rely on the state for support; when people went where the work was rather than waiting for the work to come to them....
| Автор | Brian Lee Crowley |
MLK: Nonviolent Coward or Shrewd Mastermind? is more than a book on Dr. Martin Luther King–it is a treatise on battlefield strategy from the mastermind perspective, as well as an excursion into uncharted reality. <br><br>Was Martin Luther King truly a coward? Are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson political house Negroes demolishing Dr. King's dream by way of bootlicking and racial exploitation? Are Sharpton and Jackson pure examples of weak leaders? What was the...
| Автор | Cornell Martin |
Uno sguardo breve, divertente e conciso sulla storia dell'Irlanda. Fin dall'inizio dei tempi, gli Irlandesi hanno sempre affascinato il mondo. Dal loro comportamento allegro e felice ai loro conflitti con l'Inghilterra e la tesa divisione tra Nord e Sud. Entra in questo libro conciso e impara tutto ciò che devi sapere per la tua prossima visita all'Isola di Smeraldo.
| Автор | History Nerds |
Przegląd najważniejszych wydarzeń II wojny światowej. Druga wojna światowa wybuchła 1 września 1939 r. Już od pierwszych strzałów wiadomo było, że konflikt ten narzuci niespotykane wcześniej tempo działań militarnych. Całkowicie przebiła I wojnę światową pod względem skali i złożoności. W tej książce opisaliśmy najważniejsze momenty II wojny, czyli wydarzenia współczesnej historii, które zdecydowały o dalszym losie całego świata.
| Автор | History Nerds |
Augsburg 1614. Der Baumeister Elias Holl erhält den Auftrag seines Lebens – er soll ein neues, epochales Rathaus entwerfen. Der Zenit seiner Karriere, doch droht die Aufgabe sein Verhängnis zu werden: Elias muss sich nicht nur Intrigen erwehren, auch die Liebe zu Lia, einem blutjungen Mädchen, dessen Vergangenheit ein erschütterndes Geheimnis birgt, zieht ihn immer stärker in den Sog von Eros, Angst und Lüge …
| Автор | Axel Gora |
The entire Greek world plunged into three decades of bloodshed in 431 B.C., when the ongoing friction between Athens and Sparta exploded into war. Ten years into the struggle, the Athenian general Thucydides was dismissed for a military failure that led to a triumph for posterity: the former general retired to write an account of the war, resulting in one of the world's great history books.Thucydides' chronicle of the disastrous 27-year conflict between the Greek city-states resonates...
| Автор | Thucydides |
Iris Elaine Picket lives in a beautiful home, with many servants, and a husband who sees her with the same respect he sees those household slaves. The loss of her child after yet another beating from her husband gives her the impetus to take her maidservant and flee South Carolina, leaving behind her parents, security, even her name and begin a new life in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. Once again, author Kimberly Gordon, draws us into the lives of her fictional characters,...
| Автор | Kimberly Tanner Gordon |
Its theme is simple: a tale of Miss Susan Brady, a woman with ideas above her station, who is spurned, and whose jealousy corrodes her life and drives her to try and sabotage the happiness of John Iredale, the prosperous South Australian grazier who has broken her heart… Classy stuff, this – the fruit of delighted observation, of a sensuous and irrepressible joie de vivre. You cannot fake this quality, it is remarkable… there lingers in one's mind the rare and special pleasure of the...
| Автор | Paul Wenz |
To one who for a good many years has lived among the tropic isles of Torres Strait, and whose constant regret has been that their romantic attractiveness is so little known even to Australians, the Drums of Mer comes with very strong appeal. There are some who may think that Mr Idriess is giving us simply an imaginative picture, but the author has travelled the Strait with the discerning eye and contemplative soul of the artist who is satisfied only with first-hand colour, and who, while...
| Автор | Ion Idriess |
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!
| Автор | Edward Hayes |
Hobsbawms 1995 erstmals auf Deutsch erschienenes Werk »Das Zeitalter der Extreme« ist längst ein moderner Klassiker, der Titel zur Chiffre für das 20. Jahrhundert geworden. Erzählt wird darin die Geschichte des »Kurzen 20. Jahrhunderts« von 1914 bis 1991 – aus der Sicht des marxistischen Historikers, der zugleich teilnehmender Beobachter dieses 20. Jahrhunderts war.
| Автор | Eric Hobsbawm |
In all the history of the sun-scorched Holy Land, there's never been a knight like Sir Kenneth, «The Falcon.» His sword is swift and true, and in battle he fights with a savage intensity that lifts the spirits of all who fight under the English banner. And these are the women in his life–Elaine, the dusky, beautiful gypsy girl who earns her living dancing and singing for the Christian troops–but would gladly give it all up, if Sir Kenneth would only take her into his tent; the Lady Joan,...
| Автор | V. J. Banis |
In 19th century Ireland – just one generation after the Great Famine had left a million dead and scattered the Irish across the globe – a new crop failure threatened the land and its people. This time round, a radical idea began to take hold: that famine was neither divine nor natural in origin but a political event, based on unequal power relations. From this, the globally based Irish Land League was born, led by the visionary Michael Davitt. Fanny and Anna Parnell's Ladies Land League...
| Автор | Mary O'Connell |
Cuba: The Mob, Castro, and the End of the Embargo, explores Cuba's complicated history and emergence from an era of economic isolation from the US. Exploring America's relationship with Cuba, the many political forces that have shaped the country's identity including communism, Batista, and The United Fruit Company; the conflicted legacy of Che Guevara; and the current relationship between Fidel and Raul Castro and President Obama, Cuba contextualizes what the future holds for the...
| Автор | Lightning Guides |
North Korea: Unmasking Three Generations of Mad Men explores the mysterious legacy of the Kim family. From the annexation of Korea by Japan to the painful separation of North and South Korea following WWII, to the cult of personality created by Kim Il-Sung, North Korea will examine the context that created one of the most mysterious, fascinating, and frightening dictatorships in modern history. Kim Jong-Il's total control over the state-run media, the militarization of...
| Автор | Lightning Guides |