Now a motion picture, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and secret agent on another voyage, the war of 1812.
The tenth installment in the beloved, epic Aubrey/Maturin series and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
A biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 12 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.
Swept up in a wave of violence when the Japanese Imperial Army tightens its stranglehold on the Shanghai refuge for thousands of desperate European Jews, surgeon Franz Adler falls in love with a nurse and endeavors to safeguard a refugee ...
Breslin's attention to research is evident on the page. And woven throughout the treacherous plot, the theme of trust will encourage readers' hearts."--Hope by the Book
Young Sam Gribley spends a winter alone in the Catskills by living off the land.
The new novel from the author of The Russian Concubine and Shadows on the Nile The Bahamas, 1943.
When an Earth-sized planet circling a star some 30 light-years away is detected, the race is on to build an astronomical observatory on Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth—a dangerous task that is plagued by accidents, ...
Creator Gary Larson offers a rare glimpse into the mind of "The Far Side in quirky and thoughtful introductions to each of the 14 chapters.
More lunatic outpourings from America's bestselling cartoonist- wilder than wild, blacker than black and funny enough to be a major health hazard...
After ten years of The Far Side, this is the distillation of Gary Larson's humour. The book contains early cartoons, some of Larson's favourites with comments, some that didn't quite make it and many other facets of the cartoon series.