“ We have to get it on a winch , " Julie said . She dropped back down onto her buttocks and wrapped the mainsheet around a winch , put in a winch handle and started grinding . “ I need help here , ” she said , and Meiko dropped to the ...
I'd wager you're used to those from the old days , eh , Zach ? Julie , they're in a khaki duffel bag right behind you , so pass one pair up to Zach and use the others yourself , right ? " " Oh , sure . Good !
Then he gets in bed with one of them , that Lawson bi — lady . ” Julie hoped “ getting in bed with ” Liz Lawson was a figure of speech . But then , there had been that provocative recorded phone message from Victoria Leigh which Julie ...
He took the next turn , plowing through the green water at such a slant that she feared they'd flip . Behind them , they left a broad , white wake , a jet trail like in the blue skies overhead . Thad slowed to make another sharp right ...
During almost four years at sea with her whaling captain father, thirteen-year-old Rebecca finds life both boring and difficult--especially when the ship is nearly sunk by a hurricane.
1968. Moulson, Tom. The Flying Sword: The Story of 601 Squadron. Macdonald, 1964. Moyes, Philip J.R. Bomber Squadrons of the RAF & their Aircraft. Macdonald. (Includes the Fighter-Bomber Hurricanes), 1964. Polish Air Force Association.
He looked at Stapleton and introduced himself, “Bruce Johnson, district attorney.” “Jack Stapleton, FBI,” he replied. Johnson turned to Jim and tossed a file onto the desk, “Looks like you were wrong.” “What do you mean?” Jim asked.
Brookes was friendly with Flight Sergeant Charles Watson, the Australian having visited him at his home in London. By the time of the Jubilee operation, Watson had flown close to 100 hours on Hurricanes, and by Brookes' estimation had ...
Sipping vodka outside the Nite Spot with a group of people , Carter bumped into a former sparring partner , Neil Morrison , known as Mobile for his Alabama roots . Carter had been looking for him for months because he suspected him of ...
A fallen tree becomes a vehicle for adventure in an illustrated look at hurricanes by the Caldecott Medal-winning author of Free Fall. Reprint.
HURRICANE recounts the harrowing, inspiring odyssey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a black boxer wrongly convicted of three murders, from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment. On June 17, 1966, two...
Part of a series which discusses advances in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting, this volume is the fourth in the series.
... previously published Osprey titles: AVG 6, Hawker Hurricane Mk I–V by Martyn Chorlton; DUE 29, Hurricane I vs Bf 110 by Tony Holmes; ACE 18, Hurricane Aces 1939–40 by Tony Holmes; and ACE 57, Hurricane Aces 1941–45 by Andrew Thomas.
... Cobber Kain – The RAF's First World War II Ace, Wing Leader, 2012 Thomas, Andrew, Aircraft of the Aces 57–Hurricane Aces 1941-45, Osprey Publishing, 2003 Thomas, Andrew, Aircraft of the Aces 75 – Royal Navy Aces of World War 2, ...
Jewell Parker Rhodes blends magic and man-made evil and weaves New Orleans’s past and present into a spine-tingling mystery that is masterfully crafted and deeply haunting.
Salvador Gómez-Colón couldn’t ignore the basic needs of his homeland, and knew that nongovernmental organizations and larger foreign philanthropies could only do so much.
... gunsight on but a little bright – I turned it down a fraction; gun-button to 'Fire'; everything else in order. With tension mounting, I wriggled in my seat. Satisfied, I heightened it up a notch to allow me just to see that little bit ...