Jonathan Keeble
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed" --
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and one of H. G. Wells' most visionary novels. It recounts the harrowing ordeal of Edward Prendick, an Englishman who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rescued by a man named Montgomery, Prendick finds himself on an island belonging to Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London who was expelled from his homeland for his cruel vivisection experiments.
Prendick...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England-the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.
As the last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. Uhtred, a dispossessed young nobleman, is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invaders-and he questions where his allegiance...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman. Since e the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. Shackleton is a captivating new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances. Written by polar...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
They never meant to be heroes.
For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.
But there must always be an account...and the past has a habit of catching up to the present.
Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must
...Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 333 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Uhtred, a boy of ten and the son of a nobleman, who is captured by a Danish chieftain named Earl Ragnar in the same battle that his father was killed. As a captive, Uhtred is raised in the Viking ways of war, but his loyalties are divided between Ragnar the warrior he has to come to love as a father and the English King Alfred. Uhtred must discover his true allegiance.
Author
Pub. Date
1935
Physical Desc
xii, 403 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, written by legendary author John Maynard Keynes is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This masterpiece was published right after the Great Depression. It sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the 'Keynesian Revolution', in the way economists thought-especially challenging the proposition that a market economy tends naturally to restore...
Author
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
xxxii, 105 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, and using Philonous, he argues his own metaphysical views. Three important concepts discussed in the Three Dialogues are perceptual relativity, the conceivability/master argument, and Berkeley's phenomenalism.
13) Dark wyng
Author
Series
Erth dragons volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dragon Wearle is deeply divided because of the human boy, Ren, who has bonded with a pair of baby dragons and developed extraordinary new powers; but the war with the humans is not really over, and the humans have a mysterious new leader, Tywyll, who plans to lead his followers back into dragon territory--and unknown to both sides an ancient power is beginning to stir.
14) Lorna Doone
Author
Pub. Date
1938
Physical Desc
vi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This classic novel of farmers, outlaws, and forbidden romance beautifully evokes seventeenth-century rural life in England's West Country.
Amidst the social and religious upheaval of seventeenth-century England, the once-noble Doone family has been transformed. Now a notorious clan of outlaws, the Doones show their victims no mercy-a lesson the yeoman John Ridd learns when they murder his father. Though he longs for revenge, John must continue to...
15) The new age
Author
Series
Erth dragons volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The coming of the dragons has upset the balance on Erth, and now other creatures, the wild Gibbus, and the Wyvern, are being drawn into the conflict between dragons and humans. While the dragons Gabrial and Grendel guard the young dragonets in their care, and the human boy, Ren, struggles to control his new powers, the world seems to be coming apart around them--and the firebirds are manipulating the threads of destiny.
Author
Series
Warlord chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 396 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the end of The Winter King Arthur fought the battle that forces unity on the warring British kingdoms and now he sets out to face the real enemy - the English (it is one of the great ironies of the Arthur stories that he should have become an English hero when, if he existed at all, he was a great war-leader who opposed the invading Sais). First, though, Merlin leads a perilous expedition into the mysterious west to retrieve a cauldron, one of...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze. Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, journalist Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 431 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this masterful book, an acclaimed travel writer and novelist, in his eightieth year, takes a dramatic journey on the little known Far East Asian river that forms the highly contested border between Russia and China, covering almost 3,000 miles.
The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1,100 miles it forms the tense border...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain's turbulent 20th century. From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco's Nationalist regime. Admired by many on the left as a revolutionary and a pillar of the anti-Franco struggle, and hated by others as a Stalinist gravedigger of the revolution,...