Holland: 809 books

A privateer was leaving Genoa on a certain June morning in 1461, and crowds of people had gathered on the quays to see the ship sail. Dark-hued men from the distant shores of Africa, clad in brilliant red and yellow and blue blouses or tunics and hose, with dozens of glittering gilded chains about their...

The title Flakes of Dark and Light is evocative of the sharp flakes of insight and colour which characterise these tales. The tales in the first part mostly depict an African setting and, in fact, are more recent, often suggesting the climate of change and violence that has gripped southern Africa...

Diviértase el comprobar de un vistazo a algunos de estos gatos bastante salvajes y estrafalarios en algunas de estas historias divertidas gato!   1. Un gato llamado Leo se queda atascado en un poste de teléfono.   2. Un gato llamado Lucy Gets Fish libre de la Lonja del Pescado de tomarlo.   3....

Samantha is a young woman who spent her college years studying to be an aeronautical engineer. Since she also worked as an assistant to a sports trainer to pay her way through college, she had little time to party with her fellow classmates. Her lifetime dream is finally coming true, she and her employer,...

Former RAF pilot Edward Buck Rogers, is suffering from amnesia, and when he seeks the help of a local psychologist, he quickly learns that his nickname is more appropriate than he could ever have imagined… Caught in a conspiracy, this dystopian novel unleashes something from Earth’s hidden past, and it is no coincidence that the planet Mars was named after the God of War…

Jamie, a Graphic Designer working in London, meets Sarah who owns a small PR company. Over dinner they discover that his mother and her father had worked together. Jamie is delighted but Sarah appears to be less so. The attraction is mutual and in spite of Sarah’s preference for a single, feminist...

One thing growing up in foster care has taught me is that everybody lies.    Your parents lie. They're supposed to love you, but they don't. Even though that's not technically a lie, it may as well be.    Your foster families lie, especially foster brothers.    And even...

This book has been written for those newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It is a guide to learning about the disease, its potential impact on your life, and the medical treatments now available for managing it successfully. This is a time of great excitement in research and advances in clinical...

In the following pages, which in addition to being a record of travel in a delightful and too little known portion of the great Austro-Hungarian Empire, are also an attempt to present within a reasonable compass an account of the national history of a singularly interesting people, the author has sought...

The Pentagon brass make the designations: AWOL. MIA. KIA. Every soldier with a designation, and no man left behind. And Dr. Kel McKelvey is the man to bring those soldiers home -- from battlefields around the world. When a soldier's remains are found in the Catholic cemetery of Thanh Lay Hamlet...

As the director of the Department of the Army's Central Identification Laboratory, Robert Dean "Kel" McKelvey has made a career solving some of the country's most complex identification cases. The CIL is responsible for identifying all U.S. war dead from battlefields old and new around the world....

Have fun checking out some of these pretty wild and whacky cats in some of these funny cat stories!  1. A Cat Named Leo Gets Stuck on a Telephone Pole.  2. A Cat Named Lucy Gets Free Fish from the Fish Market by Taking It.  3. A Cat Named Benny Gets a New Roommate, a Talking Parrot!  4. Gabby...

Can they stay alive long enough to save their kingdoms without falling in love? Kyr, son of the famous warrior, Thalgor, has been tasked to marry the daughter of a warring leader to broker a peace between three clans. Ever the obedient son, he prepares for his wedding only to learn from a slave...

Larreta, home of the dreamwalkers, is being torn apart. Rifts are forming and swallowing everything in their path. People, structures, entire villages, are disappearing. No one knows where the rifts come from or how to stop them. And they are getting worse. Leo, a Senior Dreamwalker,...