Jack: 7257 books

Chicago private eye Nick Acropolis is back with a new adventure. Billy Mansfield has been on Death Row for more than 20 years, and Nick helped put him there in his days as a Chicago homicide detective. Now he's asked to find evidence to free him. Could Billy Mansfield really be innocent?  "Westerfield's...

The year is 1916 and subversive young Bartholomew Bandy is leaving behind hearth & home, religion & boiled cabbage, to fight in the Great War, where the blank, expressionless face he developed for annoying the pious hypocrites of his home town gets a new use in driving senior officers and...

Bandy is back! It's 1940, and the intrepid air ace of WWI is eager to join the fight against Germany. Unfortunately, everyone seems to think Bandy is too old to be flying Spitfires, and should go quietly into retirement to polish his medals and knighthoods. Bandy, however, has other ideas, and uses his...

John 'Jack' Handley was kicked out of home when he joined the Territorial Army at the age of 21 in 1912. Jack didn't regret joining the army and going to war, at least not initially. When the Great War started, he and his Liverpool Rifles mates were sent over to France and Belgium to fight the Huns...

This is a book almost completely composed of Poetry, but some are adapted from songs Jack wrote. They all constitute a snap shot perhaps of some of the experiences, influences and the inspiration for writing. They also indicate an illustration of the Authors mindset and motivations. Being Male, many...

Der Hund im Mittelpunkt des Romans »Wolfsblut« von Jack London ist eine Kreuzung aus Wolf und Wolfshund. Das Jungtier wächst bei Indianern in Alaska auf und dient als Schlittenhund. Regelmäßig kommt das Tier in Kontakt mit wilden Wölfen und aggressiven Hunden. In diesen Situationen sind die...

Jack London gehört im vss-verlag zu den beliebtesten Autoren. Mit FRISCO KID – DIE FAHRT DER DAZZLER liegt in der Reihe Bookworm Klassiker jetzt ein spannendes Abenteuer für Jugendliche des weltbekannten Autoren vor. Frisco Kid (auch Joe unter (den) Piraten und Piraten in der Frisco-Bay, englischer...

Jack Londons Romane und Erzählungen entführen in die Grenzbereiche menschlicher Existenz und an die Ränder der Zivilisation. In ungeschönter Sprache erzählt er von mitreißenden Abenteuern und von dramatischen Kämpfen ums Überleben. Die Anaconda-Reihe 'Gesammelte Werke' umfasst mittlerweile...

Wie kaum ein anderer hat Jack London den Kampf des Menschen ums Überleben zum Thema vieler seiner Geschichten gemacht. In den hier versammelten Erzählungen ist dieser Überlebenskampf ein Kampf gegen die Unerbittlichkeit der Natur. Ihre archaische Grausamkeit hat London schonungslos beschrieben,...

Chicago private detective Nick Acropolis goes to rural McKinley, Illinois--a town along the old and legendary Route 66--to investigate the case of Jesse Lopez, a truck driver charged with smuggling drugs. Nick meets truck stop waitress Maddy Miller. Her teenage son Billy has been missing for over...

This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an...

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid...

The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction. the humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the 1930s. Jack has a wonderful,...

Acclaimed for his screenplays for TV dramas including Skins, Shameless, The Fades, This is England '86/'88/'90 and Glue, Jack Thorne first emerged as a writer of unflinching, compassionate and often challenging plays for the stage. Described as a 'powerful voice for Britain's youth' (Independent),...