The heartwarming true story of a lion cub named Christian, known through the YouTube video, the men who cared for him, and the power of love. Full color.
American soldiers are more than combatants on a battlefield, they are also representatives of America and her people. On an overcast day in 1944, two soldiers from the 28th Infantry Division gave a remarkable Christmas gift to the people of Wiltz, Luxembourg - a gift that changed the people of Wiltz forever.
Four powerful stories of adventure and imagination—in this world and beyond When Keith’s father dies, his mom sells their house and takes Keith with her to live in Scotland. He misses his dad and his home, but most of all he misses Melly, a girl whose father is a lion tamer, and who seemed to come from another world. Keith is in a park in Edinburgh when he sees a girl who looks exactly like Melly, and whose father once worked for the circus, taming lions. To save his best friend’s life, Keith embarks on a perilous quest to untangle the mystery of Melly’s doppelgänger. In these four tales, Peter Dickinson writes with clarity and wit about young people in extraordinary situations, characters whose adventures take place across space, time, and the boundaries of their souls. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.
An epic tale of courage in the vast African landscape. Hunter Ben Ryan goes after a man-eating lion, but soon faces a mystery. The magnificent animal appears to have supernatural powers. Probably the greatest adventure you will ever experience!
This book is a story of murder, love, and revenge set in the early 1400s when the Lollard heresy, which believed the Bible should be read in English so that all could hear the Word of God without reinterpretation from the clergy, was being persecuted and innocent victims were burned at the stake. All this is recounted against the background of the Hundred Years War between England and France and the climactic Battle of Agincourt.
Out of the Land of Goshen and into the wilderness of Canaan the caravans of Abraham and his followers journey in a desperate search for the Promised Land
As the Hebrews suffer under the yoke of slavery in Egypt and a cruel cult savages the desert kingdom, the Children of the Lion, under the leadership of a prince carrying a fateful sword, embark on a campaign to liberate the land from tyranny.
While the warrior king David amasses an army to march on Jerusalem, Sunu, a fierce young warrior, is driven by faith to raid the heart of the city, an act that could prove pivotal to the battle's success. Original.
Excellent. I thought the discourse on the Acadians was clear, insightful, and informative....I appreciated the wonderful way that the author added source footnotes and other aside commentary." --- L.W.B., Muskegon, MI
As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer. Based on Capstick’s own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grassportrays the great killers of the African bush—not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world—underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.
War is on the horizon, the all powerful Gold Witch is dead and her only daughter has been abducted. If she is turned by the shadows and unleashed on the world, no one will be able to stop her. In response, an elite strike team of Knights have been called into action. Allying themselves with dangerous characters and using their unique kinetic powers they must journey into the violent underworld of society to rescue her, before it's too late. Shadow Lords, demons, bounty hunters, aliens, soldiers, warlocks, witches, ogres, elves and pirates await them. It will take a lot of bullets, swearing, blood and gore to fight through the nightmare...but what awaits them at the end, will be true horror. An electric fusion of drama, blood, action, comedy and chaos set in a futuristic, post apocalyptic stage. Enter the world of Gothic Opera.
On Sea Lion's first birthday, he leaves his rookery in the Channel Islands to make the long journey to San Francisco Harbor, during which he becomes entangled in a net and must be rescued by workers from the Marine Mammal Center.
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