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Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation - The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race of Aces. On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers a

Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers - Carter, Caela: - Caela Carter is a writer and an educator. She is a graduate of the New School's MFA program in writing for children. She has written three books for middle grade readers: One Speck of Truth , My Life with the Liars , and Forever, or a Long, Long Time , which received three starred reviews, among other accolades. Caela lives in Brookl

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice - In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals in a book that keeps turning around the question, What does it mean to have a voice? NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year Brilliant, medita

Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GRIPPING...THIS YARN HAS IT ALL. -- USA TODAY * A WONDERFUL BOOK. -- Christian Science Monitor * ENTHRALLING. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * A MUST-READ. -- Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other--the riveting and d

Fifty Shades Freed (Movie Tie-In Edition): Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy - E. L. James Relive the sensuality, the romance and the drama of Fifty Shades Freed through the thoughts, reflections and dreams of Christian Grey. Look for FREED: Fifty Shades as Told by Christian , available for pre-order now. THE OFFICIAL MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When unwor

Fifty Fifty - It's not easy being a good detective - when your brother's a serial killer. Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. Except she's now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population

Fifty Fifty - Now in a tall Premium Edition--the instant #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller and follow-up to Never Never, which introduced Harriet Blue, a tough sex crimes detective in Sydney with a never-say-die attitude.any. The Instant #1 Bestseller What are the chances that convicted killer Sam Blue is innocent of the serial murders of three young women? Determined to clear his name, n

Fifty States of the U.S.A. Flags & Facts: Learn about All 50 American States. Illustrated Guide for Adults & Children with Capital Cities, Nicknames, - A 50 state guide book. Learn about every U.S. State. A Full Color illustrated guide with hundreds of facts including Capitals & Largest Cities, Date Admitted to Union, Population, Area, State Nicknames, Maps, State Mottos, State Anthems or Songs, S

Fifty Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin's classic collection of stories that have shaped our culture and our civilisation. Everyone should know these stories, like Androcles and the Lion, Damon and Pythius, the Brave Three Hundred, and more. The stories in this collection have been rearranged to match the Ambleside Online reading order, and includes all the original illustrations carefully res

A Short Illustrated History of the Romanians Ioan Aurel Pop is professor and Rector of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, the author and co-author of over fifty books, treatises and textbooks and of over three hundred articles and studies, Doctor Honoris Causa of universities in Alba Iulia, Timişoara, Oradea, Cahul, Galați, Sibiu, Tacirc;rgu Mureș, the State University of Chișinău, ldquo;Ion

Three Japanese Short Stories 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of i

Three Electroknights - 'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one off

Complete Tales of HP Lovecraft The perfect gift for the Lovecraft fan, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft is an elegant edition boasting the entire Lovecraft fiction catalog. A must-have classic that every Lovecraft fan and collector will love. From the sumptuously designed Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-thr

Three Little Pigs - Watts, Bernadette: - Bernadette Watts, known throughout Europe simply as Bernadette, has illustrated many dozens of folk- and fairy tales. Born in England, she loved to draw from childhood. She studied at the Maidstone Art School in Kent, UK, and for some time was taught by Brian Wildsmith and David Hockney. Bernadette's many beautiful books include The Snow Queen and The Littl

Fifty Famous Stories Retold (Yesterday's Classics) - No book is better for introducing children ages 6 to 9 to legendary historical figures than this collection of stories admirably retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century. Selecting the best of our literary heritage, Baldwin cast it into a form that delights children of all ages. Beginning with the stories of heroes from Briti

Moomin Book Three Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Tove Jansson's observations of everyday life-whimsical but with biting undertones-easily caught the attention of an internati

Three Years Lost in Space - Mark Goddard, the author of To Space and Back, looks back fifty years to the three years he spent on Lost in Space. This book reveals the personal thoughts and memories of the author, Mark Goddard in relation to various aspects of the Jupiter 2, costuming and the cast. Thirty-one selected episodes of the series are written in a unique way by both the real Mark and his r

The Cancer Cure That Worked!: Fifty Years of Suppression - A detailed account of Rife's inventions and discoveries is the subject of The Cancer Cure That Worked. This startling book documents events from 1913 to the time of Rife's death in 1972. Rife was an optical engineer and technician of great skill. His first success was the building of the Universal Microscope in the late 1920s. With it he w

Fifty Shades Darker 10th Anniversary Edition - E. L. James James, E. L.: - E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Da

However & Wherever We Are: Poems from Persea's First Fifty Years - Fried, Gabriel: - Gabriel Fried is Persea's poetry editor and a poet. He is the author of three books of poetry, including No Small Thing , The Children Are Reading , and Making the New Lamb Take . He lives in Columbia, Missouri, where he directs the creative writing program at the University of Missouri.