W - Libros y biografía

In late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety....

For seventy-five years, W. F. Deedes has reported on the most important events, affairs and issues that have affected Britain, Europe and the World. Words and Deedes brings together a life's work, selecting...

Nachdem mit einigen größeren Bauvorhaben neue Akzente in der Kieler Innenstadt insbesondere zwischen dem Alten Markt und dem Schloßplatz gesetzt wurden, ergeben sich mehrere Fragestellungen: o Wie hat...

From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of A Dog's Purpose, the phenomenal New York Times Number One bestseller about the unbreakable bond between a dog and their human, which is now a major film starring Dennis...

In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the twentieth century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony...

This book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not a treatise upon theories. It is intended for the men and women whose most pressing need is for money; who wish to get rich first, and...

THE singular correspondence which may be traced between the passage-chambers of the Grand Pyramid-called by the Egyptians of old The "Khut," or "Lights"-and the various stages traversed, according to...

Open this book and you will Discover core beliefs Understand basic teachings Learn about the Bible Trace its history

Die nie Onkel gewordenen Onkel: das sind die beiden Brüder des Vaters des Autors Christoph W. Rosenthal, die ihren Einsatz im 2. Weltkrieg nicht überlebten. Der Älteste (*1918) wurde mit 21 einberufen,...

Acteur majeur de l’histoire de la France, Adolphe Thiers demeure le grand absent de l’historiographie des libéraux, et plus généralement, de la pensée politique du XIXe siècle. À la différence de Tocqueville,...

Cet ouvrage vise à montrer   la diversité et l'intérêt thérapeutique de l'approche psychomotrice dans des secteurs très variés (gériatrie, pédiatrie, éducation). Il expose également les spécificités de...

"Un père divorcé doit faire face aux fiancailles de ses deux filles et se résigner à la voir quitter le nid. ".

Romantic, history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author James W. Phillips takes the vacationing tourist, historian,...

The world is not a dark place where vampires rule the world. Humans are used as slaves and food. No longer hunting for victims the vampires had gotten lazy and lost many of their powers.One night three...

David Kent is just an ordinary teenager living in the small town of Tylerville, who dreams of leaving and seeing the world. Nothing ever happens in Tylerville, at least not to David. One day, a new magic...

Wendy was in a government project called Insight. The goal was studied people with special powers. They discover there a people with real psychic powers. Reading minds is just one of many powers uncovered....

It is Monday. The week is off to a bad start. She has to evict a man who has barricaded himself in his sister's house. Stop a bulldozer from tearing down a house. Arrest to men for trespassing. One a...

Abby has been re-elected sheriff in the small town of Digger's Cove. The only problems she has is hiring a new deputy, find who left 10 puppies on her doorstep and a rock star is moving into town. Then...

This is one the stories from my collection western stories in my book R.B. COLBY GUNFIGHTER, GUNFIGHTER, MYTH. To escape a bitter snowstorm, Jasper Holcomb drifts into a small town with his dog and shotgun....

I thought my life pretty much sucked. A senior in high school not one date. Being six feet with angry red curls and face full of freckles. Need I say more? Then the aliens showed up. Turns out the genius...

The world has gone into the toilet. You may as well pull the handle and flush it. You knew we were doing a pretty good job of screwing up the planet. Then the aliens showed up. They were like, hey we...

Crystal Blue has it all. Beauty, brains, money, and will soon be starting her internship in Los Angeles. The one thing Crystal lacks is a conscience. Years of abuse by her father killed that a long time...

Private detective Ned Kelly is desperate for a case. His rent is due, and the bills are piling up. Then a man from his past offers Ned a simple case. Easy money, but Ned doesn't trust this man as far...

Since vampires, along with other creatures of the night, now live among us. Business is good for vampire slayer Chei Duguay for hire. Since killing a a master vampire, she has even upped her rates. It...

There are historical records that imply R.B. Colby did exist. He was a federal marshal for quite a few years. There are many stories about R.B. Colby. The author has decided most of this stories were...

For the first time in a long time, Reggan and her friends can relax. They have found her mother, who is leading the resistance. It appears the war has changed mom. A fiction builds up between Reggan and...

A UFO filled with alien soldiers had crashed landed on top of a mountain in Alaska. After a the military fails to capture the craft. A small team is sent up to gather more information. The team is made...

Like all small towns Watershaw has that creepy house that the kids are told to stay away from. The Van Mire is that house. Sixteen year old Jimmy is going inside so he can impress Roberta. She has promised...

Bobby's parents have committed him to mental health facility to have him evaluated because of some disturbing incidents in the teenager's life. It will be a skeptical psychiatrist job to decide it Bobby...

Two men come out to a famous hunting intending to burn it down. The centuries old lodge may not want to be burned down.