W - Libros y biografía

In 'The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic' by W. Warde Fowler, the author delves into the intricate details of the religious festivals celebrated during the Roman Republic. Fowler meticulously...

Patrick Dyer's ninth book in the 'at work' series marks a return to Scania to study the 3-series trucks produced between 1988 and 1996, with the emphasis on the 113 and 143 models. In much the same way...

A Haunted Maze Has Twice The Dead Ends. Frank and Joe are thrilled to be taking part in the grand opening celebration of a new maze in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. By solving puzzles -- their specialty...

When the actor who plays popular comic character Morpho the Morph Monster comes to town for a fan day--along with his famous Morpho Mask and Morph Spork--everyone, including Frank and Joe, is excited...

In early August with the failure of the August Offensive at Gallipoli the senior commanders still believed that victory was possible. To help prepare for a new offensive sometime in the first half on...

What does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also...

In Hopping Mad, the boys have to figure out a way to stop their school talent show from being ruined—by raining frogs! Let the sleuthing begin!

ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDY MISSION: Investigate possible hazing at Eagle River Academy, and find the truth behind a student's death. LOCATION: A town near Bayport. POTENTIAL VICTIMS:...

The British Empire, ”the biggest empire in history”once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get...

What if you had a superpower nobody would ever want? And if you don't use it, you die?"Memoirs of a Transferable Soul" explores this supernatural ability, and other mysteries of life, death, and the power...

«J’ai entrepris ce livre parce que je savais que les affirmations courantes sur la laïcité – l’idée selon laquelle elle est nécessairement synonyme d’émancipation des femmes – n’étaient tout simplement...

Quelque chose me contraignait à rester là, comme si une main gigantesque se fût posée sur ma nuque. Une idée me traversa l’esprit. Je regardai le soleil et sursautai : quatre ou cinq fois plus gros qu’à...

The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.Mid-1942: from China...

Chaser aime jouer avec les mots. Elle en connaît plus d’un millier, véritable record dans le monde animal. En plus des noms communs « balle », « maison » et « arbre », elle a mémorisé le nom de 1 022...

Born into the squalor and humiliation of slavery, Frederick Douglass seemed destined for a lifetime of misery. So how did he break the shackles and become a world-famous abolitionist, author and statesman?In...

A racoon awakes from his winter nap to find his tree being chopped down. An old frog decides that now is the time to see more of the world. A mouse gets upset because his tail is short – and because an...

Something strange is going on ... The waters of the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook have been mysteriously reduced to tiny streams and the creatures of the Green Forest are in a panic! Until they...

Roald Dahl's 'BFG' caught dreams with a net and trapped them in bottles.Lucky him: the rest of us make do with remembering snippets and trying to make sense of them.J. W. Dunne tried to close the gap...

Returning to Brittany, environmental champions Marylin and Louise belt out Katy Perry tunes, celebrating their successful talks on micro-plastics. Their joy ride abruptly becomes a trap when lightning...

Since her husband left her, Katell has lost interest in life. One day she decides to visit a Breton fortune-teller to find out about her future love life. But when Katell spends a night with the fortune-teller,...

As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island...

What will the final evolution be, and will we recognize it when it arrives? A thought provoking story on the ultimate destination of all life.

In the following pages an attempt has been made to examine anew in the light of God's Word some of the profoundest questions which can engage the human mind. Oth¬ers have grappled with these mighty problems...

Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries,...

The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and...

A.W. Tozer's classic Christian work covers: 1. Following Hard After God 2. The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing 3. Removing the Veil 4. Apprehending God 5. The Universal Presence 6. The Speaking Voice...

Pineview Lake is the perfect place for some serious ice fishing, some hard-hitting hockey—and some chilling criminal activity. A rash of break-ins has left dozens of homes ransacked, and the Hardys are...

I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days…do begin this book. So begins the journal of a girl coming of age in nineteenth-century New Hampshire. Catherine records both the hardships of...

Joe and Frank are vacationing in a Rocky Mountain resort, when suddenly a strange green light brightens up the sky. Three kidnappings follow. Are they alien abductions or the work of down-to-earth criminals?

Wherever Christianity has been a living power, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit has uniformly been regarded, equally with the Atonement and Justification by faith, as the article of a standing or falling...