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March's sister, April Hare, just opened a bakery business and enlists March and Hammond the Pig to make her first delivery. Between March's mad obsession with speed and Hammond's appetite for her apple tarts, April will have her hands full making sure her apple tarts arrive on time--and in one piece!
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Mêlée malgré elle à une sombre affaire de trafic d'organes, le docteur Dombre ne pourra compter que sur elle-même...
La vie personnelle du docteur Séverine Dombre, médecin responsable d'une unité de greffe rénale à Paris, est un désastre. Fille unique, très tt orpheline, elle est incapable de nouer une relation amoureuse stable et n'entretient que des rapports distants et conflictuels avec son fils Vincent. Séverine est approchée par...
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A new, turbo-charged graphic novel by Kean Soo, author of the acclaimed, award-winning series Jellaby. March Hare wants to be the fastest and furriest racecar driver around. But first, this rabbit racers will have to prove his skill at the speedway, on the streets, and in the desert. With pedal-to-the-metal illustrations and full-throttle action, March is sure to be a winner!
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This 900-page survey of world literature, "From Confucius' Day to Our Own" (as the subtitle reads), was the last book written by Ford Madox Ford, one of the seminal figures of the modernist period. Written for general readers rather than scholars and first published in 1938, The March of Literature is a working novelist's view of what is valuable in literature, and why. Convinced that scholars and teachers give a false sense of literature, Ford brings...
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Marching as to War is the frustrating story of a returning Viet Nam veteran's attempt to come to grips with the madness of war by going head-to-head with the chaos of love. The girl in question (Diane) is a super-smart, spoiled 15-year-old college junior whose father gets Shep (the veteran) confused with his son Ben, a helicopter pilot who was killed in Viet Nam.
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Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime. These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers...
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Come with me on a journey back to March 1961. The days of uncertainty, fear, and determination are outlined in a day by day experience. Yesteryear was where it started, in terms of remembrances. Today, there is an urgency to redirect the "thinking" to self- understanding, directions and possibilities!!!! I am excited about my mission and being a part of this emerging "mind-set"!!! Goal: enlighten "nationally" and direct the re-education close to our...
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Gareth Glover, who has established a reputation as a leading authority on the Napoleonic Wars, uses letters sent home from the Peninsular War by British soldiers to give a candid account of what it was like to serve in the army during the long campaign against the French. The vivid excerpts, which are set in their historical context by the author's expert commentary, are largely drawn from the correspondence of the other ranks, and they fully explore...
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Is praying for your unsaved spouse leaving you weary? Do you feel as though your spouse's breakthrough will never arrive? Are you one of the many believers living within an unequally yoked marriage who feel discouraged, even confused, as to why God remains silent to your pleas for your spouse's salvation.
There's good news!
Marching Around Jericho is a brand-new blueprint and supernatural battle plan to equip you to war in the Spirit for your unsaved...
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In this exciting and revealing book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life and death in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's Germany. In eleven months of bitter fighting between D-Day and VE Day the combined efforts of the British and their allies' armed forces ground down their ruthless enemy in the pursuit of victory. Each and every man has a unique story to tell, whether they were infantry, tank...
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In this engrossing work of history, Lee Kennett brilliantly brings General Sherman's 1864 invasion of Georgia to life by capturing the ground-level experiences of the soldiers and civilians who witnesses the bloody campaign. From the skirmish at Buzzard Roost Gap all the way to Savannah ten months later, Kennet follows the notorious, complex Sherman, who attacked the devastated the heart of the Confederacy's arsenal. Marching Through Georgia describes,...
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Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there.
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Some Things ARE Worth Dying For...
In AD 1095 Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos begs Pope Urban II for Frankish knights to rescue the last bit of his Christian empire from a relentless Islamic invasion already 400 years old. In answer, Urban issues a call to the faithful to save Christendom. Many thousands respond, and their campaign to recover Jerusalem will be known to history as the First Crusade.
Scottish Baron Godric MacEuan joins their ranks,...
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Under President Xi Jinping's Chinese Dream, rhetoric, China has continued its meteoric rise as the world's second largest economic power. But, for many, the Chinese Dream remains a myth rather than a tangible reality.
The Chinese Dream belongs to those who make their way to China's megacities. What does the future hold for those stuck in smaller cities like Hefei? That's the question at the heart of Marching toward Prosperity: The Chinese Dream through...
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As the definitive final volume of the history of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Marching with The Tigers covers events in that Regiment and its successor, the 4th Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, over the years 1955-75. During this period the Battalions undertook overseas and operational tours in Cyprus, Germany, Hong Kong, Borneo, Aden, Malta and Libya, Bahrain and Northern Ireland. Supported by seventeen maps and many black and white photographs,...
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Through the pages of this meticulously researched epic march the heroes of both great armies. We share their triumphs, feel their pain, and sense their vulnerability. This gripping page-turner, set in the most marched across county of the Civil War, is sure to please lovers of history, romance, and adventure.
Spirited eighteen-year-old Constance Armstrong, younger of two daughters, has been raised by her elderly judge father as a free thinking intellectual....
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At the outbreak of war in 1940, Simon Frazer, the 15th Lord Lovat and a former Guards officer, was mobilized from the reserve list to join the Lovat Scouts, the British Army's first sniper unit that had been formed by his father during the Boer War. The following year he volunteered for one of the new Commando units then being created. Lovat was personally involved in the training of the Commando troops on the West coast of Scotland. He was eventually...
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