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The Tiger Man of Vietnam by Frank Walker
Category: Military | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The Vietnamese hill tribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen. In 1963, the 28-year-old Barry was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-man Australian Training Team, two years before the first official Australian troops ar ...Show more
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology Ser.
Howard Carter (1874-1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, now renowned for discovering the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's detailed account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's t ...Show more
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter, A. C. Mace
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology Ser.
Howard Carter (1874-1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, now renowned for discovering the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Published between 1923 and 1933, this three-volume study contains Carter's detailed account of the sensational discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's t ...Show more
The Twits (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
Category: Children's Classics | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever. This beautiful edition of The Twits, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world ...Show more
The Ubuntu Collection: Liberty by John F Kennedy
Category: Gifts | Series: Ubuntu Collection
Introduced by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Ubuntu collection is a unique series of exquisitely produced small-format books that take inspiration from Ubuntu and are each founded on the work and example of one of the twentieth century's most remarkable humanitarians. The Liberty edition focuses on the wo ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his e ...Show more
The Unstrung Harp by Edward Gorey
Category: Humour | Series: Edward Gorey's Collection
On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply, but his mind ...Show more
The Usborne Illustrated Pirate Stories by Leo Broadley
Category: Early Reader | Series: Illustrated Story Collections
A fully illustrated collection of original adventure stories about swashbuckling pirates, their life on the ocean waves, and buried treasure.
The Valley Of Fear by Stephen Fry (Read by); Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Audio Books | Series: Sherlock Holmes: the Definitive Collection
Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Arthur Conan Doyle's complete works - four novels and five collections of short stories - has been brought to life by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyl ...Show more
The Veiled Lodger by Stephanie Baudet; Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Arthur Doyle
Category: Children's | Series: The\Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection (Easy Classics) Ser.
An illustrated adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes adventure - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages Holmes is confronted with an old mystery when he is summoned to visit a lady who refuses to show her face. A grisly crime committed seven years ago has had terrible consequences, and it ...Show more
The Velvet Messenger: Young Queens #2 by Megan Hess
Category: Picture Books | Series: Young Queens Collection
Best-selling illustrator Megan Hess shines in this astonishing new fairytale about the daughter of a locksmith, who finds a strange key belonging to the queen. Violet lives in the wintry forest with her mother, a renowned locksmith. Her mother taught her many things, but the two most important were how ...Show more
The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" by C. S. Lewis
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: BBC Radio Collection: Chronicles of Narnia
A Radio 4 dramatization of one of the Narnia stories. Edmund and Lucy were gazing at the picture of the ship with the dragon prow when slowly it began to rock, and the wind started to blow. The frame disappeared, and soon the children were off on a dangerous voyage to the Eastern Islands.