Author: Humphrey Hawksley
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786895129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Special agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters head straight for his home. His tiny Alaskan island, with a population of just eighty. What he doesn't know yet, is why. Russia is playing a dangerous political game, reclaiming Rake's island as their own, even if it antagonises the US. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life.
Man on Ice
Author: Humphrey Hawksley
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786895129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Special agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters head straight for his home. His tiny Alaskan island, with a population of just eighty. What he doesn't know yet, is why. Russia is playing a dangerous political game, reclaiming Rake's island as their own, even if it antagonises the US. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786895129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Special agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters head straight for his home. His tiny Alaskan island, with a population of just eighty. What he doesn't know yet, is why. Russia is playing a dangerous political game, reclaiming Rake's island as their own, even if it antagonises the US. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life.
Ice-Man
Author: Ron Cutler
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786016549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Beautiful prison psychologist Holly Alexander finds herself the target of a vicious and murderous sociopath, Jason Briscoe, a man convicted of a brutal sex slaying, after she approves his parole.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786016549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Beautiful prison psychologist Holly Alexander finds herself the target of a vicious and murderous sociopath, Jason Briscoe, a man convicted of a brutal sex slaying, after she approves his parole.
Ice Cream Man Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles
Author: W. Maxwell Prince
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 153431086X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musical fantasythere's a flavor for everyone's misery. ICE CREAM MAN is a genre-defying comic book series, featuring disparate "one-shot" tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly music of his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man's a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who, with a snap of his fingerslickety split! can change the course of your life forever. Written by W. MAXWELL PRINCE (ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY), with art by MARTN MORAZZO (SNOWFALL, GREAT PACIFIC). Collects ICE CREAM MAN #1-4
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 153431086X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musical fantasythere's a flavor for everyone's misery. ICE CREAM MAN is a genre-defying comic book series, featuring disparate "one-shot" tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly music of his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man's a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who, with a snap of his fingerslickety split! can change the course of your life forever. Written by W. MAXWELL PRINCE (ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY), with art by MARTN MORAZZO (SNOWFALL, GREAT PACIFIC). Collects ICE CREAM MAN #1-4
The Man in the Ice
Author: Konrad Spindler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780753812600
Category : Alps, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Dr Spindler led the international team of scientists that investigated the body of the Neolithic man discovered in the ice of a glacier in the Otztaler Alps on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. In this first book in English to report on the find, Spindler recounts the day by day events following the discovery of the body, and then gives detailed discussion of the Iceman's equipment, his clothing, and the examination of the corpse itself. Final chapters place the Iceman in the context of the Neolithic Age in the Circum-Alpine region, and present a few reactions to the discovery. Now avaiable in paperback.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780753812600
Category : Alps, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Dr Spindler led the international team of scientists that investigated the body of the Neolithic man discovered in the ice of a glacier in the Otztaler Alps on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. In this first book in English to report on the find, Spindler recounts the day by day events following the discovery of the body, and then gives detailed discussion of the Iceman's equipment, his clothing, and the examination of the corpse itself. Final chapters place the Iceman in the context of the Neolithic Age in the Circum-Alpine region, and present a few reactions to the discovery. Now avaiable in paperback.
An Amish Man of Ice Mountain
Author: Kelly Long
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420135465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Joseph King admits homeless waitress Priscilla Allen and her four-year-old daughter into his home, but wonders what will happen as their lives begin to intertwine.
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420135465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Joseph King admits homeless waitress Priscilla Allen and her four-year-old daughter into his home, but wonders what will happen as their lives begin to intertwine.
The Man In The Ice
Author: Konrad Spindler
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 178022589X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In 1991 the world was electrified by a chance discovery of a perfectly preserved corpse trapped in an Alpine glacier. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who died some 5300 years ago. Now Dr Konrad Spindler, the leader of an international team of scientists examining the body, makes the results of his investigations public for the first time and answers a series of fascinating questions about the `Ice Man' and the clues he can give us to the nature of daily life in the late Stone Age. The result is a riveting scientific detective story, giving us the fullest picture yet of Neolithic Man - our ancestor.
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 178022589X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In 1991 the world was electrified by a chance discovery of a perfectly preserved corpse trapped in an Alpine glacier. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who died some 5300 years ago. Now Dr Konrad Spindler, the leader of an international team of scientists examining the body, makes the results of his investigations public for the first time and answers a series of fascinating questions about the `Ice Man' and the clues he can give us to the nature of daily life in the late Stone Age. The result is a riveting scientific detective story, giving us the fullest picture yet of Neolithic Man - our ancestor.
Man Of Ice
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474012930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Ice Man: Dawson Rutherford, our 100th Silhouette hero! His scheme: Plan a mock engagement to help secure the land he so desperately needed.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474012930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Ice Man: Dawson Rutherford, our 100th Silhouette hero! His scheme: Plan a mock engagement to help secure the land he so desperately needed.
In the Kingdom of Ice
Author: Hampton Sides
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307946916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack. Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307946916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack. Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth.
Ice-Candy-Man
Author: Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.
Ice Cream Man #15
Author: W. Maxwell Prince
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"COAT CHECK STORY" Lillian is wearing someone else's coat.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"COAT CHECK STORY" Lillian is wearing someone else's coat.