In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession. Sonny secretly believes that he, too,...
A Zoo in My Luggage by British naturalist Gerald Durrell is the story of
Durrell’s 1957 animal collecting trip to British Cameroon, the northwestern
corner of present day...
This third book in William W. Johnstone's classic The First Mountain Man series finds Preacher leading a wagon train through the remote Rocky Mountain high country when he is attacked by Vic Bedell and his gang of cutthroats. But Preacher's...
Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer: his early exploits, being a curious and intimate relation of his tribulations, joys and triumphs taken from notes of his Journal and pages from his Ship's Log, and here put into complete...
1801 — in der Biskaya. England steht kurz vor einem trügerischen Frieden mit Napoleon und wähnt sich in Sicherheit. Nur ein erfahrener alter Seelord rechnet mit einem Überraschungsangriff und befiehlt Konteradmiral Bolithos...