Breakheart Pass by Alistair MacLean

By Alistair MacLean

A educate is barreling via a snowstorm around the desolate Nevada territory of adversarial Paiute Indians towards castle Humboldt in 1873. Nevada's Governor, the fortress commander's daughter, and a US marshal escorting an outlaw are onboard. not anyone is telling the reality, and at the very least one individual is able to homicide. Who will make it to their destination?

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Crusader Gold (Jack Howard, Book 2) by David Gibbins

By David Gibbins

Ebook 2 of the Jack Howard series.

From the autumn of the Roman Empire to the final days of Nazi strength, marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his crew of adventurers are scorching at the path of history’s such a lot elusive and wanted treasure: the misplaced golden menorah of Jerusalem. And what they notice may switch the realm forever….

Deep underneath the windswept waters close to Istanbul, Jack and his crack staff of specialists have exposed a stunning clue to the positioning of the fabled treasure plundered throughout the Crusades. in the meantime, in a dusty cathedral library, anyone finds a long-forgotten medieval map. jointly the 2 discoveries will remedy an old mystery—and spark a race to forestall a present-day conspiracy of impressive proportions.

From diving into the middle of an arctic iceberg to the final stand of a Viking warship to a rare revelation deep within the jungles of significant the United States, Jack is headed instantly right into a globe-spanning conflict of civilizations, into an superb underground labyrinth steeped in blood and horrors—and to a war of words with a killer on a shattering campaign of his personal.

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Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the by Laura Chester

By Laura Chester

During this impressive one-year magazine, expert horsewoman and adventurer Laura Chester brings us into her global, the place we deeply hook up with the earth and its seasons, with attractiveness and infrequently danger.

While driving in areas as far-reaching as Mexico, Australia, and India, Chester is usually thankful to return domestic to the comforts of her well-known horse. As they hide the borderland of Arizona and the hills of Massachusetts, we get to grasp Barranca as intimate better half, mediator among soul and nature, even if coming into the wilds of Cochise Stronghold or opting for Berkshire apples from the saddle.

Carried alongside on waves of reminiscence, published by way of the gaits of her smooth-moving fox trotter, this literary memoir takes us on a private exploration as well—where kin relationships are fractured through anger, jealousy, affliction, and demise. With the aid of her big-hearted animal, Chester is ready to retrieve the earlier and locate forgiveness. For as she says—“Riding Barranca places me within the second, that is the place i need to live.”

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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler

By Sara Wheeler

Publish 12 months note: First released January 1st 1996 by means of glossy Library
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After writing hugely praised go back and forth books, Sara Wheeler was once permitted by means of the yankee govt to be the 1st foreigner on their nationwide technology Foundation's Antarctic Artists' and Writers software. She spent seven months at the continent, vacationing from the fabled Ross Ice Shelf to the Pole itself, the remoter reaches of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the balmy Antarctic Peninsula. [/i]

[i]Terra Incognita is a meditation at the panorama, myths and heritage of 1 of the remotest components of the globe, in addition to an stumble upon with the foreign transitority citizens of the zone - residing in shut confinement regardless of the encompassing acres of white area - and the mechanics of daily existence in remarkable stipulations. via Sara Wheeler, the Antarctic is published, in all its seductive mystery.

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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkien

By J. R. R. Tolkien

This revised and multiplied variation of Tolkien’s personal Hobbit-inspired poetry comprises formerly unpublished poems and notes, and is fantastically illustrated via Narnia artist Pauline Baynes.

‘Here is anything that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can have enough money to overlook, whereas waiting for yet another instalment of the background of those attention-grabbing humans – a range [of verses] provided as an ‘interim report’ to these drawn to Hobbit-lore, and to any others who might locate leisure during this combined bag of outdated confections.’

One of the main exciting characters within the Lord of the jewelry, the fun and enigmatic Tom Bombadil, additionally seems to be in verses stated to were written by means of Hobbits and preserved within the ‘Red Book’ with tales of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and their acquaintances. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil collects those and different poems, usually curious about legends and jests of the Shire on the finish of the 3rd Age.

This targeted version has been improved to incorporate previous types of a few of Tolkien’s poems, a fraction of a prose tale with Tom Bombadil, and accomplished notes through acclaimed Tolkien students Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond.

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Adventure Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains (2nd Edition) by Blair Howard

By Blair Howard

The nice Smoky Mountains contain the top mountains within the whole Appalachian approach. they give scenic good looks and an abundance of possibilities for outside game. This event consultant to the realm discusses mountain climbing within the Chattahoochee nationwide wooded area, rafting down the rivers, going buying crafts, boating, fishing, horse driving, and whitewater activities. every one component of the ebook offers worthy assistance, in addition to historical past on key towns, parks and forests. there's details on camping out and lodging, including maps and images.

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The Crucible of Time by John Brunner

By John Brunner

Existence had turn into too attention-grabbing on one global crawling around the rubble-strewn arm of a spiral galaxy.
For because the approach moved it swept up cosmic dirt and particles. Ice a while and sessions of tropical heat each other in a short time. Meteors huge and small fell regularly. Yesterday's fabled tradition will be tomorrow's attention-grabbing gap within the ground.
But society had continuously continued. Many notion it usually may. purely the brightest scientists admitted that to outlive, the race must abandon the planet. And to do this they'd need to invent spacecraft...
This engrossing epic describes the advance, over millennia, of a species from a tradition of planet-bound medieval city-states to a cosmopolitan, technological civilization. With The Crucible of Time, John Brunner returns to the large-canvas technology fiction he pioneered in his Hugo Award-winning, novel Stand on Zanzibar.

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Atlantis God (Jack Howard, Book 6) by David Gibbins

By David Gibbins

Publication 6 within the Jack Howard sequence. united kingdom name is The Gods of Atlantis.

Atlantis. The world’s mightiest empire. Its secrets and techniques were misplaced to the ocean’s depths, yet during this high-action race opposed to the clock, marine archaeologist Jack Howard is ready to determine that the gods of Atlantis stay on—through a terrifying new evil.

A misplaced Nazi bunker in a wooded area in Germany features a dreadful mystery. yet is there a frightening new size to the Nazis’ rule of terror? whilst Jack Howard, head of the overseas Maritime college, and his workforce of adventurers go back to the misplaced island of Atlantis within the Black Sea, they notice they’re not only at the path of the main sought-after treasures in background yet are approximately to discover a stunning hyperlink among Atlantis and the Nineteen Thirties expeditions of Himmler’s Ahnenerbe, the Nazis’ division of Cultural background. yet unbeknownst to Jack, shadowy figures from his prior are becoming a member of forces—and they've got their very own ghastly imaginative and prescient for a brand new Atlantis. Can he cease them sooner than it’s too past due?

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Incurable (The Ellie Chronicles, Book 2) by John Marsden

By John Marsden

The battles proceed within the most modern publication from the world over bestselling writer John Marsden

Ellie Linton is a survivor. simply because she's sincere. simply because she's unswerving. simply because she's incurably courageous. and since occasionally she's lucky.

But what occurs to survivors while their success runs out?

Packed packed with motion and human drama, John Marsden's Incurable grants one other fast moving experience that might thrill outdated fanatics and new readers like.

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Devil's Gate (NUMA Files, Book 9) by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown

By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown

The “action-packed” (Publishers Weekly) new novel within the New York instances bestselling Kurt Austin Adventures…

A jap shipment send bursts into flames close to the Azores, and a gang of pirates speeds to exploit the disaster—but their boat explodes. What in the world is going on? Is it attached to the abduction of a best scientist from the streets of Geneva? Or the invention of a rare underwater graveyard of ships and planes littered around the seafloor?

As Austin and the remainder of the NUMA® crew rush to enquire, they locate themselves drawn into the extreme targets of an African dictator, the construction of a weapon of just about legendary strength, and an incredible audacious plan to extort the world’s significant nations.

The penalty for refusal? The destruction of the world’s maximum towns. beginning with Washington, D.C....

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