Giles: 674 books

The original journals of the field notes, from which the present narrative is compiled, were published, as each expedition ended, as parliamentary papers by the Government of the Colony of South Australia. The journals of the first two expeditions, formed a small book, which was distributed...

Rome was not built in a day, nor has the glorious British Navy attained its present condition except by slow degrees, by numerous trials and experiments, by improvements gradually and cautiously introduced, and by the employment of a vast amount of thought, energy, and toil. We are apt to forget when...

So extraordinary are the adventures of my hero, Master Richard Cheveley, son of the Reverend John Cheveley, vicar of the parish of S—, in the county of D—, that it is possible some of my readers may be inclined to consider them incredible, but that they are thoroughly probable the following paragraph...

Algonquin Bay, eisiger Winter: Detective John Cardinal trauert um seine Frau Catherine und lenkt sich mit "cold cases" von seinem tiefen Schmerz ab. Zu seiner Kollegin Lise Delorme pflegt er weiterhin ein platonisches Verhältnis. Doch mit der winterlichen Ruhe ist es vorbei, als in einem Ferienhaus...

Nurses who are new to the labor and delivery (L&D) environment will welcome this newly updated, succinct, easy-to-use orientation guide for everyday labor and birth management practices. It is designed for speedy access to fundamental information about the most common L&D procedures and encourages...

Things get out of hand when Tristan persuades Hannah, his no-nonsense Geordie wife, to let him spend New Year’s Day as her chaste slave. Zarah, her vampy bisexual BFF, has slept over and plans to cuckold him. Meanwhile, sick of his demands, Hannah humiliates him by insisting he stick to the plan and slave for both of them!

Between the ancient and modern capitals of Russia, a fine broad road now affords an easy communication, although, but a few years ago, the traveller who would journey from one city to the other, was compelled to proceed at a slow pace, along a wild track, over rough stony ground, through swamps, under...

“Hark! the bells of Saint Michael’s are sending forth a jovial peal!” exclaimed Lancelot Kerridge, as he, Dick Harvey, and I were one day on board his boat fishing for mackerel, about two miles off the sea-port town of Lyme. “What they are saying I should mightily like to know, for depend on’t...

Jack Radburn, mate of the “Lily,” was as prime a seaman as ever broke biscuit. Brave, generous, and true, so said all the crew, as did also Captain Haiselden, with whom he had sailed since he had first been to sea. Yet so modest and gentle was he on shore that, in spite of his broad shoulders and...

A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT "Dick Comstock, you've been fighting! What will Mother and Father say when they see your black eye?" and Ursula Comstock looked with mingled pity and consternation at her brother, who, at the moment, cautiously entered the cheery living-room. "And to-day of all days in the year...

Barro Colorado Island is the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the most thoroughly studied tropical rainforest on Earth. This book reveals the extreme interconnections of life in a tropical forest, with lavishly beautiful full-color photographs. It gives an eyewitness...

Sunnys Schwester Jazz ist tot. Doch dann taucht eine junge Frau auf, die aussieht wie Jazz, spricht wie Jazz und sogar die Erinnerungen der Familie teilt. Sunnys Eltern glauben an ein Wunder. Sunny aber weiß: Das ist nicht ihre tote Schwester! Psychogramm einer zerstörten Familie. Ab 12 Jahren.

"Te garantizo que si me buscas de todo corazón, me encontrarás. Dejaré que me encuentres y te liberaré de la cautividad." Dios Esta es una versión personalidada de la promesa que Dios hace a su pueblo en Jeremías 29. Es una garantía fantástica, pero ahora te toca responder: ¿De...