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Discusses the operations, training programs, and tactics of the United States Navy and portrays its warships, aircraft, and submarines
Author : Fred J. Maroon
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870217272
Discusses the operations, training programs, and tactics of the United States Navy and portrays its warships, aircraft, and submarines
Author : Lisa Wingate
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496409817
From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours. From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt’s WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina’s Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney’s estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney’s only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?
Author : Coral Ripley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408361167
Narwhal to the rescue! The Sea Keepers set off on an icy adventure in this magical new series about saving our oceans. The Arctic mermaids urgently need the Sea Keepers' help! Evil mermaid Effluvia has used her bad magic to melt their ice palace. If Emily, Grace and Layla can't fix it, the poorly animals the mermaids look after will be in danger. The Sea Keepers are determined to save the sea animal sanctuary, but Effluvia has enchanted a pod of orcas to stop them. Can a friendly narwhal help them find the magic pearl and save the ice palace?
Author : Coral Ripley
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408359969
Dive into a dolphin adventure! The first book in a magical new mermaid series about saving our seas. When Emily, Grace and Layla rescue a dolphin from a fishing net, they get swept away on a magical mermaid adventure! The girls are chosen to become Sea Keepers - guardians of the underwater world. The oceans desperately need their help, and not just because of pollution. . . An evil mermaid named Effluvia has stirred up a storm of rubbish - and the Sea Keepers must stop her! Can they find a magic pearl and save a beautiful cove for the creatures who live there?
Author : Kate Klimo
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375870652
Jesse and Daisy and their dragon friend, Emmy, try to recover a Thunder Egg from merpeople who stole it from Daisy near the Inn of the Barking Seal, where the cousins are visiting their grandmother Polly.
Author : Sharon Wismer
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 088448906X
Takes children to the underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef for a prime example of how a complex ecosystem depends on its keystone species. Sharon Wismer—reef ecologist and mom—is the best tour guide a kid could have for a visit to the underwater world of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Alice Wong’s richly detailed, accurate watercolors take a boy and girl snorkeling to see the fishes that maintain the ecological balance between the corals and their main competitor, algae. Without the fish species that brush, crop, scrape, excavate, and browse the algae, coral reefs would die. A coral reef is a brilliant and colorful example of how a complex ecosystem functions and why its keystone species are critical to its health. The Great Barrier Reef is one of Earth’s most celebrated natural treasures. Here children discover why the reef is threatened and what we can all do to help protect it. Endorsements are coming from Charlie Veron (“the godfather of coral,” featured in the 2017 film Chasing Coral) and David Bellwood, a world-renowned reef fish ecologist whose lab is the source of much of the information in this book. Keepers of Reef is the rare children’s book combining cutting-edge science with narrative and pictorial magic. Thorough backmatter sources and resources are included.
Author : Michael Quentin Morton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1780236158
For those who visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE), staying in its the lavish hotels and browsing in the ultra-modern shopping malls of Abu Dhabi or Dubai, the country can be a mystery, a glass and concrete creation that seems to have sprung from the desert overnight. Keepers of the Golden Shore looks behind this glossy façade, illuminating the region’s history, which stretches from the ancient Arabian tribes who controlled a desolate but economically important shoreline to the ostentatious architectural wonders—bankrolled by a massive wealth of oil—that characterize it today. As Michael Quentin Morton recounts, the region now known as the UAE likely began as a trading post between Mesopotamia and Oman, and since that time has been the stage of important economic and cultural exchanges. It has seen the rise and fall of a thriving pearl industry, piracy, invasions and wars, and the arrival of the oil age that would make it one of the richest countries on earth. Since the early 1970s, when seven sheikhs agreed to enter into a union, it has been a sovereign nation, carrying on the resourceful spirit—with resplendent fervor—that the brutally inhospitable landscape has long demanded of the people. Ultimately, Morton shows that the country is not only rich in oil and money but in an extraordinarily deep history and culture.
Author : Erin Morgenstern
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385541228
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.
Author : Coral Ripley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408359979
Dive into a dolphin adventure! The first book in a magical new mermaid series about saving our seas. When Emily, Grace and Layla rescue a dolphin from a fishing net, they get swept away on a magical mermaid adventure! The girls are chosen to become Sea Keepers - guardians of the underwater world. The oceans desperately need their help, and not just because of pollution. . . An evil mermaid named Effluvia has stirred up a storm of rubbish - and the Sea Keepers must stop her! Can they find a magic pearl and save a beautiful cove for the creatures who live there?
Author : Ann Linnea
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : House & Home
ISBN :
In the tradition of Annie Dillard and John McPhee, writer and activist Ann Linnea interviews fourteen tree keepers about their life and work saving North America s...