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A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader.
Author : Joe Exotic
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982180420
A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader.
Author : Robert Hough
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307364275
In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America, Mabel Stark made her name in a man’s world as the greatest female tiger trainer in history, the centre-ring finale act for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Brazen, courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Stark survived a dozen severe maulings — and five husbands. Now, at age 80 and about to lose her job, she decides that there is one last thing she needs to do: Mabel Stark wants to confess.
Author : Sharon M. Draper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442489138
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781592701827
Gorgeously illustrated in a large-format album with two gatefolds and a stunning foldout of a jungle at war,The Tiger Who Would Be King is as entertaining as it is wise, as wry as it is passionate. Yoon's humorous images support this beautifully written text with wit and insight, playing up the comic elements, while showing the pathos as well.
Author : Chen Jiang Hong
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1681372940
A magnificently illustrated Chinese folklore tale about a tigress, a seer, a King, and the prince, who must leave his family and learn the ways of the tigers so that the war between man and animal can end. Deep in the Great Forest, a tigress is mourning the death of her tiger babies who have been killed by hunters. Seeking revenge, she attacks the villages, destroying houses and prompting the king to gather his army. But a seer named Lao Lao warns the king that if he angers the tigress further she will destroy the kingdom. Lao Lao counsels the king to give his own son to the tigress and promises that no harm will come to the boy. The next morning, the king brings the prince to the edge of the Great Forest and tells him, “Now you must go on alone.” To end the war between man and animal, the prince must forget his human ways and begin to learn what tigers know. The Tiger Prince was inspired by The Tigress, a late Shang dynasty bronze vessel in the Cernuschi Museum in Paris depicting a scene from the Chinese folktale of a baby raised by a tigress.
Author : Michael Collins
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2013-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1612001823
This chronicle of an armored division’s bravery during the Battle of the Bulge sheds new light on the legendary Siege of Bastogne in WWII. Before the 101st Airborne Division’s famous Siege of Bastogne, there was already a US unit holding the town when they arrived. This unit—the 10th Armored Division—continued to play a major role in its defense through the German onslaught. The Tigers of Bastogne offers a detailed chronicle of the young armored division that withstood the full brunt of Manteuffel’s Fifth Panzer Army in the Ardennes. The 10th Armored had only arrived in Europe that September as part of Patton’s Third Army. They soon faced the onslaught of Nazi panzers bursting across no-man’s-land on December 16. But they earned their nickname, “The Tiger Division,” as they went on the defensive at Bastogne, surrounded by an entire German army. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe of the 101st Airborne said, “It seems regrettable to me that Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division didn’t get the credit it deserved at the Battle of Bastogne. All the newspaper and radio talk was about the paratroopers. Actually the 10th Armored Division was in there a day before we were and had some very hard fighting before we ever got into it.” Fortunately, in this book, the historical record is finally corrected.
Author : Annie Sullivan
Publisher : Blink
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0310768764
“TIGER QUEEN is a gorgeous, lush YA fiction…Highly recommend for anyone looking for a beautifully crafted stand-alone book.” (YA and Kids Book Central) Two doors. Two choices. Life or death. Kateri, an arrogant warrior princess, has to fight in the arena against her suitors to win her right to rule, and she is desperate to prove to her father that she is strong enough to take over his throne and rule the kingdom. But when she finds out her final opponent, she knows she cannot win. Kateri flees to the desert to train under the enemy she hates the most and the only one who might be able to give her a shot at winning. But what Kateri discovers in the desert twists her world—and her heart—upside down. There in the sand, away from the comforts of the palace, Kateri’s perception of her father is challenged and she discovers the truth about his treatment of her people. When she returns to the kingdom, the fate of the one she loves lies behind two doors in the arena—one door leads to happiness, and the other door releases the tiger. Secrets, suitors, thieves, and a fierce princess await readers in this YA fantasy re-telling. Tiger Queen: Is a fantasy re-telling of Frank Stockton’s famous short story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?” Features a slow-burn romance wrapped in fast-paced adventure Is set in a fantastical world wrought by fascism, classism, and climate crisis
Author : Jimmy Lavery
Publisher : Phoenix Books, Inc.
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597775606
The Secret Life of Siegfried and Roy reveals the touching, little-known story of how two youngsters founded a friendship, a franchise, and a tempestuous on-and-off love affair that would last a lifetime.
Author : Valmik Thapar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780195697902
The Secret Life of Tigers documents the family life of three tigresses and their cubs at every stage of the cubs' development, from soon after birth to adulthood. Presenting extraordinary discoveries about the lives of tigers, with the role of the father recorded in the wild for the first time, this enhanced second edition passionately argues for greater involvement of the government and the general public to save the tiger as it battles extinction in thenear future.
Author : Thomas Callan Hodson
Publisher : London : D. Nutt
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Manipur Remains An Unknown Area To Most Indians And One Reason For This May Will Be The Absence Of Good Books About The People And Problems Of Manipur. This Book Fills The Void.