For thousands of years, man has sailed into battle, sailed for rumored wealth, and sailed for pure adventure. And for nearly as long, stories about the sea have entertained, intrigued, and inspired re…
Shelve The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories
“I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers.” So begins The Only Kayak, Kim Heacox’s coming-of-middle-age memoir written in the tradition of Edward Abbey, John McPhee, and Henry Davi…
Shelve The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska
What Park Rangers really have to deal with in any given day and how training, stamina and attitude make all the difference. Theis book could almost be a reference manual, training tool and recruitment…
Shelve Park Ranger: True Stories from a Ranger's Career in America's National Parks
Picking up where his bestselling memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–beloved actor and acclaimed author Alan…
In this, Nancy's second collection of her real-life adventures as a Park Ranger and as a city medic, she tells of births, deaths and life prolonged in between in her inimitable style. There's a great …
Shelve Park Ranger Sequel: More True Stories From a Ranger's Career in America's National Parks
This is no ordinary fun-fact book: These 132 offbeat questions represent the best reader submissions to New Scientist’s beloved “Last Word” column—a rare forum for “un-Google-able” queries, now in its…
Shelve Know It All: 132 Head-Scratching Questions About the Science All Around Us
A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troo…
Shelve Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.
At ni…
Shelve Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
This complete version of Dear Bob and Sue chronicles the journey of Matt and Karen Smith, who took a mid-career break to travel to all 58 U.S. National Parks. Written as a series of emails to their fr…
Anthony Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave and chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard, will marry Kate Wakefield in three weeks. It’s inevitable–-the in…
Shelve Something Blue (Lord and Lady Hetheridge, #3)
As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent epic, A Column of F…
A rollicking story of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man who kept a Ponzi scheme alive perha…
Shelve Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
It was April in Rome, and gathered together in the church of San Tommaso in Pallario was the kind of varied group of people that can only meet on a tour. It included a superannua…
Since the publication of the widely hailed first edition in 1983, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship has set the standard by which other books on sailing are measured. Used throughout America as a textb…
A potential worldwide catastrophe looms large, while CIA Officer Jennifer Lear waits in a Berlin café to meet with her agent who has critical information regarding the chilling emerging threat. But th…
Tristan Jones has logged more miles--and more adventure--sailing single-handed than any other person alive in our time. He has crossed the Atlantic many times, often alone, and has circumnavigated the…
Shelve One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing
The fifth gripping Brighton-based mystery from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway series – a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, cosy crime and TV series such as Grantchester and Midsom…
Two ruthless organisations. Two continents. One spectacular Season Two Finale. Sherlock and Lucy must defeat two ruthless organisations, on two continents, in this 'Season Two Finale' of the Sherlock …
Shelve Christmas on the Nile: A Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery (The Sherlock and Lucy Mystery Book 24)
They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, som…
Shelve Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
From the bestselling and award-winning author comes a wickedly clever and fast-paced novel of greed, revenge, obsession--and quite possibly the perfect murder.
