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Skies of Thunder The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World [electronic resource] : by Alexander, Caroline.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China.  Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.They flew fickle, untested aircraft through monsoons and enemy fire, with inaccurate maps and only primitive navigation technology. The result was a litany of both deadly crashes and astonishing feats of survival. The most chaotic of all the war’s arenas, the China-Burma-India theater was further confused by the conflicting political interests of Roosevelt, Churchill  and their demanding, nominal ally, Chiang Kai-shek. Caroline Alexander, who wrote the defining books on Shackleton’s Endurance and Bligh's Bounty, is brilliant at probing what it takes to survive extreme circumstances. She has unearthed obscure memoirs and long-ignored records to give us the pilots’ and soldiers’ eye views of flying and combat, as well as honest portraits of commanders like the celebrated “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell and Claire Lee Chennault. She assesses the real contributions of units like the Flying Tigers, Merrill’s Marauders, and the British Chindits, who pioneered new and unconventional forms of warfare. Decisions in this theater exposed the fault-lines between the Allies—America and Britain, Britain and India, and ultimately and most fatefully between America and China, as FDR pressed to help the Chinese nationalists in order to forge a bond with China after the war.       A masterpiece of modern war history.
Subjects: Electronic books.; World War II; Southeast Asia; Aviation;
© 2024., Penguin Publishing Group,
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The Morningside A Novel [electronic resource] : by Obreht , Téa.aut; cloudLibrary;
“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland “I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial divisions—together more dystopian than any dystopian novel—the book surprised me most with its undercurrent of hope.”—Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers, in The New York Times There’s the world you can see. And then there’s the one you can’t. Welcome to the Morningside. After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place called Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family’s past, and because the once-vibrant city where she lives is now half-underwater. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her early years, nor does she fully understand why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give the young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia’s lonely and impoverished reality. Enchanted by Ena’s stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building: She has her own elevator entrance and leaves only to go out at night and walk her three massive hounds, often not returning until the early morning. Silvia’s mission to unravel the truth about this woman’s life, and her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything. Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, The Morningside is a novel about the stories we tell—and the stories we refuse to tell—to make sense of where we came from and who we hope we might become.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Dystopian; Literary; Magical Realism;
© 2024., Random House Publishing Group,
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So help me golf : why we love the game / by Reilly, Rick,author.;
"Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in a treasure trove of original pieces about what the game has meant to him and to others. This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an 11-year prison stint. We learn how a man on his third heart nearly won the U.S. Open, how a Vietnam POW saved his life playing 18 holes a day in his tiny cell, and about the course that's absolutely free. Reilly mines all of the game's quirky traditions-from the shot of bourbon you take before you tee off at Peyton Manning's course, to the way the starter at St. Andrews announces to your group (and the hundreds of tourists watching), "You're on the first tee, gentlemen." He means that quite literally: St. Andrews has the first tee ever invented. We'll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that's underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators; not to mention Reilly's attempt to play the most mini-golf holes in one day. Reilly expounds on all the great figures in the game, from Phil Mickelson to Bobby Jones to the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods. He explains why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau unless we hate genius, the greatest upset in women's golf history, and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before, and the great fun of being Jim Nantz. Connecting it all will be the story of Reilly's own personal journey through the game, especially as it connects to his tumultuous relationship with his father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. This is Reilly's valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without"--
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Golf;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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102 traveling songs [sound recording (CD)].
Vol. 1 -- SMILE -- Ten little fish -- Be kind to your web footed friends -- One hundred bottles of pop -- This old man -- Do your ears hang low? -- Down in the valley -- One lonely bird -- Old brass wagon -- Big rigs -- I wonder what flying is like -- A bulldozer operator I will be -- The wheels on the bus -- Eensy weensy spider -- Sing your way home -- The ants come marching -- She'll be coming around the mountain -- I'm a little piece of tin -- London Bridge -- Jack and Jill -- Twinkle, twinkle little star -- Hey diddle diddle -- Humpty Dumpty -- Mary had a little lamb -- Baa, baa, black sheep -- Little boy blue -- Let's play make-believe -- Zip, button, buckle and tie -- Silly faces -- Ta ra ra boom de ay -- Rise and shine -- I'm a nut -- The tongue twister song -- Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?. ; Vol. 2 -- Oats, Peas, Beans And Barley Grow -- There's A Hole In My Bucket -- Do You Know What Has a Trunk? -- Can You Name That Animal Sound? -- Silly Alphabet Song -- A Is For Alligator -- What Is a Spider? -- What Is a Mammal? -- What Is a Reptile? -- My Aunt Came Back -- A Sailor Went To Sea -- All the Children of the World -- We Are One World (Theme Song) -- Counting from One to Ten -- There Are Four Seasons -- Adventures by the Ocean -- Row, Row, Row Your Boat -- Down By The Station -- The Animal Fair -- Fireflies, Won't You Come Out Tonight? -- Can You Name These Sounds? -- Space Colonies -- Down By The Bay -- Six Little Ducks -- How Much Wood -- Tyrannosaurus Rex Didn't Get His Supper -- Let's Go on a Dinosaur Dig -- Have you ever Wondered? -- A-Hunting We Will Go -- Did You Know That Monkeys Like to Swing? -- Make New Friends -- Yon Yonson -- I See an Elephant in the Sky -- The Bear Went Over The Mountain ; Vol. 3 -- We're Here Because We're Here -- Apples And Bananas -- Smelly Feet -- B-I-N-G-O -- Days Of The Week -- The Green Grass Grows All Around -- Hungry Alligators -- The Peacock Song -- King of the Beast -- The Tiger's Loose -- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt -- Did You Ever See A Lassie? -- Five Little Skunks -- Michael Finnegan -- A Pilot Flies Her Plane, Plane, Plane -- Traveling Is A Dream -- I Love The Mountains -- Two Is Safter Than One -- The Wabash Cannonball -- The Buddy System -- I'm Lost! -- Learning Our Safety Rules -- Bought Me A Cat -- Switch -- Home on the Range -- I've Been Working On The Railroad -- America -- Yankee Doodle/Yankee Doodle Dandy -- The Alphabet Swing -- Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes -- My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean -- Sally The Camel -- Sing-A-Ling -- Have you Ever, Ever, Ever?
© p2005., Twin Sisters,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook [electronic resource] : by Sides, Hampton.aut; cloudLibrary;
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. “Sides has mastered the art of you-are-there historical narrative. A thrilling and necessary update to one of history’s most consequential cultural collisions." —John Vaillant, New York Times bestselling author of Fire Weather and The Tiger On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides’ bravura account of Cook’s last journey both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-–the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook’s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook’s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Adventurers & Explorers; Maritime History & Piracy;
© 2024., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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Kung Fu [videorecording (DVD)] : the way of the tiger, the sign of the dragon / by Carradine, David.;
The feature-length first adventure that spawned the Emmy-winning series, starring David Carradine as Shaolin priest Caine.Not rated.
Subjects: Kung fu; Martial arts films.;
© c1973,1972, p2004., Warner,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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La ruse de Mme Renard : un conte du Bangladesh / by Randell, Beverley,1931-; Lau, Yen.;
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Subjects: Renards; Tigre; Contes; Foxes; Tiger; Tales;
© c2003., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Le brahmane et le tigre ingrat : une histoire / by Horsfield, Alan.; Mancini, Rob.;
LSC
Subjects: Brahmanes; Tigre; Contes; Brahmans; Tiger; Tales;
© c2005., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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L'homme sur le dos d'un tigre / by Randell, Beverley,1931-; Reynolds, Pat.;
LSC
Subjects: Céramistes; Tigre; Contes; Potters; Tiger; Tales;
© c2004., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Les bébés tigres / by Charlesworth, Liza.; Cavagna, Marlène.;
LSC
Subjects: Jeune tigre; Tiger cubs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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