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Master and Commander

Author:
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780393325171
Publisher :
Last update : 2009-08-28
The first half of the movie starring Russell Crowe! Soon to be a major motion picture starring Russell Crowe Opens nationwide November 14, 2003 IT IS THE DAWN of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Capta

The Curse of Lake Osis

Author: McCarthy, Ingrid
Category: General
ISBN : 9781424107742
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
In The Curse of Lake Osis, the sequel to The Black Pearl of Osis, the evil Black Pearl has fallen again into human hands, and Jonathan and Magenta are summoned by Master Cobalt to find and destroy the Pearl. Together with their guide Bruno, a strange mute boy, and the magic skipping ropes as their weapons, they leave for Pebble Island where Commander Sepio, the new owner of the Black Pearl of Osi

Master and Commander

Author: Robert Whitfield, Richard Brown, Patrick O`Brian, Simon Vance, Robert Hardy
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780393307054
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
MASTER AND COMMANDER is the first volume in the O`Brian`s delightful series about the English Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Jack Aubrey (a captain in the Royal Navy) and Stephen Maturin (who will become his ship`s surgeon and closest friend) first meet, in April 1800 at a performance of Locatelli`s C-major Quartet at a concert in Minorca. This first installment is a beautifully writte

The Private Wars of the Perfect Nazi: The Story of an SS Office and His Struggle with Duty to Family, Country and Forbidden Love

Author: Kopac, B. Thomas
Category: Historical - General
ISBN : 9781424132775
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
This book is a fictional account of SS officer Josef Bulow, the only child of a German soldier killed during World War I. Raised by his militaristic grandfather, the young Bulow was introduced to Nazi ideology at a very early age. After joining the party in his early teens, he quickly rose in the ranks in the pre-war years. Bulow was the stereotypical strong, blond-haired, blue-eyed poster child

On the Weeping Floor

Author: Thomas R. Ruffin
Category: General
ISBN : 9781413766738
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Thomas R. Ruffin was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on February 22, 1963. He currently resides in Clinton, Mississippi, with his wife, Stacey, and their children, Thomas Brady, Peyton Elena and Jackson Mitchell. Thomas also has two children by a previous marriage, Lindsay Nicole and Amie Michelle. Thomas earned an Associate in Applied Science degree from Hinds Community College, a Bachelor of

Dominion

Author: Masamune, Shirow/ Masamune, Shirow (ILT)
Category: General
ISBN : 9781593076979
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Last update : 2009-05-22
Welcome to the future, where the norms are vast bio-constructed cities, air is toxic enough to force citizens to wear oxygen masks and crime is so severe that the cops drive tanks! When a mysterious winged girl with the power to cleanse the poisoned air is kidnapped by the villainous Buaku, police mini-tank commander Leona Ozaki, her tank Bonaparte and her lovesick partner Al must confront the ar

Tuffy's Heroes

Author: Tofuri, Joe Tuffy
Category: Action & Adventure
ISBN : 9781413721317
Publisher : Unknown
Last update : 2009-05-22
Meet the basic trainees whose lives will never be the same once they meet their Air Force Drill Instructor, Technical Sergeant Joe aTuffya Tofuri. He is an Air Training Command (ATC) Master Instructor and a veteran of several years in the basic training program. A hard-nosed T.I. whose vocabulary does NOT contain the word failure, TSgt Tofuri unloads the full force of his training knowledge and a

Two Daggers: Book I

Author: Ryan, Charity
Category: Fantasy - General
ISBN : 9781413776690
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-22
Naadan was born into a land plagued with evil. As a wolf pup, she was cared for by a man who commanded an army against this evil. She never left his side, and the people of the land revered this unusually tame animal as a symbol that nature itself hailed the commander as the waras victor. Her image was likened in charms of gold, and her precious name became a secret among those who served her mas

The Combat Boot, Country Girl Cookbook

Author: McDaniel, Stacy
Category: General
ISBN : 9781424166008
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Last update : 2009-05-21
Stacy McDaniel grew up in the Piedmont of North Carolina, and lived a topsy-turvy childhood with her family. After dropping out of college in her last semester, she joined the Army. She was on active duty as a surgical technician. Stacy was transplanted to Michigan, via her ex-husband. Stacy went back to school and received her BS in marketing and Masteras in Education; all while she was working

Two Crowns for America

Author: Katherine/Harris Debora Kurtz;Katherine Kurtz
Category: Fantasy - General
ISBN : 9780553762488
Publisher : Bantam Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
It''s 1775, and in Europe, an unseen Master peers into a darkened mirror to see the man whose destiny is to wear the victor''s crown. Across the sea, in a land named for a virgin queen, Gen. George Washington is thrown from his horse and has a dream that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Soon, a reluctant Washington will be elected Commander-in-Chief of the new Continental Army and conside

The Swedenborg Rite and the Great Masonic Leaders of the Eighteenth Century

Author: Samuel Beswick
Category: Spirituality - General
ISBN : 9781564594242
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
Contents: Swedenborg's Initiation at Lund; Royal University to Royal College of Mines; Travels-Visits to Lodges; How the Rite began; Swedenborgian Masons the Great Leaders of the Eighteenth Century; Duke Charles, Grand Master of Germany, King Gustavus III of Sweden, Prince Charles of Sweden, Grand Commander of Scottish Rite; Cardinal Prince de Rohn, Grand Commander of Scottish Rite in France; Cou

Her Master And Commander

Author: Karen Hawkins
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780060584085
Publisher : Harpercollins
Last update : 2009-08-28
An ailing aristocrat who fears dying without legitimate issue sends his butler Reeves on a quest to find his wayward, illegitimate children and teach them the art of civilized society, beginning with Tristan Llevanth, a one-time pirate and former aide to Admiral Nelson, who finds solace in the arms of free-spirited, outspoken Prudence Thistlewaite. Original.

Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander

Author: Cordingly, David
Category: Military
ISBN : 9781400135424
Publisher : Tantor Media
Last update : 2009-05-21
From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.

Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander

Author: Cordingly, David
Category: Military - Naval
ISBN : 9781400155422
Publisher : Tantor Media
Last update : 2009-05-21
From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.

Post Captain

Author: Patrick O'Brian
Category: Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
ISBN : 9780786186280
Publisher : Blackstone Audiobooks
Last update : 2009-05-22
Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them a brilliant book Mary Renault. The best historical novels ever written - New York Times

IwoJima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific

Author: Smith, Larry
Category: Military - World War II
ISBN : 9780393334913
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Last update : 2009-08-28
A vivid and compelling account by a true master of oral history. -General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.), Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Nimitz Class

Author: Patrick Robinson, Jay O. Sanders
Category: Action & Thrillers
ISBN : 9780061095948
Publisher : Harpercollins
Last update : 2009-08-28
The unthinkable has happened. The nuclear-powered Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier Thomas Jefferson, the most powerful warship in the world, home to a crew of 6,000 sailors and navy fliers, has been vaporized at sea in what appears to be a nuclear accident. The loss of life is devastating. It is the greatest peacetime disaster in U.S. history, and the shockwaves reverberate around the world. Yet eve

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

Author: Patrick O`Brian
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780393060119
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
A handsomely bound omnibus edition of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring classics, including three chapters of the unfinished twenty-first novel.
The recent release of the filmMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World has focused even more attention on the publishing phenomenon of the late Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels about the Royal Navy in the age of Nelson. These fiv

East Side Story

Author: Louis Auchincloss
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780618452446
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Last update : 2009-08-28
For his 60th novel, the author follows the fortunes of the Scottish Carnochans, who prospered on New York's Upper East Side in the 19th century. This is a loving and wicked look at New York's own.From the Publisher: Louis Auchincloss has an enveloping story to tell and a perfect, understated knowledge of those who inhabit it, said the New York Times of The Scarlet Letters. The same can be said of

Master and Commander

Author: Robert Whitfield, Richard Brown, Patrick O`Brian, Simon Vance, Robert Hardy
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780393037012
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
Last update : 2009-08-28
MASTER AND COMMANDER is the first volume in the O'Brian's delightful series about the English Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Jack Aubrey (a captain in the Royal Navy) and Stephen Maturin (who will become his ship's surgeon and closest friend) first meet, in April 1800 at a performance of Locatelli's C-major Quartet at a concert in Minorca. This first installment is a beautifully writte

Master of Temptation

Author: Nicole Jordan
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9780804119818
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Last update : 2009-08-28
In her dazzling new novel, Nicole Jordan tempts readers with a tale of breathless splendor and soul-searing passion.

Lovers in paradise . . .

He is a brilliant military commander . . . and every woman’s temptation. When Max Leighton unexpectedly comes to her golden Mediterranean island, Caro Evers longs to heal his emotional battle scars. But during one glorious

Wesley K. Clark

Author: Antonia Felix
Category: General
ISBN : 9781557046253
Publisher : Newmarket Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
The first biography on General Wesley K. Clark, Democratic presidential candidate and former NATO Commander, covering his prestigious military career and the personal history that shaped his character—from the author ofCondi: The Condoleezza Rice Story.
Four-star Gen. Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) made headline news upon announcing his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomi

Augustus

Author: Matthew D. H. Clark
Category: General History
ISBN : 9781904675143
Publisher : Bristol Phoenix Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Focuses on Augustus'' rise to power and on the ways in which he then maintained authority throughout his reign. It examines the importance of his chief political advisor Maecenas and his military commander Agrippa, as well as the contrasting fates of the reign''s main poets, Virgil and Ovid. Augustus claimed that he found Rome brick and left her marble; public monuments, as much as poetry, served

Point Blank (Paperback)

Author: Ed Brubaker, Colin Wilson
Category: Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401201166
Publisher : Wildstorm
Last update : 2009-08-28
POINT BLANK is the gritty prequel to the critically acclaimed SLEEPER graphic novel series written by Eisner Award-winner Ed Brubaker (Criminal, Captain America) and stylishly rendered by legendary artist Colin Wilson. Ex-Black Ops soldier Cole Cash is caught in a whirlpool of secrets, lies, manipulation, and murder. But before he goes down for the last time, he''s going to get some answers. No m

Benedict Arnold's Navy

Author: Nelson, James
Category: Military - United States
ISBN : 9780071468060
Publisher : International Marine Publishing
Last update : 2009-08-28

James Nelson is a master both of his period and of the English language.
--Patrick OBrian, author of Master & Commander

Did America`s most despised traitor actually help win the Revolutionary War?

Benedict Arnold`s Navy tells the story of the critical battles on the northern front. Covering one of history`s great tipping point battles, award-wi

Jack Aubrey Commands

Author: Brian Lavery
Category: General
ISBN : 9781591144038
Publisher : Naval Inst Pr
Last update : 2009-05-19
Lavery is the curator of ship technology at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. In this text, he explores the links between naval facts and naval fiction particularly the works of Patrick O`Brian and C.S. Forester showing how the life of real naval heroes compares to that portrayed in novels and films. The text is fully illustrated throughout in b&w and color, and includes a foreword by Pe

Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy

Author:
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9780698114180
Publisher :
Last update : 2009-08-28
The Star Warts is being sent on a dangerous mission to an intergalactic spy convention to find Agent 007 1/2. Not only is he Space Fleet's greatest spy and a master of disguise, but he's also Commander Toad's cousin. But Commander Toad hasn't seen his cousin since they were tadpoles. How will he be able to tell which spy is Agent 007 1/2?

Patrick O'Brian's Navy

Author: Chris Chant, Richard O`Neill, David Miller, Clive Wilkinson
Category: Military History
ISBN : 9780762415403
Publisher : Running Pr Book Pub
Last update : 2009-08-27
From the moment thatMaster and Commander, the first of Patrick O'Brian's sequence of 20 novels about the 19th century British Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and his surgeon colleague Stephen Maturin, was published in 1970, critics hailed his work as a masterpiece of historical recreation. Called the best historical novels ever written byThe New York Times, the books have sold more

The Making of Master and Commander

Author: Patrick O`Brian
Category: Movies
ISBN : 9780393325539
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
Last update : 2009-05-19
A chronicle of the film`s making, from the actors` boot camp to the filming in the Galapagos Island and on board a replica ship draws on exclusive cast and crew interviews and offers insight into how costumes and other props were replicated. Simultaneous.

Powder Monkey

Author: Paul Dowswell
Category: Young Adult
ISBN : 9781582346755
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Last update : 2009-08-27
Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall has always dreamed of being a sailor, but he never realized how dangerous and gruesome life at sea could be until he is pressed into service aboard HMS Miranda. Beginning his naval career as a powder monkey --assisting the gun crews on the warship--Sam learns the ropes of sailing and how to cope with enemies both foreign and onboard the Miranda herself. With enough

Men O' War

Author: Peter Goodwin
Category: Military History
ISBN : 9781844428717
Publisher : Carlton Books Ltd
Last update : 2009-08-27
The opening of the film Master and Commander (Fox, summer 2003) will bring the realities of life in the Navy at the time of the Napoleonic wars to a whole new audience. Based on the first of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian (published in the USA by W.W. Norton), and starring Oscar winner and gossip-column favorite Russell Crowe, it is set to be a summer blockbuster. Men o

100 Must-Read Books for Men (Paperback)

Author: Duncan Bowis, Toby Litt, Stephen E. Andrews
Category: General Reference
ISBN : 9780713688733
Publisher : A & C Black
Last update : 2009-08-28
What do men like to read? This latest title in the successful 100 Must-Read series provides a rich crop of selected reads of eternal fascination to men everywhere. With one hundred titles fully featured and over five hundred recommended, there is something for everyone: from the macho to the sentimental, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, old age, childhood, power, seduction, courage, and adventure.

Victory Conditions (Library Edition)

Author: Moon, Elizabeth/ Holloway, Cynthia (NRT)
Category: Science Fiction - Space Opera
ISBN : 9781400138319
Publisher : Tantor Media
Last update : 2009-05-21
Elizabeth Moon''s thrilling Vatta''s War series, featuring the no-holds-barred space-faring heroine Kylara Vatta, has secured her reputation as a master of first-rate military science fiction. Now Commander Vatta is back---locked and loaded and ready to win the fight against the marauding forces of ruthless space pirate Gammis Turek.

Power of Weakness

Author: Tani E. Barlow, Ding Ling, Lu Hsun
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN : 9781558615489
Publisher : Feminist Pr
Last update : 2009-05-22
This unique four-story collection juxtaposes the Chinese writing master Lu Hsun''s pre-revolutionary fiction about rural women''s personal sacrifices to custom and social expectations with Ding Ling''s revolutionary inspirational literature of women''s survival despite wartime atrocities. The result is a fascinating collection about the force of tradition and the historical moments that empower w

Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander

Author: Cordingly, David
Category: Military - Naval
ISBN : 9781400105427
Publisher : Tantor Media
Last update : 2009-05-21
From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.

Augustus

Author: Matthew D. H. Clark
Category: World History
ISBN : 9781904675433
Publisher : Bristol Phoenix Pr
Last update : 2009-08-28
Focuses on Augustus'' rise to power and on the ways in which he then maintained authority throughout his reign. It examines the importance of his chief political advisor Maecenas and his military commander Agrippa, as well as the contrasting fates of the reign''s main poets, Virgil and Ovid. Augustus claimed that he found Rome brick and left her marble; public monuments, as much as poetry, served

Cochrane (Paperback)

Author: David Cordingly
Category: General History
ISBN : 9781596915879
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Last update : 2009-08-28
Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful naval heroes of all time. In this fascinating account of Cochranes life, Cordingly, author of the bestselling Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian, unearths startling new details about the real-life Master and Commander.

Deep Sound Channel

Author: Buff, Joe
Category: Technological
ISBN : 9780553762884
Publisher : Bantam Books
Last update : 2009-05-22
An electrifying new voice in military fiction, Joe Buff has written a riveting and totally realistic tale of military adventure-a spectacular novel that is sure to establish this outstanding author as the new master of the genre. Vividly authentic and impeccably researched, it takes readers into the not-too-distant future, when the United States is embroiled in a tactical nuclear war that will ma

Magnum Opus: Or the Great Work: The Complete Ritual Work of Scottish Rite Freemasonry

Author: Albert Pike
Category: Freemasonry
ISBN : 9781564592453
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
Now available after 135 years! One of the rarest and most important books ever published on the Ancient and Accepted (Scottish) Rite of Freemasonry-Albert Pike's Magnum Opus or 'Great Work, " being his first revision of the complete rituals of the Scottish Rite. Only 100 copies were printed-less than thirty are said to survive. Pike's ritualistic revisions were so impressive he was made an a

Reprints of Old Rituals

Author: Albert Pike
Category: Freemasonry
ISBN : 9781564599834
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
In 1879 Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, prepared and authorized for sale a collection of books 'for general distribution." Among these was also a collection of rituals, virtually unknown today. These included: 1) Degree of Master Mark Mason, being the work of the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusal

Ordo ab Chao: The Original and Complete Rituals, 4-33 of the First Supreme Council, 33 at Charleston, South Carolina

Author: Kessinger Publishing
Category: Freemasonry
ISBN : 9781564599995
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
The manuscripts are a veritable gold-mine of Masonic information, for they constitute, as far as we are aware, the most complete set of early Scottish Rite rituals in the United States. Each of the five books was copied from rituals belonging to Giles F. Yates, 33, a member of both the Northern and Southern Supreme Councils, who had most, if not all, of the manuscript rituals of Mr. Frederick Dal

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry (Vol. 1)

Author: Albert Pike
Category: Freemasonry
ISBN : 9780766126152
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
Volume one of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) The teachings of these Readings are not sacramental, so far as they go beyond the realm of Morality into those of other domains of Thought and Truth. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite uses the word 'Dogma' in its true sense, of doctrine, or teaching; and is not dogmatic in the odious sense of that term. Everyone is entire

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry (Vol. 2)

Author: Albert Pike
Category: Freemasonry
ISBN : 9780766126169
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Last update : 2009-05-22
Volume two of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) The teachings of these Readings are not sacramental, so far as they go beyond the realm of Morality into those of other domains of Thought and Truth. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite uses the word 'Dogma' in its true sense, of doctrine, or teaching; and is not dogmatic in the odious sense of that term. Everyone is entire

Every Man a Tiger

Author: Tom Clancy, Chuck Horner, Tony Koltz
Category: Military History
ISBN : 9780425219133
Publisher : Berkley Pub Group
Last update : 2009-05-21
Military history is brought to life by the master of the international thriller. Seen through the eyes of General Chuck Horner--commander of the U.S. and Allied air assets during Desert Shield and Desert Storm-- Every Man a Tiger reveals the planning and execution of one of the most devastating air campaigns in history. Maps, diagrams & photos.