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A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time - Joel White's Last Boat - Douglas Whynott

A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time - Joel White's Last Boat - Douglas Whynott

In a time when racing boats are mass-produced from synthetic materials, a dying breed of craftsman continues to build wooden sailboats of astonishing beauty. Boatbuilding is an ancient art, and Joel White was a master. Son of the legendary writer E.B. White, he was raised around boats and his designs were as sublime and graceful as his father's prose. At a boatyard in Maine, White and his closely knit team of builders brought scores of his creations from blueprints into the ocean. In June 1996, six..

DKK 243.95
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America the Beautiful - A Novel / Moon Unit Zappa. - Zappa

America the Beautiful - A Novel / Moon Unit Zappa. - Zappa

America Throne is living the good life in L.A. Her career is sprouting, and she is in love -- with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falters on the slippery slope of hope: hoping that he will come back, hoping that new sex will erase all evidence of him, and hoping that in nurturing a truce with her dead father she will make peace with all men. America's trip from self-destruction to wholeness..

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Will You Marry Me? - Seven Centuries of Love

Will You Marry Me? - Seven Centuries of Love

\Madam, it is in your power to take me off this rack....\ -- JOHN RUSSELL TO LADY FRANCES RICH, COUNTESS OF WARWICK This lavishly illustrated tribute includes marriage proposals spanning seven hundred years, all delivered in the form of love letters. Each of these enchanting missives illustrates the unique sensibilities of the time period in which it was written, from the commanding negotiations of the Gothic age to the beautifully written declarations promising eternal devotion of the Renaissance..

DKK 118.95
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Ringing For You - A Love Story With Interruptions - Anouchka Grose Forrester

Ringing For You - A Love Story With Interruptions - Anouchka Grose Forrester

Our intrepid narrator is twentysomething, lives in London, and is armed with a master's in the history of punishment. Knowing the finer points of thumb screws and the rack doesn't quite put somebody on the fast track to success, however. So she takes work as a receptionist at the Academy of Material Science. Reading Remembrance of Things Past could fill some of the dull hours behind the desk, but she wants to write a book of her own. This sharp young woman doesn't need to search for topics -- her..

DKK 178.95
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The Sacred Band - James Romm

The Sacred Band - James Romm

\[Romm] deftly pieces the story together ... Mr. Romm negotiates artfully in fluent, accessible prose. But he really comes into his own when describing the Sacred Band’s dramatic and elegiac end.\ —Wall Street Journal A dramatic, compelling work of history about the last decades of Greek freedom before Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes -- and the Theban battalion of warriors, composed of pairs of male lovers, that was the greatest military unit of the age.

DKK 126.95
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Journey Into Darkness - John Douglas

Journey Into Darkness - John Douglas

New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit.In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness, Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He is straightforward,..

DKK 273.95
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Soldier's Promise - First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex

Soldier's Promise - First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex

An uplifting story of unlikely friendship and hope during the Iraq War.After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex was dispatched along with his unit, Dragon Company, to Husaybah, a small town bordering Syria in the Sunni-dominated Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Their mission was to plug the bottleneck at the border checkpoint, where foreign fighters and weapons smugglers were filtering through daily to join the increasingly menacing insurgency growing rapidly in the region...

DKK 213.95
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Secret Commandos - John L Plaster

Secret Commandos - John L Plaster

Major John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War in a \comprehensive, informative, and often exciting…account of an important part of the overall Vietnam tragedy\ (The New York Times).Before there were Navy SEALs, there was SOG. Short for \Studies and Operations Group,\ it was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the most highly decorated unit in the war. Although their chief mission was disrupting the main North..

DKK 206.95
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Climb to Conquer - The Untold Story of WWII's 10th Mountain Division - Peter Shelton

Climb to Conquer - The Untold Story of WWII's 10th Mountain Division - Peter Shelton

Few stories from the \greatest generation\ are as unforgettable -- or as little known -- as that of the 10th Mountain Division. Today a versatile light infantry unit deployed around the world, the 10th began in 1941 as a crew of civilian athletes with a passion for mountains and snow. In this vivid history, adventure writer Peter Shelton follows the unique division from its conception on a Vermont ski hill, through its dramatic World War II coming-of-age, to the ultimate revolution it inspired..

DKK 223.95
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Paradise General - Dave Hnida

Paradise General - Dave Hnida

Dr. Dave Hnida's devastating and inspiring account follows a group of brilliant and committed doctors who staff a combat hospital in Iraq and achieve an astounding survival rate as they forge deep and lasting bonds based on friendship, good humor, and fidelity to the well-being of the American soldier.IN 2004, at the age of forty-eight, Dr. Dave Hnida, a family physician from Littleton, Colorado, volunteered to be deployed to Iraq and spent a tour of duty as a battalion surgeon with a combat unit...

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SOG - The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam - John L. Plaster

SOG - The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam - John L. Plaster

John Plaster's riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is \a true insider's account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they've been given a hot scoop on a highly classified project\ (Publishers Weekly).Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite US military unit to serve in the Vietnam War?so secret its very existence was denied by the government. Composed entirely of volunteers..

DKK 162.95
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Why Our Children Can't Read, and What We Can Do about it - A Scientific Revolution in Reading - Diane McGuinness

Why Our Children Can't Read, and What We Can Do about it - A Scientific Revolution in Reading - Diane McGuinness

In America today, 43 percent of our children test below grade level in reading. Among adults, 42 million are functionally illiterate. The numbers are staggering, but in our schools, the problem is only getting worse. The old methods don't work, and this book will tell you why. Psychologist Diane McGuinness draws on twenty-five years of solid reading research that shows exactly how the current system fails and how to fix it. She explains that the ability to read depends on the ability to hear the..

DKK 283.95
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