wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Twilight on the Range: Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy
ISBN: 9780292741928 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight-over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost-and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch shortly thereafter. The spirit of helpfulness that led Mr. Goodnight to strip off his coat and lift the wagon free for a lad in need sets the tone of this book, in which the author unwinds a spool of recollections of range-riding in Texas and North Dakota over an eighteen-year period. When Billie Timmons went to work for Mr. Goodnight in 1892, Texas was undergoing a rapid transition from open range to fences. But around...
Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight-over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost-and he went to work on the Goo...
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104,88 zł |
Becker's Farm
ISBN: 9781439245453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For Helmut Sommerfield, life began the day he died. Sommerfield is a German prisoner of war during WWII interned at a small POW camp in Nebraska. At this point, his dreams of freedom, a wife and family, as well as working with his mechanical skills seem as dead as his family in his native land ...until the day he is 'killed' in a barn fire and returns as Adam Becker, a reclusive dairy farmer in rural Nebraska. But his new life and love, Laurelie Schmidt, are about to be dashed by an escaping POW who knows Helmut, true identity. Becker's Farm is populated with well-developed, colorful...
For Helmut Sommerfield, life began the day he died. Sommerfield is a German prisoner of war during WWII interned at a small POW camp in Nebraska. At t...
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84,79 zł |
The Trojan Pony
ISBN: 9781439258484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Author William V. Timmons has delivered another fine addition to the Bill St. John trilogy of international spy novels. In Trojan Pony, protagonist St. John, an aging ex-CIA operative, faces another electrifying challenge, this one intended to be won quickly and cleanly. With the assistance of his team of unlikely heroes-Father O'Brian, rogue CIA agent Platte, to name a few-and aided by an unlikely group of transvestite Thai dancers, St. John accepts the challenge of carrying off a bloodless coup in Togo, West Africa. What he cannot count on are the twists and turns, the personal...
Author William V. Timmons has delivered another fine addition to the Bill St. John trilogy of international spy novels. In Trojan Pony, protagonist St...
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66,93 zł |
Never Push An Elephant
ISBN: 9781439258026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Never Push an Elephant, by William V. Timmons, is a fast-paced, gritty, and often humorous novel about one gutsy, long-in-the-tooth character, Bill St. John, as he thumbs his nose at the idea of retirement and makes Rambo seem inert. Part-time missionary and former CIA operative, St. John agrees to rescue a billionaire's college-age daughter who has been snatched by the son of a drug kingpin and is being held somewhere in the dreaded Golden Triangle between Thailand, Laos, and Burma. Through the use of a plan of attack only a seasoned spook could conceive, and supported by outrageous...
Never Push an Elephant, by William V. Timmons, is a fast-paced, gritty, and often humorous novel about one gutsy, long-in-the-tooth character, Bill St...
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71,40 zł |
Burma Tiger
ISBN: 9781449978815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Burma TIger by novelist Bill Timmons follows Sergeant Major Michael St. John, of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Mandalay," as a series of providential circumstances thrust him from obscurity into the international limelight, as well as winning him the Victoria Cross. But, providence has more than fame and notoriety in store for Sergeant St. John when he falls in love with Supi Yaw, a beautiful, spitfire of a woman who shows the Sergeant Major that love knows no conventions. Along the way, St. John and Supi Yaw find thier love pushing boundaries and social conventions that even they cannont tolerate,...
Burma TIger by novelist Bill Timmons follows Sergeant Major Michael St. John, of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Mandalay," as a series of providential circum...
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77,47 zł |
The Man in the Black and White Dress
ISBN: 9781439255926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two former German POWs who had, many years before, escaped their US Army captors and blended into to American society undertake a daring rescue of a dying brother from behind the Iron Curtain. With the help of a US senator and an international Bible smuggling agency, a team travels to Europe and East Germany. The brother is found and rescued from East Germany with a successful life-saving surgery is preformed in a secret Asian clinic. The main characters are then swept into a covert operation where one million Bibles are 'smuggled' into Communist China. Along the way, they encounter spies,...
Two former German POWs who had, many years before, escaped their US Army captors and blended into to American society undertake a daring rescue of a d...
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71,40 zł |
Preparing for Your Marriage
ISBN: 9780310427612 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than 25 percent of our marriages end in the tragedy of divorce, and over 72 percent of all teen-age marriages terminate in the courtroom. An undetermined number of young people are so disillusioned with marriage that it is no longer even a desirable option for them, and for many, marriage is really nothing more than an "armed truce." What are the reasons? Is there an answer? William McRae feels that most couples enter into marriage unprepared. Their expectations are unrealistic, their roles are undeveloped, their responsibilities are unknown, and their goals are undetermined. Because... More than 25 percent of our marriages end in the tragedy of divorce, and over 72 percent of all teen-age marriages terminate in the courtroom. An u... |
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80,76 zł |