A young reader's edition of The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather's Costa Book of the Year. An extraordinary, eye-opening account of the Holocaust. Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army and stage an uprising.The name of the camp - Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruellest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life and his family to warn the West before all was lost.To do so meant attempting the impossible - but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself... For children aged 12 and up. Written from exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, famil
An exquisitely illustrated original tale based on the mythical character reveals how Jack Frost earned his name There was once a group of trees that was fed up with living in a deep, dark, and crowde
Frederick Schiller Faust (1892 – 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. His other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Ev
My Father was a very wise man. He got his wisdom from the Bible. His name was George Nordgren.My father told me that he read a chapter from Psalms and Proverbs every day. He told me, Psalms help you l
Anthony McCarran, one of the army’s most distinguished generals, was devastated by the loss of his longtime friend Jack Gallagher, who was killed in Vietnam. For years, the McCarran and Gallagh
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The "utterly addictive" (The New York Times) Jack Reacher series continues as the acclaimed #1 bestselling author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire, for their second adrenaline-fueled novel together.Reacher gets off a bus with no particular place to be and starts walking into a no-name town for a cup of coffee when a body flies off a bridge in front of him. Was it suicide? A murder? Reacher can never walk away from an unsolved mystery—or a fight—and he's used to taking on the bad guys, but this time it seems like he's taking on a whole town.
As Jack Fitzgerald sees it, he was betrayed by Caroline a betrayal that lost them their baby and gave him a bad name. Now a billionaire, he's backand determined to prove his worth to all t
