CK - Historical 99

This book is the first telling of what was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the 'longest canoe trip in history'-an eighteen-month, 7,865-mile saga of two young men and a canoe named M……続きを見る

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," The epic novel of the French Revolution is one of Charles Dicken's most popular creations. As the title of the novel implies, the action of the……続きを見る

Just before World War I along the Texas-Mexican border, an American pilot, who gets air sick if he’s over four feet off the ground, lands his bi-plane on the wrong side of the Rio Grande and is capt……続きを見る

Introduction by John Irving • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of gre……続きを見る

We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years afte……続きを見る

Orphaned Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville with nothing but a joyous outlook on life that chooses to see the positive side of every situation. Her “Glad Game” begins to affect the lives of everyon……続きを見る

Newton Forster or, the Merchant Service was first published in 1832 . The book tells the story of the Master of a coastal brig in the Royal Navy, his adventures, shipwreck and love interests as wel……続きを見る

The Classic Christmas tale that we all know and love. Scrooge is a miserable miser with no friends, who has isolated all his family and passed up the best choices in life. But he is about to get a s……続きを見る

It's 1980: recession and unemployment have hit Britain, a royal wedding is on the way, and the whole country is wondering Who Shot JR? As Jack returns for his fourth year at Ragley-on-the Forest Sch……続きを見る

Cyrano de Bergerac, a proud but poor member of the respected and elite Gascon Guard, is a gifted poet as well as a feared swordsman. The love of his life is a distant cousin, the beautiful Roxane. B……続きを見る

What if the Founding Fathers passed down a secret set of instructions designed to aid the people of the United States in a time of crisis? A time when the size and scope of the Federal Government ha……続きを見る

Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but vital islands in the Indian Ocean? Life ashore on half pay, despite the joys of family life, is……続きを見る

Now a major motion picture A literary star returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of ……続きを見る

The last days of the Old West were about done “down below.” The states and territories were starting to see electric lights and automobiles. But up in Alaska, “the Great Alone,” there was gold and v……続きを見る

I am Silver, and there is no other pirate like me on these waters. This being the last testament of the infamous pirate Long John Silver, you would do well not to trust a word in its pages. Held cap……続きを見る

Swift, deadly and merciless were the raiders who hit the Kansas ranch and when they rode out they left behind two men dead and a woman who wouldn’t make it through the night. With a stolen Army payr……続きを見る

The novel, which begins It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Dickens researched the historical background meticulously, using……続きを見る

There was once a South Sea Island supercargo named Denison who had a Kanaka father and mother. This was when Denison was a young man. His father's name was Kusis; his mother's Tulpé. Also, h……続きを見る

To whom does one’s true allegiance lie? Jack Aubrey’s long service has at last been rewarded with promotion to the rank of commodore, and a squadron of ships to command. His new commission is twofol……続きを見る

After the disaster of his first marriage, Haydon Bowen has no intention of marrying again. Unfortunately, his brother has some intentions ofhis own, and plans to see to it that Haydon finds happines……続きを見る

Harlan DaVinci was known the world over as a detective of the unknown, a layer of ghosts, a champion for the terrified. This time he is off to Viet Nam, a country at war. But it is not the war with ……続きを見る

Quirke returns. The Silver Swan is the second entry in the spellbinding literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: Quirke, starring……続きを見る

In 1873, when Reuben Lee arrived in the Wyoming Territory by train from Philadelphia, tired, hungry and virtually penniless, he had no idea that in a few short weeks he would be called "The Gunfight……続きを見る

Whether close to home or far away, there are no safe harbours while Napoleon seeks to dominate the known world. Jack Aubrey, veteran of numerous battles, has been promoted to senior captain commandi……続きを見る

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light,……続きを見る

The first white children to come west were sons and daughters of the pioneers. They trudged barefooted beside the wagons, across the dusty plains, through the heat and the prickly pear cactus and ……続きを見る

The higher one climbs, the further there is to fall. As war with Napoleon seemingly draws to a close, opportunities for advancement are limited and Jack Aubrey faces the ultimate indignity – the pos……続きを見る

A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two un……続きを見る

William Riddle, at the age of thirteen, quickly earned the moniker of 'Dead Eye' in the War of 1812. Saving his regiment from an ambush by a long distance shot that killed an Indian chief and alerte……続きを見る

On the Eastern Front the Germans are losing the battle; to the west, they are assailed by the Allied Powers. But in a snow-clad valley in the Hartz mountains of central Germany, a British agent obs……続きを見る