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Celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first summiting of Mount Everest, and documents the earlier British attempts through over 400 photographs from the Royal Geographical Society archives.
"Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand ladies, women in trade and women in the church in this fascinating book. More has b...
"As winter fallout reaches its peak, Flavie is once again forced to leave her comfortable life to help her friend Marco. Braving the cold, she's pulled into a quest for cough syrup that will take her and her snowmobile all the way out to the dreaded, out-of-bounds Mount-Royal Par...
Their identities are hidden in anonymity. They are the Tlite of the Tlite, the daring loners of the sea. They are the men of the Special Boat Squadron. Plucked from the midst of the Falklands conflict, SBS Team Alpha are ordered into an area dominated by the combined fleets of th...
Holed up in a shambling house at the base of Mount Royal is the family Desouche, three generations of English and French caught in the gears of a national crisis.
Miri is eager to return to her beloved Mount Eskel after a year at the capital, but the king and queen ask her to first journey to a distant swamp and start her own miniature princess academy for three royal cousins, but once there she must solve a mystery before she can return h...
"The epic story continues in this brand new book in the USA Today bestselling Kingmaker Chronicles, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer Armentrout. The queen has been cursed, and Jocasta-herbalist and member of the royal family-is the only one who can brave Circe's Gar...
"Scatterbrained Cornelius, King of Kazoo, and his resourceful daughter, Bing, explore a mysterious cave at the top of Mount Kazoo. There they discover a famous alchemist named Quaf is planning a dangerous and forbidden experiment. Now Cornelius, Bing, and the brilliant royal inve...
After stopping Liskal the wind dragon's rampage, Sena and Keith descend from mount Ryudo and return to the royal capital of Vekral. There, the pair receive a summons from the neighboring Phondona Empire, which controls the fire dragon, under threat of incurring the wrath of its m...
"In 1924, the twelve men of the British Mount Everest expedition arrived in Tibet, intending to be the first to summit the world's highest peak. They recruited indigenous Himalayans as porters and guides, setting up base camps along the mountain. During the final ascent attempt, ...
"Set in modern-day Montreal, Celia, Misoka, I is the story of a middle-aged Chinese man who has been living in the city for fifteen years. After the death of his wife, he begins to reflect on his past and how he has ended up alone in Canada, a solitary member of the Chinese diasp...