Herman: 1212 books

Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands. The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over time until 1896, when they were brought back...

Could you climb the world’s highest mountain? Thrill seekers and young explorers will love this inspiring Totally True Adventure. The peak of Mount Everest is the highest place on Earth—and one of the deadliest. Terrible storms stop climbers in their tracks! Avalanches tumble down! Brave...

Boys and girls ages 4-6 will scare themselves silly with this Step 2 featuring the adventures of Sulley and his one-eyed friend Mike from the computer-animated Disney/Pixar blockbuster Monsters, Inc.

Lucky is a very hungry puppy, so he sniffs and sniffs and digs and digs. He finds lots of things--a jump rope, an old sock, a smelly shoe, and finally, a bone!

When a big snowstorm hits, Monty Nudelman happily shovels his neighbors' sidewalks, driveways, cars, and steps—until he hurts his back. Now he can barely move! He can't even make his Shabbat lunch. Luckily, his neighbors have all made cholent—a delicious Shabbat stew. The neighborhood kids form a "cholent brigade" to bring Monty Nudelman a tasty feast. Cholent to the rescue!

When Izzy and Olivia Bloom invite their neighbors over for Shabbat dinner, everyone is shocked to find out that the Blooms don't have Shabbat candles. Instead, they have something much more unusual: an antique Sabbath lamp that's been passed down from generation to generation. How did the Sabbath lamp get to America? That's a good story . . .

Adventure novel that narrates the journey of the whaling ship Pequod, under the command of the Captain Ahab, hunting for whales and sperm whales, and in particular the enormous white whale Moby Dick.

Romanzo di avventura che narra il viaggio della baleniera Pequod, comandata dal capitano Achab, a caccia di capodogli e balene, e in particolare della enorme balena bianca Moby Dick. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano. Adventure novel that tells the journey of a whaling...

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An adventure story based on the idea of the author being held captive on the island of Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas, during the mid 1850s.

A story by the author of Moby Dick, about the American Revolution. Israel Potter is a humble farmer, but joins the revolutionary army and sees action immediately at Bunker Hill. Through circumstance he comes into contact with Benjamin Frankin, King George III and Washington.

This is the saga of Pierre Glendinning, the upstate New York teenager who inherits a small fortune. However, disaster and tragedy lurk close by.

A short story about working on Wall Street in the 1850s. Bartleby is employed in the office of a Manhattan lawyer. At first it seems like a match made in heaven, but the relationship soon deteriorates to the point where the office has to be moved.

War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict. This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and contains a completely new chapter...