![]() ![]() Upon his return to Modena after World War 2, Ferrari explained his decision to start his own firm: Post war, he decided to form his own organization. He had spent the pre-war (World War II) years racing Alfa Romeos and preparing cars for various people under the banner of Scuderia Ferrari, his racing team. ![]() It was started in 1947 by Enzo Ferrari when he built the first car with the Ferrari name on it. 75 Years of Ferrari History Summarizedįerrari is an iconic company-one of the most recognized brand names in the world. Martin Raffauf reviewed this exhaustive and thorough chronicle below, providing a summary of key points and a closer look at some of the iconic cars it features. Editor’s Note: In Dennis Adler’s new book, Ferrari: 75 Years, he tells the story of nearly a century of motorsports history from the perspective of one of the industry’s most famous automakers. ![]()
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![]() When Constantius died at York in 306, his troops hailed Constantine as the new emperor. When Constantius was made Caesar of the western half, Constantine was left at the court of Diocletian until the resignation of Diocletian and Maximian in 305, leaving Constantius and Galerius as emperors. Constantine was the son of Constantius I Chlorus, a rough soldier of bumble origin who rose to become the Caesar to Diocletian's co-emperor Maximian in 286. Constantine grew up during the Tetrarchy, a system in which the Roman Empire was divided into western and eastern halves, each headed by an emperor (""Augustus"") and a deputy (""Caesar""). ![]() An eminent classical historian (Founders of the Western World, 1991, etc.) skillfully records the turbulent life of the first Christian Roman emperor and founder of Constantinople, Constantine the Great (c. ![]() ![]() Sara's been hidden away in the witness protection program, her safety dependent on staying invisible-and loving Adam could get her killed!#1 The NegotiatorFBI agent Dave Richman from Danger in the Shadows is back. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with former pro-football player Adam Black, a man everyone knows. ![]() Their stories are told in CBA best-selling, inspirational romantic suspense novels that rock your heart and restore strength and hope to your spirit.Danger in the Shadows (prequel):Sara is terrified. ![]() They have chosen their own surname, O'Malley, and have stood by each other through moments of joy and heartache. This collection bundles all seven romantic suspense titles in Dee Henderson's best-selling O'Malley series into one e-book for a great value!Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. ![]() ![]() The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pyle and Scott Cunningham cleverly expose the long-standing CAMPAIGN AGAINST FUN for what it really is: a bunch of anxious adults grasping at straws, ignoring scientific data, and blindly yearning for the good old days that never were. Stuff in this book goes back centuries-all the way to Plato (yeah, that one) and his worries over the new "technology" of his time: the written word Kevin C. But, honestly-is it? Bad for You asks this question and many more-and not just about the things that modern parents fear like violent video games, social media, and dirty hands. COMICS BE BANNED? "SATANIC" HARRY POTTER BOOKS BURNT PLAYGROUNDS POSE THREAT TO CHILDREN TEXT-MAD YOUTH LOSING WRITING ABILITIES CHILD SUSPENDED FOR BRANDISHING CHICKEN SOCIAL WEBSITES HARM CHILDREN'S BRAINS STUDENT ARRESTED FOR "PASSING GAS" AT SCHOOL These are all real headlines screaming about the terrible stuff that's out there. ![]() ![]() ![]() If she dies, he could never forgive himself-but if he fails in Constantinople, would Mehmed ever forgive him?Īs nations fall around them, the Dracul siblings must decide: what will they sacrifice to fulfill their destinies? Empires will topple, thrones will be won. Torn between loyalties to faith, to the Ottomans, and to Mehmed, Radu knows he owes Lada nothing. leading his sister to make the darkest of choices. And for the first time in his life, when Lada asks him for help, he refuses. Mehmed wants control of the city, and Radu has earned an unwanted place as a double-crossing spy behind enemy lines. But Mehmed has sent him to Constantinople-and it’s no diplomatic mission. Lada needs the support of her diplomatic younger brother, Radu. There’s no time to wonder whether he still thinks about her, even loves her. And thinking of Mehmed, the defiant Ottoman sultan, brings little comfort to her thorny heart. She storms the countryside with her men, but brute force isn’t getting Lada what she wants. ![]() ![]() After failing to secure the Wallachian throne, Lada is out to punish anyone who dares cross her. All she has is what she’s always had: herself. The highly anticipated, mind-blowing New York Times bestselling sequel to Kiersten White’s New York Times bestseller, AND I DARKEN-the series that reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones. ![]() ![]() Vanessa's parents want to work through the tragedy by returning to their everyday lives back in Boston, but Vanessa can't help feeling that her sister's death was more than an accident. That is until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family's vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on shore the next day. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything-the dark, heights, the ocean-but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge. ![]() ![]() Had they been running drugs? Corey doesn't think so, although an ice chest missing from their boat points to something forbidden being hauled from Plum Island. Were the Gordons murdered because they'd stolen some valuable new vaccine, or even a dreaded virus? They'd obviously far outspent their income, living high on the hog and buying a very expensive and speedy powerboat as well as an acre of bluff overlooking the bay. Restlessly recuperating from wounds received in the line of duty, he's happy to answer the summons of the Chief of the Southold Town PD, an old friend, who hires him to consult on the double murder of Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists who worked on (nonfictional) Plum Island, the site of animal disease research for the Department of Agriculture. ![]() An NYPD homicide detective, John Corey, has moved into his uncle's fine digs overlooking Great Peconic Bay. This time, DeMille limns not the Fitzgeraldian wealth of Oyster Bay but rather the North Fork's comfortably well-off-but less-fancy citizens. ![]() Since The Charm School (1988), DeMille's page-turning skills have only improved, peaking with The Gold Coast (1990), faltering on Spencerville (1994), and returning to form with this trip back to the Long Island venue of The Gold Coast. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Emily Windsnap's boyfriend Aaron is captured by pirates there's only one option - join a rival pirate crew and persuade them to help rescue him.Įmily Windsnap has returned home to Brightport, but she can't help but miss the fantastical adventures she's been having on pirates ships and tropical islands. The king has been having nightmares he doesn't understand and he knows only that Emily and Aaron.Ī school trip to a beautiful island plunges Emily and her friends into a new adventure.Įmily Windsnap, an ordinary girl on land and a magical mermaid in water, is overdue a break from excitement. ![]() ![]() The magic ring that Emily Windsnap - half mermaid, half ordinary girl - finds buried in the sand belongs to Neptune, and he wants it back.Įmily is delighted when her family returns to Brightport, but their attempts to follow Neptune's orders to bring humans and merfolk together seem doomed.Įmily and Aaron are sent on a top secret mission by King Neptune. Liz Kessler is the author of the best-selling Emily Windsnap series, the Philippa Fisher series, the novels North of Nowhere and A Year Without Autumn, and a. Emily Windsnap Series The Complete Collection 9 Books Set by Liz Kessler:Įmily Windsnap lives on a boat, but her mother has always been oddly anxious to keep her out of the water.Įmily Windsnap is thrilled to arrive at her new home - a secret island near the Bermuda Triangle where humans and merfolk live together, and where being a girl who grows a tail as soon as she enters the water isn't a problem. ![]() ![]() Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. ![]() And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. ![]() Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native Amer. ![]() ![]() |