battles

Presents a history of battles, from the hand-to-hand combat of the ancient Assyrians to the artillery actions of World War I.

We took the deadliest warriors from two different time periods and matched them in a battle of weaponry, strength, and grit.

"Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces and she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father across the vast Mongol Empire. On the run, with adversaries on all sides and an endless journey ahead, Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home, a plan that becomes increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into an impossible love"--Provided by publisher.

Science and nature once again face off in a battle of good versus evil that involves robotic worms, doomsday devices, and trojan moose.

A team of scientists has sent a monkey into space! And good thing, too, because he's a mean, selfish, noisy, bullying little fur-bag. But... all does not go well with the flight, and Monkey's spaceship barely clears the first hilltop before crash-landing in a peaceful forest. Monkey decides this is a new world and claims it for his own. And his first decree is that all other animals should be banished! What follows is a series of hilarious, off-the-wall interactions between Monkey and the other forest animals.

Take your readers on a trip back in time to learn all about Tenochtitl?n this ancient city, its takeover by Spanish conquistadors, and its eventual decline.

Onestar, leader of WindClan, introduces two young kittypets to the warrior code, the history of each of the Clans, and legendary battles that have been fought.

Nine-year-old Fernando Fadrique, a servant's son, witnesses the battle of Alarcos in 1195, and meets King Alfonso VIII and Rodrigo de Coca, who ask him to be their page.

"Lilywhite Abernathy is a criminal--she's half human, half fae, and since the time before she was born her very blood has been illegal. A war has been raging between humans and faeries, and the Queen of Blood and Rage, ruler of the fae courts, wants to avenge the tragic death of her heir due to the actions of reckless humans. Lily's father has always shielded her from the truth, but when she's sent to the prestigious St. Columba's school, she's delivered straight into the arms of a fae Sleeper cell--the Black Diamonds. The Diamonds are planted in the human world as the sons and daughters of the most influential families, and tasked with destroying it from within. Against her will, Lilywhite's been chosen to join them, and even the romantic attention of the fae rock singer Creed Morrison isn't enough to keep Lily from wanting to run back to the familiar world she knows"--OCLC.

This book covers the history of battles--from the hand-to-hand combat of the ancient Assyrians to the artillery actions of World War I.