Books with title Camel Club

Barcelona. 24 cm. 428 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección '[La trama]'. Baldacci, David 1960-. Traducción, Mercè Diago y Abel Debritto. Traducción de: The Camel Club. La trama (Barcelona) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-666-2677-8

Camels are one of the most useful animals on earth, and for thousands of years, many people in Asia and the Middle East have depended on them for their way of life. Camels can live where food and water are scarce, tolerate the blazzing heat of a desert's summer as well as the freezing cold of its winter months, and easily carry loads weighing more than five hundred pounds. The lively text and forty engrossing full-colr photographs detail the unique physical characteristics that allow the camel to live in an extreme environment.

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the 'investigation', the suicide verdict doesn't ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America's powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly l

Conspiracy theories--everybody has one. The difference with this conspiracy is that it's all too real. David Baldacci's The Camel Club takes readers inside the Beltway as four unlikely misfits struggle not only to survive, but to save their president and their country from a plot that will lead to nuclear disaster.Bestselling BaldacciLast Man StandingThe WinnerTotal Control The Simple TruthAbsolute PowerSaving Faith

A giant golden-brown creature walks slowly across the hot desert. As far as the eye can see, there?s not a drop of water or even a plant to munch on?just sand. How can the camel survive? The hump on its back has stored fat that the animal uses for energy. As a result, the camel can go weeks without water and months without food. Welcome to life in the desert! Young readers will learn all about the harsh desert environment where the camel lives, as well as its physical characteristics, what it eats, and how it survives in its hot, dry home. Colorful photos and diagrams, clear text, age-appropriate activities, and critical-thinking questions will keep young readers turning the pages as they take a closer look at this intriguing desert dweller.