The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 277
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Views: 277
Ferus Olin's allegiance is to the Jedi. But when he's summoned to see the Emperor, the Sith Lord makes him an offer he can't refuse. If he can manage to prevent a planet from plunging into chaos, the Empire will spare Ferus's captured friends. And if he doesn't . . . they'll die. Another heart-stopping Jedi adventure from bestselling author Jude Watson. Views: 277
From the MacArthur and Whiting Award-winning author of John Henry Days and
The Intuitionist comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity,
history, and the adhesive bandage industry
When the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did what
anyone would do--they hired a consultant.
The protagonist of Apex Hides the Hurt is a nomenclature consultant. If you
want just the right name for your new product, whether it be automobile or
antidepressant, sneaker or spoon, he's the man to get the job done. Wardrobe
lack pizzazz? Come to the Outfit Outlet. Always the wallflower at social
gatherings? Try Loquacia.
And of course, whenever you take a fall, reach for Apex, because Apex Hides
the Hurt. Apex is his crowning achievement, the multicultural bandage that
has revolutionized the adhesive bandage industry. Flesh-colored be
damned--no matter what your skin tone is--Apex will match it, or your money
back.
After leaving his job (following a mysterious misfortune), his expertise is
called upon by the town of Winthrop. Once there, he meets the town council,
who will try to sway his opinion over the coming days.
Lucky Aberdeen, the millionaire software pioneer and hometown-boy-made-good, wants the name changed to something that will reflect the town's capitalist aspirations, attracting new businesses and revitalizing the community. Who could argue with that?
Albie Winthrop, beloved son of the town's aristocracy, thinks Winthrop is a perfectly good name, and can't imagine what the fuss is about.
Regina Goode, the mayor, is a descendent of the black settlers who founded the town, and has her own secret agenda for what the name should be.
Our expert must decide the outcome, with all its implications for the town's
future. Which name will he choose? Or perhaps he will devise his own? And
what's with his limp, anyway?
Apex Hides the Hurt brilliantly and wryly satirizes our contemporary culture,
where memory and history are subsumed by the tides of marketing. Views: 277
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BAD NEWS "Why, Grace, what in the world is the matter? You\'ve been crying!" "Yes, I have, Betty. But don\'t mind me. It\'s all so sudden. Come in. I shall be all right presently. Don\'t mind!" Grace Ford tried to repress her emotion, but the cause of her tears was evidently too recent, or the effort at self-control too much for her, for she gave way to another outburst, sobbing this time on the shoulder of Betty Nelson, who patted her sympathetically, and murmured soothingly to her chum. "But what is it, Grace?" Betty asked, after waiting a minute. "I—I\'ll tell you in a moment or two, Betty. Just—just wait," and the tall, graceful girl made a more successful effort to master her feelings. "Here come Amy and Mollie," went on Betty, as she glanced from the library window and saw two girls walking up the path opened across the lawn through the mass of newly fallen snow. "Do you want to meet them, Grace; or shall I say you don\'t feel well—have a headache? They\'ll understand. And perhaps in a little while——" "No—no, Betty. It\'s sweet of you to want to help me; but Amy and Mollie might just as well know now as later. I\'ll be able to see them—in a little while. It—it\'s all so sudden." "But what does it all mean, Grace? I can\'t understand. Is anyone dead—or—or hurt?" and Betty Nelson, who had called at the house of Grace to talk over plans for a dance they were going to attend the following week, looked anxiously at her chum. Only the day before Grace had seemed like her nearly-always jolly self. She and her three chums, including Betty, had been down town shopping, and Grace, as usual, had indulged in chocolates—her one failing, if such it can be called. "Surely she can\'t be ill," thought Betty. "Ill from too many chocolates? I\'ve seen her take twice as many as she did yesterday, and she doesn\'t look ill." With this half-formed thought in her mind Betty looked more critically at her chum. Aside from the tears—which seldom add to a girl\'s beauty—there was no change in Grace Ford. That is, no change except one caused by something rather mysterious, Betty thought—something that was hard for Grace to tell, but which had deeply affected her. There came a ring at the door. Betty started toward it from the library, where she and Grace had gone when Grace let her chum in a short time before. "Shall I answer, Grace?" inquired Betty, hesitating. "Yes, do, please. I think Katy is with mamma. She took the news very much to heart. Let Amy and Mollie in, and then I\'ll tell you all about it. Oh, but I don\'t know what to do!" "Now look here, Grace Ford!" exclaimed Betty briskly, pausing a moment on her way to the door. "You just stop this! If no one is dead, and no one is hurt, then it can\'t be so very dreadful. You just stop now, and when we all get together we\'ll help you in whatever trouble you have. You know that; don\'t you?" "Oh, yes, Betty, I do. You aren\'t the \'Little Captain\' to all of us for nothing. I\'ll try and not cry any more." "Do. It—it isn\'t at all becoming.... Views: 277
There has been no other epoch in American history where corruption, debauchery, sleaze and horrific murder has intersected with a society as speciously glittering and innocent as the Los Angeles of the 1940s and 50s.The Tinseltown of that age had movie star glamour on the surface but a dark, violent and unrepentant heart. None knew this dichotomy better than the Los Angeles Police Department, whose story became the most successful police drama in television history, Dragnet. Jack Webb was the star and creator of the show, but much of what he unearthed was too sensational to be broadcast on prime time. Those stories he saved for his classic, The Badge.Crimes like the sex slaying of Betty Short, the Black Dahlia: tortured for days, drained of blood, cut in two and dumped in Leimert Park, the subject of James Ellroy's masterpiece and one of the US's greatest unsolved murders. Narcotics, gambling, prostitution, thrill murders, serial killers -- all take their place in a book that shattered America's delusion of post-war innocence and defines our knowledge of modern crime even today.The Badge comes with an introduction by master of crime noir, James Ellroy.
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The fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers. Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues -- and, as yet, no bodies. Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental and civic politics. And with his partner Harry Nautilus fighting for his life after being viciously attacked, Carson is feeling increasingly isolated. Public rage is now reaching dangerous levels, and Ryder's bosses turn for help to ex-Detective Conner Sandhill whose uncanny ability to spot connections and details missed by others is legendary -- but who left the department under a cloud. Ryder and Sandhill form an uneasy alliance in the hunt for the missing children, a hunt which becomes all the more urgent for tragic personal reasons. But at the root of these disappearances is something truly evil! and its source is closer to home than either could have imagined. Views: 276
One of the seven is dead, and everyone's reeling:
Adam's done. With love, with school...with everything. Done.
Beth's doing her best to act "normal," but even Reed recognizes devastation, since all he does is fantasize about Kaia.
Miranda's lost too.
Did she ever really forgive Harper?
Only Kane is actually doing something: uncovering how the crash happened -- and why.
But there's no do-over with death.
There's only moving on -- to the most unlikely places.... Views: 276
Mr. Jack Hamlin\'s Mediation by Bret Harte Views: 276
Establishing Francisco Pizarro firmly as a man of his time, Stuart Stirling shows that there was little difference in moral terms between Elizabeth I's political expediency in ordering Mary Queen of Scots's execution and Pizarro's killing of the Inca Atahualpa - a deed for which his name has been regarded with infamy. Views: 276
Captain Sam - The Boy Scouts of 1814 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by George Cary Eggleston is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of George Cary Eggleston then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 276
Excerpt - One evening, when Mary, her mamma, and Willie had all taken their seats near the window, and the story was about to begin, Mary reminded her mamma of a merry adventure that she had mentioned as having happened when she and her brother and Master White went out to fly their "new Kite." "Do, mamma, tell us about that," said Mary. Her mamma said she would, and after thinking for a few minutes, to recollect all about it, she began. Views: 275
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Views: 275
