Zoological science; or, Nature in living forms ... Adapted to elucidate the chart of the animal kingdom, by A. M. Redfield, and designed for the ... schools, libraries, and the family circle ... Review
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Transactions of the Loggerville Literary Society
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Troubled Midnight
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In 1943, The United Kingdom is alive with men and women making ready for the greatest invasion in history: preparing to assault Hitler's Fortress Europe. The skies are full of training aircraft, their engines merging with the throb of the RAF and USAAF bombers heading on round-the-clock missions against Germany.
With fresh bloodshed on the horizon, the coming Christmas preparations seem even more poignant. But with just ten days to go, the seasonal mood is shattered in the quiet market town of Wantage in Berkshire by the discovery of two badly battered bodies. It seems that the victims were tortured before being beaten to death. Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Livermore and DS Suzie Mountford, Tommy's right-hand woman and secret lover, are assigned to the case.
The bodies are identified as Lieutenant Colonel Tim Weaving, an officer commanding a detachment from the Glider Pilot Regiment stationed at a nearby airfield; and Emily Burrage, wife of the town's hero, an officer with the Desert Rats who was awarded the Victoria Cross at Tobruk.
As they begin to investigate the double murder, Tommy and Suzie are joined by Curry Shepherd, a representative of the Intelligence Services. It is possible that an enemy agent has interrogated Tim Weaving and as he was in possession of information concerning the plans for Overlord---the Allied plan for the invasion of occupied Europe---things become urgent. Suzie finds herself seconded to War Office Intelligence Liaison and so enters the secret world.
This is a surprising, dark, and imaginative novel from one of Britain's best thriller writers.
With fresh bloodshed on the horizon, the coming Christmas preparations seem even more poignant. But with just ten days to go, the seasonal mood is shattered in the quiet market town of Wantage in Berkshire by the discovery of two badly battered bodies. It seems that the victims were tortured before being beaten to death. Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Livermore and DS Suzie Mountford, Tommy's right-hand woman and secret lover, are assigned to the case.
The bodies are identified as Lieutenant Colonel Tim Weaving, an officer commanding a detachment from the Glider Pilot Regiment stationed at a nearby airfield; and Emily Burrage, wife of the town's hero, an officer with the Desert Rats who was awarded the Victoria Cross at Tobruk.
As they begin to investigate the double murder, Tommy and Suzie are joined by Curry Shepherd, a representative of the Intelligence Services. It is possible that an enemy agent has interrogated Tim Weaving and as he was in possession of information concerning the plans for Overlord---the Allied plan for the invasion of occupied Europe---things become urgent. Suzie finds herself seconded to War Office Intelligence Liaison and so enters the secret world.
This is a surprising, dark, and imaginative novel from one of Britain's best thriller writers.
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
The Kingfisher Book of Classic Girl Stories (Kingfisher Book of)
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Huckleberry Milton
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"What Jackson Pollock did for painting fifty years ago, Bradley J. Milton has today done for the novel." -- text from early review of Huckleberry Milton Having made the international news in 2010 after publication of a new "politically correct" version of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, in which the infamous and controversial "n-word" in Twain's classic novel had been replaced with something less offensive to today's sensibilities, now we get the full monty: business executive, former Deadhead and '80s technologist Bradley J. Milton has gone far beyond a simple one-word search-and-replace. Using his neo-retro technology, a Windows PC and a dollop of hardcore psychedelia, he brings us an entertaining work so original, new, and entirely American that it shocks with its power -- pushing the bounds of the novel with a message so unique, pressing and ultimately controversial that it may be the Finnegans Wake of our century. It's well into the second decade of the 21st century, where Osama bin Laden is dead and universal health care is coming for all -- yet it's also Evening in America, where the nation is faced with an unsolveable fiscal crisis at a time when, to the young generations, Woodstock is not even a memory ... nor is Howard Cosell, Telly Savalas, CHiPs -- or even the original Charlie's Angels, for that matter. Enter the post-pomo meta-character Huckleberry Milton as he leaves the safety of his Twitter account and cramped office cubicle and goes off on a cross-country mindquest to bring this country together, melding the forgotten pop culture of decades past with the goings-on of now, reviving the counter-culture of the Sixties, and doing it with an amalgam of DIY technology: '80s IBM PC software, 21st century future-tech, and plenty of hardcore psychedelia. Can a robotic Jerry Garcia revive the Grateful Dead, playing ad-hoc (and continuous) concerts at local shopping malls, schoolyards and Subway restaurants, jump-starting a sinking economy and leading the way to a new, highly profitable American Dream? Huck Milton -- himself a product of Burroughsian cutup technique, AI experiments, gratuitous Notepad cut-and-paste operations, and something much deeper -- shows the darkness, the fiery colors, the depth and originality of the idiot-savant mind of Bradley J. Milton. A failed concert at Altamont over 40 years ago where the Hell's Angels rough up the crowd quickly fades into Ed Wood graveyard backdrops, classic Hammer film horror scenes, Platonic dialogues between Laverne and Shirley -- shots ring out in the cold air on the campus of Kent State, just beyond some grassy knoll -- meanwhile back at the office, the new DOS 3.1 diskettes have arrived, and someone is dialing out on a modem with PROCOMM ... a mysterious figure is attempting to be the next Jim Morrison, preaching to the dot-commer kids at Height-Ashbury ... meanwhile on Twitter, delayed Morse code messages arrive from a capsized Love Boat (circa 1978), and tens of thousands of followers and members of the new 'Generation SHOP' are urging Yoko Ono to lead the new economic revolution. Fans of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-addled gonzo psychedelia, William S. Burroughs' tripped-out routines, William T. Vollman's deep weirdness, and anyone who appreciates the rare, odd humor of a mind that can blend five decades of pop culture into a musical lyric lullaby is going to love what this "business executive" (and former Deadhead) has conjured up: an American joyride that rockets through time, space, and several uncharted dimensions, bringing us to a crystalline happy Somewhere that we never thought we had access to.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Foray of Queen Meave and Other Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Chrysal; or, A Story with an End
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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Monday, August 22, 2011
The vinegar saint
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
House of Sugar
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House of Sugar is a part-fictional reporting of the Bay of Pigs and the CIA/Mafia partnership to assassinate Fidel Castro and JFK. It is a riveting Cold War account of a world on the brink - a stunning re-creation by characters whose lives and voices are inserted into history. JFK averted political backlash by directing the CIA to shroud the Bay of Pigs fiasco under a cloak of secrecy until it was declassified in 1998. Kennedy's assassination theory is based upon extensive research of the events leading up to CIA operative Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest. Who orchestrated the CIA/Mafia assassination plot, and for what reasons? From the author's interviews with former CIA and military officers, Cuban nationals and exiles, this historical novel reveals the dark side of U.S. foreign policy. It is a shocking account of the CIA's covert operations to overthrow foreign governments funded, in part, through Mafia drug trafficking. Follow the saga of Don Carlos Garcia and his children, whose lives were forever changed on the night of April 16, 1961 when they fled their Casa de Azucar to escape the Bay of Pigs invasion. Learn about the CIA's secret internal factions, its ambivalence toward BBC journalist/agent Holly Woodson, and its readiness to dispose of its agents. This is a tale of the blind ambition, greed, lust, and espionage that was masked under a shroud of patriotism. The novel's sequels - House of Deception, House of Sham, and House of Flimflam -cover the Johnson-Clinton presidencies and the U.S. government's involvement in international drug trafficking. Sheldon Burton Webster was born in Norton, Virginia in 1944 and now lives in Birmingham, Alabama where he is a practicing CPA and writer. After graduating from Mississippi State University, he served as a captain in the United States Army. Mr. Webster is an avid sportsman, conservationist, and a mountaineer who has climbed three of the world's seven summits and visited over eighty countries in his quest for adventure. H
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Friday, August 19, 2011
The Night of the Long Knives: With The Creature From The Cleveland Depths
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This book includes two novels from Fritz Leiber. The Night of the Long Knives: In a post apocalyptic world it's a struggle just to stay alive. Two strangers discover a secret in the Deathlands. Does it promise release or destruction? The Creature from Cleveland Depths: Gusterson lives a precarious life on the surface, making inventions for those who have sought shelter below ground. When one of his ideas goes awry he has to find a solution to save the world. This classic book was handcrafted by Resurrected Press. Resurrected Press is dedicated to bringing high quality classic books back to the readers who enjoy them. These are not scanned versions of the originals, but, rather, quality checked and edited books meant to be enjoyed!
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