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BodyguardThe man at the bar was exceptionally handsome, and he knew it. So did the light-haired girl at his side, and so did the nondescript man in the gray suit who was watching them from a booth in the corner. Everyone in the room...

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 (of 8) - English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689WE derive our rights in America, says Edmund Burke, in his Account of the European Settlements in America, from the discovery of Sebastian Cabot, who first...

Glaciers of the Rockies and Selkirks, 2nd. ed. - With Notes on Five Great Glaciers of the Canadian National ParksThe traveller going westwards from the prairie finds the way blocked by a grim wall of cliffs rising 7,000 or 8,000 feet above the sea...

A Treatise on Acupuncturation TO ASTLEY COOPER, ESQ. THE STEADY FRIEND AND PATRON OF HUMBLE MERIT, THE AUTHOR RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBES THIS LITTLE TREATISE; LESS FROM PRESUMPTION OF ITS DESERVING HIS APPROBATION, THAN AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR SPLENDID ACQUIREMENTS, AND OF GRATITUDE, TOWARDS...

Die Macht der Drei: Ein Roman aus dem Jahre 1955Gellend schrien die Neuyorker Zeitungsboys die einzelnen Stichworte der Sensationsnachricht den Tausenden und aber Tausenden von Menschen in die Ohren, die in der achten Morgenstunde des Junitages von den berfllten Fhrbooten ans Land geworfen wurden...

Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the HighwayMany of you who followed the adventures of Nelson, Dan, Bob, and Tom, as narrated in a previous story, Four in Camp, have very kindly professed a willingness to hear more about this...

Queen ElizabethI HAVE to deal, under strict limitations of space, with a long life, almost the whole of its adult period passed in the exercise of sovereigntya life which is in effect the history of England during forty-five years, abounding at the same time...

Garrity's AnnuitiesYou might say Garrity brought it on himself. The way I put it, Garrity was the architect of his own disasters. It's a nicely put phrase, I think. Anyway, a lot of people tried to tell him what might happen. I did, for...

The FreelancerJeb was shaken from his bed; his dream told him it was a glacier with wild winds howling laughter, and when he opened his eyes, shivering, he saw his wife, Laurie, had pulled the heat switch off. She stood there glaring. Today her...

Heinrich von Kleist's politische Schriften und andere Nachträge zu seinen Werken Nur Wenigen ist es beschieden, den Lebenstag zu sehen, der Ihnen, hochverehrter Herr, heute festlich anbricht. Den Zeitraum eines halben Jahrhunderts in demselben Kreise durchschritten zu haben, ist kein alltglicher Ruhm unter Menschen,...

The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's TimeDuring the seventeenth century Swaffham Manor House was one of the most picturesque dwellings in Cambridgeshire. It was so old that it had a sort of personality. It was Swaffham. For as the Yorkshireman, in speaking of...

On Multiple Algebra ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 50977 Author: Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard) Release Date: Jan 20, 2016 Format: eBook Language: English

The Siege and Conquest of the North PoleMy chief object in compiling this work has been to supply a brief account of the main efforts which have been made to reach the North Pole. The subject is now so extensive that few have the...

Motor Matt's Prize; or, The Pluck That WinsIssued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1909, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Street & Smith, 79-80 Seventh Avenue, New York,...

Le crime et la débauche à Paris; Le divorceL'universit de Paris. Le Parlement de Paris. Le Chtelet. Les Pnalits anciennes (supplices et prisons). Les Curiosits des anciennes justices, d'aprs les manuscrits. Des Contraventions a Londres. Le Formulaire des magistrats. Communes et Royaut. La Sainte-Chapelle....

"About My Father's Business": Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the SorrowingWould it not be useful to ask ourselves the question whether we are forgetting the true meaning of "charity" in the constant endeavour to take advantage of organized benevolent institutions, about the...

The Great Musicians: PurcellThe attempt to write a Life of Henry Purcell has been beset with many difficulties. So much information which might have been preserved for the instruction of after times has been lost, either through the indifference or culpable neglect of those...

The Problem MakersClouds obscured the three moons as the men slipped into the village. They eased the double-bitted axes out of their belts and felt their way through the almost unrelieved blackness until their hands met the soft yieldings of the door hangings. Waiting...

An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va.In those "stirring times," during the late war, when powder, and ball, and the bayonet were the orders of the day, an escape from prison and a secret, hidden march through...

Big AncestorIn repose, Taphetta the Ribboneer resembled a fancy giant bow on a package. His four flat legs looped out and in, the ends tucked under his wide, thin body, which constituted the knot at the middle. His neck was flat, too, arching out...