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Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
by Robert Louis Stevenson, James Hogg, Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire.
Eisenhower
Becoming the Leader of the Free World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
In this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career of Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, offering new insight into this singular man who guided America toward consensus at home and a peaceful victory in the Cold War.
The long-time editor of the Eisenhower papers, Galambos...
Dancing with the Devil
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
IN AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE FEDS TOOK DOWN INFAMOUS HEROIN DEALER FRANK LUCAS. BUT THE KINGPIN BEHIND LUCAS’S CRIMINAL REIGN, LEROY “NICKY” BARNES, REMAINED “MR. UNTOUCHABLE.” UNTIL ONE UNDERCOVER AGENT PROVED TOUGH ENOUGH—OR CRAZY ENOUGH—TO INFILTRATE HIS DOMAIN AND NAIL THE MOST DANGEROUS...
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Austen, Jane: “Northanger Abbey” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Listener” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows” Brontë,...
by Louis Arthur Cavagnaro
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2000
This is the story of a United States Marine Corps 12 man Rifle Squad plus the Squad Leader. It places the reader in landing craft racing toward a hostile beach being pounded by enemy gunfire, viewing the beaches as they are engulfed in a maelstrom of steel and fire. They are joined aboard troop ships,...
I Fight for a Living
Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown: boxing. His prowess in the ring asserted an independence and powerful masculinity rare for black men in a white-dominated society, allowing him to be a man--and thus truly free. Louis Moore draws...
by Jean-Louis Roba
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
No airforce in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, Jean-Louis Roba has undergone a considerable amount of work in tracking down hundreds of aircraft used by the Luftwaffe and illustrating their uses, careers and eventual fates. The book...
The Edge of the Swamp
A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting contribution was Edgar Allan Poe. This failure on the...
God's Red Son
The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The definitive account of the Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890
Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History
In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances....
by Robert William Chambers, John Meade Falkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier. The novels are sorted alphabetically by the authors. Anthology containing: The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Legend of...
by Herman Graf, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A timeless anthology of chilling tales known to torment the mind and stir up nightmarish visions that can never be unseen.
Ghosts, murder, demonic possession, and psychological terror: these are just some of the subjects explored by the unparalleled writers in this superb collection. Lovers...
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...