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A Gambling Man

Author: David Baldacci

Number of pages: 502

Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes the second book in the Private Investigator Archer series, A Gambling Man from one of the world’s bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. A lucky roll of the dice California, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town. Feeling lucky, he stops off at a casino in Reno, where he meets an aspiring actress, Liberty Callahan. Together, they head west on a journey filled with danger and surprises – because Archer isn’t the only one with a secretive past. A risk worth taking Arriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding out who is doing everything they can to disrupt the appointment of a top official. Then two seemingly unconnected people are murdered at a burlesque club. In a tight-lipped community, Archer must dig deep to reveal the connection between the victims. All bets are off As the final perilous showdown unfurls, Archer will need all of his skills to decipher the truth from the lies and finally, to prove she’s a star in the making, will Liberty have her moment in the spotlight? A Gambling...

A Gambling Man

Author: Jenny Uglow

Number of pages: 594

Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled with his father's beheading. 'Honour' was now a word tossed around in duels. 'Providence' could no longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. Exactly ten years later Charles II would stand again on the shore at Dover, laying the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV. The Restoration decade was one of experiment: from the science of the Royal Society to the startling role of credit and risk, from the shocking licence of the court to the failed attempts at toleration of different beliefs. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the 'slippery sovereign', played odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theatres were restored, but the king was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court and his colourful sex life were on display, his true intentions...

Son of a Gambling Man

Author: Bob Miller

Number of pages: 271

A memoir of growing up in mob-run Sin City from a casino heir-turned-governor who's seen two sides of every coin When Bob Miller arrived in Las Vegas as a boy, it was a small, dusty city, a far cry from the glamorous, exciting place it is today. Driving the family car was his father Ross Miller, a tough guy—though a good family man—who had operated on both sides of the law on some of the meaner streets of industrial Chicago. The Miller family was as close and as warm as "Ozzie and Harriet," as long as you knew that Ozzie was a bookmaker and a business acquaintance of some very dubious criminal types. As Bob grew up, so did Vegas, now a "town" of some two million. Ross Miller became a respectable businessman and partner in a major casino, though he was still capable of settling a score with his fists. And Bob went on to law school, entering law enforcement and eventually becoming a popular governor of Nevada, holding office longer than anybody in the state's history. And the Miller family's legacy continues. Bob's own son is presently serving as Secretary of State. A warm family memoir, the story of a city heir, with just a little bit of The Godfather and Casino thrown in for...

Les pleins pouvoirs

Author: David Baldacci

Number of pages: 601

Au début des années 90, Luther Whitney est passé maître dans l’art du cambriolage. Une nuit, il se lance dans un dernier gros coup : s’introduire dans la luxueuse demeure d’un milliardaire. Mais ce qu’il imaginait comme le casse de sa vie se transforme en enfer. À son corps défendant, tapi derrière une glace sans tain, il assiste à une scène aussi invraisemblable que morbide. Le président des États-Unis en personne se livre à des jeux sexuels hors de tout contrôle. La mort rôde dans la chambre à coucher du milliardaire. Mais la garde rapprochée du président veille au grain... ou presque. En une poignée de secondes, Luther Whitney parvient à s’échapper de cette maison mais il devient l’ennemi principal des services secrets. Entre trafics d’influence, manipulations et abus de pouvoir, armé de sa seule ingéniosité, il est propulsé dans une course-poursuite, aussi improbable qu’explosive. Parviendra-t-il à blanchir son nom et sauver sa vie ? Le tout premier livre de David Baldacci, l’un des auteurs de thrillers les plus vendus au monde. Ancien avocat, il fut spécialisé dans le système politique américain et les services de renseignement....

Gambling Man

Author: Lionel Barber

Number of pages: 368

“The defining account of an era in business history.” —Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author of Age of Ambition The unputdownable first Western biography of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, financial disruptor and personification of the 21st century’s addiction to instant wealth, from the former editor of the Financial Times. As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetites of a few standout investors. And amidst the BlackRocks, Vanguards, and Berkshire Hathaways stands arguably the most iconoclastic of them all: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. In Gambling Man, the first Western biography of Son, the self-professed unicorn hunter, we go behind the scenes of the world’s most monied halls of power in New York, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Saudi Arabia, and beyond to see how Son’s firm SoftBank has defied conventional wisdom and imposing odds to push global tech and commerce into the future. From the dizzying highs of Uber, DoorDash, and Slack to the epic lows of WeWork and tech-infused dogwalking app Wag Son and SoftBank have been at the center of cutting-edge...

Salvation

Author: David Cocklin

Number of pages: 339

SALVATION [sal-vey-shuhn] The act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc. Redemption. Salvation: Lyric & Verse Anthology brings together an expansive collection of stories and reflections on a myriad of topics; from love and lost love, to hope, conflict, spirituality and philosophy. It ranges everywhere from a deeply personal introspection right through to a broad spectrum of social observation. The emotionally evocative tales are littered with truisms, sarcasm, symbolism and analogies, while keeping the reader engaged and intrigued. Lyricist David Cocklin maintains a great variety in his tone, inflection, and subject matter all through the whole collection, so it never feels like the monotonous exercise of a single voice, and never sacrifices the integrity of the thought to the rhyme. His observations, their insights, the color and nuance, and his sheer creativity of expression is fully deployed.

Faute de preuves: aujourd'hui une série Netflix

Author: Harlan Coben

Number of pages: 312

Un concentré d'adrénaline, désormais une série Netflix. Une adolescente qui disparaît, une journaliste qui traque les prédateurs sexuels, une petite ville qui cache les secrets les plus inavouables... Pourriez-vous pardonner à ceux qui ont brisé votre vie ?. Secrets, disparitions, complots, cabales sur le net, confréries malfaisantes, vengeance... Plus machiavélique que jamais, une plongée au cœur d'une effroyable machination.

L'héritière de sang

Author: Ilona Andrews

Number of pages: 384

Ilona Andrews revient avec le spin-off de Kate Daniels ! Une nouvelle identité, une nouvelle prophétie, un nouvel ennemi, un seul enjeu : protéger ceux qu’elle aime. Atlanta a toujours été une ville dangereuse. Mais désormais, alors que vagues magiques et technologiques se disputent la suprématie du monde, elle subit une lente apocalypse où les monstres surgissent de gratte-ciel en ruine et où les factions surnaturelles luttent pour le pouvoir et leur survie. Huit ans plus tôt, Julie Lennart a quitté Atlanta pour découvrir qui elle était. Aujourd’hui, poussée par le besoin urgent de protéger la famille qu’elle a laissée derrière elle, elle revient avec un nouveau visage, une nouvelle magie et un nouveau nom, Aurelia Ryder. Un ennemi plus dangereux que jamais traque sa mère adoptive, Kate Daniels, et laisse derrière lui une série de cadavres terrifiants dans sa ville de cœur. Le plan est simple : entrer à Atlanta, résoudre les meurtres, empêcher la prophétie de se réaliser et repartir sans être reconnue. Car si la véritable identité d’Aurelia est découverte, ses proches y perdront la vie. Et si elle s’attendait à affronter des ennemis...

Folksinger's Wordbook

Author: Oak Publications

Number of pages: 423

A first-rate collection of words to more than 1,000 songs, loosely categorised as folk songs...grouped by general themes and indexed by title. Lyrics and guitar chords.

Writing is the Word

Author: Jimi Rand

Number of pages: 154

The Gambling Man

Author: Kent Conwell

Number of pages: 194

You got a choice. Hang as a horse thief or teach our schoolkids. That was the decision facing Mage Casebolt, a decision that made him wish he had never disembarked the riverboat at New Orleans.Bound for San Francisco to join his brothers in a gambling emporium, Mage s journey halts abruptly in Valley Springs when he is framed for horse stealing.The teaching job is unpleasant enough, but then a cholera epidemic quarantines the town, saddling him with an old freed slave, twelve boisterous schoolchildren who make a practice of running teachers out of town, and the local postmistress who detests the idea of a gambler playing the part of schoolmaster.Then the rustlers hit, and Mage faces the task of reining them in with his little contingent of misfits. He quickly realizes that mixing kids, guns, dynamite, and rattlesnakes can make life mighty exciting, and uncertain.

Mon père est parti à la guerre

Author: John Boyne

Number of pages: 201

Alfie Summerfield vient d'avoir cinq ans le jour où la Grande Guerre éclate. Son père a promis qu'il ne partirait pas mais s'engage dès le lendemain, persuadé que tout sera fini à Noël. Quatre ans plus tard, la guerre fait rage et le jeune garçon ignore si son père est vraiment parti en mission ou s'il a disparu à jamais.Tout le monde semble savoir ce qui lui est arrivé mais le secret reste bien gardé. Devenu cireur de chaussures à la gare de King's Cross de Londres, Alfie va enfin découvrir la vérité au hasard d'une de ses rencontres et partir pour la mission la plus importante de sa vie... La première Guerre Mondiale vue à travers le regard d'un jeune garçon. Une aventure bouleversante. Par l'auteur du Garçon en pyjama rayé.

The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Author: Jessica Richard

Number of pages: 213

Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.

Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Fiddle Edition

Author: Dix Bruce , Gerald Jones

Number of pages: 281

A collection, for fiddle, of over 200 great bluegrass, old time, country and gospel standards played by jammers and performers all over the world! Melodies are presented with standard notation, lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also includes step-by-step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key plus tips on fiddling by co-author Gerald Jones!The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book.

Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Banjo

Author: Dix Bruce , Bill Evans

Number of pages: 305

A collection of over 200 great bluegrass, old time, country and gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also included: step-by-step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key!The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book with Bill Evans on banjo and vocals, Dix Bruce on guitar, mandolin, and vocals.

Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Mandolin

Author: Dix Bruce

Number of pages: 305

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also included: Step-by-Step instruction on how to transpose and song to any key!The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book.

Prophétie

Author: C.j. Sansom

Number of pages: 426

Angleterre, 1543. Après la Réforme, le retour de Henry VIII au catholicisme fait régner la terreur dans tout le pays. Censure, persécution, bûcher... Personne n'est à l'abri d'une condamnation pour hérésie. Réhabilité depuis peu et chargé de défendre un jeune exalté interné à l'asile de Bedlam, l'humaniste Matthew Shardlake entend se tenir à l'écart des conflits. Jusqu'à ce que l'un de ses pairs soit retrouvé noyé dans la fontaine de Lincoln's Inn, la gorge tranchée. Au nom de leur vieille amitié et par affection pour la veuve du défunt, Matthew se lance à la poursuite du coupable. Mais, quand plusieurs meurtres étrangement similaires sont commis coup sur coup, son enquête prend une tournure inquiétante. Une piste s'impose peu à peu : celle d'un tueur inspiré par l'Apocalypse de saint Jean...

The Gambling World

Author: Rouge Et Noir , Henry Vizetelly , Charles William Heckethorn

Number of pages: 422

The 6:20 Man

Author: David Baldacci

Number of pages: 411

A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. Sara Ewes, Devine’s coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building—presumably a suicide, at least for now—prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn’t enough, before the day is out, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the army unless he...

Footsteps

Author: Larry Morgan

Number of pages: 153

Whens the last time you read a poem that touched your heart, captured your imagination, or made you laugh out loud? A gifted writer who has traveled the world reflects on Relationships, Women, Real Men, Life, and Humor. From the romantic and profound to the clever and absurd, FOOTSTEPS will leave you with a smile on your face and a glow in your heart. This is a book youll share but want back. These are poems youll read again and again.

Dissolution

Author: C.j. Sansom

Number of pages: 313

Angleterre, 1537. En butte aux menées du redoutable Thomas Cromwell, le clergé catholique jadis tout-puissant perd son pouvoir, voit ses biens confisqués et ses monastères menacés de dissolution. Partout, la révolte gronde. Après la décapitation d'un commissaire du roi à Scarnsea, l'ardent réformateur anglican Matthew Shardlake est envoyé sur les lieux. Dans le monastère glacial, son enquête se heurte au mutisme des moines. Chacun d'entre eux semble avoir quelque chose à cacher. Quels secrets pèsent sur ces lieux ? Qui veut-on protéger ? Alors que la mort frappe de nouveau, Shardlake doit percer au plus vite les mystères de cette étrange congrégation. Mais il ignore encore à quel point de terribles découvertes ébranleront ses plus profondes convictions...

Dear Love

Author: Marisa De Maio

Number of pages: 227

Dear Love, I hope these words find you. These are the words I never said. These are the words that needed to be heard. Please keep in mind that This is my heart in your hands— Be gentle.

Sports Betting: Law and Policy

Author: Paul M. Anderson , Ian S. Blackshaw , Robert C.r. Siekmann , Janwillem Soek

Number of pages: 1039

Gambling is a significant global industry, which is worth around 0.6% of world trade, that is, around US$ 384 billion; and gambling on the outcome of sports events is a very popular pastime for millions of people around the world, who combine a bet with watching and enjoying their favourite sports. But, like any other human activity, sports betting is open to corruption and improper influence from unscrupulous sports persons, bookmakers and others. Sports betting in the last ten years or so has developed and changed quite fundamentally with the advent of modern technology – not least the omnipresence of the Internet and the rise of on-line sports betting. This book covers the law and policy on sports betting in more than forty countries around the world whose economic and social development, history and culture are quite different. Several chapters deal with the United States of America. This book also includes a review of sports betting under European Union (EU) Law. The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Dr. Robert Siekmann, Dr. Janwillem Soek and Marco van der Harst LL.M.

A Little Bit of This And a Little Bit of That

Author: Greg Martin

Number of pages: 107

A Little Bit of This And A Little Bit of That, is a delightful collection of fast pace, twist in the tale, short stories and emails written by Dr Greg Martin.

Une femme sous contrôle

Author: David G. Baldacci

Number of pages: 571

Le jour où son mari Jason, as de l'informatique chez Triton Global, disparaît dans un accident d'avion, l'univers de Sidney - brillante avocate d'affaires - s'effondre. Peu après, les dirigeants de Triton et les autorités affirment que Jason a dérobé des documents importants, que l'explosion de l'avion n'est pas un accident et qu'à pourrait même être l'auteur du terrible attentat. Sidney ne peut admettre que l'on salisse ainsi la mémoire de son mari tant aimé. Mue par un fol espoir -Jason est peut-être vivant - et par la certitude qu'il est innocent !, Sidney décide de mener sa propre enquête. Dès lors, les mâchoires d'un piège redoutable se referment sur elle...

American Ballads and Folk Songs

Author: Alan Lomax

Number of pages: 674

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

American Ballads and Folk Songs

Author: John A. Lomax , Alan Lomax

Number of pages: 674

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Massachusetts

Author: Stephen Gencarella

Number of pages: 289

Massachusetts—a New England state with a proud history and a vibrant culture. But there is more to this place than white church steeples and town greens. In the forests, meadows, and beaches surrounding quaint, colonial towns lurk screeching ghosts, cursed treasures, sea serpents and other strange creatures, and even the Devil himself, all awaiting the next hiker to stumble down the trail… For years, tales of these mysterious beings and places existed only in whispers and campfire tales, but now for the first time these legends have been collected and retold in one volume: Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Massachusetts. Alongside each of these captivating tales is the necessary route and trailhead information brave readers will need to go beyond their town lines and test their nerve. With dozens of stories and hikes throughout, readers will discover and explore the legends and forgotten histories from the Berkshires to the Bay.

Under Ground

Author: E. S. Thomson

Number of pages: 304

'Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish, a faultless tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction' JESS KIDD In the darkness, her face glimmered like polished bone, white, but with a bluish tinge. Her lips were dry and cracked. I saw them move; a black tongue pass over them as if she was trying to speak, but she made no sound. A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more than the Devil himself, cholera - the 'blue death' - spares no one. As fear grows across the city, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are called to the bedside of a dead man, murdered, and with his throat torn out, in the back room of a brothel. When an innocent man is taken to Newgate, Jem and Will have until execution day to save him. The search for the identity of the corpse, and the killer, takes them to the gates of Blackwater Hall, home to the secretive, and corrupt Mortmain family. With the approach of autumn, no one is safe, for the fog brings with it an evil and poisonous sickness - the perfect shroud for murder. When family secrets are prised out into the open, people begin dying. But who, or what, is the cause? Searching for answers, Jem and Will are driven underground, to...

Life's Memories; And Dreams for the future Part 2

Author: Renee Moore

Number of pages: 184

Things were so simple when I was young! Families worked and played together. We ate dinner together every night. We talked about our dreams, and everyday happenings at the dinner table. Everyone helped with the chores; so that we could do fun things together. We played games together, and had lots of water fights in the summer. We went fishing when we could! We did everything as a family! We may not have had a lot of extras, but we had what we needed; and that was our family! We all want to give our children all the things we never had; but by giving them all the things they want are we helping them? Or are we setting them up to fail. If our children don't have to work for things, they don't appreciate them. We need to show them that our families, are more important than possessions! We need to get back to families working and playing together. So our children will be stronger for the years ahead of them. Renee

Trump par Trump

Author: Donald Trump

Number of pages: 238

Il fascine, il irrite, il effraie, il intrigue... C'est un génie des affaires, c'est aussi un héritier dont l'empire est surendetté... Il a surtout déjoué tous les pronostics : personne ne le voyait triompher en novembre 2016. Mais, tel un rouleau compresseur, il a toujours cru en ses chances et éliminé un à un tous ses adversaires. L'un des secrets de sa réussite ? Avoir foi en ses projets et ne jamais renoncer. Ces mêmes techniques, il les mettait déjà au service de ses affaires. À plusieurs reprises, il a subi des revers mais il s'est toujours relevé pour aller plus haut. Cette autobiographie son 1er livre, publié en 1987 sous le titre The Art of the Deal - montre Donald Trump en action au quotidien : imagination, audace, sens des affaires. Trump y raconte ses parents, son enfance, son éducation militaire, comme il dévoile ses principes, ses méthodes. Il revient sur certains échecs dont l'idée de lancer une ligue de basket pour concurrencer la NBA et ses plus triomphales réussites.

Absolute Power

Author: David Baldacci

Number of pages: 501

In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president—​a man who believes he can get away with anything. In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in artist Luther Whitney is trapped behind a two-way mirror. What he witnesses destroys his faith not only in justice, but in all he holds dear. What follows is an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy, as a breathtaking cover-up is set in motion by those appointed to work for one of the most important people in the world -- the President of the United States.

The Thirsty Earth

Author: David Valentine Bernard

Number of pages: 337

A young Caribbean boy must learn to survive by himself after the death of his grandmother and disappearance of his mother, while trying to stay one step ahead of corrupt police. A twelve-year-old Caribbean boy wakes up to discover his grandmother, his only relative on the island, has died during the night. On his way into town to tell the authorities—and call his mother in America—he becomes the lone witness of a police execution. Worse, when he calls his mother’s phone number, he gets a message saying the number has been disconnected. As he struggles to survive on his own, the boy finds himself holding secrets that could have devastating consequences—not only for his own survival, but the island’s as well. Darkness lies beneath the idyllic image of the Caribbean island. The Thirsty Earth is about the global struggle for human dignity amidst corruption, isolation, and the grim realities of life.

Las Vegas 21

Author: Ben Mezrich

Number of pages: 352

Hour Game

Author: David Baldacci

Number of pages: 433

A man accused of burglary seems innocent . . . but in this #1 New York Times bestseller, two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth. A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next. Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family. Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI. Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. For the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise of all.

Mercy

Author: David Baldacci

Number of pages: 473

FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Mercy’s disappearance left behind a damaged family that later shattered beyond repair when Atlee’s parents inexplicably abandoned her. Now, after a perilous investigation that nearly proved fatal, Atlee has finally discovered not only the reason behind her parents’ abandonment and Mercy’s kidnapping, but also the most promising breakthrough yet: proof that Mercy survived her abduction and then escaped her captors many years ago. Though Atlee is tantalizingly close to her family at last, the final leg of her long road to Mercy will be the most treacherous yet. Mercy left at least one dead body behind before fleeing her captors years before. Atlee has no idea if her sister is still alive, and if so, how she has been surviving all this time. When the truth is finally revealed, Atlee Pine will face the greatest danger yet, and it may well cost her...

Publicity the True Cure of Social Evils: Liverpool Life: Its Pleasures, Practices, and Pastimes

Number of pages: 150

Westminster Chess Club Papers

Number of pages: 558

Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies

Author: John Stewart

Number of pages: 242

Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War. Working in Richmond, the two posed as husband and wife. A dazzling blonde from New York and a handsome Englishman, both with checkered pasts, they were matched in charm, cunning, duplicity and boldness. Betrayed by their own spymaster, Allan Pinkerton, they fell into the hands of the dictator of Richmond, the notorious General John H. "Hog" Winder. This lively history, scrupulously researched from all available sources, corrects the record on many points and definitively answers the long-standing question of Hattie Lawton's true identity.

Knowledge

Number of pages: 654