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Philadelphia's Lost Waterfront by Harry Kyriakodis
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Harry Kyriakodis

CARPENTER’S STAIRS William Penn conveyed a larger (204-foot-wide) bank lot to Carpenter on August 4, 1684, the day after issuing his decree that bankers could develop their riverbank property as ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Bolivar: American Liberator by Arana Marie
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Arana, Marie [Arana, Marie]

THERE ARE FEW LANDSCAPES AS magnificent or unforgiving as the geologic exuberance that lies between Huaraz and Huánuco. The mighty peaks of Huascarán and Yerupajá pierce the skies and send ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Lone Star by T.R. Fehrenbach
mobi, epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:T.R. Fehrenbach

Texans were intransigent in defending states' rights against the Confederacy; they were strikingly not a problem-oriented breed, who would willingly sacrifice individual freedoms in furtherance of a common goal. This ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Hell's Angel by Thompson Hunter S
epub | | 2010-06-06 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S [S, Thompson, Hunter]

Hell's Angel 13 That was the trouble with Porterville -- they had four thousand people down?town watchin two hundred of us. -- Terry the Tramp Our final purchase at the ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

20 “WELCOME BACK, ISAAC. And Mrs. Bell, what a pleasure to see you again.” Former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson—a remarkably fit-looking forty-three-year-old black man—cut a splendid figure in a dark ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Nathaniel Hawthorne]

XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART. A fter the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Wilkie Collins [Wilkie Collins]

He drew his chair close, and took her hand, when he said "hopeless love." There was a momentary silence. He, who thrilled everybody, had doubtless thrilled HER. I thought I ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )
Salems Lot by Stephen King
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Stephen King

'Salems Lot Chapter Eleven BEN (IV) It was ten past nine on Sunday morning - a bright, sunwashed Sunday morning - and Ben was beginning to get seriously worried about ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
Sharpe's Waterloo - 22 by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

The artillery park was placed at the forest's edge, well back from the guns, and the infantry sourly noted how the gunners were provided with tents, for the artillery alone ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Sharpe's Rifles - 06 by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

It was then that the Riflemen appeared from the house, splintering down the bullet-riddled door and running into the yard with sword-bayonets fixed. They cheered the Spaniard. “East!” Vivar shouted ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2009-11-23 | Author:Michael Crichton

Chapter 24 THEY WERE STILL in Spanish waters, and they moved southward quickly, under every inch of canvas they could muster. The galleon normally carried as many as a thousand ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
Hell's Angels by Thompson; Hunter S
mobi, epub | | 2009-06-28 | Author:Thompson; Hunter S

By late summer of 1965 the Angels had become a factor to be reckoned with in the social, intellectual and political life of northern California. They were quoted almost daily ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
Sharpe's Devil - 24 by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

A rebel officer shouted a piercing warning. The swaying mainmast splintered and cracked. Canvas billowed down onto the deck and into the sea. The collapsing mast dragged in its wake ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Terry Pratchett

"They're gaining," screamed Rincewind. He bent even lower over his horse's neck and groaned. Twoflower was trying to keep up while at the same time craning round to look at ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2000-11-29 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

Chapter 9 - A Break in the Chain It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )

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