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In Danger Every Hour

A Civil War Novel

By: Charles Causey

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In Danger Every Hour is a swift, incisive story of the intensity of the Civil War in the year 1862. During the year that preceded Gettysburg, the costliest fighting ever known to man is seen on the fields of Manassas and Antietam. Hand-to-hand combat was the rule. Both sides determined to end the war quickly. Both sides hastily entered into battle. These fierce and bloody contests resulted in a devastating amount of lost lives. This landmark account will at times leave you speechless, angry and sad. In Danger Every Hour is a swift, incisive story of how Abraham Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and the common infantryman are caught up into a brutal conflict where 600,000 men would sacrifice their lives. It also peers into the lives of the women and children who endured the repeated hostilities sweeping through Virginian towns that year. This gripping saga comes to an epic conclusion when all the betrayals are exposed and the mysterious agents revealed. An action-packed thriller filled with romance and adventure, the very essence of each characters faith and friendships are tested as their journey leads them to the brink of human endurance over and over again. A novel of innocence, bravery and misfortune, In Danger Every Hour delivers to the reader an absorbing tale of how war-torn people cling to the power of love and forgiveness.

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1449705839

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A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXI (Forty-Five Volumes); Reade-Ruffini

By: Charles Dudley Warner

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A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXI (Forty-Five Volumes); Reade-Ruffini

By: Charles Dudley Warner

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had assembled this set, it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world. Highlights from Volume 31 include: . the histories of James Ford Rhodes . the fiction of Samuel Richardson . the writing of Anne Thackeray Ritchie . the maxims of La Rochefoucauld . the Roman poets of the Later Empire . the poetry of Pierre Ronsard . the writings of Theodore Roosevelt . the poetry of Christina Georgina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti . the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau . and much, much more.

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1605202274

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9781605202273

Marked for a Crime

By: Charles Huey

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Marked for a Crime

By: Charles Huey

This is about the twisty path of several people from two different countries as they grow up, their meeting in London, finding corruption in the underworld of drugs, murder, and the chase for a solution. It's also about a love story that two people find in the turmoil.

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Fulton Books, Inc.

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Travels Into Print

Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

By: Innes M. Keighren,Charles W. J. Withers,Bill Bell

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Travels Into Print

Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

By: Innes M. Keighren,Charles W. J. Withers,Bill Bell

The Age of Exploration and Discovery may well have started in the 15th century, but for the British, the 19th century saw the rise of the British Empire and an explosion in world travel. The travel narratives written during this century were profuse, and by some estimates more travel narratives were written during the first half of the 19th century than in all preceding centuries. These accounts tell of wondrous zoological and botanical finds, of topography never before imagined, and of exotic peoples as well. At the time, there was one publisher, John Murray, known for its utter domination of the travel narrative field. The caliber and profile of their list was known throughout the UK and Europe, and into the US as well. The authors of the house included Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Washington Irving, and Sir Walter Scott. And in its list of travel writing and exploration, the house boasted the authors Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell. Murray s name became as synonymous with travel writing and exploration as it was with literary giants. Travels into Print is a tour through the archives and files of the House of Murray, and marvelous expedition in the geography of travel and exploration writing, knowledge, and reception in the 19th century. Rather than focusing on narratives of a particular region, or scientific area of interest, or particular period, the work uses a source that cuts across all of these areas, the publisher. Steeped in book files, and correspondence about edits, and revisions, sent between Murray and his staff and explorers, the book addresses the ways in which the texts were written, the role of truth in the accounts, correspondence as a form of production, and the writings as travel documents. This is a wonderful history of the book, told from the perspective of a legendary book and author maker.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226429539

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 29, 1881

By: Charles Darwin

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 29, 1881

By: Charles Darwin

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically. In 1881, Darwin published his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. He reflected on reactions to his previous book, The Power of Movement in Plants, and worked on two papers for the Linnean Society on the action of carbonate of ammonia on plants. In this year, Darwin's elder brother, Erasmus, died, and a second grandchild, also named Erasmus, was born.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009233521

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Medieval Maritime Warfare

By: Charles D. Stanton

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Medieval Maritime Warfare

By: Charles D. Stanton

This sweeping history of maritime warfare through the Middle Ages ranges from the 8th century to the 14th, covering the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. After the fall of Rome, the sea becomes the center of conflict for Western Civilization. In a world of few roads and great disorder, it is where power is projected and wealth is sought. Yet, since this turbulent period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied, it is little known and even less understood. In Medieval Maritime Warfare, Charles Stanton depicts the development of maritime warfare from the end of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance, recounting the wars waged in the Mediterranean by the Byzantines, Ottomans, Normans, Crusaders, and the Italian maritime republics, as well as those fought in northern waters by the Vikings, English, French and the Hanseatic League. Weaving together details of medieval ship design and naval strategy with vivid depictions of seafaring culture, this pioneering study makes a significant contribution to maritime history.

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Pen and Sword

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1473856299

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Ealing Studios

By: Charles Barr

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Ealing Studios

By: Charles Barr

A study of British filmmaking

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Univ of California Press

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0520215540

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The Last Enforcer

Outrageous Stories From the Life and Times of One of the NBA's Fiercest Competitors

By: Charles Oakley

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The Last Enforcer

Outrageous Stories From the Life and Times of One of the NBA's Fiercest Competitors

By: Charles Oakley

In this “incredible read on some incredible days and nights in the old association” (Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN senior NBA insider) Charles Oakley—one of the toughest and most loyal players in NBA history—tells his unfiltered stories about his basketball journey and his relationships with Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Phil Jackson, Pat Riley, James Dolan, Donald Trump, George Floyd, and many others. If you ask a New York Knicks fan about Charles Oakley, you better prepare to hear the love and a favorite story or two. But his individual stats weren’t remarkable, and while he helped power the Knicks to ten consecutive playoffs, he never won a championship. So why does he hold such a special place in the minds, hearts, and memories of NBA players and fans? Because over the course of nineteen years in the league, Oakley was at the center of more unbelievable encounters than Forrest Gump, and nearly as many fights as Mike Tyson. He was the friend you wish you had, and the enemy you wish you’d never made. If any opposing player was crazy enough to start a fight with him, or God forbid one of his teammates, Oakley would end it. “I can’t remember every rebound I grabbed but I do have a story—the true story—of just about every punch and slap on my resume,” he says. In The Last Enforcer, Oakley shares one incredible story after the next—all in his signature “unflinchingly tough, honest, and ultimately endearing” (Harvey Araton, New York Times bestselling author) style—about his life in the paint and beyond, fighting for rebounds and respect. You’ll look back on the era of the 1990s NBA, when tough guys with rugged attitudes, unflinching loyalty, and hard-nosed work ethics were just as important as three-point sharpshooters. You’ll feel like you were on the court, in the room, can’t believe what you just saw, and need to tell everyone you know about it.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982175656

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9781982175658

Incident at Howard Beach

By: Bob Drury,Charles J. Hynes

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Incident at Howard Beach

By: Bob Drury,Charles J. Hynes

INCIDENT AT HOWARD BEACH A CASE FOR MURDER BY CHARLES J. HYNES and Bob Drury THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION The murder that shocked a city and nation and how our justice system works at its best. Late on the night of December 19, 1986, four black men were driving through the all-white community of Howard Beach, in the New York City borough of Queens, when their car broke down. By the early hours of the next morning, one of them lay dead on the Belt Parkway and one had been beaten nearly to death with a tree limb and a baseball bat by a dozen local teenagers. In the months to come, Howard Beach became a code all over the world for the worst in racial tensions. The story behind the Howard Beach incident, its investigation and the subsequent trial is a story of hatred, brutality and deceit; of media outcry, political shuffling and public manipulation; of a cast of characters ranging from petrified politicians to outraged black activists to the quiet citizens of an insular neighborhood. But it was up to one man to bring the case to trial and steer it to its fair conclusion: Special Prosecutor Charles J. Joe Hynes. Incident at Howard Beach is his storya riveting and candid expos of his fight to discern what really happened that night, his struggle to make a coherent case out of those events, and the battles and tactics he used during the trial a year later in state supreme court. From the on-site investigation through jury selection, behind-the-scenes deal-making, and trial deliberation, here is everything that led to the convictions of the ringleaders and helped to quiet a city in turmoil. Charles J. Hynes Charles J. Hynes, the District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York, has been in public service for more than forty years. He has been chief of the Brooklyn DA's Rackets Bureau, a Special State Prosecutor investigating Medicaid Fraud, a Special State Prosecutor for Criminal Justice who prosecuted the Howard Beach case and a New York City Fire Commissioner. He has been the Brooklyn District Attorney since 1990. Bob Drury Contributing Editor and Chief Military Correspondent of Men's Health, Bob Drury has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of nine nonfiction books. Re-reading Hyness excellent account of this awful racial crime with 25 years of perspective once again brings the blood to rapid boil. I covered that crime. I watched Hynes fight for justice as a special prosecutor in the courtroom. I interviewed him during the trial. I believe that had it not been for his tenacious prosecution in this vile murder New York City would today be a much uglier city. Reading his new Forward and Epilogue reminds me of just how far we have come in race relations in New York since Howard Beach. History will not forget that Hynes had a helluva lot to do with that desperately needed change. For that reason alone this compelling, page-turning book deserves this second look. Denis Hamill Columnist New York Daily News

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1462056652

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Classic Country

Legends of Country Music

By: Charles K. Wolfe

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Legends of Country Music

By: Charles K. Wolfe

Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.

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Routledge

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1135957347

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9781135957346

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875

By: Charles Darwin

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875

By: Charles Darwin

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.

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Cambridge University Press

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131647318X

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9781316473184

My Enemies' Enemies

By: Mike Charles L'anglais

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My Enemies' Enemies

By: Mike Charles L'anglais

Who are the Moslem Alliance? Why would Iraq and Iran back terrorist groups? Where would France fit into the picture? What would bring Russia, the USA, the UK, Norway, Israel and Canada together as an active military alliance? Where does organised crime fit in? Could OC and state backed terrorists bring down the US and Russia? How would they do it? Can Canada's JTF-2 stop them?

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Lulu.com

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1847284124

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Mules, Men and Mountains

By: Charles Hays

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Mules, Men and Mountains

By: Charles Hays

This book is a work of historical military fiction that describes the impact of ski troopers and their Mules on accelerating the end of World War II in Italy. That Great War was winding down in Europe but, in the Apennine Mountains of Italy, large quantities of Italian and Nazi soldiers were still well-entrenched. They were some of the best troops that either Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler could place in action against any Yankee advance. Each of them were very capable of doing considerable harm to a typical infantry division which had not been trained to fight under these harsh environmental conditions of thick snow banks, extremely low temperatures, severe freezing winds and rigorous ecological demands. This is to say that a typical infantry division and their artillery would have been seriously stalled by the deep snow drifts. As one advisor said, For the entrenched enemies, it would have been like shooting ducks in a pond. Fortunately, the US Army listened to the sage advice of their various consultants. The US Army formed their own Ski Trooper outfit to rid the mountain tops from their unwanted occupants, the soldiers of Italy and Germany. That outfit was named the Tenth Mountain Division but, as time passed on, the newsreels began to call them by a better name, they were known as Ruffners Raiders. Brigadier General David L. Ruffner was the Commanding General of the Tenth Mountain Division Artillery. Although The Tenth Division entered the combat zones rather late in the day, they still had one of the highest casualty rates for that War of all Wars. For the Mules that were involved, their loss of life was 94% since they provided such an easy target for the Snipers to kill.

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1493129023

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9781493129027

Puzzles and Essays from 'The Exchange'

Tricky Reference Questions

By: Charles R Anderson

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Puzzles and Essays from 'The Exchange'

Tricky Reference Questions

By: Charles R Anderson

Who said that? When did that happen? Where the heck does that thing come from? Was that French, or what? What's that supposed to mean? For 35 years, librarians in the United States and other countries sent puzzles they could not solve locally to “The Exchange,” a column for reference librarians appearing in RQ (and later, RUSQ), the official journal of the Reference and User Services Division of the ALA. Other readers often furnished the answers--sometimes years or even decades later! Puzzles and Essays from “The Exchange” organizes those perplexing questions and answers into a reader-friendly reference format, embellished with essays that appeared in the column over the last fifteen years of its publication. This unique collection of questions and answers that stumped librarians on four continents over a 35-year period comes complete with authoritative bibliographic citations. It also contains an extensive subject, person, and keyword index, providing easy access to the material. Packed with fascinating information, little-known trivia, and hard-to-find facts, Puzzles and Essays from “The Exchange” is a wonderful reference source, answering difficult questions about: the origins of common--and not-so-common-customs, like giving engagement rings, driving on the right or left side of the road, tying yellow ribbons around trees in memory of captives, leg shaving, visits from the “Tooth Fairy,” and much, much more! the origins of words, phrases, and terms that don’t, when taken literally, make much sense the origins of popular sayings--The grass is always greener; The whole nine yards; It ain't over until the fat lady sings; Close but no cigar; Going down the tube; Light at the end of the tunnel; Katy, bar the door; Goodbye, cruel world; etc. the sources of famous quotations--both spurious and real! the sources of poetry fragments and bits of verse that have become part of the popular lexicon hard-to-find biographical information-from George Washington Carver's many uses for the peanut and the sweet potato to the name of Paul Revere's horse to the truth about the “let them eat cake” story attributed to Marie Antoinette trivia and miscellany--how lullabies began; why a yawn is contagious when a sneeze is not; what the names of the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz were; why pigeons bob their heads when they walk; what the vital statistics of the Venus de Milo are; and much more! the history of “The Exchange” itself! Puzzles and Essays from “The Exchange” will also challenge you with a list of so-far unanswered questions, unidentified quotations, and popular sayings whose origins are still generally unknown. Perhaps you’ll be the one to answer the riddles that stumped the editors and readers of “The Exchange!”

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1317956125

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In Danger Every Hour

In Danger Every Hour

A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXI (Forty-Five Volumes); Reade-Ruffini

A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXI (Forty-Five Volumes); Reade-Ruffini

Marked for a Crime

Marked for a Crime

Travels Into Print

Travels Into Print

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 29, 1881

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 29, 1881

Medieval Maritime Warfare

Medieval Maritime Warfare

Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios

The Last Enforcer

The Last Enforcer

Incident at Howard Beach

Incident at Howard Beach

Classic Country

Classic Country

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875

My Enemies' Enemies

My Enemies' Enemies

Mules, Men and Mountains

Mules, Men and Mountains

Puzzles and Essays from 'The Exchange'

Puzzles and Essays from 'The Exchange'

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