The cult of Thuggee emerges as part of a tangled web that includes the FBI, a Russian gang, the White House and a plot to destroy Los Angeles. Special Agents Max Adams and Mindy Anderson become part of the Joint Terrorist Task Force to pit their skills against all the elements of the nefarious web to rescue the First Lady, prevent the destruction of LA, and defeat the combined members of the Russian gang and the Thugs.
Is Goonie's Ghost a study in psychology? A look into anti-war activity? A love story? Yes to all three questions. The time is 1967 and Carl Steadman has returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam. Carl accompanies Rick Chappie, Pam Baker and Angie Boatwright to an antiwar rally in San Francisco. In San Francisco, Morton and Molly provide food and salacious shelter to the group. The next day the group participates in one of the largest anti-war rallies ever. Angie's daylong biting remarks disappear after a few drinks. She and Carl make love in one of the unused after march party bedrooms. Later Carl tells Angie about his experience in Vietnam, especially about the massacre at My Trang and Goonie's death.
The other is a special Casebook Edition, geared specifically To The Prosser, Wade & Schwartz casebook (9th edition). ------------------------------------------------ Special features: At the end of each chapter, special Exam Tips on how to spot the key issues, what's most frequently tested, how to structure and phrase your answers . . . And more an up-to-date capsule summary summarizing the entire subject for night-before-the-exam review Essay, short-answer, and MBE-style multiple-choice exam questions and answers to completely drill the concepts into your head Tables (Cases and Restatement References) and Subject-Matter Index --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In Torts, Emanuel gives you two choices. One is our General Edition, suitable for use with all major casebooks, including Epstein & Henderson, Pearson. The other is a special Casebook Edition, geared specifically To The Prosser, Wade & Schwartz casebook (9th edition). -------------------------------------------------------------- Special features: At the end of each chapter, special Exam Tips on how to spot the key issues, what's most frequently tested, how to structure and phrase your answers . . . And more an up-to-date capsule summary summarizing the entire subject for night-before-the-exam review Essay, short-answer, and MBE-style multiple-choice exam questions and answers to completely drill the concepts into your head Tables (Cases and Restatement References) and Subject-Matter Index --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Dawes continues the search for Jack Rhodes by taking stagecoach and steamboat to San Francisco where Rhodes was shanghaied. Even before Dawes returns to San Francisco, Rhodes experiences a shipwreck and rescue by a very literate and murderous captain who commands the Arkadia, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of opium for Oyster Mike, known as an oyster pirate but in reality the man who controls the vice payoffs in the Barbary Coast. One danger that Dawes is unaware of is that the brother of the half-breed he killed in Susanville has returned to the frontier town. When Tug finds out that Dawes killed his brother he sets out for revenge. Dawes uses his skills as a confidential investigator to ferret out information about what happened to Jack Rhodes. In the meantime he is approached by various other San Franciscans, including the notorious Captain Breen, to embark on investigations that are intertwined with his search for Rhodes. Dawes ultimately finds Rhodes and helps him to escape the Arkadia. As Dawes, Rhodes and a policeman enter the New Bella Union, owned by an acquaintance of Rhodes, the Arkadia's crew, Oyster Mike and his men, and Captain Breen converge on the New Bella Union. Tug is gambling at one of the tables in the New Bella Union, but he is unaware that Dawes has entered the establishment.
Jim Miller arrived at Herlong when he was twelve years old. Jim, his brother Davey, mother and new stepfather moved to the high desert town in northern California in the early summer of 1946. It was hot and dry and a place that Jim hated from the moment they arrived in their very old and tired 1934 Ford sedan. Unlike San Francisco, Dayton, Ohio, and other cities Jim had known, Herlong was a small town filled mostly with people who came from all over the United States to work there during and after World War Two. Herlong Elementary with its eight grades soon became the focus of Jim's early life. At his age girls were important competitors but three boys became his best friends. Steve Whiting, Billy Jewel, Howard Soars and Jim, nicknamed "Brain" for his yearly achievement test scores, hung around together through elementary school, high school and summer vacation work, forging tight emotional bonds that would later become a limiting force in Jim's life. Herlong had no high school so students were bused to Susanville to attend Lassen Union High. Jim excelled in his classes at Lassen while his friends accepted mediocre grades and could hardly wait to get out of school and enter the work force at Sierra Ordnance Depot, the reason for Herlong's existence. After a semester at the University of Santa Clara and a wild Christmas vacation Jim realized that he had to leave Herlong so that his life would mean more than a dead-end job in a dead-end town.
Shelley O'Shea is willing to kill to become a bestselling author. Janet Slade and her partner Pete Slocum try to solve a series of almost clueless murders. A break in the case revolves around a profiler's report.
Peter Piper and his friends, Clarissa Camp and David Duncan (The Dragon Trio) are faced with the same threat from the Eagle Wizard that had been posed by the Rattlesnake Queen and the Hawk Princess: to be converted into wraiths. EW as the Wizard is familiarly known has one obsession and that is to convert The Dragon Trio into wraiths that will add the power of the green fuze to make his army invincible. The Wizard will use his augmented army to unseat King Coyote in the land of Faunia. How the three kids evade the Wizard's diabolical schemes takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride to a logical conclusion.
After the terrible experience of surviving the sinking of the ship Pequod, Ishmael goes to sea again in search of Moby Dick. He is Chief Mate aboard Pilgrim, captained by a man who is terrified of small boats and will not emulate Captain Ahab in sinking a harpoon iron into the white whale. Through calms and storms, Ishmael welds the crew into a formidable weapon against what he comes to see as not only an implacable foe but one that may not deserve the fate that he has been tasked to give it. Ishmael finds love from an unusual revelation aboard the ship that also makes the voyage one of intrigue and treachery as well as emotionally fulfilling for this man who has been named after the Biblical son of Abraham.
Jess and his sons Mark and Paul are at war with the people who live in the valley below their cabin. Abner is the leader of the neophytes and is as bent on ruling the valley as Jess is. Abner's friend Caleb is the shaman of the people. Caleb's daughter Ruth is fair skinned and the object of Mark's desire.Abner has a dream in which he sees himself building a machine that will be able to destroy the cabin. He commands the men he leads to build the machine.Abner's machine hurls stones at the cabin as Jess fires bullets as the men who work the machine. Many of them are killed but those who are left persevere.Mark is discovered in the valley and he fears for his life. Abner recruits him to help with the machine as they continue to throw stones at the cabin.As the battle between Abner's forces and Jess and Paul rages, Mark is able to accompany Ruth to try to escape the utter destruction that he thinks has to be the end result of the battle.
Peter Piper and his friends David Duncan and Clarissa Camp, The Dragon Trio, have contacted two of the rulers in the land of Faunia: the Coyote King and the Rattlesnake Queen. King Coyote wants their help to ward off the threats to his throne and the Rattlesnake Queen wants them for her army of wraiths. So far in their adventures they have successfully avoided becoming wraiths.
Denise Parker is a successful advertising executive. She has a Porsche, a stock portfolio and an apartment in one of the safe neighborhoods in San Francisco. If it weren't for a recurring nightmare she would look forward to an even better situation. The nightmare leads her to a past lives therapist, a cult leader, an ex-boyfriend and other characters who appear in her past lives. What it all means and who "Algapesh" is requires all of the novel to unravel this psychological Gordian knot.
Fred Ball, the American Secretary of State, is kidnapped in Belize. American Special Forces attempt a rescue. The small but elite group of highly trained soldiers must overcome the difficulties of terrain, politics, mercenaries, and a nefarious plot hatched by various individuals in the governments of Mexico and Guatemala. A very powerful drug lord complicates the rescue by enlisting the services of a Belizean bandit, who, in turn, is set upon by both Mexican and Guatemalan soldiers. Washington and its politics are drawn into the maelstrom that Latin America becomes as a result of the kidnapping. Fred Ball survives numerous firefights, a brutal trek through the jungle and a helicopter crash.
Jack Rhodes leads his payroll detail back from Reno, Nevada to the small town of Susanville, California. The time is 1864. The Civil War in the East is as bloody as ever. The detail is nearly wiped out as they near the town of Janesville. Jack Rhodes is the only one left and the killers take him and the gold leaving the bodies of the fallen where they lay. Five years later Jack Rhodes' mother Belle Jean Rhodes hires Peter Dawes to find out what happened to her son and clear her name in the process.
Action, adventure, mystery are all part of Peter Monocot and the Sea Devils. The action comes from building and flying model airplanes. The adventure comes from building the biggest model airplanes Peter has ever built. The mystery comes from the nefarious plan of a band of terrorists. Peter Monocot is a 12-year-old whose military pilot father taught him how to build model airplanes. His father's death in an Air Force jet crash left Peter's Uncle Jim as the "man of the family," although Peter's mother, Estelle, wields the real power in the household. Peter and his uncle find themselves entangled in the plot that has layers of intrigue and mystery, which they cannot untangle. All they know is that they will be well paid for building and flying two model airplanes. Amazon Expert Reviewer comments: The plot is interesting and could really grab the attention of the young reader. Peter is a sympathetic character and is a likable kid. This novel has potential as an exciting and thrilling book for the young reader. One of the stronger aspects of the excerpts was the details. I could clearly see Jassim and Hammer, see uncle Jim's face and Peter's unease. Overall I think adventurous young adults will like the novel. It was strong in the details of the plane, and had enough details to paint the picture of the scenery and characters.
Sweet Drop in Africa: Faith gives Emily Hobhouse a chance to tell English audiences exactly what the Boer women and children are experiencing in the concentration camps. She writes letter after letter to the London Times refuting the official view of the camps. Emily attempts to visit South Africa again but is kept from going ashore. She is deported by order of Lord Kitchener. Emily continues speaking out against the war. With the peace treaty Emily returns to South Africa to see what has become of the Harschoon family.
Sweet Drop in Africa: Charity shows Emily Hobhouse's determination to ameliorate some of the cruelty the army has perpetrated in South Africa. She uses her writing skills to motivate relatives and friends to support the relief effort for the women and children who experience the horrendous living conditions in the concentration camps. The letters she receives from South Africa show the conditions in the camps are deteriorating faster than Emily had imagined. Emily decides to go to the camps. She travels to Cape Town and finds that getting to the camps is extremely difficult. Emily finally arrives at Bloemfontein camp. There she meets and befriends Sara Harschoon and her children. Meeting increasing resistance to her efforts, Emily returns to England with a first-hand view of conditions in the camps.
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