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Polters

By: William X. Adams

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Clay Redding, a young Portland photographer, devastated by the recent murder of his girlfriend, Lane, boards a midnight ferry across the river to Bardonia, a town full of the city’s recently deceased, called Polters. The residents there are in chaos since their way forward, the train station, is blocked by a reactionary gang. As he searches for Lane in the land of the dead, he meets Ella, a Polter, and is horrified at feeling attracted to a dead person, but together they liberate the station, restoring the Polters’ path to destiny. On the fog-shrouded platform, he must decide whether to go with Ella to wherever Polters go, or return to ordinary life and mourn for Lane. Polters is about the reality of death and love, with plenty of action on both sides of the silent river that separates them.

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Attic Polters

Second in the Polter Series

By: William X. Adams

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Attic Polters

Second in the Polter Series

By: William X. Adams

Nikki Powers, a researcher in Oregon, is interested in people’s beliefs about ghosts. When actual ghosts, or “Polters,” appear in the attics of Portland houses, she must decide what she believes. Her boyfriend, Wald, a music-store technician, develops an app that translates the Polters’ terrifying wailing. Nikki and Wald learn that in the Land of the Dead, the Polters were promised they could join the living, but the bodies did not come across properly, leaving them trapped as helpless, wavering wraiths. They beg their hosts for help. Using a trance-inducing virtual-reality system, Nikki and Wald go to Bardonia, home of the Polters. They encounter Salem, director of the institute that sends Polters over to the living. They advise her that the process is not working and ask her to stop. But Salem enjoys being Queen of Bardonia. She has throngs of Polters clamoring for the transfer. What does she care if they’re not happy on the other side? Under pressure, Salem revises her method so Polters are transferred directly into the skulls of living people. The Polters thus have fully functioning bodies, but people in Portland become possessed. Most people are terrified, but some enjoy having a Polter voice in their head. They never feel lonesome and are full of new ideas. Salem missed something, though. Living people get old and die, leaving the Polters facing oblivion. Everyone panics. The word gets back to Bardonia where the resident Polters turn on Salem. In the chaos that ensues, Nikki and Wald become separated. Alone and grieving in a city gone hysterical, Nikki teams up with the Polters in her attic to save Wald and find a solution for both worlds. Both sides finally accept the truth that the living haunt the dead just as death haunts life. Attic Polters is a spirited adventure that unearths serious ideas about death and what comes after.

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9798991225519

A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of Real Estate

Vol. 1

By: J. Henry Dart,William Barber

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A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of Real Estate

Vol. 1

By: J. Henry Dart,William Barber

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3368720252

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Patriot Presidents

From George Washington to John Quincy Adams

By: William Edward Leuchtenburg,William Rand Kenan Jr Professor Emeritus of History William E Leuchtenburg

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Patriot Presidents

From George Washington to John Quincy Adams

By: William Edward Leuchtenburg,William Rand Kenan Jr Professor Emeritus of History William E Leuchtenburg

A nuanced account of the early leaders who shaped the American presidency The founding fathers of the United States created a unique institution, the presidency, as they were determined to authorize an effective chief executive but wary of monarchy. They endowed this office with broad prerogatives and power but hedged it in with limitations. The presidency that developed over the next generation, however, was fashioned less by the clauses in the Constitution than by the way that the first presidents responded to challenges such as sectional enmity and the vexing Napoleonic warfare that jeopardized maritime rights. Patriot Presidents explores how the presidency took shape from the medley of clauses handed down to George Washington, who said, "I walk on untrodden ground," for virtually everything he did created a precedent. It then follows the overwhelming challenges faced by his successors, from the austere John Adams who spoke passionately in favor of a strong executive, to Thomas Jefferson, a zealous advocate of American liberties, to James Madison, the creator of the first political party, and James Monroe, whose Monroe Doctrine protected the sovereignty of the Western Hemisphere. It concludes with John Quincy Adams, who could be called the prophet of the expansive twentieth-century state of the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the Great Society. The esteemed American historian William E. Leuchtenburg invites readers to revisit the years after the birth of the republic, when Americans could take pride in leaders of ideals, high competence, and integrity who headed their government--chief executives who, though not unflawed, had an abiding commitment to the success of the vulnerable government that had emerged from the revolutionary cause to which they had devoted themselves.

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0197598854

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