This thrilling eBook collection—featuring three novels and one collection of novellas—follows Lord John as he defends his country, ferrets out spies, and unravels a haunting family mystery.   LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER   London, 1757. Lord John Grey, a nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty’s army, has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal are interrupted when the Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms. Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of betrayal that touches every stratum of English society—and threatens all he holds dear.   LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS A Collection of Novellas     In Lord John and the Hellfire Club, Lord John glimpses a stranger at a gentleman’s club—and is drawn into a maze of political treachery and a dangerous underground society. In Lord John and the Succubus, English soldiers in combat are rattled by a lethal creature that appears at night, and Lord John is called to investigate. In Lord John and the Haunted Soldier, Lord John is thrust into a baffling case that forces him to confront the prospect that a traitor is among the ranks of His Majesty’s armed forces.   LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE     It’s been seventeen years since Lord John’s father was found dead, accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining the family’s name. Now, Lord John’s brother has mysteriously received a page of their father’s lost diary, convincing John that someone knows the Greys’ secrets. So he turns to the only man he can trust: the Scottish Jacobite Jamie Fraser. But when Jamie yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle, Lord John must decide whether his family’s honor is worth his life.   THE SCOTTISH PRISONER  London, 1760. Paroled prisoner Jamie Fraser has sworn off politics, fighting, and war. Until Lord John Grey shows up with documents that expose a damning case of corruption against a British officer. But they also hint at a more insidious danger. Soon Lord John and Jamie are companions on the road to Ireland, a country whose dark castles hold dreadful secrets, and whose bogs hide the bones of the dead.

    But they could never forgive the truths he told about them.From this compelling story of a doctor at war with the world he has been taught to heal, Taylor Caldwell has fashioned a novel of an unforgettable, angry idealist -- a novel in which the drama of new medical frontiers becomes part of a sweeping chronicle of love, death, desire, and redemption.

    It was the way in which towns were founded from the Atlantic seaboard west to the great plains, by stripping off the forest and putting the land to work. The people in this book were not individually as important as George Washington; the town they founded was not as important as New York. But people like them made this country, and towns like ths one were and are the soil in which this country s roots are grounded.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Ben Ames Williams was born in 1889 in Macon, Mississippi. A graduate of Dartmouth, he became a reporter for the BOSTON AMERICAN, and published short stories in some of the nation s leading magazines. Williams wrote many historical novels before his death in 1953. He carefully researched each book. For COME SPRING, he read the records and diaries of the early settlers; he followed their trails and canoed the same rivers to the sites of their early dwellings. Another important resource was John Langdon Sibley s HISTORY OF UNION written in 1851. Sibley had known those founding families and was able to include accurate details in his history. Ben Ames Williams lived for a time in Union and his famiy still has a residence in the area.

    But as Eugenia learns more of the ruthlessly ambitious man she has married and the rugged land he has brought her to, the very elegance and delicacy her husband prized in her soon prove liabilities. She is appalled by many aspects of plantation life - the convict slave laborers, the suffocating summer heat, the merciless winters. It is a maid who seems to be the real mistress of Yarrabee.

    The Least One, published originally in 1967, portrays a white sharecropping family during the Great Depression and is based on Borden Deal’s experiences growing up on a small farm in northeastern Mississippi. “My own memory produced a flood of material,” said the author. “I remembered the loss of the farm, the day the sheriff had come to dispossess us; I remembered picking blackberries and selling them in town for a dime a bucket; I remembered the hope and promise of a government mule.”The story is told through the voice of a twelve-year-old, significantly called Boy Sword, and is set in a fictitious community that suggests the area of Cullman, Alabama. Deal portrays the realities of cotton-field work: planting, chopping, the laying-by time, and harvesting. He succeeds in evoking not only the crushing economic circumstances of poor Southern whites in that period but also their fierce sense of independence and self-sufficiency.

    Katie James and her brother travel across the country in search of their father's cousin, Gideon Dent. Alone in the world, only Gideon can help them now. But first Katie must find him. From the bestselling author of Australian outback romance. Over 12 million books sold worldwide. When Katie and Andrew arrive at Malley's Find, they discover that Gideon has sent handsome Bern Malin to meet them. What is the mystery surrounding Gideon's whereabouts? Katie soon becomes involved with Bern's neighbours, the Ryde family. Beautiful Stella Ryde makes it clear that she has a claim on Bern. Meanwhile, could Tom Ryde be considering Katie as a future bride? Despite Stella's warnings, is Katie falling for Bern? Or would a life with Tom be the safer choice? A chance encounter in the bush makes Katie question her feelings and loyalties. And what about Bern's loyalties? Can he be trusted to protect Gideon's mining interests, or does he plan to double-cross him? Will Katie find the answers to her questions, and will she finally find Gideon Dent? Lucy Walker's gentle, clean romances give readers a fascinating insight into the landscape, people and customs of the Western Australian outback in the mid-twentieth century.

    They are trapped together in a nightmare devised to destroy them both, which demands that they relate to each other only as oppressor and victim. But as the insanity of their situation increases and the world around them collapses, they find themselves occupying the most untenable place of all: Middle Ground.

    The death of young Will Douglas's father plunged him into a world where might prevailed and the end justified the means.

    Welzl revealed the cruel terrain and colorful tales of Eskimos, which few had encountered before he did, stories which some later claimed could not have been true. Long before Jon Krakauer did it, Jan Welzl brought American readers to the wild and wooly hinterlands, and lived to tell the tale (until he died in 1948).

    “Without being preachy or pedantic, Bennett warmly relates the conviction, the determination, the achievements-indeed-the heroism of 20 men and women who began the fight which ultimately led to the revolution taking place in America today.”-Philadelphia Bulletin.

    It features products offered to consumers more than 100 years ago. It is suitable for collectors of Americana, social historians, and general readers.

    They reveal the fears, hopes, courage, and legacies of both the famous and not-so-famous. This collection of seven hundred quotes includes the last words of commoners, atheists, poets, and politicians along with noted Christians and martyrs. Excellent for casual reading and as a ready reference source for the pastor or public speaker.

    The schoolchildren of London's East End were being evacuated in their thousands to the safety of the country. Among them was Liz Hawtin, a Grammar school girl who until now had been the unwelcome addition to the family of her Aunt Ag in Nile Street. Evacuation was for Liz the exciting opportunity for a fresh start with new people, new surroundings, new ideas.

    Listed alphabetically in the central section are over 4,000 locations. Here are to be found the man-made wonders of national importance, large and small, famous and little-known, easily accessible and off the beaten track. Here are the finest churchesm cathedrals, abbeys, minsters, palaces and great houses of town and country; gardens and arboreta; streets, squares, crescents and works of engineering; weapons, sculpture, wood-engraving, drawing, painting, ceramics; books, glass, jewels, gold, silver, pewter, furniture and tapestries; museums, galleries and collections, treasures of every kind from ships to stained glass windows. The whole of Ireland is similarly covered. Over 700 color photographs, 200 drawings, and 40 pages of maps.

    

    216 photos, 161 in full color.

    1968.

    During the 1840s he observed, documented, and described the state of working people. Mayhew's articles are unique for their remarkable level of detail, statistical analysis, and candid interviews with many colourful characters from London's working class. Volume 1 concerns itself primarily with the life of working class people plying their trade on the streets: Costermongers, market workers, refuse sellers, patterers, minstrels, pickpockets, widow and orphan street workers; their markets, entertainments, living conditions, etc. Reprint of 1861-1862 edition published by Griffin, Bohn, and Company with an added introduction by John. D. Rosenberg.

    THE ADVENTURES OF A SOLDIER OF THE 95TH (RIFLES) IN THE PENINSULAR & WATERLOO CAMPAIGNS OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

    

    He confirmed what Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers were telling the FBI in the late 1940's about spy rings in the USA.

    The author, F Marian McNeill, succeeded in capturing and bringing to life many traditions and customs of old before they died out or were influenced by the modern era. The Silver Branch of the sacred apple tree, laden with crystal blossoms of golden fruit, is in Celtic mythology the equivalent of the Golden Bough of classical mythology – the symbolic bond between the world we know and the Otherworld.In the first volume of the Silver Bough, the author deals generally with Scottish folk-lore and folk belief, with chapters on ethnic origins, the Druids, the Celtic gods, the slow transition to Christianity, magic, the fairy faith, second sight, selkies, changelings and the witch cult. In volumes two and three she explored in some depth the foundations of many of these beliefs and rituals through the Calendar of Scottish national festivals, in which we find enshrined many of the fascinating folk customs of our ancestors. This fourth volume turns our attention to the Local Festivals of Scotland. As man makes greater and greater advances in the understanding and control of his physical environment, the river between the known and the unknown gradually changes its course, and the subjects of the simpler beliefs of former times become part of the new territory of knowledge. The Silver Bough maps out the old course of the waterway that in Celtic belief winds between here and beyond, and reveals the very roots of the Scottish people’s distinctive customs and way of life. The Silver Bough is a large and important work which involved many years of research into both living and recorded lore. Its genesis lies, perhaps, in the author’s subconscious need to reconcile the old primitive world she had glimpsed in childhood with the sophisticated modern world she later entered. “I do not believe that you can exaggerate the importance of the preservation of old ways and customs, and all those little things which bind a man to his native place. Today we live in difficult times. The steam-roller of progress is flattening out many of our old institutions, and there is a danger of a general decline in idiom and distinctive quality in our Scottish life. The only way to counteract this peril is to preserve jealously all these elder things which are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. For, remember, no man can face the future with courage and confidence unless it is solidly founded upon the past. And conversely, no problem will be too hard, no situation too strange, if we can link it with what we know and love” F Marian McNeill

    

    In this study, the author finds a degree of continuity and some elements of underlying unity in the varied and idiosyncratic thoughts of these men. Instead of superficial similarities, he emphasizes a common moral tenor, an instrumental conception of knowledge, and a broad, ethical conception of art.

    Traces the rise of the vector concept from the discovery of complex numbers through the systems of hypercomplex numbers created by Hamilton and Grassmann to the final acceptance around 1910 of the modern system of vector analysis. Concentrates on vector addition and subtraction, the forms of vector multiplication, vector division (in those systems where it occurs), and the specification of vector types. 1985 corrected edition of 1967 original.

    Organized thematically, Out of the Whirlwind includes excerpts from Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, Art Spiegelman's Maus, Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved, and many others.-- Suggested readings included for further study

    Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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