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THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS
BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
PREFACE
Life in America to-day is adventurous and thrilling to the core. Border warfare of the most primitive type still is waged in mountain fastnesses, the darkest pages in the annals of crime now are being written, piracy has but changed its scene of operations from the sea to the land, smugglers ply a busy trade, and from their factory prisons a hundred thousand children cry aloud for rescue. The flame of Crusade sweeps over the land and the call for volunteers is abroad. In hazardous scout duty into these fields of danger the Census Bureau leads. The Census is the sword that shatters secrecy, the key that opens trebly-guar...

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay’s first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. – Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans’ plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.

Präsidents Ida ist gerade von der Pension in der Residenzstadt zurückgekehrt und ihr Erscheinen auf dem Ball ist ein glänzender Erfolg. Doch sie hat nur Augen für den geheimnisvollen polnischen Grafen Martiniz, der jede Nacht die Stunde zwischen zwölf und ein Uhr im Münster verbringt. Aus der Residenz ergeht Befehl, den Grafen unbedingt in der Gegend zu halten, da er wegen seines beträchtlichen Vermögens mit einer nicht sehr gut beleumundeten und hoch verschuldeten Gräfin verheiratet werden soll. Auch Idas Pate ist von dem jungen Mann sehr angetan. Kann er das Geheimnis um den Grafen lüften?

Hauff publizierte die Satire unter dem Namen des damals sehr bekannten Unterhaltungsschrift...

Livingstone has reached a pinnacle in his life. He is finally worth 7 figures, yet his bottom line requires that he cut back on charities this year at Christmas time. Business is business, after all. But success makes him surly and his accomplishment soon feels anti-climatic. Regrets plague him. Can he rediscover the joy of life with the help of Santa Claus’s Partner?

En 1959, des officiers de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson sont chargés d’aller fonder un fort au nord du 70e parallèle, au-delà du cercle polaire.
Le fort est établi sur le Cap Bathurst, qui semble être le lieu parfait.

Malheureusement, ce cap n’est pas fait de terre, mais de glace, et lors d’une éruption volcanique, le cap se détache du continent et part à la dérive, emportant tous ses occupants avec lui.
Cela se gâte encore plus quand arrive le printemps et que le glaçon commence à fondre…

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Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery.

Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Among his list of titles are Campaigning with Crook, Fort Frayne, Under Fire and Daughter of the Sioux.

A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the discussions, actions, and attitudes from that picnic reverberate through the lives of many people. What are the far-reaching consequences of one commonplace day in OUR lives?

A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not betray his name to the reader or what he has done. He describes his life in prison, everything from what his cell looks like to the personality of the prison priest. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

This is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.