The Adventures Of Mercury Lane

Author : James/Lyle Hayhurst/Parascension Press
Publisher : Adventures of Mercury Lane
ISBN 13 : 0615182127
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Mercury Lane written by James/Lyle Hayhurst/Parascension Press and published by Adventures of Mercury Lane. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Leck
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554533651
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Jack Lime written by James Leck and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A film-noir novel featuring a hard-boiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501178806
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lone Star Rising written by William C. Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions stretching back nearly a century came together in Texas in the 1830s in one of the great struggles of American history and the last great revolution of the hemisphere. Anglos steeped in 1776 fervor and the American revolution came seeking land, Hispanic and native Americans joined the explosion of republican uprisings in Mexico and Latin America, and the native tejanos seized on a chance for independence. As William C. Davis brilliantly depicts in Lone Star Rising, the result was an epic clash filled not just with heroism but also with ignominy, greed, and petty and grand politics. In Lone Star Rising, Davis deftly combines the latest scholarship on the military battles of the revolution, including research in seldom used Mexican archives, with an absorbing examination of the politics on all sides. His stirring narrative features a rich cast of characters that includes such familiar names as Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, and Antonio Santa Anna, along with tejano leader Juan Seguín and behind-the-scenes players like Andrew Jackson. From the earliest adventures of freebooters, who stirred up trouble for Spain, Mexico, and the United States, to the crucial showdown at the San Jacinto River between Houston and Santa Anna there were massacres, misunderstandings, miscalculations, and many heroic men. The rules of war are rarely stable and they were in danger of complete disintegration at times in Texas. The Mexican army often massacred its Anglo prisoners, and the Anglos retaliated when they had the chance after the battle of San Jacinto. The rules of politics, however, proved remarkably stable: The American soldiers were democrats who had a hard time sustaining campaigns if they didn't agree to them, and their leaders were as given to maneuvering and infighting as they were to the larger struggle. Yet in the end Lone Star Rising is not a myth-destroying history as much as an enlarging one, the full story behind the slogans of the Alamo and of Texas lore, a human drama in which the forces of independence, republicanism, and economics were made manifest in an unforgettable group of men and women.

Author : A. V. Williams Jackson
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605205907
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes written by A. V. Williams Jackson and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notorious for the delight he took in tweaking the sexual taboos of the Victorian age-as well as the delight he took in the resulting shock of his bashful peers-British adventurer, linguist, and author CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890) is perhaps best remembered for his unexpurgated translation of the Eastern classic The One Thousand and One Nights, more famously known today as The Arabian Nights. Originating in Persian, Indian, and Arabic sources as far back as the ninth century AD, this collection of bawdy tales-which Burton was the first to bring to English readers in uncensored form-has exerted incalculable influence on modern literature. It represents one of the earliest examples of a framing story, as young Shahrazad, under threat of execution by the King, postpones her death by regaling him with these wildly entertaining stories over the course of 1,001 nights. The stories themselves feature early instances of sexual humor, satire and parody, murder mystery, horror, and even science fiction. Burton's annotated 16-volume collection, as infamous as it is important, was first published between 1885 and 1888, and remains an entertainingly naughty read. Volume VII includes: [ "Harun Al-Rashid and the Arab Girl" [ "Al-Asma'i and the Three Girls of Bassorah" [ "Ibrahim of Mosul and the Devil" [ "The Badawi and His Wife" [ "The Lovers of Bassorah" [ "Ishak of Mosul and His Mistress and the Devil" [ "Story of Prince Sayf Al-Muluk and the Princess Badi'a Al-Jamal" [ and others.

Author : Leonard Charles Smithers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night written by Leonard Charles Smithers and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605205915
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes written by and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notorious for the delight he took in tweaking the sexual taboos of the Victorian age-as well as the delight he took in the resulting shock of his bashful peers-British adventurer, linguist, and author CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890) is perhaps best remembered for his unexpurgated translation of the Eastern classic The One Thousand and One Nights, more famously known today as The Arabian Nights. Originating in Persian, Indian, and Arabic sources as far back as the ninth century AD, this collection of bawdy tales-which Burton was the first to bring to English readers in uncensored form-has exerted incalculable influence on modern literature. It represents one of the earliest examples of a framing story, as young Shahrazad, under threat of execution by the King, postpones her death by regaling him with these wildly entertaining stories over the course of 1,001 nights. The stories themselves feature early instances of sexual humor, satire and parody, murder mystery, horror, and even science fiction. Burton's annotated 16-volume collection, as infamous as it is important, was first published between 1885 and 1888, and remains an entertainingly naughty read. Volume VII includes: [ "Harun Al-Rashid and the Arab Girl" [ "Al-Asma'i and the Three Girls of Bassorah" [ "Ibrahim of Mosul and the Devil" [ "The Badawi and His Wife" [ "The Lovers of Bassorah" [ "Ishak of Mosul and His Mistress and the Devil" [ "Story of Prince Sayf Al-Muluk and the Princess Badi'a Al-Jamal" [ and others.

Author : James Leck
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554537401
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Further Adventures of Jack Lime written by James Leck and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iona High School's self-styled private eye Jack Lime investigates a disappearing quarterback, a stolen painting, and a stolen comic book.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Byrne
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856357279
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Ghost Stories written by Patrick Byrne and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Ghost Stories contains stories that tell of spooky goings-on in almost every part of the country. They include the tales of the Wizard Earl of Kildare, the Scanlan Lights of Limerick, Buttoncap of Antrim, Maynooth College's haunted room, Loftus Hall in Wexford, and an account of how the poet Francis Ledwidge appeared to an old friend in County Meath. The country of Ireland is full of old castles with secret rooms, and while some of the stories are obvious figments of lively imaginations, there are other tales that cannot be easily explained away.