Peter James
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From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism-but they also set the model for bad...
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Dark Child Awakens is a collection of original poetry inspired by the author coming out later in life, after surviving the pain and betrayal of his childhood and decades as a married man. The poems cover such diverse topics as love, relationships, fear, anxiety, despair, hope, betrayal, good times and the beauty of the west coast.
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Still reeling from the loss of his beloved but enigmatic mother, Tommy Kiernan is convinced her death is not an accident. He suspects the roots of this tragedy started twenty years ago-in the village in Brittany where his mother lived during the second World War. Leaving behind his college classes and new-found love, he travels to France to unearth her story and unmask a murderer.
With the help of storyteller and sometime fisherman Padrig Le Bras,...
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The author suffered a major back problem where the pain was monumental and the disabling effect ridiculous: doctors said it could leave him in a wheelchair. Determined to get better, without surgery or drugs, he embarked on a journey to find out what would work to regain full mobility and live a normal life again.
This book covers that journey, sharing areas that are seldom spoken about and rarely make it into print. It has empathy with fellow...
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One of the luxuries of life is taking time to read a book and become absorbed in the plot. All too often the gap in our day for reading is brief.
This is the second book in the Calm World series. A collection of observations, created to dip into and trigger some thoughts, even when time is short.
Capture a few moments, invigorate your thinking from the pages in this book and consider…
• What is your reaction to TT motorcyclist's comment?
• What...
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A magical object of unbelievable power, the FREER'S STONE is the one thing required to halt the terrible victory of an unspeakable evil. The Archangel Jacobi and his apprentice Asillian have been given the arduous task of preventing the stone from falling into the wrong hands. However, unbeknownst to both of them and their enemies, the stone has taken the form of a ring, and the ordinary human woman who possesses it has no idea of the sorcerous secrets...
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For author Peter James McLean, life was just one adventure after another. In Confessions of an Eccentric Dreamer, he shares a captivating recollection of his life, dreams, adventures, and foibles. This memoir narrates how his adventures began at age sixteen and continued until age ninety-two during which time he worked and retired from the New York Central Railroad; developed a money-saving, water softening device to clean steam engine boilers; and...
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There are boundless amounts of 'stuff' to fill every want that we could ever imagine; the currency that seems in short supply is the gift of time.
This book is part of the Calm World series, which is a collection of articles that create a journey of observations and thoughts to help slow things down as you consider an insight or a question.
So capture a few moments, dip into an article and let the whizzing world past by and regain focus from the blur.
Why...
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The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became. The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), remembered today as Germany's finest landscape gardener. In the mid-1820s, however, his efforts to turn his...
11) Robbinsdale
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Robbinsdale was named for entrepreneur, politician, and real estate developer Andrew B. Robbins. While serving in the Minnesota State Senate, Robbins often passed through the area just north of Minneapolis by train. Impressed by the landscape, he purchased 90 acres of rolling hills and lakes. In 1887, he platted a tract called Robbinsdale Park. Five years later, the development was incorporated as a village bearing his name. Robbins worked tirelessly...
12) Breezy Point
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In 1919, Wilford Hamilton Fawcett, better known as 'Captain Billy,' published the first issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Filled with jokes and cartoons, the little magazine made a fortune for Fawcett. In 1921, he purchased 80 acres on the shore of Big Pelican Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota, and built a bluff-top village of cabins. The following year, as Fawcett Publications brought out True Confessions magazine, construction began on the Breezy...
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The integral (or antiderivative) has long been the backbone of calculus, serving as a powerful means by which the area under a curve can be determined. Despite its great usefulness, however, finding anything other than the simplest antiderivatives can prove to be extremely challenging as well as difficult to evaluate, or they may not even exist. In such cases, it is often necessary to turn to other methods of numerical integration, which in themselves...
14) Quantum Medicine: True Stories Involving the Use of Time Travel in the Treatment and Prevention o
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Through an amazing collection of real-life hospital cases, Dr. Italia takes the reader on a truly fascinating journey into the hidden secrets of life, death, and mysterious powers beyond as seen through remarkable cures and recoveries and other unexplained phenomena.This book is truly unique in that the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness and disease (including death) occur using methods that are out of necessity far beyond current medical...
15) Dead simple
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Roy Grace novels volume 1
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2005
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English
16) Dead man's time
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Roy Grace novels volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin--and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk...
17) You Are Dead
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somervile, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the apartment block where they live in Brighton, and seen a man acting strangely. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving behind her neatly parked car and cell phone. That same afternoon, workmen digging...
18) Need You Dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 13
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you've made. A chance photograph on a client's mobile phone changes everything for her. When the body of a woman is found in a bath in Brighton, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to the scene. At first it looks an open and shut case with a clear prime suspect. Then...
19) Dead man's grip
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Roy Grace novels volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The student had deadly...
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Roy Grace novels volume 14
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A parent's worst nightmare is Grace's deadliest case...Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it's at the stadium where his nightmare begins. Within minutes of arriving at the game, Kipp bumps...