Author: Elliot Skell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847389961
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Neversuch House is home to the veryunusual Halibut family. Spanning generations, the Halibuts all live together totally isolated from the outside world, never needing - or wanting - to step outside the walls of Neversuch, with every whim being catered for by a mass of servants. But when twelve-year-old Omnia Halibut sees a hooded figure emerging from the woods by the Wall, she can't help but wonder who the man is and why he is skulking around the House. And as Omnia sets out to discover the truth she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy Neversuch House forever. For the House is steeped in secrets, secrets that some people want to remain hidden, and, as Omnia tries to unravel the mysteries of Neversuch House, someone is watching her, and they will do anythingto stop her from revealing the truth…
Author: Elliot Skell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 184738997X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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All in Neversuch House is not well. The Evergones are trying once more to take control of the House and the treasure that lies within. With servant rebellions, freakish "accidents" befalling the UnderButlers' and the Captain and Butler being forced into hiding, the House is in chaos and someone needs to take control, before the Evergones finally succeed in their plot. Twelve-year-old Omnia Halibut finds herself again in the middle of the extraordinary events occurring in the House. Along with her ever faithful cousin, Evergrow, and her friend Basilica, it's up to her to uncover the truth about the Evergones and try to rally the Halibuts to her cause, or the consequences could prove deadly…
Author: Dan Welch
Publisher: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611216427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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In late June 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia drove back Maj. Gen. George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac from the gates of the Confederate capital. Richmond was safe—at least for the moment. Another threat soon emerged when the Army of Virginia, a new command under Maj. Gen. John Pope, moved toward Fredericksburg, threatening Confederate communications, supply points, and Richmond. Pope, who had a reputation as something of a braggart, had scored victories along the Mississippi River at New Madrid and Island No. 10. President Lincoln was hopeful he would replicate that success in Virginia. Pope brought with him a harder philosophy of war, one that would put pressure not just on Lee’s army but on the population of Virginia. Alarmed and offended by “such a miscreant as Pope,” Lee began moving part of his army north to counter and “suppress” the threat. In Never Such a Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas, August 28–30, 1862, historians Dan Welch and Kevin R. Pawlak follow Lee and Pope as they converge on ground bloodied just thirteen months earlier at First Bull Run (Manassas). Since then, the armies had grown in both size and efficiency, and any pitched combat between them promised to dwarf the earlier battle. For the second summer in a row, Union and Confederate forces clashed on the plains of Manassas. This time, the results would be far more terrible.
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) moved to California from Buffalo, New York, in 1852. After a brief exposure to gold mining, he returned to the profession of bookselling, setting up shop in Crescent City. In 1856, he moved to San Francisco, where he founded H.H. Bancroft & Co., which soon became the state's premier bookseller and publisher. From 1871 to 1889, Bancroft labored on his Native races and history of the Pacific states, western Canada, and Alaska, which he published beginning in 1874, hiring qualified authors for the volumes and even sending out field workers who obtained dictated reminiscences from surviving pioneers. Literary industries: a memoir (1891) recounts his early life and experiences in California. He recounts his career as a businessman and his growing fascination with his hobbies of collecting books on Pacific Coast history and amassing the source materials for a multi-volume study of the subject. This is a book about the writing of history and preservation of source materials as well as the recollections of a leading early California businessman.
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385415764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.
