Author: Edward Cline
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The first book in the Sparrowhawk series of historical novels, introducing readers to life in eighteenth-century England, where rumblings of discontent amongst the citizens with government and Crown begin. Jack Frake is no exception to this endemic restlessness. From an early age, Jack Frake develops an independent mind and spirit, traits that are not openly welcomed by all for someone of his lowly class. Fate and circumstance lead him to join a band of smugglers and he faithfully furthers their cause. Jack eventually departs for the American colonies aboard the Sparrowhawk, destined for Virginia. He sets out to rescue his friend from the constable's jail, but instead of saving his friend, he finds his own life in danger.
Jack Frake
Author: Edward Cline
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The first book in the Sparrowhawk series of historical novels, introducing readers to life in eighteenth-century England, where rumblings of discontent amongst the citizens with government and Crown begin. Jack Frake is no exception to this endemic restlessness. From an early age, Jack Frake develops an independent mind and spirit, traits that are not openly welcomed by all for someone of his lowly class. Fate and circumstance lead him to join a band of smugglers and he faithfully furthers their cause. Jack eventually departs for the American colonies aboard the Sparrowhawk, destined for Virginia. He sets out to rescue his friend from the constable's jail, but instead of saving his friend, he finds his own life in danger.
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The first book in the Sparrowhawk series of historical novels, introducing readers to life in eighteenth-century England, where rumblings of discontent amongst the citizens with government and Crown begin. Jack Frake is no exception to this endemic restlessness. From an early age, Jack Frake develops an independent mind and spirit, traits that are not openly welcomed by all for someone of his lowly class. Fate and circumstance lead him to join a band of smugglers and he faithfully furthers their cause. Jack eventually departs for the American colonies aboard the Sparrowhawk, destined for Virginia. He sets out to rescue his friend from the constable's jail, but instead of saving his friend, he finds his own life in danger.
Hugh Kenrick
Author: Edward Cline
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"Hugh is a scion of the British arictocracy. Because his actions and adventures in London earn him the enmity of his uncle, the Earl of Danvers, Hugh is sent to the colonies by his parents for his own safety"--Publisher website (July 2007).
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"Hugh is a scion of the British arictocracy. Because his actions and adventures in London earn him the enmity of his uncle, the Earl of Danvers, Hugh is sent to the colonies by his parents for his own safety"--Publisher website (July 2007).
The Savage Mind (La Pensée Sauvage) 1
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnophilosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnophilosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Virtues in Verse
Author: Berton Braley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962685439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
From the author of FIRST PRIZE, a thriller about an indomitable American businessman whose integrity is pitted against the machinations of three governments. Merritt Fury, an American entrepreneur, savors his return to glamorous Hong Kong to meet with his itinerant business partners, until the irrational behavior of some of them sours his interest in the firm. Harry Briscoe, a senior partner whose business acumen Fury admires, offers his colleagues an ultimatum: agree to pay for the expansion of the firm's tungsten mine, or dissolve the partnership. Fury argues against the scheme, but Briscoe & others seem impervious to reason. And Fury soon realizes that he is the least welcome of all among Briscoe's partners. When Fury decides to stay in the partnership, he learns just how unwelcome he is. He is attacked in his hotel room, almost assassinated by a British secret agent, & courted by Amber Lee, a beautiful government economist who packs an automatic pistol. And when he is kidnapped, he grasps that he is the pivotal factor in a double conspiracy, & that the deadly conflict between his own integrity & the pragmatism of his colleagues could change the future of Hong Kong.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962685439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
From the author of FIRST PRIZE, a thriller about an indomitable American businessman whose integrity is pitted against the machinations of three governments. Merritt Fury, an American entrepreneur, savors his return to glamorous Hong Kong to meet with his itinerant business partners, until the irrational behavior of some of them sours his interest in the firm. Harry Briscoe, a senior partner whose business acumen Fury admires, offers his colleagues an ultimatum: agree to pay for the expansion of the firm's tungsten mine, or dissolve the partnership. Fury argues against the scheme, but Briscoe & others seem impervious to reason. And Fury soon realizes that he is the least welcome of all among Briscoe's partners. When Fury decides to stay in the partnership, he learns just how unwelcome he is. He is attacked in his hotel room, almost assassinated by a British secret agent, & courted by Amber Lee, a beautiful government economist who packs an automatic pistol. And when he is kidnapped, he grasps that he is the pivotal factor in a double conspiracy, & that the deadly conflict between his own integrity & the pragmatism of his colleagues could change the future of Hong Kong.
Words to Rhyme with
Author: Willard R. Espy
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816043132
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
An easy-to-use dictionary of over 80,000 rhyming words.
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816043132
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
An easy-to-use dictionary of over 80,000 rhyming words.
Sparrowhawk -Jack Frake
Author: Edward Cline
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Blackbeard
Author: Margaret Hoffman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960730018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
For two years until his untimely death in 1718, the notorious pirate Blackbeard wreaked havoc on Atlantic coastal shipping. This narrative, based on a true story, tells a tale of political intrigue, villainy and romance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960730018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
For two years until his untimely death in 1718, the notorious pirate Blackbeard wreaked havoc on Atlantic coastal shipping. This narrative, based on a true story, tells a tale of political intrigue, villainy and romance.
First Prize
Author: Edward Cline
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780445407923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The debut of Chess Hanrahan finds the investigator probing the disappearance of an award-winning young author in this hard-boiled private eye novel. Hanrahan discovers immoralities of the publishing world that may have lead to the author's downfall.
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780445407923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The debut of Chess Hanrahan finds the investigator probing the disappearance of an award-winning young author in this hard-boiled private eye novel. Hanrahan discovers immoralities of the publishing world that may have lead to the author's downfall.
Gone with the Wind
Author: Margaret Mitchell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416548947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416548947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.
The English Spy: an Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous
Author: Charles Molloy Westmacott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description