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Gone but Not Forgotten is both historical and fiction covering the events of the early part of the Civil War. It is also the intent to bring to light the suffering of slaves and the extreme sacrifices they made throughout this unfortunate part of history and the impact that the Underground Railroad that ran from Illinois to Canada. John and Rebecca Zink were very active transporting and hiding their important cargo though the steps to freedom....

Uncovering government conspiracy's the theory based on Admiral Byrds and Olaf Jensen who traveled through the land beyond the poles where a different race like that foretold in Genisis, Just may hold the secret to the world and the Anti-Christ.

Scharfzüngig und temporeich nimmt Nell Zink in dieser Gesellschaftssatire die Widersprüche der amerikanischen Gesellschaft aufs Korn: Rasse, Klassenzugehörigkeit, Geschlecht, Sexualität. Ihre Heldin Peggy Vallaincourt fu¿hlt sich fru¿h zu Frauen hingezogen, ihr Held Lee Fleming ist der schwule Spross einer konservativen WASP-Familie. Peggy besucht das Frauencollege, an dem Lee als Lyrikdozent lehrt, und zu beider Überraschung fangen sie etwas ...

Osama bin Laden long ago devised a scheme to bring members of the fearsome Al-Quida into the States. Now it's up to one man alone to bring them own and foil the plan

One man knocked down by society, travels from Nebraska to Maine with the last posessions he has in life, his horse, and three dogs. He meets a woman in Iowa who he falls in love with after knowing her for a year.

The son of one of Bostons most prestegise Bankers returns from Vietnam and cannot cope with the dog eat dog society he lives in which takes him into the Allagash Wilderness in Maine. When Elizabeth Tusic, a reporter from the Boston Harald gets wind of this she finds a story in Will Carsons lifestyle and infiltrates to his cabin stealing his daily memboies for her own gains. The fearsome blackbear One Eye is on the prowl and one of Maines most ...

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Peggy fühlt sich früh zu Frauen hingezogen, Lee ist der schwule Spross einer konservativen WASP-Familie. Zu beider Überraschung fangen sie etwas miteinander an. Das Ergebnis sind Heirat, ein Sohn, Byrdie, und eine Tochter, Mickie. Nach zehn Jahren ist die Ehe gescheitert an Sprachlosigkeit und den verklemmten frühen Sechzigern. Peggy brennt mit Mickie durch, für die sie sich die Papiere eines toten schwarzen Mädchens erschwindelt. Als "Schwarz...

Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters beschließt Penny Baker, dessen verfallendes Elternhaus in Jersey City zu renovieren. Doch Überraschung: Die Collegeabsolventin findet es besetzt von ein paar netten, rauchenden Anarchisten, die ihre WG «Nicotine» nennen. Erster Eindruck: «Als hätte man ungefragt einen Haufen Bettwanzen, die immerhin den Abwasch machen.» Mit der Zeit jedoch geben ihr die Bewohner einen Sinn für Zugehörigkeit und Gemeinschaft, und Penny...

Nell Zink, listige Humoristin und Autorin des fulminanten, von der Kritik gefeierten Debüts «Der Mauerläufer», nimmt in ihrem neuen Roman das gespaltene Amerika aufs Korn. Penny Baker, soeben mit dem College fertig, jetzt arbeitslos und zudem durch den kürzlichen Tod ihres Vaters neben der Spur, beschließt, erst mal dessen verfallendes Elternhaus in Jersey City zu renovieren, um wieder Boden unter die Füße zu bekommen. Doch Überraschung: Sie f...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

In recent years, the proliferation of available video content and the popularity of the Internet have encouraged service providers to develop new ways of distributing content to clients. Increasing video scaling ratios and advanced digital signal processing techniques have led to Internet Video-on-Demand applications, but these currently lack efficiency and quality. Scalable Video on Demand: Adaptive Internet-based Distribution examines how c...

Un volume concis qui apporte aux jeunes étudiants et agrégatifs les connaissances nécessaires à une bonne compréhension des oeuvres, tant dans l'histoire que dans leur environnement littéraire. Pour le grand public, il facilite l'accès aux textes médiévaux.

*Sexually explicit content* After winning a cruise on The Wheel of Fortune show, Janet Sessions met a young ship's doctor named Brent Francis. Now with both trapped in a love affair he has to find a way to tell her he's a married man with two children. Meanwhile being a nurse and all, Janet tends to a comatose patient in her hospital they named Paul due to his Paul Bunion enormous appearance. When Paul finally awakens it seems that he is curse...

Ted and his wife are necrophilias, they own a mortuary. While building an addition on thier home money gets low but suddenly things turn when people begin dying in town.

This year the Sadie Hawkins dance was held on the same night as Holloween. Janet and a few of the troubled students decided to play a practical joke on a few of the other classmates by staging the ghostly appearance of The Green Lady. The Ledgend becomes unraveled in a time lapse as Bruno holds the key inside an old pillowcase. Bonus Book: D.B. Cooper

If you're going to oust the kingpin and take over his business, make sure he's dead and the family doesn't believe you're the one responsible for his disappearance. Frankie thought he had it covered. He didn't. What made matters worse is that he got greedy. He impregnated and discarded one of the three women he used as his private harem and ordered his thugs to dress her in a pair of concrete slippers and dump her over the side of his private ...

Hiram Dubois was a bonafied genius. He was also a geek and a freak thanks to hi drug using parents. Hiram hobbled due to a bad case of bowleggedness which made him look like he was permanently strapped to the back of a horse. Hiram built a time machine, one that finally proved worthy. Only during a short experiment, he was accidentally transformed back to the year 1971, right smack dab in the middle of the Kent University war protest. After be...

Admiral Turner didn't make the decision to land on Nuku Hiva, a tsunami made it for him. Now stranded and captured by flesh eating cannibals, he must escape the island, only now his ship was damaged when it became washed ashore.