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THE WINNING CLUE (Murder Mystery Classic) (Annotated)
A Detective Novel
AvJames Hay,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
23 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "THE WINNING CLUE (Murder Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Enid Withers is found dead and amateur detective Lawrence Bristow takes up on a challenge to solve the mystery of her murder. But after hitting few dead ends, Bristow is joined by a professional investigator Samuel Braceway. Both have their unique ways and different theories, and believe the other one is on the wrong trail. The winning clue will lead them to solution.James Hay, Jr. (1881–1936) was American novelist and journalist, born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Most of his books are crime mysteries and detective stories, some of which are set in Asheville, place where he spent part of his life, and worked as an editor in the Asheville Citizen magazine. Some of his other detective novels have their settings in Washington, where Hay spent his final years. Hay was the founder of the National Press Club, and had friendly relations with presidents Wilson and Taft.
NO CLUE! (Murder Mystery Classic) (Annotated)
A Detective Novel
AvJames Hay,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
23 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "NO CLUE! (Murder Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Detective Jefferson Hastings is invited at Sloanehurst, home of Arthur Sloane, rich and eccentric man deeply interested in study of crime and criminals. During his stay at Sloanehurst a young woman is found dead at the estate and Sloane''s daughter wants Hastings to help solving mystery of the murder. In the beginning it appears that there are no clues at all, and every suspect has a perfect alibi, but exhaustive and thorough investigation is starting to give results. Old detective has to use every trick in the bag and rely on delicate expressions and even the slight signals to crack the mystery.James Hay, Jr. (1881–1936) was American novelist and journalist, born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Most of his books are crime mysteries and detective stories, some of which are set in Asheville, place where he spent part of his life, and worked as an editor in the Asheville Citizen magazine. Some of his other detective novels have their settings in Washington, where Hay spent his final years. Hay was the founder of the National Press Club, and had friendly relations with presidents Wilson and Taft.
MRS. MARDEN'S ORDEAL (Murder Mystery Novel) (Annotated)
Thriller Classic
AvJames Hay,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
23 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "MRS. MARDEN''S ORDEAL (Murder Mystery Novel)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Ruth Marden was disappointed with her marriage and her husband George whose affairs with other women led them to a verge of divorce, but his relationship with Marjorie Nesbit was the thing that troubled Ruth the most. Ruth feelings towards Marjorie became more severe, after her close friend Charlie Corcoran also fell in love with her. After a party thrown by Ruth and George, Marjorie is found dead. Many are suspected and Charlie is accused, but old family friend Dr. Doyle stumbles upon an unexpected revelation.James Hay, Jr. (1881–1936) was American novelist and journalist, born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Most of his books are crime mysteries and detective stories, three of which are set in Asheville, place where he spent part of his life, and worked as an editor in the Asheville Citizen magazine. Some of his other detective novels have their settings in Washington, where Hay spent his final years. Hay was the founder of the National Press Club, and had friendly relations with presidents Wilson and Taft.
CAESAR'S COLUMN (New York Dystopia) (Annotated)
A Fascist Nightmare of the Rotten 20th Century American Society – Time Travel Novel From the Renowned Author of "Atlantis"
AvIgnatius Donnelly,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
23 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "CAESAR''S COLUMN (New York Dystopia)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.When Gabriel Weltstein visits New York in 1988 (98 years after the publication of this novel) he is mesmerized by the city and its modern technologies including air travel! But little does he know that he is soon going to see the underbelly of the city and those who control everything. Gabriel finds himself outmatched against the Oligarchs who run the entire rapacious and oppressive social and economic order. Can Gabriel escape his worst nightmare? Can he un-see what he has seen and survive to tell the tale? And what is the "Brotherhood of Destruction" and what do they want? Read on!Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901) was a U.S. Congressman, populist writer, and amateur scientist. In 1882, Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, his best known work, detailing theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.
Looking Further Backward (Political Dystopia) (Annotated)
A Dark Foretelling of a Chinese Invasion on USA in the Year 2023
AvArthur Dudley Vinton,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
23 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Looking Further Backward (Political Dystopia)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Set in future of 2023 "Looking Further Backward" narrates the story of how China invades USA in 2020 after China has adopted rampant capitalism as opposed to rest of the world who are in throes of Nationalism, a socialism like set up. Written in a form of a diary, the novel directly hits out at Edward Bellamy''s 1888 Utopian novel Looking Backward. The political drama that unfolds in this novel will make you deeply wonder how the author could foresee so much!Arthur Dudley Vinton (1852–1906) was an author, editor and lawyer.
THE WAY OF AN INDIAN (Annotated)
Western Classic
AvFrederic Remington,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
23 kr
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"The Way of an Indian" is one of the few books that look at the colonial expansion of American wild west through the eyes of a Native Indian. The book faithfully captures their spiritual beliefs, agency and speech to show what it was like to be the original inhabitants of a land that was taken away from them. A must read western classic!Excerpt:"White Otter''s heart was bad. He sat alone on the rim-rocks of the bluffs overlooking the sunlit valley. To an unaccustomed eye from below he might have been a part of nature''s freaks among the sand rocks. The yellow grass sloped away from his feet mile after mile to the timber, and beyond that to the prismatic mountains...."Frederic Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry. Remington''s fame made him a favorite of the Western Army officers fighting the last Indian battles.
PIRATE OF THE CARIBBEES & THE PIRATE ISLAND (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian Nautical Adventures of Mutiny, Hidden Coves, Shipwreck, and High-Seas Peril
AvHarry Collingwood,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
23 kr
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"It was emphatically "a dirty night." The barometer had been slowly but persistently falling during the two previous days; the dawn had been red and threatening, with a strong breeze from S.E.; and as the short dreary November day waxed and waned this strong breeze had steadily increased in strength until by nightfall it had become a regular "November gale," with frequent squalls of arrowy rain and sleet, which, impelled by the furious gusts..." (The Pirate Island)Harold MacGrath was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Comic Picaresque of Foundling Fortune, Georgian Satire, Courtship, and Moral Recognition
AvHenry Fielding,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
23 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Tom Jones or, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world. The novel is highly organized, despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned." Tom Jones is generally regarded as Fielding''s greatest book and as a very influential English novel.
Lord of the World (Annotated)
Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel
AvRobert Hugh Benson,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
23 kr
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Lord of the World is a dystopian novel that centers upon the reign of the Anti-Christ and the End of the World. In early 21st century London, two priests, the white-haired Father Percy Franklin and the younger Father John Francis, are visiting the subterranean lodgings of the elderly Mr. Templeton. A Catholic and former Conservative Member of Parliament who witnessed the marginalization of his religion and the destruction of his party, Mr. Templeton describes to the two priests the last century of British and world history.
After London (Annotated)
Dystopian Classic
AvRichard Jefferies,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
23 kr
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After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Fields are becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals are running wild, roads and towns are becoming overgrown, and the hated London is reverting to lake and poisonous swampland.
Journey to Other Worlds (Annotated)
Space Adventure Novel
AvJohn Jacob Astor,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
23 kr
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A Journey to Other Worlds is a tale about life in the year 2000 on the planets Saturn and Jupiter. Space travel is achieved through apergy, an anti-gravitational energy force. Jupiter proves to be a jungle world, with flesh-eating plants, vampire bats, giant snakes and mastodons, and flying lizards. Saturn, in contrast, is an ancient world of silent spirits. The spirit beings provide the explorers with foresight of their own deaths.
Voyages of Captain Scott (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
Accounts of "The Discovery" & "The Terra Nova" Antarctic Expeditions
AvCharles Turley,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
23 kr
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The Voyages of Captain Scott retells the stories of the Discovery Expedition and the Terra Nova Expedition of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions."The Voyage of the Discovery" is an account of Scott''s First Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904, also known as the Discovery Expedition. This expedition carried out scientific research and geographical exploration in what was then largely an untouched continent. It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration."Scott''s Last Expedition" is an account of the British Antarctic Expedition which took place between 1910 and 1913, also known as the Terra Nova Expedition. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901–04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. He and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that the Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott''s entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later.
First Across the Continent (Annotated)
Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
AvNoah Brooks,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
23 kr
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First Across the Continent is the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition written by Noah Brooks. This was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States. It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the Continental Divide of the Americas to reach the Pacific coast. The Corps of Discovery was a selected group of US Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark.
Destruction of the Greek Empire (Annotated)
The Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks
AvEdwin Pears,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
23 kr
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The goal of this book is to give a vivid and accurate account of the capture of Constantinople and the destruction of the Greek empire. In order to make the story intelligible and to explain its significance writer has given a summary of the history of the empire between the Latin conquest in 1204 and the capture of the city in 1453, and has traced the progress during the same period of the race which succeeded in destroying the empire and in replacing the Greeks as the possessors of New Rome.
Prairee Trilogy: O, Pioneers! + The Song of the Lark + My Antonia (3 Unabridged Classics) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Great Plains Frontier Classics of Ambition and Belonging
AvCather Willa,Greta Somerwick
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
23 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Prairee Trilogy: O, Pioneers! + The Song of the Lark + My Ántonia" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Complete in one volume, it contains three novels by Willa Cather. O Pioneers!, written in 1913, is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy. The book tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies and devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The Song of the Lark, written in 1915, is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather''s Prairie Trilogy. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a well-trained pianist. My Ántonia , published in 1918, is the final book of Cather''s Prairie Trilogy. It is the story of a strong farm woman who still affirms her passion for the land after her father''s suicide and desertion by her lover. Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.

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Greta Somerwick – författare

THE WINNING CLUE (Murder Mystery Classic) (Annotated)

NO CLUE! (Murder Mystery Classic) (Annotated)

MRS. MARDEN'S ORDEAL (Murder Mystery Novel) (Annotated)

CAESAR'S COLUMN (New York Dystopia) (Annotated)

Looking Further Backward (Political Dystopia) (Annotated)

THE WAY OF AN INDIAN (Annotated)

PIRATE OF THE CARIBBEES & THE PIRATE ISLAND (Annotated)

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Annotated)

Lord of the World (Annotated)

After London (Annotated)

Journey to Other Worlds (Annotated)

Voyages of Captain Scott (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)

First Across the Continent (Annotated)

Destruction of the Greek Empire (Annotated)

Prairee Trilogy: O, Pioneers! + The Song of the Lark + My Antonia (3 Unabridged Classics) (Annotated)

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