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Deception Point

• Author: Brown Dan
• Genre: American fiction

When NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep under the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory–a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery–a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the president, Rachel and Michael were ambushed by assassins.

Lord of the Flies

• Author: William Golding
• Genre: American fiction

The author is talk about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. First time boys lived in cooperation. But Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Ralph invited some rules, but soon they were ignored or challenged outright. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted.

Studies in Islamic mysticism

• Author: Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne, 1868-1945
• Genre: History and criticism

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Bucky O'Connor

• Author: Raine William MacLeod
• Genre: American fiction

Bucky O'Connor is considered to be one of the best books written by Raine William MacLeod. It describes the adventures of good and bad guys, has a happy end and a number of funny moments that will make you smile or even laugh. Moreover, the book contains four wonderful illustrations which add charm to the story. Being published in 1907 for the first time, it remains very popular among different generations of readers who search for a chance to dive into the life of the beginning of the 20th century.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

• Author: Dunbar-Nelson Alice Moore
• Genre: American fiction

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Dangerous Days

• Author: Rinehart Mary Roberts
• Genre: American fiction

The Hindered Hand

• Author: Griggs Sutton Elbert
• Genre: American fiction

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. Rather Late In Life To Be Still Namelexs. N THE morrow following our ride into Almaville on the passenger train, toward twilight Ensal Ellwood sat upon the front porch of his pretty little home, a sober look in his firm, kindly eyes. By his side sat his aged mother, whose sweet dark face of regular features was crowned with hair that was now white from the combined efforts of time and sorrow. Her usually placid countenance wore a look of positive alarm. She had just been a listener to a conversation between her son and Gus Martin. Gus Martin was a Negro of brownish hue, whose high cheek bones, keen eyes, coarse black hair and erect carriage told plainly of the Indian blood in his veins. Gus was a great admirer of both Ensal and Earl Bluefield and the three had gone to the Spanish-American war together, Ensal, who was a minister, as chaplain, Gus and Earl as soldiers. These three were present at the battle of San Juan Hill, and Gus, who was himself notoriously brave, scarcely knew which to admire the more, Ensal's searching words that inspired the men for that world-famous dash or Earl's enthusiastic, infectious daring on the actual scene of conflict. Gus could read and write in a fashion, but was by no means as well educated as either Ensal or Earl, his friends, and consequently looked to them largely for guidance. Earl had made efforts to secure promotion upon the record of his services in battle, but had failed, because, according to common opinion, of the disinclination of the South to have Negro officers in the army. Gus Martin took Earl's failure to secure promotion more to heart than did Earl himself. Gus was a follower but not a member of the church of which Ensal was pastor, and he had come to pour forth his sentiments to Ensal anent the failure o...

A family party in the piazza of St. Peter : and other stories 2

• Author: Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
• Genre: American fiction

Reprinted from various periodicals Publisher's advertisement: v. 3, p. [2] v. 3. A bit of Tuscan life in the seventeenth century. The heiress of Galera. "I butteri." A prefect and a prefecture in Sicily. The records of the Venetian inquisition. "The thunderbolt of painting." Goldoni

The Germans in Texas; a study in immigration

• Author: Benjamin, Gilbert Giddings, 1874-1941
• Genre: History and criticism

"Reprinted from German American annals, vol. VII." Bibliography: p. 133-139

Studies in modern German literature: Sudermann; Hauptmann; Women writers of the nineteenth century

• Author: Heller, Otto
• Genre: History and criticism

Index by Paul Reiff