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In the spring of 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a hotheaded young newcomer to Virginia, led a revolt against the colony's Indian policies. Bacon's Rebellion turned into a civil war within Virginia - and a war of extermination against the colony's Indian allies - that lasted into the following winter, sending shock waves throughout the British colonies and into England itself. James Rice offers a colorfully detailed account of the rebellion, revealing how Piscataways, English planters, slave traders, Susquehannocks, colonial officials, plunderers and intriguers were all pulled into an escalating conflict whose outcome, month by month, remained uncertain.

A string of thefts ends in a grisly murder. Certain evidence leads Captain Barnwell to suspect a former thief, Rutherford Nordlinger, as the culprit. Carl Brooke becomes personally involved as Nordlinger’s guilt is questioned. In the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, Clay Boutwell brings back the Agora Society and its premiere scholar, Carl Brooke. This is the second novella in the Agora series, the first being Two Tocks Before Midnight.

Our Jungle Road to Tokyo is the action-packed account of how US and Allied forces overcame incredible odds to rout invading Japanese from entrenched positions deep in the mountain jungles of Papua New Guinea. Battles in The Buna Campaign took place in swamps, impassable vegetation, coconut plantations with invisible snipers buried in tree roots, hillsides riddled with pill-boxes and maze-like underground bunkers impervious to artillery and mortar.

This book is a narrative about how and why the airline industry has changed so much over the past 60 years. Many anecdotes are hilarious. Some, on the other hand, are frightful and scary. All are interesting.

Build more than a strategy: build a COMPLETE trading system. Most traders focus only on finding a winning strategy. But the ones who last in the market know it takes much more than that. You need a system; something that blends your strategies, your technology, and your psychology into one clear plan you can follow every day. In TradeBook, bestselling author Andrew Aziz (How to Day Trade for a Living) teams up with performance coach and trained psychologist Crede Sheehy-Kelly to show you exactly how to do it.

Jessica Shine is perhaps the most powerful magick user in the world. But even with all that power, she is trapped. Trapped by the Midnight Project, a secret government agency charged with battling vampires, shape shifters and dark magicians. But in order to battle those evil forces, they have begun to create monsters of their own. Monsters like Jessica Shine and her teammates, transformed with ancient rituals, arcane magicks and modern genetics to create supernatural warriors capable of defeating the dark forces threatening the world. But at what price?

In 1865 France, a Japanese samurai princess far from home forms an unexpected bond with a rising young artist—Claude Monet. Their connection is tender, complicated, and shaped by forces neither of them fully understands. More than a century later, Julia's life begins to unravel during a period of intense personal stress. Strange emotions and memories surface—feelings that seem to belong to another time, another life, yet echo deeply within her own.

Murder and intrigue abound. At the center of it all appears a mysterious sheikh and his cursed ruby.

Kidnapped! An honorable man has gone missing and his wife is not in the least helpful. The sheriff dithers and every day brings death closer to a reality. It is late 1865. After hostilities cease, the Agora Society, led by the indomitable Carl Brooke, sends a group to aid the reconstruction of Wilmington Port in North Carolina and to encourage its sister society, the Nec Temere. Unknown to the volunteers, a heinous crime has been committed, creating a greater urgency for the Agora's more ... colorful services.

My own long experience of African hunting told me at once that every word in this thrilling narrative was absolutely true. Nay more: I knew that the author had told his story in a most modest manner, laying but little stress on the dangers he had run when sitting up at nights to try and compass the death of the terrible man-eaters, especially on that one occasion when whilst watching from a very light scaffolding, supported only by four rickety poles, he was himself stalked by one of the dread beasts.

Transcending religious boundaries to offer a deeply human perspective on the life, teachings, and enduring legacy of the revered figure, Gibran brings to life the story of Jesus Chris. He presents a fictionalized account of the life of Jesus Christ, through the eyes of 79 different accounts. A beautiful exploration of Jesus teachings, actions, and the influence he had on those around him.

The student of occultism usually is quite familiar with the crass individual who assumes the cheap skeptical attitude toward occult matters, which attitude he expresses in his would-be "smart" remark that he "believes only in what his senses perceive". He seems to think that his cheap wit has finally disposed of the matter, the implication being that the occultist is a credulous, easy person who believes in the existence of things contrary to the evidence of the senses.

Build more than a strategy: build a COMPLETE trading system. Most traders focus only on finding a winning strategy. But the ones who last in the market know it takes much more than that. You need a system; something that blends your strategies, your technology, and your psychology into one clear plan you can follow every day. In Trading for a Living, bestselling author Andrew Aziz (How to Day Trade for a Living) teams up with performance coach and trained psychologist Crede Sheehy-Kelly to show you exactly how to do it.

It begins with a long-dormant virus released from an archaeological dig in Northern Alaska. A researcher studying the virus suffers a fever and launches into a bloody killing spree that ends with two police officers dead. A second researcher, Dr. Meg Perriman, has just flown home for the Easter holiday with her family in North Carolina, unknowingly carrying the virus.

Have you ever wanted to brew your own beer? Distill your own whiskey? Develop your very own homegrown marijuana? Why not all three? This do-it-yourself bundle from Richard Altman combines three of his home crafting manuals into one convenient package. Learn the ins, outs, techniques, pitfalls, and best practices for creating your own alcohol and growing your own weed - all from scratch, all from home, and all for novices.

A sleazy entrepreneur tries to make love and money out of the back of his van in downtown LA.

Evelyn Carter, a young, struggling video news stringer, is recruited to join an elite government-run time travel agency. She and her team travel through time with the public goal of collecting artifacts lost to time and capturing historical events on video for the world to see. Along the way, she learns of a secret in history so terrifying that it must be kept hidden from the public at all costs. Lost history, top secret agendas, and a frightening future are just the beginning.

The purpose of the first portion of this book is to show, through actual true stories, how imagining creates reality. Science progresses by way of hypotheses tentatively tested and afterwards accepted or rejected according to the facts of experience. The claim that imagining creates reality needs no more consideration than is allowed by science. It proves itself in performance.

Brief summary of the essentials of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy, with guided affirmations to actuate and energize the given principles and support positive change in a person's life.

Five years after a devastating solar storm wipes out civilization and spawns a strange race of mutants, Rachel Wheeler and her misfit family must choose whether to hide away or fight to join other survivors. As their food supply dwindles inside their bunker, radiation from abandoned nuclear plants is altering the world around them. Not only are the mutants building their own cities and weapons, the remaining dregs of the US military are massing for an attack.