Tape Jockey

      Tom Leahy
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Tape Jockey is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Tom Leahy is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Tom Leahy then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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    Tinker's Dam

      Joseph Tinker
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Tinker's Dam is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Joseph Tinker is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Joseph Tinker then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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    Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School

      Margaret Penrose
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The second book in the Dorothy Dale series, in which Dorothy and her friends have an unfortunate encounter, which has long-lasting implications. Major Dale inherits some money, which enables him to send his daughter to Glenwood School, where she makes new friends - and enemies.

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    The Flying Death

      Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer best known for investigative journalism in which he exposed multiple public-health issues. Adams was also a prolific author of biographies and mystery novels. The Flying Death was Adams's first novel and one of his best known mysteries.

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    Plane and Plank; or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic

      Oliver Optic
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"Plane and Plank" is the second of The Upward and Onward Series, in which the hero, Phil Farringford, appears as a mechanic. The events of the story are located on the Missouri River and in the city of St. Louis. Phil learns the trade of a carpenter, and the contrast between a young mechanic of an inquiring mind, earnestly laboring to master his business, and one who feels above his calling, and overvalues his own skill, is presented to the young reader, with the hope that he will accept the lesson.Incidentally, in the person and history of Phil's father the terrible evils of intemperance are depicted, and the value of Christian love and earnest prayer in the reformation of the unfortunate inebriate is exhibited.Though the incidents of the hero's career are quite stirring, and some of the situations rather surprising, yet Phil is always true to himself; and those who find themselves in sympathy with him cannot possibly be led astray, while they respect his Christian principles, reverence the Bible, and strive with him to do their whole duty to God and man.Harrison Square, Boston, June 7, 1870.IN WHICH PHIL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF MR. LEONIDAS LYNCHPINNE."What do you think you shall do for a living, Phil Farringford, when you arrive at St. Louis?" asked Mr. Gracewood, as we sat on the hurricane deck of a Missouri River steamer."I don't care much what I do, if I can only get into some mechanical business," I replied. "I want to learn a trade. I don't think I'm very vain when I say that I have about half learned one now.""Perhaps you have half learned several," added my excellent friend, with a smile. "I have no doubt you will make a good mechanic, for you are handy in the use of tools; and you have been thrown so much upon your own resources that you are full of expedients.""I am always delighted when I have a difficult job to do. Nothing pleases me so much as to study up the means of overcoming an obstacle," I added."The first qualification for any pursuit is to have a taste for it. You will make a good mechanic.""I am only afraid that after I have learned a trade, I shall not care to work at it.""That won't do," protested Mr. Gracewood. "You mustn't keep jumping from one thing to another. Frequent change is the enemy of progress. You must not be fickle.""But, after I have learned my trade, or rather finished learning it, there will be no more difficulties to overcome.""Yes, there will. What trade do you mean to learn?""The carpenter's, I think.""There may be an infinite variety in the trade.""I know there may be, but there is not. One house must be very much like every other one, I don't think I could be contented to keep doing the same thing over and over again.""If you wish to succeed, you must stick to your trade, Phil Farringford.""Should I stick to it if I can do better at something else?""You must, at least, be very sure that you can do better at something else.""Of course I shall; but, if I learn my trade, I shall always have it to fall back upon.""That is very true; but I wish to impress it upon your mind that fickleness of purpose is fatal to any real success in morals, in science, and in business."Our conversation was interrupted by the stopping of the steamer at a wood-yard; for I never lost an opportunity, on those occasions, to take a walk on shore. I was nervously anxious to see everything there was to be seen. All was new and strange; and every day, as the settlements on the banks of the great river increased in number and extent, afforded me a new sensation. As I had been brought up far away from the haunts of civilization, even a house was a curiosity to me; and I gazed with astonishment at the busy scenes which were presented to me in some of the larger towns. At St. Joseph we had taken on board quite a number of passengers, and the scene in the cabin had become much livelier than before.ILLUSTRATIONSOn The Missouri Steamer.Phil Escapes From Glynn.Phil A

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    The Corner House Girls Snowbound

      Grace Brooks Hill
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There was a vast amount of tramping up and down stairs, and little feet, well shod, are noisy. This padding up and down was by the two flights of back stairs from the entry off the kitchen porch to the big heated room that was called by the older folks who lived in the old Corner House, “the nursery.” “But it isn’t a nursery,” objected Dot Kenway, who really was not yet big enough to fit the name of “Dorothy.” “We never had a nurse, did we, Tess? Ruthie helped bring us up after our own truly mamma died. And, then, ‘nursery’ sounds so little.”

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    Hunting the Lions

      R. M. Ballantyne
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The Scottish juvenile fiction writer R. M. Ballantyne was born into a famous family of publishers. Leaving home at age 16 he went to work for the Hudson's Bay Company; after returning home to Scotland R. M. Ballantyne published his first book "Hudson's Bay" detailing his experiences in Canada. Later Ballantyne would write about more of his experiences with Native Americans and the Fur trappers he met in the most remote regions of Canada. With his success as a writer he withdrew from the business world to become a full time writer for the rest of his life. With over a hundred different books he has become one of the most cherished juvenile fiction writers today. Along with his other exploits throughout his life he also was tremendously successful with his artwork as his water color paintings were displayed at the Royal Scottish Academy.

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    Nine Tomorrows

      Isaac Asimov
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Contents: · I Just Make Them Up, See! · Rejection Slips · Profession · The Feeling of Power · The Dying Night · I’m in Marsport Without Hilda · The Gentle Vultures · All the Troubles of the World · Spell My Name with an S · The Last Question · The Ugly Little Boy [“Lastborn”]

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    Riders on the Rez

      Jan Lofton
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Billy Tsosie meets his Navaho relatives for the 1st time ever but he is afraid he does not fit in. His Mom has never taught him Dine traditions and he thinks his older cousin Danny looks down on him because of it. But when Billy gets into a fight at the Kayenta Skateboard Park, it is Danny who comes to his rescue. With glossary of skate terms.Free, in memory of Rex Meyer.Young skateboarder Billy Tsosie is quick to take on kids who tease him about his Native American heritage, and equally quick to jump into a fight with the kid who kicks his little cousin, Shawna.When he interacts with his "rellies" on the Navajo reservation for the first time in his short life, he becomes proud of being Dine. Through the teaching of his older cousins, his uncles, great-grandmother, and Spiderwoman herself, he comes to understand the meaning of hozho, a Navajo term for "walking in beauty."

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    Soldier

      Catherine Lloyd
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Two linked tales of two amoral men transformed by the women who love them. Set in 13th Century England at Christmas. In Mercenary, Lord Broderick's wife dies in childbirth.Tess, the daughter of the lord whose lands Broderick has usurped, becomes the infant's wet nurse. In Jester, Dumas, a deformed clown travels the countryside with his assistant, Fallon, a young woman who is disguised as a boy.Two linked tales of two amoral men transformed by the women who love them. Set in 13th Century England at Christmas. In Mercenary, Lord Broderick, has been made a new father but his wife dies in childbirth and his infant son is failing to thrive. Then Tess is brought before him, the daughter of the lord whose lands Broderick has usurped. Unaware of her identity, the new master of Castlemuir confines the young woman to his inner sanctum to nurse his son, unaware that Tess poses the greatest danger to him of all.In Jester, Dumas is a hideously deformed clown who travels the countryside in a caravan with his assistant, Fallon, a young woman disguised as a boy. In return for keeping her identity a secret, Fallon must perform for the misshapen man each night. But Dumas has a secret of his own as Fallon soon learns after a performance at Castlemuir Hall.Dark Redeemer Historical Romance is a series of stand-alone adventure-romance tales set in 13th Century England during the reign of King John, known as the High Middle Ages. The stories are full of action and romance. However, Mercenary and Jester contain certain love scenes that are not suitable for younger readers.

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    Vampire Manifesto

      Rashaad Bell
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There is a price on my head for 3.5 million dollars and my every move is being shadowed by a collection of individuals calling themselves the Marauders. The only thing standing between them and me is a Vampire who takes offense to Immortals making power moves in his city. Vampires. Mutants. Werewolves. This is my life now. My name is Madison Amber Rose and this is the story of how I died.The hardest thing most kids my age have to deal with is graduating high school. I wish my life was that tranquil. There is a price on my head for three point five million dollars and my every move is being shadowed by a collection of individuals calling themselves the Marauders. The only thing standing between them and me is a Vampire who takes offense to Immortals making power moves in his city without asking his permission first. Apparently I am destined to open one of the Boxes of Pandora and supernatural forces are converging on my position to either use me, because they want the contents for themselves, or kill me, so the Box stays sealed forever. Vampires. Mutants. Werewolves. This is my life now. My name is Madison Amber Rose and this is the story of how I died.

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    Shadow

      B.A. Savage
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Shadow is the second story in the 14 story McLaughlin City Series. A genetically engineered assassin resurfaces after a 7 year disappearance and is killing off her former employees one by one. This is shortly after her return from the tomb (the first book in the series)."Daniel Deronda", George Eliot's last, great novel, was highly acclaimed on its first publication in 1876. It tells the intertwining stories of two young people seeking their paths in life: the beautiful Gwendolen Harleth, and Daniel Deronda, whose parentage is a mystery to him. The work of an authoress at the height of her powers, it is, however, much less widely read nowadays than its predecessor "Middlemarch" - partly due to its extreme length and density.This abridgement shortens the book to about 60 per cent of its original length, whilst being careful to retain its character and all elements of the plot. It aims to make this important and insightful novel more accessible to today's general reader.

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    Swashbuckler

      Mikel Etcheverry
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An epic tale of love and adventure set in the Paris and Prague of 1770, Swashbuckler recounts how a group of soldiers and spies does its best to thwart the evil plans of a cabal intent on bringing Europe to war yet again, all the while finding love.A heroic comedy in five acts, in verses.Swashbuckler is the story set in 1770 of a group of spies, French, English and Americans, who are sent from Paris to Prague to undo the plans of a group of powerful men who have vested interests in a new European conflict.They will cross path with three pirates who seem out of place on dry land, an old alchemist who may have lost his mind - or not, a Russian female spy famed for her deadliness, as well as several other colorful characters. Sword fights and love stories abound in this epic comedy.It is all written in alexandrines, twelve syllable verses rhyming two by two.A play in five acts.

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