I have an abiding mistrust of parking lots , and so , I imagine , does James Hawk . Mr. Hawk is a prominent lawyer who practises in Portsmouth , Virginia . One evening Mr. Hawk skipped out of his office at close of day and down to his ...
It was a normal summer afternoon when Mona and Bitsy left the mall to head home after their day of shopping.
I was quite in his hands and knew that as long as l stuck to him l was safe ... a black tracker was employed who can ... he takes far more interest in my affairs than almost any white man and in many instances he is worth gold to me for ...
She is aided by her friend and suitor, Paul de Saint-Martin. They believe the young woman's death may have been the work of renegade French army officer Captain Fitzroy, already accused of a brutal rape in Paris.
When James and Harvey needed money to get their drilling business going , Stewart had loaned it to them . About 1878 Wallace came back from the West , where he'd made a fortune with railroad ties . He had been impressed with the ...
The complete book of the Rugby World Cup 2011 tells the story of the competition from the opening ceremony to the presentation of the cup with details of every game played and photographs of all the action both on and off the field.
A heroic small-boned horse with a will to win is finally ridden to glory by his devoted jockey.
A history of the slick and foul-smelling substance that drives our existence and that becomes scarcer as our dependence on it grows.
Written in the captivating style of his bestselling book The English, Paxman ranges widely across Britain to explore stories of engineers and inventors, entrepreneurs and industrialists - but whilst coal inevitably helped the rich become ...
Looks at the life of Jimi Hendrix and his previously unknown recordings, rare film and video performances, rare recorded collaborations, and memorabilia.
The Story of Oil in Our Lives Albert Marrin. B L A C K G O L D THE STORY OF OIL IN OUR LIVES on, so so. A L B E R T M A. R. R. I. N o Black Gold The story of Oil in Our Lives Albert. Front Cover.
Analyze how the falling production and rising demand of oil has enabled savvy companies and investment banks to cash in with Black Gold. You'll find investment suggestions -- from ETFs...
In this thought-provoking exposé, Antony Wild, coffee trader and historian, explores coffee's dismal colonial past, its perilous corporate present, and the environmental destruction which could limit its future, revealing the shocking ...
The development of the car, in 1900 only a puny infant, is too well known to need much discussion here. It required, of course, ... helped to test one of the first British-made diesel lorries in 1929. It was manufactured by Kerr Stuart, ...
The setting is Bath, England's most fashionable spa, during the spring season of 1787.
Blackmail. or .. . ? The new day helped to sort out the previous night's turmoil in James's mind Before reporting the string of strange incidents to Dick Elli0t, he felt compelled to establish whether the compromising of the commander ...
The Osage Indians lost their ancestral freedom on a windswept reservation in Oklahoma. Now, in the Roaring Twenties, the land is spewing black gold; oil has been found, and every Osage owns a share of the rights.
With help from the Sun and the Moon, they create a child of the Universe: beautiful, powerful, and boundless with the brilliance of Black Gold"--
"BLACK GOLD is the sixth and final volume in Iris Gower's superb novel sequence of novels about Swansea in the early years of the twentieth century.
Set against the thrilling and colorful world of Thoroughbred horses, Black Gold is the true story of a legendary horse and his determined young jockey.