Michael Martin
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A desperado in the shadow of the gallows recounts his life of crime in this rollicking seventeenth-century memoir. Michael Martin, better known as Captain Lightfoot, confessed his history of highway robbery to a Boston reporter shortly before his execution. Martin had cut a dashing figure as Captain Lightfoot, renowned for his courtly manners and his Robin Hood-like predilection for stealing only from well-to-do men. His tale of adventure and intrigue,...
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English
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The Mick & Marie Story is an action-packed adventure story with mountain climbing, cliff dancing, hang gliding, boating and murder constituting, save-freedom-of-speech twist.
Mickey Swift and Marie Sweet team up as photographer and reporter to get a story about a phony animal rescue shelter operating under a government tax exemption grant. Marie got the story lead from the director of the California FBI Office. Paul Du Pree, Marie's spurned...
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English
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The Crestfallen Rose merges the journey of a child born blind with that of two women whose lives are devastated in pre–World War II Germany into an exciting tale of love and death. Samantha Talbot is born blind. Her mother, Ally, searches for the cause and finds a mysterious link to a pesticide and to Worldwide Chemical. No lawyer will touch her case, until a former district attorney, David King, agrees to fight for her and Sam. Decades before...
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English
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Steel Fortress is a story of survival, about a flyboy aboard a B-17 bomber who is catapulted into the extraordinary experience of flying the heavies in the never to be replicated arena of World War II air combat. He flies the gauntlet of Germanys defensive network in 1944, battling the demons of war in the European Theater and also in his mind. It is a commentary on the totality of the human experience of war, from the brutal realities of combat to...
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English
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Michael J. Martin's A History of the 4th Wisconsin Infantry and Cavalry in the Civil War is a deeply researched and vividly written study of an unheralded Federal combat regiment. Few of the thousands of regiments raised to fight the American Civil War experienced the remarkably diverse history of this little-known organization.
The Wisconsin "Badgers" began the war as foot soldiers in the summer of 1861 as the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry....
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English
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This book of poems has been in the works since the Vietnam War era. Many of them have evolved and been refined over the years - I could never let go of them. Some are about The Vietnam War and the weapons of war, some illustrate the consequences of war, some elicit the spiritual side of war, and many reflect upon how family and friends were affected. The late sixties and early seventies was a turbulent time for America and this book is an effort to...
14) Rivers
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places. On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature's tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands,...
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English
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"Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also has the most annual gun deaths--homicide, suicide,...
18) Ghosts
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Learn about the types of ghosts, famous ghost sightings, and how ghost hunters find these shadowy forms.
19) The sundered
Author
Series
Star trek The lost era ; 2298
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English