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Download E-books Resurrection Day (A Storm and Fury Adventure Book 1) PDF

By Gail Z. Martin

A Steampunk brief tale set on the planet of Iron & Blood: A Jake Desmet Adventure.

Department of Supernatural research brokers Mitch typhoon and Jacob Drangosavich are referred to as in to enquire lacking corpses, clockwork zombies and a charlatan physician with ties to Jack the Ripper earlier than all hell breaks free.

New Pittsburgh, 1898 – a crucible of invention and intrigue. Born from the ashes of devastating hearth, flood and earthquake, the town is governed through the shadow executive of The Oligarchy. within the swarming streets, humans of 100 international locations drudge to feed the engines of growth. the dep. of Supernatural research was once arrange to maintain these issues that stay less than, that pass bump within the night... these bizarre circumstances that transcend 'standard' research. Nicknamed ‘Storm and Fury’, Mitch typhoon and Jacob Drangosavich are of the extra artistic brokers, operating in New Pittsburgh and obeying the principles - once they have to.

Includes bonus excerpt from Hell on Heels, a Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter novella by way of John G. Hartness

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Download E-books The Yellowstone Conundrum (Is This It? Book 1) PDF

The Yellowstone Caldera, the main harmful hot-spot at the floor of the earth, erupts with a chain of 11.2 earthquakes and spews volcanic ash excessive into the ambience. 600 miles away a 9.45 quake less than Puget Sound motives tremendous destruction to Seattle as a tsunami moves and destroys many of the waterfront.

The fortress Peck Dam in Montana at the Missouri River fails as does the Jackson Dam at the Snake River. the ability grid within the Western usa fast disintegrates, with software businesses fending for themselves. strength outages succeed in the East Coast.

The Yellowstone Conundrum is a page-turning novel with readers following 8 characters as they scramble out of harm's manner on Day One; daily humans placed into amazing events, with the President of the us and his cupboard scrambling within the heritage to discover the right way to get away from lose-lose scenarios.

The Columbia producing Plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation suffers nice harm and starts off a meltdown. Bridges in Portland cave in. Infrastructure within the NW is seriously broken and hundreds of thousands are killed; Salt Lake urban, Boise, Denver and each urban, city and village within the Pacific Northwest are affected.

The mammoth loss of life Cloud from the Yellowstone explosion sends volcanic ash into the jet flow, which then starts off to hold the heavy ash south throughout Wyoming, over Denver till it catches up with a low strain method advancing throughout Texas.

Follow military vet Ray Spaulding as he survives the crash of a WSDOT ferry within the tsunami, then manages to avoid wasting, then lead a handful of daily those who rally jointly to save lots of the Seattle Public Library from destruction via gangs.

University of Washington professor Denny Cain and pupil Karen Bagley vow to get out of Seattle, purely to discover themselves in a firefight because the neighborhood Seattle gangs try to declare the night.

Skier Penny Armstrong fights her internal demons via snowboarding north towards Billings in an try to keep away from the loss of life Cloud.

Long-distance trucker Cameron Hedges is compelled to step out of personality as he first rescues Betsy Jamison, then convinces a complete city to maneuver out of harm's way.

Robert and Nancy O'Brien, either up-and-coming managers in the division of the inner are separated through their jobs, then by way of the earthquake and explosion.

The President of the U.S. needs to care for his personal Kobayoshi Maru, with a sequence of very unlikely lose-lose situations because the strength grid within the usa collapses.

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Download E-books The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure PDF

By Martin W. Sandler

The useless of an Arctic iciness. Whaling ships packed with males, stranded in ice. stick to 3 rescuers in a race opposed to time — and all odds — during this heartpounding precise adventure.

In 1897, whaling within the Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast was once as risky because it used to be profitable. And in that exact 12 months, wintry weather blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that stuck 8 American whale ships and 3 hundred sailors off protect. Their ships locked in ice, with out technique of break out, the whalers had restricted provisions on board, and little desire of surviving until eventually hotter temperatures arrived many months later. here's the outstanding tale of 3 males despatched via President McKinley to rescue them. The project? a dangerous trek over 1,500 miles of approximately impassable Alaskan terrain, within the bone-chilling months of wintry weather, to safe herds of reindeer (for meals) and have the ability to steer them to the whalers prior to they starve. With assistance from pictures and magazine entries by means of one of many rescuers, Martin W. Sandler takes us on each step in their riveting trip, dealing with raging blizzards, killing chilly, injured sled canine, and setbacks to check the most powerful of wills.

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Download E-books Tusk the Mighty Mammoth (Beast Quest, Book 17) PDF

By Allan Frewin Jones, Adam Blade

Tusk the powerful titanic ideas the rotting forests of Gorgonia with razor sharp tusks. She terrorizes the rebels at warfare with the evil wizard Malvel and is protecting Ferno the fireplace Dragon captive. Can Tom and Elenna defeat Tusk prior to Malvel's guards tune them down?
"Then an enormous form got here smashing out of the bushes to their left. before everything, all Tom observed have been flying branches and full timber uprooted and thrown throughout the air. Then, lunging in the course of the chaos, got here the main substantial Beast Tom had ever seen.

Tusk got here thundering ahead, her large trunk lifted as she roared, her ft crushing every thing in her path."

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Download E-books Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting PDF

By T. R. Pearson

Welcome to the bold, exciting, and downright unusual adventures of William Willis, one of many world’s unique severe sportsmen. pushed via an unfettered urge for food for private problem and a yen for the trail of so much resistance, Willis fastened a single-handed and utterly not going rescue within the jungles of French Guiana after which two times crossed the huge Pacific on rafts of his personal layout, with simply housecats and a parrot for companionship. His first voyage, atop a ten-ton balsa monstrosity, used to be undertaken in 1954 while Willis used to be sixty. His moment raft, having crossed 11 thousand miles from Peru, came upon the north shore of Australia almost immediately after Willis’s 70th birthday. A surprise of power and health, William Willis used to be a gourmand of ordeal, all yet orchestrating brief rations, ship-wreck stipulations, and crushing solitude on his trans-Pacific voyages.

He’d been encouraged by way of Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl’s bid to turn out primitive raft may perhaps negotiate the open ocean. Willis’s journeys proven primitive guy may possibly in addition. Willis survived on rye flour and seawater, sang to maintain his spirits up, communicated along with his spouse through telepathy, suffered from bouts of transitority blindness, and eased the intermittent ache of a double hernia by means of looping a halyard round his ankles and dangling upside-down from his mast.

Rich with brilliant aspect and wry humor, Seaworthy is the tale of a sailor you’ve most likely by no means heard of yet want to know. In an age whilst numerous rafts have been adrift at the waters of the realm, their crews out to shore up one concept of ethno-migration or tear down one other, Willis’s demanding situations remained refreshingly own. His tools have been eccentric, his accomplishments little wanting outstanding. Don’t omit the opportunity to fulfill this singular monk of the sea.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Download E-books Cold Fear PDF

By Rick Mofina

Within the distant, rugged nook of Montana’s Glacier nationwide Park often called the Devil’s snatch, little Paige Baker of San Francisco disappears along with her puppy, Kobee, whereas on a camping out journey along with her kin; or so her father and mother have instructed authorities.

A multi-agency job strength launches an important seek as Paige fights to outlive within the wasteland. Time hammers opposed to her and shortly the kingdom is gripped by way of the life-and-death drama.

Secretly, behind the curtain, the FBI grows suspicious of Paige’s mom and dad. Their contemporary historical past and worrying proof hyperlinks them to a terrible mystery from the past.

About the author:

Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning writer of numerous acclaimed thrillers.

The overseas mystery Writers, the non-public Eye Writers of the United States and The Crime Writers of Canada have Rick Mofina's books as being top-of-the-line on the earth. His titles were released in a few 20 nations and feature been praised by way of James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee baby, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.

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Download E-books A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush PDF

By Eric Newby

A vintage of commute writing, 'A brief stroll within the Hindu Kush' is Eric Newby's iconic account of his trip via essentially the most distant and lovely wildernesses on the earth. It was once 1956, and Eric Newby was once incomes an incredible dwelling within the chaotic kin enterprise of London high fashion. Pining for experience, Newby despatched his good friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable - are you able to commute NURISTAN JUNE? - environment in movement a mythical trip from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul. green and in poor health ready (their arrangements concerned not anything greater than a few counsel from a Welsh waitress), the amateurish rogues embark on a month of experience and hassle in a single of the main appealing wildernesses in the world - a trip that adventurers with extra adventure and feel might by no means have undertaken. With stable humour, sharp wit and willing statement, the captivating narrative type of 'A brief stroll within the Hindu Kush' could quickly crystallise Newby's popularity as one of many maximum shuttle writers of all time. one of many maximum commute classics from one in every of Britain's best-loved shuttle writers, this variation contains new images, an epilogue from Newby's traveling spouse, Hugh Carless, and a prologue from one among Newby's maximum proponents, Evelyn Waugh.

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Download E-books The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader' (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5) PDF

By C. S. Lewis

A appealing paperback variation of The Voyage of the sunrise Treader, booklet 5 within the vintage delusion sequence, The Chronicles of Narnia, that includes disguise paintings through 3 time Caldecott Medal-winning artist David Wiesner and black-and-white inside illustrations by means of the unique illustrator, Pauline Baynes.

A king and a few unforeseen partners embark on a voyage that may take them past all identified lands. As they sail farther and further from charted waters, they notice that their quest is greater than they imagined and that the world's finish is barely the beginning.

The Voyage of the sunrise Treader is the 5th booklet in C. S. Lewis's vintage delusion sequence, a sequence that has been drawing readers of every age right into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over sixty years. this can be a novel that stands by itself, but when you want to proceed to the adventure, learn The Silver Chair, the 6th publication in The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Download E-books The Cross On The Drum PDF

By Hugh B. Cave

An odd younger guy, Barry Clinton. in contrast to such a lot younger missionaries, who got here to the island to save lots of souls, this one had include a belligerent skepticism and a riding selection to conflict illness and starvation.

He had come to the Ile du Vent with a Bible and some meager clinical offers, able to make the little Caribbean island a greater position during which to live.

The go at the Drum is the tale of the unusual friendship of Barry Clinton and Catus Laroche, excessive priest of vodun, the savage, ritualistic faith which no white guy had ever dared defy. It tells of the tormented, embittered passions of the opposite islanders—white and black—and how they undermined the bond among those males, altering their mutual recognize into brooding, vengeful hatred, and turning the island's drowsy, sunlit tranquility right into a feverish, drum-pounding battleground.

Hugh B. Cave, whose wisdom and deep figuring out of existence and customs within the West Indies distinct his prior works, has written the following an explosive, dramatic novel of Christianity and voodoo on a Caribbean island.

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