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Albion Fellows Bacon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Albion Fellows Bacon

Albion Fellows Bacon Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper Robert G. Barrows Examines the career of a leading Progressive Era reformer. Born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1865, Albion Fellows was reared in the nearby hamlet of McCutchanville and graduated from Evansville High School. She worked for several years as a secretary and court reporter, toured Europe with her sister, married local merchant Hilary Bacon in 1888, and settled into a seemingly comfortable routine of middle-class domesticity. In 1892, however, she was afflicted with an illness that lasted for several years, an illness that may have resulted from a real or perceived absence of outlets for her intelligence and creativity. Bacon ev...

Tomes of Terror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Tomes of Terror

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-10
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations. Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and lured into their endless depths. Tomes of Terror is a celebration and an eerie look at the siren call of literature and the unexplained and fascinating stories associated with bookish locations around the world. Mark Leslie’s latest paranormal page-turner is a compendium of true stories of the supernatural in literary locales, complete with hair-raising first-person accounts. You may even recognize a spectre of your local library lurking in these true stories and photographs. If you have ever felt an indescribable presence hanging about a quiet bookshop, then you’ll enjoy these fascinating and haunting tales.

Real Hauntings 4-Book Bundle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 966

Real Hauntings 4-Book Bundle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-28
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

Experience a ghostly thrill with Mark Leslie’s four books on strange supernatural happenings. Creepy Capital True stories of ghostly encounters and creepy locales lurk throughout the Ottawa region. Come along with Canada’s paranormal raconteur extraordinaire, Mark Leslie, and discover the first-person accounts of ghostly happenings at landmarks throughout the historic city and surrounding towns. Haunted Hamilton From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart — from the shadows of yesteryear a...

Real Hauntings — 3-Book Bundle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 698

Real Hauntings — 3-Book Bundle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-01
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

This special three-book bundle collects three haunting books on the supernatural by Mark Leslie. In Spooky Sudbury and Haunted Hamilton he relays creepy tales from two of Canada’s cities. Lock the doors and turn on all the lights before you settle down with these stories, because once you begin to read about the supernatural elements that lurk within these seemingly normal towns in Southern Ontario, strange bumps in the night will take on new, more sinister meanings. In Tomes of Terror Leslie has compiled true stories of the supernatural in literary locales, complete with hair-raising first-person accounts. You may even recognize a spectre of your local library lurking in these true stories and photographs. If you have ever felt an indescribable presence hanging about a quiet bookshop, then you’ll enjoy these fascinating and haunting tales. Haunted Hamilton Spooky Sudbury Tomes of Terror

Special Residential Edition of the Ithaca, New York, City Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Special Residential Edition of the Ithaca, New York, City Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Membership Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Membership Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Insider
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Insider

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Silhouette

Raised in isolation all his life, Gideon Faulkner finally ventures into the outside world when his brainwashing breaks down. The shy genius has a lot of living to do, and sassy, hardworking waitress Brooke Carter is the perfect guide. Original.

The Golden Scales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

The Golden Scales

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-02
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring... Makana is a former police inspector who fled for his life to Cairo from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and haunted by the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in no position to refuse him. Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune is glittering, is the owner of Cairo's star-studded football team. His most valuable player has just vanished and Adil Romario's disappearance threatens to bring down not only Hanafi's private empire, but the entire country. But why should the city's most powerful man hire its lowliest private detective? Thrust into a dangerous and glittering world, Makana's investigation leads him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted country- where he encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter. It becomes a trail that stirs up painful memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy...

Stewart Parker
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Stewart Parker

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-06
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though, such as the amputation of his left leg at age 19, helped to create an extraordinarily perceptive observer and commentator. Steeped in American popular culture as a child and young adult, he spent five years teaching in the United States before returning to Belfast in August 1969, the same week British troops responded to sectarian disturbances there. Parker had developed a sense of writing as a form of political action in the highly charged ...

American Library Directory 2003-2004
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2216

American Library Directory 2003-2004

This indispensable resource makes it easy to: - Contact colleagues, other libraries, or library organizations.- Locate special collections, rare book and document holdings, and manuscript collections.- Find consortium libraries or networks for interlibrary loans, information, or membership.- Compare other libraries' facilities, services, and expenditures with yours.- Identify libraries equipped for the disabled and other specialized facilities.- Find out about seminars and in-service educational programs. Libraries are listed alphabetically by state and city, and registries of library schools and library consortia are included as well.