Goldkeeper

Goldkeeper
Author: Sally Prue
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780192719508

Sebastian is horrified when he is chosen by the High Priest to be the new apprentice at the Temple of Ora. The choice of Sebastian doesn't please Mr Meeno, the gangster chief, either, or his nephew Horace, who had expected to be chosen as apprentice himself. And when the High Priest goes into hiding, and Sebastian narrowly avoids several nasty accidents, it's plainly urgent that Sebastian and his pet rat Gerald find out just what is going on. Suggested level: Secondary.

Herdbook

Herdbook
Author: British Friesian Cattle Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 874
Release: 1917
Genre: Holstein-Friesian cattle
ISBN:

UNITED STATES SHIP TEXAS THE ELDORADO ADVENTURE

UNITED STATES SHIP TEXAS THE ELDORADO ADVENTURE
Author: Captain Eugene Ray Martin
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164027877X

President Roosevelt in 1941 sent the twenty-seven-year-old battleship Texas and her mini task force on an important mission to an American territory. Not to protect that territory, but to salvage their wealth before the Japanese can obtain that wealth and use it to build more weapons of war. Their primary goal was to avoid frightening or threating the Japanese, thus giving the Japanese an excuse to start a war. At that time the Japanese were rattling their sabers. The Americans expected the Japanese at any time to attack somewhere in Southeast Asia. The Japanese were in the midst of a multiyear attempt to colonize China. Because of the political intrigue, they had to secretly organize the expedition. They had to decide what minimum resources were available. It took time for political mechanisms to get started and for the military planners to organize the expedition. It had to be done right the first time. They will face frantic Japanese forces with overwhelming forces.

Eleanor of Castile

Eleanor of Castile
Author: Sara Cockerill
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1445636050

The untold story of the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I

The Parables of the Tail with No Teeth

The Parables of the Tail with No Teeth
Author: Patrick Fero
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2008-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462827713

The Parables chronicle the life and death of a castle society strangled into a coma by a terminal case of Bureaucratitus, hardening of the hallways. A young squire, Thomas Bucket, and his liege lord, Sir Lancelot, join the mle, joust with revolutionary zeal, but still cannot unhorse such stalwart practitioners of palatine politics as the Prince of the Piles, Lord Bellicose or the Parchment Patrollers (paper pushers of the first order). In the end, the nobles are led by the Wise Men, Smoke and Mirrors, into the sad Diaspora Bureaucrati. This book will help you avoid the same fate.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield
Author: Geoffrey Sadler
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1783408316

Midlands murders take center stage in a “gripping” book that “chronicles some of Mansfield’s most gruesome deaths over the past two centuries” (Mansfield Chad). A young girl waylaid and battered with a hedge stake while returning home from Mansfield on a warm summer evening. Four family members butchered in a blazing house just off Commercial Street. An old farmer repeatedly speared by a hayfork in the mire of a rural farmyard. A drunken housewife found murdered in a haystack at Worksop, a razor killing and suicide on Nottingham Road, and the mysterious woman’s skeleton discovered in the spoil of Sherwood Colliery tip. These, and other cases detailed here, show how often violent death has visited Mansfield and North Nottinghamshire in the past. Drawing on two hundred years of reported crime in Mansfield and the surrounding area, this account reveals the grim catalog of foul deeds, the variety of lethal weapons used—from a hedge stake to a mohair bootlace—and the age-old motives of greed, jealousy, forbidden desires, and thwarted love that have so often led men and women to murder.