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The first cell struck on 9/11, the next cell will strike soon... it has been deployed.Within hours of the devastating terrorist attacks on 9/11, CIA officer Chris Morehouse is dispatched on a mission to Afghanistan. Objective: locate a man he once wanted to kill and get him to the United States... dead or alive.Thrust into a war zone with little more than a pistol and an ill-conceived plan, Chris marches into the unknown expecting the worst.Ch...

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Tapping into the continuing popularity of Sherlock Holmes books, films and series, this new Baker Street novel sees Holmes look into why the suspect in a jewel-theft framing he was investigating was abruptly murdered. Davies was editor of "Sherlock Holmes: The Detective Magazine".

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A New Historical and Descriptive View of Derbyshire: From the Remotest Period to the Present TimeJeeienv of moniuou'rii, ' a Writer of the twelfth century, says, that Great Britain was originally peopled by a party of Trojans, who headed by bnute, a greatsgrarrdson of enea's, the hem of virgil, escaped from Greece, when! They had been held in captivity, since their ex: pulsion from Italy. But ¿attering as this new count may be to ...

Excerpt from A Treatise on Metalliferous: Minerals and MiningIN revising this book for the Fifth edition, I have endeavoured, while making additions wherever they seemed to be necessary, to keep within the original design of the work as laid down by my father in the Preface to the First edition.The advances made in the knowledge of particular minerals, and of their distribution throughout the globe, as well as in the adaptation of processes an...

Excerpt from Letters on the Miraculous Conception: A Vindication of the Doctrine, Maintained in a Sermon, Preached at Belper, in Dersyshirs, In Answer to the Rev. Mr. Alliott, and the Rev. Mr. TaylorConscious that the doctrine there maintained was well founded, I professed myself ready to meet any one who might dispute it, and wished, to have a further opportunity of fairly discus sing a subject which was there but partially treated upon. Two ...

Excerpt from The Church and the Plain ManNothing is so hard to write as a book on a practical subject especially on so wide a subject as I have chosen. The reasons for my choice are stated in the first lecture. For publication I have two reasons. The first is given by the conditions of the lectureship, the second is that I have only tried to do what every member of the church ought to try to do.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hund...

Excerpt from A Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and MiningThe design of the book is stated in the Preface to the first edition, and it does not aim at anything beyond that purpose.It simply seeks to set forth, for ordinary English readers, the substance of our knowledge on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

Excerpt from A Treatise on Slate and Slate Quarrying: Scientific, Practical, and CommercialThe manner in which the first. Edition of this book has been received both by the Press and the public, besides being gratifying to myself, shows the necessity there was for a. Work of the kind.During the last eighteen months the slate trade has passed through a. Severe depression. Happily, while it was the last branch of industry to succumb to the bad n...

Excerpt from A Treatise on Slate and Slate Quarrying: Scientific, Practical, and CommercialThe manner in which the first. Edition of this book has been received both by the Press and the public, besides being gratifying to myself, shows the necessity there was for a. Work of the kind.During the last eighteen months the slate trade has passed through a. Severe depression. Happily, while it was the last branch of industry to succumb to the bad n...

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