Dead man's hand. After losing both his ranch and his sweetheart, Tedro Ames has a choice: become the laughingstock of Swiftwater, or figure out a way to redeem himself in the eyes of the town. And then he gets the Black Ace, the calling card of ruthless blackmailers who have been terrorising the area. This is Tedro's chance. Unmasking the Black Ace Gang would make him a hero - even if he has to give up his life to do it.

Black Aces

Literature & Fiction

Payne, Stephen

Genre Fiction

Sagebrush Large Print

Imperialism and Its Legacy

History

Kline, Benjamin

World

University Press of America

This collection of articles deals with the effects of imperialism in the modern world. Its approach is to take imperial events and contrast them with relevent contemporary events. Contents: Africa; South Africa; Ireland; Imperial Intervention; and Modern Legacy. Contributors: Harry A. Gailey, Clarke K. Speed, Mira Zussman, Benjamin Kline, Ged Martin, Brian Girvin, Ted C. Hinckley, Stephen M. Payne, Doreen Gama Farr, Charles B. Burdick, Robert Kumamoto, Michael Boll.

United States

Leisure Books

Queen Elizabeth 2 is probably the most famous liner in the world and was one of the last great transatlantic liners. QE2 - as she is more commonly known - was a global ambassador for both Cunard and Britain. She sailed nearly 6 million miles and carried 2½ million passengers in style, comfort and luxury. QE2 was launched in 1967 and made her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 2 May 1969. During almost 40 years of service QE2 undertook regular world cruises and latterly operated mainly as a cruise ship, sailing out of Southampton. At 70,327 tons and 963ft long with a top speed of 32 1/2 kts, she is also one of the fastest and grandest passenger vessels ever built. In 2008 QE2 was sold by Cunard to Istithmar (the investment arm of Dubai World) for conversion to a floating hotel. However, the fulfilment of this plan and indeed the future of the liner is now uncertain owing to the world economic situation.

QE2 - Queen Elizabeth 2: 1967-2008 (Owners' Workshop Manual)

Military

Haynes Publishing, UK

At 151,400 tons and 1,132ft in length RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) is the largest transatlantic ocean liner ever built. QM2 succeeded Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) as the flagship of the Cunard Line, with the retirement of the QE2 from active service in 2008. Her designer, Stephen Payne, is in a unique position to give an unrivalled insight into the design, construction and operation of this giant of the seas. He has interviewed key QM2 personnel for this book and his revealing narrative is supported by almost 300 photographs and illustrations.

RMS Queen Mary 2 Manual: An insight into the design, construction and operation of the world's largest ocean liner

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Dead man's hand. After losing both his ranch and his sweetheart, Tedro Ames has a choice: become the laughingstock of Swiftwater, or figure out a way to redeem himself in the eyes of the town. And then he gets the Black Ace, the calling card of ruthless blackmailers who have been terrorising the area. This is Tedro's chance. Unmasking the Black Ace Gang would make him a hero - even if he has to give up his life to do it.

Gunsmoke Westerns

It's hard to imagine modern Canada without the airplane. In an immense, open country with many challenges to travel, flight has become an integral part of Canadian life, from bush pilots landing floatplanes on remote lakes to business travellers shuttling between cities and time zones. Here the rich resources of the Canada Aviation Museum provide a fresh look at the aviation heritage that made this possible. Canadian Wings gives a full and copiously illustrated account of how powered flight developed during its first century in Canada, as well as the contribution that Canadians made to the wider story of flight in the world. Vignettes and anecdotes bring famous Canadian fliers to life, from J.A.D. McCurdy and Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association to World War I aces Bishop, Barker and Collishaw, and from bush pilots "Wop" May and "Punch" Dickins to steadfast flyers-turned-boardroom-executives Grant McConachie, Gordon McGregor and Max Ward.

Canadian Wings: A Remarkable Century of Flight

Douglas&McIntyre

Center Point Pub

Arsonists in silver-white garments, animate snowmen, reduce innocent victims and private property alike to blackened husks. Then armed with strange pistols, the killers murder a number of crooked industrialists and dope lords. Only then can the arsonists' chief, the fiendish Resurrectionist, raise the gunshot victims from the grave! But new life isn't so great, since all of the formerly deceased are now wild-eyed, twitching addicts, slaves to a mysterious “sugar”!  Can the Resurrectionist really build his criminal cult by raising the dead and summoning the Wrath of God on his enemies? Or is his actual goal something more personal: the real identity of the Man of a Thousand Faces?  To answer these questions, the brilliant detective and his courageous assistants, a known criminal among them, must confront an old enemy. He will force the Secret Agent to face his own shadowy past and to admit that even he might finally have run out of disguises–and surprises….

Secret Agent "X": The Resurrection Ring

Action & Adventure

Altus Press

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Black Aces

Imperialism and Its Legacy

Imperialism and Its Legacy

Black Aces

QE2 - Queen Elizabeth 2: 1967-2008 (Owners' Workshop Manual)

RMS Queen Mary 2 Manual: An insight into the design, construction and operation of the world's largest ocean liner

Black Aces

Canadian Wings: A Remarkable Century of Flight

Black Aces

Secret Agent "X": The Resurrection Ring