Out of the Mist and Steam
Title | Out of the Mist and Steam PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Duff |
Publisher | Becklyn Publishing Group |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The true story of this controversial writer's life.
From Mist and Steam
Title | From Mist and Steam PDF eBook |
Author | James Haddock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2019-09-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781691435951 |
Searching the battlefield after a major battle Sgt. Eli finds a dead Union Army messenger. In the messenger's bag is a message saying the South had surrendered, the war was over. Along with the Union Messenger was a dead Union Captain carrying his discharge papers, and eight thousand dollars. Sgt. Eli decides now is a good time to seek other opportunities, away from the stink of war. While buying supplies from his friend the quartermaster, he is advised to go to St. Louis. Those opportunities may lie there and a crowd to get lost in. Sgt. Eli, becomes Capt. Myers, a discharged Union Cavalry Officer, and strikes out for St. Louis. The war has caused hard times and there are those who will kill you for the shirt you are wearing. Capt. Myers plans on keeping his shirt, and four years of hard fighting has given him the tools to do so. Realizing he must look the part of a well-to-do gentleman, he buys gentleman clothes, and acts the part. People ask fewer questions of a gentleman. What he isn't prepared for is meeting an intelligent Lady, Miss Abigale Campbell. Her Father has died, leaving the family owned shipping business, with generation steam-powered riverboats. They have dreams of building steam-powered airships, but because she is a woman, there are those who stand against them. Capt. Myers' fighting is not over, it seems business is war. They decide to become partners, and with his warfighting experience, and her brains the world is not as intimidating as it once seemed.
The City of Mist
Title | The City of Mist PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2021-11-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0063118106 |
“Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA Today Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits. Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind. Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the reader compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable voice. A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudí reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece. Imaginative and beguiling, these and other stories in The City of Mist summon up the mesmerizing magic of their brilliant creator and invite us to come dream along with him.
Pale Steam and Mist
Title | Pale Steam and Mist PDF eBook |
Author | William Martin Jones |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Cooling by a MIST/steam Jet
Title | Cooling by a MIST/steam Jet PDF eBook |
Author | Xianchang Li |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
City of Mist Role-Playing Game Core Book
Title | City of Mist Role-Playing Game Core Book PDF eBook |
Author | Amit Moshe |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-10-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789659258710 |
A detective role-playing game in a city of ordinary people and legendary powers
Engineering
Title | Engineering PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1196 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Engineering |
ISBN |