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  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    by Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gold Hill

    by Dennis Powers, Gold Hill Historical Society ...
    Series series Images of America
    Gold Hill is a product of the frontier days, when bold men sought golden riches despite ongoing hardships. The 1860 discovery of the famous Gold Hill Pocket, overlooking the present townsite, brought about its name with a gold rush that continued for decades and spilled into the nearby creeks and valleys, including mines with names like the Millionaire, Lucky Bart, and Roaring Gimlet. In 1884, the ... Read more

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  • A World Within Worlds

    by Dennis Powers ...
    Have you ever seen someone in passing that looks exactly like you, or a friend tells you that she absolutely saw you on another day—but you were out of town? Paul Hastings sees his exact duplicate and is led to the other's beaten apartment on the wrong side of town. At the same time, a deranged man driving a white Cadillac is following him, playing a deadly game of life or death. Paul must wind ... Read more

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  • The Gold Bugs

    by Dennis Powers ...
    In San Jose, Costa Rica, black-market thieves steal priceless Mayan gold artifacts, the gold bugs, from its Gold Museum, the Museo del Oro. Ceci Dunaway is at the time touring the country while on the hunt for stolen pre-Columbian jade artifacts already taken from a Miami exhibit. Fifty, adventurous, and finally living life her way, she is there with her boyfriend, Jeff, and adult son, Timmy.As ... Read more

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  • The Deadly Seas

    by Dennis Powers ...
    While people go about their normal lives, an Alaskan-based tsunami storms towards the U.S. West Coast. Based upon the worst tsunami in U.S. history that targeted the continental United States, a sleepy, small town on the Northern California coast – Redwood Bay – lies directly in its strike path. Lives instantly change. Doug Russell is attempting to leave his lucrative marijuana operation for a ... Read more

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  • Four Degrees Celsius

    A Story of Arctic Peril

    by Kerry Karram ...
    This true story began in August 1929. A group of eight prospectors, led by C.D.H. MacAlpine of the Dominion Explorers, flew into the Arctic in search of mineral wealth. Grossly underequipped, the expedition ran out of fuel and was stranded above the Arctic Circle. Within days, Western Canada Airways sent a rescue team headed by Captain Andy Cruickshank, in what was to become the most extensive ... Read more

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  • Nightmare at Scapa Flow

    The Truth About the Sinking of HMS Royal Oak

    by H.J. Weaver ...
    A historian examines what really happened when the British World War II battleship was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Orkney.Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Royal Navy's home anchorage, with the loss of more than 800 of her crew, was Germany's first shattering blow against Britain during World War II. Within six weeks the Germans achieved their goal of breaching the ... Read more

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  • Rommel, Knight's Cross (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Under cover of the bombardment, the Germans blew gaps in the wire and cleared paths through the minefield. By the following morning, they had established a hole through the outer defences a mile and a half wide and taken more than 100 prisoners. Their charismatic leader, the dynamic Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, was the most highly respected German general of World War II.Read about the daring ... Read more

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  • The Long Labrador Trail

    by Dillon Wallace ...
    In the summer of 1903 when Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., went to Labrador to explore a section of the unknown interior it was my privilege to accompany him as his companion and friend. The world has heard of the disastrous ending of our little expedition, and how Hubbard, fighting bravely and heroically to the last, finally succumbed to starvation. Before his death I gave him my promise that should I ... Read more

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  • War in The Pacific (True Combat)

    by Al Cimino ...
    A huge column of blood red smoke rose a thousand feet as the battleship USS Arizona blew up. The USS Oklahoma capsized. The California, Nevada and West Virginia were all sunk at their moorings. 181 Japanese warplanes had attacked the US Pacific Fleet as it lay at anchor in Pearl Harbor. There had been no formal declaration, but the United States of America was now at war...Read about the Japanese ... Read more

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  • Battle of Stalingrad (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    The Germans were masters of Blitzkrieg. But in the rubble of a ruined city, the Russians knew the troops of the Third Reich were reluctant to engage in the hand-to-hand battle that victory required. The Soviet soldiers were fearless; time was blood. The Red Army commander’s tactics were brutally simple – defend the city or die...Read about the Attack by the German army on Stalingrad; the brutal ... Read more

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  • Gold Fever: Incredible Tales of the Klondike Gold Rush

    Incredible Tales of the Klondike Gold Rush

    by Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In 1897, tens of thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the Yukon in search of instant wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. In this historical tale of mayhem and obsession, characters like prospectors George Carmack and Skookum Jim, Skagway gangster Soapy Smith and Mountie Sam Steele come to life. Enduring savage weather, unforgiving terrain, violence and starvation, a lucky few made ... Read more

    $7.19 USD