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Book Secret Bolton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ray Jefferson
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2021-10-15
  • ISBN : 1445654873
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Secret Bolton written by Ray Jefferson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Bolton explores the lesser-known history of the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

Book The Secret Powers of Plants

Download or read book The Secret Powers of Plants written by Brett L. Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Secret Quest

Download or read book The Secret Quest written by Margaret Sutton and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judy and her young FBI husband Peter Dobbs go to the airport in Washington, D.C., to meet Peter's sister Honey, who is going to visit them for a week and take in the many interesting sights. Back at the motel where the three are stopping, Honey is amazed to find that accidentally she has picked up the wrong suitcase. Instead of the pretty suits that she herself had designed, the bag contains some very old-fashioned garments, an old diary dated 1847, and an old coffee mill. Even more startling is Peter's discovery of a sheaf of notes on solar science stuffed inside the drawer of the coffee mill. The odd clothes remind Honey of two quaintly dressed little old ladies who were on the plane with her. And later, when she and Judy and Peter catch a glimpse of the same old ladies in the company of the new artist whose arrival at the Dean Studios caused Honey to lose her job there, the three young detectives are even more perplexed. At a solar science exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution, Judy picks up the first slim clue to an increasingly baffling mystery and starts on her dangerous secret quest for its solution.--seriesbooks.info/bolton.html

Book The Room Where It Happened

Download or read book The Room Where It Happened written by John Bolton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping its prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy—and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them. He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton’s telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. “The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning,” writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal—about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place. Bolton’s account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to deal with Syria’s chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after that never stop. As he writes in the opening pages, “If you don’t like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work—and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else.” The turmoil, conflicts, and egos are all there—from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, to the showdowns at the G7 summits, the calculated warmongering by Iran, the crazy plan to bring the Taliban to Camp David, and the placating of an authoritarian China that ultimately exposed the world to its lethal lies. But this seasoned public servant also has a great eye for the Washington inside game, and his story is full of wit and wry humor about how he saw it played.

Book Secret Science

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  • Author : Ulf Schmidt
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2015-07-08
  • ISBN : 0191062979
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Secret Science written by Ulf Schmidt and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were many for whom the experience had been all but pleasant, sometimes harmful, and in isolated cases deadly. Secret Science traces, for the first time, the history of chemical and biological weapons research by the former Allied powers, particularly in Britain, the United States, and Canada. It charts the ethical trajectory and culture of military science, from its initial development in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in the First World War to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these types of weapons once and for all. It asks whether Allied and especially British warfare trials were ethical, safe, and justified within the prevailing conditions and values of the time. By doing so, it helps to explain the complex dynamics in top-secret Allied research establishments: the desire and ability of the chemical and biological warfare corps, largely comprised of military officials, scientists, and expert civil servants, to construct and identify a never-ending stream of national security threats which served as flexible justification strategies for the allocation of enormous resources to conducting experimental research with some of the most deadly agents known to man. Secret Science offers a nuanced, non-judgemental analysis of the contributions made by servicemen, scientists, and civil servants to military research in Britain and elsewhere, not as passive, helpless victims 'without voices', or as laboratory and desk perpetrators 'without a conscience', but as history's actors and agents of their own destiny. As such it also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history and culture of memory.

Book Michael Bolton

Download or read book Michael Bolton written by Joyce Logan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the assistance of the president of the official Michael Bolton Fan Club, and featuring an essay by Bolton's mother, this authorized biography contains 100 rare photos, plus two 16-page color inserts.

Book Asylum

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  • Author : Judy Bolton-Fasman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-24
  • ISBN : 9781942134770
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Asylum written by Judy Bolton-Fasman and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much do we really know about the lives of our parents and the secrets lodged in their past? Judy Bolton-Fasman's fascinating saga, "Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets," recounts the search for answers to the mysteries embedded in the lives of her Cuban-born mother, Matilde Alboukrek Bolton and her elusive, Yale-educated father, K. Harold Bolton. In the prefatory chapter, "Burn This," Judy receives a thick letter from her father and conjectures that the contents will reveal the long hidden explanations, confessions, and secrets that will unlock her father's cryptic past. Just as she is about to open the portal to her father's "transtiendas," his dark hidden secrets, Harold Bolton phones Judy and instructs her to burn the still unopened letter. With the flick of a match, Judy ignites her father's unread documents, effectively destroying the answers to long held questions that surround her parents' improbable marriage and their even more secretive lives. Judy Bolton, girl detective, embarks on the life-long exploration of her bifurcated ancestry; Judy inherits a Sephardic, Spanish/Ladino-speaking culture from her mother and an Ashkenazi, English-only, old-fashioned American patriotism from her father. Amid the Bolton household's cultural, political, and psychological confusion, Judy is mystified by her father's impenetrable silence; and, similarly confounded by her mother's fabrications, not the least of which involve rumors of a dowry pay-off and multiple wedding ceremonies for the oddly mismatched 40-year-old groom and the 24-year-old bride. Contacting former associates, relatives, and friends; accessing records through the Freedom of Information Act; traveling to Cuba to search for clues, and even reciting the Mourner's Kaddish for a year to gain spiritual insight into her father; these decades-long endeavors do not always yield the answers Judy wanted and sometimes the answers themselves lead her to ask new questions. Among Asylum's most astonishing, unsolved mysteries is Ana Hernandez's appearance at the family home on Asylum Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut. Ana is an exchange student from Guatemala whom Judy comes to presume to be her paternal half-sister. In seeking information about Ana, Judy's investigations prove to be much like her entire enterprise--both enticing and frustrating. Was Ana just a misconstrued memory, or is she a still living piece of the puzzle that Judy has spent her adult life trying to solve? Readers will relish every step and stage of Judy's investigations and will begin toshare in her obsession to obtain answers to the mysteries that have haunted her life.The suspense, the clairvoyant prophecies, the discoveries, the new leads, the dead-ends, the paths not taken--all capture our attention in this absorbing and fascinating memoir.

Book The Hidden Clue

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  • Author : Margaret Sutton
  • Publisher : Applewood Books
  • Release : 2008-07-31
  • ISBN : 1429090553
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book The Hidden Clue written by Margaret Sutton and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rescuing Sister from an orphanage fire, Judy tries to uncover the girl's identity.

Book Her Wartime Secret

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  • Author : Emma Hornby
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2021-08-12
  • ISBN : 1473591260
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Her Wartime Secret written by Emma Hornby and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Saga Award 2022! The first book in Emma Hornby's page-turning Worktown Girls at War series, from the bestselling author of A Shilling for a Wife **The latest Victorian saga from Emma Hornby, An Orphan's Choice, is available to pre-order now** --------------------- Bolton, Lancashire: 1940 A family torn apart by war, held together by a secret . . . Janie and her husband James have a strong, loving marriage. A move from an inner-city slum to a peaceful new estate outside of Bolton should have been a fresh start for them and their three children. But when war is declared and James announces he has signed up, Janie fears it's the beginning of the end. Waving goodbye to their menfolk is a sacrifice that families are making all over the country and Janie does her best to make do, forging friendships in her new community. But when James comes home on leave a traumatised and desperate man, then goes AWOL, Janie's heart goes out to him. Determined to keep him safe, she plans to hide him in their new house. But how long can they keep the secret, and what threats lie ahead if they're found out? A page-turning new wartime saga about love, friendship and secrets, for fans of Katie Flynn and Rosie Goodwin. **Don't miss the second book in the Worktown Girls at War series - A Daughter's War is out now** --------------------- Readers love Emma Hornby: 'Similar to Rosie Goodwin and Dilly Court, Emma Hornby tells a brilliant story that will keep you guessing with twists and turns. Pure talent.' 'Emma Hornby's books just keep getting better and better. Honest, gritty, lovely characters.' 'Keep writing Emma, you are very talented and can't wait for your next book. I've read them all.' 'Emma is a wonderful storyteller and I can't wait for the next one!' 'Thank you again Emma Hornby for a captivating read' 'Another beautifully written story by Emma Hornby'

Book The Secret Valley

Download or read book The Secret Valley written by T. J. Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the adventures of Mike, Peggy, Nora, Jack and their friend Prince Paul as they discover mysterious goings on in one of Blyton's most exciting and adventurous stories.

Book The Secret Journey

Download or read book The Secret Journey written by Peg Kehret and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stoaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African jungle.

Book A Perilous Secret

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  • Author : Charles Reade
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1884
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book A Perilous Secret written by Charles Reade and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Invisible Chimes

Download or read book The Invisible Chimes written by Margaret Sutton and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judy's involvement in an antique theft results in an injured girl's staying in her home and the mysterious ringing of invisible chimes.

Book How to Resist

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  • Author : Matthew Bolton
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-07-13
  • ISBN : 1408892731
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book How to Resist written by Matthew Bolton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno 'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe they've been on a march, posted their opinions on social media, or shouted angrily at something they've seen on the news but don't feel like it's making any difference. It is for people who want to make a change but they're not sure how.' - Matthew Bolton

Book The Secret Life of Textiles

Download or read book The Secret Life of Textiles written by Philip Anthony Sykas and published by Bolton Museum Art Gallery & Aquarium. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated largely in colour, 'The Secret Life of Textiles' offers brief catalogue summaries of 48 archive groups of textile pattern books that make up six regional holdings, and will be of interest to scholars, historians, and those with an interest in textiles, pattern design and local history.

Book Secret Partners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy R. Mahoney
  • Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
  • Release : 2013-09-15
  • ISBN : 0873519051
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Secret Partners written by Timothy R. Mahoney and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history’s shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI—and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down cops and citizens in his hometown. Big Tom Brown, 6'5" and 275 pounds, continued to enforce St. Paul’s corrupt O’Connor system, allowing criminals to stay in the city as long as they paid off the cops and committed no crimes within fifty miles. But in the early 1930s, the system broke down: no longer supported by cash skimmed from illegal booze, gangsters turned to robbing banks, and the Barker gang kidnapped two of the prominent citizens who had been complicit in the liquor trade. Brown was the insider who kept the criminals safe—but for highly political reasons, he was never convicted of his crimes. Timothy Mahoney tells this fascinating story, details how the fraud was uncovered, and at last exposes the corruption of a secret partnership.

Book Secret of the Ghost Piano

Download or read book Secret of the Ghost Piano written by Elizabeth M. Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two boys spending the night together hear mysterious piano music in the middle of the night.