Download or read book The Ferryman s House written by Catherine Poag and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, a quiet township in rural Ontario might seem picturesque, but in the early decades of the twentieth century, that image couldn’t have been farther from the truth. With an obscure cult, unexplained disappearances, and a series of murders, the dark rumours of what really went on in those early days have cast long shadows on this humble setting. Back in the day, the residents of this township—which straddled a stretch of water connecting two larger lakes—relied heavily on the services of the local ferryman to cross this wide channel. But their ferryman had an ominous reputation and a chilling secret. Almost fifty years later, ferryman Luther Neville is haunted by his memory of those long-ago days and menaced by echoes of obstructed justice and a mystery yet to be unravelled. A fictional adaptation inspired by the real-life legend of Ontario’s Rideau Ferry Man, The Ferryman’s House—Book One of the Ferryman’s Tales—is an eerie tale that imagines the truth behind the legend and brings back to life all those lost to history ... and to the Ferryman.
Download or read book The Ferryman written by Christopher Golden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to rebuild a relationship with her former lover, David Bairstow, Janine Hartschorn discovers that a mysterious force with the power to conjure up ghosts from David's past and the knowledge of her own near-death experience will do anything to keep them apart. Reprint.
Download or read book Ferryman written by Claire McFall and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When teenager Dylan emerges from the wreckage of a train crash onto a bleak Scottish hillside, she meets a strange boy who seems to be waiting for her. But Tristan is no ordinary teenage boy, and their journey across the desolate, wraith-infested wasteland is no ordinary journey. A moving, epic love story that's exciting, scary, funny, thought-provoking and truly original.
Download or read book The Outlaws of Cave in Rock written by Otto A. Rothert and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates" by Otto Arthur Rothert is a fascinating and fast-paced story that seems like it could be a complete work of fiction. This adventure, however, is non-fiction, which almost makes it more compelling. American history and action lovers will enjoy this book even now, many years after its first publication.
Download or read book Pirates of the Prairie written by Ken Lizzio and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of outlaws and vigilantes on the American frontier invariably calls to mind the Wild West of the latter nineteenth century. Yet, there was an earlier frontier, Illinois, that was every bit as wild and lawless as Dodge City or Tombstone. Between 1835 and 1850 several hundred outlaws and desperadoes descended on the prairie state, holding up stagecoaches, robbing homes and individuals, rustling cattle and horses, counterfeiting, murdering, and terrorizing residents with virtual impunity. In a state that was mostly wilderness, outlaws went undetected for years, often masquerading as law-abiding farmers and merchants while preying on isolated settlers and passing emigrants. If it was hard to detect the pirates, it was harder still to capture them and bring them to justice. With law enforcement incapable of checking outlaws, frustrated citizens eventually took matters into their own hands, administering frontier justice—vigilantism. Posses were formed; outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped, shot, or hanged. Sometimes the miscreants got their just desserts; other times, the use of public tribunals to enact personal vendettas led to abuses, even chaos. Pirates of the Prairie brings the story of these wild times to life.
Download or read book Comes a Ferryman written by Wayne Kyle Spitzer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ferryman turned to face her and she quickly looked away-as if an owl had suddenly focused on her in the dark. Now that they'd reached the trunk of the river, he had relaxed the intensity of his rowing to a more casual pace, and was allowing the current to do most the work. (She didn't dare risk activating the ring now!) Instead she looked at the floorboards, and after a few moments, remembered the book lying next to her. She reached toward it habitually-but froze when the raven cawed loudly and its red beam fell upon the back of her hand. A tense moment followed in which she looked from the ferryman to the raven then back again as her fingertips wavered over the golden cover. Then the ferryman motioned with his head, and the raven's light swung away and switched off. She picked up the book slowly and placed it on her lap.
Download or read book Bashan and I written by Thomas Mann and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-09-07T17:32:23Z with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bashan and I (sometime referred to as Man and Dog), Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice, writes in the most remarkable way of the unique relation that links a dog with his master. These memoirs read as a novel, and describe in fierce detail the behavior, feelings and psychology of Mann’s dog Bashan, and of Mann himself. Mann tells how he acquired Bashan, details traits of his character, and describes how they go on harmless and bucolic hunts. Written in 1918 at the end of the First World War, Bashan and I is an ode to life, to nature, to simple joys, and to a dog. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Last Plague in the Baltic Region 1709 1713 written by Karl-Erik Frandsen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Plague in the Baltic Region, 1709-1713 offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713 ? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern War (1700-?21). Sweden under Carolus XII had lost its supremacy, and Russia under Peter the Great emerged as the new major power in the region. With the marching armies came the plague and its effects, which were particularly devastating, since it hit a population already weakened by famines and desolation caused by the war. Drawing on substantial documentation in city and state archives, the study addresses a range of important discussions touching on the far-reaching consequences of the plague across the region: including mortality rates, symptoms of the disease, treatments, how the disease spread, why some parishes, villages, houses and families were particularly hard hit, the measures taken by the authorities to confine the epidemic and the reactions of people to these measures. Offering detailed information of the plague's demographic and economic consequences, as well as tragic accounts of its victims, this volume constitutes a fascinating synthesis and assessment of a devastating chapter in the region's history.
Download or read book Sarah s Diary written by Sarah E Pulliam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hall Pulliam was a farm girl with a solid pioneer heritage. Her maternal grandparents settled on the western frontier of Missouri during the early 1800s, her father died as a "Forty-Niner" in California, and several of his family emigrated to the West Coast in the mid-1800s. After bearing nine children and moving between Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, and Kansas, Sarah was no stranger to hardship, but even these experiences could not prepare her for what lay ahead as she started on her overland journey westward at the age of forty-six. Sarah's Diary is much more than the story of one family as told by one individual . it is the story of the courage, spirit, determination, and integrity that established the foundation of our nation.
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Download or read book Blockade of Quebec in 1775 1776 by the American Revolutionists An account of the erection of the tablets to commemorate the repulse of Montgomery and Arnold at Quebec on the 31st of December 1775 Note on Montgomery s sword Preface Ainslie T Journal of the most remarkable occurrences in the province of Quebec from the appearance of the rebels in September 1775 until their retreat on the sixth of May 1776 Journal of the most remarkable occurrences in Quebec since Arnold appear d before the town on the 14th November 1775 Orderly book begun by Captain Anthony Vialar of the British militia the 17th of September 1775 and kept by him till November 16th when continued by Captain Robert Lester Irving L H comp Officers of the 1st battalion of the Royal Highland emigrants H M 84th regiment 1775 1778 R le g n ral de la milice canadienne de Qu bec pass e en revue le 11 septembre 1775 tenue par Gabriel Elz ar Taschereau aussi Nouveau r le de la milice canadienne qui a fait le service pendant le blocus de Qu bec written by Frederick Christian Würtele and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Ferryman written by Justin Cronin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”—STEPHEN KING From the author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn’t what it seems. A POLYGON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean, in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity—or whatever remains of it. Citizens of the main island enjoy privileged lives. They are attended to by support staff who live on a cramped neighboring island, where whispers of revolt are brewing—but for the Prosperans, life is perfection. And when the end of life approaches, they’re sent to a mysterious third island, where their bodies are refreshed, their memories are wiped away, and they return to start life anew. Proctor Bennett is a ferryman, whose job it is to enforce the retirement process when necessary. He never questions his work, until the day he receives a cryptic message: “The world is not the world.” These simple words unlock something he has secretly suspected. They seep into strange dreams of the stars and the sea. They give him the unshakable feeling that someone is trying to tell him something important. Something no one could possibly imagine, something that could change the fate of humanity itself.
Download or read book The Ferryman written by Jez Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widely anticipated new drama from the award-winning playwright of Jerusalem.
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