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Night train to Paris
Rare Books
Unwitting pawn in a deadly game of international intrigue, Edward Logan was stalked by three fanatical Soviet agents convinced that he possessed certain secret plans desperately desired by the Russian Government. He hastily took the night train to Paris and after this nightmarish journey, further violence erupted in both Paris and London. The Reds found formidable opposition from three former French Foreign Legionnaires and the inimitable sleuth, Tommy Hambledon, in a perilous adventure of dual identities, torture, murder, and a blood-chilling chase along the water front of London--Adapted from page [3].
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U.S.S. Mudskipper : the submarine that wrecked a train : a novel
Rare Books
"Commander Tolliver of the U.S. Submarine Mudskipper was cruising off the coast of Hokkaido, the northernmost Japanese island, when he first spied the train on its daily run along the shore line. The Mudskipper had previously taken a tremendous toll of enemy shipping; now for weeks its periscope had searched the horizon in vain. Perhaps the daily freight and passenger train might take the place of a tramp steamer or a destroyer. So Commander Tolliver made plans to wreck the Japanese train. What follows is a story packed with mounting suspense, filled with the throat-gripping tensions of men on a dangerous undersea mission - a realistic novel that in its climax fairly explodes before the reader's eyes"--Dust jacket flap.
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Trans-Siberian Express
Rare Books
Dr. Alex Cousins, a famous American cancer specialist, is secretly dispatched to Moscow by the President of the United States. His mission: to prolong the life of Viktor Dimitrov, Secretary General of the Politburo, who is dying of leukemia. Once Dimitrov's condition has improved, the wily old politican encourages the doctor to leave Russia via the spectacular Trans-Siberian Express - across two continents, then to Japan and over the Pacific. His compartment is a foreign and fabulous world, and into it comes Anna Petrovna, a magnificent Russian beauty who fascinates Alex from their first meeting. But as the miles slip by, this journey becomes a living nightmare. The conspiracy which he had only suspected back at Dimitrov's dacha outside Moscow has followed Cousins onto the train. Trapped, incessantly watched by a cadre of KGB agents, he has no one to turn to but his fellow passengers, who twisted reasons for riding the Trans-Siberian Express become tragically enmeshed with his own desperate flight--Adapted from dust jacket flaps.
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Where is Tommy?
Rare Books
Mrs. Stout looks all over the house, barn, and yard for her son Tommy. She eventually finds him asleep on the bed.
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Francis Phelps letter to Almon Phelps
Manuscripts
Letter from Francis Phelps in Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania, to his cousin Almon Phelps in East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut. In the letter, Phelps writes that although "money is somewhat scarce," it is "a general time of health here." He responds to Almon's intimations that he might soon travel to the "Great West," noting that "people here have the same notion" but that he does not know whether "the country is good." Phelps predicts that Chicago is "to be the great theatre of the far West" and observes that "steam boats are daily conveying hundreds and thousands to the Promised Land." He notes that not many residents of Waterford have decided to emigrate, but that there has been a rush on purchasing local property by "emigrants" from Erie County, New York. Phelps writes of the effects emigration has had on the prices of local goods, and also notes that agriculture in the area is particularly promising.
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Scoop : a novel about journalists
Rare Books
"Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story."--Amazon.com.
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