Want a chance to win the world’s most advanced e-reader?
Category: Book World
Chapter 8 of The Chesapeake Tales & Scales – Our Shore by Fred McCoy – Join us as we visit the pages of The Chesapeake for action, fun and adventure in The Chesapeake region. Murder, Mayhem and Mystery along with blues, rockfish and Serendipity Seranades to convince fish to jump onto the hook.
From Jack Rue, Fred McCoy and Pepper Langley come great stories about the Twentieth Century in Southern Maryland, from the Potomac to the Patuxent. Learn about the early days of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station and the boomtown of Lexington Park, called the Walled City. From Lou Clements to Steven Gore Uhler, our collection of short stories is sure to keep you entertained. Cap’n Larry Jarboe’s expertise in fish stories knows no equal!
The strife and horrors of the Civil War in America were raw with the wounds of the war lasting for decades; and affecting those who lived in both the North and the South. As the nation struggled to find unity, the forces of darkness and of those who wished to rule through intimidation and terror, spread their wicked ways under the cover of white sheets.
This is the story of the Ku Klux Klan and their chief brand: Lynchings, as told in the original newspaper stories from journals across the nation. Some are brief, telling only of a single attack while others are more comprehensive and detailed, telling the story with the inclusion of complex and emotional occurrences.
The attempt of the KKK to cloak the power of control over others with fear and violence is explained in some of these news stories.
Jack Chekijian narrates Pirate Trials bringing an entertaining story of actual trials of bloodthirsty pirates who bludgeoned and murdered on the high seas before being brought to justice in courts in England, Scotland, Canada and the United States. Now in paperback, eBook and Audible. Listen to the last laments and groans of pirates prior to being hanged by the neck until dead or hung upon gibbets on the Sands of Leith.
An hour passed and no Cantu. From time to time, Marcus saw a shadow moving about inside, which clearly indicated that the jackal had crawled on all fours to get away from the windows. Now Cantu set a candle burning inside just to cast huge dancing shadow from wall to wall—just to let Marcus know that he was eating his food and drinking what was left of his beer, and going nowhere. Apparently, he’d accepted the fact that Marcus had gotten the women and children out to safety.
Just to let the creep know that Marcus had gone nowhere, Rydell intermittently shattered a window here and there with a .223 bullet.
After some time passed, and as Marcus felt surer and surer that Cantu was planning some sort of frontal attack, he kept watchful vigilance, going from one side of the house to the other, one window to the other. As he did so, Kat followed him about, and the couple soon began to talk again as she had complimented his scoped Bushmaster Varmint Special as he called it. “Five in the chamber,” she said again, “but I see the size of the rounds’re huge, and you’re right, of course, she’s a real beauty.”
“Archery is my passion,” she smugly said.
“Really? You know how to handle something this complicated?” He indicated the bow.
“Yeah, a custom made one for my size and weight.”
“Dad had a maybe a hundred twenty pounds on you.”
“”I can ratchet it down.”
“When all this is over, I’ll be happy to show you how to use it,” he promised and she flinched at the condescension in his voice.
“Marcus, I know about draw, that there’s a specific weight per pound of draw.”
“The bow’s fine for whitetails and other big game but—”
Book World: DEAD ON – Chapter Twenty Three – by Robert W. Walker
The fire originated in 402 where 2 adults and 4 children were sleeping. One child succumbed to injuries received at the scene and one child is being actively searched for at this time. The occupants of 404 escaped without injury.
Robert W. Walker’s thrilling DEAD ON continued: Chapter TWENTY ONE Convinced now that they had no other avenue of escape, Katrina ushered Nora …