A return to the world of The Cadet Regime. The background is the same."Following years of economical turmoil and disunity, the New Government has stepped into the vacuum and established itself as the dominant political party... it was decided that the younger generation should not only suffer for the sins of their parents but must be seen to do so by the public. That was when the Cadet Service was established, mandatory for girls aged 18 and upwards who were connected to the old re...

Toutes les histoires vraies comportent leur part d'enseignement, bien que ce trésor puisse dans certains cas être difficile à trouver, et en quantité si insignifiante, que le fruit sec et ridé ne vaut souvent pas la peine que l'on s'est donné pour casser la coque. Je pense pourtant que mon histoire sera peut-être être utile à quelques-uns et divertissante pour d'autres ; mais le public jugera par lui-même.Dans l'Angleterre victorienne, Agnès Grey, une jeune femme de condit...

"Prosperity" is a timeless masterpiece by Charles Fillmore, a New Thought author, initially published in 1936. Well ahead of the popularization of the Law of Attraction, Fillmore imparted teachings on prosperity through the creative power of thought. This classic work stands out for its articulate prose, accessibility, and remarkable effectiveness in conveying the principle that financial prosperity originates within the mind and spirit before materializing in the physical realm. Through r...

My e-book on Lucky Luciano looks at his criminal career which began in New York City when he was 9. His first significant setback was Thomas Dewey's prosecution for compulsive prostitution. This sent Luciano to prison for a term of thirty years, or at least it was thought so at the time. Lucky's sentence was commuted after 9 years when he was supposedly used to help the Allies win the war in Europe. Whether he helped or not is still undetermined. Thomas Dewey always faced questions about t...

« À mesure que nous avancions, mon naturel revint, et je tournai avec plaisir ma pensée vers la nouvelle vie dans laquelle j’allais entrer. Quoique l’on ne fût encore qu’au milieu de septembre, les nuages sombres et un fort vent de nord-est rendaient le temps extrêmement froid et triste. Le voyage nous paraissait long : car, ainsi que le disait Smith, les routes étaient “très lourdes,” et assurément son cheval était très lourd aussi ; il rampait aux montées et se traînait aux descentes, et...

Charles the Bug Workman was imprisoned for a generation for the murders of Dutch Schultz and three of his associates. The murders were among the most grisly in the annals of organized crime history. The slayings occurred in the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey in October 1935. My e-book looks at the crime and some other noteworthy assassinations carried out by Murder, Inc. in the years from 1935-1940. The head of Murder, Inc., Louis Lepke Buchalter was a fugitive at this time. His f...

A struggling writer. A team of U.S. soldiers. A fight for their lives. A battle for his soul.Writer Evan Davis desperately needs to find his muse to finish his book. As the impossible deadline approaches with a virtually nonexistent wordcount, his agent presents him with a unique reprieve: Gain a delay by becoming a press embed with U.S. troops going to Central Asia. Davis sees it as an unlikely place to rediscover his muse but lacks any alternative. After being presented with an o...

Charles Gargotta was a lynchpin in the old Kansas City Mafia/Political organization run by Tom Pendergast. He was a lieutenant to Charles Binaggio who took over the Pendergast outfit beginning in 1944. Gargotta and Binaggio were slain in a political meeting house in KC during the early morning hours of April 6, 1950. Both men had offered testimony in the U.S. Senate Rackets Committee hearings in Washington, DC. Gargotta had also testified in front of a Jackson County, Missouri grand jury p...

Charles Albero was in trouble for truancy by the time he was nine years old. He was sent to the Elmira Reformatory in the 1920s. His first active prison sentence occurred in 1929. Albero was in a Lucky Luciano inspired multinational drug ring that operated from 1941-1945. Broken up in '45 the ring's members were from New York and California. The syndicate imported heroin from Mexico and distributed it throughout the United States. Albero's role in this outfit had him working from a base in...

Charles Fischetti was a central figure in the Kefauver Committee hearings that investigated organized crime in the early 1950s. For sometime he and his brother Rocco were fugitives, hiding out rather than testify before committee investigators. Charles was a cousin of Al Capone and was once the mobster's chauffeur. The Fischetti brothers loaned money to Los Angeles gangster Bugsy Siegel to build the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Charles was heavily involved in gambling operations at the Wof...

This carefully edited ebook is a hand-picked collection of world's most admired Westerns in one volume: Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) The Rainbow Trail The Spirit of the Border The Untamed (Max Brand) The Night Horseman The Seventh Man The Virginian (Owen Wister) The Last of the Mohicans (James F. Cooper) The Prairie Chip, of the Flying U (B. M. Bower) The Flying U Ranch The Flying U's Last Stand Cabin Fever Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn) The 'Breckinridge Elkins' Series (Robert E. ...

Charles 'Cherry Nose" Gioe was a mobster in the Chicago syndicate led by Al Capone. In charge of gambling rackets Gioe consulted with Dutch Schultz as an emissary for Capone in the early 1930s. Later Cherry Nose was imprisoned for racketeering in Hollywood. Along with three other defendants he was convicted of bilking motion picture studios out of more than $1 million dollars.