William R. Trotter

"Centered in Wilmington, North Carolina, during a bawdy "Golden Age," Trotter's saga intertwines the fates of more than two dozen major characters - real and fictional, Union and Confederate, combatants and civilians. Chronicled are the exploits of staid plantation owner turned audacious sea captain Matthew Sloane; intrepid Federal naval officer William Barker Cushing; sadistic bushwacker Cyrus Bone; the seductive Confederate spy, Belle O'Neal; Jacob Landau, scion of a Jewish merchant family at whose emporium blockade-runners' goods bring in Confederate dollars; and Augustus Hobart-Hampden, unofficial representative of Queen Victoria to the Confederacy and lover of Jacob's daughter, Largo. At the confluence of the many stories flowing through this grand narrative towers Fort Fisher - literally built of sand - the most formidable earthen fortress ever erected in America. This symbol of Southern defiance, the guardian of Wilmington's boisterous docks, helped keep the South stocked with arms and supplies."--BOOK JACKET.

At the time of his death, Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was considered one of the most brilliant conductors of the twentieth century. Yet within a decade, his achievements were largely forgotten. An ascetic and mystic throughout his life, Mitropoulos was attracted in his youth to the monastic life, and he brought the same fervent passion to music. He studied in Rome, Brussels, and Berlin, but his career flowered in his native Greece, where he developed his trademark style of conducting without a baton - or score. Success did not change his essential simplicity and boundless generosity, and he never aspired to the glamorous trappings of celebrity. His story unfolds against the rich backdrop of the Golden Age of conductors and reveals secret wars among musicians, patrons, promoters, and critics. Based upon extensive research by the late musicologist Oliver Daniel, this radiant account of a tragically noble and neglected giant promises to be the most important musical biography of the decade.

The second in a series of eight books which reprint articles from the "Game Player's Strategy Guide to Nintendo Games" magazine. This is a hints, tips, and reveiw book for "Nintendo Entertainment System" {NES} games. There are 7 featured games, 26 "Super Strategy", and 30 "Hot Hint" games. There are color screenshots but no maps to these games, instead there are descriptions next to each image. Each article is reprinted, page by page from its origainal magazine appearance. {For example its in the first volume, the "Friday the 13th" 5 page article, also appeared in Volume 2, Issue Number 4, of the magazine. At the end of the book there is a "Directory" of video game companies. The book originally cost $10.95 in the USA, and $15.95 in Canada.

This is a book of battles -- savagely fought, often with great heroism on both sides, under brutal, subarctic conditions. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses -- these were the elements of Finland's short-lived victory. For all the epic resistance of the Finns, the outcome was foreordained. Belatedly the Russians realized that an expected easy triumph over a vastly outnumbered foe had become a slaughterhouse. Incompetent commanders were replaced, more and better troops were moved into position, and orders were given to overwhelm and crush the Finns by the sheer weight of massed numbers. But even though they lost on the battlefield, the Finns' pointed resistance kept the Iron Curtain from drawing closed around their land and allowed Finland to remain free, even as other countries fell one by one. - Back cover.

ONE MAN TAUGHT KATE THE POWER OF LUST Phillipe, the handsome, charming, totally amoral French-born gambler, who changed the ravishing Kate Devlin from a flirtatious young innocent into a woman aware of the overwhelming hungers that now would never be quenched within her... ONE MAN TAUGHT KATE THE POWER OF LOVE Jason, wealthy, powerful, iron-willed, to whom Kate came as a mail-order bride, and in whose arms she learned what heaven love could create and what a living hell a man's obsessive jealousy could cause... MANY MEN TAUGHT KATE THE POWER HER OWN BODY POSSESSED The men with whom Kate moved through a labyrinth of daring and danger, violence and violation, from the stately halls of England, over an untamed continent, to a magnificent mansion where she was both mistress and slave... fleeing the furious forces pursuing her... searching for the ultimate gift of love and her final fulfillment as a woman...