The Bike Cop

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Port Talbot is a tourist trap in the “summah” located on the southern coast of Maine. The wealth and pedigree of the summer folk is legendary with their cottages on the rocky bluffs. The population quadruples from June to September. The traffic snarls around the cedar-shingled shops in the port, bringing things to a standstill. Enter the college-aged bicycle policeman. In the summer of ’77, the chief of police has chosen David “Digger” Davenport, the son of one of the richest summer families who winter in Lake Placid, New York. Digger’s history of solving crime starts in chapter one in a flashback to when he was eleven years old and when he went fishing alone and hooked the partially decomposed body of the chef of the Brigantine Hotel. From this experience, as he matures, he develops a penchant for solving crime and enrolls in courses and trainings in college that prepare him for the calamity that lies ahead in his summer job as Port Talbot’s bike cop. For Digger, the summer of ’77 starts as it should in this quaint seaside village: tons of college kids working in the resort hotels who are looking for love in all the right places. He meets “the Virginians” on the first day of his beat in Dock Square. They cause a traffic jam in their yellow VW bug convertible. The Virginians are gorgeous coeds escaping the heat and heartbreak at home in Richmond. The townies say the winter in Port Talbot is “wicked cold” and deadly. Unfortunately, the summer now, too, turns deadly and just as plain wicked. Annie, one of the Virginians, who is a waitress at the biggest and best hotel, the Brigantine, is found dead on the beach by hotel guests. Quickly a suspect is arrested: a black bellhop from Florida. Port Talbot is thrown into turmoil on multiple levels: north versus south, white versus black, summer folk versus townies, and the lobstah mobstahs versus the candidates for sheriff and district attorney. One kid . . . . on a bike . . . with a badge . . . unravels the open and shut case against the bellhop. Digger reveals new evidence against great odds of a much more sinister perpetrator who is well-connected and sadistic and who will do anything to keep the evidence from being found. Introducing Port Talbot’s Bike Cop in the Greater Wait of Evidence.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : James H.K. Bruner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release : 2018-03-13
File : 263 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781984511539


Blockchain

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In "SONS OF STEEL - BLOCKCHAIN", Black Alice's life takes a thrilling turn with the arrival of his martial arts expert sister, Vee, boosting the strength of OTT, Oceana Time Travel. This secret agency, powered by unlimited funds, aims to safeguard humanity's future through advanced technology from different eras. Alice, now a confidant of the Oceana president, steers their strategy in a new direction. The team unveils Kairos, a revolutionary time machine, with Alice as its primary traveller. He's sent to Tokyo, 2047, to combat a lethal alien pathogen poisoning the city's water, capable of morphing humans into zombies. In this nerve-wracking mission, Alice must avert a global catastrophe.

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : G L Keady
Publisher : Big Island Publishing
Release : 2024-05-12
File : 360 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781923038257


Lyra Cyclus Or The Bards And The Bicycle

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Genre : American poetry
Author : Edmond Redmond
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Release : 1896
File : 178 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044019642578


The Glorieta Pass Electronic Resource

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Tales Of Man

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13 intense short stories of the plight of mankind and the hell he has to succumb to. From Monsters to Demons, Robots and evil, Tales of Man presents life and the supernatural crashing together between worlds, causing chaos and doubt as to whether God is asleep or simply doesn't care.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Patrick Christian
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2018-10-02
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780359128396


Hell S Gate

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A riveting tale of river piracy, gang wars, and the worst catastrophe to hit New York City before September 11, 2001 In 1904 the Hudson and East Rivers were vital to the people of Manhattan. They offered families an escape from the squalor of the tenements, politicians a means of catering to their constituents, and criminals a means to make a fortune in black-market goods. When Detective Mike Braddock foils a midnight heist led by the gangland thug Smiling Jack, the city honors him as a hero. But Mike can't forget Jack's final revelation: the identity of a new mobster jockeying for position in the cutthroat world of New York's gangs. Mike is committed to bringing down this new criminal powerhouse before he takes power, no matter where his investigation takes him. He finds out quickly that he's not the only one who wants to take down this new gangster. A host of other mob heavies have their eyes on the same target, and they're more than willing to knock Mike out of the way to get there first. Full of action, double-crossing, and high-stakes mob warfare, Richard E. Crabbe's Hell's Gate brings readers to the rough-and-tumble streets of historic Manhattan, all set against the vivid backdrop of the greatest tragedy to strike New York until 9/11: the General Slocum disaster.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Richard E. Crabbe
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Release : 2014-01-07
File : 347 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781466862012


Cincinnati Police History

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The Village of Cincinnati appointed its first marshal, James Smith, in 1802. Today the Cincinnati Police Department boasts a dedicated staff of more than 1,000 sworn officers. Throughout its 200-plus years, the department has celebrated many firsts, such as being the first police agency to use telephones, and has also persevered through some difficult times, the most recent being the 2001 race riots. The Cincinnati police have won such awards as the Best Community Police Program by National League of Cities, the Governor's Community Policing Award of Excellence, and more than 35 local, state, national, and international awards. Programs like the Cadet/Intern Program, the Civilian Volunteer Program, the Juvenile Aid Bureau, the Youth Services Section, and the Citizens Police Academy are ways the police have reached out to the community to educate and protect over the years.

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Genre : History
Author : Christine Mersch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release : 2007
File : 132 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0738550965


Critical Mass

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Documenting 10 years of fun, radical, spontaneous bicycle demonstrations that challenge the autocentric world.

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Genre : Sports & Recreation
Author : Chris Carlsson
Publisher : AK Press
Release : 2002
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1902593596


To Live Is To Fly

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Life is good: it’s a phrase I use all the time. Sometimes I’ve even said it when I’ve just crashed my motorbike, fallen with my horse, or had to make an emergency landing when flying an aircraft through thick cloud. I believe in seizing every opportunity that life offers you. That’s why, when I was on a motorcycle holiday in Germany and saw a fairground, I immediately signed up to become a Wall of Death rider. It’s why, when I was first at the solo controls of an aerobatic aircraft, I thought I’d try to loop-the-loop. It’s also why I accepted every job offer that came my way, whether it was as a stunt rider, saddlery maker or snake hunter. It’s how I’ve lived my life: I hope you enjoy reading about it.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Tizi Hodson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Release : 2023-03-06
File : 377 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781911105664


Born To Be Wild

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In 1947, 4,000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister, California. As images of dissolute bikers graced the pages of newspapers and magazines, the three-day gathering sparked the growth of a new subculture while also touching off national alarm. In the years that followed, the stereotypical leather-clad biker emerged in the American consciousness as a menace to law-abiding motorists and small towns. Yet a few short decades later, the motorcyclist, once menacing, became mainstream. To understand this shift, Randy D. McBee narrates the evolution of motorcycle culture since World War II. Along the way he examines the rebelliousness of early riders of the 1940s and 1950s, riders' increasing connection to violence and the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, the rich urban bikers of the 1990s and 2000s, and the factors that gave rise to a motorcycle rights movement. McBee's fascinating narrative of motorcycling's past and present reveals the biker as a crucial character in twentieth-century American life.

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Genre : Transportation
Author : Randy D. McBee
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Release : 2015-05-14
File : 374 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781469622736