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Warrior

Frank Sturgis—The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro but Was Ambushed by Watergate

By: Jim Hunt,Bob Risch

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Warrior

Frank Sturgis—The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro but Was Ambushed by Watergate

By: Jim Hunt,Bob Risch

The press called him a "real-life James Bond." Fidel Castro called him "the most dangerous CIA agent." History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, yet the Watergate break-in was his least perilous mission. Frank Sturgis--using more than 30 aliases and code names--trained guerilla armies in 12 countries on three continents and spearheaded assassination plots to overthrow foreign governments including those of Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. Warrior follows the shocking, often unbelievable adventures of Sturgis, brought to life by his nephew, Jim Hunt, who lived with Sturgis, and his co-writer, Bob Risch. Also included are never-before-seen personal photos of Sturgis and his compatriots. Frank Sturgis was well-versed in a life of shadows: familiar to world leaders and underground kingpins, to spies and couterspies...Warrior is his story. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429921242

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9781429921244

Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts

Bob Hunter on Sports

By: Bob Hunter

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Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts

Bob Hunter on Sports

By: Bob Hunter

In Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts, sportswriter Bob Hunter has assembled a Hall of Fame collection of his best writing from the Columbus Dispatch. Fans will encounter some of the biggest names in sports and relive great moments from games played by amateurs and pros. They’ll encounter forgotten players and teams that struggled. Hunter shows us LeBron James when he was a 15-year-old high school freshman, already capturing the world’s attention; 20-year-old Derek Jeter’s meteoric rise through the minors, including the Columbus Clippers; a strange encounter with Pete Rose hustling frozen pizzas; and the excitement of watching future WNBA star Katie Smith dominate a Columbus Quest championship game. The common thread is the personal touch that Hunter consistently uses to take readers beyond the final scores and the dazzle of lights. These are the people behind the athletes. They’re remembered for how they played, but Hunter reminds us who they were.

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527

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Ohio University Press

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0821446835

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9780821446836

Flowers to Philanthropy

The Life of Herman Meinders

By: Bob Burke,Tom Butler

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Flowers to Philanthropy

The Life of Herman Meinders

By: Bob Burke,Tom Butler

Foreword by Dr. Robert H. Schuller.

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232

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1885596448

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9781885596444

142 Ways America Went from Sweet Land of Liberty to Weak, Woke, and Wobbly

A Reference Guide to the Biden Years

By: Bob Ehrlich

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142 Ways America Went from Sweet Land of Liberty to Weak, Woke, and Wobbly

A Reference Guide to the Biden Years

By: Bob Ehrlich

Now revised to include brand-new material, this handy reference guide to the most important presidential election in our lifetime takes the reader from the most notorious to the most sublime Biden administration–era failures. Written in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand style, this book will make you a more dangerous (more informed) voter. Along the way, you will be armed with background information and facts to utilize against those family members, coworkers, and neighbors—or even total strangers—who seek to debate you about the last four years and the all-important election of 2024. This is an especially important tome for college students exposed to woke indoctrination on campus but determined to fight back. From a porous southern border and repeated blunders in the Middle East to attempted censorship of opposing opinion and a weaponized executive branch, this book will give you all the incriminating evidence you need to engage and defeat the remaining defenders of the Biden administration.

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155

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Post Hill Press

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ISBN 13

9798888459171

Hottest Motorcycles

By: Bob Woods

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Hottest Motorcycles

By: Bob Woods

Learn about the motorcycle's beginning, the chopper phenomenon, and motorcycle racing"--Provided by publisher.

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Enslow Publishers, Inc.

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0766028747

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9780766028746

Still Grousin' Buddies

More Tales of Fins, Feathers, and Friends

By: Bob Feller; Bob Nelson

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Still Grousin' Buddies

More Tales of Fins, Feathers, and Friends

By: Bob Feller; Bob Nelson

Still Grousin' Buddies is a sequel of sorts to our first book, Grousin Buddies (Authorhouse 2005). More tales of fins, feathers, and friends, this edition brings more of the same, life lessons learned afield with the people we care most about. Although arranged by chapters of similar content, each story and poem stands alone. Each an unique experience, yet not so different than those of others who love the outdoors and the bounties it has to offer. Our goal is to find a connection with our readers, a moment that is part of the shared human experience.

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1491865563

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9781491865569

Frank Gowen's Vancouver

1914-1931

By: Fred Thirkell,Bob Scullion

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Frank Gowen's Vancouver

1914-1931

By: Fred Thirkell,Bob Scullion

Frank Gowen's Vancouver extended from White Rock to the Sunshine Coast as the photographer and his camera explored the playgrounds and edifices of a vibrant West Coast community. In the city itself, Stanley Park, and particularly the park's famed Hollow Tree, became Gowen's personal domain. In this era when the picture postcard was firmly entrenched as a popular means of communication, Gowen's images travelled around the world, establishing an ever-growing awareness of one of the world's finest harbours and the lands that surrounded it. The pictures selected for this book provide a testimonial to the heritage and natural beauty of BC's Lower Mainland.

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180

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1894384482

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9781894384483

Lifting the Fog

The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)

By: Bob de Graaff

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Lifting the Fog

The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)

By: Bob de Graaff

Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022) is unique as a general body of knowledge about the history of the Dutch intelligence and security services since 1913. The chapters alternate between a general historical overview and a number of case studies spread out over the more-than-a-century long history that taken together give a good insight into the main functions of a middle-size military intelligence service as The Netherlands has known. The MIVD is giving the author access to the archives of the MIVD and its predecessors, which normally are closed to outsiders.

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677

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538176246

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9781538176245

GROUSIN' BUDDIES

Tales of Fins, Feathers and Friends

By: Bob Feller; Bob Nelson

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GROUSIN' BUDDIES

Tales of Fins, Feathers and Friends

By: Bob Feller; Bob Nelson

As our good friend, Retz, often says, “Life just keeps comin’ at ya.” This book is all about life with its fickle little twists and turns. We (the authors) met playing volleyball and grew to be best friends, business associates, and hunting partners. In our 30+ years of friendship we have played, laughed, loved, cried, and grieved together. Set against the backdrop of Northern Wisconsin, the stories in this book were not written specifically to go into a book. This book “just kind of happened” because of our love not only of writing but of the people, places, and events that shaped our lives; it happened because of our passion for the outdoors, its lessons, beauty, and bounty. Light a fire, grab a libation, put your feet up and share a bit of life with us.

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174

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1452067317

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9781452067315

Glory of Old IU, Indiana University

By: Bob Hammel,Kit Klingelhoffer

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Glory of Old IU, Indiana University

By: Bob Hammel,Kit Klingelhoffer

A handsome coffee-table book, Glory of Old IU is the most comprehensive book ever written about Indiana University athletics. Never-before-published details about the 100 years of IU's membership in the Big Ten Conference are captured in this one-of-a-kind book. Glory of Old IU includes vignettes about all of IU's greatest moments, including its five NCAA basketball championships. There are stories about Bob Knight, Mark Spitz, Isiah Thomas, Harry Gonso, and many others. Thousands of other names are included in the all-time letter-winners list. Glory of Old IU is must reading for anyone who is loyal to the Hoosiers.

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330

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582610681

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9781582610689

Warrior

Frank Sturgis—The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro but Was Ambushed by Watergate

By: Jim Hunt,Bob Risch

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Frank Sturgis—The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro but Was Ambushed by Watergate

By: Jim Hunt,Bob Risch

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Reagan

An American Journey

By: Bob Spitz

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Reagan

An American Journey

By: Bob Spitz

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational. More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's REAGAN stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th President, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times. It is the quintessential American triumph, brought to life with cinematic vividness: a young man is born into poverty and raised in a series of flyspeck towns in the Midwest by a pious mother and a reckless, alcoholic, largely absent father. Severely near-sighted, the boy lives in his own world, a world of the popular books of the day, and finds his first brush with popularity, even fame, as a young lifeguard. Thanks to his first great love, he imagines a way out, and makes the extraordinary leap to go to college, a modest school by national standards, but an audacious presumption in the context of his family's station. From there, the path is only very dimly lit, but it leads him, thanks to his great charm and greater luck, to a solid career as a radio sportscaster, and then, astonishingly, fatefully, to Hollywood. And the rest, as they say, is history. Bob Spitz's REAGAN is an absorbing, richly detailed, even revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life - giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of course, his iconic presidency, filled with storm and stress but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union that would serve as his greatest legacy. It is filled with fresh assessments and shrewd judgments, and doesn't flinch from a full reckoning with the man's strengths and limitations. This is no hagiography: Reagan was never a brilliant student, of anything, and his disinterest in hard-nosed political scheming, while admirable, meant that this side of things was left to the other people in his orbit, not least his wife Nancy; sometimes this delegation could lead to chaos, and worse. But what emerges as a powerful signal through all the noise is an honest inherent sweetness, a gentleness of nature and willingness to see the good in people and in this country, that proved to be a tonic for America in his time, and still is in ours. It was famously said that FDR had a first-rate disposition and a second-rate intellect. Perhaps it is no accident that only FDR had as high a public approval rating leaving office as Reagan did, or that in the years since Reagan has been closing in on FDR on rankings of Presidential greatness. Written with love and irony, which in a great biography is arguably the same thing, Bob Spitz's masterpiece will give no comfort to partisans at either extreme; for the rest of us, it is cause for celebration.

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Penguin

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0143110594

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9780143110590

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Warrior

Warrior

Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts

Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts

Flowers to Philanthropy

Flowers to Philanthropy

142 Ways America Went from Sweet Land of Liberty to Weak, Woke, and Wobbly

142 Ways America Went from Sweet Land of Liberty to Weak, Woke, and Wobbly

Hottest Motorcycles

Hottest Motorcycles

Still Grousin' Buddies

Still Grousin' Buddies

Frank Gowen's Vancouver

Frank Gowen's Vancouver

Lifting the Fog

Lifting the Fog

GROUSIN' BUDDIES

GROUSIN' BUDDIES

Glory of Old IU, Indiana University

Glory of Old IU, Indiana University

Warrior

Warrior

Reagan

Reagan

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