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The Fifth Revenge

By: Carl Burcham

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A modern-day Sioux warrior is “on the warpath,” avenging five of his most famous ancestors by killing contemporary white leaders. When the pinto-riding Indian “Avenger” brutally murders the Secretary of the Interior before thousands of onlookers at a Native American gathering on the Washington Mall, President Elizabeth Chamberlain decides to intervene. But, instead of relying on federal authorities, she turns to local D.C. detective Quinn Shannon, a Harley-riding, beer-swilling, over-the-hill cop with retirement on his mind. To track the assassin, Shannon relies on one of the Indian's own--an old Sioux Sundancer named Ben Soaring Eagle. It's a race against time as Shannon and Soaring Eagle try to stop the Sioux assassin before he completes the fifth revenge.

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0595145272

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9780595145270

The Life of William Faulkner

This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962

By: Carl Rollyson

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The Life of William Faulkner

This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962

By: Carl Rollyson

By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"— Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. The second and concluding volume of Carl Rollyson’s ambitious biography finds Faulkner lamenting the many threats to his creative existence. Feeling, as an artist, he should be above worldly concerns and even morality, he has instead inherited only debts—a symptom of the South’s faded fortunes—and numerous mouths to feed and funerals to fund. And so he turns to the classic temptation for financially struggling writers—Hollywood. Thus begins roughly a decade of shuttling between his home and family in Mississippi—lifeblood of his art—and the backlots of the Golden Age film industry. Through Faulkner’s Hollywood years, Rollyson introduces such personalities as Humphrey Bogart and Faulkner’s long-time collaborator Howard Hawks, while telling the stories behind films such as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. At the same time, he chronicles with great insight Faulkner's rapidly crumbling though somehow resilient marriage and his numerous extramarital affairs--including his deeply felt, if ultimately doomed, relationship with Meta Carpenter. (In his grief over their breakup, Faulkner—a dipsomaniac capable of ferocious alcoholic binges—received third-degree burns when he passed out on a hotel-room radiator.) Where most biographers and critics dismiss Faulkner’s film work as at best a necessary evil, at worst a tragic waste of his peak creative years, Rollyson approaches this period as a valuable window on his artistry. He reveals a fascinating, previously unappreciated cross-pollination between Faulkner’s film and literary work, elements from his fiction appearing in his screenplays and his film collaborations influencing his later novels—fundamentally changing the character of late-career works such as the Snopes trilogy. Rollyson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the composition of Absalom, Absalom!, widely considered Faulkner’s masterpiece, as well as the film adaptation he authored—unproduced and never published— Revolt in the Earth. He reveals how Faulkner wrestled with the legacy of the South—both its history and its dizzying racial contradictions—and turned it into powerful art in works such as Go Down, Moses and Intruder in the Dust. Volume 2 of this monumental work rests on an unprecedented trove of research, giving us the most penetrating and comprehensive life of Faulkner and providing a fascinating look at the author's trajectory from under-appreciated "writer's writer" to world-renowned Nobel laureate and literary icon. In his famous Nobel speech, Faulkner said what inspired him was the human ability to prevail. In the end, this beautifully wrought life shows how Faulkner, the man and the artist, embodies this remarkable capacity to endure and prevail.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813944414

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9780813944418

Visualizing Everyday Chemistry

By: Douglas P. Heller,Carl H. Snyder

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Visualizing Everyday Chemistry

By: Douglas P. Heller,Carl H. Snyder

Visualizing Everyday Chemistry Binder Ready Version is for a one-semester course dedicated to introducing chemistry to non-science students. It shows what chemistry is and what it does, by integrating words with powerful and compelling visuals and learning aids. With this approach, students not only learn the basic principles of chemistry but see how chemistry impacts their lives and society. The goal of Visualizing Everyday Chemistry Binder Ready Version is to show students that chemistry is important and relevant, not because we say it is but because they see it is. This text is an unbound, binder-ready version.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119003067

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9781119003069

White Dolphin Blues

By: Carl Burcham

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White Dolphin Blues

By: Carl Burcham

White Dolphin Blues is the story of Rowena Muldoon, a feisty 62-year-old bartender at the White Dolphin, located on quaint Paradise Beach, Delaware. Loosely based on some of the curmudgeons the author has observed in his lifetime, White Dolphin Blues is filled with a host of wacky and quirky characters, suspense and surprise, and love and friendship. What makes White Dolphin Blues so unique is that it's not only serious-with death and corporate greed inching their way into the story-but it's seriously easy to love the fun-loving characters who struggle to keep Paradise Beach the enchanted tourist attraction it has always been.

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088739213X

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9780887392139

White Dolphin Blues

By: Carl Burcham

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White Dolphin Blues

By: Carl Burcham

White Dolphin Blues" is the story of Rowena Muldoon, a feisty 62-year-old bartender at the White Dolphin, located on quaint Paradise Beach, Delaware. Loosely based on some of the "curmudgeons" the author has observed in his lifetime, "White Dolphin Blues" is filled with a host of wacky and quirky characters, suspense and surprise, and love and friendship.

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0887392121

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9780887392122

The Fifth Revenge

By: Carl Burcham

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By: Carl Burcham

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0595145272

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9780595145270

Carl Sandburg

Adventures of a Poet

By: Penelope Niven,Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg

Adventures of a Poet

By: Penelope Niven,Carl Sandburg

Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0152046860

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9780152046866

The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial

Treasures from the Vault of Kim Weston

By: Carl Barks,Michael Barrier,Edward Bergen,Lloyd Billingsley,Barbora Holan Cowles

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The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial

Treasures from the Vault of Kim Weston

By: Carl Barks,Michael Barrier,Edward Bergen,Lloyd Billingsley,Barbora Holan Cowles

The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial is a quarterly publication of the international Carl Barks Fan Club, featuring pictorial articles regarding the amazing worldwide influence of Carl's stories and artwork on literature, the arts, education and literacy.

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1507895992

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The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial

The Creative Process Issue

By: Carl Barks,Joseph Robert Cowles,Edward Bergen,Kim Weston,Patrick Block

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The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial

The Creative Process Issue

By: Carl Barks,Joseph Robert Cowles,Edward Bergen,Kim Weston,Patrick Block

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1499723741

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9781499723748

Little Giant

The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert

By: Carl Bert Albert,Danney Goble

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Little Giant

The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert

By: Carl Bert Albert,Danney Goble

At age six, Carl Albert knew he wanted to serve in the United States Congress. In 1947 he realized his dream when he was elected to serve in the House of Representatives along side John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. In Little Giant, Albert relates the story of his life in Oklahoma and his road to Congress, where after eight years of sevice he joinded its leadership and shaped the legislation known as Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society.

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