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Murder in Five Movements

An Inspector May Murder Mystery

By: David Baker

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Murder in Five Movements

An Inspector May Murder Mystery

By: David Baker

ABOUT THE BOOK Templeton Towers, home to the Order of Saint Saviour’s school for gifted and talented students. William Clair, Head of the Order, is a troubled man. The place is nearly bankrupt; the regime an unhappy one. Clair and Janos Szabo, Principal, disagree on strategy. Andreas Day, Chair of Governors, plans to sell land to pay the debt. Diana Foster, the educational psychologist, is changing the whole curriculum, and will not be thwarted. The night before a crucial meeting, Clair prays for divine guidance in the chapel, the last act of worship he will make. Clair’s is the first in a series of strange murders. But why? Is it the sale of land? The rumoured secret treasure at Templeton Towers? The discovery of a skeleton? Or something even more sinister? Donald May, Charlie Riggs, and Georgie Ellis lead the investigation. May’s son Freddie is a student at Templeton and starts his own crime unit; Pauline Philbey, local archivist, goes private detective; and interfering Jean Samson, May’s new boss, is a former lover intent on a new relationship with the DCI. Thus begins a story of lies, deceit, corruption, lust, and intrigue What more is to be discovered in Murder in Five Movements? Who will triumph in this tale of good versus evil?

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Starfist: Firestorm

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

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Starfist: Firestorm

By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg

Combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg know firsthand the courage, sacrifice, and hell of war—and their experiences have made the popular Starfist novels thrill rides of the highest order. Now the explosive action continues on the remote planet Ravenette, where the Marines of the Confederation’s 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) find themselves up against a full-fledged rebellion–and a lethally loose cannon of a commanding officer. Desperate to thwart unrelenting aliens and their quest to obliterate humankind, The Confederation has beefed up its defenses. But to the citizens on the outer edges of Human Space around Ravenette—unaware that a deadly enemy even exists—the government’s move seems oppressive, and ten planets have responded with a war of secession. In touch-and-go battles with the seceding planets, the 34th FIST has emerged battered but unbowed, refusing to give up . . . even while under the command of a fanatical general. The enemy determined to strike, a new mission must be carried out, though the troops will likely return in body bags. Should Ensign Charlie Bass and his Marines somehow survive the nightmarishly difficult amphibious landing, they can expect to be outmanned, outgunned, and out-armored in a fierce duel against fresh soldiers. But like any Marine worth his salt, Bass knows there’s only one way to go when facing impossible odds: on the offense with all guns firing. There’s no other choice—because if life was easy, there’d be no need to send in the Marines.

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Del Rey

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0345500504

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Queer Pollen

White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic

By: David A. Gerstner

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Queer Pollen

White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic

By: David A. Gerstner

This book discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists and how they turned to various media to work through their experiences living as queer black men.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252077873

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The Empire's of J. G. Ballard

An Imagined Geography

By: David Ian Paddy

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The Empire's of J. G. Ballard

An Imagined Geography

By: David Ian Paddy

J. G. Ballard once declared that the most truly alien planet is Earth and in his science fiction he abandoned the traditional imagery of rocket ships traveling to distant galaxies to address the otherworldliness of this world. The Empires of J. G. Ballard is the first extensive study of Ballard's critical vision of nation and empire, of the political geography of this planet. Paddy examines how Ballard s self-perceived status as an outsider and exile, the Sheppertonian from Shanghai, generated an outlook that celebrated worldliness and condemned parochialism. This book brings to light how Ballard wrestled with notions of national identity and speculated upon the social and psychological implications of the post-war transformation of older models of empire into new imperialisms of consumerism and globalization. Presenting analyses of Ballard s full body of work with its tales of reverse colonization, psychological imperialism, the savagery of civilization, estranged Englishmen abroad and at home, and multinational communities built on crime, The Empires of J. G. Ballard offers a fresh perspective on the fiction of J. G. Ballard. The Empires of J.G. Ballard: An Imagined Geography offers a sustained and highly convincing analysis of the imperial and post-imperial histories and networks that shape and energise Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings. To what extent can Ballard be considered an international writer? What happens to our understanding of his post-war science fictions when they are opened up to the language and logics of post-colonialism? And what creative and critical roles do the spectres of empire play in Ballard's visions of modernity? Paddy follows these and other fascinating lines of enquiry in a study that is not only essential reading for Ballard students and scholars, but for anyone interested in the intersections of modern and contemporary literature, history and politics. (Jeanette Baxter, Anglia Ruskin University) Shanghai made my father. Arriving in England after WW2, he was a person of the world who d witnessed extremes of human experience, and remained the outsider observing life from his home in Shepperton. 1930s Shanghai, Paris of the East , was a mix of international sophistication and violence, unfettered capitalism and acute poverty, American cars, martinis and Coca Cola, a place marked by death and war. It had a profound influence on my father and his imagination. Dr Paddy s fascinating book explores my father s fiction within an international context and offers a profound reading of a man who always kept his eyes and mind open to the world. (Fay Ballard)

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Gylphi Limited

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1780240201

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The Winner

By: David Baldacci

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The Winner

By: David Baldacci

A rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. THE DREAM She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever. THE KILLER It's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich. THE WINNER For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleon-like financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will...

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Grand Central Publishing

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0759524912

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Game on

How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans

By: David Bockino

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Game on

How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans

By: David Bockino

Game On tells the story of how and why the sports media industry grew to become one of the most important and profitable components of the global entertainment landscape.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496233174

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A People’s History of Sports in the United States

250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

By: David Zirin

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A People’s History of Sports in the United States

250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

By: David Zirin

From the author Robert Lipsyte calls "the best young sportswriter in America," a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture In this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin's eyes, sports are never mere games, but a reflection of—and spur toward—the political conflicts that shape American society. Half a century before Jackie Robinson was born, the black ballplayer Moses Fleetwood Walker brandished a revolver to keep racist fans at bay, then took his regular place in the lineup. In the midst of the Depression, when almost no black athletes were allowed on the U.S. Olympic team, athletes held a Counter Olympics where a third of the participants were African American. A People's History of Sports in the United States is replete with surprises for seasoned sports fans, while anyone interested in history will be amazed by the connections Zirin draws between politics and pop flies. As Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, puts it, "After you read him, you'll never see sports the same way again.

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The New Press

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1595586636

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Quantitative Ecology

Spatial and Temporal Scaling

By: David C. Schneider

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Quantitative Ecology

Spatial and Temporal Scaling

By: David C. Schneider

Quantitative Ecology reviews the manifold ways that scale influences the interpretation of ecological variation. Ecologists recognize the significance of scale and magnitude in providing a context for resolution of ecological problems. Written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty researchers, this book synthesizes a burgeoning literature on the influences of scale.As scale, magnitude, quantity, and measurement occupy an expanding role in ecology, Quantitative Ecology will be an indispensable addition to individual and institutional libraries.

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0080925634

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A Month of Murder

By: David Baker

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A Month of Murder

By: David Baker

1 May 1976. Thirteen-year- old ‘Minnie’ Hargreaves is murdered, and her body half buried on a building site at the edge of Holme Hill, a village in West Yorkshire where she lived with her parents. David Harrison, a near-neighbour, is convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. He dies in prison. 43 years later, Holme Hill becomes the scene of two more murders: Rhys Williams, a lonely old widower, found on a bench by the village cricket ground. A week later Peter Smith is found face down at the organ in Salem Chapel. Both corpses have a quotation from the Bible pinned to them, along with dates - the first two when Williams and Smith were murdered; the last two, dates in the future. DCI Donald May heads the investigation. Born in Holme Hill his family worshipped at Salem. The murders seem inexplicable: two blameless old men; seemingly the same murderer. A darker past emerges as May, DS Viv Trubshaw and DC Charlie Riggs investigate. Then a third murder, as forecast. May has seven days to the fourth. He discovers much more than just the murderer: all in one month; a month of murder.

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1665590564

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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation

FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

By: David Pietrusza

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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation

FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

By: David Pietrusza

Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US History From the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon—The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots; racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the landslide referendum on FDR’s New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves. With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic US Senator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in ’36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, who blasted FDR’s “Raw Deal”; wildly popular, radical radio commentator Father Coughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; the era’s racism and anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a Supreme Court seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America. Crafting his account from an impressive and unprecedented collection of primary and secondary sources, Pietrusza has produced an engrossing, original, and authoritative account of an election, a president, and a nation at the crossroads. The nation’s stakes were high . . . and the parallels hauntingly akin to today’s dangerously strife-ridden political and culture wars.

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Diversion Books

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1635767784

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9781635767780

Lincoln and the Indians

Civil War Policy and Politics

By: David A. Nichols

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Lincoln and the Indians

Civil War Policy and Politics

By: David A. Nichols

Deals with Lincoln and his policies toward Native Americans.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252068572

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9780252068577

Plants for Medicines

A Chemical and Pharmacological Survey of Plants in the Australian Region

By: David John Collins

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Plants for Medicines

A Chemical and Pharmacological Survey of Plants in the Australian Region

By: David John Collins

Includes details of alkaloid and anti-tumour screening of nearly 2000 species, the pharmacological testing of the alkaloids of selected species, and the chemical fractionation of those species which had reproducible tumour-inhibiting properties.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643049924

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9780643049925

The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture

Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati

By: David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim

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The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture

Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati

By: David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim

In the tradition of the instant bestsellers The Intellectual Devotional and The Intellectual Devotional: American History comes the third installment in this indispensable series. In The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture, authors David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim explore the fascinating world of contemporary culture to offer 365 daily readings that provide the essential references needed to navigate the world today. Quench your intellectual thirst with an overview of the literature, music, film, personalities, trends, sports, and pop references that have defined the way we live. From the Slinky to Star Wars; Beatlemania to Babe Ruth; flappers to fascism—refreshing your memory and dazzling your friends has never been easier, or more fun. Whether you're a trivia genius, pop-culture buff, or avid reader, you'll be riveted by this comprehensive journey through contemporary culture.

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Rodale Books

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1605297933

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9781605297934

Wolf in Shadow

By: David Gemmell

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Wolf in Shadow

By: David Gemmell

“David Gemmell tells a very real adventure, the stuff of true epic fantasy.”—New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore John Shannow, The Jerusalem Man, lived in a world that had toppled on its axis. Civilization had been replaced by ruthlessness and savagery. Relentless in his quest for peace, Shannow followed a path that led only to bloodshed and sorrow. Abaddon, the Lord of the Pit, sought to plunge mankind into a new Satanic era. His Hellborn army spewed forth from the Plague Lands with an unholy force stemming from human sacrifice. For it was the blood of innocents that fueled the corrupted Sipstrassi Stones of Power—the source of Abaddon's might. But the Hellborn made a fatal mistake—they took the woman who had stolen Shannow's heart. He would move Heaven and Earth to save her or he would die trying. “Gemmell . . . keeps the mythic currents crackling.”—Publishers Weekly

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0307797465

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Murder in Five Movements

Murder in Five Movements

Starfist: Firestorm

Starfist: Firestorm

Queer Pollen

Queer Pollen

The Empire's of J. G. Ballard

The Empire's of J. G. Ballard

The Winner

The Winner

Game on

Game on

A People’s History of Sports in the United States

A People’s History of Sports in the United States

Quantitative Ecology

Quantitative Ecology

A Month of Murder

A Month of Murder

Roosevelt Sweeps Nation

Roosevelt Sweeps Nation

Lincoln and the Indians

Lincoln and the Indians

Plants for Medicines

Plants for Medicines

The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture

The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture

Wolf in Shadow

Wolf in Shadow

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