Don Ward's Books

Hunter Killer (Movie Tie-In)

By: George Wallace,Don Keith

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GERARD BUTLER AND GARY OLDMAN A submarine captain races to prevent World War III in this thrilling adventure. Below the polar ice cap, an American nuclear submarine moves quietly in the freezing water, tailing a new Russian sub. But the usual, unspoken game of hide-and-seek between opposing captains is ended when the Americans hear sounds of disaster and flooding, and the Russian sub sinks in a thousand feet of water. The American sub rushes to help, only to join its former quarry in the deep. The situation ignites tensions around the world. As both Washington and Moscow prepare for what may be the beginnings of World War III, the USS Toledo—led by young, untested Captain Joe Glass—heads to the location to give aid. He soon discovers that the incident was no accident. And the men behind it have yet to make their final move. A move only Glass can stop. Previously Published As Firing Point

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Penguin

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1984805274

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9781984805270

Final Bearing

By: George Wallace,Don Keith

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Final Bearing

By: George Wallace,Don Keith

The national bestseller is now in paperback. "George Wallace and Don Keith take you to the heart of the action as America fights a secret battle in a brilliantly portrayed South American setting. A great tale."--W.E.B. Griffin.

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Macmillan

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0765343177

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9780765343178

Noville Outpost of Bastogne - My Last Battle

By: Don Addor

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Noville Outpost of Bastogne - My Last Battle

By: Don Addor

This story details one soldier's last fight at the Belgium town of Noville, an outpost of Bastogne, and his struggle to stay alive while injured and alone on the foggy battle field.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412034000

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9781412034005

Firing Point

By: George Wallace,Don Keith

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Firing Point

By: George Wallace,Don Keith

NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE HUNTER KILLER—STARRING GERARD BUTLER AND GARY OLDMAN A submarine captain races to prevent World War III in this thrilling adventure. Below the polar ice cap, an American nuclear submarine moves quietly in the freezing water, tailing a new Russian sub. But the usual, unspoken game of hide-and-seek between opposing captains is ended when the Americans hear sounds of disaster and flooding, and the Russian sub sinks in a thousand feet of water. The American sub rushes to help, only to join its former quarry in the deep. The situation ignites tensions around the world. As both Washington and Moscow prepare for what may be the beginnings of World War III, the USS Toledo—led by young, untested Captain Joe Glass—heads to the location to give aid. He soon discovers that the incident was no accident. And the men behind it have yet to make their final move. A move only Glass can stop.

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Penguin

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1101587075

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9781101587072

H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture

The Works and Their Adaptations in Film, Television, Comics, Music and Games

By: Don G. Smith

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H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture

The Works and Their Adaptations in Film, Television, Comics, Music and Games

By: Don G. Smith

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born late in the 19th century, but it was not until after his death in 1937 that he became a worldwide icon of horror and supernatural fiction. Influenced largely by Lord Dunsany and Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft's stories are known for their unique assimilation of gothic themes into science fiction. Lovecraft's influence has stretched far beyond literary horror, as a number of his works have been adapted for feature films, television episodes, comic book tales and, in recent years, video games. This scholarly study highlights Lovecraft's profound impact on 20th century popular culture. Early chapters introduce his complete writings, providing an annotated bibliography of the author's horror and science fiction tales. The works are discussed in the context of the Cthulhu Mythos, an invented mythology centering on ancient and alien beings interacting with the terrestrial world. Later chapters provide a filmography of motion pictures that credit Lovecraft or are identifiably adapted from his works, as well as a discussion of the works that have been adapted for television, comic books, role-playing video games, and music. The book concludes with a close examination of the Lovecraft legacy, commenting on his specific social and metaphysical ideologies and placing the author in context among such notable literary personalities as Mary Shelley, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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McFarland

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1476604002

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9781476604008

Shawnee Heritage XI U-Z

By: Don Greene

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Shawnee Heritage XI U-Z

By: Don Greene

The 11th book in the Shawnee Heritage series. This book contains Shawnee surnames beginning with U through Z living in the 1700's through 1750.

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Lulu.com

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1312955023

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9781312955028

Shawnee Heritage X S-T 1700-1750

By: Don Greene

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Shawnee Heritage X S-T 1700-1750

By: Don Greene

Don Greene has compiled Shawnee surnames beginning with S & T from the 1700's to the 1750's. This book contains an appendix with information about Peter Chartier.

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Lulu.com

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1312914297

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9781312914292

Modest Hopes

Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s

By: Don Loucks,Leslie Valpy

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Modest Hopes

Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s

By: Don Loucks,Leslie Valpy

Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Despite their value as urban property, Toronto’s workers’ cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life. Through the stories of eight families who lived in these “Modest Hopes,” authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto’s working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.

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Dundurn

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1459745566

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9781459745568

The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory

By: Don Martindale

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The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory

By: Don Martindale

First Published in 1998. This is Volume XI of twenty-two in a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Notions are widespread that sociological theory is either an industrious activity on the drawing boards of the architects of fantasy or a branch of esoterics operating in a shadowy realm of semi-darkness. The present study holds neither of these conceptions of sociological. The present study’s function is to illuminate the difference between one theory and another. The power and reliability of a theory are not always evident all at once. A theory may have a power to explain what was not originally anticipated; it may also disclose the existence of problems it cannot explain.

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Routledge

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1136225870

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9781136225871

Drawn Into Hell

By: Don VanLandingham, Sr

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Drawn Into Hell

By: Don VanLandingham, Sr

During the turbulent summer of 1964, three civil rights workers drove to Philadelphia, Mississippi, a town ensnared by the tight grasp of the Ku Klux Klan, to assist in voter registration of blacks. One KKK member, believing he was upholding tradition, was pulled deeper and deeper into the Klan's evil plans.

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Tate Publishing

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1615661441

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9781615661442

Fridays at Enrico's

A Novel

By: Don Carpenter

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Fridays at Enrico's

A Novel

By: Don Carpenter

Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists working in the west. His first novel, A Hard Rain Falling, first published in 1966, has been championed by Richard Price, and George Pelacanos who called it "a masterpiece…the definitive juvenile–delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our criminal justice system," is considered a classic. His novel A Couple of Comedians is thought by some the best novel about Hollywood ever written. He was a close friend of Evan Connell and other San Francisco writers, but his closest friendship was with Richard Brautigan, and when Brautigan killed himself, Carpenter tried for some time to write a biography of his remarkable, deeply troubled friend. He finally abandoned that in favor of writing a novel. Friday's at Enricos, the story of four writers living in Northern California and Portland during the early, heady days of the Beat scene. A time of youth and opportunity, this story mixes the excitement of beginning with the melancholy of ambition, often thwarted and never satisfied. Loss of innocence is only the first price you pay. These are people, men and women, tender with expectation, at risk and in love, and Carpenter also carefully draws a portrait of these two remarkable places, San Francisco and Portland, in the 50s and early 60s, when the writers and bohemians were busy creating the groundwork for what came to be the counterculture. A great champion of Don Carpenter, Jonathan Lethem, has taken on the task of editing and developing this last draft into the shape we imagine Carpenter would have himself accomplished had he lived to see this through. And Lethem provides a wonderful introduction to this book, to Carpenter, and to the broad influence of his work which resonates until this very day.

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Catapult

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1619023768

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9781619023765

London in 1731

in large print

By: Don Manoel Gonzales

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London in 1731

in large print

By: Don Manoel Gonzales

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387022921

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9783387022926

Crimson Waters

True Tales of Adventure. Looting, Kidnapping, Torture, and Piracy on the High Seas

By: Don Mann,Kraig Becker

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Crimson Waters

True Tales of Adventure. Looting, Kidnapping, Torture, and Piracy on the High Seas

By: Don Mann,Kraig Becker

A New York Times bestsellling author separates history from myth from the Pharaohs to Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to today. Soon after the first maritime trade routes became operational, seafaring bandits appeared to prey upon the cargo, crews, and ships of others. Crimson Waters traces the history of piracy around the globe, stretching back from its roots in 2500 BCE, through the Golden Age of Piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and up to the modern-day pirates who still threaten boats along coastlines and on the open seas. This journey through history includes: Evidence of "Sea People" during the reigns of Egyptian Pharaohs The raids and pillaging of seafaring Vikings The tales of Blackbeard, the Barbarossa Brothers, Calico Jack, Captain Kidd, Sir Francis Drake, and Madam Cheng A historical account of the real pirates of the Caribbean Pirates of the modern age and why the occupation has persevered And more! Crimson Waters satisfies all the armchair swashbucklers who long for a sense of adventure and the history buffs looking to spruce up their knowledge of maritime exploits.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510760415

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9781510760417

Cowboys, Yogis, and One-Legged Ski Bums

By: Don Morreale

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Cowboys, Yogis, and One-Legged Ski Bums

By: Don Morreale

Cowboys, Yogis, and One-legged Ski Bums is a compilation of Don Morreale's popular YourHub/Examiner.com articles about the life and times of contemporary Coloradans. In addition to people who have somehow managed to triumph over extremely difficult circumstances, he writes about artists, athletes, thinkers, helpers, seekers, and ordinary folks smitten with peculiar passions. His stories uncover a rich cultural tapestry hidden in plain sight at the foot of the majestic Rocky Mountains.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499024029

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9781499024029

The Price of Freedom

The War Within The Memoir of Don Reeves

By: Sergeant Don Reeves (Retired)

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The Price of Freedom

The War Within The Memoir of Don Reeves

By: Sergeant Don Reeves (Retired)

Most of us take for granted the freedoms this country has been blessed with, but freedom is not free. This is my story, a simple southern boy from Arkansas who at the age of eleven wanted to be a marine. I found myself in the Vietnam War at the age of eighteen, that pushed me to the limit physically and psychologically. The images I carry in my mind are still horrifying at times and for many years, I blamed myself for my fallen comrades. Feelings of anger hate guilt and bitterness were trapped within my soul and ate at me a little each day until there was no more of me left. Miraculously, I was redeemed when I re-found my faith in God; and the soul mate who helped me through it all. I truly hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Semper Fi!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465373845

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9781465373847

Toy Fights

A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd

By: Don Paterson

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Toy Fights

A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd

By: Don Paterson

Exquisitely sharp, deeply humane and brutally hilarious, Toy Fights is a future classic from one of the greatest writers of his generation. 'Devastatingly funny.' Geoff Dyer 'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant' Scotsman 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Herald on Sunday This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored. Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate. When he wasn't busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of Toy Fights, working with his country-and-western singer dad, screwing up in the Boys' Brigade, obsessing over God, origami, The Osmonds, stamps, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, failing his exams, playing guitar, falling in love, dodging employment and descending into madness. While he didn't manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life - before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London - did, for better or worse, shape who he would become.

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Faber & Faber

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057137736X

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9780571377367

Troy

A Collar City History

By: Don Rittner

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Troy

A Collar City History

By: Don Rittner

The New World, and especially New York, meant unparalleled opportunity for people in the 1600s with visions of expansion, colonization, and profit. Buying land from the Mohican tribe, the Dutch took control of much of the modern Empire State in the early part of this country's development. Under the patroonship of Kilian van Rensselaer, many pioneer farmers settled in the fertile land along the Hudson River. With each passing year, the number of Upstate settlers increased, and two villages emerged: Lansingburgh and Vanderheyden, soon to become Troy. Troy: A Collar City History chronicles the transformation of the city from an untamed wilderness inhabited by the early Mohican tribe into a vibrant, modern industrial metropolis. Troy's story is truly a complex drama, supported by a host of entrepreneurs, inventors, immigrant workers, labor leaders, scientists, athletes, and artists, against a changing backdrop of war, depression, industrial revolution, and prosperity. The city's most significant characters come alive within these pages, such as "Uncle Sam" Wilson, an early-nineteenth-century meat packager who served as the model for this nation's patriotic icon; Amos Eaton, the "father of geology" and founder of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Emma Willard, a pioneer in the field of female education; and Kate Mullaney, a leader in local female unionization. This unique volume explores the old cobblestone streets, the historic downtown district, and the many factories producing iron, stoves, paper boats, bells, and of course, detachable shirt collars.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738523682

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9780738523682

Toy Fights: A Boyhood

By: Don Paterson

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Toy Fights: A Boyhood

By: Don Paterson

“It’s wonderful, aggressively wise, and always—especially at its most serious—devastatingly funny.” —Geoff Dyer For readers of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s. Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of “an infinite sensitivity to the world” (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and . . . origami), Paterson nevertheless made clear early on his immense gift for observation. In Toy Fights, he vividly re-creates the customs of the Scottish working class, from the titular childhood game (“basically twenty minutes of extreme violence without pretext”) to the virtues of the sugary sweet known as tablet. When American pop culture arrived, Paterson fell hard for the so-called outlaw sound; by his teens, he was traveling with his father, a Stetson-wearing “country” musician, and becoming guitar-mad himself. A memoir of family, music, and highly inventive profanity, Toy Fights is an unforgettable account of the years we all spend in rehearsal for real life.

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Liveright Publishing

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1324093633

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9781324093633

Courage and Compassion

A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

By: Don Farrands QC

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Courage and Compassion

A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

By: Don Farrands QC

This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength. Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australia’s most horrific battles: the Somme, Bullecourt, Ypres and Villers-Bretonneux. In April 1918, at Villers-Bretonneux, he was severely gassed. His eyes were traumatised, his lungs damaged. Upon his return home, he met and married Madeline, the love of his life, started a family, and resumed his career teaching art. But eventually the effects of the mustard gas claimed his eyesight, ending his career. Courageously enduring this consequence of war, he continued contributing to society by assisting his son and son-in-law in their stained-glass window business. Advances in medicine finally restored his sight in 1968, allowing him to yet again appreciate the beauty around him, before his death in 1976. The story of this Anzac will stir your soul. It is a story of war and bravery, pain and strength, hope and miracles.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922488313

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9781922488312

The Perfect Yankee

The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History

By: Don Larsen,Mark Shaw

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The Perfect Yankee

The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History

By: Don Larsen,Mark Shaw

By all accounts, the perfect game pitched by New York Yankee right-hander Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series qualifies as a true miracle. No one knows why it happened, or why an unlikely baseball player such as Don Larsen was the one who tossed it. In The Perfect Yankee, Larsen and co-author Mark Shaw describe for the first time the facts surrounding one of the most famous games in baseball history.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582613362

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9781582613369

Entertainment Awards

A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide, 1928 through 2003, 3d ed.

By: Don Franks

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Entertainment Awards

A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide, 1928 through 2003, 3d ed.

By: Don Franks

What show won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 1984? Who won the Oscar as Best Director in 1929? What actor won the Best Actor Obie for his work in Futz in 1967? Who was named “Comedian of the Year” by the Country Music Association in 1967? Whose album was named “Record of the Year” by the American Music Awards in 1991? What did the National Broadway Theatre Awards name as the “Best Musical” in 2003? This thoroughly updated, revised and “highly recommended” (Library Journal) reference work lists over 15,000 winners of twenty major entertainment awards: the Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy, Country Music Association, New York Film Critics, Pulitzer Prize for Theater, Tony, Obie, New York Drama Critic’s Circle, Prime Time Emmy, Daytime Emmy, the American Music Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the National Broadway Theatre Awards (touring Broadway plays), the National Association of Broadcasters Awards, the American Film Institute Awards and Peabody. Production personnel and special honors are also provided.

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McFarland

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1476608067

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9781476608068

Hit Songs, 1900-1955

American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era

By: Don Tyler

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Hit Songs, 1900-1955

American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era

By: Don Tyler

This is a chronology of the most famous songs from the years before rock 'n' roll. The top hits for each year are described, including vital information such as song origin, artist(s), and chart information. For many songs, the author includes any web or library holdings of sheet music covers, musical scores, and free audio files. An extensive collection of biographical sketches follows, providing performing credits, relevant professional awards, and brief biographies for hundreds of the era's most popular performers, lyricists, and composers. Includes an alphabetical song index and bibliography.

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McFarland

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0786429461

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Harrow A to Z

By: Don Walter

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Harrow A to Z

By: Don Walter

Harrow A to Z is for anyone interested in the borough's local history. Twenty-six entertaining subjects are covered, from archery to Zeppelins, including along the way personalities, buildings, local institutions and industries. The book is fully illustrated with over 100 old and new photographs, drawings and engravings.

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The History Press

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0750953160

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9780750953160

Scoundrels, Thugs, and Fools

Adventures in Neoconland

By: Don Ambrose

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Scoundrels, Thugs, and Fools

Adventures in Neoconland

By: Don Ambrose

Scoundrels, Thugs, and Fools depicts an adventurous journey through an imaginary island nation completely dominated by right-wing extremists. Manifestations of wingnut skulduggery, corruption, dogmatism, and the wild spin of shameless propaganda are reflected in the names and actions of characters such as Pundit O. Gasbag (a loud, narrow-minded, infuriating news anchor talk-show host at Weasel News), Shrilly Noxious (his wild-eyed, psychopathic partner in punditry), Bovine Ninny (a shallow, inarticulate, dull-witted man of puzzling charisma who somehow became the Emperor of Neoconland), and Senator Hubris Mendacious III Esq. (a long-serving politician who dances to the tune of corporate lobbyists whenever they pull his puppet strings, which are attached to metal eye hooks screwed into his knees, wrists, skull, larynx, and groin). Some Neoconian locations, corporations, organizations, and artifacts include Flaming Filth River in Empathy Gulf Valley, Lobbyville in the capital city of Fascisto, the Zealots' Court Building, Dogma University, Coughing Coal-Black Industries, the Maniacal Cult of Intolerant Absolutism, and the Boneshredder assault rifle (grand prize at the Guns for Kids Jamboree). The playful story is supported by extensive footnotes explaining the meaning of the characters and events in terms of rigorous research findings from various academic disciplines.

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iUniverse

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1440117837

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9781440117831

Near the Top of the Stairs

Thoughts and Memories of a Life Through Time

By: Don Bondi

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Near the Top of the Stairs

Thoughts and Memories of a Life Through Time

By: Don Bondi

Near the Top of the Stairs begins as a poem and ends as a biography. It is a journey of specific memories during the times and locations of a young boy looking back at 80 years of a life. The author looks back through the eyes of his youth and reveals the remembered events that have become his life as he nears the top of the stairs. His early childhood and parents begin the journey followed by an uneventful telling of high school followed by revelations in college that exposes his sexuality and his joy of dance and learning. He learns responsibility as an army officer in South Korea where he learns to teach, and he learns compassion as a high school science teacher where he finds his worth through the development of innovative teaching techniques. HIs shyness gives way to questioning authority that leads to the revelation that his ego often gets in the way of accepting who he has become and what is important in this becoming. Now near the top of the stairs the young boy looking up the stairs acknowledges the creativity associated with dance that freed him to explore and develop to become the young man of 80 near the top of the stairs. And life still inspires him and maybe you to dance.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514427761

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9781514427767

Black Diamonds! Black Gold!

The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company

By: Don Woodard

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Black Diamonds! Black Gold!

The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company

By: Don Woodard

The portrayal of the events, people, and company that created a boomtown and a rare glimpse into the wheelings and dealings of cattle barons, oil tycoons, and politicos on a truly Texas scale.

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Texas Tech University Press

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0896723798

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9780896723795

Royal Navy Roll of Honour - Between the Wars, 1918-1939

By: Don Kindell

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Royal Navy Roll of Honour - Between the Wars, 1918-1939

By: Don Kindell

Alphabetical and chronological listings of men from the Royal Navy who lost their lives between the First and Second World Wars.

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Lulu.com

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0578027909

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9780578027906

Psychology

By: Don H. Hockenbury,Sandra E. Hockenbury

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Psychology

By: Don H. Hockenbury,Sandra E. Hockenbury

New edition of the Hockenburys' text, which draws on their extensive teaching and writing experiences to speak directly to students who are new to psychology.

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844

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Macmillan

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ISBN 10

0716751291

ISBN 13

9780716751298

Book's by Don Ward

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