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Cable Harbor

A Novel

By: Donald Bowie

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Cable Harbor

A Novel

By: Donald Bowie

A scandalous, gossipy, breezy satire, Cable Harbor follows the summer antics of the vacationers and townies in a small Maine resort town--rife with betrayal, young love, and small town drama.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1590773004

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9781590773000

S.M.I.T.E.

(Secret Military International Terrorist Exterminators)

By: DONALD UTTENMACHER

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S.M.I.T.E.

(Secret Military International Terrorist Exterminators)

By: DONALD UTTENMACHER

SMITE, Episode Two: The Islam Invasion is a continuation of SMITE, Episode One: The Nuclear Attack. In the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Washington, DC, the United States fails to rebuild its economy or strengthen its national security, leaving the country vulnerable to infiltration by ISIS terrorists seeking a new haven. SMITE teams are once again put to the task of protecting the nation from an attack by ISIS warriors, whose leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is presumed to be hiding somewhere in the city of Houston, Texas. SMITE undertakes the challenge to find and capture him.

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Xlibris Corporation

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150358660X

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9781503586604

Nop's Trials

A Novel

By: Donald McCaig

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Nop's Trials

A Novel

By: Donald McCaig

A novel about the bond between a farmer and his black-and-white border collie that James Herriot called “beautiful [and] as gripping as any thriller.” On Christmas Day, Virginia livestock farmer Lewis Burkholder and Nop, his black-and-white border collie, go out to feed the sheep. But the holiday is shattered when Nop fails to return home. Stolen by two hardened criminals who see in the young stock dog a $300 payday, Nop suffers abuse and brutality as he courageously adapts to his new life, which holds no shortage of surprises. At the same time, Lewis refuses to believe that his beloved dog is gone for good. His determination to be reunited with Nop—and Nop’s own unswerving loyalty—reveals the depth and strength of the bond that can exist between humans and dogs.

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Open Road Media

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1497619955

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9781497619951

The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism

Selected Essays and Reviews

By: Donald Pizer

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The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism

Selected Essays and Reviews

By: Donald Pizer

In his first book devoted exclusively to naturalism, Donald Pizer brings together thirteen essays and four reviews written over a thirty-year period that in their entirety constitute a full-scale interpretation of the basic character and historical shape of naturalism in America. The essays fall into three groups. Some deal with the full range of American naturalism, from the 1590s to the late twentieth century, and some are confined either to the 1890s or to the twentieth century. In addition to the essays, an introduction in which Pizer recounts the development of his interest in American naturalism, reviews of recent studies of naturalism, and a selected bibliography contribute to an understanding of Pizer's interpretation of the movement. One of the recurrent themes in the essays is that the interpretation of American naturalism has been hindered by the common view that the movement is characterized by a commitment to Emile Zola's deterministic beliefs and that naturalistic novels are thus inevitably crude and simplistic both in theme and method. Rather than accept this notion, Pizer insists that naturalistic novels be read closely not for their success or failure in rendering obvious deterministic beliefs but rather for what actually does occur within the dynamic play of theme and form within the work. Adopting this method, Pizer finds that naturalistic fiction often reveals a complex and suggestive mix of older humanistic faiths and more recent doubts about human volition, and that it renders this vital thematic ambivalence in increasingly sophisticated forms as the movement matures. In addition, Pizer demonstrates that American naturalism cannot be viewed monolithically as a school with a common body of belief and value. Rather, each generation of American naturalists, as well as major figures within each generation, has responded to threads within the naturalistic impulse in strikingly distinctive ways. And it is indeed this absence of a rigid doctrinal core and the openness of the movement to individual variation that are responsible for the remarkable vitality and longevity of the movement. Because the essays have their origin in efforts to describe the general characteristics of American naturalism rather than in a desire to cover the field fully, some authors and works are discussed several times (though from different angles) and some referred to only briefly or notat all. But the essays as a collection are "complete" in the sense that they comprise an interpretation of American naturalism both in its various phases and as a whole. Those authors whose works receive substantial discussion include Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, James T. Farrell, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, and William Kennedy. Of special interest is Pizer's essay on Ironweed, which appears here for the first time.

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SIU Press

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0809318474

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9780809318476

Injustice for All

By: Donald Sperry

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Injustice for All

By: Donald Sperry

A true story of Sean Thomas who after leavintg home at seventeen to join the army, returns to begin college and seek his goal of becoming a C.P.A. Financial struggles almost derail his plans, but through hard work and determination he finally becomes a partner in a very successful C.P.A. firm. Then the managing partner of the firm, an attorney and C.P.A. decides to help a friend and client of the firm with his tax problems and in so doing commits tax fraud and the distruction of the firm begins. The events that follow include a very public trial and conviction, an appeal of the conviction, sex in the boss's office, suicide by plane crash and a long legal battle lasting eighteen years. Prosecutors unfairly charge those who had nothing to do with the crime to get their co-operation and ultimately give up on their case. They then fight those who they unfairlyi charged. In the end there would be injustice for all.

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Lulu.com

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125797100X

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9781257971008

Where She Resides

By: Donald Gardner Stacy

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Where She Resides

By: Donald Gardner Stacy

Sidney Cline meets Rita Dunn one blustery autumn morning when they are both on their way to work. He offers her a lift and she accepts his invitation. Their relationship slowly develops until her brother-in-law begins to interfere.

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1105118134

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9781105118135

An Ill Wind Is Blowing

By: Donald Montano

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An Ill Wind Is Blowing

By: Donald Montano

A desperate note comes from Armondo Whyle asking Sampson, Arley, and Joshua to come and take his daughter away from their plantation that would soon be visited by a band of hated Redshirts intent on subjecting Deanna to a horrible fate because she had resisted the advances of their leader. In the gunfight that follows, six Redshirts are killed and the four still alive are put in leg irons and sent home. With the first battle won, Joshua begins to train the black field hands who once were slaves how to fight back. When the Redshirts attack again, in greater numbers, they are no match for a determined army who wants only their freedom. Fear begins to spread through the outlaw ranks. Oscar Blaylock feels it is time to invite Arley and company out to Black Seed. Once there, he takes Arley on a tour of the grounds, while his mistress, Serena, takes Sampson on a tour of the house. But upstairs in a room alone, her warning is clear, Go home, Mister Sampson. Oscar knows the real reason you are here. Soon he will kill you all. But the black army grows stronger, and it is not long before the remaining Redshirts are sent downriver to the same waiting slave ship, never to be heard from again. Only Blaylock is left to face Sampson in the yard at Black Seed during a triple wedding with an ending no one expected.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503582876

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A Handmade Wilderness

By: Donald Schueler

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A Handmade Wilderness

By: Donald Schueler

A memoir of an interracial gay couple bringing eighty acres back to life in 1960s Southern Mississippi: “This is no ordinary back-to-the-land book” (Sue Hubbell). In 1968, when Don G. Schueler and Willie Brown bought eighty acres in Mississippi, all they could afford was a piece of “least worst land”—a parcel that had been logged, burned, and ravaged, about twenty-five miles from the Gulf Coast. Moonshiners and poachers tried to scare them off, but the two stuck it out, restoring “The Place,” bringing back the flora and fauna, until they had created a handmade wilderness containing every ecosystem found in the region. This is the true story of their amazing journey. “Schueler and his partner purchased a bruised parcel of rural land, their goal to restore it to an ecologically balanced habitat for indigenous plant species and wildlife. Though his thoroughly engaging chronicle posits the dicey situation of a white man and a black man making a home in rural Mississippi in 1968, Schueler’s account is replete with amusing anecdotes that illuminate a quarter-century of interactions with neighbors vastly different from themselves and the conscientious caretaking efforts they expended. The saga embraces hurricane Camille’s destruction of a newly completed section of their house, and the fortitude that led them to build again, and the acquiring of a bevy of animals in the bargain.” —Booklist

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HMH

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0544002911

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9780544002913

The Enchanted Mall and Other Stories

By: Donald H. Busselle

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The Enchanted Mall and Other Stories

By: Donald H. Busselle

The Enchanted Mall and Other Stories covers a range of subjects and story types梩hree stories use Christmas themes plus one Christmas story is included where a couple receives a message and help from beyond the grave. Two other stories also tell of a "flicker from beyond." Three stories use the theme of a "possessed" computer. Mr. Busselle has put a little something in to whet the interests of all readers! AUTHOR BIO: Donald H. Busselle was born in Ohio and has lived in various parts of Florida since 1952. He has a Bachelors and Masters Degree, and has done advanced study in the English language. After thirty-two years of teaching he retired in 1988 as as Assistant Professor of English. Now he spends his time writing. Most of his stories deal with science fiction themes, but he has written general fiction. A range of his subjects is illustrated in this present volume, The Enchanted Mall and Other Stories.

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iUniverse

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0595006116

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States of Grace

Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration

By: Donald Martin Carter

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States of Grace

Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration

By: Donald Martin Carter

States of Gracewas first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Leaving their depleted fields for better prospects, Senegalese immigrants have made their way to Italy in significant numbers. What this migration means, in the context of both the migratory traditions and conditions of Africa and the history and future of the European nation-state, is the subject of this timely and ambitious book. Focusing on Turin, the northern Italian point of entry for so many Senegalese, States of Grace chronicles the arrival and formation of a transnational African Islamic community in a largely Catholic Western European country, one that did not have immigrant legislation until 1991. With no colonial relation to Italy, the Senegalese represent the vanguard of population movements expanding outside of the arch of former colonial powers. Donald Martin Carter locates the Senegalese migration in the context of past African internal and international migration and of present crises in West African agriculture. He also shows how the Senegalese migration, constituting a "phenomenon" and catalyzing new immigration restrictions among European states, calls into question the European interstate system, the future of the nation-state, and the nature of its relationship with non-European states. Throughout Europe, protectionist immigration policies are often crafted in chauvinist and racist tones in which "migrants" is a euphemism for blacks, Arabs, and Asians. States of Grace uses Senegalese migration to demonstrate that racial conceptions are crucial to understanding the classifications of non-national "outside" and internal "other." The book is a bracing encounter with the ever-increasing cultural and ethnic heterogeneity that is the new and pressing reality of European society. Donald Martin Carter is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452903158

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9781452903156

Assault on Society

Satirical Literature to Film

By: Donald W. McCaffrey

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Assault on Society

Satirical Literature to Film

By: Donald W. McCaffrey

Explores over four decades of satirical and dark comedy films.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810825074

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9780810825079

War of the Cats

By: Donald Patchin

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War of the Cats

By: Donald Patchin

What happpens to a small town when cats mysteriously go on the warpath. "Funny. Provocative. Captivating

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Lulu.com

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1847280617

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9781847280619

Renegade Amish

Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers

By: Donald B. Kraybill

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Renegade Amish

Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers

By: Donald B. Kraybill

Built on Kraybill’s deep knowledge of Amish life and his contacts within many Amish communities, Renegade Amish highlights one of the strangest and most publicized sagas in contemporary Amish history.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421425122

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9781421425122

The Heavenly Table

A Novel

By: Donald Ray Pollock

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The Heavenly Table

A Novel

By: Donald Ray Pollock

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.

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Anchor

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0385541309

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9780385541305

The Novels of Theodore Dreiser

A Critical Study

By: Donald Pizer

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The Novels of Theodore Dreiser

A Critical Study

By: Donald Pizer

The Novels of Theodore Dreiser was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Relying heavily on the manuscripts and letters in the Dreiser Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library, Professor Pizer seeks to establish the facts of the sources and composition of each of Dreiser's eight novels and to study the themes and form of the completed works. In this study he relates what can be discovered about the factual reality of a novel to its imaginative reality. His interpretation of the novels avoids the suggestion that there is a single overriding theme or direction in Dreiser's work and emphasizes that Dreiser deserves examination primarily on the basis of the individuality and worth of each of his novels. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the novels: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The "Genius," The Financier, The Titan, An American Tragedy, The Bulwark, and The Stoic.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452912564

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9781452912561

Canada's Department of External Affairs, Volume 2

Coming of Age, 1946-1968

By: John Hilliker,Donald Barry

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Canada's Department of External Affairs, Volume 2

Coming of Age, 1946-1968

By: John Hilliker,Donald Barry

The second volume of the official history of the 'Department of External Affairs, Coming of Age' covers a period of remarkable expansion and achievement in the history of Canadian external relations.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773507388

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9780773507388

Tales of Wonder

By: Donald H. Sullivan

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Tales of Wonder

By: Donald H. Sullivan

Eight tales of fantasy, a world of elves, space aliens, magic gone awry, mysterious beasts, a death curse, a stolen unicorn, a dream world, and a wand that belonged to Merlin

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Donald H Sullivan

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0557042143

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9780557042142

Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger

A Capital Crimes Novel

By: Margaret Truman,Donald Bain

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Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger

A Capital Crimes Novel

By: Margaret Truman,Donald Bain

PI Robert Brixton is back in Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger, Donald Bain's next installment in the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes series David Portland works security for America’s British Embassy in London. His life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company known as SureSafe. One night, Portland sees a man in a bar wearing a bracelet—a family heirloom, which he had given his son—and attacks the man. The information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception—one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son’s death. Meanwhile, Robert Brixton, a noted Washington DC-based international investigator, has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in Nigeria. His life and his investigations will soon become intertwined with Portland’s probe and that of his estranged, ex-wife, Elizabeth. Their interconnected cases will take Brixton to Nigeria, into that country’s Heart of Darkness and on one of the most violent and dangerous journeys of his life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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384

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Forge Books

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1466870648

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9781466870642

Coney Island Christmas

By: Donald Margulies, based on the story "The Loudest Voice" by Grace Paley

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Coney Island Christmas

By: Donald Margulies, based on the story "The Loudest Voice" by Grace Paley

Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies weaves together nostalgia, music and merriment in this new seasonal classic. A holiday show for people of all ages and all faiths, CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS introduces us to Shirley Abramowitz, a young Jewish girl who (much to her immigrant parents' exasperation) is cast as Jesus in the school's Christmas pageant. As Shirley, now much older, recounts the memorable story to her great-granddaughter, the play captures a timeless and universal tale of what it means to be an American during the holidays.

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822231514

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9780822231516

Modern Methods for Multidimensional Dynamics Computations in Chemistry

By: Donald Leo Thompson

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Modern Methods for Multidimensional Dynamics Computations in Chemistry

By: Donald Leo Thompson

This volume describes many of the key practical theoretical techniques that have been developed to treat chemical dynamics problems in many-atom systems. It contains thorough treatments of fundamental theory and prescriptions for performing computations. The selection of methods, ranging from gas phase bimolecular reactions to complex processes in condensed phases, reflects the breadth of the field.The book is an excellent reference for proven and accepted methods as well as for theoretical approaches that are still being developed. It is appropriate for graduate students and other ?novices? who wish to begin working in chemical dynamics as well as active researchers who wish to acquire a wider knowledge of the field.

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World Scientific

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9810233426

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9789810233426

Escape Back to Charleston

By: Donald Montano

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Escape Back to Charleston

By: Donald Montano

Serena, a young black mistress, has been caught trying to escape from her master, and the couple helping her along the Underground Railroad has been murdered. The two Pinkerton detectives following her have turned up dead also. That goddamn war didnt solve a thing, Arley. I couldnt see an end to the killing of blacks and whites alike. With those words, Sampson pulled Arley close. Thats why I had to leave. Heading West and finding you was the only good thing to come out of all the death and destruction. Now the path is set. Sampson, Arley, and Joshua make plans to return to Charleston to find answers to a mystery that has drawn them into a deadly plot two thousand miles away. On a stagecoach to Denver, they stop a band of robbers who are intent on stealing a chest of silver hidden under the floorboards. And then they must save two young passengers from forced service in a brothel. When they narrowly escape marauding Indians on the trail across Kansas, Arley begins to wonder why she came along. Then they arrive in St. Louis, where she is introduced to the world of high fashion: dresses and gowns must be made to order, so daring as to get every mans attention Once in Charleston, she will masquerade as a wealthy cattlewoman looking to buy plantation land while they search for Serena. But they must overcome the suspicions of Oscar Blaylock, who has already ordered four people killed. A daunting task, because it is Serena, his coveted mistress, they have come to rescue so Joshua can take her as his wife.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503582817

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9781503582811

The Hundred Brothers

A Novel

By: Donald Antrim

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The Hundred Brothers

A Novel

By: Donald Antrim

With a New Introduction by Jonathan Franzen There's Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Noah; Nick, Dennis, Bertram, Russell, and Virgil. The doctor, the documentary filmmaker, and the sculptor in burning steal; the eldest, the youngest, and the celebrated "perfect" brother, Benedict. In Donald Antrim's mordantly funny novel The Hundred Brothers, our narrator and his colossal fraternity of ninety-eight brothers (one couldn't make it) have assembled in the crumbling library of their family's estate for a little sinister fun. Executed with the invention and intelligence of Barthelme and Pynchon, Antrim's taxonomy of male specimens is in equal proportions disturbing and absurdly hilarious.

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Picador

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1429977221

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9781429977227

Murder, She Wrote: A Vote for Murder

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

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Murder, She Wrote: A Vote for Murder

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

Jessica Fletcher is in Washington, D.C., to support a new literary initiative set forth by a prominent senator. But when the senator's chief-of-staff dies mysteriously, Jessica discovers just how deadly politics can be.

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Penguin

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1101010711

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9781101010716

Billie Holiday

Wishing On The Moon

By: Donald Clarke

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Billie Holiday

Wishing On The Moon

By: Donald Clarke

Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Holiday, "by a deeply compassionate, respectful, and open-minded biographer [whose] portrait embraces every facet of Holiday's paradoxical nature, from her fierceness to her vulnerability, her childlikeness to her innate elegance and amazing strength." Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s—interviews with those who knew Lady Day from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore through the early days of success in New York and into the years of fame, right up to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. Clarke uses these interviews to separate fact from fiction and, in the words of the Seattle Times, "finally sets us straight. . .evoking her world in all its anguish, triumph, force and irony." Newsday called this "a thoroughly riveting account of Holiday and her milieu." The New York Times raved that it "may be the most thoroughly valuable of the many books on Holiday," and Helen Oakley Dance in JazzTimes said, "We should probably have to wait a long time for another life of Billie Holiday to supersede Donald Clarke's achievement.

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Da Capo Press

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0786730870

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9780786730872

Jurist Prudent -- The Judicial Opinions of Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., Volume 6

By: Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr.,John S. Koehler (Editor),Donald Wayne Lemons (Foreward)

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Jurist Prudent -- The Judicial Opinions of Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., Volume 6

By: Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr.,John S. Koehler (Editor),Donald Wayne Lemons (Foreward)

Upon his retirement from active service as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in 2011, Justice Koontz had completed more than four decades of service to citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In order to recognize that service and help preserve Justice Koontz legacy as one of the outstanding jurists in Virginia and the United States, the Salem/Roanoke County Bar Association instituted this project to collect all of Justice Koontz's published opinions, both from his tenure as a Justice of the Supreme Court and as an inaugural member of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. The sixth volume to be produced by the Opinions Project includes opinions, concurrences and dissents authored by Justice Koontz during the middle years of his service as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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644

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Lulu.com

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1365193780

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9781365193781

Historical Atlas of Canada: From the beginning to 1800

By: Donald P. (Peter) Kerr

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Historical Atlas of Canada: From the beginning to 1800

By: Donald P. (Peter) Kerr

Uses maps to illustrate the development of Canada from the last ice sheet to the end of the eighteenth century

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University of Toronto Press

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0802024955

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9780802024954

The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century

By: Donald L. Fixico

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The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century

By: Donald L. Fixico

The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition is updated through the first decade of the twenty-first century and contains a new chapter challenging Americans--Indian and non-Indian--to begin healing the earth. This analysis of the struggle to protect not only natural resources but also a way of life serves as an indispensable tool for students or anyone interested in Native American history and current government policy with regard to Indian lands or the environment.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457111667

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Thunder on Bataan

The First American Tank Battles of World War II

By: Donald L Caldwell

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Thunder on Bataan

The First American Tank Battles of World War II

By: Donald L Caldwell

“An incisive, readable account of a group of National Guard tankers who fought in the Philippines in the opening phase of America’s war in the Pacific.” —Robert S. Cameron, Ph.D., military historian and author of Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch, 1917-1945 The American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the raid on Pearl Harbor. Sent north to meet the Japanese landings in Lingayen Gulf, the men of the PTG found themselves thrust into a critical role when the Philippine Army could not hold back the Japanese. When General MacArthur ordered the retreat to Bataan, the PTG proved itself indispensable. During early months of 1942, the light tanks of the PTG patrolled Bataan’s beaches, encircling and destroying Japanese penetrations and small amphibious landings. By April 1942, the situation had become untenable, and 15,000 Americans, along with 60,000 Filipinos, surrendered in one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history. The Provisional Tank Group ceased to exist, and its men endured the Bataan Death March, the torture and starvation of POW camps, the hell ships that took them to Japan and Manchuria for slave labor, and the Palawan massacre. In an evocatively written book, Donald L. Caldwell reveals the largely ignored role of tanks in the Philippine campaign. Conducting impressive primary research to bring to life the combat history of the PTG, Caldwell has dug deeper to tell the stories of soldiers from each of the group’s six companies, recounting their service from enlistment, training, and combat to imprisonment, liberation, and return home. “Remarkable . . . [A] well-told history . . . highly recommended.” —Jay A. Stout, LtCol (Ret), USMC, author of Air Apaches

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811767418

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Activist Unionism

Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin

By: Donald R. Stabile

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Activist Unionism

Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin

By: Donald R. Stabile

First Published in 1994. Sol Barkin was never an elected official in the trade union movement, but for twenty-six years, from 1937 until he retired in 1963. His role also saw him serve on government advisory bodies, originate public policy in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, lead the Industrial Relations Research Association, and teach in an American university.

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Routledge

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1315287315

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9781315287317

If You Were Only White

The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

By: Donald Spivey

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If You Were Only White

The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

By: Donald Spivey

If You Were Only White explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever—an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy “Satchel” Paige was arguably one of the world’s greatest pitchers and a premier star of Negro Leagues Baseball. But in this biography Donald Spivey reveals Paige to have been much more than just a blazing fastball pitcher. Spivey follows Paige from his birth in Alabama in 1906 to his death in Kansas City in 1982, detailing the challenges Paige faced battling the color line in America and recounting his tests and triumphs in baseball. He also opens up Paige’s private life during and after his playing days, introducing readers to the man who extended his social, cultural, and political reach beyond the limitations associated with his humble background and upbringing. This other Paige was a gifted public speaker, a talented musician and singer, an excellent cook, and a passionate outdoorsman, among other things. Paige’s life intertwined with many of the most important issues of the times in U.S. and African American history, including the continuation of the New Negro Movement and the struggle for civil rights. Spivey incorporates interviews with former teammates conducted over twelve years, as well as exclusive interviews with Paige’s son Robert, daughter Pamela, Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe, and John “Buck” O’Neil to tell the story of a pioneer who helped transform America through the nation’s favorite pastime. Maintaining an image somewhere between Joe Louis’s public humility and the flamboyant aggression of Jack Johnson, Paige pushed the boundaries of segregation and bridged the racial divide with stellar pitching packaged with slapstick humor. He entertained as he played to win and saw no contradiction in doing so. Game after game, his performance refuted the lie that black baseball was inferior to white baseball. His was a contribution to civil rights of a different kind—his speeches and demonstrations expressed through his performance on the mound.

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University of Missouri

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0826219780

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I Hated To Do It

Stories of a Life

By: Donald C. Farber

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I Hated To Do It

Stories of a Life

By: Donald C. Farber

A memoir by the legendary entertainment lawyer, “an advisor/pal to so many stars of stage and screen that the dazzle will leave you blinking” (Dan Wakefield, national-bestselling author). For more than forty years, Donald C. Farber forged a path through New York’s literary, theatrical, and celebrity circles. As Kurt Vonnegut’s attorney, literary agent, and close friend, he offers a rare portrait of Vonnegut that is both candid and entertaining. A renowned entertainment lawyer with a largely famous clientele and a highly acclaimed author in his own right, Farber provides colorful anecdotes that detail the daily realities of working with Vonnegut from the perspective of the person who knew him best. I Hated to Do It is also “an amazing account of the one survivor of his company in WWII, a man who believed in an off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks (that is still paying off his investment), and his journey in theatrical law . . . Don is a great storyteller who keeps you always entranced” (Dan Wakefield, national-bestselling author of Going All the Way).

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RosettaBooks

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0795344791

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Letters to Peter

On the Journey from Grief to Wholeness

By: Donald E. Mayer

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Letters to Peter

On the Journey from Grief to Wholeness

By: Donald E. Mayer

Dad. I've got very, very, very bad news. Peter was killed tonight . . ." With that middle-of-the-night phone call, life for the Mayer family plunged from "best-ever year" to months and years of dealing with the oppressive presence of Peter's unending absence. A letter from his father to the freshly deceased Peter, intended for the memorial service, became the first in a torrent of letters from his dad to Peter, though which his dad poured out agonized and angry grief. In the letters, Peter's dad laments the way events otherwise beautiful for Peter's wife, five-year-old daughter, and the rest of the family are relentlessly punctuated with the pain of the loss. "Dammit, Peter, why didn't you . . .?" Ultimately, slowly, the letters begin to reflect on the strange mystery of healing. How is it that in spite of the pain, in spite of the unending loss, comfort does come, opening the way once again for unbelievably deep joy? "It was all so rich and beautiful that with a certain private touch, and exchange of glance, your mom and I signaled an agreement . . . slipped to our cave . . . with playful freedom and deep gratitude." So for Peter's dad, the confirmation of the odd observation from Jesus: "How blessed are those who grieve!

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1621892670

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9781621892670

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

By: Donald E. Westlake

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What's the Worst That Could Happen?

By: Donald E. Westlake

It started with a ring. A cheap ring. The yellow metal said brass, not gold, and the sparkly bits were certainly not diamonds. But the ring belonged to May's horseplaying uncle, who swore it brought good luck. Dortmunder, who wouldn't kick a little good luck out of bed, puts it to the test when he goes to burglarize Long Island billionaire Max Fairbanks. As luck would have it, Dortmunder is greeted by Fairbanks himself - and a loaded gun - as soon as he strolls through the door. When the cops arrive, the mogul adds insult to injury by claiming that Dortmunder's lucky ring is actually his. Big mistake, big guy. As soon as Dortmunder can give the cops the slip, the world's most single-minded burglar goes after the fat cat with a vengeance and a team of crooks that only he can assemble. And from the get go everything will go Dortmunder's way - everything, that is, except the ring.

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Mysterious Press

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0759522960

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