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Life-Line: Origins

By: Grant Edward Miller

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Over a million years in the future, a desperate stowaway lies concealed in a space freighter’s cargo hold. Tam Amergan is bound for the prison world Corustloth, where his partner Brogan has been abducted. Ever since the Senate took over the planetary system decades earlier, gay men like Tam and Brogan—degens, as they are labeled under Senate—rule have been forced to live in secrecy. But Brogan is Tam’s life-line, bound to his soul in a ritual performed by a secret sisterhood of women with ancient, unknown designs. Tam has no choice but to follow Brogan wherever he goes. What Brogan sees, Tam sees; what Tam feels, Brogan feels. Neither can live without the other. Thousands of lightyears away, an ancient brotherhood of mentalists works at uncovering the mystery of humanity’s long-forgotten origins. Their leader, Father, enlists the help of Bennett, who is able to connect with the mind of a space freighter stowaway on the other side of the galaxy. Is Bennett the key to humanity’s origins? Could Tam’s quest to find Brogan have a wider purpose? Both a soaring love story and sweeping sci-fi epic, Life-Line: Origins is a thrilling gay romance and science fiction novel. Ambitious, gripping, and full of heart, it is a must-read for anyone hungry for adventure and intrigue.

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FriesenPress

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1039146996

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9781039146990

African Americans and the Oscar

Decades of Struggle and Achievement

By: Edward Mapp

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African Americans and the Oscar

Decades of Struggle and Achievement

By: Edward Mapp

At the 2007 Academy Awards® ceremony, an unprecedented number of Black performers received acting nominations, and two of the statues awarded that evening went to Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson. Indeed, since 2000, more African Americans have received Oscars than in the previous century. While the last few years have seen more and more Black performers receive acknowledgment by the Academy, it hasn't always been that way. African Americans and the Oscar®: Decades of Struggle and Achievement highlights the advancements Black performers have made on the silver screen and how those performances were honored by the Academy. In the Academy's first 40 years, less than ten African Americans were cited for their work on screen and only two, Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, received competitive awards before the 1980s. This book profiles all the nominees and recipients of the coveted award in the acting, writing, and directing categories, beginning with the first: McDaniel's Best Supporting Actress win for her role in Gone with the Wind (1939). Each entry, organized chronologically and by name, provides valuable information about how the role or film was viewed during its time and also places it in historical context by drawing connections to other related awards or events in film history. In the introduction, Mapp's overview of the nomination process helps explain the historically low percentage of African Americans who have been nominated or received the honor. Also, appendixes provide lists of non-acting/directing nominees and winners, overlooked performances, and performers of nominated songs. Highlighting the achievements of Sidney Poitier, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington and others, this volume provides an enlightening history of the Black experience in Hollywood and will fascinate fans of all ages.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461706378

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The Genial Showman, Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a Showman's Carrer in the Western World

By: Edward Peron Hingston

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The Genial Showman, Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a Showman's Carrer in the Western World

By: Edward Peron Hingston

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385441803

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The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980

By: Mark Edward Ruff

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The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980

By: Mark Edward Ruff

Mark Edward Ruff re-examines the bitter controversies in the Federal Republic of Germany over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107190665

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Last Calls and Lucky Charms

A Love Triangle

By: Edward D. Sandison

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Last Calls and Lucky Charms

A Love Triangle

By: Edward D. Sandison

Three very different people didn’t wake up one Tuesday morning in April expecting their lives to change forever. Matt Benson was a handsome EMT with a good job and a lonely life. Justine Duchane was a broken hearted woman who had given up on the world and spent her days spouting a political column for the local paper. Hal Urban was failed writer who had hidden so far in the bottle and sports reporting he had forgotten who he was. Then it all changed. They met. What is the nature of love? Can you fall in love with two men completely and deeply in too totally different ways? Are Justine and Matt destined for true love? The friendship she develops with Hal makes her a politician and him a playwright again. The two of them are better people, in fact. The joy of that summer with Matt is more than any woman could ask for. Would, could and should she choose one of them?

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XinXii

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3960285272

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Law in American History, Volume III

1930-2000

By: G. Edward White

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Law in American History, Volume III

1930-2000

By: G. Edward White

In Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000, the eminent legal scholar G. Edward White concludes his sweeping history of law in America, from the colonial era to the near-present. Picking up where his previous volume left off, at the end of the 1920s, White turns his attention to modern developments in both public and private law. One of his findings is that despite the massive changes in American society since the New Deal, some of the landmark constitutional decisions from that period remain salient today. An illustration is the Court's sweeping interpretation of the reach of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause in Wickard v. Filburn (1942), a decision that figured prominently in the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. In these formative years of modern American jurisprudence, courts responded to, and affected, the emerging role of the state and federal governments as regulatory and redistributive institutions and the growing participation of the United States in world affairs. They extended their reach into domains they had mostly ignored: foreign policy, executive power, criminal procedure, and the rights of speech, sexuality, and voting. Today, the United States continues to grapple with changing legal issues in each of those domains. Law in American History, Volume III provides an authoritative introduction to how modern American jurisprudence emerged and evolved of the course of the twentieth century, and the impact of law on every major feature of American life in that century. White's two preceding volumes and this one constitute a definitive treatment of the role of law in American history.

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Oxford University Press

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0190634952

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Western Winds

The Brontës' Irish Heritage

By: Edward Chitham

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Western Winds

The Brontës' Irish Heritage

By: Edward Chitham

The Irish heritage of the Brontë family has long been overlooked, partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick did their very best to ensure that this was the case and partly because there was a strong understanding at the end of the nineteenth century that the Brontës were Yorkshire regional novelists. Yet their ideas and attitudes, and perhaps even their storylines, can be traced to Ireland. This book, which develops ideas originally published in The Brontës' Irish Heritage in 1986, sets the record straight. By re-evaluating the sources available, it traces Patrick's Irish ancestry and shows how it prevented him from achieving his ambitions; it shows how that heritage influenced his children's writings, particularly Emily; and it sheds further light on the genesis of Wuthering Heights.

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The History Press

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0750964626

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9780750964623

The Iron Horse

The bestselling Victorian mystery series

By: Edward Marston

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The Iron Horse

The bestselling Victorian mystery series

By: Edward Marston

Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes. The gamut of Victorian society and a hotbed for crime and crooks of all kinds. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder, fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are assigned to the case and are soon snarled up in a web of skulduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?

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Allison & Busby

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0749008490

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Imagining Wild Bill

James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory

By: Paul Ashdown,Edward Caudill

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Imagining Wild Bill

James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory

By: Paul Ashdown,Edward Caudill

Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legend When it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception. Mythologized and sensationalized, Hickok was turned into the deadliest gunfighter of all, a so-called moral killer, a national phenomenon even while he was alive. Rather than attempt to tease truth from fiction, coauthors Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill investigate the ways in which Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation full of the excitement, danger, and romance of the West. Journalists, the coauthors demonstrate, invented “Wild Bill” Hickok, glorifying him as a civilizer. They inflated his body count and constructed his legend in the midst of an emerging celebrity culture that grew up around penny newspapers. His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off. Reimagined as entertainment, Hickok’s legend continued to enthrall Americans in literature, on radio, on television, and in the movies, and it still draws tourists to notorious Deadwood, South Dakota. American culture often embraces myths that later become accepted as popular history. By investigating the allure and power of Hickok’s myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War–era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment.

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Southern Illinois University Press

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0809337886

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Black Light

By: Edward Mahoney

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Black Light

By: Edward Mahoney

On the rocky northern shores of Massachusetts, a dark power is quickly building strength. It feeds off of darkness. It strengthens with fear. It is evil incarnate. Kay and Matthew McManus are trying to rebuild their lives by moving to the small town of Burns Bay, Massachusetts, in the hope of starting anew. The abandoned lighthouse that they now call home seems like a dream come true...at first. Kay McManus begins having nightmares that are shockingly real. Voices echo through the hallways at night. Something is in the lighthouse with her, feeding off of her fear. Fate and destiny have brought Kay to this place to solve a centuries old mystery, one that could destroy her. With pulse-pounding intensity and a breathtaking finale, Black Light is a new breed of thriller that has to be read to be believed.

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iUniverse

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0595222919

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Death, Family and the Law

The Contemporary Inquest in Context

By: Edward Kirton-Darling

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Death, Family and the Law

The Contemporary Inquest in Context

By: Edward Kirton-Darling

When a death is investigated by a coroner, what is the place of the family in that process? This accessibly written book develops a nuanced analysis of the contemporary inquest system in England and Wales.

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1529212464

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Book's by Edward Maguire

Life-Line: Origins

Life-Line: Origins

African Americans and the Oscar

African Americans and the Oscar

The Genial Showman, Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a Showman's Carrer in the Western World

The Genial Showman, Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a Showman's Carrer in the Western World

The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980

The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980

Last Calls and Lucky Charms

Last Calls and Lucky Charms

Law in American History, Volume III

Law in American History, Volume III

Western Winds

Western Winds

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse

Imagining Wild Bill

Imagining Wild Bill

Black Light

Black Light

Death, Family and the Law

Death, Family and the Law

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