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Tales from Downes Town

By: John R. Downes

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The Accidental Candidate -- A janitor doesn't need to campaign with friends like this. Overheard At a Coffee Shop -- Farfetched, yet oddly believable-or not. Conversation On an Airplane -- A marble champion solves the National Debt. Ocean Mist -- Do clients follow a trusted adviser who opts for a career change? Custer's Witness -- Crow Indian Ashishishe was his scout at the Little Big Horn. Discord In River View Heights -- Border encroachments change everything. Three Days On An Orphan Train -- POV of an orphan who has already been selected. Seeking Powerball -- A lost ticket is life-changing. Congregation of Investigators -- A satire about the 20th century's biggest murder trial. Demise of the Blue Goose -- An old Packard, newlyweds, and two thieves intertwine. Dmitri's Retirement -- A hard-working Russian plans well. All is not what it seems.

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179606579X

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9781796065794

The Blackjack List

By: John R. Downes

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The Blackjack List

By: John R. Downes

Thirteen million dollars remain buried from a Spokane bank heist ten years earlier. Only one of the five robbers was captured. The day he's released from prison, he hurries to a rendezvous with another at Becky Allison's blackjack table, where the two exchange the coded whereabouts of other gang members and two of five clues necessary to locate the cache. Sensing they've been followed, both head for the casino elevator, after tipping Becky with large bills. The Blackjack List is folded inside one of them. Peril looms. The chase begins. Being both the pursued AND pursuer is the double bind that confronts Becky Allison and Dr. David Baxter, her fiance. Whatever they do risks their lives. Bad guys galore turn up everywhere during forty-eight frenetic hours of fleeing, chasing, and deciphering the treasure map -The Blackjack List.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490717919

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9781490717913

The Scene Menagerie

By: John R. Downes

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The Scene Menagerie

By: John R. Downes

The Scene Menagerie contains an assortment of fiction scenes and episodes from the novels and short stories of one author, John R. Downes, plus a few excerpts from his nonfictions thrown into the mix. What a range of subjects! War, the Great Depression, Custers Last Stand, FBI, orphans, espionage, US history, gunfighters, bank robbers, Adbiz, growing up, mass merchandising, bad guys, dreams, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, code breaking, salesmanship, Hollywood, and more. Many novels contain scenes and episodes that can stand on their own as vignettes, short stories, and worthwhile reads. Regardless of whether the prolific authors are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Elmore Leonard, John Grisham, John Steinbeck, and hundreds of others, a reader can cull through their collection of tales and discover a treasure trove of candidate excerpts. Why not a selection of scenes and episodes from one authors repertoire of published fiction? The Scene Menagerie answers that question.

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1490771603

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9781490771601

The Dissonant Spies

A Novel

By: John R. Downes

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The Dissonant Spies

A Novel

By: John R. Downes

One of WWIIs most successful weapons was the Norden bombsight. Nazis coveted them the most from downed US bombers. American flyboys were taught to destroy the bombsights with thermal grenades, which caused them to melt into a molten mass rather than let them fall into enemy hands. When Hitler learns that an improved version would undergo testing on a B-17 by Honeywell Corporation in Minnesota, he orders Abwehr (German intelligence) to steal it for deliverance to his scientists and engineers in Berlin. Two spies with specific skills are tasked for the assignment. The idealism of one conflicts with the murderous acts of the other. Slayings occur during their journey from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, to Wold-Chamberlain Field in Minneapolis. Colonel Lukas Schott, the scion of German royalty, is a country gentleman and is blind to the fanaticism and treachery of the Third Reich. Major Rebekka Bader, an orphan and a pathological killer, wreaks destruction and death at every opportunity. Dissonance between them is ever-present. FBI Chief Inspector Lorenzo Tharp, like a bloodhound, follows their trail of dead bodies.

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146699651X

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9781466996519

The Enchanted Pipe

By: John R. Downes

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The Enchanted Pipe

By: John R. Downes

Following the English colonists arrival to Americas shores, Indian tribes strived to achieve peace and coexistence with themand simultaneously retain their homelands, hunting grounds, native culture, and religion. Those early colonists were followed by thousands more, then millions, who advanced the frontier from New England steadily westward across the central plains and Rockies to the Pacific. The Enchanted Pipe relates decades of Indian struggle, represented by the leadership, wisdom, opportunity, and bravery of three tribal leadersRed Jacket, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph.

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1490757643

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When Johnny Came Marching

By: John R. Downes

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When Johnny Came Marching

By: John R. Downes

What about those who'd drowned in the convoy since midnight? They were dead... their dreams quashed by a devastating event. Poof! Gone! One minute breathing... the next not. What about loved ones who were awaiting their arrival in America? Their dreams were quashed, too, weren't they? How were the dead ones chosen? And the survivors? Some would say it was their destiny, the work of an omniscient God. Surely, purpose and meaning mattered, though, or why would God even cause their existence to occur, if only to end for some in such a questionable and unfathomable fate? Those other ships were sunk by German U-boat torpedoes, but not Johnny's? No one was given a choice... yet, he survived to write this autobiography.

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1468572261

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Try NOT to Think of an Orange

High Profile Tactics for Super Salespeople

By: John R. Downes

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High Profile Tactics for Super Salespeople

By: John R. Downes

The super salesperson knows he or she cannot simply march in place. Being unique and a top performer requires a constant striving for new weapons and a zest for the limelight. Herein lies a philosophy that encourages a person you choose to persuade to reach out for your product or service or point of view in the same way a kitten reaches out for a ball of yarn. This book contains a mountain of innovative sales tactics that will enrich your individuality, persuasion-ability, and personal powers. Discover Pulling the String, The Fifth W, Guts to Fail, Ray Gun, Cliffhangers, Theater of the Mind, Yo-yo Effect, Non-negotiable Factors, Star Quality, FBI Interrogation School Questions, Mystifying Statements, Carrots, Stacking the Bricks, Trip to Europe Questions, and more. This book goes beyond those ‘whats’ with the author’s alter ego, Jimmy Dover, whose chameleon-like ability to match up with different termperaments, educational backgrounds, and personalities leaves them feeling good and disposed to buy, as he demonstrates the ‘hows’ in an amazing montage of diverse selling situations.

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0595140904

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9780595140909

Rebel with a Cause

The Biography of Glen Cloninger

By: John R. Downes

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Rebel with a Cause

The Biography of Glen Cloninger

By: John R. Downes

A Spokane architect's ever-constant struggles with the Establishment, lawyers, bureaucrats, politicians, educators, activists, and myriad others, exhibits his bulldog nature, talent, and vision of the future he needed to weather the storms and overcome.

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1669867579

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Orphans Song

By: John R. Downes

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Orphans Song

By: John R. Downes

Gifted siblings Jane and Kenny Palmer yearn for a normal family life when Papa returns from WWI as a maimed hero, but a labor riot and subway shooting change everything. Chapin Hall a Chicago orphanage becomes their new home, where Jane discovers her star quality and passion for singing on the world stage, while Kenny exhibits his math prodigy and physical toughness. This tale of fearsome premonitions, separate adoptions, journey on an orphan train, and Vaudeville venues is set in gangland Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twenties ending with the Great Market Crash of 1929.

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1412239524

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Nonconfrontation Selling...the One-On-One Revolution

By: John R. Downes

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Nonconfrontation Selling...the One-On-One Revolution

By: John R. Downes

Nonconfrontation Selling is the opposite of what a sales prospect anticipates, and precisely what he desires. The automobile business serves as the perfect model for the reader to discover its various precepts and principles, which may be applied to any product or service...from the initial meet and greet through the delivery of the product or service. It began in 1979 when a sales manager at a California dealership presented a counteroffer to a prospect in very unusual fashion without reducing the selling price at any time during the transaction. The prospect liked it and purchased the product. Thousands of repetitions caused the same result. What occurred never had been attempted before, because it went against the grain of the status quo, and 'experience' said it couldn't work. It did, though, and NonConfrontation Selling was born. Some of its ingredients include Bambi Meets Godzilla, FBI Interrogation School Questions, Carrots, Teeter Totters, Principle of Games, Command Phrases, Raygun Bullets, Matching Up, Degree Questions, Weasels, Rare, and the Twelve Commandments. Selling's nature implies a confrontation between a seller and prospect, since the objectives of each are at cross purposes to maintain a bargaining position. How NonConfrontation Selling resolves that reads like a psychological thriller. John R. Downes preached NonConfrontation

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0595007503

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9780595007509

The diaries of Charlotte Downes

1828, 1829, 1831-1837

By: Charlotte Grove,John Lane

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The diaries of Charlotte Downes

1828, 1829, 1831-1837

By: Charlotte Grove,John Lane

The Diaries of Charlotte Downes, Volume I, is the third in a four-volume set, covering years 1828, 1829, 1831-1837. The diaries afford the reader a glimpse of a small corner of rural England from the Regency through to the early-mid Victorian periods when life was based on a timeless and often precarious agricultural economy, a rigid, inequitable class system and deference to an authoritative Church. Charlotte, the daughter of an influential Wiltshire land-owner, was first cousin to the poet Shelley; she later married Richard Downes, rector of Berwick St John. Her diaries, together with those of her sister, Harriet, have been described by one authority as "like a novel by Jane Austen, but for real". This full transcription contains entries spanning a period of almost fifty years and provides a useful resource for scholars and social historians alike. Family historians will find recorded within these pages an extraordinary number of named individuals, from families representing all sections of society.

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0955722632

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9780955722639

The Diaries of Charlotte Downes Vol II

By: John Lane,Valerie Lane Kay

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The Diaries of Charlotte Downes Vol II

By: John Lane,Valerie Lane Kay

The Diaries of Charlotte Downes, Volume II, is the fourth in a four-volume set, covering years 1839-1858. The diaries afford the reader a glimpse of a small corner of rural England from the Regency through to the early-mid Victorian periods when life was based on a timeless and often precarious agricultural economy, a rigid, inequitable class system and deference to an authoritative Church. Charlotte, the daughter of an influential Wiltshire land-owner, was first cousin to the poet Shelley; she later married Richard Downes, rector of Berwick St John. Her diaries, together with those of her sister, Harriet, have been described by one authority as "like a novel by Jane Austen, but for real". This full transcription contains entries spanning a period of almost fifty years and provides a useful resource for scholars and social historians alike. Family historians will find recorded within these pages an extraordinary number of named individuals, from families representing all sections of society.

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0955722640

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9780955722646

Two Came Running

The War Hero’S Children

By: John R. Downes

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Two Came Running

The War Hero’S Children

By: John R. Downes

Two Came Running is a depiction of heroism, talent, and geniusall embodied in one family. A war heros prodigious son and daughter cope with multiple tragedies in their youth but rise to prominence on the world scene. Separately they perform vital roles in the struggle against the twentieth century's greatest menace. Commencing in Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, their journey takes them into the 1930s and 1940s through Hollywood; Washington, DC; and England as WWII rages.

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1543477267

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Student Handbook for Pharmacy Practice Research

By: Rajender R. Aparasu,John P. Bentley,Adam N. Pate

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Student Handbook for Pharmacy Practice Research

By: Rajender R. Aparasu,John P. Bentley,Adam N. Pate

An essential resource for students and residents in pharmacy settings While there are numerous resources covering basics of drug literature evaluation and evidence-based pharmacy, few books focus on practice-based pharmacy research. Filling the gap in the available literature, Student Handbook for Pharmacy Practice Research provides a practical and systematic framework for conducting practice-based research by students and residents in pharmacy settings. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a list of new terms featured in the chapter, key points and advice, review questions, and a list of online resources for additional learning or applications. This is an ideal resource for students and residents who undertake capstone or standalone research projects as part of their professional training. Student Handbook for Pharmacy Practice Research covers: Research design and methodology Practice-based research and protection on human subjects Pharmacoepidemiology Research mentorship Data management and statistical analysis Intervention research Survey research Secondary data research Quality improvement research Peer review and publication process, and more

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1260474267

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Book's by John R. Downes

Tales from Downes Town

Tales from Downes Town

The Blackjack List

The Blackjack List

The Scene Menagerie

The Scene Menagerie

The Dissonant Spies

The Dissonant Spies

The Enchanted Pipe

The Enchanted Pipe

When Johnny Came Marching

When Johnny Came Marching

Try NOT to Think of an Orange

Try NOT to Think of an Orange

Rebel with a Cause

Rebel with a Cause

Orphans Song

Orphans Song

Nonconfrontation Selling...the One-On-One Revolution

Nonconfrontation Selling...the One-On-One Revolution

The diaries of Charlotte Downes

The diaries of Charlotte Downes

The Diaries of Charlotte Downes Vol II

The Diaries of Charlotte Downes Vol II

Two Came Running

Two Came Running

Student Handbook for Pharmacy Practice Research

Student Handbook for Pharmacy Practice Research

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