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Mystery Fanfare

A Composite Annotated Index to Mystery and Related Fanzines, 1963-1981

By: Michael L. Cook

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Mystery Fanfare

A Composite Annotated Index to Mystery and Related Fanzines, 1963-1981

By: Michael L. Cook

This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.

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0879722304

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9780879722302

Charles Bronson

The 95 Films and the 156 Television Appearances

By: Michael R. Pitts

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Charles Bronson

The 95 Films and the 156 Television Appearances

By: Michael R. Pitts

This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and discussion is a survey of the critical responses to the work. The great Charles Laughton once said Bronson "has the strongest face in the business, and he is also one of its best actors." Pretty high praise for an actor who, though loved by fans worldwide, has been consistently underestimated by critics. Bronson's career has spanned five decades, from such television appearances in The Fugitive, Rawhide, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will Travel as well as the telemovie A Family of Cops (1995) and its two sequels. He will long be remembered for his role as urban vigilante Paul Kersey in the Death Wish films. Bronson is one of the most enigmatic, and also most recognizable, of all film stars.

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McFarland

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1476610355

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9781476610351

Say You're Sorry

By: Michael Robotham

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Say You're Sorry

By: Michael Robotham

TWO MISSING GIRLS. TWO BRUTAL MURDERS. ALL CONNECTED TO ONE FARM HOUSE. WHO IS TO BLAME? When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found. Three years later, during the worst blizzard in a century, a husband and wife are brutally killed in the farmhouse where Tash McBain once lived. A suspect is in custody, a troubled young man who can hear voices and claims that he saw a girl that night being chased by a snowman. Convinced that Piper or Tash might still be alive, clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin and ex-cop Vincent Ruiz, persuade the police to re-open the investigation. But they are racing against time to save the girls from someone with an evil, calculating and twisted mind...

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Mulholland Books

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0316221252

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9780316221252

The Joe O'Loughlin Complete Collection

Books 1-9

By: Michael Robotham

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The Joe O'Loughlin Complete Collection

Books 1-9

By: Michael Robotham

THE COMPLETE NINE-BOOK JOE O'LOUGHLIN SERIES BY MASTER OF SUSPENSE MICHAEL ROBOTHAM. NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES STARRING AIDAN TURNER. The Suspect Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have it all, but a perfect life is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in a complex web of deceit, he embarks upon a search that will take him into the darkest recesses of the human mind. The Drowning Man Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames. But when he awakes from his coma, the nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him . . . Shatter A naked woman is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge weeping into a mobile phone. Joseph O'Loughlin is only feet away, desperately trying to talk her down, but she jumps. Her daughter refuses to believe that her mother would have committed suicide. But what would drive a woman to such a desperate act? Bleed for Me Ray Hegarty, a respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a shocking conclusion. The Wreckage In London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent boyfriend but wakes next morning to find that he's been set up and robbed. As he tracks down the thieves, he discovers the boyfriend's tortured body and learns that powerful men are looking for the girl. What did Holly Knight steal that is so important to them? Say You're Sorry When Piper and her friend Tash disappeared, there was a huge police search, but they were never found. Abducted, hidden, and abused, Tash eventually escapes her captor, and Joe O'Loughlin and ex-cop Vincent Ruiz uncover chilling evidence that forces the police to re-open the case. But they are racing against time to save Piper from an abductor with an evil, calculating and twisted mind. Watching You Marnie Logan's husband has been missing for more than a year, and she's being watched. Depressed and desperate, she seeks the help of Joe O'Loughlin. Then Marnie discovers a book her husband was preparing for her birthday. It was supposed to be a celebration of her life. But it's not the story anyone was expecting . . . Close Your Eyes A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty. With no shortage of suspects, Joe discovers a links between these murders and a series of brutal attacks, but soon his fate, and that of those closest to him, become intertwined with a merciless, unpredictable killer . . . The Other Wife Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been happily married for sixty years. This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe's father is brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William's bedside, covered in his blood - a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer? Praise for the Joe O'Loughlin series 'It really was impossible to put down' Stephen King 'Will have you turning the pages compulsively, desperate to get to the end' The Times 'I have seldom read a more chilling and suspenseful tale' David Baldacci 'Superbly constructed . . . A breathtaking twist' Daily Mail 'A white-knuckle ride' Andy McNab

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Sphere

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140872832X

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9781408728321

Party of One

Stephen Harper And Canada's Radical Makeover

By: Michael Harris

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Party of One

Stephen Harper And Canada's Radical Makeover

By: Michael Harris

InParty of One,investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Harper’s policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political principles and his practices. Harris argues that Harper is more than a master of controlling information: he is a profoundly anti-democratic figure. In the F-35 debacle, the government’s sin wasn’t only keeping the facts from Canadians, it was in inventing them. Harper himself provided the key confabulations, and they are irrefutably (and unapologetically) on the public record from the last election. This is no longer a matter of partisan debate, but a fact Canadians must interpret for what it may signify. Harris illustrates how Harper has made war on every independent source of information in Canada since coming to power.Party of Oneis about a man with a well-defined and growing enemies list of those not wanted on the voyage: union members, scientists, diplomats, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and journalists. Against the backdrop of a Conservative commitment to transparency and accountability, Harris exposes the ultra-secrecy, non-compliance, and dismissiveness of this prime minister. And with the Conservative majority in Parliament, the law is simple: what one man, the PM, says, goes.

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Penguin Canada

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0143193058

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9780143193050

Neural Organization

Structure, Function, and Dynamics

By: Michael A. Arbib,P?ter Rdi,János Szentágothai

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Neural Organization

Structure, Function, and Dynamics

By: Michael A. Arbib,P?ter Rdi,János Szentágothai

In Neural Organization, Arbib, Erdi, and Szentagothai integrate structural, functional, and dynamical approaches to the interaction of brain models and neurobiologcal experiments. Both structure-based "bottom-up" and function- based "top-down" models offer coherent concepts by which to evaluate the experimental data. The goal of this book is to point out the advantages of a multidisciplinary, multistrategied approach to the brain.Part I of Neural Organization provides a detailed introduction to each of the three areas of structure, function, and dynamics. Structure refers to the anatomical aspects of the brain and the relations between different brain regions. Function refers to skills and behaviors, which are explained by means of functional schemas and biologically based neural networks. Dynamics refers to the use of a mathematical framework to analyze the temporal change of neural activities and synaptic connectivities that underlie brain development and plasticity--in terms of both detailed single-cell models and large-scale network models.In part II, the authors show how their systematic approach can be used to analyze specific parts of the nervous system--the olfactory system, hippocampus, thalamus, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia--as well as to integrate data from the study of brain regions, functional models, and the dynamics of neural networks. In conclusion, they offer a plan for the use of their methods in the development of cognitive neuroscience.

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MIT Press

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026201159X

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9780262011594

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

By: Christopher Riches,Michael Cox

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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

By: Christopher Riches,Michael Cox

Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

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Oxford University Press

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019251850X

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Private Eyes

One Hundred and One Knights : a Survey of American Detective Fiction, 1922-1984

By: Robert Allen Baker,Michael T. Nietzel

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Private Eyes

One Hundred and One Knights : a Survey of American Detective Fiction, 1922-1984

By: Robert Allen Baker,Michael T. Nietzel

Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.

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0879723300

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9780879723309

The Governor's Wife

A Michael Kelly Thriller

By: Michael Harvey

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The Governor's Wife

A Michael Kelly Thriller

By: Michael Harvey

In the latest installment in Michael Harvey’s beloved Michael Kelly series, Chicago’s favorite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator takes on Illinois’s first family in a blistering thriller that charts the border where ambition ends and evil begins. It’s been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-seven years in prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous e-mail offering to pay him nearly a quarter of a million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kelly’s investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind—his wife, Marie. Ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds, Marie tells Kelly she has no idea where her husband is. Like everyone else, Kelly doesn’t believe her. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly begins to unwind Marie Perry’s past. What he finds is a woman who turns out to be even more intriguing than her husband, with her own deeply complicated reasons for standing by him. Everyone in Chicago has secrets, including the governor’s wife. Some of them she shared with her husband. Some of them she kept to herself. And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed. The Governor’s Wife is a hard-eyed look at the intersection of the political and the personal, at the perils of trusting even those closest to us, and the collateral damage of our highest aspirations. Stylish, knock-out suspense from a modern master.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307948846

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9780307948847

Whose Game Is It Anyway?

By: Michael Calvin

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Whose Game Is It Anyway?

By: Michael Calvin

Football has never seemed so distant from its fans. Many have been alienated by the greed and shameless self-interest of the Premier League, and no one can predict how the global game will look post-pandemic. In Whose Game Is It Anyway?, Sunday Times best-selling author Michael Calvin searches for a reason to believe. Written at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, the book is a thought-provoking, deeply personal account of the role sport - and particularly football - plays in everyday life. Part memoir, part manifesto, it takes the reader on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean. Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter, covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries, it offers first-hand insight into such icons as Muhammad Ali, Maradona and Sir Bobby Charlton. With settings ranging from a jungle clearing to a township in apartheid South Africa, this is sport as you've never seen it before.

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eBook Partnership

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1785319256

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9781785319259

Bleed For Me

By: Michael Robotham

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Bleed For Me

By: Michael Robotham

The dark and twisty fourth book in the Joe O'Loughlin series, the inspiration for the major ITV drama The Suspect. Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced. Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend - Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher; a conspiracy of silence and a race hate trial that is captivating the nation. Although the Joe O'Loughlin books can be read in any order, Bleed for Me is the fourth in the series after Shatter. The next in the series is The Wreckage. Praise for Michael Robotham's thrillers: 'I love this guy's books' Lee Child 'Will have you turning the pages compulsively' The Times 'An absolute master' Stephen King 'He writes in a voice with a haunting sense of soul' Peter James 'Heart-stopping and heart-breaking' Val McDermid 'The real deal' David Baldacci 'Superbly exciting . . . a terrific read' Guardian

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0748114017

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9780748114016

Hockey in Broome County

By: Marvin A. Cohen,Michael J. McCann

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Hockey in Broome County

By: Marvin A. Cohen,Michael J. McCann

The Broome Dusters played their first home game at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena on October 18, 1973. The game was symbolic of what was to come. Down 6-0, they fought back only to lose 8-7. Their fan support followed a similar pattern, lukewarm at first and then ferociously loyal. Hockey became a passion for local fans and has continued to be so to this day. When the Dusters disbanded, they were followed by the Whalers, Rangers, B.C. Iceman, and the Senators. Hockey in Broome County tells this fascinating story with more than 200 photographs and engaging text. Relive the heroics of the Dusters' Rod Bloomfield, "the little guy that everyone picked on." Then skip ahead to the crowd-pleasing toughness of the Whalers' Randy MacGregor and the more recent brilliance of the Senators' Jason Spezza.

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0738538833

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Mystery Fanfare

Mystery Fanfare

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Say You're Sorry

Say You're Sorry

The Joe O'Loughlin Complete Collection

The Joe O'Loughlin Complete Collection

Party of One

Party of One

Neural Organization

Neural Organization

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Private Eyes

Private Eyes

The Governor's Wife

The Governor's Wife

Whose Game Is It Anyway?

Whose Game Is It Anyway?

Bleed For Me

Bleed For Me

Hockey in Broome County

Hockey in Broome County

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