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Pete Seeger Centennial Songbook

Melody Line, Lyrics and Chord Symbols

By: Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger Centennial Songbook

Melody Line, Lyrics and Chord Symbols

By: Pete Seeger

(Richmond Music Folios). This songbook celebrates the legacy of Pete Seeger with 41 favorites presented with words, melody lines, and chord symbols: All Mixed Up * The Bells of Rhymney * Blue Skies * Goodnight, Irene * Guantanamera * If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) * Lonesome Valley * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * Midnight Special * Over the Hills * So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust) * This Land Is Your Land * Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) * We Shall Overcome * Where Have All the Flowers Gone? * and more.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1705187366

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9781705187364

Eden West

By: Pete Hautman

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Eden West

By: Pete Hautman

Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy’s unraveling allegiance to an insular cult. Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old Jacob knows. Beyond the fence lies the World, a wicked, terrible place, doomed to destruction. When the Archangel Zerachiel descends from Heaven, only the Grace will be spared the horrors of the Apocalypse. But something is rotten in paradise. A wolf invades Nodd, slaughtering the Grace’s sheep. A new boy arrives from outside, and his scorn and disdain threaten to tarnish Jacob’s contentment. Then, while patrolling the borders of Nodd, Jacob meets Lynna, a girl from the adjoining ranch, who tempts him to sample the forbidden Worldly pleasures that lie beyond the fence. Jacob’s faith, his devotion, and his grip on reality are tested as his feelings for Lynna blossom into something greater and the End Days grow ever closer. Eden West is the story of two worlds, two hearts, the power of faith, and the resilience of the human spirit.

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Candlewick Press

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076367690X

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9780763676902

The Story Hunter

By: Pete Schulte

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The Story Hunter

By: Pete Schulte

The Story Hunter is Ash Ellroy, an insomniac investigator sent to parts unknown in search of acquiring strange and mysterious stories for mass-media reproduction. Suffering through an inexplicable break-up from his girlfriend, Debby Lynn, Ash gets clumsy and becomes embroiled in the story of June Madson, an artist/sculptor who may or may not be a serial killer. Drawn under the spell of the charismatic Madson, Ash must fight to regain control of the story before it’s too late.

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iUniverse

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059516045X

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9780595160457

Dragon Island

Journey from a Dream

By: Pete Peters

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Dragon Island

Journey from a Dream

By: Pete Peters

David Parker is plagued by a recurring dream that haunts most of his childhood. Now in his senior year, a chain of events begins to unfold and slowly the details of his dream come into play but not as he anticipated. Follow David as he learns just how significant his dream really is and how the smallest decision can have the biggest consequences. Can he win the race against time to save his friends, and if he does, what will it cost him.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466992360

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9781466992368

Jack Hylton

By: Pete Faint

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Jack Hylton

By: Pete Faint

The definitive biography of British dance band leader and theatrical impresario Jack Hylton, tracing his life from the industrial North of England to London's glittering West End.

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Lulu.com

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1326061399

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9781326061395

Frankenstein A Life Beyond

By: Pete Planisek

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Frankenstein A Life Beyond

By: Pete Planisek

Ten years after the loss of his entire family to madness and death, Ernest Frankenstein finds himself compelled to return to the city of his birth, Geneva, in order to discover if his elder brother, Victor, might still be alive. Only Victor can provide the answers to questions, which have long plagued Ernest. The quest for answers will force Ernest to confront demons, both internal and external, from his past, which refuse to be at peace and which ultimately will endanger both he and his new family. Hunted across Europe their only hope may lie with a French spy, Ernest's childhood friend, and a mysterious gypsy girl whose people believe that Ernest will lead humanity to its salvation or final destruction.

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Pete Planisek

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0985098201

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9780985098209

Short Money

By: Pete Hautman

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Short Money

By: Pete Hautman

DIVDesperate for cash, small town cop Joe Crow takes a security job that could cost him his life/divDIV Joe Crow celebrates his thirty-third birthday in his patrol car, watching for speeders and sniffing fat lines of cocaine. A depressed cop with a faltering marriage, a rotten stomach, and an increasingly expensive drug habit, Crow is just looking for a drink and a poker game when he steps into Birdy’s. Instead, he meets a man who might be able to save his life—or destroy it./divDIV /divDIVHe first notices Dr. Nelson Bellwether when the liposuction expert has a chair smashed over his head. A surgeon with a big mouth, a gambler’s personality, and some serious debt to the IRS, he’s on his way to deep trouble, and he’s going to bring Crow along for the ride. Dr. Bellwether needs a bodyguard, and Crow is his man. Pretty soon, this small town cop will wish he had a bodyguard of his own./div

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Open Road Media

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1480406228

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9781480406223

Punk Monk

New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing

By: Pete Greig,Andy Freeman

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Punk Monk

New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing

By: Pete Greig,Andy Freeman

Fleeing the compromises of the 4th century church, the Desert Fathers founded monasticism. In reaction to a Christianity they scarcely recognized, these radicals fled to the Egyptian desert to model a different, radical style of discipleship, filled with sacrifice and continual prayer. Who are the new monks, the new punks, the new revolutionaries? The answer lies in an upsurge of 24-7 monastic communities around the world. Punk Monk combines a narrative journey through the beginnings of 24-7 Prayer Boiler Rooms with a discussion on the roots of monasticism, particularly its ethos and values, and how it can be applied in the third millennium. Drawing influences from the Franciscans, the Celts and the Moravians, the book highlights the counter-cultural and revolutionary force of monasticism and asks whether it is time for a new monastic movement. It also takes punk as a contemporary expression of monastic spirit and asks whether a “silent revolution” is coming.

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Gospel Light Publications

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0830743685

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9780830743681

Building Database Clouds in Oracle 12c

By: Tariq Farooq,Sridhar Avantsa,Pete Sharman

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Building Database Clouds in Oracle 12c

By: Tariq Farooq,Sridhar Avantsa,Pete Sharman

An Expert Guide to Building Oracle Database Cloud Infrastructures This is the first complete, practical guide to architecting, designing, and building Database Clouds with Oracle 12c. Written by a veteran author team of Oracle gurus and ACE Directors, Building Database Clouds in Oracle 12c combines a real-world, hands-on operations guide with an expert handbook on Oracle Database-As-A-Service (DBaaS) and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Writing for Oracle DBAs, DMAs, cloud administrators, and other Oracle professionals, the authors present authoritative technical information for database cloud build-out, management, monitoring, and day-to-day administration. The authors first explain the key concepts underlying DBaaS, describe cloud computing implementations related to it, and outline the business and technology benefits. Next, they show how the Oracle DBA’s approach changes in cloud environments. Then, building on this foundation, they offer insider advice on all key facets of database cloud deployment and operation with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and Oracle RAC 12c. This guide helps you Make the business case for cloud computing with DBaaS Organize DBA responsibilities in cloud environments Plan, design, and deploy Database Clouds with Oracle’s latest components Consolidate schema and databases with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Use best practices for management, administration metering, and chargeback Clone databases quickly and reliably Set up grid infrastructure on Oracle VM for x86 or Oracle VM VirtualBox

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0134309774

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9780134309774

American Road

The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age

By: Pete Davies

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American Road

The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age

By: Pete Davies

A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history. On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of dirt, mud, rock, and sand. Sixty-two days later they arrived in San Francisco, having averaged just five miles an hour. Known as the First Transcontinental Motor Train, this trip was an adventure, a circus, a public relations coup, and a war game all rolled into one. As road conditions worsened, it also became a daily battle of sweat and labor, of guts and determination. American Road is the story of this incredible journey. Pete Davies takes us from east to west, bringing to life the men on the trip, their trials with uncooperative equipment and weather, and the punishing landscape they encountered. Ironically one of the participants was a young soldier named Dwight Eisenhower, who, four decades later, as President, launched the building of the interstate highway system. Davies also provides a colorful history of transcontinental car travel in this country, including the first cross-country trips and the building of the Lincoln Highway. This richly detailed book offers a slice of Americana, a piece of history unknown to many, and a celebration of our love affair with the road.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1466862823

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9781466862821

Three Sheets To The Wind

One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of Beer

By: Pete Brown

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Three Sheets To The Wind

One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of Beer

By: Pete Brown

Meet Pete Brown: beer jounalist, beer drinker and author of an irreverent book about British beer, Man Walks Into A Pub. One day, Pete's world is rocked when he discovers several countries produce, consume and celebrate beer far more than we do. The Germans claim they make the best beer in the world, the Australians consider its consumption a patriotic duty, the Spanish regard lager as a trendy youth drink and the Japanese have built a skyscrapter in the shape of a foaming glass of their favourite brew. At home, meanwhile, people seem to be turning their back on the great British pint. What's going on? Obviously, the only way to find out was to on the biggest pub crawl ever. Drinking in more than three hundred bars, in twenty-seven towns, in thirteen different countries, on four different continents, Pete puts on a stone in weight and does irrecoverable damage to his health in the pursuit of saloon-bar enlightenment. 'A fine book. . . the exact tone that a work on this social drug requires.' The Times 'Over 300 bars later and the man still manages to make you laugh.' Daily Mirror 'Carlsberg don't publish books. But if they did, they would probably come up with Three Sheets to the Wind...' Metro 'A marvellous book which is as enlightening about the countries he visited as any travel guide.' Adventure Magazine

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Pan Macmillan

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0330528238

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9780330528238

The Rat Queen

By: Pete Hautman

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The Rat Queen

By: Pete Hautman

From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman comes a mysterious modern-day fairy tale about developing a moral compass—and the slippery nature of conscience. For Annie’s tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It’s called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie’s inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague of rats threatens her small suburban town and the mystery of her birthright grows, Annie—caught in a cycle of purging her misdeeds—begins to stop growing. It is only when she travels to her family’s home country of Litvania to learn more about the burna that Annie uncovers the magnitude of the truth. Gripping and emotionally complex, Pete Hautman’s inventive yarn for middle-grade readers draws on magical realism to explore coming of age and the path to moral responsibility.

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Candlewick Press

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1536227242

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9781536227246

A Platoon Leader's Tour

By: Nate Self,Pete Kilner

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A Platoon Leader's Tour

By: Nate Self,Pete Kilner

A Platoon Leaders Tour (The PL Book): This book is an on-the-ground view of U.S. Army combat in Iraq sourced from in-country interviews of this generation's Platoon Leaders from 2003-2008. The combat vignettes of former Platoon Leaders flow along the arc of a typical 12-month tour in Iraq. The authors selected stories that reflect the common challenges of young combat leaders, including: -Taking Charge -Making First Contact with the Enemy -Engaging the Local Populace -Interacting with Indigenous Forces -Use of Force -Operating in a Complex/Chaotic Environment -Facing Personnel Challenges -Making Moral/Ethical Decisions -Leading in Battle -Dealing with Death -Sustaining the Will to Fight -Leading Emotionally-Charged Soldiers -Adapting to Unfamiliar/Non-Standard Missions The book was developed by the U.S. Armys Center for Company-level Leaders at West Point in conjunction with the U.S. Army Studies Program and U.S. Army Research Institute. Interviews, writing, and editing of the stories was conducted by Pete Kilner, Nate Allen, Nate Self, and Anthony Lupo.

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AuthorHouse

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1477299432

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9781477299432

Blow Your Mind

By: Eric Pete

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Blow Your Mind

By: Eric Pete

The husband is Tanner Coleman, successful and controlling. He knows exactly what he wants professionally and personally. The wife is Bianca. She’s staid and respectable—the ideal trophy, perfect for Tanner’s public image—but fulfilling his freaky fantasies is another story. The other woman is Bianca’s sister, Pumpkin. She’s everything Bianca isn’t: wild, liberated, and free to give a man what he wants. The other man is Henry, a gambler with a reckless streak. Recently fired by Tanner, he’s got nothing left to lose. What’s on his mind is revenge. Flesh and fantasy are about to merge. The games are about to begin. But who’s really playing whom? The answer is going to blow your mind. Applauded as “one of contemporary fiction’s rising stars” (Urban Reviews), bestselling author Eric Pete now delivers a wildly erotic thriller of sex and revenge and the dangers of taking both beyond the limits of fantasy.

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Penguin

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1440619131

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9781440619137

Nothing Week

By: Pete Hancock

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Nothing Week

By: Pete Hancock

Nothing Week' is the other week following pay-week when those with something left in their pockets contribute to the well-being of others whose meagre income has been largely absorbed by 'book-up' or gambling. Set in the remote South Australian township of Oodnadatta on the edge of the Simpson Desert, this enriching narrative offers a bridge into Aboriginal culture following the ups and downs which typify life in that unique community. A number of contemporary social and political issues are discussed in the context of a fictional five-week slice of time from the third week of May through to June.

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Lulu.com

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1300162341

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9781300162346

The Names of the Stars

A Life in the Wilds

By: Pete Fromm

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The Names of the Stars

A Life in the Wilds

By: Pete Fromm

Winner of Honor Book for the 2016 Montana Book Award At twenty years old, Pete Fromm heard of a job babysitting salmon eggs, seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Leaping at this chance to be a mountain man, with no experience in the wilds, he left the world. Thirteen years later, he published his beloved memoir of that winter, Indian Creek Chronicles —Into the Wild with a twist. Twenty five years later, he was asked to return to the wilderness to babysit more fish eggs. But no longer a footloose twenty year old, at forty-five, he was the father of two young sons. He left again, alone, straight into the heart of Montana’s Bob Marshall wilderness, walking a daily ten mile loop to his fish eggs through deer and elk and the highest density of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states. The Names of the Stars is not only a story of wilderness and bears but also a trek through a life lived at its edges, showing how an impulsive kid transformed into a father without losing his love for the wilds. From loon calls echoing across Northwood lakes to the grim realities of life guarding in the Nevada desert, through the isolation of Indian Creek and years spent running the Snake and Rio Grande as a river ranger, Pete seeks out the source of this passion for wildness, as well as explores fatherhood and mortality and all the costs and risks and rewards of life lived on its own terms.

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Macmillan

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1250101689

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9781250101686

Decolonizing Educational Relationships

Practical Approaches for Higher and Teacher Education

By: fatima Pirbhai-Illich,Fran Martin,Shauneen Pete

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Decolonizing Educational Relationships

Practical Approaches for Higher and Teacher Education

By: fatima Pirbhai-Illich,Fran Martin,Shauneen Pete

The authors present a novel way of thinking and a robust foundation for de/colonizing educational relationships in Higher and Teacher Education, illustrated by examples of applications to practice. A hybrid style of writing weaves their own narratives into the text, drawing on their experiences in a range of educational settings.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1800715293

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9781800715295

Hey, General

Volume 1

By: Pete Bublitz

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Hey, General

Volume 1

By: Pete Bublitz

Janelle and Sophie encounter an anomaly that consumed and took the form of Sophie's roomate, Mizuki. As Mizuki, the entity exhibits various abnormal abilities and features, the most significant being its mirror-like hair. As it's being guided back to a stage of sound maturity, the being maintains peculiar traits, including an accent contrasting that of its host before takeover, and a preference to being called Hey. Over time, it pacingly shows what abilities it possesses. Hey makes it a mission to find and collect various species on the surrounding islands, if not further. Along the way, Hey, Janelle, Sophie, and various other characters engage in various endeavors, face numerous difficulties, and run into misadventures. Along the way, it will come to light that not everything is as it seems...

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796063010

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9781796063011

Road Tripped

By: Pete Hautman

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Road Tripped

By: Pete Hautman

“Superb road trip novel. By turns introspective and humorous.” —Booklist (starred review) In this captivating story about loss, love, and changing your ways, National Book Award–winning author Pete Hautman imbues the classic road trip novel with clever wit and heartfelt musings about life and death. Steven Gerald Gabel—a.k.a. Stiggy—needs to get out of Minnesota. His father recently took his own life, his mother is a shell of the person she used to be, and his sort-of-girlfriend ghosted him and skipped town. What does he have left to stick around for? Armed with his mom’s credit card and a tourist map of Great River Road, Stiggy sets off in his dad’s car. The only problem is, life on his own isn’t exactly what he expected and, soon enough, he finds himself at a crossroads: keep running from his demons, or let them hitch a ride back home with him.

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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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1534405917

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9781534405912

You Are My Fireworks

Stories and Poems

By: Pete Schulte

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You Are My Fireworks

Stories and Poems

By: Pete Schulte

It’s been over 15 years since Schulte’s last collection of stories, Ju-Ju Belle & Other Stories. Since then, a lot has changed for the author. Namely, marriage, baby, new jobs, and a move to suburbs. That said, he is still writing the same offbeat, edgy stories that will make you smile and wonder and maybe scratch your head. His new collection, You Are My Fireworks: Stories and Poems, won’t disappoint in either volume or quality. The titular story, You Are My Fireworks, concerns a lonely grocery clerk confronted by a kindly, if eccentric, apparition. His Fourth of July is nothing like expected. Then there’s ‘The Growlers.’ In this story a recently laid off man turns to drinking before getting set straight by his wife. Although now sober, he begins acting in an animalistic way, even to the point of howling at the moon. Could he be turning into a suburban...werewolf? The longest story of the collection is called ‘Tuborg, the Littlest Guard Dog.’ Tuborg is the runt of a large litter of puppies. When adoption time comes, nobody wants Tuborg because he’s too scrawny to even notice. Finally, the last customer of the day decides against his better judgement to adopt Tuborg. He decides to make Tuborg the guard dog of his very large back yard. Tuborg is determined to be the best guard dog he can be, but he has no idea what awaits him in that zany back yard. A cattle drive, a circus, a marching band? Oh, yes. They’re all ready to pass through the gate. Can Tuborg stop them – or maybe even join them? Perhaps a little of both in this funny, touching story. You Are My Fireworks is a collection of stories that will make you smile and maybe touch your heart. I hope you will give them a try.

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iUniverse

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153208062X

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9781532080623

Cuyahoga

A Novel

By: Pete Beatty

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Cuyahoga

A Novel

By: Pete Beatty

Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his wife, honestly). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero hits the (dirt) streets of Ohio City and Cleveland, the twin towns racing to become the first great metropolis of the West. Their rivalry reaches a boil over the building of a bridge across the Cuyahoga River--and Big stumbles right into the kettle. The resulting misadventures involve elderly terrorists, infrastructure collapse, steamboat races, wild pigs, and multiple ruined weddings. Narrating this tale is Medium Son--known as Meed--apprentice coffin maker, almanac author, orphan, and the younger brother of Big. Meed finds himself swept up in the action, and he is forced to choose between brotherly love and his own ambitions."-- Provided by publisher.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982155566

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9781982155568

Rag Man

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

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Rag Man

A Novel

By: Pete Hautman

Suppose you quit your job, took out a second mortgage, and borrowed every penny of your in-laws' nest egg to start up a surefire new business. What if your partner ran off with all your money? What if you caught up with him? These are the questions Pete Hautman's hero faces in Rag Man, a wryly funny, Faustian tale of a good man going bad. Mack MacWray's new clothing manufacturing company was wildly successful -- until the day his charming, street-savvy partner, Lars Larson, disappeared with all the assets, leaving Mack stuck with nothing but debts and shattered dreams. Devastated, Mack thinks he has nothing left to live for until, at the edge of a cliff on the idyllic Mexican resort of Isla Mujeres, he comes face-to-face with his former partner. Mack discovers something about himself that fateful afternoon -- that maybe he's not such a nice guy after all. After push comes to shove, Mack must live with what he has become. Mack returns to the U.S. with his moral compass demagnetized and discovers a world of opportunity. Without the ball and chain of guilt and accountability, making money is all but guaranteed. He transforms himself from bankrupt loser to hard-nosed success story -- but at what cost? His wife wants the old Mack back; her best friend wants Mack in bed; Lars's widow wants money (or revenge); and Detective Jerry Pleasant wants answers -- or maybe more. As the pace quickens and tensions rise, these characters begin to surprise even themselves. Pete Hautman treads the line between psychological darkness and laugh-out-loud funny as he asks tough questions about the nature of good and evil -- and offers some unexpected answers.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743217691

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9780743217699

South From Corregidor [Illustrated Edition]

By: Rear Admiral John H. Morrill,Pete Martin

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South From Corregidor [Illustrated Edition]

By: Rear Admiral John H. Morrill,Pete Martin

Includes the Second World War In The Philippines Illustration Pack - 237 maps, plans and photos. This is the story of Lt.-Comm. John Morrill II and 18 men of the minesweeper Quail, who refused to accept the unenviable hospitality of the Imperial Japanese army as Prisoners Of War in 1942. When the American defenders of the Philippines, having fought courageously, eventually surrendered, Morrill and his men faced a vast stretch of enemy-occupied Pacific between them and freedom. Starting with only a barely seaworthy motor launch for their only transportation, they set out on their epic journey...

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786257696

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9781786257697

An Eye at the Top of the World

The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold War's Most Daring C.I.A. Operation

By: Pete Takeda

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An Eye at the Top of the World

The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold War's Most Daring C.I.A. Operation

By: Pete Takeda

At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects -- one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna -- plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped from its moorings by an avalanche, the jumbled apparatus slides down a funnel-shaped hourglass of hard snow and shoots over a black cliff band, careening a vertical distance six times the height of the Empire State building. The boxes come to rest on the glacier at the mountain's base. One, an olive-drab casing the size of a personal computer, begins to sink. Then, trailing a robotic dogtail of torn wires, it slowly burns through the snow, melting into solid blue glacial ice, eventually disappearing beneath the surface, and never seen again. No one actually witnessed this event. But as you read these words, nearly four pounds of plutonium -- locked in the glacier's dark unknowable heart -- are almost certainly moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River. Eye at the Top of the World, provides a harrowing present-day account of Takeda's expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi.

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Basic Books

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0786732873

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9780786732876

Foot-tracks in New Zealand

Origins, Access Issues and Recent Developments

By: Pete McDonald

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Foot-tracks in New Zealand

Origins, Access Issues and Recent Developments

By: Pete McDonald

Foot-tracks in New Zealand examines the development of walking tracks over two centuries, from the early 19th century to about 2011. The paperback version comes in two volumes but is otherwise identical to the electronic version. Page size: A4 Format: Paperback, 2 vol. ISBN: 0473191911, 9780473191917 Number of pages: 1000 About: Trails, Tracks, New Zealand, History, Recreation, Land access. Availability: By print on demand from The Fine Print Company, Waipukurau, Central Hawke’s Bay, 4200, NZ.

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0473191911

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A Long Walk in the Alps

From the Eiger to the Matterhorn

By: Pete Buckley

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A Long Walk in the Alps

From the Eiger to the Matterhorn

By: Pete Buckley

There can be no more enduring symbols of the Alps than the Eiger and the Matterhorn. These two great mountains have inspired climbers throughout Europe while the towns at their feet, Grindelwald and Zermatt, have become World famous resorts. A Long Walk in the Alps describes a journey beginning under the shadow of the Eiger's infamous north wall and finishing in the high meadows beneath the soaring ridges of the Matterhorn. The trail from Grindelwald leads first through the idyllic Jungfrau Region before heading off to high passes, forgotten valleys and sleepy alpine villages on the way to its destination in Zermatt. If you are after a book that gives an insight into the experience of travelling in Switzerland rather than just directions, then A Long Walk in the Alps is for you.

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The Obsidian Blade

By: Pete Hautman

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The Obsidian Blade

By: Pete Hautman

Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool — and the question is, who will control it? The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to fix a shingle, let out a scream, and vanished — only to walk up the driveway an hour later, looking older and worn, with a strange girl named Lahlia in tow. In the months that followed, Tucker watched his father grow distant and his once loving mother slide into madness. But then both of his parents disappear. Now in the care of his wild Uncle Kosh, Tucker begins to suspect that the disks of shimmering air he keeps seeing — one right on top of the roof — hold the answer to restoring his family. And when he dares to step into one, he’s launched on a time-twisting journey — from a small Midwestern town to a futuristic hospital run by digitally augmented healers, from the death of an ancient prophet to a forest at the end of time. Inevitably, Tucker’s actions alter the past and future, changing his world forever.

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076365972X

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The Klaatu Terminus

By: Pete Hautman

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The Klaatu Terminus

By: Pete Hautman

National Book Award winner Pete Hautman weaves several diverging time streams into one satisfying masterwork in this stunning and revelatory series finale. In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker’s uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever. Tucker, Lia, and Kosh must evade the pursuit of maggot-like Timesweeps, battle Master Gheen’s cult of Lambs, all while they puzzle out the enigmatic Boggsians as they search for one another and the secrets of the diskos. Who built them? Who is destroying them? Where — and when — will it all end?

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0763670251

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Pete Seeger in His Own Words

By: Pete Seeger,Rob Rosenthal,Sam Rosenthal

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Pete Seeger in His Own Words

By: Pete Seeger,Rob Rosenthal,Sam Rosenthal

Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger has written eloquently in a diverse array of publications but nowhere is his life story more personally chronicled than in these, his private writings, documents and letters stored for decades in his family barn. Pete Seeger: His Life in His Own Words, collects Seeger's letters, notes, published articles, rough drafts, stories and poetry - creating the most intimate picture yet available of Seeger as a musician, an activist and a family man. The book covers the passions, personalities and experiences of a lifetime of struggle - from the pre-WWII labour movement and the Communist Party, to Woody Guthrie, the Civil Rights movement and the struggle against the war in Vietnam. The portrait that emerges is not of a saint, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his time and his place.

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Routledge

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1317254279

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Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion

A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds

By: Pete Dunne

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Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion

A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds

By: Pete Dunne

From the award-winning birder and author of Birds of Prey, an authoritative, information-packed guide to distinguishing North American birds. In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the “Cape May School of Birding.” It's an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's overall impression (often called GISS, for General Impression of Size and Shape) than to specific field marks. After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, color, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues to guide a birder when, even after a review of a field guide, the identification still hangs in the balance. This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. Birding should be an enjoyable pursuit for beginners and experts alike, and Pete Dunne combines a unique playfulness with the work of identification. Readers will delight in his nicknames for birds, from the Grinning Loon and Clearly the Bathtub Duck to Bronx Petrel and Chicken Garnished with a Slice of Mango and a Dollop of Raspberry Sherbet.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544135687

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9780544135680

Harken's Caribbean See

By: Pete Brand

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Harken's Caribbean See

By: Pete Brand

David Harken, a young ex Florida Prosecutor goes to the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica BWI with his side kick, Colonel Ralph Rankin, to temporarily run Island House, the small resort hotel his friends are buying. During his stay on the island he falls for a Dominican girl, Lolly Pacer. He gets shot and loses her in a local coup d'Ã(c)Â-tat attempt and then meets and romances an expatriate British girl, Liene Starling, who is returning from New York to the island to live. At this time an American shipping magnate, Alfred Bruner of Bruner Lines, works out a clever scheme to literally take over the island country. During this time Liene is sought out and pursued by Jason Dans, an ex-employer from New York who, believing Liene will likely alert the authorities to his illegal activities, comes to the island with a hired assassin to kill her, which ultimately involves the real life threat to Liene, David, and their friends at Island House.

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1425947514

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Frostbite

By: Eric Pete

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Frostbite

By: Eric Pete

The oh so cold Prince of Lies from Eric's critically acclaimed Crushed Ice returns! He lurks in the silence, ready to strike without warning, without mercy. Truth is a man for hire, a man of many faces, many names. A killer? Only if someone tries to kill him first. But even a cold-as-ice operator like Truth has a heart. He's known love and loss, and now his past mistakes are coming back to haunt him. When the sensuous schemer Sophia, on the run from a Saudi prince's harem, begs for Truth's help, he has to respond—she's the sister of his former lover, Colette, a woman whose life he ruined. And now he, Sophia and Colette are caught in the middle of an all-out war between an ambitious DA and a drug kingpin. Daring rescues, hair's-breadth escapes, a trail of thrills stretching from NYC to New Orleans. . .can Truth handle it?

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Urban Books

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1599832798

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CI: Dark Target

An Army Counterintelligence Novel

By: David DeBatto,Pete Nelson

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CI: Dark Target

An Army Counterintelligence Novel

By: David DeBatto,Pete Nelson

In this second riveting novel, Army Counterintelligence Special Agent David DeLuca and his CI Team--an army within the Army--are up against a rogue enemy who has commandeered a deadly new technology. Original.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446559520

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The Latitude

By: Pete Clements

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The Latitude

By: Pete Clements

Florida's Citrus Belt, finest place in the world to grow citrus, Tropical Zone summers, hot, humid, rain. Temperate Zone winters, mild, possible touch of frost, minor chance of freeze. Perfect. Except, the place is directly in the flyway of airborne illegally imported illicit opioids from our neighbors to the south. They fly unseen into the U. S., bound for Midwest and East Coast distribution, invade under cover of night, land in the rural unpopulated groves, commandeer homes and barns, threaten murder, bankruptcy, economic havoc. Some brave young citizens face the traffickers, fight back, bring high seas chase all the way to Bahamas hideouts, battle vicious gunfire and a deadly hurricane, and even find young love. Who wins? This time, you do.

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Black Rose Writing

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1684333962

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The Bloodwater Mysteries: Doppelganger

By: Pete Hautman,Mary Logue

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The Bloodwater Mysteries: Doppelganger

By: Pete Hautman,Mary Logue

Brian and Roni are looking for another case to crack when Roni finds an age-progressed picture of a boy who looks alarmingly like Brian on a missing children website. Brian is sure it is only a coincidence?after all, he?s lived happily with his adoptive parents for as long as he can remember. But then again, his parents have never really told him about his adoption . . . Could there be more to his family history than he knows? As Roni and Brian piece together the clues, other people emerge from the shadows of the past and suddenly Brian isn?t just a detective on the case?he?s the key to a mystery that everyone is after. Can he and Roni uncover the truth before it?s too late? Featuring the strong plotting and offbeat humor that won the Bloodwater Mysteries a prestigious Edgar nomination, Doppelganger is full of twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the very end.

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Penguin

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1101652284

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animusity

By: pete morris

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animusity

By: pete morris

Zelig has gone to ground and a series of merciless killings continues. Shayne Pericleus emerges from near-fatal self-inflicted wounds and is being tracked by US Agents and The Shoebox, a psychotic London gangster. Forced to bring his alter-ego back, he gets closer to solving the killings until, mentally drained, physical changes leave him vulnerable to an unseen adversary.

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Lulu.com

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1471786161

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9781471786167

Ring Game

By: Pete Hautman

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Ring Game

By: Pete Hautman

DIVTo save a friend’s daughter from a bad marriage, Joe Crow confronts cultists, carnies, and cocaine wackos/divDIV Poker-playing ex-cop Joe Crow has been dealt some rotten hands in his life, but he’s survived them all. When Axel Speeter starts begging for help, Crow suspects his luck is about to run out. A taco-dealing former poker pro, Speeter’s worried about his girlfriend’s daughter Carmen. She’s the sexiest trouble magnet the state of Omaha has ever seen, and she’s about to drag Crow down with her./divDIV /divDIVCarmen has just gotten engaged to Hyatt Hilton, a onetime drug pusher who’s currently scratching out a living selling bootlegged Evian. Speeter wants Crow to make sure he’s staying on the straight-and-narrow. And it looks like Hilton’s involved in something much more dangerous than designer water. He’s about to cross the Amaranthine Church of the One—a New Age cult convinced that it’s found the secret to immortality, and doesn’t mind killing to prove it. /div

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1480406236

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