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Falling Off Air

By: Catherine Sampson

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Catherine Sampson's debut novel, a thrilling suspense about a single mother suspected of murder. Robin Ballantyne's life is finally coming together. After learning she was pregnant with twins and being abandoned by her irresponsible boyfriend, Adam, she's settling into life as a single mother. But one night, after putting the children to bed, she hears what she thinks is an argument outside. Then, suddenly, a body falls past her window. Running outside, she finds Paula Carmichael, a renowned activist, dead on the ground. Although Robin and Paula weren't acquainted, the police find Robin's name mentioned - frequently - in the dead woman's diary. Robin then learns that her ex-boyfriend had been making a documentary about Paula and may know more than he lets on. But before she can ask him, he's killed by a hit-and-run driver - who was driving Robin's car. Now a suspect herself, Robin must figure out who wanted both Robin and Adam dead before she loses her freedom, her children, and her life.

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Mysterious Press

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0446562971

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9780446562973

Having Junior

By: Eunice Sampson

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Having Junior

By: Eunice Sampson

Having Junior is beyond a tale about a womans struggle with childlessness and matrimonial acrimony. It mirrors the imperfect nature of man and the tortuous journey to being a better person. It is a contemporary African story about betrayal, infidelity, defiance, hypocrisy, deep-rooted guilt, obsession with social acceptance . . . A woman with a special allure and a big heart filled with compassion is at the epicentre of the unfolding drama. It is a thick plot indeed, with something for everyone!

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Xlibris Corporation

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148367150X

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9781483671505

The Slip

By: Mark Sampson

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The Slip

By: Mark Sampson

Professor Philip Sharpe is having a bad day when he appears on a live televised debate. But things will only get worse when, flustered on air, he makes some wildly inappropriate remarks. The “slip” goes viral and Philip’s life and marriage go into a tailspin. His life unravelling, Philip hatches a scheme he hopes will put it all back together.

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Dundurn

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1459735765

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9781459735767

In Search of Mary Shelley

By: Fiona Sampson

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In Search of Mary Shelley

By: Fiona Sampson

We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life.In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.

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Simon and Schuster

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1681778211

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9781681778211

Out of Mind

By: Catherine Sampson

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Out of Mind

By: Catherine Sampson

The critically acclaimed author of Falling Off Air returns with her heart-pounding second novel, in which Robin Ballantyne tracks a kidnapper -- and ends up on the trail of a killer. Robin Ballantyne heads to Cambodia to film a documentary about landmines. That's her cover story, but she really wants to interview Mike Darling, who happened to be on a retreat with her friend Donna right before Donna mysteriously disappeared. The trip turns disastrous after one of the men at Mike's camp, whose parents share a home with Mike and his wife in England, steps on a landmine and loses his leg. Then the Darlings' own son is kidnapped. Mike returns from Cambodia furious that the police are making no progress, and then someone is found stabbed to death in the home the Darlings share. Robin begins her own investigation into the murder and the kidnapping that preceded it -- risking her own job, love, and life in the process.

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Mysterious Press

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044656298X

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9780446562980

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

From the Dark Side

By: Robert Sampson

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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

From the Dark Side

By: Robert Sampson

More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more! The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn's, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.

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Popular Press

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0879723637

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9780879723637

John L. O'Sullivan and His Times

By: Robert Sampson

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John L. O'Sullivan and His Times

By: Robert Sampson

The life of nineteenth-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast for lost causes John Louis O'Sullivan is usually glimpsed only in brief episodes, perhaps because the components of his life are sometimes contradictory. An exponent of romantic democracy, O'Sullivan became a defender of slavery. A champion of reforms for women, labor, criminals, and public schools, he ended his life promoting spiritualism. This first full-length biography reveals a man possessed of the idealism and promise, as well as the prejudices and follies, of his age, a man who sensed the revolutionary and liberating potential of radical democracy but was unable to acknowledge the racial barriers it had to cross to fulfill its promise. Sure to be welcomed by scholars of the Jacksonian era and others interested in nineteenth-century American history, John L. O'Sullivan and His Times presents an in-depth examination of O'Sullivan's ideas as they were expressed in the Democratic Review and other newspapers and literary magazines that he edited. O'Sullivan was a crusader whose efforts to end capital panishment came within a hair's breadth of ending hanging in New York; an editor who called down the w

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Kent State University Press

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0873387457

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9780873387453

The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature

By: George Sampson,Reginald Charles Churchill

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The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature

By: George Sampson,Reginald Charles Churchill

Based on The Cambridge history of English literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521095816

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9780521095815

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

By: Robert Sampson

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Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

By: Robert Sampson

The second volume within this series presents more than fifty series characters within pulp fiction, selected to represent four popular story types from the 1907-1939 pulps--scientific detectives, occult and psychic investigators, jungle men, and adventurers in interplanetary romance. Some characters--Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Craig Kennedy, Anthony (Buck) Rogers--became internationally known. Others are now almost forgotten, except by collectors and specialists.

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0879722622

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9780879722623

The Promise of Social Enterprise

A Theological Exploration of Faithful Economic Practice

By: Mark Sampson

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The Promise of Social Enterprise

A Theological Exploration of Faithful Economic Practice

By: Mark Sampson

Is social enterprise yet another example of the expansion of the market into all areas of life and society, in this case the marketization of poverty? Or does it offer genuine hope as part of a solution to some of the challenges facing contemporary society, and as an example of an economy of mutuality? Framing this question theologically, does it offer the potential of "faithful economic practice"? The Promise of Social Enterprise makes the case that how we answer this depends on the language we use to describe--and perform--social enterprise. Arguing for the need to move beyond the narrow and reductionistic logic of mainstream economics, the economic nature of the language of gift and mutuality is explored. Drawing on the theological framework of Pope Benedict XVI and the work of John Barclay on Paul's understanding of the social implications of the Christ-gift, this book considers the contribution that a theology of gift, with its incongruity and mutuality, makes to the theory and practice of social enterprise.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725293978

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9781725293977

Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Fiona Sampson

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Fiona Sampson

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory -- Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. -- To

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Faber & Faber

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0571279880

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9780571279883

Liberals Favorite Lies

Black and White or Gray All Over

By: Dave Sampson

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Liberals Favorite Lies

Black and White or Gray All Over

By: Dave Sampson

In Dave Sampsons new book, Liberals Favorite Lies the author calls the Democrat party on a variety of misrepresentations, half truths and outright lies. Its said that you know when a Liberal is lying whenever you see his lips move. In modern politics the variety and severity of Liberal lies, and the deception perpetrated on the American people, cannot be ignored. Unfortunately, sports scandals and celebrity gossip receive far more attention from the average American than do the immoral and sometimes illegal actions demonstrated by Democrats and Liberals in American politics. Man made global warming is the newest and most threatening lie the Left has come up with. Liberals have employed junk science and gathered environmental activist judges to institute policy on an issue that is as phony as the tooth fairy. By manufacturing a crisis, the Left has created panic and hysteria among nave and unsuspecting Americans. According to the Left, the only way to address global warming is to regulate our behavior and tax the hell out of us. This is the typical Liberal approach to any problem. Liberals lie so much that their lies have been largely accepted as truth among the political inner- circle. This is damaging to our nation in countless ways. By telling us that terrorists can be reasoned and negotiated with, Liberals have put our national security in jeopardy. By telling us the use of racial profiling is offensive and cannot be tolerated, Liberals have effectively eliminated our use of intuition and common sense. By telling us tolerance and diversity are necessary to our nations fabric, Liberals have begun to divide America. From their pseudo-patriotism and false pride in America to their institution of political correctness and enforcement of tolerance and diversity, Liberals are chipping away at the foundation of America. Liberals Favorite Lies attempts to open the eyes of the average American to the harm and devastation that these lies are beginning to cause. If left unchecked, Liberals will continue to perpetrate their lies and resulting policy changes on the American people. Its time we all open our eyes and refuse to accept Liberal lies.

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Out of Mind

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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

John L. O'Sullivan and His Times

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The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature

The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

The Promise of Social Enterprise

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Liberals Favorite Lies

Liberals Favorite Lies

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