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Morgan's Got Game

By: Ted Staunton

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Morgan is left out of the loop when everyone begins bringing their Robogamer Z7s to school, linking up online with one another and playing at recess and lunch. Even Aldeen, the Godzilla of Grade Three, has one. But when the other kids start to suspect that Aldeen is faking her gaming, Morgan has to decide whether or not to stand up to the bullies who are teasing her. With a situation young readers will recognize and enjoy, and a character they can easily identify with, this is a book that will appeal to kids starting to read on their own. The dyslexia-friendly features of the book include easier-to-read typography, page layout, and reduced-contrast paper stock, along with illustrations on every double-page spread that enhance the text.

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Formac Publishing Company

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1459505085

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9781459505087

Morgan's Pet Plot

By: Ted Staunton

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Morgan's Pet Plot

By: Ted Staunton

When Morgan meets his friend Charlie's golden retriever pup, he is a little envious and a little allergic. But he would really like a pet. Finally Morgan and his parents come home with an albino rat. Morgan doesn't really like Snowdrop, but his pesky classmate Aldeen Hummelthe Godzilla of Grade Threegets along famously with it. She takes over and helps Morgan prepare Snowdrop for the pet show at school. Morgan decides he'll give the rat to Aldeen after the show, but things don't work out exactly as planned... Morgan's Pet Plot is a funny and touching story that shows how the things we value most are sometimes found where we least expect them.

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Formac Publishing Company Limited

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0887801870

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9780887801877

The Strange Death of Vincent Van Gogh

By: Ted Morgan

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The Strange Death of Vincent Van Gogh

By: Ted Morgan

Vincent Van Gogh, perhaps the greatest and most influential painter of the nineteenth century, committed suicide at the age of thirty-seven. He sold only one painting in his lifetime. Was he motivated by mental illness or despair when he put a revolver to his chest or was his physician partly to blame? Here, in this short-form book by Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and historian Ted Morgan, is the intriguing answer.

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New Word City

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161230818X

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9781612308180

The Great American History Fact-finder

The Who, What, Where, When, and why of American History

By: Pam Cornelison,Ted Yanak

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The Great American History Fact-finder

The Who, What, Where, When, and why of American History

By: Pam Cornelison,Ted Yanak

Over 2,000 entries covering the who, what, where, when and why of U.S. history."--Thumbnail.

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626

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618439412

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9780618439416

My Battle of Algiers

A Memoir

By: Ted Morgan

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My Battle of Algiers

A Memoir

By: Ted Morgan

In My Battle of Algiers, eminent historian and biographer Ted Morgan recounts his experiences in the savage Algerian War. In 1956, Morgan was drafted into the French Army and was sent thousands of miles overseas to help quell the Algerian uprising. Once there, he witnessed—and became involved in—unimaginable barbarism that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

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Harper Collins

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0061205761

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9780061205767

Valley of Death

The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

By: Ted Morgan

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Valley of Death

The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

By: Ted Morgan

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history. A veteran of the French Army, Ted Morgan has made use of exclusive firsthand reports to create the most complete and dramatic telling of the conflict ever written. Here is the history of the Vietminh liberation movement's rebellion against French occupation after World War II and its growth as an adversary, eventually backed by Communist China. Here too is the ill-fated French plan to build a base in Dien Bien Phu and draw the Vietminh into a debilitating defeat—which instead led to the Europeans being encircled in the surrounding hills, besieged by heavy artillery, overrun, and defeated. Making expert use of recently unearthed or released information, Morgan reveals the inner workings of the American effort to aid France, with Eisenhower secretly disdainful of the French effort and prophetically worried that “no military victory was possible in that type of theater.” Morgan paints indelible portraits of all the major players, from Henri Navarre, head of the French Union forces, a rigid professional unprepared for an enemy fortified by rice carried on bicycles, to his commander, General Christian de Castries, a privileged, miscast cavalry officer, and General Vo Nguyen Giap, a master of guerrilla warfare working out of a one-room hut on the side of a hill. Most devastatingly, Morgan sets the stage for the Vietnam quagmire that was to come. Superbly researched and powerfully written, Valley of Death is the crowning achievement of an author whose work has always been as compulsively readable as it is important.

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Random House Incorporated

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1400066646

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9781400066643

A Covert Life

Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster

By: Ted Morgan

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A Covert Life

Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster

By: Ted Morgan

The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment after the Second World War. He became one of the leading strategists of the Cold War, and was once described as "one of the five most important men in the hidden power structure of America." Lovestone was obsessively secretive, and it is only with the opening of his papers at the Hoover Institution, the freeing of access to Comintern files in Moscow, and the release of his 5,700-page FBI file that biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ted Morgan has been able to construct a full account of the remarkable events of Jay Lovestone's life. The life Morgan describes is full of drama and intrigue. He recounts Lovestone's career in the faction-riven world of American Communism until he was spirited out of Moscow in 1929 after Stalin publicly attacked him for doctrinal unorthodoxy. As Lovestone veered away from Moscow, he came to work for the American Federation of Labor, managing a separate union foreign policy as well as maintaining his own intelligence operations for the CIA, many under the command of the legendary counterintelligence chief James Angleton. Lovestone also associated with Louise Page Morris, a spy known as "the American Mata Hari," who helped him undermine Communist advances in the developing world and whose own significant espionage career is detailed here. Lovestone's influence, always exercised from behind the scenes, survived to the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union. A Covert Life has all the elements of a classic spy thriller: surveillance operations and stings, love affairs and bungled acts of sabotage, many thoroughly illegal. It is written with the easy hand of a fine biographer (The Washington Post Book World called Ted Morgan "a master storyteller") and provides a history of the Cold War and a glimpse into the machinery of the CIA while also revealing many hitherto hidden details of the superpower confrontation that dominated postwar global politics.

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Random House

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0307805662

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9780307805669

Maugham

By: Ted Morgan

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Maugham

By: Ted Morgan

Uses previously undisclosed letters written by Maugham and the personal correspondence of his friends to portray Maugham's literary successes, intelligence work, marriage, and inability to come to terms with his own homosexuality.

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New York : Simon and Schuster

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0671240773

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9780671240776

Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys

100 of the Greatest College Football Finishes (1970-1999)

By: Ted Mandell

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Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys

100 of the Greatest College Football Finishes (1970-1999)

By: Ted Mandell

A college football fan's ultimate dream come true. Full of exciting moments.

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376

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Taylor Trade Publishing

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1888698322

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9781888698329

Hard Road to Gettysburg

A Novel

By: Ted Jones

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Hard Road to Gettysburg

A Novel

By: Ted Jones

In this powerful work of historical fiction, two identical twin brothers--separated at birth--find themselves caught up in the storm clouds of the Civil War--one fighting for the South, the other for the North. A dramatic chain of events ultimately brings the brothers face-to-face at Gettysburg. "Suspenseful fiction".--Booklist

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Presidio Press

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0891415343

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9780891415343

Forbes Book of Business Quotations

14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life

By: Ted Goodman

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Forbes Book of Business Quotations

14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life

By: Ted Goodman

Now including thousands of new quotations, this bestselling compilation of business wit and wisdom is the ultimate desk reference for speakers, writers, CEOs, managers, and employees alike. This handsome collection, featuring nearly 2,000 new quotations, new topics, and a fresh new look, is a trove of enlightening and useful witticisms about the world of business, drawn from across the centuries and all corners of the globe. It features a wide range of germane wisdom from such contemporary luminaries as Katherine Graham, Susan Sontag, Bill Gates, Ronald Reagan, Fran Lebowitz, Gore Vidal, and Donald Trump alongside timeless quotes from Ovid, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gertrude Stein, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Ford, Helen Keller, John D. Rockefeller, Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and thousands of others—not to mention hundreds of quotes from the Forbes men themselves. Fully indexed for easy use as a speaker’s or writer’s reference, this inspiring volume comes straight from the most trusted and widely read business magazine of all time.

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Black Dog & Leventhal

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1884822622

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9781884822629

The Life-Giving Church

By: Ted Haggard

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The Life-Giving Church

By: Ted Haggard

Pastor Ted Haggard combines the spiritual with the practical to show how any pastor or church leader can bring new life to their church, equipping the congregation to do the work of the ministry.

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Regal Books

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0830721355

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9780830721351

Reds

McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America

By: Ted Morgan

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McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America

By: Ted Morgan

In this landmark work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan examines the McCarthyite strain in American politics, from its origins in the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Morgan argues that Senator Joseph McCarthy did not emerge in a vacuum—he was, rather, the most prominent in a long line of men who exploited the issue of Communism for political advantage. In 1918, America invaded Russia in an attempt at regime change. Meanwhile, on the home front, the first of many congressional investigations of Communism was conducted. Anarchist bombs exploded from coast to coast, leading to the political repression of the Red Scare. Soviet subversion and espionage in the United States began in 1920, under the cover of a trade mission. Franklin Delano Roosevelt granted the Soviets diplomatic recognition in 1933, which gave them an opportunity to expand their spy networks by using their embassy and consulates as espionage hubs. Simultaneously, the American Communist Party provided a recruitment pool for homegrown spies. Martin Dies, Jr., the first congressman to make his name as a Red hunter, developed solid information on Communist subversion through his Un-American Activities Committee. However, its hearings were marred by partisan attacks on the New Deal, presaging McCarthy. The most pervasive period of Soviet espionage came during World War II, when Russia, as an ally of the United States, received military equipment financed under the policy of lend-lease. It was then that highly placed spies operated inside the U.S. government and in America’s nuclear facilities. Thanks to the Venona transcripts of KGB cable traffic, we now have a detailed account of wartime Soviet espionage, down to the marital problems of Soviet spies and the KGB’s abject efforts to capture deserting Soviet seamen on American soil. During the Truman years, Soviet espionage was in disarray following the defections of Elizabeth Bentley and Igor Gouzenko. The American Communist Party was much diminished by a number of measures, including its expulsion from the labor unions, the prosecution of its leaders under the Smith Act, and the weeding out, under Truman’s loyalty program, of subversives in government. As Morgan persuasively establishes, by the time McCarthy exploited the Red issue in 1950, the battle against Communists had been all but won by the Truman administration. In this bold narrative history, Ted Morgan analyzes the paradoxical culture of fear that seized a nation at the height of its power. Using Joseph McCarthy’s previously unavailable private papers and recently released transcripts of closed hearings of McCarthy’s investigations subcommittee, Morgan provides many new insights into the notorious Red hunter’s methods and motives. Full of drama and intrigue, finely etched portraits, and political revelations, Reds brings to life a critical period in American history that has profound relevance to our own time.

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0307766012

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Book's by Ted Morgan

Morgan's Got Game

Morgan's Got Game

Morgan's Pet Plot

Morgan's Pet Plot

The Strange Death of Vincent Van Gogh

The Strange Death of Vincent Van Gogh

The Great American History Fact-finder

The Great American History Fact-finder

My Battle of Algiers

My Battle of Algiers

Valley of Death

Valley of Death

A Covert Life

A Covert Life

Maugham

Maugham

Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys

Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys

Hard Road to Gettysburg

Hard Road to Gettysburg

Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Forbes Book of Business Quotations

The Life-Giving Church

The Life-Giving Church

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