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Horton Halfpott

Or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset

By: Tom Angleberger

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Horton Halfpott

Or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset

By: Tom Angleberger

A servant boy becomes an unlikely hero when a thief strikes in this humorous historical mystery by the author of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. There are so many exciting things in this book—a Stolen Diamond, snooping stable boys, a famous detective, love, pickle éclairs—that it really does seem a shame to begin with ladies’ underwear . . . It all starts when M’Lady Luggertuck loosens her corset. As a result of “the Loosening,” all the strict rules around Smugwick Manor are abandoned. Shelves go undusted! Cake is eaten! Lunch is lukewarm! Then, when the precious family heirloom, the Luggertuck Lump (quite literally a lump), goes missing, the Luggertucks search for someone to blame. Could the thief really be Horton Halfpott, the good-natured but lowly kitchen boy who can’t tell a lie? A colorful and hilarious cast comes together in this entertaining mystery, Tom Angleberger’s loopiest novel yet! Praise for Horton Halfpott “A positively gleeful historical mystery farce. . . . A satirical homage to Dickens by way of Pratchett and Snicket. Short chapters, a fast pace and plenty of linguistic and slapstistic humor will have young readers hoping that a sequel is planned. The scribbly pen-and-ink chapter-heading cartoon illustrations are just icing on the cake—or pickle éclair. A romp from start to finish.” —Kirkus Reviews “Angleberger delivers many spoonfuls of sugar alongside the moral of this Victorian fable.” —Shelf-Awareness “Readers are in for a treat.” —Publishers Weekly

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ABRAMS

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1613121490

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9781613121498

The Road to Cooperstown

A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime

By: Tom Stanton

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The Road to Cooperstown

A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime

By: Tom Stanton

From the author of "The Final Season" comes a true bonding experience at the heart of this book about baseball, family, the Hall of Fame, and the town with which it shares a rich heritage. Photos.

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Macmillan

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0312331185

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9780312331184

Agrarian Reform And Rural Poverty

A Case Study Of Peru

By: Tom Alberts

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Agrarian Reform And Rural Poverty

A Case Study Of Peru

By: Tom Alberts

Based on extensive data for land ownership, income distribution, and agricultural production, this book assesses Peru's experience with development planning since 1950 and discusses efforts to improve the standard of living of its rural population through changes in agrarian structure. .

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Routledge

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0429697015

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9780429697012

Colleen Dewhurst

By: Tom Viola,Colleen Dewhurst

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Colleen Dewhurst

By: Tom Viola,Colleen Dewhurst

When brilliant actress Colleen Dewhurst died of cancer in 1991, she left behind the almost completed draft of this warm and funny autobiography. Finished after her death by longtime friend Tom Viola, this buoyant portrait sparkles with anecdotes about many great names in entertainment and is filled with the passion and humor which marked Dewhurst's vital life. of photos.

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Simon and Schuster

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074324270X

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9780743242707

Spills and Spin

The Inside Story of BP

By: Tom Bergin

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Spills and Spin

The Inside Story of BP

By: Tom Bergin

In April 2010, the world watched in alarm as BP's Macondo well suffered a fatal explosion and a catastrophic leak. Over the next three months, amid tense scenes of corporate and political finger-pointing, millions of barrels of crude oil dispersed across the Gulf of Mexico in what became one of the worst oil spills in history. But there is more to BP's story than this. Tom Bergin, an oil broker turned Reuters reporter, watched the 'two-pipeline company' of the early 1980s grow into a dynamic oil giant and PR machine by the turn of the twenty-first century. His unique access to key figures before, during and after the spill - including former CEO Tony Hayward - has enabled him to piece together this compelling account of a corporation in crisis, and to examine how crucial decisions made during BP's remarkable turnaround paved the way for its darkest hour.

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Random House

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1446457087

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Stalking Los Angeles

Finding Courage and Love in the Madness

By: Tom Berquist

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Stalking Los Angeles

Finding Courage and Love in the Madness

By: Tom Berquist

Stalking Los Angeles is a gripping, coming of age tale of a contemporary Native American boy who is seeking to reconnect with his ancient tribal roots a Reggie goes on a vision quest to discover his ‘power animal’ that could help him deal with his domineering dad, the school bully and losing his girlfriend. When his father leaves to fight in Iraq, the family is forced to move into the big city. At the same time, a young mountain lion, known to conservationists, miraculously jumps over two freeways and enters the megalopolis. “Here’s where fiction and fact collide,” says Tom Berquist, the author. “The parallel challenges that the real lion faces are harrowing, but true and written from inside the animal’s skin.” Both young and adult readers will be captivated by the suspense; wondering and worrying how their two lives will intersect. If you like exciting stories about animals with a paranormal, mystery twist and, an educational foundation, you’ll love this book. Go to www.MountainLionLA.com or to Tom Berquist, Author – Novels about nature and wildlife (tomberquist-author.com) to learn more. If you purchase the book, you will be helping to protect our lions. The author is donating 25% of all profits to wildlife conservation and to building a wildlife corridor into the Santa Monica Mountains: http://www.samofund.org/santa-monica-mountains-wildlife-preservation/park-connectivity-wildlife-corridor/

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Tom Berquist

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0972137955

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9780972137959

I Lived to Tell It All

By: George Jones,Tom Carter

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I Lived to Tell It All

By: George Jones,Tom Carter

Boozing. Womanizing. Brawling. Singing. For the last forty years George Jones has reigned as the country's king--the singer many have called the Frank Sinatra of country. And for most of that time, his career has been marked by hard-living, hard-loving, and hard luck. From his early east Texas recordings through his marriage with Tammy Wynette to his latest acclaim as a solid citizen and "high-tech red-neck," Americans have been fascinated with Jones, never even knowing whether he's going to show up for his next concert. Now, in I Lived To Tell It All, George Jones supplies a no-holds-barred account of his excesses and ecstasies. How alcohol ruled his life and performances. How violence marred many friendships and relationships. How money was something to be made but never held on to. And, finally, how the love of a good woman can ultimately change a man, redeem him, and save his life.

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Dell

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0804180865

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9780804180863

Broken Scales

Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America

By: Tom Diaz

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Broken Scales

Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America

By: Tom Diaz

Humans are a species that classifies. We arrange the flow of the things and events that we see and experience, place them into categories, and erect boundaries around those categories. Among the boundaries that we erect are those that we put around groups of “other” human beings. The evil side of human classification of other human beings is that we sometimes create false categories of other people, as is often the case in racial, ethnic, and religious stereotypes. This unmindful creation of empty categories of human characteristics is what happened during two periods crucial to the construction of race in America. This is racism. The United States is in a period of deep cultural flux and conflict, much of it seen through the lens of race. Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen’s arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538138514

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9781538138519

Election 2012: A Time for Choosing (The RealClearPolitics Political Download)

By: Tom Bevan,Carl M. Cannon

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Election 2012: A Time for Choosing (The RealClearPolitics Political Download)

By: Tom Bevan,Carl M. Cannon

Real Clear Politics’ in-depth account of the 2012 primary battles of the Republican Party and the look ahead to the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama With intimate access to the White House, GOP candidates, and their campaign staffs, Real Clear Politics is the latest in a series of e-originals written by veteran RCP journalists Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon. With up-to-the-minute newsbreaking material, Real Clear Politics gives an insider’s perspective on the many struggles the candidates had over the course of the primaries, including Romney’s inability to put away his competition; how Gingrich, a great counterpuncher in debates, ultimately was done in by an inability to defend himself; the unlikely success of Rick Santorum, who later became a lightning rod for critics over social issues; and the “kitchen sink” approach that Obama’s message team is adopting for attacking Romney. All of these key moments and issues, as well as a careful survey of the terrain ahead for the general election (the challenges and strategies for both candidates and the latest insights into Romney’s possible vice presidential nominee), are sure to make Real Clear Politics the must-read ebook for understanding the 2012 campaign.

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Crown

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0307986632

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9780307986634

We Could Be

Bowie and his Heroes

By: Tom Hagler

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We Could Be

Bowie and his Heroes

By: Tom Hagler

*** With consultant editor Tony Visconti. David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this. Tracing the star's encounters with fellow icons throughout his life, We Could Be offers a new history of Bowie, collecting 300 short stories that together paint a portrait of humour, humility, compassion, tragedy and more besides. He embarrasses himself in front of Lennon and Warhol. He saves the life of Nina Simone. He is hated by Bob Dylan. He teaches Michael Jackson the moonwalk. Individually astonishing, together these stories - including details never before revealed - build a new picture of Bowie, one which shows his vulnerability, his sense of humour, his inner diva. Exhaustively researched from thousands of sources by BBC reporter and Bowie obsessive Tom Hagler - with the guidance and memories of Bowie's long-time producer Tony Visconti - We Could Be is fascinating, comic, compelling, and a history of Bowie unlike any that has come before.

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178840274X

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9781788402743

Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters

What Harper Lee's Book and the Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today

By: Tom Santopietro

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Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters

What Harper Lee's Book and the Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today

By: Tom Santopietro

Illuminates the enduring relevance of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in racially torn America, tracing the writing of the book and the creation of its film while sharing insights into its controversies and legacy.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250163757

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9781250163752

A History of Westfield, Indiana: The Promise of the Land

By: Tom Rumer

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A History of Westfield, Indiana: The Promise of the Land

By: Tom Rumer

Founded in 1834 by a small group of Quakers protesting human slavery in the South, Westfield and Washington Township served as an important home station on the Underground Railroad. Shortly after black emancipation, residents rallied to promote racial equality and harmonious living, helping to curtail the clout of the Ku Klux Klan. Van Camp Company, once the largest local employer, provided pork and beans for thousands of troops entrenched in World War I, and the community's strong agricultural tradition sustained the town through the Great Depression. Author and historian Tom Rumer chronicles the challenges of growth and change in this history of Westfield and Washington Township.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625849338

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9781625849335

Hunters and Collectors

The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia

By: Tom Griffiths

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Hunters and Collectors

The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia

By: Tom Griffiths

Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521483492

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9780521483490

Ernie Harwell

My 60 Years in Baseball

By: Tom Keegan

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Ernie Harwell

My 60 Years in Baseball

By: Tom Keegan

When the Tigers roar, only Ernie Harwell's smooth southern voice can be heard above the din. After 42 years as the Voice of the Detroit Tigers, Harwell will retire once the 2002 season ends. The only play-by-play broadcaster to cover games in seven decades, Harwell has seen (and has a story about) everyone from Babe Ruth to Ichiro Suzuki.

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Triumph Books

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161749061X

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9781617490613

Da Nang Diary

A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG

By: Tom Yarborough

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Da Nang Diary

A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG

By: Tom Yarborough

“[An] intimate account of a Forward Air Controller working with the Special Forces on their secret operations in South Vietnam and Laos . . . Don’t miss it!” (John Prados, author of Storm Over Leyte). Originally published in 1991, this classic work has now been revised and updated with additional photos. It is the story of how, in Vietnam, an elite group of Air Force pilots fought a secret air war in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes—flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and destruction down on enemy positions, the forward air controller made an art form out of an air strike—knowing the targets, knowing where friendly troops were, and reacting with split-second, life-and-death decisions as a battle unfolded. The expertise of the low, slow FACs, as well as the hazard attendant to their role, made for a unique bird’s-eye perspective on how the entire war in Vietnam unfolded. For Tom Yarborough, who logged 1,500 hours of combat flying time, the risk was constant, intense, and electrifying. A member of the super-secret “Prairie Fire” unit, Yarborough became one of the most frequently shot-up pilots flying out of Da Nang—engaging in a series of dangerous secret missions in Laos. In this work, the reader flies in the cockpit alongside Yarborough in his adrenaline-pumping chronicle of heroism, danger, and wartime brotherhood. From the rescuing of downed pilots to taking out enemy positions, to the most harrowing extended missions directly overhead of the NVA, here is the dedication, courage and skill of the fliers who took the war into the enemy’s backyard.

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Open Road Media

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1480445754

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9781480445758

Magnolia Elegy: Place In the Edisto Fork

By: Tom T Traywick

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Magnolia Elegy: Place In the Edisto Fork

By: Tom T Traywick

Magnolia Elegy pays homage to an Agrarian time and place. It tells of the passing of that Time and the loss of that Place—undespairing, seeking no pity—through the eyes of the writer, the third generation of his placeholder family. It is memoir of a Place in the Lowcountry, and the inhabitants: animal, vegetable, and human—and how the land shaped them as they strove to shape the land. The storyteller tells tales from the family oral tradition, and from the early writings of family members. He tells stories from his own memory and from theirs. He tells the stories that aren’t already lost, and alludes to those that have been lost. Throughout the telling he threads recognition of the unreliable nature of memory, particularly within family dynamic and dysfunction (coming to terms with a parent). And, so goes five generations of story, seeded with the hopeful wisdom of the old ones, informed by reading and travel, presided over by Thomas—the elder—and his code of self-serving. The setting is a Place on the Orangeburg Scarp, in the plain of the Edisto River fork. The telling includes the lay of the land, the fields, the allure of the woods, the work performed, and the food—including recipes for the preparation of the mid-day meals. Included at the end of Magnolia Elegy are stories of frenetic travel after leaving the Place at midlife, and essays demonstrating the values earned from the Place and from its animal and human community. The structure of the book accommodates selective reading—it can effectively be read in any order, even backward.

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BookLocker.com

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1647199441

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9781647199449

The Final Season

Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark

By: Tom Stanton

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The Final Season

Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark

By: Tom Stanton

Tom Stanton's The Final Season offers a powerful memoir of fathers, sons, and the end of a baseball era. Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or Vin Scully called the plays on radio. Or maybe he coached your team or just played catch with you in the yard. Chances are good that if you're a baseball fan, your dad had something to do with it--and your thoughts of the sport evoke thoughts of him. If so, you will treasure The Final Season, a poignant true story about baseball and heroes, family and forgiveness, doubts and dreams, and a place that brings them all together. Growing up in the 60s and 70s, Tom Stanton lived for his Detroit Tigers. When Tiger Stadium began its 88th and final season, he vowed to attend all 81 home games in order to explore his attachment to the place where four generations of his family have shared baseball. Join him as he encounters idols, conjures decades past, and discovers the mysteries of a park where Cobb and Ruth played. Come along and sit beside Al Kaline on the dugout bench, eat popcorn with Elmore Leonard, hear Alice Cooper's confessions, soak up the warmth of Ernie Harwell, see McGwire and Ripken up close, and meet Chicken Legs Rau, Bleacher Pete, Al the Usher, and a parade of fans who are anything but ordinary. By the autumn of his odyssey, Stanton comes to realize that his anguish isn't just about the loss of a beloved ballpark but about his dad's mortality, for at the heart of this story is the love between fathers and sons--a theme that resonates with baseball fans of all ages.

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Macmillan

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1429981113

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9781429981118

Bill Monroe

The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man

By: Tom Ewing

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Bill Monroe

The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man

By: Tom Ewing

From cradle to great, the comprehensive real story of Bill Monroe The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry for over fifty years; a member of the Country Music, Songwriters, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame; and a legendary figure in American music. This authoritative biography sets out to examine his life in careful detail--to move beyond hearsay and sensationalism to explain how and why he accomplished so much. Former Blue Grass Boy and longtime music journalist Tom Ewing draws on hundreds of interviews, his personal relationship with Monroe, and an immense personal archive of materials to separate the truth from longstanding myth. Ewing tells the story of the Monroe family's musical household and Bill's early career in the Monroe Brothers duo. He brings to life Monroe's 1940s heyday with the Classic Bluegrass Band, the renewed fervor for his music sparked by the folk revival of the 1960s, and his declining fortunes in the years that followed. Throughout, Ewing deftly captures Monroe's relationships and the personalities of an ever-shifting roster of band members while shedding light on his business dealings and his pioneering work with Bean Blossom and other music festivals. Filled with a wealth of previously unknown details, Bill Monroe offers even the most devoted fan a deeper understanding of Monroe's towering achievements and timeless music.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050584

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9780252050589

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,Keith Carabine,Tom Hubbard,Lindy Stiebel

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

By: Ralph Pite,Keith Carabine,Tom Hubbard,Lindy Stiebel

This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040129218

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The House of Great Spirit

Six Stories

By: Tom Foran Clark

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The House of Great Spirit

Six Stories

By: Tom Foran Clark

The locales of these stories range from California and Utah to Massachusetts and Vermont. The characters seek a paradise of one kind or another but have to make do with the world such as it is -- and all attendant twists and turns. Had this book a motto, it would be, Dont let the bastards grind you down. In The House of Great Spirit, the title story in this collection, the narrator lives in a small room in a big three-story red brick boarding house in Salt Lake City where the live-in-manager was Jon Severs. Already, only in his mid-twenties, lanky Severs had found his calling. It was his job to scold the tenants at Jack Mead's house in Mead's stead to bawl them out. On rent day he went room to room to collect money. If you didn't pay at once, he screwed his face up in a look of almost crushing contempt. Though there are also incidences of grace, courage, and joy along the way, things generally go from bad to worse. They say its always good to touch bottom, in order to start over again. A female narrator once married to the character Eben Anders, admits there were times I wished we'd never met. When we did first meet, I fell for him. She tells the story of how, as a younger man, Eben had found a treasure not only of money, but also of revelations. Finding himself in the role of prophet, Eben was denounced as a madman, liar, scoundrel, false prophet, and the rest. He'd be accused of witchcraft, wizardry, demonism, and Freemasonry, with a mind to eventual world subjugation. He'd even be called the living Anti-Christ. Dont kill the messenger, is all Eben would ever say to all of that. They say you cant win for losing. His ex-wife, having divorced Eben and renounced Ebenism, is now accused of destroying uncounted sacred privileges and worlds and futures. Shes having none of that. In With a View to The Sea, librarian Lars Donnelly tells the story of his voyage from his west coast roots to his marriage and years of parenting in the east. Lars had explained it to his wife, "I don't want my kids to be asking me in future years, 'What did you do in the Internet Revolution, daddy?' and have to tell them that I'd just played it safe. He proposes going, with his teenage son Sean, to an important conference, eBooks and Libraries, taking place in southern California, right on the oceanfront. They reached the convention center around half past eight, giving them plenty of time to take advantage of the free Continental Breakfast while hobnobbing, or not, with the growing throngs of librarians, library trustees, heads of library Friends groups, chief executive officers, directors of operations, product managers, senior and junior business development managers, senior and junior systems analysts, and a broad swath of consultants, hackers, geeks, and gawkers. And maybe a ghost from the past. They say what goes around comes around, but what could possibly go wrong?

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151440172X

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Do No Harm

By: Tom B. Stone

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Do No Harm

By: Tom B. Stone

Doctor Gideon Teague is ready to call it quits as he nears the end of his medical training. Years of continuous hard work and the specter of tragedy following him from his time as a Marine have taken a heavy toll and his physical and emotional reserves are spent. In the nick of time, an opportunity for a mission trip to Honduras seems like just the ticket to rekindle a long dead spark of passion and adventure; and to escape the day-to-day drudgery of his life as a resident physician. While there, he and a pragmatic service missionary named Eliza are violently sucked into the vast criminal underworld infecting the region. To save themselves from being trafficked, Gideon will have to embrace the military experience he’d forsaken and confront the ghosts that drove him away. Will it be enough, or will he lose what little of his self-identity remains?

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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Rebel King

The Making of a Monarch

By: Tom Bower

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Rebel King

The Making of a Monarch

By: Tom Bower

This unauthorized biography of King Charles III follows his twenty-year struggle with his public image in the wake of Diana’s death. Numerous challenges face King Charles III as he succeeds his mother to the throne of the United Kingdom. While Elizabeth II had a long history of uniting her people, Charles has always been less popular and often divisive. Following Princess Diana’s death, his approval rating plummeted to four percent—the lowest for any royal in recent times. Charles’s public support improved following his marriage to Camilla, but how was he able to turn things around? And what sort of monarch will he be? In Rebel King, investigative journalist and historian Tom Bower chronicles two dramatic decades of King Charles’s life. He examines Charles’s battle for rehabilitation after Diana’s death and his refusal to obey the public’s expectations of a future king. This book gathers testimonies from more than 120 individuals, many of whom served the royals for long periods and with great distinction. The result reveals dramatic secrets and offers an unrivalled, intimate portrait of the man, the heir, and the making of a king. Previously published as Rebel Prince. Praise for Rebel King “A devastating book by Britain’s top investigative author.” —Daily Mail “Explosive . . . delves inside the bizarre, ultra luxury world of Prince Charles.” —The Sun “There is more than enough carping, cosseting and cattiness here to satisfy any appetite for royal intrigue.” —The Sunday Times

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Open Road Media

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1504084764

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9781504084765

Liberal Peace and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa

By: Patrick Tom

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Liberal Peace and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa

By: Patrick Tom

The book makes theoretical and empirical contributions to recent debates on hybrid forms of peace and ‘post-liberal’ peace. In applying concepts of power, hybridity and resistance, and providing different kinds of hybridity and resistance to explore post-conflict peacebuilding in Sierra Leone, the author makes an original contribution to existing literature by providing various ways in which power can be exercised not just between locals and internationals, but also among locals themselves and the nature of peace that is produced. This volume provides various ways in which hybridity and resistance can be manifested. A more rigorous development of these concepts not only offers a better understanding of the nature of these concepts, but also helps us to distinguish forms of hybridity and resistance that are emancipatory or transformatory from those that result in people accommodating themselves to their situation. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, International Relations and African Studies, and practitioners of peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction.

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1137572914

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Haunted Colleges and Universities

Creepy Campuses, Scary Scholars, and Deadly Dorms

By: Tom Ogden

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Haunted Colleges and Universities

Creepy Campuses, Scary Scholars, and Deadly Dorms

By: Tom Ogden

Among our country's treasures are its colleges and universities, meccas of culture and higher learning--and paranormal activity. Haunted Colleges and Universities, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings at colleges and universities, will leave readers delightfully frightened.

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Weather and Climate of the Reno-Carson City-Lake Tahoe Region

By: Brian O'Hara,Gary Barbato,John James,Heather Angeloff,Tom Cylke

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Weather and Climate of the Reno-Carson City-Lake Tahoe Region

By: Brian O'Hara,Gary Barbato,John James,Heather Angeloff,Tom Cylke

A comprehensive summary of air temperature, rain and snow, wind, humidity, wildfires, and floods in the Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe region since records began in 1850. This information is presented in text, graphs, and photos, and is supported by explanations of weather phenomena, a glossary, and numerous photos in color and and black and white. Click on the links below to see some of the key pages.

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1888035110

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Irish Income Tax 2022

By: Tom Maguire

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Irish Income Tax 2022

By: Tom Maguire

The Bible of Irish income tax ...", Irish Independent, 28 January 2018. This annual publication on Irish income tax is the long-established leading authority in the area. This tax essential, formerly known as Judge, is the leading income tax book for tax practitioners, accountants and tax lawyers. Indispensable in practice, it will help you to apply the relevant legislation with ease and precision. It provides a complete analysis of the principles and practice of income tax in the Republic of Ireland. It also provides an examination of recent key decisions by the courts both in Ireland and in the UK, as well as by the Tax Appeal Commissioners. This new edition is updated to Finance Act 2021.

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Cloak of Enemies

Churchill's SOE, Enemies at Home and the Cockleshell Heroes

By: Tom Keene

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Cloak of Enemies

Churchill's SOE, Enemies at Home and the Cockleshell Heroes

By: Tom Keene

SOE was born from Churchill’s vision to set ‘Europe ablaze’. However, Tom Keene’s book reveals for the first time how close it came to never existing at all. Many saw SOE as a threat to the existence of MI5 and other intelligence agencies, and some in the armed forces refused to work with the new agency, fearing its broad remit and lack of experienced operatives. SOE, in turn, became ever more secretive, hiding details of their operations from anyone outside the agency. This backstabbing climate of rivalry, confusion and secrecy, not only nearly destroyed SOE, but also had tragic repercussions for the daring Commandos who took part in the legendary ‘Cockleshell Raid’.Cloak of Enemies exposes the secret war within Whitehall and its far-reaching consequences.

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The History Press

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0752483757

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The Writer's Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Tom Roston

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The Writer's Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Tom Roston

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memory Kurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a slaughterhouse called Schlachthof Fünf where he survived the horrific firebombing that killed thousands and destroyed the city. To the millions of fans of Vonnegut’s great novel Slaughterhouse-Five, these details are familiar. They’re told by the book’s author/narrator, and experienced by his enduring character Billy Pilgrim, a war veteran who “has come unstuck in time.” Writing during the tumultuous days of the Vietnam conflict, with the novel, Vonnegut had, after more than two decades of struggle, taken trauma and created a work of art, one that still resonates today. In The Writer’s Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut’s life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Did Vonnegut suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Did Billy Pilgrim? Roston probes Vonnegut’s work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel, as well as original interviews with the writer’s family, friends, scholars, psychologists, and other novelists including Karl Marlantes, Kevin Powers, and Tim O’Brien. The Writer’s Crusade is a literary and biographical journey that asks fundamental questions about trauma, creativity, and the power of storytelling.

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Abrams

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1683359240

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Realising Participation

Elderly People as Active Users of Health and Social Care

By: Kathryn Roberts,Tom Chapman

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Realising Participation

Elderly People as Active Users of Health and Social Care

By: Kathryn Roberts,Tom Chapman

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health and social care services should regard and treat recipients as 'consumers' in the same way as companies and organizations in the private sector. This involves a considerable cultural change on the part of both service providers and their clients, and this timely study explores the extent to which such a cultural change is actually taking place in British society. The utilization of welfare services by a sample of people aged 70 and above on discharge from inpatient care and in a short period afterwards is examined as a critical testbed for key components of consumerism, including participation, representation, access, choice, information and redress. The book explores not only the extent to which opportunities are being provided for users to play an active role in their care, but also their degree of willingness to assume such a role. By investigating the experiences of clients from a generation which might be considered relatively resistant to a more active participation in health and social care, the study offers an important insight into the extent to which a real social transformation is indeed taking place in the British welfare services.

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Routledge

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1351787799

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The Chesapeake in Focus

Transforming the Natural World

By: Tom Pelton

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Transforming the Natural World

By: Tom Pelton

Looking to the future, Pelton offers a provocative vision of the hard steps that must be taken if we truly want to save the Bay.

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JHU Press

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1421424762

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Dial M for Murdoch

News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain

By: Tom Watson,Martin Hickman

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Dial M for Murdoch

News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain

By: Tom Watson,Martin Hickman

Dial M for Murdoch uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous, secretive influence on public life in Britain, how it used its huge power to bully, intimidate and cover up, and how its exposure has changed the way we look at our politicians, our police service and our press. Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers had been hacking phones and casually destroying people’s lives for years, but it was only after a trivial report about Prince William’s knee in 2005 that detectives stumbled on a criminal conspiracy. A five-year cover-up then concealed and muddied the truth. Dial M for Murdoch gives the first connected account of the extraordinary lengths to which the Murdochs’ News Corporation went to “put the problem in a box” (in James Murdoch’s words), how its efforts to maintain and extend its power were aided by its political and police friends, and how it was finally exposed. The book details the smears and threats against politicians, journalists and lawyers. It reveals the existence of brave insiders who pointed those pursuing the investigation towards pieces of secret information that cracked open the case. By contrast, many of the main players in the book are unsavory, but by the end of it you have a clear idea of what they did. Seeing the story whole, as it is presented here for the first time, allows the character of the organisation which it portrays to emerge unmistakably. You will hardly believe it.

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Penguin

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110160137X

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Jake Kelley: Hoosier Point Guard

By: Tom Williamson

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Jake Kelley: Hoosier Point Guard

By: Tom Williamson

As a teenager, were you ever the NEW KID on the block? Even the thought of that situation starts to generate feelings of insecurity and cause anxieties to flood in. Take that circumstance, add a number of other teenage issues and you have the backdrop for Jake Kelley, Hoosier Point Guard the compelling, exciting, heart-warming story of a teenager who finds himself facing a number of "coming-of-age" issues that are so familiar to all of us as we navigate that unique period of our lives. It is a fun, easy-reading journey penned by author Tom Williamson, a veteran coach with more than 40 years of junior and senior high school coaching experience as well as a state championship-winning coach in two sports. Coach Williamson taps into his own background and experience as a youngster growing up in "basketball crazy" Indiana, then utilizes his championship coaching knowledge to create a smooth-flowing narrative that connects with teen readers of all ages. As a championship winner, Coach Williamson is noted for his meticulous preparation and attention to detail, traits that are evident in this fun-to-read, feel-good story which is sure to leave a smile on the faces of the readers.

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Perfect Bound Marketing + Press

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1939614880

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Haunted Hotels

Eerie Inns, Ghoulish Guests, and Creepy Caretakers

By: Tom Ogden

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Haunted Hotels

Eerie Inns, Ghoulish Guests, and Creepy Caretakers

By: Tom Ogden

Haunted Hotels comprises more than two dozen tales of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and other spooky happenings at hotels, inns, and rooming houses across America and around the world. Tom Ogden, author of four other books in the Haunted series, also provides information for readers who wish to check in and check out the spirits themselves . . . if they dare.

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1493046934

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Barn Find Road Trip

3 Guys, 14 Days and 1000 Lost Collector Cars Discovered

By: Tom Cotter

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Barn Find Road Trip

3 Guys, 14 Days and 1000 Lost Collector Cars Discovered

By: Tom Cotter

Follow 3 guys as they embark on a real-world collector car hunting road trip. You'll love the stories of their adventure & the gorgeous photos of their finds.

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Motorbooks International

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0760349401

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Joy in Tiger Town

A Determined Team, a Resilient City, and our Magical Run to the 1968 World Series

By: Tom Gage,Mickey Lolich,Jim Leyland

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Joy in Tiger Town

A Determined Team, a Resilient City, and our Magical Run to the 1968 World Series

By: Tom Gage,Mickey Lolich,Jim Leyland

The 1968 World Series remains one of the most iconic in major league history. Featuring Bob Gibson in MVP form, Al Kaline, and Mickey Lolich, it was baseball at its best. Told with the vibrant first-hand perspective of Lolich himself and the expertise of award-winning Detroit journalist Tom Gage, this is the remarkable saga of that 1968 season which culminated in Tigers glory. Incorporating new reflections from players and personnel, Joy in Tigertown traces such achievements as Denny McClain's 31-win season as well as the remarkable slugging performances of Kaline, Norm Cash, Willie Horton, and Bill Freehan.

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Triumph Books

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1641250402

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Big 50: Detroit Tigers

The Men and Moments that Made the Detroit Tigers

By: Tom Gage,Alan Trammell

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Big 50: Detroit Tigers

The Men and Moments that Made the Detroit Tigers

By: Tom Gage,Alan Trammell

The Big 50: Detroit Tigers: The Men and Moments that Made the Detroit Tigers is an amazing, full-color look at the 50 men and moments that made the Tigers the Tigers. Award-winning beat writer Tom Gage recounts the living history of the Tigers, counting down from No. 50 to No. 1. Big 50: Tigers brilliantly brings to life the Tigers' remarkable story, from Ty Cobb and Kirk Gibson to the rollercoaster that was the "Bless You Boys" era to Justin Verlander's no-hitters and up to today.

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1633197948

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