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Blockbuster

How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer

By: Tom Shone

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Blockbuster

How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer

By: Tom Shone

But somewhere along the line, the beast they awakened took on a life of its own, and by the 1990s production budgets had escalated as quickly as profits. Hollywood entered a topsy-turvy world ruled by marketing and merchandising mavens, in which flops like Godzilla made money and hits had to break records just to break even. The blockbuster changed from a major event that took place a few times a year into something that audiences have come to expect weekly, piling into the backs of one another in an annual demolition derby that has left even Hollywood aghast.".

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Simon and Schuster

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0743235681

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9780743235686

The Nolan Variations

The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan

By: Tom Shone

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The Nolan Variations

The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan

By: Tom Shone

An in-depth look at Christopher Nolan, considered to be the most profound, commercially successful director at work today, written with his full cooperation. A rare, revelatory portrait, "as close as you're ever going to get to the Escher drawing that is Christopher Nolan's remarkable brain" (Sam Mendes). In chapters structured by themes and motifs ("Time"; "Chaos"; "Dreams"), Shone offers an unprecedented intimate view of the director. Shone explores Nolan's thoughts on his influences, his vision, his enigmatic childhood past--and his movies, from plots and emotion to identity and perception, including his latest blockbuster, the action-thriller/spy-fi Tenet ("Big, brashly beautiful, grandiosely enjoyable"--Variety). Filled with the director's never-before-seen photographs, storyboards, and scene sketches, here is Nolan on the evolution of his pictures, and the writers, artists, directors, and thinkers who have inspired and informed his films. "Fabulous: intelligent, illuminating, rigorous, and highly readable. The very model of what a filmmaking study should be. Essential reading for anyone who cares about Nolan or about film for that matter."--Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood and Walt Disney, The Biography

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Knopf

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0525655336

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9780525655336

The Nolan Variations

Free Ebook Sampler

By: Tom Shone

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The Nolan Variations

Free Ebook Sampler

By: Tom Shone

**FREE EBOOK SAMPLER*** A rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood's reigning 'blockbuster auteur' whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since Alfred Hitchcock. 'A masterclass . . . brilliant. Immersive, detailed, meticulous, privileged inside-dope.' - Craig Raine More than just the tinkerings of a glass watchmaker, Christopher Nolan's films have an unerring grasp of the way time makes us feel. Time steals people away in his films, and he takes careful note of the theft. Time is Nolan's great antagonist, his lifelong nemesis. He seems almost to take it personally. Written with the full cooperation of Nolan himself, who granted Tom Shone access to never-before-seen photographs, storyboards and sketches, the book is a deep-dive into the director's films, influences, methods and obsessions. Here for the first time is Nolan on his dislocated, transatlantic childhood, how he dreamed up the plot of Inception lying awake one night in his dorm at school, his colour-blindness and its effect on Memento, his obsession with puzzles and optical illusions - and much, much more. Written by one of our most penetrating critics, The Nolan Variations is a landmark study of one of the twenty-first century's most dazzling cinematic artists.

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Faber & Faber

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0571367291

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9780571367290

In the Rooms

By: Tom Shone

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In the Rooms

By: Tom Shone

Taking an embarrassing job in New York that sharply contrasts with his ambitions, a London literary agent meets a legendary novelist at an AA meeting and begins enjoying success and popularity, a situation throughout which he hides the truth about not being an alcoholic.

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Macmillan

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0312622783

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9780312622787

The Tilian Effect

By: Tom Calen

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The Tilian Effect

By: Tom Calen

A group of survivors battles the chaos unleashed by an insidious infection in this horror thriller by the author of The Tilian Virus . . . Solace. Shelter. Safety. For the survivors of the Tilian Virus, they thought their escape would lead them to a new beginning. But the effects of the virus reach far beyond simply infection. A trusted member of the survivors hides a horrible past. Meanwhile, in the wastelands of America, a new threat grows. The bonds of friendship strain and shatter. And the Tils become more deadly than ever . . . The virus was just the beginning. Now the world must face the Tilian Effect.

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Permuted Press+ORM

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1618680935

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9781618680938

Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–20

William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale / Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

By: lian goodall,Marguerite Paulin,Francine Legaré,Gary Evans,Deborah Cowley,Tom Shardlow,Heather Kirk,Anne Cimon,André Vanasse

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Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–20

William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale / Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

By: lian goodall,Marguerite Paulin,Francine Legaré,Gary Evans,Deborah Cowley,Tom Shardlow,Heather Kirk,Anne Cimon,André Vanasse

Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential politicians Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Premiers René Lévesque and Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorers Samuel de Champlain and David Thompson; National Film Board founder John Grierson; medical humanitarian Lucille Teasdale; and renowned writers Mazo de la Roche, Susanna Moodie, and Gabrielle Roy. Includes Willam Lyon Mackenzie King René Lévesque Maurice Duplessis Samuel de Champlain David Thompson John Grierson Lucille Teasdale Susanna Moodie Gabrielle Roy Mazo de la Roche

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Dundurn

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1459724372

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9781459724372

Guerilla Days in Ireland

By: Tom Barry

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Guerilla Days in Ireland

By: Tom Barry

First published in 1949, 'Guerilla Days in Ireland' is an extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence and the fight between two unequal forces, which ended in the withdrawal of the British from twenty-six counties. Seven weeks before the Truce of July 1921, the British presence in County Cork consisted of a total of over 12,500 men. Against these British forces stood the Irish Republican Army whose flying columns never exceeded 310 riflemen in the whole of the county. These flying columns were small groups of dedicated Volunteers, severely commanded and disciplined. Constantly on the move, their paramount objective was merely to exist, to strike when conditions were favourable and to avoid disaster at all costs. In 'Guerilla Days in Ireland' Tom Barry describes the setting up of the West Cork flying column, its training and the plan of campaign, which he implemented. In particular he gives his account of the Kilmichael ambush, one of the most controversial episodes of the War of Independence.

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Mercier Press Ltd

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1856357236

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9781856357234

The Right Stuff

By: Tom Wolfe

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The Right Stuff

By: Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429961325

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9781429961325

Governing Systems

Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910

By: Tom Crook

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Governing Systems

Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910

By: Tom Crook

When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook re-examines this key question in the context of Victorian and Edwardian England, long regarded as one of the 'homes' of modern public health. The modernity of modern public health, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of a centralized, bureaucratic and disciplinary State, but in the contested formation and intricate functioning of systems of governing, from the administrative to the technological. Equally, we need to embrace a dialectical understanding of modern governance, one that is rooted in the interaction of multiple levels, agents and times. Theoretically ambitious, but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520290356

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9780520290358

Touching Eternity

The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching

By: Tom Barone

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Touching Eternity

The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching

By: Tom Barone

touching eternity explores how teachers can make a long-term impact on the lives of their students. Written in an accessible narrative style, this case study of one high school art teacher and his former students invites readers to engage in fundamental and essential issues in teaching as well as in educational research. Rather than drawing conclusions, this book is uniquely designed to raise questions about the consequences of teaching and learning. “An extraordinary accomplishment. I know of no other book like it in the field of education. Its pages reflect Dewey’s observation that one of the greatest of educational fallacies is that the student learns only what he or she is being taught at the time.... This book breaks new ground.” —Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art, Stanford University “The strength of this masterfully written book lies in its determinate inconclusiveness. It leaves many questions hauntingly unanswered so that they continue to gnaw at the reader long after the book has been put down...Barone skillfully encourages teachers to debate these questions and interrogate these themes. touching eternity is a book that demands our attention.” —Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, and author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution “Now more than ever, we need a book that shows us the subtle but long-term effects of a teacher who tells students, ‘Follow your heart.’” —Susan Ohanian, author of Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard Kids and a Killing Curriculum

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Teachers College Press

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0807774448

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9780807774441

The Ragged Man

Book Four of The Twilight Reign

By: Tom Lloyd

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The Ragged Man

Book Four of The Twilight Reign

By: Tom Lloyd

There is a new Saviour in the Land - but the people may come to regret the 'peace' he offers ... Lord Isak is dead, his armies and entire tribe in disarray. It falls to King Emin to continue the war alone, and the Menin are only too happy to meet his challenge. In Byora, Ruhen is developing his 'Saviour' persona. The Harlequins start preaching in his name and many of the pilgrims who flock to him are recruited to be 'Children', disciples who spread Ruhen's message. All over the Land people are starting to see Ruhen as the answer to their troubles. A showdown is coming: battle lines are finally drawn and the atrocities quickly mount. The spectre of the Great War looms, but in this age the Gods cannot and will not come to King Emin's aid. With the peoples of the Land turning against Emin and his few remaining allies, their only chance for survival lies in the hands of a dead man.

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Gollancz

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0575088869

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9780575088863

Court of the Dead: Rise of the Reaper General

An Illustrated Novel

By: Beatrice van Slee,Tom Gilliland

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Court of the Dead: Rise of the Reaper General

An Illustrated Novel

By: Beatrice van Slee,Tom Gilliland

Embark on a journey through the darkly bizarre and magical Underworld in this gorgeously illustrated origin story. In the dark fantasy universe of Court of the Dead, the savage war between Heaven and Hell is a futile stalemate fueled by the souls of mortals, whose purpose of existence has been twisted into nothing more than raw material for the harvest. Yet in seeking to transcend his grim duty in order to return meaning and inspiration to the cosmos, Death and his Court are cast as humanity's unlikely saviors. Into this dramatic setting are born Demithyle and his fellow reapers, whose first task is to confront the ever-advancing scourge of the vicious bael reiver hordes, ravenous and destructive wraiths who threaten to destroy the Underworld and end the Court's struggle before it begins. Join Demithyle as he evolves from humble foot soldier to reluctant captain, encountering many strange and wondrous characters and places, and finally accepts the mantle of the exalted Reaper General in order to lead to victory the Underworld's last, best hope for salvation.

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Simon and Schuster

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1683831241

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9781683831242

Scoop of the Year

By: Tom Claver

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Scoop of the Year

By: Tom Claver

Martin, a hapless journalist on a weekly financial magazine, sees his life take a nosedive with the arrival of Tom de Lacy, a well-heeled reporter who grabs the limelight, not to mention the well-paid industrial correspondent’s job that he has his eye on.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1788031091

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9781788031097

The Thing on the Shore

By: Tom Fletcher

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The Thing on the Shore

By: Tom Fletcher

The Thing on the Shore takes place in a call center in Whitehaven. When Artemis Black (from The Leaping) is assigned to manage the centre on behalf of a mysterious multinational corporation called Interext, the isolation and remoteness of the place encourage him to implement a decidedly unhinged personal project, installing what purports to be cutting-edge AI technology, with a real, "human" voice, on the automated answering systems. As a result of Artemis's actions, one of his employees, Arthur, becomes aware of an intangible landscape inside the labyrinthine systems of the call-centre--a landscape in which he can feel some kind of otherworldly consciousness stirring and in which, perhaps as a result of his father's increasingly alarming eccentricities, he feels that he could find his recently deceased mother. Arthur takes refuge in this belief as his father, his job, and his house slowly deteriorate around him. He begins to conflate the mysterious, interstitial region that exists down the phonelines with the sea, as that was where his mother drowned. In a way he is right--Artemis's meddlings have attracted something, it is just not as benevolent as he thinks.

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Jo Fletcher Books

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162365307X

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9781623653071

Call to Treason

Op-Center 11

By: Tom Clancy,Steve Pieczenik,Jeff Rovin

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Call to Treason

Op-Center 11

By: Tom Clancy,Steve Pieczenik,Jeff Rovin

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Call to Treason is yet another gripping addition to the bestselling series masterminded by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The Op-Center's budget is slashed, leaving General Mike Rodgers in the market for a new job. When presidential candidiate Senator Donald Orr recruits Rodgers to act as his military advisor, it sounds like a perfect transition. There's just one problem. A spree of deaths may be tied to Orr's presidential run and Rodgers must decide whether to sign on or shut it down.

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Penguin

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1101003707

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9781101003701

Black River

By: Tom Harper

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Black River

By: Tom Harper

This unputdownable Amazonian adventure is perfect for fans of The Lost City of Z. 'The thinking person's Dan Brown' Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what they seem. Paramilitaries, drug cartels, and wildcat prospectors all want what the jungle has to offer - while untamed local tribes will fight desperately to protect their way of life. Maps of the region have been doctored. And what exactly happened to the previous expedition, a government vaccination program that went upriver and never returned? Soon finding the lost city is the least of their troubles. The jungle hides deadly secrets that must be hidden at all costs. And someone in the group wants to make sure they never get out.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444731483

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9781444731484

Not as We Know it

By: Tom Avery (Children's story writer)

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Not as We Know it

By: Tom Avery (Children's story writer)

Can a mysterious sea creature save eleven-year-old Jamie's very sick twin brother?

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Schwartz & Wade

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0553535099

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9780553535099

Roger Mantis

The Remarkable Metamorphosis of Roger McGillicutty

By: Tom Alan Brosz

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Roger Mantis

The Remarkable Metamorphosis of Roger McGillicutty

By: Tom Alan Brosz

Baseball is Roger McGillicutty's whole life. That is until he wakes one Saturday to find he is no longer a normal eleven-year-old boy. He's a five-foot-tall praying mantis. Roger has school on Monday, the carnival comes to town next week, and his baseball team is poised to play their biggest rival in one week. Being a giant bug will seriously cramp Roger's style!To Roger's surprise, his parents and friends are supportive. Even his dog isn't much spooked. But not everyone's thrilled about Roger's change. Some people are frightened and others would like nothing more than to squash him into the ground like the bug he is.And when Little League officials oust Roger from baseball, his world collapses.When a reporter from the city comes snooping around rumors of a man-sized baseball-playing praying mantis, Roger must choose between hiding his true self or being the hero he's always wanted to be.

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Month9Books, LLC.

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1946700312

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9781946700315

Queen Scarletta and the Games of Death!

By: Tom Jolleys

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Queen Scarletta and the Games of Death!

By: Tom Jolleys

WOW - so you might buy this ebook. Well I think that it is one of the most exciting, funny and fantastical adventure books that you could ever, ever read! Check it out and let me know! Tom Jolleys.

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eBook Partnership

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0955760542

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9780955760549

Spiders

By: Tom Hoyle

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Spiders

By: Tom Hoyle

From the author of Thirteen, Tom Hoyle's Spiders is a creepy, spine-tingling thriller that will leave you breathless, perfect for fans of Michael Grant. Adam may have survived once, but a cult still has him in its sights. And this time he may not escape with his life . . . Abbie's dad is an undercover agent, tasked with exposing dangerous cults. He's normally able to maintain his distance, but this time Abbie's worried he's in too deep. Megan was sure she and Adam were safe, but now he's missing and she's the only one who can help him . . . The web is closing in around them . . .

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Pan Macmillan

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1447250478

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9781447250470

Undertow

By: Tom Foote

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Undertow

By: Tom Foote

In the stormy seas of Galway Bay, Jim Predergast and his treasured yacht Larinita are doing their best to compete in a local race. After a boating accident that kills his wife and daughter, Jim embarks on a personal quest for revenge which leads him on a dark journey involving IRA gun-running and an international terrorist plot of major proportions aimed at destroying the peace talks once and for all. Foote's highly literate and tightly plotted debut novel heralds a new and exciting voice in thriller/suspense fiction.

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Dufour Editions

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0802360181

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9780802360182

Nemesis

The historical epic from Master of Adventure, Wilbur Smith

By: Wilbur Smith,Tom Harper

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Nemesis

The historical epic from Master of Adventure, Wilbur Smith

By: Wilbur Smith,Tom Harper

A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE. Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her - to survive, no matter what. He joins Napoleon's army and is taken to Egypt, but with the world at war and traitors in every corner, just how far will Paul go to ensure his own survival? Cape Town, 1806. Adam Courtney has spent his life in service to the navy and in the shadow of his father, the illustrious Admiral Robert Courtney. But when he returns home to Nativity Bay to find the homestead destroyed and the Courtney family murdered, Adam must accept his destiny and seek vengeance. Robert gives Adam the prized family heirloom, the Neptune sword, and makes his son swear on its blade that he will not rest until he has delivered justice. From Cape Town to Calcutta, on a quest for his family's honour, Adam discovers that the enemy he seeks may be closer to him than he realises . . . BOOK 20 IN THE LONG-RUNNING EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY FROM WILBUR SMITH. DON'T MISS THE NEXT BOOK IN THE COURTNEY SERIES, WARRIOR KING. AVAILABLE NOW.

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Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.

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1804180157

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9781804180150

905

By: Tom Pane

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905

By: Tom Pane

In a world that hunts down and destroys individualism, a boy and girl fight to save their humanity.

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iUniverse

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059517776X

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9780595177769

Pedigree of Evil and the Angel Of Death

By: Tom Sheldon

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Pedigree of Evil and the Angel Of Death

By: Tom Sheldon

A satanic fast paced thriller based in modern day Glasgow; John Freeman finds himself embroiled in a web of sinister otherworldly forces that threaten his life and more importantly his soul. His old friend Oscar joins him along a bizarre trail of suspicious clues where evil events take control. A fast paced story gripped with death, Satanism, and a strange secret society named Lucifer's Lodge.

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498

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Lulu.com

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0244651930

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9780244651930

Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings

By: Tom Kromer

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Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings

By: Tom Kromer

In "Waiting for Nothing" and Other Writings, the works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and, with greater detachment, the powerless frustration of working-class people often too locked in to know their predicament.Waiting for Nothing, Kromer's only completed novel, is largely autobiographical and was written at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in California. It tells the story of one man drifting through America, east coast to west, main stem to side street, endlessly searching for "three hots and a flop"--food and a place to sleep. Kromer scans, in first-person voice, the scattered events, the stultifying sameness, of "life on the vag"--the encounters with cops, the window panes that separate hunger and a "feed," the bartering with prostitutes and homosexuals. In "Michael Kohler," Kromer's unfinished novel, the harsh existence of coal miners in Pennsylvania is told in a committed, political voice that reveals Kromer's developing affinity with leftist writers including Lincoln Steffens and Theodore Dreiser. An exploration of Kromer's proletarian roots, "Michael Kohler" was to be a political novel, a story of labor unions and the injustices of big management. Kromer's other work ranges from his college days, when he wrote a sarcastic expose of the bums in his hometown titled "Pity the Poor Panhandler: $2 an Hour Is All He Gets," to the sensitive pieces of his later life--short stories, articles, and book reviews written more out of an aching understanding of suffering than from the slick formulas of politics. Waiting for Nothing remains, however, Kromer's most powerful achievement, a work Steffens called "realism to the nth degree." Collected here as the major part of Kromer's oeuvre, Waiting for Nothing traces the author's personal struggle to preserve human virtues and emotions in the face of a brutal and dehumanizing society.

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University of Georgia Press

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082034236X

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9780820342368

Siege of Heaven

By: Tom Harper

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Siege of Heaven

By: Tom Harper

Following The Mosaic of Shadows and The Knights of the Cross, Tom Harper blends war, redemption, and triumph into a stunning conclusion."--BOOK JACKET.

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Macmillan

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0312338724

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9780312338725

Billy Hooten: Owlboy

By: Tom Sniegoski

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Billy Hooten: Owlboy

By: Tom Sniegoski

Billy Hooten is a weird kid. He gets beat up a lot, and spends the rest of his time doggedly trying to build a robot. One day, Billy Hooten hears a cry for help coming from the cemetery that borders his backyard. Against his better judgment, he runs toward it. And after that, everything changes for Billy Hooten. Because Billy Hooten, you see, is Owlboy. A quickthinking, goggle-and-feather-wearing superhero who protects the bizarre and monstrous citizens of Monstros City, a city that exists under Billy's hometown of Bradbury, Massachusetts. But is Billy truly worthy of the moniker Owlboy?

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Yearling

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0307494128

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9780307494122

God of Night

Book Four of The God Fragments

By: Tom Lloyd

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God of Night

Book Four of The God Fragments

By: Tom Lloyd

The time for heroes has come, but all the Riven Kingdom has is bastards. With war between the Militant Orders looming, the entire continent may soon be on fire. The very nature of magic has changed and the horrors of the deepest black are rising, but an even greater danger threatens to eclipse it all. Turning the tide of history may require a gamble only a bunch of drunken lunatics are willing to take. The old ways need breaking and that's one thing the Cards are good at. Just be careful what you wish for.

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Gollancz

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1473224667

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Windmaster's Bane

By: Tom Deitz

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Windmaster's Bane

By: Tom Deitz

David Sullivan, a Georgia teenager, enjoys reading Irish myth. When he develops Second Sight, however, the reality of the Faerie world proves as dangerous as it is fantastic. When David'ss brother is stolen and his uncle felled by Faery magic, David enlist

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Ingalls Publishing Group

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1932158723

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