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Once Again

By: Paul William Darby

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Serving aboard the U.S.S. ELDORADO in San diego shortly before the Gulf War, Petty Officer Cheevers becomes involved in a shipboard scandal that ruins his career. He's been blamed for inticing his shipmate, Seaman John Trout, into hanging himself in the ship's brig. Only Cheevers knows the real story梩hat Seaman Trout experienced a past life vision of himself dying in a battle nearly two hundred years previously. Although Cheevers explains these details to the ship's captain in an investigation, still resulting in a demotion and his dismissal from the ship in disgrace, he withholds the key information that has shattered his perception of reality. Seaman Trout predicted Cheevers will die, too, in a trap set by fate that is impossible to escape. Cheevers learns that his life hangs in the balance of being able to circumvent destiny by proving his shipmate's prophesy wrong, and surviving the conflict that erupts in the Persian Gulf initiated by Saddam Hussein. AUTHOR BIO: Paul William Darby's passion for writing novels began while he served in the Navy. He later became a staff member with news services in Europe. His novels evolved from his many personal experiences he discovered were necessary before he acquired the voice by which to speak.

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0595004253

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9780595004256

The Buffalo Soldiers

A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition

By: William H. Leckie,Shirley A. Leckie

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The Buffalo Soldiers

A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition

By: William H. Leckie,Shirley A. Leckie

Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors have expanded the original research to explore more deeply the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this edition delves further into the life of an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. It also explores the experiences of soldiers’ families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806183896

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9780806183893

Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians

By: William Henry Jackson

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Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians

By: William Henry Jackson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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134

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3385552168

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9783385552166

Tales from Portlaw Volume Five - 'Sean and Sarah'

By: William Forde

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Tales from Portlaw Volume Five - 'Sean and Sarah'

By: William Forde

Sean and Sarah' is a story of romance that starts in Ireland, then moves to England and concludes back in Ireland. Sean and Sarah seemed destined to marry, but tragedy prevented this occurring. So often in life, love is found by two people and is then lost because of circumstances beyond their control. Each of us inwardly love to hear and read about stories between couples that appear to defy all the odds and happily experience reunion; yet so often, life's judgement is less favourable and reality is much harsher.

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200

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Lulu.com

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1326016563

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9781326016562

Last Rites

The Final Days of the Boston Mob Wars

By: William J. Craig

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Last Rites

The Final Days of the Boston Mob Wars

By: William J. Craig

Last Rites chronicles one man's dramatic descent into the seedy world of New England mobster Raymond Patriarca and his underboss, Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo. In the early 1980s, Gigi Portalla, a well-liked student, athlete and Revere prom king, transformed into a mafia hit man after discovering that his biological father was "Big Eddy" Marino. Portalla rose through the ranks within the Angiulo organization, joining famous Boston wise guys like Sean Cote, Joseph "J.R." Russo and Bobby Carrozza. Drawing on wiretaps, court testimonies and interviews through personal relationships with the criminals in question, Revere writer William J. Craig uncovers the depths of criminality. Portalla clung to a self-imposed moral code, striving to find honor within thievery, even as the lure of his family's past eclipsed his promising future.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614233403

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9781614233404

In Love with Hell

Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

By: William Palmer

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In Love with Hell

Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

By: William Palmer

Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding' JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels' D. J. TAYLOR An 'enjoyable exploration of an enduringly fascinating subject . . . [Palmer] is above all a dispassionate critic, and is always attentive to, and unwaveringly perceptive about the art of his subjects as well as their relationship with alcohol . . . [his] treatment is even-handed and largely without judgement. He tries to understand, without either condoning or censuring, the impulses behind often reprehensible behaviour' SOUMYA BHATTACHARYA, New Statesman 'A vastly absorbing and entertaining study of this ever-interesting subject' ANDREW DAVIES, screenwriter and novelist 'In Love with Hell is a fascinating and beautifully written account of the lives of eleven British and American authors whose addiction to alcohol may have been a necessary adjunct to their writing but ruined their lives. Palmer's succinct biographies contain fine descriptions of the writers, their work and the times they lived in; and there are convincing insights into what led so many authors to take to drink.' PIERS PAUL READ Why do some writers destroy themselves by drinking alcohol? Before our health-conscious age it would be true to say that many writers drank what we now regard as excessive amounts. Graham Greene, for instance, drank on a daily basis quantities of spirits and wine and beer most doctors would consider as being dangerous to his health. But he was rarely out of control and lived with his considerable wits intact to the age of eighty-six. W. H. Auden drank the most of a bottle of spirits a day, but also worked hard and steadily every day until his death. Even T. S. Eliot, for all his pontifical demeanour, was extremely fond of gin and was once observed completely drunk on a London Tube station by a startled friend. These were not writers who are generally regarded as alcoholics. 'Alcoholic' is, in any case, a slippery word, as exemplified by Dylan Thomas's definition of an alcoholic as 'someone you dislike who drinks as much as you.' The word is still controversial and often misunderstood and misapplied. What acclaimed novelist and poet William Palmer's book is interested in is the effect that heavy drinking had on writers, how they lived with it and were sometimes destroyed by it, and how they described the whole private and social world of the drinker in their work. He looks at Patrick Hamilton ('the feverish magic that alcohol can work'); Jean Rhys ('As soon as I sober up I start again'); Charles Jackson ('Delirium is a disease of the night'); Malcolm Lowry ('I love hell. I can't wait to go back there'); Dylan Thomas ('A womb with a view'); John Cheever ('The singing of the bottles in the pantry'); Flann O'Brien ('A pint of plain is your only man'); Anthony Burgess ('Writing is an agony mitigated by drink'); Kingsley Amis ('Beer makes you drunk'); Richard Yates ('The road to Revolutionary Road'); and Elizabeth Bishop ('The writer's writer's writer').

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Robinson

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1472144988

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9781472144980

Conversations with William Maxwell

By: William Maxwell

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Conversations with William Maxwell

By: William Maxwell

Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. Maxwell's words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his Midwestern heritage. All retain the reserved poignancy of his fiction. The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell's extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his interviews and appearances.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617032549

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9781617032547

The Regulators

By: William Degenhard

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The Regulators

By: William Degenhard

The Regulators is told through the eyes of Warren Hascott, who returns to America after the Revolutionary War, having spent years as a slave to the Moors. He finds the Boston he had known in his youth completely changed. The country is undergoing a depression. City merchants are engaged in an economic war with the countryside. Torn between the love of two women—Judith Burdock of Tory background, and Beulah Crane, who uses her strong will and beauty to defend the rights of the farmers—Warren finds himself gradually caught in the web of Shays’ Rebellion, which seeks to create a new kind of social order based on class equality. But it is Salderman, the Boston merchant, whose cold, ruthless business tactics finally launch Warren on his career as a rebel—a career which climaxes by the famous march on the United States arsenal at Worcester.

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Open Road Media

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1504024028

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9781504024020

For Labor To Build Upon

Wars, Depression and Pandemic

By: William B. Gould IV

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For Labor To Build Upon

Wars, Depression and Pandemic

By: William B. Gould IV

One of the enduring legacies of the United States Civil War is that democracy in the workforce is an essential part of societal democracy. But the past century has seen a marked decline in the number of unionized employees, a trend that has increased with the rise of the internet and low-paying, gig-economy jobs that lack union protection. William B. Gould IV takes stock of this history and finds that unions, frequently providing inadequate energy and resources in organizing the unorganized, have a mixed record in dealing with many public-policy issues, particularly involving race. But Gould argues that unions, notwithstanding these failures, are still the best means to protect essential workers in health, groceries, food processing, agriculture, and the meatpacking industry, and that the law, when properly deployed, can be a remedy not only for trade union-employer relationships, but also for the ailments of democracy itself.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009179691

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9781009179690

Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being an Analytical and Critical Digest of the Principal British and Continental Medical Works Published in the Preceding Six Months.

By: Charles Bland Radcliffe,William Harcourt Ranking,William Dommett Stone

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Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being an Analytical and Critical Digest of the Principal British and Continental Medical Works Published in the Preceding Six Months.

By: Charles Bland Radcliffe,William Harcourt Ranking,William Dommett Stone

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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3368875523

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Once Again

Once Again

The Buffalo Soldiers

The Buffalo Soldiers

Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians

Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians

Tales from Portlaw Volume Five - 'Sean and Sarah'

Tales from Portlaw Volume Five - 'Sean and Sarah'

Last Rites

Last Rites

In Love with Hell

In Love with Hell

Conversations with William Maxwell

Conversations with William Maxwell

The Regulators

The Regulators

For Labor To Build Upon

For Labor To Build Upon

Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being an Analytical and Critical Digest of the Principal British and Continental Medical Works Published in the Preceding Six Months.

Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being an Analytical and Critical Digest of the Principal British and Continental Medical Works Published in the Preceding Six Months.

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