Author: Michael Part
Publisher: Sole Books
ISBN: 1938591399
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: William Hayward
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Charles Pocock
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557109299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Told in daily journal format, the story of a young C.S.A. soldier who returns home to find death and destruction. He strikes out for the west and finds adventure, love and disappointment, mystery and outlaws as a U. S. Marshal. A heart warming story set in 1865-66 with a surprise ending.

Author: William James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Peter James
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409127656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4290

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10 terrific thrillers from the million-copy, no.1 bestselling author: 'Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton' [Sunday Express] Peter James has written some of the most suspenseful, edge-of-the-seat thrillers the genre has seen. Now read ten of the very best: POSSESSION DREAMER SWEET HEART TWILIGHT PROPHECY ALCHEMIST HOST THE TRUTH DENIAL FAITH

Author: James Blish
Publisher: Corgi
ISBN: 9780552095532
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399542612
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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The story of a poor boy from Brazil who became the greatest soccer player of all time and one of the most important athletes of the twentieth century! His parents may have named him Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but to the rest of the world, he was known as Pelé. The soccer forward stunned Brazil when he began playing for the Santos soccer club at age fifteen. He then went on to captivate the world when he joined his country's national soccer team and helped them win three World Cup championships. Although he was hailed as a national hero for his accomplishments in soccer, Pelé was also an influential person both on and off the pitch. His work with organizations like UNICEF helped improve conditions for children around the world. Young readers can learn more about the man who connected soccer with the phrase "The Beautiful Game."

Author: James Ross
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809307142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Called by Raymond Chandler “a sleazy, corrupt but completely believable story of a North Carolina town,” this tough, realis­tic novel exemplifies Depression literature in the United States. Falling somewhere between the hard-as-nails writing of James M. Cain and the early stories of Ernest Hemingway, James Ross’s novel was for sheer brutality and frankness of language considerably ahead of his reading public’s taste for realism untinged with sentiment or profundity. In his brilliant Afterword to this new edition, George V. Higgins, author of the recent best-seller Cogan’s Trade, pays tribute to Ross for his courage in telling his story truthfully, in all its ugliness. The setting of They Don’t Dance Much is a roadhouse on the outskirts of a North Carolina town on the border with South Carolina, complete with dance floor, res­taurant, gambling room, and cabins rented by the hour. In the events described, Smut Milligan, the proprietor, seeks money to keep operating and commits a brutal murder.

Author: Peter James
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466845414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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In Peter James' Perfect People, when a young couple learn they are both carriers of a gene likely to give their children a rare genetic disease, they visit a secret clinic for a ‘designer baby.' But it does not all work out as planned... After the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder, John and Naomi Klaesson learn that if they have another baby there's a high risk the same thing will happen. Desperate to avoid going through the pain of losing another child, the couple visit a clinic located on a converted cruise ship in international waters, free from any legal restraints, run by a maverick geneticist, Dr. Leo Dettore. For $400,000, they can choose all the genes of their child—literally have a designer baby. However, they don't want half the choices on offer, they just want a healthy child. Dettore tells them that if they don't do all they can, they will risk their child being born in a genetic "underclass" because so many parents will be enhancing theirs... On returning home to LA, their first shock is that instead of being pregnant with the son they wanted, Naomi finds she is having twins. When John, drunk, admits to a journalist they are having a designer baby, it gets into the press and they start to be hunted by a group of religious fanatics who are violently against tampering with nature or God's will.... They flee to the UK to get away, and John takes up a research post in Sussex. The kids are born a boy and girl, and very soon he and Naomi realise they are not just bright, they are unnervingly intelligent—even at a few years old already smarter than their parents in many ways. The teacher asks them to take them out of school as they frighten other children. One morning, John finds they have killed and postmortemed their pet guinea pigs, and they don't understand why he is angry at them. So far as they were concerned, they were doing research.

Author: Steve Franz
Publisher: Bluesource Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Biography of blues slide guitar legend Elmore James. Includes bibliography, discography, index, illustrated. Over 20 pages of b&w photos. Full color cover.