Author: May Hall James
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Book Description
Materials collected for James's Ph. D. dissertation at Yale University which later was published under title The Educational History of Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1635-1935 (1939). Includes educational history notes and bibliography, citations, appendices, illustrations, maps, patent, index, and other materials.
May Hall James Collection
Author: May Hall James
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Book Description
Materials collected for James's Ph. D. dissertation at Yale University which later was published under title The Educational History of Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1635-1935 (1939). Includes educational history notes and bibliography, citations, appendices, illustrations, maps, patent, index, and other materials.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Book Description
Materials collected for James's Ph. D. dissertation at Yale University which later was published under title The Educational History of Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1635-1935 (1939). Includes educational history notes and bibliography, citations, appendices, illustrations, maps, patent, index, and other materials.
Hit Lit
Author: James W. Hall
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812970950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A MEGA-BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Jaws. From tempting glimpses inside secret societies, such as submariners in The Hunt for Red October, and Opus Dei in The Da Vinci Code, to vivid representations of the American Dream and its opposite—the American Nightmare—in novels like The Firm and The Dead Zone, Hall identifies the common features of mega-bestsellers. Including fascinating and little-known facts about some of the most beloved books of the last century, Hit Lit is a must-read for fiction lovers and aspiring writers alike, and makes us think anew about why we love the books we love.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812970950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A MEGA-BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Jaws. From tempting glimpses inside secret societies, such as submariners in The Hunt for Red October, and Opus Dei in The Da Vinci Code, to vivid representations of the American Dream and its opposite—the American Nightmare—in novels like The Firm and The Dead Zone, Hall identifies the common features of mega-bestsellers. Including fascinating and little-known facts about some of the most beloved books of the last century, Hit Lit is a must-read for fiction lovers and aspiring writers alike, and makes us think anew about why we love the books we love.
James Norman Hall - Ultimate Collection
Author: James Norman Hall
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2168
Book Description
DigiCat presents to you the greatest historical novels, sea stories and war tales of James Norman Hall: Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Novels: High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Men Without a Country Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Other Writings: Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army (1l) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1m) The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas (1n) The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island Mid-Pacific James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2168
Book Description
DigiCat presents to you the greatest historical novels, sea stories and war tales of James Norman Hall: Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Novels: High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Men Without a Country Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Other Writings: Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army (1l) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1m) The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas (1n) The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island Mid-Pacific James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
Gone Wild
Author: James W. Hall
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440217814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Vowing to save the endangered orangutan species while attempting to uncover the truth about her daughter's murder by poachers, Allison Farleigh teams up with Thorn to expose an international conspiracy
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440217814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Vowing to save the endangered orangutan species while attempting to uncover the truth about her daughter's murder by poachers, Allison Farleigh teams up with Thorn to expose an international conspiracy
James Hall Collection of Works on Geology and Paleontology
Author: James Hall
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Category : Crinoidea
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Crinoidea
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Arkansas Hitchhike Killer, The: James Waybern "Red" Hall
Author: Janie Nesbitt Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467148172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as "a pleasant conversationalist." Author Janie Nesbitt Jones chronicles his life for the first time and explores reasons why he became Arkansas's Hitchhike Killer.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467148172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as "a pleasant conversationalist." Author Janie Nesbitt Jones chronicles his life for the first time and explores reasons why he became Arkansas's Hitchhike Killer.
The Law Times
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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The Glen collection of Scottish dance music
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Category : Dance music
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : Dance music
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Michigan Manufacturer & Financial Record
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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