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The Burning Of Bridget Cleary
In 1825 26 year old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby...
Michael, Me and the Rest of Our Lives
Latoya describes her life in the Jackson family which was dominated by her father. Today he is alienated from his children by the hard-driving personality that drove the Jacksons to...
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
Stripped of the familiar myths surrounding him, Jesse James emerges as a far more significant figure: a ruthless, purposeful and intensely political man who used crimes and notoriety to promote...
City Lights and Streets Ahead
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Keith Waterhouse thought his first book of memoirs, City Lights, was the best book he ever wrote. Here he recalls his childhood and adolescence in soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling Leeds, and describes...
Neil Armstrong: Volume 82
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. Little Neil's...
Patience and Sarah
Winner of the 1969 American Library Assoc.'s first Gay Book Award One of the "Best 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" (Publishing Triangle) Set in the nineteenth...
My Brother Ben
A timeless story of brothers, boats and birds, from an award-winning storyteller. Luke and his big brother Ben spend the summer on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quiet Luke...
The Gospel Of Gods and Crocodiles
Missionary Amen Morley arrives on a tropical island to find a community largely untouched by the modern world. A magnet for eccentric characters, the island paradise soon becomes a hotspot...
Acting on Conscience: When Personal Beliefs and Public Life Collide
Is there a place for personal beliefs in public life? In Acting on Conscience Frank Brennan tackles these issues head on. He looks at some of the legal, moral and...
Any Guru Will Do: A Modern Man's Search For Meaning
Phil Brown's life has been one long existential crisis. His path to enlightenment has been uphill - think of climbing Everest with a colonic irrigation or two along the way....
A Dumping Ground: the History of Cherbourg Settlement 1900 - 1940
A Dumping Ground illustrates an Aboriginal reserve's evolution under government practise, and explores the dynamics of cultural resilience through the generations.Cherbourg Settlement was a home to many, but it was...
How to Invest in Managed Funds
Managed funds offer investors with relatively small sums of money the opportunity to access a range of investments across a spectrum of asset classes. For savers they can offer a...
Paloma Negra
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From Pushcart Prize and Golden Palm winner Miha Mazzini comes the charming and unlikely story of an imitation Mariachi band in 1950s Communist Yugoslavia. When the traveling cinema comes to...
The Fire within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning
In The Fire within the Eye, scientist and author David Park helps us reconceive the everyday phenomenon of light in profound ways, from spiritual meanings embedded in our culture to...
How Scientists Explain Disease
Ranging through the history of medicine, from the Hippocratic theory of humours to modern explanations of Mad Cow Disease and chronic fatigue syndrome, this book analyzes the development and acceptance...
The New Dynamics of Winning: Gain the Mind-Set of a Champion for
How does a champion think? An authority on high-level achievement, Denis Waitley has studied the amazing similarities in the mental strategies of great champions in both business and sport. Distilling...
Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships
Explore the mystical power of intimate relationships in this deep personal collection of essays, prayers, and self-reflections from New York Times bestselling author and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson....
The Elements of Scoring: A Master's Guide to the Art of Scoring Your
Say Good-Bye to Doubles and Triples Forever Every aspect of golf, from the swing to the follow-through, is a means to one deceptively simple end: to get the ball into...
On Children and Death
On Children and Death is a major addition to the classic works of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, whose On Death and Dying and Living with Death and Dying have been continuing sources...
Sightings: Ufos
Packed with never-before published photos and stories from the popular TV series, "Sightings: UFOs" explores: - Saucers over Washington: The great American UFO flap- Deliberate Deception: UFO intercepts nuclear warhead-...
Satisfied with Nothin': A Novel
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This is the story of Jamie Ray Griffin, a young black man who by virtue of his talent on the football field, finds himself suddenly thrust into a white world...
Back in the World: Stories
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To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control...
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction
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This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of...
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
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Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the...
As I Lay Dying
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury : the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to...
Man's Fate
As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the...
Latitudes of Melt
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This bountiful, magical novel opens with the discovery by two fishermen of a baby floating in a cradle on an ice pan in the North Atlantic off the coast of...
A View to a Death in the Morning: Nature of Hunting Through History
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What brought the ape out of the trees, and so the man out of the ape, was a taste for blood. This is how the story went, when a few...
People of the Earth: Introduction to World Prehistory
The story of human history throughout the world is told in this book, from the origins of humankind to the beginnings of literate civilizations. Fagan does not favour any specific...
Immortal
In the first hardcover installment of the bestselling "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, coauthors of "The Watcher's Guide" ("Fans will suck this tome dry" --...
Pu Pu Hot Pot: The World's Best Restaurant Names
In buying and using this guide (and it is a guide) you are choosing Man's mastery of language over linguine, smile over sustenance. We have scoured the globe, from Sunderland...