Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375099525
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Author: William Douglas O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: Jean Claude Van Itallie
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822206170
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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THE STORY: Creating a mosaic of imaginative and stylistically diverse scenes, interspersed with original songs, the author provides a close and revealing examination of our American penchant for selecting leaders who remind us as much as possible o

Author: Wayne Coffey
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1400047668
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrated called the greatest moment in sports history—with a new afterword by Ken Morrow for the fortieth anniversary of the Miracle on Ice “An unvarnished and captivating read.”—Parade Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable. Wayne Coffey casts a fresh eye on this seminal sports event, giving readers an ice-level view of the amateurs who took on a Russian hockey juggernaut at the height of the Cold War. He details the unusual chemistry of the Americans—formulated by their fiercely determined coach, Herb Brooks—and seamlessly weaves portraits of the boys with the fluid action of the game itself. Coffey also traces the paths of the players and coaches since their stunning victory, examining how the Olympic events affected their lives. Told with warmth and an uncanny eye for detail, The Boys of Winter is an intimate, perceptive portrayal of one Friday night in Lake Placid and the enduring power of the extraordinary.

Author: Chris Colverson
Publisher:
ISBN: 0954701615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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A unique record that follows the line of descent from a pastry cook in Victorian London to the author's own children. Complete with 100 old photographs. This enchanting personal memoir traces a South London family history from Victorian times to the present day. Delightful old photographs of great-grandparents; characters like Uncle Willie the ventriloquist and "Sid the Cheerful"; tales of long-lost American cousins; fond memories of Grandma Doris and Great-aunt Dolly; quotable quotes, Famous Utterances and a fair smattering of affectionate gossip - all combine to produce a fascinating social document.If you're wondering how to write up your own friends and family research material, you will find this an invaluable resource. It is beautifully presented with easy-to-follow family trees, dates of birth, names and nicknames. Details from the 1901 Census are lightly blended with touching snippets of information from soldiers' pay books, school certificates and family bibles. The result is an intimate and heart-felt account, showing that you don't have to be Charles Dickens to write a little book for your descendants to treasure.

Author: Robert Gorman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317795911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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In this provocative biographical portrait, Robert A. Gorman examines the political and intellectual life of this engaging radical thinker while looking ahead to the ways in which the work and example he has left us can affect political life in the twenty-first century. Michael Harrington's major attempt to Americanize socialism plays a big part in Gorman's analysis. He tells readers how it is possible to be both radical and patriotic and how an unjust system can be transformed without being destroyed.

Author: Frank Prete
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456760769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Gods' Gold is a mystery about the discovery of alternative truths and how the characters chose to deal with those truths. The uncovering of ancient secrets is enlightenment for some, and for others, a reason to commit murder. In 1902, Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie discovered tons of white ash in the Sinai. Believing the ash to be ancient sacrifices or burnt offerings, he was unable to find traces of charred bones or burn marks on stones or in caves to support his theory. This begins the mystery of Petries white ash. Present day Iraq, Sergeant, Mitchell Harrington, an anthropologist in civilian life, is on a reconnaissance mission of a bombed out village. There he discovers buried jugs containing white ash he suspects to be part of Petries original discovery. After smuggling the ash out of Iraq, Harrington rekindles his relationship with Analisa Scotti, an adjunct professor and scientist at the University of Arizona. Analyzing the ash, Analisa determines the strange substance contains mysterious capabilities. Because of its anomalous properties, the ash becomes the obsession of an Arab emir, two brothers who are deserters from the Iraqi Police, an Italian arms dealer, and assassins hired by a Vatican official to destroy its legacy. Those struggling to claim the ash are brought together in a fiery conclusion. The mystery of Flinders Petries discovery of the ash, along with the ancient secret it possesses, is finally revealed. The secret of the white ash is so profound, it has the potential to alter history and challenge the long established paradigms of civilization.

Author: Benjamin Woodford
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773541098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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How Britain's religious and political powers reacted to an absolute leader without royal blood.

Author: Roger Freeman
Publisher: After the Battle
ISBN: 1399076868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and moldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavors of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men. For such they are.