John MacDonald
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Susan, a young White House staffer, becomes suspicious when one of her colleagues disappears. The colleagues sister informs Susan that her brother suspects the administration is raising money on the black market in Vietnam to help finance the presidents 1968 re-election. The colleagues sister also informs Susan that four Navy SEALs were killed in Vietnam when they intercepted the presidents campaign money. A car is reported burned, with an unidentified...
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We exist in an ever-changing world. One in which tomorrow is not a given thing. Our choices are prolific. I look around and see the excavation of history and the expanding field of space exploration but at the same time a diminishing protective shield that surrounds our planet due to an increase in temperature from chemical diffusion in the atmosphere. The pollution of our natural water sources combined with the overwhelming harvest of the seas can...
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Through the lens of Inuit astronomical knowledge and traditions, The Arctic Sky underscores the complexities of the Inuit worldview, where nature's realm is intrinsically one with human society. In essence, this work asserts another way of knowing the universe.
For Inuit, the celestial and atmospheric spheres were of primary concern. Time, seasonal and diurnal, was measured by the ever-changing positions of the sun, moon, and stars across the sky,...
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"Winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, Communities and Place Division of the American Society of Criminology" John MacDonald is professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Charles Branas is the Gelman Professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University. Robert Stokes is associate professor and chair of the Master of Public Policy Program in the School of Public Service at DePaul University....
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Travis McGee novels volume 1
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From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and...
Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and...
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A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back, featuring many of the themes John D. MacDonald explored better than anyone in his legendary career as a leading crime novelist.
Introduction by Dean Koontz
The opportunists have taken over Palm City. Silent and deadly, like the snakes that infest the nearby swamps, they lay hidden from view, waiting for the right moment...
Introduction by Dean Koontz
The opportunists have taken over Palm City. Silent and deadly, like the snakes that infest the nearby swamps, they lay hidden from view, waiting for the right moment...
7) Pachunga
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War is threatening. The grey parrot with the bright red tail named Kasuku is flying as fast as he can to reach the village of Kiritiri and the hut of the powerful and aging warrior, Chief Pachunga. But if Kjaz-Barbaroi, an evil leader with designs on ruling Africa, gets to the hut first, it will be too late for all of them.
Kasuku carries orders from Olugbala to tell the chief, who has been held prisoner for three rainy seasons, that he must raise...
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Originally published in the early 1900s. This is the best of very few books ever published on Highland Ponies. The illustrated contents include detailed chapters on: Island Ponies - The Ponies of Skye - Of Uist - Of Barra - Of Rhum - Of Mull - Of Arran - Of Lewis and Harris - Of Tiree - Of Islay - Shetland Ponies. On Mainland Ponies - The Atholl Ponies - Applecross Stud - Glenartney Forest Stud - Ponies of Sutherland and Caithness - Gaick Ponies -...
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Originally published in the early 1900s. This is the best of very few books ever published on Highland Ponies. The illustrated contents include detailed chapters on: Island Ponies - The Ponies of Skye - Of Uist - Of Barra - Of Rhum - Of Mull - Of Arran - Of Lewis and Harris - Of Tiree - Of Islay - Shetland Ponies. On Mainland Ponies - The Atholl Ponies - Applecross Stud - Glenartney Forest Stud - Ponies of Sutherland and Caithness - Gaick Ponies -...
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"Travis McGee's old football buddy Tush Bannon is resisting pressure to sell off his floundering motel and marina to a group of influential movers and shakers. Then he's found dead. For a big man, Tush was a pussycat: devoted to his wife and three kids and always optimistic about his business--even when things were at their worst. So even though his death is ruled a suicide, McGee suspects murder . . . and a vile conspiracy"--P. [4] of cover.
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The Harrowed Path describes the experience in 1972 of a 21 year old man struggling to come to terms with experiences diagnosed as Schizophrenia. It is a vivid and compelling account of events both within and out-with his fractured consciousness. The story describes the breakdown of all his normal ability and perception and their replacement with a terrifying, debilitating and self-destructive inner world. It depicts his extraordinary struggle and...
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The Harrowed Path describes the experience in 1972 of a 21 year old man struggling to come to terms with experiences diagnosed as Schizophrenia. It is a vivid and compelling account of events both within and out-with his fractured consciousness. The story describes the breakdown of all his normal ability and perception and their replacement with a terrifying, debilitating and self-destructive inner world. It depicts his extraordinary struggle and...
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Ex-cop Cliff Bartells might be the last honest man in Florence City, Florida. After quitting the force over a crisis of conscience, he takes a job at an insurance company buying back stolen jewelry. Cliff is focused on keeping the bottom line down and staying out of the spotlight. But when an affluent tourist from Boston is murdered over a hefty collection of jewelry, Cliff finds himself wrapped up in a case that’s making national headlines. With...
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Prairie Home Breads proves that not only is the Midwest where America's grains are grown, but it's also where the art of bread baking is taken seriously. To create these 150 recipes, Judith M. Fertig visited artisanal bakeries, working farmhouse kitchens, rural church suppers, urban bakeries, farmer's markets, and typical home kitchens. She found yeast breads as varied as Amish Pinwheel Bread and Roasted Sweet Pepper Bread, as well as naturally leavened...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
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Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!
The search for a stolen nuclear weapon on American soil sends Jack Ryan on a dangerous mission with global consequences in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East, as Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries...
The search for a stolen nuclear weapon on American soil sends Jack Ryan on a dangerous mission with global consequences in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East, as Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries...
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How to you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who'd take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family. McGee also discovers he likes a few members of the family far too much to let that happen.