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Facing Bulls

Auteure: Rebecca Rozelle Burt

Nombre de pages: 383

New Book Follows Two Times Lines in the Life of a Woman Forced to Reinterpret Her Past and Her Present Facing Bulls follows two time lines in the life of Mary Jane Allen, who, after the sudden death of her husband, struggles to deal with grief and subsequently with a shocking and disillusioning revelation that changes the way she interprets her entire life. The narrative moves between her rural childhood in Chocohalla, Alabama, in the late 1940s and 1950s, and her current life as a college teacher in Huntsville, Alabama, in the 1980s. As the narrative of her daily life moves forward, surprising and puzzling events trigger memories which she records in a personal journal. Her knowledge and understanding of her past, she discovers, is illusory and incomplete; preconceived ideas about marriage and love are shattered, or at least shifted. As the past and the present merge, she gains new insights about herself and her previous perceptions of those who are closest to her.

Golf

Auteure: Curtis D. Benton, Jr.

Nombre de pages: 256

The American Senior Golf Association consisted of 900 men. Twenty four men are selected annually for the International Team. One year the team plays the Europeans for the King Leopold Cup, the next year they play the Japanese for the Prince Nabashima-Quittner Trophy. Managing 24 men and their wives and the golf matches is more than one man can handle. Fortunately I had four men who helped me 'stay the course' during my years as Captain from 1985 - 1993. 'This book will greatly enrich your love for the game of golf as well as your love for the Lord Jesus Christ. I share both of these loves with Curtis. Hopefully this book will stir you to use the game of golf to spread God's love to all those you come in contact with. It contains some wonderful stories which will bless you as they have me.' -Wally Armstrong, PGA Professional

1959 Chacahoula

Nombre de pages: 256

Braises de guerre (Tome 1)

Auteure: Gareth L. Powell

Nombre de pages: 388

Après la guerre, la bataille pour la paix commence... Le Chien à Problèmes est un croiseur lourd, construit pour semer la violence. Doué de conscience, c’est aussi une adolescente dégoûtée par le rôle qu’elle a joué dans le génocide d’une planète entière. Le Chien, reconverti dans le sauvetage des naufragés spatiaux, et sa capitaine, Sal Konstanz, reçoivent l’ordre de venir en aide aux éventuels survivants d’un paquebot en perdition au cœur d’un système contesté. De l’épave émerge une poétesse dissimulée sous une fausse identité pour échapper à l’horreur de la guerre, Ona Sudak. À quelques années-lumière de là, Ashton Childe, un agent des services secrets mis au placard, fait équipe avec un membre d’une faction adverse pour partir à la recherche de la rescapée. Tous risquent de se retrouver, bien malgré eux, au cœur d’un conflit qui menace d’embraser à nouveau toute la galaxie. Space opera débridé, Braises de guerre offre une galerie de personnages hauts en couleur, dans la plus pure tradition du genre.

Death by Your Own Device

Auteure: Peter Kowey Md

Nombre de pages: 250

Ray Gilbert isn’t someone you would call a “nice guy,” but he is a hard-working cardiologist who gives a damn about his job. When Ray starts seeing patients who received medical devices they might not need, he tries to figure out why. Spurned by his superiors and professional societies, Ray turns to Tiffany Springer, an eager but naive newspaper reporter—and Ray’s new lover—to tell his story. Her articles gain national acclaim. Ray and Tiffany ride the crest of their success ... until they came to an untimely end with drug overdose as the probable cause of death. What really happened to Tiffany and Ray, and do their deaths have something to do with the unnecessary medical devices? As Ray’s mentor, Dr. Philip Sarkis can’t help but question the reports. His suspicions lead him to seek the help of his partner and a private investigator. However, as previously proven, digging into medicine’s big money is a deadly business.

Les petits maîtres du burlesque américain, 1902-1929

Auteure: Jean-jacques Couderc

Nombre de pages: 795

Zigoto, Beaucitron, Picratt, Calouchon, Dudule... Autant de sobriquets inconnus du grand public, malgré leurs cocasses et alléchantes connotations. C'est qu'ils dissimulent nombre de comédiens américains de talent qui ont considérablement diverti nos parents et grands-parents, mais qui sont restés souvent dans l'ombre des Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton et autres Harold Lloyd. Il y a là une injustice notoire que Jean-Jacques Couderc s'est donné pour tâche de réparer. Consacré à ces comiques oubliés ou peu connus du cinéma muet américain, ce livre retrace tout d'abord leurs vies agitées et souvent trop courtes d'étoiles mélancoliquement filantes au firmament du burlesque. Pour chacun d'eux, il fallait impérativement sauver de l'oubli quelques séquences, réalistes ou loufoques, géniales ou démodées, grotesques ou subtiles, dans tous les cas débordantes de drôlerie, d'imagination ou de fantaisie et les replacer dans leur contexte. Et certes, la lecture de leurs biographies et des scénarios de leurs films et courts-métrages, poétiques ou rocambolesques, suscite en nous autant de gaieté que d'étonnement incrédule. Par ailleurs, cet ouvrage de référence...

The Zookeeper of Belfast

Auteure: S. Kirk Walsh

Nombre de pages: 353

As the bombs rain down on the city, Belfast's first ever female zookeeper must fight to save the baby elephant in her charge in this gripping, uplifting tale based on a true story. 1941. With the men away fighting, animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zookeeper. She is put in charge of Violet, a three-year-old Indian elephant, and they soon form a special bond. With Violet at her side, Hettie can almost escape the grim reality of her life: the father who has abandoned her family; the sister who recently died; the war that's raging hundreds of miles away. But the devastation of war is closer than she thought. When the bombs begin to rain down on the city, Hettie must gather all her courage to protect those she loves the most. Can she save Violet - and get through unscathed herself? Based on a true story, The Zookeeper of Belfast is a gripping and uplifting tribute to what one woman's courage and tenacity can achieve in the most dire of circumstances - perfect for fans of Heather Morris, Natasha Lester, Kate Furnivall, Mandy Robotham and Fiona Valpy. Praise for THE ZOOKEEPER OF BELFAST: 'Walsh delivers a turbulent portrait of life in a divided city . . ....

The Elephant of Belfast

Auteure: S. Kirk Walsh

Nombre de pages: 353

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWll speaks to not only the tragedy of the times, but also to the ongoing sectarian tensions that still exist in Northern Ireland today—perfect for readers of historical and literary fiction alike. Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling from escalating tensions between British Loyalists and those fighting for a free and unified Ireland. The relative peace is shattered by air-raid sirens on the evening of Easter Tuesday 1941. Over the course of the next five hours, hundreds of bombs rain down upon Belfast, claiming almost a thousand lives and decimating the city. Dodging the debris and carnage of the Luftwaffe attack, Hettie runs to the zoo to make sure that Violet is ...

Information Circular

Nombre de pages: 366

Ultimate Guide to SSC Combined Graduate Level - CGL (Tier I & Tier II) Exam 5th Edition

Auteure: Disha Experts

Nombre de pages: 729

Ultimate Guide to SSC Combined Graduate Level - CGL (Tier I & Tier II) Exam 5th Edition has been written exclusively for the CGL Tier I & Tier II Exams strictly according to the revised exam pattern. The book includes the past papers of 2012 - 2016 of Tier I. The book also includes the 2015 Tier II Solved paper. The Salient Features of the Book are: 1. Comprehensive Sections on: Quantitative Aptitude, General Intelligence & Reasoning, English Language and General Awareness; 2. Detailed theory along with solved examples and short-cuts to solve problems. 3. Exhaustive question bank at the end of each chapter in the form of Exercise. Solutions to the Exercise have been provided at the end of each chapter. 4. Solved Question paper of SSC (CGL Tier I) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 (9th August & 16th August) & 2016 have been provided for students to understand the latest pattern and level of questions; 4. Another unique feature of the book is the division of its General Awareness section into separate chapters on History, Geography, Polity, General Science, Miscellaneous topics and Current Affairs; 5. The book also provides a separate chapter on Data Interpretation and Graphs; New Chapters on...

Ultimate Guide to SSC Multi Tasking Staff (Non Technical) Exam 3rd Edition

Auteure: Disha Experts

Nombre de pages: 618

The 3rd edition of the book "Ultimate Guide to SSC Multi Tasking Staff (Non Technical) Exam" has been powered with 4 (2013-2017) solved papers. The Salient Features of the Book are: 1. Comprehensive Sections on: Numerical Aptitude, General Intelligence, English Language and General Awareness; 2. Detailed theory along with solved examples and shortcuts to solve problems; 3. Exhaustive question bank at the end of each chapter in the form of Exercise. Solutions to the Exercise have been provided at the end of each chapter. 4. Solved Question paper of SSC Multi Tasking Staff (Non Technical) 2013, 2014, 2016 & 2017 Exam has been provided for students to understand the latest pattern and level of questions; 4. Another unique feature of the book is the division of its General Awareness section into separate chapters on History, Geography, Polity, General Science, Miscellaneous topics and Current Affairs; 5. The book also provides a separate chapter on Data Interpretation and Graphs; Comprehension in the English Language section; 6. The book has a comprehensive coverage of Verbal and Non-verbal Reasoning.

Pieces of the Frame

Auteure: John Mcphee

Nombre de pages: 322

Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico; from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art's sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee's writing is more than informative; these are stories, artful and full of character, that make compelling reading. They play with and against one another, so that Pieces of the Frame is distinguished as much by its unity as by its variety. Subjects familiar to McPhee's readers-sports, Scotland, conservation-are treated here with intimacy and a sense of the writer at work.

We Just Got On With It

Auteure: Doreen Mcbride

Nombre de pages: 297

' But we will do what we have always done – just get on with it .' The contributions of Northern Ireland to allied efforts in the Second World War are widely celebrated, acknowledged by both Sir Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt as vital to their eventual victory. Lesser known are the personal and individual lives of the people who made those contributions – the human cost and the everyday lives that would be changed forever. In We Just Got On With It, Doreen McBride gathers stories and interviews conducted and written by local historians and historical societies. From essential agricultural work to the sunken German submarine fleet that surrendered on the banks of Lough Foyle, and from childhood smuggling adventures to the devasting destruction of bombing raids, these are tales of humour and tragedy from those who have stories to tell.

Death of a Racehorse

Auteure: Katie Bo Lillis

Nombre de pages: 384

The inside story of the crisis within the country’s most classic sport—horseracing—and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game. Every year, hundreds of horses die on the racetrack. Why? In this deeply reported and propulsive narrative, CNN reporter Katie Bo Lillis shows how two high-profile cases lay bare the ills facing the sport: the abrupt, industry-rocking indictments of top trainers Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro, and the untold story of Bob Baffert, the most successful and recognizable horse trainer in modern history, and the allegations he faced after a string of mysterious horse deaths and the high-profile disqualification of his latest Kentucky Derby winner for a failed drug test. Death of a Racehorse delves deep into the horse racing world, offering intimate access to dozens of top trainers, owners, breeders, veterinarians, lab specialists, and more. The mainstream perception has been that rampant drug use is forcing these horses to run past their natural ability, resulting in heart attacks and broken legs. But this doesn’t paint the full picture. That picture is driven by class tension between the affluent old stables and an ambitious new...

Horror Culture in the New Millennium

Auteure: Daniel W. Powell

Nombre de pages: 191

Horror Culture in the New Millennium: Digital Dissonance and Technohorror explores the myriad ways in which technology is altering the human experience as articulated in horrific storytelling. The text surveys a variety of emerging trends and story forms in the field, through both a series of critical essays and personal interviews with scholars, editors, authors, and artists now creating and refining horror stories in the new millennium. The project posits a rationale for the presence of technohorror as a defining concern in contemporary horror literature, marking a departure from the monstrous and spectral traditions of the twentieth century in its depictions of frightful narratives marked by the qualities of plausibility, mundanity, and surprise as we tell stories about what it means to be human. As our culture explores the dichotomies of the born/made, natural/artificial, and human/computer—all while subsumed within a paradigm shift predicated on the transition from the traditions of print to emerging digital communications practices—these changes form the basis for horrific speculations in our texts and technologies. Ultimately, Digital Dissonance: Horror Culture in the...

The Antijacobin Review and Protestant Advocate

Nombre de pages: 396

Into the Storm

Auteure: Phillip Thompson

Nombre de pages: 201

Phillip Thompson had kept a journal for years, from the time he was in college in the 1980s at the University of Mississippi until he attended the Artillery Officers' Advanced Course, when the demands of school interrupted. His desire to keep track of the events in his life was re-ignited with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, his impending deployment to the Persian Gulf in August 1990, and the beginning of Operation Desert Shield. While in the Persian Gulf, Thompson kept a small green, military-issue notebook with him at all times, writing down everything he could, drawing maps, explaining his emotions, and oftentimes, venting his anger. Upon his return from Saudi Arabia in 1991, he had filled three notebooks, which evolved into this work. Here are Thompson's personal experiences and his observations of those around him in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Mr. Redhead Yorke's weekly political review

Nombre de pages: 552

Weekly Political Review of Henry Redhead Yorke

Nombre de pages: 552

Extinction End

Auteure: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Nombre de pages: 344

The fifth book in USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about one man's mission to save the world. Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world. The remnants of the United States military have regrouped and relocated Central Command to the George Washington Carrier Strike Group. It's here, in the North Atlantic, that President Jan Ringgold and Vice President George Johnson prepare to deploy a new bioweapon and embark on the final mission to take back the country from the Variants. With his home gone and his friends kidnapped, Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his remaining men must take drastic measures to save what's left of the human race. The end is here. . .

Winston County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2

Auteure: Robin Sterling

Nombre de pages: 434

The cemeteries of Winston County contain the ancestors of the descendants who now populate the county. The earliest settlers, Civil War soldiers, early county officials and politicians, merchants, tradesmen, farmers, and their familes are there. Without their efforts to carve an existence out of the Winston County wildnerness, the rest of us simply would not be here. The history of the county was written in the cemeteries found across the county. Volume 2 of this two volume series covers Winston County Cemeteries L through W beginning with the Little Cemetery and ending with the Wolfpen Cemetery. This volumes also contains a list of missing or destroyed cemeteries. The book contains dozens of pictures of the cemeteries plus hundreds of annotations which include sites of unmarked graves plus the company and unit of every known Civil War era soldier, both Union and Confederate. The book concludes with a full name index. This book is vital to any serious student of Winston County genealogy and history.

Magic, 1400s-1950s

Auteure: Mike Caveney , Jim Steinmeyer

Nombre de pages: 0

Celebrating 500 years of the culture of the world's greatest magicians, "Magic Book" features more than 1,000 posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings, and traces the history of magic as a performing art from the 1470s through the post-World War II years.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Auteure: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Nombre de pages: 990

Amik aime l'école

Auteure: Katherena Vermette , Irene Kuziw

Nombre de pages: 28

Amik raconte à Moshoom pourquoi il aime tant sa merveilleuse école. Puis c’est au tour de son grand-père de lui décrire le pensionnat autochtone qu’il a fréquenté, si différent de l’école d’Amik. C’est alors qu’Amik a une idée... Les Sept enseignements sacrés des Anishinaabeg (l’amour, la sagesse, l’humilité, le courage, le respect, l’honnêteté et la vérité) sont au cœur de ces sept histoires pour enfants. Se déroulant en milieu urbain et mettant en scène des enfants autochtones auxquels tous les jeunes lecteurs pourront s’identifier, ces histoires abordent les thèmes du foyer et de la famille.

History of Service

Nombre de pages: 206

Oil and Gas Drilling Activity Summary for Kentucky, 1984

Nombre de pages: 368

Pleading Guilty

Auteure: Scott Turow

Nombre de pages: 387

'Scott Turow is master of the legal thriller' – The Guardian Set in a world of corporate conspiracy, money and murder, Pleading Guilty is Scott Turow's third Kindle County legal thriller. His first Kindle County thriller, Presumed Innocent, is now a major TV series from Apple TV+ starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Meet Mack Malloy. Ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A long-time ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague: his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money. It’s a trail that will take him into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city, as Mack desperately fights to reinvent himself from the depths of his own shattered soul . . . Praise for Scott Turow: 'Head-and-shoulders above others in the legal thriller genre he created' – The Observer 'A brilliant chronicler of contemporary America' – The Sunday Times 'Turow does legal thrillers better than anyone else' – Irish Independent 'Worthy to be ranked with Dashiell Hammet or Raymond Chandler' – The New York Times 'No one writes better mystery suspense novels than Scott Turow' – Los...

The American Soccer League

Auteure: Colin Jose

Nombre de pages: 582

It was the " American Menace" according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company soccer team. The resulting squads, many of them ethnic, beat the best teams in the world at that time. This period from 1921 to 1931 were the "Golden Years of American Soccer." With the skyrocketing economic prosperity of the United States and its corollary flood of new immigrants to America's shores, came interest in soccer as a new form of sports entertainment. It grew rapidly around Northeastern industrial towns like Fall River, Massachusetts, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As with the popular North American Soccer League of the 1970s and 80s and its imported stars like Pele, the American Soccer League of the 1920s bid for the best soccer players in the world, creating a competitive, fertile environment for the growth of soccer. Unfortunately, few detailed records remain about these great teams and players. League records were lost after W.W. II and newspaper coverage was concentrated in smaller cities. Many of the League's heretofore unknown players...

He Was Her Man

Auteure: Sarah Shankman

Nombre de pages: 292

On the map, Hot Springs, Arkansas, is just west of Little Rock and far beyond Hope. For amateur sleuth Samantha Adams, it could be the end of the line. Mourning the loss of her boyfriend (to another woman), Sam is ready to party when a friend wins the lottery. But a kidnapped groom and a million-dollar ransom create a different kind of diversion.

The Royal Magazine

Nombre de pages: 556

The Quest for the Chalice of Power

Auteure: Hugh Richard Williams

Nombre de pages: 213

The item people are in pursuit of is The Chalice of Power. The back story of the chalice is based on both historical fiction and non-fiction. Miller stumbles onto a massive conspiracy that is being planned by North Korea, The Mafia, and a sinister criminal group. Should the chalice fall into the wrong hands, it will have dire effects on the world.

Tout ce qu'il voudra 5

Auteure: Sara Fawkes

Nombre de pages: 70

Un feuilleton érotique chez Marabout. Du hot et du suspens ! Dans la lignée de 50 nuances de Grey, mais dans un format court, dense, soutenu, sous forme de feuilleton ! 5 épisodes, et une compilation finale.

The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega

Nombre de pages: 68

Vol. 57, no. 3 is a "Directory issue."

Les jeux de Némésis

Auteure: James S. A. Corey

Nombre de pages: 854

À la suite des événements sur Ilus, le Rossinante se retrouve temporairement immobilisé et son équipage se dissémine aux quatre coins du système solaire. Dans le même temps, de curieuses affaires de vaisseaux disparus et de matériel volé font surface. Chacun de leur côté, Holden, Alex, Amos et Naomi vont alors devoir affronter leur passé et tenter de déjouer un vaste complot qui pourrait bien mener à l’avènement d'un nouvel ordre intergalactique.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Auteure: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Nombre de pages: 1294

The Family of Alexander McCoy

Auteure: Chauncey E. Mccoy , Lelah Achey , Lloyd Buchwald

Nombre de pages: 316

Alexander McCay (1737-1817?) was born in County Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland. He was the son of John McCay. By the time he emigrated to America in 1755, he had changed his name to McCoy. He married Margaret Dixon in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and they were the parents of ten children. Their descendants settled in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana and now descendants live throughout the United States.

Varner Families of the South: Varner families of Oglethorpe County, GA, and their descendants

Auteure: Gerald Hubert Varner

Nombre de pages: 426

Justify

Auteure: Lenny Shulman , Steve Haskin

Nombre de pages: 213

With a trademark powerful stride amid a blaze of red and yellow silks, Justify emphatically crossed the finish line at the 2018 Belmont Stakes and became just the 13th winner of horse racing's elusive Triple Crown. One of the most charismatic and talented runners in the history of the sport, Justify was also one of its most unlikely champions; the late-blooming chestnut colt made his competitive debut only 111 days prior to that legendary victory. In Justify: 111 Days to Triple Crown Glory, veteran scribe Lenny Shulman (BloodHorse magazine) provides an insider account of this Thoroughbred's rise to greatness. Through extensive interviews and first-hand accounts, readers will discover the fascinatingly disparate cast of characters who were crucial to Justify's success, including trainer Bob Baffert, whose innate ability to identify equine talent also produced American Pharoah; Mike Smith, the 52-year-old jockey asserting himself in the miraculous third act of his career; and breeders John and Tanya Gunther, who believed in Justify's ability despite the developmental imperfections that drove buyers away. Packed with riveting action, keen insight, and behind-the-scenes perspectives...

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Nombre de pages: 1292