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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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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"A Bullet for Cinderella" by John D. MacDonald is a gripping crime thriller that revolves around themes of greed, betrayal, and redemption. The story follows Tal Howard, a Korean War veteran who returns to civilian life with a burning desire to find a hidden fortune. Tal's war buddy, Timmy Warden, had confided in him about a stash of stolen money hidden in their hometown before he died in a POW camp. Driven by this knowledge, Tal heads to the small...
6) 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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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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Any movie with Lysa Dean's names in it was a box-office smash. And any compromising photographs of the famous actress were bound to be big money-earners for anyone disposed to blackmail. And somebody obviously was that way inclined - Travis McGee just had to find out who. There were two difficulties: the notes accompanying the photos seemed to be products of a particularly sick, twisted mind; and the other people in the pictures started turning up...
12) One more Sunday
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Welcome to the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers operate state-of-the-art computer equipment to solicit and process the thousands of dollars that pour in daily where hundreds of prayers are offered by armies of believers where some people give much more than they should. Its home is Meadows Center, some very expensive real estate on the outskirts of a sleepy Southern town, a jealously guarded complex of offices, houses, schools,...
14) The scarlet ruse
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G.K. Hall
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1980, ©1973
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482 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
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English
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He's 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 his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
20) Night shift
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"Nineteen of [King's] most unsettling short pieces: bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms, where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl"--Dust flap.