Death Comes Last: The Rest of the 1950s, Paperback - Gil Brewer

Reducere. DEATH COMES LASTTaken together, Death Comes Last and the expanded Redheads Die Quickly contain all of Brewer's short fiction published between 1951...

Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a s...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Joy ShihIllustration(s): over 250 color photosNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 21...

Argues that mandated normativity - as a political agenda and a social ethic - precluded explicit expression of the anxiety produced by America's ra...

Reducere. DescriptionDEATH IS A PRIVATE EYE"The reason these stories are being published only now, rather than 40 or more years ago when they were first writ...

Paul Thurstons 25 Steps to Learning 2/1 was an instant bestseller, winning the 2003 American Bridge Teachers Association Book of the Year award. In...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionAfter the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agre...

Reducere. Love cryptograms? Interested in the 1950s? Take a step back in time with this collection of over 400 cryptogroups and cryptoquotes all with a 1950s...

Phil Carradice's account of growing up in Pembrokeshire after the Second World War ended.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Phil CarradiceIll...

Favourite cars of the 1950s are lavishly illustrated in this little books, with a lively text. They include models from Morris, Austin, Ford, MG, J...

Reducere. When James Earp was diagnosed with heart failure, he assumed he wouldn't have long to live. He had no idea that he would be offered a new lease on ...

Reducere. A New York Times BestsellerTo some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida shows, it's both of these and, more impor...

Reducere. When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the...

More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade d...

Reducere. Hoosier hysteria is synonymous with Indiana's crazy love affair with basketball. For some, it harkens back to the final four teams that met as a re...

Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies....

Reducere. First-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest gen...

FLIGHT TO DARKNESS I murdered my brother with a sculptor's mallet. But it was only a dream. It was a dream I always had. I hated my brother. I was ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

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Asking the daring question: "Why can't the rest of the world get on with the French?", the book offers some illuminating answers and provides tools...

Reducere. Take a step back in time with this collection of 60 word search puzzles, all with a 1950s theme. What movies were made in the 1950s? What music was...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE RED SCARF Roy Nichols needs to find some quick cash to keep from losing his motel. The new highway was supposed to go through, provi...

Reducere. DIE ONCE--DIE TWICE The opening sentence of "I Had Sex with a Martian" warns its readers, "If you are at all shocked by startling unconventionality...

Reducere. DescriptionREDHEADS DIE QUICKLY Gil Brewer, the frantic master of compulsive noir fiction--the man of whom author/editor Ed Gorman once said, "at h...

Copenhagen Street was no different from any street in any industrial town or city in the 1950s. Not only were the streets similar, their inhabitant...

This is the story of a man caught in the middle of what he came to recognise as a huge American destabilizing operation, illustrating how he plotte...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are org...

Reducere. The stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday has been praised for bringing back to life one of...

Reducere. Imagine America with only one political party! Death of the Elephant paints such a portrait of where we are headed if we stay on our present course...

For almost three decades, Georgia Tann was nationally lauded for her work at her children's home. In reality she was selling many of her charges - ...

Reducere. "Have nothing to do with the 'stinky fish' Jeremy Crawford."Fifty-million-dollar lottery winner Randy Rush was only out for personal justice when h...

Reducere. There must be something in our souls that cries out to explain to the world not only who we are but also how it was we got to be the person our fri...

Erudite but highly readable.... An attractive and timely repackaging of an unrivalled classic of Burgundian studies. MEDIUM AEVUM

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Daniel A. BellIllustration(s): 2 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 14...

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times bestseller, this is the "outstanding" (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's pres...

Reducere. In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous...

DescriptionStriking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review)The li...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Magna Carta, then keep reading...The Magna Carta is celebrated as one of the most important ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Magna Carta, then keep reading...The Magna Carta is celebrated as one of the most important ...

Reducere. This diverse neighborhood in the shadow of LaGuardia Airport was once called "Manhattan's Bedroom." Famous comedians, actors, physicians, scientist...

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable.