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The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports

by Rodney D. Fort, James P. Quirk ...

What can possibly account for the strange state of affairs in professional sports today? There are billionaire owners and millionaire players, but both groups are constantly squabbling over money. Many pro teams appear to be virtual "cash machines," generating astronomical annual revenues, but their owners seem willing to uproot them and move to any city willing to promise increased profits. At ... Read more

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What can possibly account for the strange state of affairs in professional sports today? There are billionaire owners and millionaire players, but both groups are constantly squabbling over money. Many pro teams appear to be virtual "cash machines," generating astronomical annual revenues, but their owners seem willing to uproot them and move to any city willing to promise increased profits. At
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 9

Embrace the darkness

by James S Pyke-Nott, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Ernst Raupach, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Tod Robbins, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Phil Robinson, Sax Rohmer, Saki, Marcel Schwob, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, M P Shiel, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Janet Fullerlove ...

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12 hours 11 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
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Fishermen of Kérity

by Peter James Quirk ...

Still reeling from the loss of his beloved but enigmatic mother, Tommy Kiernan is convinced her death is not an accident. He suspects the roots of this tragedy started twenty years ago—in the village in Brittany where his mother lived during the second World War. Leaving behind his college classes and new-found love, he travels to France to unearth her story and unmask a murderer.With the help of ... Read more

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Still reeling from the loss of his beloved but enigmatic mother, Tommy Kiernan is convinced her death is not an accident. He suspects the roots of this tragedy started twenty years ago—in the village in Brittany where his mother lived during the second World War. Leaving behind his college classes and new-found love, he travels to France to unearth her story and unmask a murderer.With the help of
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Writing the American Classics

Edited by James Barbour, Tom Quirk ...

This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the “stories of stories,” plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer’s mind.The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a ... Read more

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This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the “stories of stories,” plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer’s mind.The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a
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Romanticism

Critical Essays in American Literature

Edited by James Barbour, Thomas Quirk ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism
First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of America’s Romantic literature. Some of these essays make connections between authors or define Romanticism in terms of one of the works; others address major issues during the period; others offer a ... Read more

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First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of America’s Romantic literature. Some of these essays make connections between authors or define Romanticism in terms of one of the works; others address major issues during the period; others offer a
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The Portable American Realism Reader

by Various ...

Series series Portable Library
During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean ... Read more

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During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean
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Dark Age

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Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton, Rendah Heywood ...

Series series Red Rising
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For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned ... Read more

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For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned
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Look Back in Anger

by John Osborne ...

Narrated by Simon Templeman, Joanne Whalley, James Warwick, Moira Quirk, Steven Brand ...

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Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seems destined to destroy everything.Set in the UK at the dawn of the 60’s social unrest, this savage morality tale spawned the phrase “angry young man.”An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast ... Read more

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Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seems destined to destroy everything.Set in the UK at the dawn of the 60’s social unrest, this savage morality tale spawned the phrase “angry young man.”An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast
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Hound of the Baskervilles, The

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by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright ...

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Did a supernatural hound cause the death of Sir Charles Baskerville? Or is the famous Baskerville curse simply a cover for more sinister goings on? The redoubtable Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson face danger in an old mansion and on the moors in this rollicking stage adaptation of Doyle’s classic adventure.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Geoffrey Arend, Wilson ... Read more

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Did a supernatural hound cause the death of Sir Charles Baskerville? Or is the famous Baskerville curse simply a cover for more sinister goings on? The redoubtable Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson face danger in an old mansion and on the moors in this rollicking stage adaptation of Doyle’s classic adventure.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Geoffrey Arend, Wilson
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Bridge 108

by Anne Charnock ...

Narrated by Will M. Watt, Fiona Hardingham, Steve West, James Langton, Elizabeth Knowelden, Moira Quirk ...

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From the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author, a dystopian novel of oppression set in the climate-ravaged Europe of A Calculated Life, a finalist for the Kitschies award and Philip K. Dick Award.Late in the twenty-first century, drought and wildfires prompt an exodus from southern Europe. When twelve-year-old Caleb is separated from his mother during their trek north, he soon falls prey to ... Read more

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From the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author, a dystopian novel of oppression set in the climate-ravaged Europe of A Calculated Life, a finalist for the Kitschies award and Philip K. Dick Award.Late in the twenty-first century, drought and wildfires prompt an exodus from southern Europe. When twelve-year-old Caleb is separated from his mother during their trek north, he soon falls prey to
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Whose Government Is It?

The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation

by Pat Conaty, James Weinberg, Barry Quirk, Hazel Blears, Carol Packham, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek, Marjorie Mayo, Jane Roberts, Matthew Flinders, James Sloam, Marian Barnes, Marilyn Taylor, Graham Smith, David Blunkett, Simon Burall, Anna Coote, Nick Pearce ...

This book brings together leading figures in democratic reform and civic engagement to show why and how better state-citizen cooperation is necessary for achieving positive social change. Their contributions demonstrate that, while protest and non-state action may have their place, citizens must also work effectively with public bodies to secure sustainable improvements.The authors explain why the ... Read more

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This book brings together leading figures in democratic reform and civic engagement to show why and how better state-citizen cooperation is necessary for achieving positive social change. Their contributions demonstrate that, while protest and non-state action may have their place, citizens must also work effectively with public bodies to secure sustainable improvements.The authors explain why the
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Iron Gold

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Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer, Aedin Moloney ...

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Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the ... Read more

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Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Trilogy. Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the
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