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  • Once Upon A Time It Was Now

    The Arts & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction

    by James Thom Alexander ...
    While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there.Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not.In Once Upon a Time ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fire in the Water

    by James Thom Alexander ...
    Paddy Quinn, the boy who ate rattlesnakes, and lost a hand to a cannon blast during the Mexican War, returns as a famous Civil War correspondent and battlefield sketch artist in James Alexander Thom's new novel, Fire in the Water. The central action in this novel is the tragic explosion and burning of the paddlewheel steamboat SULTANA near Memphis in the last days of the Civil War, killing some 1 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    City of Dreadful Night, The

    by James Thomson ...
    Narrated by Tom McLean, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    James Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland on the 23rd November 1834.At the age of 8 his sister died and his father suffered a stroke. Thomson was now sent south to be raised in a London orphanage, the Royal Caledonian Asylum on Chalk near Holloway. Shortly thereafter he was given the news that his mother had also now died. It was a bleak beginning to the next chapters of his life and would ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • St. Patrick Battalion

    A Novel of The Mexican-American War

    by James Thom Alexander ...
    They were proud and doomed, Irish rogue cannoneers under a green silk banner, fighting against their former comrades-in-arms to defend Catholic Mexico against the invading U.S. Army.Their choices were to win, die in battle, or hang as deserters. To the Mexicans they were heroic saviors, but they were seen as despicable traitors by the West Point officers who faced their grapeshot and cannonballs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Document Computing

    Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections

    by Ron Sacks-Davis, Justin Zobel, James Thom, Michael Fuller, Timothy Arnold-Moore, Ross Wilkinson ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections discusses the important aspects of document computing and recommends technologies and techniques for document management, with an emphasis on the processes that are appropriate when computers are used to create, access, and publish documents. This book includes descriptions of the nature of documents, their components ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    The Truth Itself

    by James Rayburn ...
    Narrated by Tom Taylorson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    A school shooting in snowbound Vermont; an American journalist beheaded in war-torn Syria; a passenger jet exploding in the Thai jungle—everything connects to Kate Swift, CIA assassin turned whistleblower, on the run from a sinister intelligence unit.With her six-year-old daughter, Suzie, she flees across the Canadian border to begin a perilous journey to Berlin and then Thailand in search of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Follow the River

    A Novel

    by James Alexander Thom ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “It takes a rare individual not only to see that history can live, but also to make it live for others. James Thom has that gift.”—The Indianapolis NewsMary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Atomic Accidents

    A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

    by James Mahaffey ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    A gripping narrative of nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotal to the advancement of nuclear scienceFrom the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters. Mahaffey, a long-time advocate of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • James Beard's American Cookery

    by James Beard ...
    The classic, must-have American cookbook from one of our greatest authorities on food."The beauty of this book is that it allows you…to experience firsthand what made James Beard special and unique. His voice can be heard through his no-nonsense recipes and the choices he made that celebrated even simple, humble dishes for what they were: good food." —Tom Colicchio, 2010 James Beard Foundation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Doctor Who: Scratchman

    by Tom Baker, James Goss ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhat are you afraid of?In his first-ever Doctor Who novel, Tom Baker’s incredible imagination is given free rein. A story so epic it was originally intended for the big screen, Scratchman is a gripping, white-knuckle thriller almost forty years in the making.The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at a remote Scottish island, when their holiday is cut short by the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Warrior Woman

    The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief

    by Dark Rain Thom, James Alexander Thom ...
    A bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing woman–one who led her people in war when she could not persuade them to make peace.Her name ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Live From New York

    The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

    by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales ...
    James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales's definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live, hailed as "incredible" (Vulture) and "required reading" (People).When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Live from New York was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD