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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

    $11.59 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

  • 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 Red Heart

    A Novel

    by James Alexander Thom ...
    The Slocum family of Northeastern Pennsylvania are the best of the white settlers, peace-loving Quakers who believe that the Indians hold the Light of God inside. It is from this good-hearted family that Frances is abducted during the Revolutionary war.As the child's terror subsides, she is slowly drawn into the sacred work and beliefs of her adoptive mother and of all the women of these Eastern ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • From Sea to Shining Sea

    A Novel

    by James Alexander Thom ...
    “Splendid . . . Thom tells the story with humor and eloquence, and a thumping good tale it is, too.”—The Washington PostIn one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Lies They Teach in School

    Exposing the Myths Behind 250 Commonly Believed Fallacies

    by Herb W. Reich ...
    It is a cliché that history is written by the victors, but what we accept as history is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told they did. Such items are taught in schools. They are passed down to us by our families and friends and have become part of our shared cultural knowledge. And they are wrong. Touching on a number of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Stein On Writing

    A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

    by Sol Stein ...
    Your future as a writer is in your hands. Whether you are a newcomer or an accomplished professional, a novelist, story writer, or a writer of nonfiction, you will find this book a wealth of immediately useful guidance not available anywhere else. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of useable solutions-- how to fix writing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gumption

    Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

    by Nick Offerman ...
    The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation’s history, from her inception to present day—Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans.”To millions of people, Nick Offerman is America. Both Nick and his character, Ron Swanson, are known for their humor and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Dancing at the Edge of the World

    Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    "Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Telling Lies for Fun & Profit

    by Lawrence Block ...
    Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career.From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline and "creative procrastination," through coping with rejections, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit is an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

    by Dale Carnegie ...
    Public Speaking is an important skill which anyone can acquire and develop. The book consists of basic principles of effective speaking, technique of effective speaking, and the three aspects of every speech and effective methods of delivering a talk. All this relates to business, social and personal satisfaction which depend heavily upon our ability to communicate clearly to others. A must read ... Read more

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