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  • The Eagle and the Bear

    A New History of Roman Scotland

    by John H. Reid ...
    For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This richly illustrated new history of Roman Scotland explores the complex, often tumultuous and frequently brutal interaction between the world's first superpower and the peoples who lived north of Hadrian's Wall. With reference to the ... Read more

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  • Down a Dark Hall

    "I'm Standing over Here!"

    by John A. Reid ...
    Over three hundred halls of many different lengths form a confusing, dangerous maze in this enormous institute for criminally insane youth in the early 1960s.This story was inspired by the real experience of a 16-year-old youth whom was wrongfully convicted of a crime, then misdiagnosed as criminally insane. In this story, he is known by the pseudonym of Jeremy Calder.During his two-year ... Read more

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  • Mystique of the Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics

    by Charles Dickens, Friedrich Schiller, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas Love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Robert Browning, Walter Hubbell, Marie Corelli, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, William Blake, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Keats, Richard Marsh, Clara Reeve, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, W. W. Jacobs, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, George W. M. Reynolds, William Thomas Beckford, Christina Rossetti, Tobias Smollett, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian ...
    Translated by C. J. Hogarth, Samuel Henley, Isabel F. Hapgood ...
    Mystique of the Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics is an exquisite anthology that traverses the dark corridors of the Gothic tradition in literature, offering a haunting exploration of themes from the supernatural to the sublime. With a masterful compilation of over a century's worth of Gothic literature, this collection features a tapestry of works that range from the atmospheric to the macabre, ... Read more

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  • Scaring the Kids

    by John A. Reid ...
    Evil people are scaring the kids in these nine stories. Such as Birgitta whom is plotting the murder of her stepdaughter, when she starts seeing huge, glowing eyes floating outside her home at night, and freshly gouged-out eyes in many places inside her home both day and night. In another story, Justin is scared when he comes face-to-face with a vicious child rapist and killer in the woods. In the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • "I Do!"

    Love Stories

    by John A. Reid ...
    Eight assorted romances, and surprisingly, most of these loves last forever. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Award-Winning Films of the 1930s

    by John Howard Reid ...
    Mathematicians will argue that the term, 1930s, applies to the years 1931 through 1940. The author, however, has taken the popular view that the decade extends from 1930 through 1939. As a special bonus, however, he has also included the award-winners of 1927, 1928 and 1929! So what we have here is an account of most of the generally released movies that won awards presented by The Academy of ... Read more

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  • Uncovering Nevada's Past

    A Primary Source History of the Silver State

    Edited by John B. Reid, Ronald M. James ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada’s relatively brief history has been nonetheless remarkably eventful. From the activities of the first Euro-American explorers to the booms and busts of the mining industry, from the struggles and artistry of the Native Americans to the establishment of liberal divorce laws and such unique industries as legalized gambling and prostitution, from Cold War atomic tests to the civil rights ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD

    A Guide to the Best in Cinema Thrills

    by John Howard Reid ...
    Five stars! They don't make them like they used to do. And reading through this compendium of some of the best `mystery, suspense, film noir and detective movies on DVD' reminded me of that. In many cases, these films were made under the studio system, whereby the scripts were tailored to the actors' strengths and personalities. This is one reason why many of the old films were so good. The author ... Read more

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  • In a Defiant Stance

    The Conditions of Law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish Comparison, and the Coming of the American Revolution

    by John P. Reid ...
    The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive conditions of law imposed by Britain.Examining the most rebellious American colony, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Five Lost Superpowers

    Why We Lose Them and How to Get Them Back

    by John Reid, Andrew Reid, Corena Chase, Lynae Steinhagen ...
    There is a well of untapped potential inside you, just waiting to be unleashed. Everyone has superpowers when they are a child. We tend to lose them as we grow up, but they're always there, right below the surface, ready for us to reactivate them and fully manifest our human potential. Learn to reclaim your own superhero birthright with The Five Lost Superpowers. As you grew up, you were taught to ... Read more

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  • New Light on Movie Bests

    by John Howard Reid ...
    Everyone loves Best Movies' lists. But this book is more than just a list of great movies. In addition to the author's listing of the best 400, a number of these pictures are examined in detail: "The Third Man" for example, and "The Shepherd of the Hills", "The General", "Gilda", "Tales of Manhattan", "The Big Clock", "Anna Karenina", "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "China Seas", "Duck Soup", the ... Read more

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  • In a Rebellious Spirit

    The Argument of Facts, the Liberty Riot, and the Coming of the American Revolution

    by John P. Reid ...
    A fresh view of the legal arguments leading to the American Revolution, this book argues that rebellious acts called "lawless" mob action by British authorities were sanctioned by "whig law" in the eyes of the colonists. Professor Reid also holds that leading historians have been misled by taking both sides' forensic statements at face value.The focus is on three events. First was the Malcom ... Read more

    $23.99 USD