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  • The Blackjack List

    by John R. Downes ...
    Thirteen million dollars remain buried from a Spokane bank heist ten years earlier. Only one of the five robbers was captured. The day hes released from prison, he hurries to a rendezvous with another at Becky Allisons blackjack table, where the two exchange the coded whereabouts of other gang members and two of five clues necessary to locate the cache. Sensing theyve been followed, both head for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Tales from Downes Town

    by John R. Downes ...
    The Accidental Candidate -- A janitor doesn't need to campaign with friends like this. Overheard At a Coffee Shop -- Farfetched, yet oddly believable-or not. Conversation On an Airplane -- A marble champion solves the National Debt. Ocean Mist -- Do clients follow a trusted adviser who opts for a career change? Custer's Witness -- Crow Indian Ashishishe was his scout at the Little Big Horn. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Two Came Running

    The War Hero’S Children

    by John R. Downes ...
    Two Came Running is a depiction of heroism, talent, and geniusall embodied in one family. A war heros prodigious son and daughter cope with multiple tragedies in their youth but rise to prominence on the world scene. Separately they perform vital roles in the struggle against the twentieth century's greatest menace.Commencing in Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twenties and the Great ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Enchanted Pipe

    by John R. Downes ...
    Following the English colonists arrival to Americas shores, Indian tribes strived to achieve peace and coexistence with themand simultaneously retain their homelands, hunting grounds, native culture, and religion. Those early colonists were followed by thousands more, then millions, who advanced the frontier from New England steadily westward across the central plains and Rockies to the Pacific. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Dissonant Spies

    A Novel

    by John R. Downes ...
    One of WWIIs most successful weapons was the Norden bombsight. Nazis coveted them the most from downed US bombers. American flyboys were taught to destroy the bombsights with thermal grenades, which caused them to melt into a molten mass rather than let them fall into enemy hands. When Hitler learns that an improved version would undergo testing on a B-17 by Honeywell Corporation in Minnesota, he ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rebel with a Cause

    The Biography of Glen Cloninger

    by John R. Downes ...
    A Spokane architect's ever-constant struggles with the Establishment, lawyers, bureaucrats, politicians, educators, activists, and myriad others, exhibits his bulldog nature, talent, and vision of the future he needed to weather the storms and overcome. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • North Carolina Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 1

    by Angela Robbins, Corey Stewart, Cynthia A. Kierner, Elizabeth Lundeen, James Alsop, Jim Downs, John C. Inscoe, Margaret Smith, Robert Hunt Ferguson, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Sarah H. Hill, Sheila R. Phipps, Suzanne Cooper Guasco, Terrell Armistead Crow, Vivian M. May, William A. Link, Jon F. Sensbach ...
    North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Beating the Dow Completely Revised and Updated

    A High-Return, Low-Risk Method for Investing in the Dow Jones Industrial Stocks with as Little as $5,000

    by John Downes, Michael B. O'Higgins ...
    In 1991, Michael B. O'Higgins, one of the nation's top money managers, turned the investment world upside down with an ingenious strategy, showing how all investors--from those with only $5,000 to invest to millionaires--could beat the pros 95% of the time by putting 100% of their equity investment into the high-yield, low-risk "dog" stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. His formula spawned ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Aperture

    by John Downing, Wendy Holden, Jeremy Bowen ...
    John Downing was the pre-eminent press photographer of his generation: he led a life of adventure in wars and hotspots around the world. His memoir, Aperture, offers a unique and first hand insight into life behind the Fleet Street lens during one of the most interesting periods of world history and a golden age of photojournalism. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scene Menagerie

    by John Downes ...
    The Scene Menagerie contains an assortment of fiction scenes and episodes from the novels and short stories of one author, John R. Downes, plus a few excerpts from his nonfictions thrown into the mix. What a range of subjects! War, the Great Depression, Custers Last Stand, FBI, orphans, espionage, US history, gunfighters, bank robbers, Adbiz, growing up, mass merchandising, bad guys, dreams, Royal ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Isle of Wight

    Landscape and Geology

    by John Downes ...
    The Isle of Wight is a geological gem with its 110km (68 mile) long coastline displaying a range of rocks dating from Lower Cretaceous to Oligocene age. Many of the sands and clays yield fossil bivalves and gastropods, and its famous dinosaur footprints attract much attention from geologists and tourists alike. Yet the scenic beauty of the island is the product of its differing strata, former ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • The Sourdough Loaf

    A Comprehensive Guide to Great Sourdough by Australia's Original Artisan Baker

    by John Downes ...
    Sourdough is the original, the most delicious and the most nutritious bread, and John Downes is Australia's original traditional sourdough baker. In the Sourdough Loaf, John shares the techniques, recipes and insights, gained from over 40 years of artisan sourdough baking. He provides readers of all proficiency levels with a low fuss, step by step approach to baking great sourdough, with tips on ... Read more

    $13.29 USD