The Wounded find Ricky Belisle and Marie-Jeanne Charbonneau have left their remote Lake Superior village, a world circumscribed by Life Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post, the radio, stories told around a kitchen table during winter storms, and such news as an occasional visitor might bring from the city.Marie-Jeanne, younger by months than Ricky, wiser by years, understood that two created such meaning as vague words––love, respect, sharing, kindness––conveyed through...

Ricky Belisle is a boy born to first-generation Americans who have migrated north to farm and hold land that cannot be taken away from them. They bring with them the beliefs, manners and stories of the homeland that they have not occupied and in so doing they create a disconnect in Ricky that forces him to begin the exploration that will eventually take him away from the land that has leached into his bones, that has given him the foundation for how he sees the world.Marie Jeanne C...

The Independence Day Collection: 30 Best American Revolution Novels assembles a capacious imaginative archive of the struggle for independence and its afterlives. Adventure romance, sea narrative, frontier tale, historical melodrama, political fiction, and morally searching romance converge to portray revolution as both public upheaval and intimate trial. Episodes of espionage, military campaigning, divided loyalties, colonial society, and the contested promise of liberty reveal the genre'...

Robert Townsend, the author of the best seller Up the Organization, is the former CEO of Avis …and the man credited with Getting Avis to Try Harder! Townsend’s Theory Y Management Style is well worth memorizing or at least reviewing weekly!

Discover Robert Townsend’s 40-year journey with his beloved Brighton & Hove Albion as a ball boy, staff member, newspaper columnist and fan. This is the Seagulls’ answer to Fever Pitch!Funny, poignant and instantly relatable, this book captures the universal joy and anguish of football fandom.Inside you will find:? Iconic Albion moments from the 1980s to today the Goldstone farewell, the Hereford survival match, the early days at Withdean a...

Laura's Baby is Book 3 in the Laura series of erotic comedy fantasy novels. Shortly after our wedding Laura discovers that she is pregnant with our first child. An ancient Arthurian prophesy about a mystical Red Moon Child is becoming manifest. The Reverend Popplethwaite stumbles upon a group of crackpot devil worshipers holding a black mass in his church cemetery late one night, and chases them away. They then move into Dunehaven and it soon becomes apparent that Laura and I are being sta...

Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.”This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Rob...

Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy. Using a wealth of primary source qualitative and quantitative data, including survey data collected by the author, it evaluates the impact of specific financial institutions, markets for credit and insurance, and government policies on growth, inequality, and poverty at the...

It is 1953. Danton Larionov, son of NKVD major Wolf Larionov, lives in Suzdal, ancient Russia's capital and spiritual center. Its medieval fortresses, monasteries, and nunneries are now an NKVD Gulag. Screams punctuate the night. Woman's Wood, a tract of ancient forest, emanates deathly silence. The rasputitsa, Russia's spring thaw, ejects those buried in mass graves, brings the murdered to the surface, as if rejecting Stalin's victims buried with proper rite and ceremony....

Book number 5 in the Laura series. Summertime is coming and the busy holiday season in Dunehaven seaside resort is hotting up! Laura and I, along with our friends Debra, Vince and Jessica are looking forward to long summer days, sunbathing and swimming in the sea. But our holiday plans are constantly ruined when hordes of Rodds and Mockers descend on our little seaside idyll and turn it into a major war zone! Debra wins the national final of the Miss Wet Tee Shirt competition at Stringvest...

For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself wor...

It is 1953. Danton Larionov, son of NKVD major Wolf Larionov, lives in Suzdal, ancient Russia's capital and spiritual center. Its medieval fortresses, monasteries, and nunneries are now an NKVD Gulag. Screams punctuate the night. Woman's Wood, a tract of ancient forest, emanates deathly silence. The rasputitsa, Russia's spring thaw, ejects those buried in mass graves, brings the murdered to the surface, as if rejecting Stalin's victims buried with proper rite and ceremony....