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Author: Van Camp, RichardSummary:
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Author: Scarry, RichardSummary:
Ace detectives Sam Cat and Dudley Pig take on three mysteries involving stolen pies, food theft in a supermarket, and a stolen necklace on a cruise ship.
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Author: Brokaw, Tom.Summary:
Tom Brokaw recounts the endgame of the Watergate scandal and the Nixon presidency in real time, from his perspective in the press corps as a young White House correspondent for NBC News. The last...
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Author: Feynman, Richard P.Summary:
A collection of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles.
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Author: Feynman, Richard P.Summary:
Few scientists have enthralled more people than Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Six Easy Pieces and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Beloved for his...
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Author: Halpern, PaulSummary:
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler was a raging nonconformist full of...
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Author: Proenneke, RichardSummary:
In More Readings from One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980 readers find one of Alaska's best known wilderness icons going about his daily chores, documenting...
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Author: Dorricott, Linda, Cullon, DeidreSummary:
Captain Richards' journal is an account of three survey seasons on Vancouver Island aboard two British Navy ships, the HMS Plumper and the HMS Hecate. Between 1860 and 1862 Richards and his...
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Author: CORNWELL, BernardSummary:
A welcome return to Richard Sharpe finds him fighting his old enemies, the French, at the extraordinary battle of Barossa in 1811. Richard Sharpe has been sent by Wellington on a mission to Cadiz...
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Author: Bellett, GeraldSummary:
The acclaimed non-fiction international political thriller exposing the real reason for Watergate, the hidden death of Howard Hughes, and the illicit activities of the U.S. Central Intelligence...
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Author: Marquis, GregSummary:
Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial,...
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Author: Bond, MartynSummary:
In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no...
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Author: Preston, Richard J.Summary:
A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays...
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Author: CORRIS, PeterSummary:
This humorous novel is set against the backdrop of Hollywood in the 1920's and follows the adventures of actor Richard Browning as he gets caught between the FBI and the Ku Klux Klan, and...
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Author: Pitt, SteveSummary:
In 1812, a 67-year-old black United Empire Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint helped raise "a corps of Coloured Men to stand and fight together" against the Americans who were threatening...