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Frederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films. He rivaled Edgar Wallace and Isaac Asimov as one of the most prolific authors...
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The Third Western Megapack collects 21 more great tales of the Old West, with cowboys and conmen, outlaws and gunslingers, as well as lawmen and saloon gals! Included are:
ADVERTISED IN ADVANCE, by Johnston McCulley
THERE AIN'T NO MEN IN HEAVEN, by Gary Lovisi
MUSTANG BREED, by Alan LeMay
DESERT VENUS, by Lonni Lees
BAD BLOOD AT DRY ROCK, by Arlette Lees
LADY SHERIFF SEES RED! by Barbara L. Bonham
THE SECRET CACHE, by E. C. Brill
BOOTHILL...
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All Star Western volume 22
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English
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Jonah Hex is the baddest bounty hunter in the Old West...but Hex isn't in the Old West anymore. Now he's found himself transported to modern-day Gotham City, and this brave new world and the tough old gunslinger do not agree with each other. Mistaken for a lunatic and locked up in Arkham Asylum, Hex will do anything to escape, including kidnapping Dr. Arkham, stealing a car and hitting the open road. Soon, Hex's odyssey finds him crossing paths with...
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The most backward and repressive nation in Europe, terribly overmatched in the war, experiences the overthrow of both its czar and the republican government that succeeds him before suing for peace with Germany and establishing the world's first Communist government.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The rise of literacy and the development of the printing press make possible the dissemination of powerful new ideas - particularly those of Augustinian priest and reformer Martin Luther.
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The Great Courses
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2006.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The most backward and repressive nation in Europe, terribly overmatched in the war, experiences the overthrow of both its czar and the republican government that succeeds him before suing for peace with Germany and establishing the world's first Communist government.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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While several factors make Europe the logical place for industrialization to begin, it is Britain's advantages - financial, political, and social - that makes it the best-suited country to exploit those conditions. The result is a host of brilliant inventors, financiers, and managers who bring about the first Industrial Revolution.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Among twelve top Western birding sites, visit the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, nesting site of forty million seabirds; California's Point Reyes National Seashore, which hosts a massive 490 species; the Grand Canyon, a Globally Important Bird Area; and a Texas park that sees a million migrating raptors each fall.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2006.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Its final effort to win the war thwarted, and facing food and fuel shortages, Germany finally agrees to an armistice. The ensuing peace conference produces a treaty that will weaken the German economy and breed tremendous resentment.
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The Sdkfz 251 halftrack was one of the most versatile armored vehicles produced by either side in the Second World War. Designed by the firm of Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG, or Hanomag, production ran to over 15,000 vehicles and it was eventually built as twenty-three separate variants serving as not only a personnel carrier, but also a command vehicle, mobile rocket launcher, armored ambulance and bridge-layer.
In his first book in the LandCraft...
14) Sudden country
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A map which may point to a cache of gold lost during the Civil War leads a young treasure hunter on the adventure of a lifetime—one step ahead of Quantrill's raiders. "Estleman has no rival in evoking the American Southwest."—Kirkus Reviews "Estleman rivals the finest American novelists."—The Washington Post Book World Loren D. Estleman is a four-time Golden Spur Award winner
16) New Mexico!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 22
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Bantam
Pub. Date
c1988.
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272 pages : map, genealogical table ; 18 cm.
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Lizzie Randall, the preacher's daughter, is murdered. The men of the west Texas town are set on lynching Paco Morales, a Mexican teenager who happened to be in the vicinity. In the end justice is served. The list of suspects grows to include almost everyone in the story...
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