James Hall
1) The Haze
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Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors. An aging mobster finds trouble in a nursing home in the latest caper from an Edgar Award–winning author. Back in the day, Little Mo Connor was a hired gun for Slick Dickey Scalini, taking down opponents without discretion, always with the same signature kill: three shots to the head, one shot to the heart. Now he's living out his last days hidden away in an anonymous facility, surrounded...
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A riveting fantasy about fallen angels who rebelled since the beginning of time. An untold story of a wingless entity arriving on Earth to awaken a tree in hibernation. A mysterious girl grows up in the wilderness between flora and fauna. Her innocence limits her perception of the worldly domain. She dwells in a place where the folds of space do not hold onto time. Her adventures bring her through the various ecosystems in search of divine purpose....
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These 36 intellectually challenging yet remarkably clear lectures take you on an intellectual journey to explore the questions of divine existence, not from the standpoint of theology, but as an issue of epistemology, the classic branch of philosophy that concerns itself with knowledge theory: how we can know things and how we can know we know them. If you enjoy wrapping your mind around questions for which every potential answer triggers a new set...
4) Silencer
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Earl Hammond, the wealthy patriarch of a family of ranchers, lies dead, shot just as he was to donate his Coquina Ranch to the state to preserve it from developers. Spearheading the plan to save this environmental treasure was Thorn, a reluctant heir to a secret family fortune, who now finds himself in terrible danger as well. A pair of deviant brothers, both contract killers, kidnap and imprison him in a sinkhole-a dungeon from which there is no...
5) Hell's Bay
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Wealthy Florida matron Abigail Bates is on a canoe trip down a backwater river when suddenly, from out of nowhere, she is held underwater to drown by a strange and merciless killer...Thorn is aboard a houseboat in Hell's Bay when he is confronted by Abigail's son and alluring granddaughter. Thorn soon learns that they are his long-lost relatives-and that he is about to inherit a great fortune. He's also about to find out that being a member of the...
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Eighteen years ago, a girl shot down a rapist while her father's lawnmower sputtered in the yard outside. Somewhere in the heat and shadows of that day, Alexandra Rafferty took on the burden of her deed, and forged a bond of silence with her cop father. But now Alexandra's husband has left, her father is clinging to his health, and a Miami serial killer is leaving behind death scenes that go beyond the horrific. For Alexandra, her life and work are...
7) Magic city
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A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime forty-two years earlier. After it mysteriously reappears, the photo is burned in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day killing spree reaching from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House.What the killer did not know is that a copy of the photograph...
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Everyone has to think in order to function in the world, but what is the best way to reason effectively in your pursuit of reliable beliefs and useful knowledge? What is the best way to prove a case, create a rule, solve a problem, justify an idea, invent a hypothesis, or evaluate an argument? In short, what is the best way to think? Professor Hall helps you cut through deception and faulty reasoning in these 24 humorous, clear, and interesting lectures,...
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Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They had a highly successful literary partnership that lasted nearly 30 year and produced several worldwide bestsellers.
The authors of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" trilogy present a travelogue look at French Polynesia in the 1920's. Although non-fiction, it relates the stories and lifestyles of natives, scalawags, and (yes) imperialists...
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Based on wartime letters published in the Atlantic magazine, this 1918 volume recounts the author's World War I experiences as a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, the French-American flying corps, and, after American entry into the war, the 94th Pursuit Squadron of the Army Air Service. Hall's exciting adventures in the "Penguin" aircrafts describe a "learn to fly by trial and error" method, terrifying to say the least.
11) Bones of coral
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All kinds of evolved life forms wash up on the beaches of Key West, just waiting for a chance to wreak havoc on the general population. Take Douglas Barnes, president of Barnes Waste Management, who gets his jollies by sending some amazing things into the outer atmosphere; or Dougie Barnes, who has a predilection for poetry, parrots and perversion. Into this haven for the insane waltzes Trula Montoya, a former TV actress with a secret, and Shaw Chandler,...
12) High Adventure
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War in the Sky for the first time in history! The first military Air Force, the French Lafayette Escadrille, accepts Americans to train and serve as pilots prior to America's entyr into World War One. James Norman Hall, on of these young men, describes his frightening experiences flying over enemy lines, and his soul searching when commanded to kill. He recounts his training in a French flight school on wooden bi-planes, his warm friebndships with...
13) With Pen & Ink
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Educator and artist James Hall draws upon his extensive teaching experience to demonstrate how to develop a successful approach to the use of pen and ink. His two-part treatment addresses both decorative and pictorial drawing. Starting with outlines, composing, and the use of solids and hatching, Hall progresses to the renderings for more advanced practitioners of still lifes, architecture, and figures. A great companion for beginners, this volume...
14) Fowl Pest
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More than anything in the whole wide world, Amy Pickett want to be a chicken. Her family aren't too keen about that. The clucking would get on their nerves. Even her best friend Clarice thinks she's unhinged. Then Madam Marvel comes to town and strange feathery things begin to happen. Nothing for any of them is ever going to be quite the same again...
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"It seemed necessary that some record of the accomplishment of the Lafayette Corps be set down, not only for the pleasure of the men who were a part of it, but the others in later days might not forget these volunteers who were among the first Americans to go to the aid of France at a time of great need." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography...
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James W. Hall is the critically acclaimed author of eleven crime novels, including Body Language and Blackwater Sound. He's also published four books of poetry. And, several of his short stories have appeared in magazines like the Georgia Review and Kenyon Review.
Now, writing in the spirit of Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Hall wins a new kind of reader with this collection of essays that run from insightful to opinionated, funny to wise.
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This 1916 memoir recounts the author's experiences as a soldier in the British army. Posing as a Canadian, Hall enlisted at the outbreak of World War I, ultimately serving as a machine gunner at the Battle of Loos in 1915, before his true identity was exposed, leading to his discharge.
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"James Edmond Hall (1841-1915) was born in Barbour County, West Virginia. In May of 1861 he joined a newly organized militia called the Barbour Greys, which was mustered into the Confederate Army as Company H of the 31st Virginia Volunteer Infantry. His diary records a common soldier's experience in the Civil War from major campaigns as part of the Army of Northern Virginia, to a Union prison, and finally Appomattox and the end of the conflict."-Print...
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