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A lifetime of classic golf writing by veteran sports journalist John Hopkins, recipient of the 2013 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism For more than 35 years, John "Hoppy" Hopkins covered the biggest stories in golf, from Major Championships to Ryder Cups and Amateur competitions. Collected together here for the first time are the very best of his articles, covering a diverse range of golfing stories, from the most memorable of the 120...
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An ancient Gray race time travels to the present after a humiliating Cretaceous-era colonization failure, seeking to recover and detonate a world-killer superweapon abandoned on a 90-million-year-old shipwreck lost to time in what is now the Amazon's vast unexplored reaches.
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Book Two in The Powers That Be Trilogy, THE LOST SHIP, immerses readers in the day-after chaos, carnage, and confusion following the near-apocalyptic ending of THE GOLDEN...
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"John-Bryan Hopkins wasn't satisfied with the recognized 145 national food holidays (most of which were created by food companies to sell their products, anyway). Thus, he resolved to create celebrations of his own favorite foods; one for each day of the year. This was the origin of Foodimentary.com, and now its success is contained in one delicious volume. Every taste is represented--from a simple root beer float to a sophisticated filet mignon....
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John Butler-Hopkins' For the Love of Poetry opens, appropriately enough, with a sequence of poems about romantic love in all its aspects: the dizzying ecstasies of infatuation and first love, then the brutal lessons of rejection and betrayal, and finally the discovery of a soul mate and the development of a true, long-term relationship.
By contrast, the book's second half is concerned with the tragedy of young men going to fight in the First World...
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Book One in The Powers That Be series, The Golden Ellipse, weaves humankind's most enduring mysteries into a thrilling race against time to recover a legendary relic and save the world from an alien apocalypse. Fresh off a space tourism flight in 2044, newlyweds Rachel and Owen Haig are thrust on a perilous crusade while adjusting to married life and battling demons from Rachel's past. Against formidable odds and malevolent forces from Earth and beyond,...
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The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout the country. "[It] will be talked about and written about as long as the American people boast of the dauntless courage of Gettysburg," declared a woman who accompanied her father to the reunion. But as the years passed, the memorable event was all but forgotten. John Hopkins's The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 goes a long...
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1948. The uneasy peace between Britain and Germany holds. War in the East sucks the economy dry, but Nazi Germany dominates Europe. Britain stands alone as they enter the atomic age.In Dresden a brilliant engineer on the Nazi atomic programme is willing to risk everything. MI6 send David Brook to stop them from obtaining The Bomb. He must remain hidden in the paranoid, oppressive, surveillance state of Nazi Germany.Plans in place, Brook and the insider...
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A bright and politically-engaged college student goes missing after a demonstration turns violent. But as her grieving mother begins her search, she uncovers a dark side to her daughter which she never knew existed. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring John de Lancie, Kaitlin Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Al Ruscio and Jennifer Warren. Directed by Peggy Shannon and recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.
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This traditional Christmas Carol was written by John Henry Hopkins, an American clergyman. He wrote the carol as part of a production he organized for his students at The General Theological Seminary in New York City where he held the post of musical director. This recording offers reading of the English language lyrics followed by magical Harp music based on original Christmas Carol melody.
11) Merry Christmas!
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A collection of ten iconic Christmas Carols featuring: 01 Carol of the Bells; 02 Silent Night; 03 The Indian Christmas Carol; 04 The Angel Gabriel's Message; 05 Ding Dong Merrily on High; 06 The First Noel; 07 O Christmas Tree; 08 O Come All Ye Faithful; 09 What Child is This?; 10 We Three Kings of Orient Are. This recording offers reading of the English language lyrics followed by magical Harp music based on original Christmas Carol melody.
13) Fashion drawing
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Basics fashion design volume 05
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Communicate your ideas and designs through a variety of sketches, drawings expressive illustrations, with guidance from a seasoned professional. With more than 150 colour examples, John Hopkins takes you through the different styles, techniques and approaches used in the fashion industry. This second edition offers advice on selecting appropriate materials and media, with examples of their different uses and applications. You'll also learn the theory...
16) Bluefin
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In North Lake, Canada, Local fishermen swear the spectacular Atlantic bluefin tuna are so plentiful they eat out of people's hands. Meanwhile, scientific evidence shows the species is on the brink of collapse. Can both claims be true?
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The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings, harbor macabre crimes, and eccentric characters that are no match for nice-guy detective Tom Barnaby and his assistants. Guest stars include Henry Ian Cusick, Jim Carter, Stella Gonet, Freddie Jones, Cherie Lunghi, and Henry Cavill. The mysteries: The Green Man; Bad Tidings; The Fisher King; and Sins of...
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In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis—American President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors. Combining in-depth...
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"Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she'll ever find love. They're ordinary people, preoccupied, as we...
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