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Howard John Reid, Kevin Craik, Dione Schoeman
The story of the Christian Youth Travel Association.
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Amy Whitelaw is a police officer considering her future. A killer appears on the streets of Sydney. Dubbed by the media as the Street Cleaner This killer is only punishing…
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This completely new translation and reconstruction of John’s Gospel and his three Letters (or Epistles) in the New Testament of the Bible, presents these books in their entirety and attempts…
A radical new translation of the New Testament Gospels of Mark and John, this book also includes the three Biblical letters written by John, the Elder, plus the first letter…
Newly translated from the best recently available Greek texts, this book presents not only the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John (placing them in their correct order of composition)…
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Providing an overview of the entire thriller genre, this book examines over 160 movies from classic Hollywood and British studios, including such essential film noir entries as Murder, My Sweet…
A series of inter-related short stories, set in a small fishing village on the Sea of Cortez in Baja California, Mexican Autumn presents a number of humorous yet poignant encounters…
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An anthology of original verse (plus a few translations from the Spanish and Ancient Egyptian) by the prize-winning poet and photographer, John Howard Reid. His work covers a wide variety…
Remember the days when a night at the movies comprised a full three to four hours of varied entertainment? The attraction was not just the colossal main feature, but the…
Detailing 120 movies, this is 8th book in the Hollywood Classics series. The movies range from King Kong to Don Juan . Film stars like Humphrey Bogart, Jeanette MacDonald, Bing…
Features 144 classic movies from Hollywood’s Golden Era, the period from 1939 through 1960, ranging from The Admiral Was a Lady to You Were Never Lovelier . Other films discussed…
No less than 150 classic western movies are surveyed, ranging from super productions like The Big Country , Destry Rides Again , The Mark of Zorro , Red River…
This third collection of widescreen wonders photographed in CinemaScope, focuses on such popular movies as Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing , Cleopatra , Three Coins in the Fountain , Bus…
Set in Ancient Egypt during the reign of the usurper, Pharaoh Shishak, In All His Glory masterfully fills out the sketchy details of history. It tells of the stormy relationships…
Famous features such as Sherlock Holmes Faces Death , Johnny Allegro , My Forbidden Past , His Kind of Woman , The Big Carnival , and After the Thin Man…
What is a mixed movie? A film to which artists of various nationalities contribute. Popular examples are Land of the Pharaohs , The Bridge on the River Kwai , Casino…
This anthology includes 15 prizewinning essays and short stories by the following authors: Jennifer Antonacci, Fred McGavran, Jan Breen, Ned Condini, Laurie Gough, Rebecca Marshall-Courtois, Lissa Byers, Vicki Conte, B…
This grab-bag of movie westerns ranges from the best to the worst; from lavish, no-expense-spared Cecil B. DeMille epics to Poverty Row double bills; from big-budget John Wayne vehicles like…
Contributors to this prize-winning collection of contemporary poetry include Susan Keith, Kristopher Smotherman, Jacqueline Cooke, George R. Adams, Michael Burch, Lucille Lang Day, Christina Lovin, Judith Pacht, David J. Rothman…
John Howard Reid’s books are not only noted for the wealth of essential information he provides on each film he discusses, but for the insight and clarity of his reviews…
Over 60 great film musicals from Hollywood’s major studios are given detailed treatment, while hundreds more are briefly noted in this comprehensive guide to the best of America’s vintage movie…
A mystery thriller, set against the spectacular scenic backdrop of an imaginary health farm in the small mountain township of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, west…
John Howard Reid (a well-known author with over 50 years experience in writing and publishing) is Chief Judge of three annual literary events: The Tom Howard Short Story, Essay and…
Over 1,200 DVDs in the mystery, suspense and film noir categories were examined and rated for this illustrated guide. The book is divided into two main sections. In the first…
How many Psalms are there in the Bible? Nobody knows. Psalms are scattered all through the Old Testament, but this new translation is concerned only with the Psalms in the…
Although Hollywood is no longer producing westerns at the rate of over 100 a year, the western movie enthusiast has over 1,000 classic films available on DVD. This guidebook, written…
An anthology of some of the finest poems from Spain and Latin America. Poets represented include Miguel de Unamuno, Federico Garcia Lorca, Rosalia de Castro, Ruben Dario, Leopoldo Lugones, Julio…
Thanks to DVD, a great number of silent films and early talkies are now available for home viewing. In fact, so many of these wonderful movies can now be purchased…
Unlike their American colleagues, British suppliers were extremely slow to release their country’s superb libraries of classic films for movie fans to purchase on either VHS tapes or DVD discs…
A complete index to all the films reviewed in all 24 of the Hollywood Classics movie books, this massive final volume not only devotes 120 pages to the title index…
This 118-page book contains selected poems by Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885), rendered into English verse by John Howard Reid. Some of Rosalia’s most famous poems are also presented in their…
An anthology of never-previously-published short stories, some of them prize-winning, on various subjects and themes, written by the Chief Judge of the Annual Tom Howard Short Story Contest. Although they…
The first of a series of mystery thrillers, featuring Police Sergeant Merryll Manning of the Paradise Police Department. (Paradise is the author’s fictional capital city of Florida, and is not…
Thrilling action, suspense and mystery abound in this historical novel, inspired by the books of Kings and Chronicles in the Old Testament of the Bible. Highlighting the latter days of…
Science-fiction, fantasy and horror movies cover a broad canvas including Frankenstein and Tod Slaughter, Dracula and Donald Duck, moon men and mad doctors, gorillas and crazy scientists, talking mules and…
Newly translated and paraphrased selections from Old Testament and so-called apocryphal biblical wisdom literature, including Solomon , Jesus Ben Sirach, Tobias (Tobit), Greek Ezra , King David and other inspired…
A round-up of favorite westerns from Aces and Eights to River of No Return , from Colorado Sundown to Under California Stars , from Big Calibre to The Yodellin’ Kid…
200 films reviewed and rated, covering all genres of movie comedy from slapstick to sardonic, from madness to manners. Featured comedians include Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Stan Laurel and…
More than 50 of Hollywood's most famous movies are examined in detail in this book, which provides full cast and production credits, release dates, background information, DVD suppliers, plus up-to-date…
Here are over 70 movie classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood, fully annotated with complete casts and credits plus other essential information, lovingly described and recalled by one of…
Reproduced in full color, over 150 movie stills, posters and lobby cards are used to illustrate this short survey of cinema advertising, mainly in the 1940s and 1950s (although the…
Although film noir is generally thought of as a male preserve, the role of female stars in noir is quite significant. This book is divided into three sections. In the…
Table of Contents: Abraham Lincoln, Adventures of Marco Polo, Affaire Nina B., All Quiet on the Western Front, Anastasia, Anna Boleyn, Assassination of Jesse James, Belle Starr, The Big Knife…
Hollywood has had an off and on romance with the Bible -- thanks largely to Cecil B. DeMille whose ground-breaking silent picture "The King of Kings" has rarely been equalled…
When most people think of movie musicals, films like Singin’ in the Rain , Sound of Music , The Red Shoes , On the Town , White Christmas , Ziegfeld…
Merryll Manning tackles a killer in Hollywood in this acclaimed novel that has never before been published in America, even though the rights were purchased by a leading New York…
Michaela Morris is the general manager of a Country Club in a leading city, Jarrico Junction, in the South. The Club is staging an important Golf Tournament, but Michaela is…
