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Thomas Healy
Doubting Thomas is a memoir of an unusual man who defied conventions. This is a gripping portrayal of his unconventional life written with his unique perspective. It is an emotional…
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Experience the adventures of the author's life as seen through the eyes of his loyal dog. This memoir shines its torch beam on the bond between man and dog. Martin…
Tom Healy brings together ten essays by leading scholars on this seventeenth-century poet. The essays examine Marvell’s poems, from lyrics, such as ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and ‘The Nymph Complaining…
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Written with clarity and without obfuscating jargon, this book is an ideal introduction to one of the most exciting and innovative writers in English. It provides an assessment of all…
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Novelist Thomas Healy was a raging, brawling drunk until, on a whim, he adopted a Doberman pinscher puppy he named Martin. Their bond, and the slight but persistent duty of…
A gripping intellectual history reveals how Oliver Wendell Holmes became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment.
A history of Floyd McKissick’s 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project…
A collection of distinctive new essays that explore the dynamic cultural, intellectual and social processes that shaped literary writing in the Renaissance.
Ian Thomas Healy
This book gives writers pointers and guidelines on how to improve their action scenes by implementing some of the same kinds of techniques used in film-making. Loaded with new terminology…
When a talented new player joins the perennially-losing sub-minor-league hockey team, the Fighting Aardvarks, it marks the beginning of a winning tradition. But things aren’t as they seem, and players…
When criminals are convicted, they go to jail. When they have parahuman abilities, they go to Deep Six, the most secure prison facility in the world. Six thousand feet underground…
You’ve seen Sharknado. You’ve watched Ghost Shark. Now killer sharks take to their highest altitude ever in the book that absolutely no one asked for, but everybody wants to read…
Once, John Irish was a legend in the porn industry, partying with the likes of John Holmes, Peter North, Nina Hartley, and Seka, but now he’s on the far side…
HOPE WAS PLAYING FIVE-CARD DRAW WITH UNDEAD ELVIS WHEN THE WORLD ENDED.Before the world ended, Hope was a down-and-out virgin stripper. Now she’s pregnant with a baby prophesied to be…
LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG, LEAVE A GOOD-LOOKING CORPSE.Such is the credo of the modern mercenary in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Three such antiheroes are brought together by…
I WILL SHOW YOU FEAR IN A HANDFUL OF DUST. T.S. EliotWhen Just Cause hero Orb is murdered using a new kind of nanotechnology, Mustang Sally will stop at nothing…
Ken Wilson,Thomas Healy
Smart Choice Second Edition is a four-skills American English course with personalized speaking on every page, plus a range of digital components to use in class and at home.
This book charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context from 1640-1660. Essays in the volume focus on issues of ideology and genre; the politics of the masque…
The Smart Choice Workbook is the perfect self-study companion to the Smart Choice Student Book, providing additional practice for all course vocabulary and grammar as well as extra reading, listening…
The Smart Choice Student Book/ Workbook Multi-Pack combines half of the Student Book and half of the Workbook content in one book - ideal for shorter English courses!
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With the Smart Choice Student Book, students have everything they need for success in the classroom as well as access to On the Move activities and Online Practice to keep…
Ken wilson,Thoma Healy
Four-skills course for adult and young adult learners looking to improve their ability to communicate in English. Now with activities for smartphones to keep students learning on the move!
>The Smart Choice Workbook is the perfect self-study companion to the Smart Choice Student Book, providing additional practice for all course vocabulary and grammar as well as extra reading, listening…
NOTHING LESS THAN THE WORLDThe would-be Archmage has slain nearly all the magic-users in the world, taking their power for himself. If he succeeds in killing the Lucky Seven’s own…
As a new president takes the White House, Just Cause returns to New York City for the first time in eight years, under the command of its newest leader: Mustang…
This collection includes both previously-published and all-new stories:
THE MIGHTY PECULIAR INCIDENT AT MUDDY CREEK-What starts out as something simple as a train failing to stop winds up as something…
