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The English kings who rise from their graves in Westminster Abbey on All Souls' Eve are in a terrible fix. They want visiting New Yorker Charlie Chancer to use his special IT skills to steal abbey funds and send them off to queens who have already come to life and escaped the abbey. Handsome commodities trader Charlie is also in a bind. He has whisked his young son, Georgie, away to London (amid a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife) to joi...

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Imagine yourself a sophisticated, young New Yorker with a stellar career in publishing ahead of you. Then suddenly, an act of random street violence leaves your vision so distorted that your glittering career comes crashing down. That was the situation facing Luke Reader. And this is the story of how he forges a new identity and learns to turn disability to his advantage while fighting the prejudice it provokes.Plunged into the world of disabl...

Power-mad Cesare Groznyy is in trouble. His scheming may have made him the president of an American university but his hubris has him pinned into a corner. He has enemies in his staff, in his family, and in his bed. Before long, the bitter controversies swirling around Groznyy's phony academic schemes will seem the least of his worries. His third wife, rising star singer Holly Wood, plans to expose him as the murderer of his son Modest. Under ...

In AMERICA IN THE 20s AND 30s, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s thorugh the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New Deal in providing millions with relief, job opportunities, and hope before America was poised for its ascent to globalism on the eve of World War II.

Traces the political and social saga of America as it passed through the momentous transformation of the Industrial Revolution and the settlement of the West. This title includes chapters that are focusing on immigration, labor, the great cities, and the American Renaissance.

The book contains the results of research into primary sources and recent scholarship with an emphasis on leading personalities and anecdotes about them.

A lively tour of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, this book traces the development of America's industrial power and its commercial deployment, at home and abroad. It sets the American story within the dramatic context of the rise and fall of political empires in Europe and Asia and two devastating world wars.

Surveys the history of African-American civil rights in the United States in the 20th century. Beginning with the period of segregation, it examines the contribution of principal figures in the movement and describes the shift in its emphasis from civil rights to Black Power and Pan-Africanism.

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Set against the explosive start to the Age of Terror when fanatics detonated a bomb under the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, Ivan the Terrible- from Tulsa tells an engrossing tale of a clash of seductive personalities. Cesare Groznyy is a power-mad academic fraudster of mysterious origins who likens himself to Russian despot Tsar Ivan IV. Moving between Midtown Manhattan and colleges in New England, he follows Ivan's macabre scenario...