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A visceral, brainy short story collection that includes nine tales of subtle terror. From a narrative detour into the past amid religious fervor and jealousy in antebellum Illinois, or a story revolving around a modern-day kitchen accident, each entry is compelling.

Brockie Jack and Big Len Quinn rob a stage coach and make off with a heap of gold only to have it stolen from them hours later. Jack scorches a trail across Montana trying to recover his lost gold. Town Marshal Matt Buck goes toe to toe with him. In this story of greed and treachery, Buck's world is turned upside down when Brockie snatches his son. Buck must find the gold and return it to Jack in exchange for his son's life.

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Excerpt from The Elements of Sanitary Science: A Hand-Book for District, Municipal, Local Medical and Sanitary Officers, Members of Local Boards and Municipal Councils, and OthersGood health is, the greatest of blessings, and is universally recognised as the one indispensable quality of happiness for animated beings. In all countries and in all conditions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo...

The Elements of Sanitary Science is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly p...

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Part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book, sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but always honest. McNally uses his own life as a blueprint for the writer's daily struggles as well as the existential ones, tackling subjects such as when to quit and when to keep going, how to deal with depression, and ways to reenergize your writing through reinvention.

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Taking off from The Creative Writer's Survival Guide, John McNally's relentlessly blunt, bracingly cheerful, and immensely helpful map to being a writer, Vivid and Continuous is an equally blunt, cheerful, and helpful map to learning to be a writer. While acknowledging that many fine books cover such essentials of fiction writing as point of view, characterisation, and setting, McNally sets out in this new book to solve the tricky second-tier ...

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Not final jacket image. Finn is all that stands in the way of the end of the world as we know it. Unfortunately, he's currently just 9mm tall. Action-packed and hilarious. Ages: 9+.

JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General

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America's Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind -- a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with va...