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Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 271 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.68 inches. In Stock. Kolson, Marion Krock (illustrateur).

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. In Stock.

Etat : New.

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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 588 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.33 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

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Etat : New.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. These short works are the result of looking back on the experiences of a lifetime. Regrets? I've had a few. Would I change anything? Of course, that's why these stories are fiction."A Steppe Beyond," resulted from my experience hiking across Lapland at age twenty. A naive, inexperienced hiker, I was entirely dependent on a Scotsman I had met at the Hammerfest, Norway, Youth Hostel. He had the maps, compass and experience. What began as a melding of youthful free spirits turned into a clash of cultures, and more.An event that happened during my time as an airline employee, frequently traveling to Europe and the Middle-East, turned into "Book Club: Died on the Fourth of July." At the time, there were constant threats of terror from the PLO, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Japanese Red Army and others. The book club part came from listening to my wife's comments concerning goings-on in her book club. The ladies were mostly political progressives. When it came to Islamic terrorism they echoed the leftist line that Islam was a religion of peace and not all Muslims were terrorists. Conflicting evidence was ignored until-in the fictional version, at least-several of their own were affected.Growing up in the Chicago area, I, like most self-centered youth, thought Chicago to be the hub of the multiverse. Vacations were spent in the North Country-Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. Cairo (KAY-row), at the southernmost tip of Illinois, might as well have been in Egypt. The city was considered the capital of Little Egypt-extreme southern Illinois where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers converge. On a return drive to Virginia from Arkansas where my mother was living at the time, I detoured through Cairo to take the Scenic Ohio River Byway to Paducah, Kentucky. Darkness closed in sooner than expected. Too dark to benefit from the scenic route, I ended up taking back country roads that appeared to be more direct. I was soon lost in the tall corn in the pitch black and low on gas. Growing anxious, my imagination ran wild. "Cairo" is the result.We lived briefly in a coastal Maine community. Most houses were owned by people from away, as locals say. One house stood out from those that had been recently built or renovated. More than a hundred years old and occupied by the widow of a fisherman drowned at sea, the house was coveted by those seeking a waterfront bargain. Almost one hundred herself, the widow refused to move-or die. Incessant inquiries and "generous" offers caused her to post a sign out front: House Not for Sale. A local who managed to obtain the house at auction after the widow died and misfortune struck the original buyer, was at first ecstatic over his luck. But his good luck turned out to be illusory. Locals attributed the tragedies that eventuated to the ghost of the drowned fisherman who allegedly prowled the home.My culture shock adapting to life in Latin America included learning the arcane rules of socializing with women. "Pila" is an account of my first date with an Ecuadorian girl. Pila was eight years my junior at sixteen-years-old. Any girl who had passed her quinceanera (fifteenth birthday) was mostly free game for older men. When Pila invited me to a movie, I thought I was in heaven after having been shot-down so often by American girls. There turned out to be hidden costs, however. Paradise gained became "paraiso perdido."The joys and frustrations of teaching ESL to high schoolers generated many story ideas. "Los Desaparecidos" (The Disappeared) resulted from my experience combined with fanciful imagination. Part "Invasion of the Body-Snatchers," part "The Picture of Dorian Gray," the story tells of an ESL teacher who finds that one of his students has disappeared from his class. Not only has her physical self disappeared, but her name and records have disappeared as well. A search for an explanation for the Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Etat : New. Print on Demand.

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback / softback. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. When Noor bint al-Sahn is absent from her high school ESL class for a fifth straight day without explanation, Ivan Podrosky, her ESL teacher, decides he must take action. Previous attempts to reach her father have been in vain. Podrosky learns that Noor has not been home and has not been heard from in at least ten days. Podrosky finally hears from the father, but the news is not good. Ivan learns that Noor's father believes that Podrosky is responsible for his daughter's disappearance. Sulieman al-Sahn has long been concerned about his daughter's rapid Westernization, including concern that she has a non-Muslim boyfriend. Friends of Noor's believe that she has been a victim of domestic abuse, but no one dares to risk accusations of Islamophobia by pursuing the matter with authorities. When a charred, headless torso is found by rabbit hunters in a tobacco field, Podrosky suspects that Noor has been the victim of an honor killing. The family and the local sheriff suspect Podrosky. News that a prominent feminist attorney and LGBTQ activist has intervened in the case cannot be good for Mr. Podrosky. Or can it? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Trans American Airlines (TAA) Flight 514 departed from Weir Cook Municipal Airport (IND), Indianapolis, Indiana, at 0853 EST, on December 1, 1974, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. After an intermediate stop at Port Columbus International Airport (CMH), Columbus, Ohio, the flight took off again at 1024 EST for its scheduled destination: Washington National Airport (DCA) in Washington, D.C. The first link in the error chain dated back about a decade before that day's departure. Certainly, one important link in the chain was the bad weather - snow, sleet, freezing rain and high winds. Another, was an enroute change of destination. High westerly crosswinds prevented landing at National Airport with its north-south approach. The flight was diverted to Dulles International Airport. The airport was only five years old at the time. Arrivals and departures were minuscule compared to DCA, the airport that was preferred by flyers with business in the nation's capital. Flight 514's pilots had never landed at Dulles. They were unfamiliar with its approach charts and landing procedures. Planning the flight to their new destination occupied much of their time and conversation. There was confusion between the Air Traffic Controller at Dulles and the pilots. as to the minimum altitude to maintain while crossing Mount Weather on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Should they maintain flight level two-three-zero (2,300 feet) as the unfamiliar chart seemed to indicate? Or had the controller cleared them to the minimum approach altitude of 1,800 when he cleared the for landing at Dulles? While the book follows the story of the flight, the focus is on the four flight attendants, the most senior of which had been on the job only eighteen months. Two of the flight attendants had started flying only three weeks earlier. It was purely by chance that they were present at the bitter end, the last link of the chain. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Otto Pohl is 16 going on 17 and knows that he is naive. A paper boy for the Chicago Daily Tribune, he aspires to become a Tribune sportswriter like his idol, Ring Lardner. The July 6th shooting of Billy Jurges, Chicago Cubs' shortstop, by a disgruntled showgirl lover is a life-changing event for Otto. His curiosity about the shooting entangles him in the infamous Chicago underworld. It also leads to a dream job and a dream girl. Otto matures beyond his years during the summer of 1932, learning about life, love and, unfortunately, death. He witnesses extraordinary events, including the Republican and Democrat conventions during which Herbert Hoover (R) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) are nominated for president. It is also a time of economic hardship and political upheaval with Adolph Hitler coming to power in Germany and Joseph Stalin consolidating power in the Soviet Union. Both events affect Chicago's large German-American population. Otto's is a family divided by communism and fascism. But life for Otto has its happy side, too. Otto sees his beloved Cubs win the National League pennant and face the New York Yankees in the World Series. He witnesses one of the most famous and controversial events in sports' history-Babe Ruth's third game, fifth inning home run at Wrigley Field that the Bambino either did or did not call. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…