Jamaica 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She & her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change Gloria's desperation & striking beauty lead her to Sybil & Beryl & a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba & a personal & political awakening that she must reconcile with the realities of her life her love of Jamaica & a past that is never far behind her. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a country on the cusp of a new era Gloria is an enthralling & illuminating story of love & redemption. ...

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War & the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French & Indian War & continuing to the election of George Washington as first president Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England & America highlighting the drama & anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the political & the personal he provides a compelling account of the key events that precipitated the war from the Stamp Act to the Tea Act tracing the gradual gathering of American resistance that culminated in the Boston Tea Party & the shot heard 'round the world." The heart of the book features a vivid description of the eight-year-long war with gripping accounts of battles & campaigns ranging from Bunker Hill & Washington's crossing of the Delaware to the brilliant victory at Hannah's Cowpens & the final triumph at Yorktown paying particular attention to what made men fight in these bloody encounters. The book concludes with an insightful look at the making of the Constitution in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 & the struggle over ratification. Through it all Middlekauff gives the reader a vivid sense of how the colonists saw these events & the importance they gave to them. Common soldiers & great generals Sons of Liberty & African slaves town committee-men & representatives in congress--all receive their due. & there are particularly insightful portraits of such figures as Sam & John Adams James Otis Thomas Jefferson George Washington & many others. This new edition has been revised & expanded with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War military medicine women's role in the Revolution American Indians the different kinds of war fought by the Americans & the British & the ratification of the Constitution. The book also has a new epilogue & an updated bibliography. The cause for which the colonists fought liberty & independence was glorious indeed. Here is an equally glorious narrative of an event that changed the world capturing the profound & passionate struggle to found a free nation." ...

France early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins & is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents two vast French & British fleets meet in the mid-Atlantic following a week of skirmishing. After fierce fighting both sides claim victory. In The Glorious First of June Sam Willis not only tells with thrilling immediacy & masterly clarity the story of an epic & complex battle he also places it within the context of The Terror the survival of the French Revolution & the growth of British sea-power. ...

Bruce Sandison takes the reader on a magical journey as seen through the eyes of some of Scotlands best-known & most respected gillies stalkers & keepers
- men who have spent their whole lives on river moor & hill caring for the iconic salmon in our rivers & the red deer on our hills. The stories they have to tell are full of humour kindliness & patience; sometimes under difficult circumstances as they help their guests old & young alike novice or experienced in pursuit of the best possible chance of sport. Your guide Bruce Sandison is a highly regarded author & conservationist well known for his passionate love for his native l&. Everything that is finest about Scotland will be found along the way & above all this is a unique opportunity to spend time in the company of these glorious very special gentlemen.
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In general " Glory" is my happiest thing". " The fun of " Glory" is.. .to be sought in the echoing & linking of minor events in back-&-forth switches which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to ones chest or in the casual vision of Martins mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists & a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale although nothing much happens at the very end
- just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day". (Vladimir Nabokov)."
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Hooker Azzie Erica & the rest all play cricket in their spare time but theyve never taken it very seriously until now. Kiddo one of their school teachers suggests they form an official team & play proper matches
- & Glory Gardens C.C. is formed. Hooker as captain soon finds out that cricket teams werent built in a day: some players squabble some cant catch & some have tantrums & go home at half-time! So will Glory Gardens go all out for victory.. .or will they be out for a duck?
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Glory Gardens C.C. are now in the North County Under Thirteen League & the pressure is really on. Hooker as captain worries that the team won't be able to hold it together: arrogant Clive is always picking fights Ohbert is still as useless as ever & there are all the usual rows & injuries. But there's also Mack the new player; the lucky mascot ' Gatting'; plus the whole team's unwavering determination to win against all the odds. ...

It really doesnt look like being Hookers season. Not only does he spend the first match of the league suffering a dropped-catch jinx but now there civil war in the team over the selections. Sometimes captaining the Glory Gardens Cricket Team isnt the fun you might think. Its not the matches that prove the most trouble for poor Hooker
- its the infighting. He has one solution that might work but making Ohbert captain in his place! Thats not strategy
- thats suicide.

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The atmosphere is electric the pitch an impossibly brilliant shade of green & Spurs in all-white of course are playing with that famous swashbuckling style zipping the ball off the greasy surface with devastating precision & purpose. Their quick-passing game rips open the usually immaculately drilled defence of their illustrious European opponents & as the ball hits the back of the net White Hart Lane erupts in a thunderous jubilant roar which echoes with magical memories from 50 years of fantastic floodlit European evenings
- the glory glory nights! European football has a special resonance at Tottenham Hotspur. The spirit of adventure the romance of taking on the very best matching their style & technique & when it all goes to plan blowing them away with skill pace & passion has always fitted in exactly with what Spurs are all about. To dare is to do! In 1963 Spurs became the first British team ever to win a European trophy when they beat Atletico Madrid to lift the European Cup Winners' Cup & in total the club has won three trophies across more than 50 seasons of European campaigns. The Glory Glory Nights tells the story of every one of them
- from the first competitive foray onto foreign fields when Bill Nick took the great Double side into the unknown of the European Cup to Bale Modric & van der Vaart marauding their way to the quarter-finals of the Champions League in 2010. The complete & official story of Tottenham Hotspur in Europe this beautifully put-together book is packed with spectacular photography much of it previously unseen match reports & statistics from every European game the club has ever played plus first-hand memories & recollections from club legends like Danny Blanchflower Jimmy Greaves Steve Perryman Martin Chivers Ossie Ardiles & Gareth Bale. On top of that there are new & highly illuminating conversations with some of the greats of the key decades in Spurs' European history
- Cliff Jones & Terry Dyson on the Sixties Martin Chivers & Phil Beal on the Seventies Micky Hazard & Paul Miller on the Eighties & Gareth Bale & Michael Dawson on the 2010 Champions League campaign. The Glory Glory Nights is a spectacular & fitting tribute to Spurs' glorious European history.


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The dead were her business. She lived with them worked with them studied them. She dreamed of them. & because that didn't seem to be enough in some deep secret chamber of her heart she mourned for them. The first victim is found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second murdered in her own apartment building. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims are beautiful & highly successful women; their glamorous lives & loves were the talk of the city. & their intimate relations with men of great power & wealth provide Eve with a long list of suspects
- including her own lover Roarke. As a woman Eve is compelled to trust the man who shares her bed. But as a cop it's her job to follow every lead...to explore every secret passion no matter how dark. Or how dangerous.
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