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Publisher
Orange Frazer Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Hal McCoy crowns his own Hall of Fame career with a memoir of the Cincinnati Reds giving fans an inside-the-dugout look at tales that never made the daily press: the politics, the personalities, the hi-jinks, the x-rated scenes-- all the classic ballpark happenings known only to those on the field.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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It's one of the strangest trials in Colorado history. A "spirit photographer" is accused of fraud, and Ophelia Wylde agrees to examine the man's ghostly portraits and testify in court. In a sealed room, she is presented with five photographs. Four are obvious fakes. But one photo, featuring a powerful politician, Jackson Miles, with a sorrowful ghost in chains behind his shoulder, is the real McCoy. When Ophelia makes contact, the spirit is in such...
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Language
English
Description
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood . . . and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
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Series
Real McCoys volume 01
Language
English
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Description
Elementary school detective Moxie McCoy looks for a missing school mascot and a new best friend, with the help of her annoying little brother.
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Language
English
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Joseph Roper was interviewed several times in 1938 as a contribution to the American Legends Collection a part of the Federal Writers Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone it took many cylinders for him to narrate the events of his life connected with the Ian McCandles gang that had made him at the age of seventeen a legend not only in Idaho Territory but in the American West. He recalled: "A lot of people go to those moving-picture shows and...