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Famed sportswriter and Tobacco Road basketball historian Art Chansky is releasing a digital version of his award-winning book, Blue Blood, for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iTouch. Blue Blood details one of sport's greatest rivalries, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and details the emergence, growth and fierce competition that has existed between these two schools, which are located only eight miles apart on Tobacco Road.<br><br>Blue Blood – The Digital Edition provides new and updated commentary and photos, and is specifically formatted for the iPad and iPhone devices. Users can flip through the pages of the eBook and enjoy a "coffee-table book" style version of Blue Blood through the brilliance of tablet and mobile computing.<br><br>Blue Blood – The Digital Edition will be released over the course of the 2010-2011 college basketball season, with the first chapter "Volume 1: Introduction and Earliest Years" scheduled for release in November 2010. Each month thereafter, culminating with the final volume being released during March Madness, a new volume will be released that will detail the history of the rivalry – chronologically. The final volume will detail the last two seasons; where UNC and Duke won back-to-back NCAA National Championships, which has only added to the greatness of the rivalry.
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Historical fiction at its best! A page-turner that transports the reader into India at the time of the Sepoy Mutiny with fidelity to the historical record and a vivid portrayal of the people involved. The reader follows the Logsdon family as they live through the tumultuous times of the Mutiny with penetrating insights into life In India as seen by native Indians and their British rulers. The writing style is both lyrical and fast-paced leading the reader to constantly wanting to see what happens next. This is one of those rare books whose characters live in the reader's mind long after the book is finished.
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Hitler was the stooge Stalin used to start World War II. Stalin was the "eminence gris" behind the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power. Stalin envisioned World War II as a replay of World War I, in which the Europeans would destroy each other and be ripe for conquest. Stalin forged the mightiest political control apparatus and largest military machine in the world. In the process tens of millions were executed or perished in the vast Gulag. Stalin planned to use this nightmare mechanism to conquer and control a war-ravaged Europe. Stalin planned to defeat Hitler in a massive surprise attack; Hitler preempted him by two weeks.<br><br>Nobody knows how many people the CPSU murdered between 1917 and 1991. As you will see in the charts and tables, our calculations (originally done in 1970) indicated that the Bolshevik regime killed approximately 130,000,000 people during this period. Our calculations were recently confirmed by one of the world's leading authorities on the Bolshevik slaughter, Roman Krutsyk, Chairman of Kiev Memorial, who said: "You're absolutely right–the figure is about 130,000,000."
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In 2010, Arthur Lieber ran for Congress in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District when no other Democrat would. Operating on a budget considered minuscule by today's standards, and refusing donations, he ran as an unashamed progressive Democrat in a predominantly Republican district. In Unlikely Candidate, Lieber reveals the inside story of his unconventional campaign, shares the lessons he learned about contemporary electoral politics, and suggests ways to fix our broken political system.
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One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's plan and failed to claim its century, dwelling instead in the long shadow of the United States. <br><br>No more! Co-authors Brian Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis envision Canada's emergence as an economic and social power. They argue, while the United States was busy precipitating a global economic disaster, Canada was on a path that could lead it into an era of unprecedented prosperity. It won't be easy. We must be prepared to follow through on reforms enacted and complete the work already begun. If so, Canada will become the country that Laurier foretold, a land of work for all who want it, of opportunity, investment, innovation and prosperity. Laurier said that the twentieth century belonged to Canada. He was absolutely right; he was merely off by 100 years.
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In 1972, when Paul Henderson scored that great goal for Canada against Soviet Russia, the whole country stood still. It gave us cause to be proud of our game, our players, our love for it.<br>White Snow Blackout connects, that great goal, that great series, to our own setbacks and triumphs in our own hockey worlds. The story is told as seen through the eyes of a child. It is at times riveting, always passionate.<br>I invite you to take a journey with me to the roots of hockey, to the very wonderland of it. There, you will immerse yourself into a passion that only sheer innocence can bring.
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The voice on the tape recordings is that of an old man we all believe is dead. His incredible story whips us along on a fascinating, engrossing speedboat ride so entirely believable that readers are left wondering what is real and what is not. In fact, many of the events here are true. Many of the people in the book are real. The narrator in the book describes a dramatic escape from the Minsk Ghetto during WWII, being chased by killers across North America, murder, betrayal and sun-drenched lovemaking on Bahamian beaches. This is a spy mystery unlike any you have read before. The known facts are identified by the author – the rest you decide!<br><br>Did Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King go to his grave with a terrible secret? There are two months missing from his meticulously kept diaries. Did those mysteriously missing two months reveal the story of a giant fraud that launched the Cold War? <br><br>A fascinating, thrilling, heart-stopping weave of fact and fiction that leaves most readers wondering if this time Lowell has uncovered one of the most intriguing mysteries of the 20th Century. Hoodwinked takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotions. The writing is clear, crisp and tight; the research will leave you shaking you head and wondering-"Could all this be true?"
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As a child growing up on a farm in Eastern Ontario, Henrietta listened intently to dinner table stories about her parents' lives before and after WWII.<br>She never tired of the accounts of the family legend, Bill O'Neill, a Canadian soldier who briefly stayed in her parents' tiny home in Holland during the war. Impressed by his kindness and evident bravery her parents gave him a copy of their wedding portrait as a souvenir. <br>As she grew up, Henrietta did not forget those stories about Bill. The time had come to find him and let him know how much he had influenced her life.<br>Focusing mainly on the past, but relevant today for anyone seeking proof of the indomitable human spirit, Finding Bill shifts in time between the 1940s in Holland, the 1950s to 70s in Canada, and the present.
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Second in the Drago Mystery Series. <br><br>A man literally in a tree puts Nick <br>on the trail of a hundred-year-old mystery that reaches into the present and brings bedlam to Bandon. <br><br>Nick Drago never was a cop. <br>Never a private detective. Didn't spy on the country's enemies or graduate law school. <br><br>Drago has been a logger, bouncer and DJ. Woodworker, welder and pilot. <br><br>The Oregon coastal town of Bandon is home. A quiet place surviving on tourism and first class golf courses. <br><br>And puzzles.<br><br>Nick Drago loves puzzles.
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The Collin Dymond story covers 1857 to 1865. Collin Dymond follows his father out to the gold fields and settles in Nevada. When the Civil War starts Collin returns to enlist in the Second Kansas which later become a Calvary unit. Collin fights in the Battle of Wilson's Creek and on through years of war in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas rising in rank from private to Captain. Late in the war Collin is wounded, released, and returns to Nevada.