Gregory Smith
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Coming of age in New Jersey in the late 1940s, Greg and his pals got into enough scrapes to fill a book. That book is Mischievous in Mendham, an anthology of comic memoirs based on the author's childhood and told in the vein of Garrison Keillor, he sheds light on the fact that these incidents are not unique to his hometown, but are a microcosm of the American comedy in general. Mischievous in Mendham traces Greg's life from a childhood of adventure...
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Red Tobruk, the war memoir of the Captain of HMS Eridge from late 1940 until August 1942 is a superb account of wartime action at sea. Frank Gregory-Smith’s war started on the destroyer Jaguar and he saw action off Norway and during the Dunkirk evacuation, when she was hit by enemy air attack with 25 men killed. Command of the new escort destroyer HMS Eridge followed (he was to be her only Captain) and they deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean,...
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100 Simple Ways How to Manage a Successful Property and Evidence Room is just that. One hundred simple ways of doing old business through new ways that can lead to real success. After almost seventeen years of frustration and trying to get it right, a new roadmap is finally here in this book and has one hundred simple ways of doing it. It's simple, no-nonsense, real-world situations with real-world solutions from someone that does it every day from...
4) In My Pocket
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Under his best friend's influence, Stephen Jameson (Gregory Smith - Rookie Blue, The Patriot) falls into the vortex of drug addicts and loses himself in the grungy L.A club scene. Forced by his family to quit his college med-school, Stephen enters into Second Chances Rehabilitation Center. In this dark environment, he encounters many twisted personalities, each one of them leading him to the wrong path repeatedly, preventing him from divorcing his...
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The book is simply the exciting joys of being a young girl with extra special footwear, designed to be relaxed and easy to clean. Her encounters with nature, share what kids do in the spring and express happily how she stays cheerful daily, with walks and elements to introduce this fun character with the happy smile for any bee or flying thing. She also has a friend in Eric Tuggs with a poster above her bed. So, it's no surprise they are friends and...
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A lively collection of seventeen narrative essays drawing upon the author's circumnavigation aboard an ocean-going sailboat. Subjects range from the deeply introspective and serious to the seriously funny. Everything from vignettes of peaceful anchorages to the horrors of storms at sea. Experience a genuine kava ceremony on a South Pacific island. Take a ride through Madagascar by taxi. Live through the drama of a storm in the Tasman Sea. Fun, engaging,...
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Learn how IT leaders are adapting to the new reality of life during and after COVID-19
COVID-19 has caused fundamental shifts in attitudes around remote and office work. And in The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever, internationally renowned IT executive Gregory S. Smith explains how and why companies today are shedding corporate office locations and reducing office footprints.
You'll learn about how...
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A mysterious map, horses to ride, and a lost treasure city to uncover!
"Lindy desperately clawed at the rocks around her, trying to stop from being dragged downward into the abyss..." A mysterious map holds the key to the location of an ancient treasure city. When the Wright cousins set out on horseback to find it, they run headlong into desert flash floods, treacherous passages, and formidable foes. Saddle up for thrilling discoveries and the cousins'...
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Narrated by movie actor Kirby Heyborne, recipient of the Odyssey Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Library Association.
A missing pilot, a lost treasure ship, and a mysterious desert to explore!
"Spinning around, the Wright cousins saw a crack in the mountainside expand, revealing a dark, shadowy passage..." The five teenage Wright cousins are having a blast 4-wheeling in the desert as they look for a long-lost Spanish treasure ship....
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
14) A hero's climb
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Distributed by Questar
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John Langer, a crusty old civil engineer, has an arsenal full of memories. Danny Himes is a gifted, spirited athlete with something to prove. Old man Langer and Danny seem an unlikely pair. Their relationship turns from student/mentor to comrades on a quest to free themselves from life's inequities. Danny's father, Earl, who did not serve in World War II, is considered a coward. Danny excels to overcome his father's reputation, but Earl is actually...
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Use Unity-based examples to understand fundamental mathematical concepts and see how they are applied when building modern video game functionality. You will gain the theoretical foundation you need, and you will know how to examine and modify an implementation.
This book covers points in a 3D Cartesian coordinate system, and then discusses vectors and the details of dot and cross products. Basic mathematical foundations are illustrated through Unity-based...
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Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative power. Now Naifeh and Smith have written another tour de force-an exquisitely detailed, compelling, and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of creative genius Vincent van Gogh. Working with the full cooperation of the Van...
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A hobo jumps from a freight car hoping for a fresh start in a new city. Instead, he finds himself trapped in an urban hell. This is a world where criminals rule the streets and Drake, the city's crime boss, reigns supreme alongside his sadistic murderous sons, Slick & Ivan. The hobo comes across a pawn shop where he sees a secondhand lawnmower. He dreams of making the city a beautiful place, but as brutality continues to rage, he notices a shotgun...
18) Nefarious
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Sometimes, you have to turn to crime. Sometimes, it turns on you...Darren & his friends break into the wrong house, at the wrong time.
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James Krippendorf, is an anthropologist and a single dad trying to raise three kids and he's having a tough time of it. For the past two years, he's been living off a proxmire foundation grant to study an "undiscovered" tribe in New Guinea. Word comes that his lecture is due, but he's not ready. There is no tribe. and he's spent all the money rearing his dysfunctional children. As he bluffs his way through his presentation, he's shocked when informed...
20) Edison & Leo
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A genius inventor's world threatens to fly apart at the seams. His son, who has electricity crackling through his veins due to an accident in his father's laboratory, discovers the truth about his father's past.