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  • The House on the Brink

    by John Gordon ...
    Returning home through a bog late one night, sixteen-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape. The mystery deepens when a local widow, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • South Carolina and the American Revolution

    A Battlefield History

    by John W. Gordon ...
    An assessment of critical battles on the southern front that led to American independenceAn estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. From the partisan clashes of the backcountry's war for the hearts and minds of settlers to bloody encounters with Native Americans on the frontier, more battles were fought in South Carolina than any other of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sensational Joyce

    The Psychology of Ulysses

    by John Gordon ...
    Series series The Florida James Joyce Series
    Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce’s timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate that Ulysses is a book that mimics the workings of the human mind. Gordon highlights James Joyce’s exceptional ability to capture and represent lived experiences, showing how Joyce’s writings ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • An Empire of Wealth

    The Epic History of American Economic Power

    by John Steele Gordon ...
    "Superb . . . the best one-volume economic history of the United States in a long time and, perhaps, ever." — NewsweekIn this illuminating history, John Steele Gordon tells the extraordinary story of the world's first economic superpower. He shows how the American economy became not only the world's largest, but also its most dynamic and innovative. Combining its English political inheritance with ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Wendy's Angel

    by John Gordon ...
    Wendy feels abandoned and alone in a cold northeastern college town surrounded by the untroubled youth of her generation. She has escaped the bleak existence of her past caring for a father wallowing in alcoholism and self-pity, but she shares nothing in common with the carefree crowd around her. Finally convinced that her abdominal pain is the cancer that stole her beloved mother, she seeks aid ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Maggie's Hope

    by John Gordon ...
    The day began as most of the other days had begun. Beths husband snuggled close. He smelled of after-shave and toast. He kissed her and their baby boy good-bye as he headed out the door for the train station and work in New York City. Etiennes fiance kissed him good-bye, too, told him the coffee was started and that she just had to run downtown and would be back in an hour or two. And then, two ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Paul's Call

    by John Gordon ...
    The telephone call started it all; started that old anxiety, the bile rising in the throat. It brought back the fear, anxiety and insecurity that Jake had felt most of his life. That phone call pitched him back in time and propelled him on a cross-country trek that was sure to end in disaster. It ripped him from the family and the happy life he had built back to the unforgiving and manipulative ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The White Bronco

    by John Gordon ...
    Leo often felt that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. On June 4, 1994, he was in a white Ford Bronco on Highway 405 outside of Los Angeles. Every law enforcement officer within one hundred miles was looking for a white Bronco and a fugitive named O. J. Simpson. And so Leo did what any Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder would do: he ditched the beer, threw the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Researching Interpretive Talk Around Literary Narrative Texts

    Shared Novel Reading

    by John Gordon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
    Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and narratology, this book theorizes teaching around narrative prose in each level of education, with a focus on a new framework of Pedagogic Literary Narration which emphasizes the practice of shared novel reading and the importance of the role of the teacher in mediating this practice. // ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Washington's Monument

    And the Fascinating History of the Obelisk

    by John Steele Gordon ...
    The colorful story behind one of America's greatest monuments and of the ancient obelisks of Egypt, now scattered around the world.Conceived soon after the American Revolution ended, the great monument to George Washington was not finally completed until almost a century later; the great obelisk was finished in 1884 and remains the tallest stone structure in the world at 555 feet. The story behind ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Manure

    A City Kid Learns About Life and Work On a Farm

    by John Gordon ...
    During four summers while in my early teens, I spent time at my Uncle Rod’s farm. My dad drove our trusty Studebaker the 330 miles from Omaha to his brother’s place in southwest Minnesota. We all spent a couple days at the farm, and then the rest of my family—mom, dad, sisters Sandy and Sunny-- returned to our Nebraska home. I was left for a month in the capable, calloused hands of our rural ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad Altitude

    A Skeptic Explores (First-Hand) the Principles of Flight

    by John Gordon ...
    You are flying cross-country in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. I’ll bet you an overpriced on-board sandwich that three-quarters of your fellow passengers can’t explain how that half-million-pound machine stays aloft. “It is something about lift, and curved wings,” they will say. Really? If the wing’s upper curvature matters, how can planes fly upside down? Most will add, “I don’t know, and I try not to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus