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  • Ginger Cat in B & W
    Charlie Dickinson
    Ginger Cat in B & W remembers the fourteen-year life of one cat, Rudy, from kittenhood onward. Complementing the memoir’s text, we see Rudy in thirty-nine black-and-white photographs selected from those taken during his life. This is Rudy’s life for the duration and the end-of-life chapters are for any reader who has, has had, or contemplates having a feline companion. With ...
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    13,01 €

  • Reading Great-grandfather’s 1868 Diary for His Story
    Charlie Dickinson
    On January 1, 1868, Charles Edward Dickinson begins a diary as a preparatory student in the Academy of Washington University at St. Louis. He lives with his uncle and aunt, away from his hometown of Dubuque, Iowa. With a keen eye and empathetic heart, his diary entries capture how he lives day to day.The St. Louis of 1868 is busy and thriving as the fourth-largest city in the U...
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    9,70 €

  • Am I?
    Charlie Dickinson
    Robby Adams must live out of a battered van after his mother evicts him on his eighteenth birthday. With a fourteen-year-old brother who has Down’s syndrome, a scruffy van-mate named Dack, and a street ally known as 'Scary Mary,' Robby confronts poverty, family obligations, and the search for identity. As he moves from survival to self-acceptance, the novel blends gritty realis...
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    11,95 €

  • Losing Laika
    Charlie Dickinson
    Petro Kondratovych Kravets arrives at a downed American U-2 spy plane on May Day 1960. An experienced optics technician, his work defends the Motherland. Readers follow this Soviet Everyman, his family, and others through the Cold War with its international space race, Cuban missile crisis, Afghan War, and more up to--and past--the collapse of the Soviet Union.Some Advance Prai...
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    17,13 €

  • Life Is Pinball
    Charlie Dickinson
    If actuaries are reputedly insurance company dullards who do math,Life Is Pinball’s Alroy Shanly might yet be an exception.A recent graduate of Cyprus Polytechnic Institute, Alroy arrives inGalveston, Texas, to work for Atlas Global Insurance. But Alroy knowslife is more than math. He moonlights at an internet website, taking phonecalls from people with problems as Roy Who Lis...
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    13,98 €

  • The Happy Zero
    Charlie Dickinson
    What is wrong with THE HAPPY ZERØ’s Todd Bomly? A software engineer, he impulsively quits his insufferable job. How will he pay the mortgage, child support? Frustrated, Todd drives to Central Oregon to camp and 'find himself.'Returning to Portland, he’s shocked by crazy-high gas prices. His past employer, Numerus, left a bug in their oil field sounding software. Oil fields are ...
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    14,00 €

  • The Wire Donkey
    Charlie Dickinson
    No gf, no car, his job stacking produce in question, twenty-year-old Ocean Gebthart watches his good works project--Oregon Organ Donors League--blow up. He must leave town. And does with a wise, older woman. By turns sacred and secular, Ocean journeys to discover his calling in life, riding his wire donkey across a Rose City known for beer, bikes and books.Some advance praise f...
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    13,99 €

  • The Cat at Light’s End
    Charlie Dickinson
    THE CAT AT LIGHT’S END TELLS fourteen stories set against the backdrop of Irvington, an inner-city neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The stories reveal moments from the lives of diverse protagonists, ranging in age from fourteen weeks to 102 years. Here are capsule synopses for the stories: * In 'The Cat at Light’s End,' a family lives at Irvington’s edges in a van. Jayne...
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    10,86 €

  • The Nite Owl Taxi
    Charlie Dickinson
    THE NITE OWL TAXI follows Felix Wyndal, a forty-year-old taxi driver, who reflects on his life after two tours of duty in Iraq and the PTSD that shapes his life. Divorce, difficulty working with people, and frustration with the V.A., especially refusal of his claim for 25% disability.Felix’s Rock of Gibraltar is fellow Iraq veteran Riley, the two having served in the same compa...
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    13,11 €

  • The Thieves of Shiny Things
    Charlie Dickinson
    A murder mystery from the Stone Age, The Thieves of Shiny Things takes place among a tribelet of cave-dwelling Native Americans. They lived in what came to be known as the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. The Miwokituls have no quarrel with their neighbors, enjoy a pleasant climate, and subsist on a bountiful diet that features oak acorns. For one young Miwokitul...
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    12,95 €

  • Leaving the Pharm
    Charlie Dickinson
    LEAVING THE PHARM is a mix of high seriousness and prankish vandalism. That is, protagonist Travis Belknap, a pharmacology PhD candidate at UCLA, can question the ethics of the genome editing tools he studies while also having 'pulp novel' escapades like stench-bombing a marijuana dispensary.That Travis is not the typical graduate school grind owes much to two friends he acquir...
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    13,95 €