LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david bailey

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  • The Tuesday-Thursday Tontine
    David G Bailey
    ’A tontine only makes any sense in times of war or plague.’So are three friends told, when a fourth’s will binds them in a tontine, a legacy payable only to the last of them to follow him in death, the last man standing. None of them want the money on those terms: How good will all the beer in the world taste over the dead bodies of your best mates? Within months COVID-19 is ev...
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    22,47 €

  • Slim Siringo - Wind Digits
    David W. Bailey
    Wind Digits, is considered gossip. Hot air being expelled by wagging tongues. Women especially were prone to this disease. The barbershop, as well, was abuzz of the wind digits that seemed to declare the oncoming civil unrest. where sons and husbands who could go off to war, should it come, to never come home. And, yet, these aren’t the only ones who were listening to the wind ...
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    13,71 €

  • Slim Siringo - ’Derechos’ - Persistent Wind
    David W. Bailey
    In the lives of Slim Siringo, 2nd Lieutenant Jamie Carlson, and Flynn McDonagh, ’Days like a Shadow’, proved to be looking into a glass darkly. Unclear of what will happen next. Then, there came ’Lengthening Shadows’. Dark and ominous, ever leaning towards a shooting war between the Northern states and the Southern states. Then there came, ’A Brimful of Nettle’, which is to say...
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    15,85 €

  • The Sunny Side of the House
    David G Bailey
    You can’t choose your mum and dad, even when they choose you. In my early teens I had a taste for horror comics. In one strip I read of a handsome young couple at last alone in their honeymoon suite. He is crisply suited, clean-cut. She, lovely in her wedding finery, offers him the chance to watch her disrobe. The bride is not shy. She reveals herself, frame by frame, to be a h...
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    26,36 €

  • Slim Siringo - ’A Brimful of Nettle’
    David W. Bailey
    ’A Brimful of Nettle’ is an expression that states that whatever situation you find yourself in, and that situation rings on far too long, and now, your cup is full to the brim and overflowing of any understanding of it, and a brimful of nettle being not only an annoyance, but generally a situation that angers you. Consider the situation the Siringo family has found themselves ...
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    12,81 €

  • Jericho James - Happy Go Lucky
    David W. Bailey
    The story of Jericho James and his horse, Lucky is about a man who left his hometown of Parkersburg, West Virginia in search of wealth and stability. Jericho set his plans on California and the gold fields, or whatever takes his fancy. The year is 1916. Jericho is telling his grandchildren of his life in 1876 when he was 24 years old. Jericho, at the time of his telling, is 65 ...
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    29,89 €

  • Slim Siringo - Lengthening Shadows
    David W. Bailey
    ’Lengthening Shadows’, are dark clouds forming over the country with the threat of civil war looming on the horizon. For the last six months or so in Comanche, Oklahoma, the only war that was being waged was the war against a man named, Devlin Wade. He has waged war against the people of Stephens County. The man was ruthless, clever, and heartless in his dealings with the folks...
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    14,70 €

  • Slim Siringo - Days Like A Shadow
    David W. Bailey
    ’Lengthening Shadows’, are dark clouds forming over the country with the threat of civil war looming on the horizon. For the last six months or so in Comanche, Oklahoma, the only war that was being waged was the war against a man named Devlin Wade. He has waged war against the people of Stephens County. The man was ruthless, clever, and heartless in his dealings with the folks ...
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    15,05 €

  • Slim Siringo - A Howling Wind
    David W. Bailey
    Slim has come home, and he has brought with him three men who has sided with the Siringo family to eradicate the menace known as Devlin Wade. However, the way to do that is still in question. Simply shooting the man, as Will Ferguson has suggested, is still under advisement, but it is against the law providing there is no proof of his wrongdoing. The man cannot simply be tied t...
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    13,08 €

  • Slim Siringo - A Troublesome Wind - Book 2
    David W. Bailey
    A Troublesome Wind, picks up where Apache Raids leave off. It seems that wherever Slim, and his sister, Jenny goes, they find trouble, or is it trouble finds them? However you look at it, they draw trouble to themselves like bees to honey.They have been delayed in Ringgold, Texas from going North to Comanche, Oklahoma, and home because the Northbound stage was late due to bei...
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    12,20 €

  • Slim Siringo
    David W. Bailey
    Danny Siringo, who likes to be known as, Slim, his nickname, enters Paris, Texas in search of a doctor for a friend who had been horned by a cow causing a bad wound. A bad storm had come up at night with lightning, rain, and thunder causing the steers to run. Quite a few dead cows, a few dead horses from the remuda. Men wore out, cold, wet, and very surly. Slim was chosen to go...
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    15,53 €

  • Siege At Bear River
    David W. Bailey
    ’Siege at Bear River’, is a glimpse in time of two brothers, one a major, the other a captain in the United States Cavalry in the year, 1868. The story embellishes the love and affection, as well as, the comradery, and hi-jinx they had for each other. Together, they faced a formidable enemy, The Shoshone, the Nez Perce, and the Hidatsa Indians in southeastern Washington State. ...
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    14,46 €

  • Battle of Stallion Springs
    David W. Bailey
    Stallion Springs, Nebraska was a growing, outreaching mid-western town along with many other towns of its size and its general population. Telegraph lines were put up and a telegrapher came in just a little while after the war. The town had a sheriff named, Tom Banister, and a deputy sheriff named, Jim Iverson. On the most part, Stallion Springs was a peaceful, quiet little out...
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    13,72 €

  • The Man from Pickle Street
    David W. Bailey
    After three years of conducting a vengeance trail against the Sioux and Cheyenne when his parents were killed up on the Medicine Bow, Lin Allan Cooper finally came back to the place he now calls home, North Ridge, New Mexico only to find the ranch that he and his best friend, Frank Shimmer had built from the ground up had been bought by another party who paid past due tax debts...
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    19,51 €

  • Easy Pickin’s - The Story Of Eli Jefferson
    David W. Bailey
    Eli Jefferson left his home in Sweetwater, Texas, intent on doing as a good son should, and helping to raise the money his father needed to pay the upcoming bank note. After finishing a cattle drive and earning the money needed, Eli set out for home, ecstatic.As he neared home, Eli was bushwhacked by an unknown gunman. The bullet creased his head and left him with amnesia. With...
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    15,72 €

  • Big Jim
    David W. Bailey
    This is the story of Big Jim Bowdry, an ex-City Marshal of Hays, Kansas.He had gained a reputation with his fists, as well as the lightning speed of his .45 caliber pistol, if, and when it was necessary. He took no guff from anybody. Although he was a good-natured man, he saw things logically, and looked only at the facts, and the evidence. He had always said, 'I’m not the judg...
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    13,86 €

  • Benjamin Leonard Singletary - Hate Behind the Gun
    David W. Bailey
    Hate Behind the Gun is a tale of an old man in 1889 at the age of 78 years old. His name is Benjamin Leonard Singletary. He resides in a quiet, peaceful little town of Happy Jack, Arizona wanting to spend the rest of his days in quiet solitude. But this quiet solitude is broken when a man with his last name comes to town declaring that Ben had abandoned him and his mother, and ...
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    15,24 €

  • Jericho James - Come Hell or High Water
    David W. Bailey / J.C. Hulsey
    After a hearty breakfast of eggs, biscuits and gravy, and fried potatoes, the James family left the family dining room and retired to the living room. In the fireplace, a hot, glowing fire released its warmth and permeated throughout the room. With it being the dead of winter in Parkersburg, West Virginia, near the fireplace was where Jericho wanted to be. Assembled in the livi...
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    26,81 €

  • Death On Horseback
    David W. Bailey
    Captain Josiah Edward Stewart, 5th Battalion, 1st Cavalry, assigned Fort Archer, Arizona territory has been accused of negligence & cowardess in the face of the enemy.Found not guilty, Colonel Bream gave Captain Stewart and Captain Allen Moody a two week furlough.During an Apache attack against a stagecoach they were on, Captain Stewart was bound while Captain Moody was wounded...
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    11,17 €

  • A Wisp of Smoke
    David W. Bailey
    Pearce Hanlon and a troop of Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Wesley Coleman, left Apache Station who then become harassed, and attacked by a combined force of Yaqui, Tonto, Mescalero, and Chiricahua Apache in the southeastern desert of Arizona. This is a tragedy about the death of so much humanity, Indian and white man is so outstanding, it’s frightening. This is a life and de...
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    15,94 €

  • Wind River - Mountain Man Jeb Winslow
    David W. Bailey
    ’Wind River’, is a tale of the Sioux uprising along the Big Wind River, and in the Wind River Valley, the Indians call, ’Valley of the Warm Winds’. The Wind River is in the territory of Wyoming, and this story is a fictional tale from the year of 1868. The main character, Jeb Winslow is thrust into the survival against the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Pawnee and Ute Indians. He is...
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    11,79 €

  • Jericho James - Whatever Suits Your Fancy
    David W. Bailey
    They waited silently, each man in his own thoughts. After what seemed like hours, Doctor Ray Campbell came into the waiting room. As Jericho, Asa, and Abner came to their feet, Jericho asked, 'well, Ray?'Ray Campbell looked solemn and replied, 'we almost lost her, Jerry. She had a temp of one-hundred and four. We got her temperature down and she’s resting comfortable now.'All t...
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    25,72 €

  • Jericho James - Like Two Lost Children
    David W. Bailey
    The year is early nineteen-seventeen. It is near the end of winter in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The snow has blanketed the landscape in white. The wind howled something fierce the day before, which had caused Jericho to put more wood on the fire in the fireplace in the living room. There were snow drifts everywhere. The wind had scattered the snow into piles. Trees were cover...
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    24,07 €

  • Them Feltwell Boys
    David G Bailey
    If women are so much trouble, Ray, why do you always want more than one?Parallel narratives of a schoolboy’s developing first love affair and his career and marriage unravelling 25 years later eventually converge at a school reunion.Ray Roden is a Fenland schoolboy in trouble with teachers and friends as well as women after his boys’ grammar merges with the girls’ high. He has ...
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    26,36 €

  • Ghost Writing
    David Bailey
    If you are a lover of the written word and have always wanted to merge that with a career, then this is the book for you. Ghostwriting for Profit is an easy to follow comprehensive guide on how to start your own ghostwriting business, where to find work, and what to expect from potential clients.Whether you had some of your work published or you are just starting out, Ghost wri...
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    16,03 €

  • Naturalism Against Nature
    David J. Bailey
    ’On one such occasion, he stopped in front of the mirror and looked at himself very carefully, trying to discover on his discoloured face anything, any sign that would denounce the black race. He observed himself well, separating his hair at the the roots, stretching the skin on his cheeks, examining his nostrils and teeth; finally he flung the mirror onto the dresser, consumed...
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    17,58 €

  • Them Roper Girls
    David G Bailey
    They were beauties all right, them Roper girls - but sometimes even four aces don’t make a winning hand.In an unsettled household in the 1950s, how will the sisters come up from their shipwrecked childhood? Facing issues including domestic and sexual abuse, physical and mental illness, they struggle to offer their own children a better legacy. Follow them over sixty years to se...
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    26,56 €

  • Seventeen
    David G Bailey
    He will take seventeen to the match - how many will he bring back?In Cibola football is a matter of life and death. Sir Tristram must reunite his Blood City teammates - Knights, Pirates and Westerners - to win the prestigious Seskie tournament against their oldest rivals.Behind the match is a bigger power play, a king’s mission to bring down his greatest rival by persuasion, tr...
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    18,53 €

  • All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Sunday School
    David Bailey
    Rev. David Bailey writes, 'Since 1998 when I read the book by Robert Foghorn, Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, I have been in a personal pilgrimage to write a type of sequel - Everything I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Sunday School. In fact, over this period of twenty-one years, I have developed the idea in a number of sermons and talks to various gr...
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    10,87 €

  • Beyond Defeat and Austerity
    David Bailey / Mònica Clua-Losada / Nikolai Huke
    This book takes as its point of departure the observation that much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon an impending sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the first thirty years of the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. ...
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    83,82 €


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