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  • Dawn Like Thunder
    Glenn Tucker
    Dawn like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy, first published in 1963, is the definitive account of the fledgling Navy and Marine Corps of the United States in the early 1800s. The book details the struggle of American ships such as the USS Constitution and Constellation against the pirates and Muslim warlords of the Mediterranean and North Africa in what ...
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  • Dawn Like Thunder
    Glenn Tucker
    In the early 1800s, American ships off the coast of North Africa routinely found themselves the targets of Muslim pirates. These sea raiders, or ’corsairs’ as they were known, sought captives to enslave in the Ottoman Empire’s galleys, mines and harems. When reports circulated of white Christians being shackled to oars, smashing rocks in mines and being sold into sexual slavery...
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    30,91 €

  • The Education of Frank
    Glenn G. Tucker / GLENN GTUCKER
    THE EDUCATION OF FRANKA STORY OF WWIIFrank Talley was a young industrious boy living in a well-to-do family until his parents, sister and brother were killed in an automobile accident while taking his older sister to start her college studies. His family’s closest friends have a contract that in case of an accident to either set of parents; the remaining parents would serve as ...
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  • MR. T’S QUEST
    Glenn Tucker
    Frank Talley joined the navy for a four year hitch to enable him to use the G.I. Bill to attend college. He was stationed at the Jacksonville Naval Base when his enlistment expired. While undergoing his discharge routine he met Megan, the WAVE Assistant to his commanding officer. He asked for a date, she agreed and both quickly fell in love.Frank would be living with his aunt...
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    24,16 €

  • Bob’s Trip Through Manhood
    Glenn G. Tucker / GLENN GTUCKER
    Bob Brand was being raised by drunken, brutal parents until he was fifteen years old. He had a paper route, like many young boys. One night, he refused to give his father the money he collected to pay his paper bill and was beaten badly by his father. He escaped from the home and went to see an elderly doctor on his route to get help. Dr. Ted Woods sewed him up and called the p...
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    33,52 €

  • I’LL SEE YOU IN TWENTY YEARS
    Glenn G. Tucker / GLENN GTUCKER
    People have dreamed of returning to their youth to correct their errors and naiveté. Dr. Frank Dodd acquired that chance but for a different reason. He and his wife, Dr. Beverly Dodd, are retired professors from a small north Florida College. They had just started enjoying retirement when they found Beverly had inoperable cancer and would soon die. Frank bemoaned the fact ...
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    30,56 €

  • UNIVERSITY PAST TIME
    GLENN G. TUCKER / GLENN GTUCKER
    Dr. Tom Gorham is a professor at Central States University located on the Mississippi River below St. Louis. One of his assignments is to secure funding for research projects in the College of Science and Engineering.Dr. John 'Raj' Jhangi, a Professor of Physics, tries an experiment with an experimental powerful electromagnet with results that open a new realm in Physics. Tom’s...
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    24,81 €

  • Tecumseh
    Glenn Tucker
    'The whites have driven us from the great salt water, forced us over the mountains.The way, the only way, to check and stop this evil is for all red men to unite in claiming a common equal right in the land.' -Tecumseh, quoted in Tecumseh: Vision of GloryThe legendary charismatic Indian chief Tecumseh was born nearly a decade before Columbus’ discovery of the New World. He ca...
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    44,12 €

  • I’M SORRY I MISSED YOU
    GLENN G. TUCKER / GLENN GTUCKER
    Rosalie 'Lucky' Lucknaur, was hired by Midtown Skating Rink to be the producer of a skating show. She selects Cathy Vann and Tim Drake as skating partners in the production. Both Tim and Cathy are at first unwilling as they dislike each other. As they practiced for the Skating Vanities of 1942, Cathy and Tim came to an armed truce and finally come to like and respect each o...
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    16,49 €

  • Exile Island
    Glenn G. Tucker / GLENN GTUCKER
    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OPEC STOPS SHIPPING OIL? At times the Government oversteps the bounds of honesty and common sense. The incidents in the first chapters of this story actually occurred and were reported in the newspapers. Land has been taken under eminent domain for private use, as in Detroit where homes and businesses were taken at a minimal price and resold to General Motor...
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    17,17 €