LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john r downes

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  • Rebel with a Cause
    John R. Downes
    A Spokane architect’s ever-constant struggles with the Establishment, lawyers, bureaucrats, politicians, educators, activists, and myriad others, exhibits his bulldog nature, talent, and vision of the future he needed to weather the storms and overcome. ...
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    20,17 €

  • Tales from Downes Town
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
    The Accidental Candidate -- A janitor doesn’t need to campaign with friends like this.Overheard At a Coffee Shop -- Farfetched, yet oddly believable-or not.Conversation On an Airplane -- A marble champion solves the National Debt.Ocean Mist -- Do clients follow a trusted adviser who opts for a career change?Custer’s Witness -- Crow Indian Ashishishe was his scout at the Little ...
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    16,43 €

  • Two Came Running
    John R Downes
    Two Came Running is a depiction of heroism, talent, and geniusall embodied in one family. A war heros prodigious son and daughter cope with multiple tragedies in their youth but rise to prominence on the world scene. Separately they perform vital roles in the struggle against the twentieth century’s greatest menace.Commencing in Chicago and rural Nebraska during the Roaring Twe...
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    18,62 €

  • The Scene Menagerie
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
    The Scene Menagerie contains an assortment of fiction scenes and episodes from the novels and short stories of one author, John R. Downes, plus a few excerpts from his nonfictions thrown into the mix. What a range of subjects! War, the Great Depression, Custer’s Last Stand, FBI, orphans, espionage, US history, gunfighters, bank robbers, Adbiz, growing up, mass merchandising, ba...
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    24,08 €

  • The Enchanted Pipe
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
    Following the English colonists’ arrival to America’s shores, Indian tribes strived to achieve peace and coexistence with them-and simultaneously retain their homelands, hunting grounds, native culture, and religion.Those early colonists were followed by thousands more, then millions, who advanced the frontier from New England steadily westward across the central plains and Roc...
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    14,54 €

  • The Blackjack List
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
    Thirteen million dollars remain buried from a Spokane bank heist ten yearsearlier. Only one of the five robbers was captured. The day he’s releasedfrom prison, he hurries to a rendezvous with another at Becky Allison’sblackjack table, where the two exchange the coded whereabouts of othergang members and two of five clues necessary to locate the cache. Sensingthey’ve been follow...
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    15,96 €

  • The Dissonant Spies
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
    One of WWII’s most successful weapons was the Norden bombsight. Nazis coveted them the most from downed US bombers. American flyboys were taught to destroy the bombsights with thermal grenades, which caused them to melt into a molten mass rather than let them fall into enemy hands. When Hitler learns that an improved version would undergo testing on a B-17 by Honeywell Corporat...
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    14,55 €

  • When Johnny Came Marching
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
    What about those who’d drowned in the convoy since midnight? They were dead... their dreams quashed by a devastating event. Poof! Gone! One minute breathing... the next not. What about loved ones who were awaiting their arrival in America? Their dreams were quashed, too, weren’t they? How were the dead ones chosen? And the survivors? Some would say it was their destiny, the wor...
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    22,95 €

  • The Brother & Sister ACT
    R. Downes John R. Downes / RDownes John RDownes
    Orphaned by the murders of their parents, a brother and sister are separated by adoption -- Kenny to Nebraska, and Jane to Chicago... then Hollywood, where a studio accident nearly kills her. What’s a movie star to do when her screen idol fiance goes missing in Nazi Germany during World War II? Meanwhile, her math prodigy brother is recruited by British Intelligence (MI6) to cr...
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    15,01 €

  • Try NOT to Think of an Orange
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
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    17,30 €

  • Nonconfrontation Selling...the One-On-One Revolution
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    15,10 €

  • A Few Deadly Friends
    John R. Downes / John RDownes
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    15,30 €