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  • Dealing With Difficult People Without Killing Them
    Mike D Robertson
    Welcome the AdversaryAs pastor and author Mike Robertson writes, the people around you are either making you better or they are pulling you backward. If you want to become all God has in mind for you, you will find yourself in life-giving relationships-and that will include some difficult people, like it or not. In his new book, Dealing With Difficult People, Robertson explor...
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    20,96 €

  • Looking For Memories
    Mike Robertson
    Like some people recently retired, Mark had taken on a diversion that pretty well takes up much of his time. At one time, he collected baseball cards, a pastime that required him to acquire cards through trades with fellow enthusiasts or winning cards through arcane competitions when the application of Facebook allowed him to accumulate cards more easily. Several years later, o...
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    28,77 €

  • Confessionals
    Mike Robertson
    Like most children brought up Roman Catholic, Richard regularly attended confession. He never quite know why but until he was in high school, he never questioned the purpose, if not the substance of the sacrament. An incident involving a priestly vestment, a confession in a cathedral, overhearing an admission by an elderly lady in an adjacent confessional, the surprising regist...
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    24,13 €

  • Get a Job
    Mike Robertson
    He was only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of grade nine when his parents began to request, if not demand that he start earning his own money, a replacement for the allowance he had been receiving from since he was in the fifth grade. From his first employment posting as a golf caddy for $1.50 a round to a series of clerical positions in the Canadian Government, the bi...
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    15,93 €

  • The Biography of George
    Mike Robertson
    He was 71 years of age and had lived in the ramshackle shack at the unfortunate address on Donegani Avenue for several years now. He had remodeled it somewhat, mainly on the inside where he added pine paneling to separate the few parts of the place from each other, mainly to ensure that people using the toilet were granted some privacy, the addition of a door a particularly con...
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    17,63 €

  • The Changing Mysteries of Parkdale Court
    Mike Robertson
    In 1949, an architect and amateur magician named George Fenwick was to leap from an apartment building that he had designed and first occupied when it opened in 1936. Twenty six years later, John and Patricia Delaney rented the same apartment that George Fenwick had occupied. For reasons that neither of them were ever able to determine, the mystery of Mr. Fenwick’s suicide appe...
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    24,09 €

  • The Biography of George
    Mike Robertson
    Inspired by a fragment of a story written by one budding author, another aspiring author creates the life story of someone named George. From a childhood that originates in an adoption, the story proceeds through his childhood involvement in the sudden loss of his father, the destitution following that loss, a difficult adolescence and then to a curious adult life fated to conc...
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    24,29 €

  • Innings
    Mike Robertson
    The author has played recreational baseball of one kind or another for almost sixty years. He has worn the uniforms of more than a dozen teams over that period-sometimes noticeably, sometimes competently, and a scant few times almost disgracefully. Included in this narrative is a history of his almost thirty years of playing for one of the founding teams of the National Capital...
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    16,31 €

  • Picture Windows
    Mike Robertson
    Picture WindowsTwo faces staring out of two windows in two separate houses in two separate cities separated by more than fifty years interests, fascinates, and eventually obsesses the same observer, first when he was a young boy, then when he was a recently retired man. Precipitated by the discovery of a long-buried skeleton behind a recently demolished older house, a retired m...
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    16,00 €

  • The Hidden History of Jack Quinn
    Mike Robertson
    A letter written by a seriously ill middle aged man facing the end of his life is found in a safety deposit box after he passes away. The document, immediately thought to be Jack Quinn’s last will and testament, sends his oldest friend on a quest to find his birth parents, his adoption only revealed to him shortly before he died. The search for the identity of the decedent’s bi...
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    23,66 €

  • The First Communion Murders
    Mike Robertson
    Sometime in the late 1950s, on the steps of an unknown church, somebody takes a black and photograph of an assembly of boys making their first communions. Above the heads of eight of the boys, who are all fated to die within the next twenty years, are small carefully ascribed Xs. When the picture is found more than fifty years years later in an abandoned steamer trunk purchased...
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    30,30 €

  • The Smart Aleck Chronicles III
    Mike Robertson
    The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. This was followed five years later with the release of a second volume. As noted in the prefaces to both these collections, their intended purpose was to present to readers a series of literary entertainments on a range of issues, activities, personalities and phenomena. In this, the third volum...
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    19,71 €

  • The Smart Aleck Chronicles II
    Mike Robertson
    The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments on a wide range of ridiculous activities that constitute everyday life. Whether it was faithful to that lofty purpose remains a mystery, even t...
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    15,63 €

  • These Memories Clear
    Mike Robertson
    'These Memories Clear' is a collection of forty short stories, of various lengths, genres and subject matter. Many of the stories in the collection are drawn from childhood memories that may or may not be actual recollections. From one page observations to much longer pieces like 'Close Enough to Miss' and 'The Letter Seven', it is hoped that this collection is diverse enough t...
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    26,31 €

  • The Smart Aleck Chronicles
    Mike Robertson
    No plot, no characters, hardly any stories, just a collection of smart remarks and clever lines delivered on a number of subjects for no apparent reason, the literary equivalent of cleaning out the closet. The Smart Aleck Chronicles presents a series of entertainments on a wide variety of seemingly unrelated topics. Sometimes serious but mostly flippant, the Smart Aleck Chronic...
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    12,76 €

  • Gone and Back
    Mike Robertson
    Paul Waite is a hopelessly middle aged man with two sons, a heart condition and a conventional disposition. He unexpectedly loses his wife of 20 years to a traffic accident. Gone and Back follows Mr. Waite as he makes his farewell to her. In finalizing her affairs after she is gone, Paul comes across a startling discovery, a clue to a mystery regarding his wife that he is deter...
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    22,88 €

  • PARTS OF A PAST
    Mike Robertson
    Memories of growing up on the West Island of Montreal during the 1950s and early 60's are the subject of this aptly entitled collection of fourteen short stories. Sometimes hopelessly conventional and sometimes strangely surprising, each story is a remembrance by a now middle aged man who realizes that his future may now reside mainly in his past. Whether looking back on his fi...
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    21,65 €

  • Casting Shadows
    Mike Robertson
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    19,48 €

  • Parent-Teacher Partnership
    Chris Robertson / Joanna Blamires / Mike Blamires
    First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...
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    71,24 €

  • The Theory and Practice of Systematic Staff Selection
    Ivan T. Robertson / Mike Smith
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    72,44 €