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  • Beauty’s No Biscuit
    R.H. Peake
    A sequel to Moon’s Black Gold, this novel deals with thestruggle of George Landsetter to keep his five hundred acres ofwoodland from Dave Blackmun, a lawless miner, and criminalkingpin. Working with Mike Barton and the FBI, George tries tobring down Blackmun while attempting to court Heidi Leaves,the head of a nonprofit promoting better coal mining laws. ...
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    16,10 €

  • Moon’s Black Gold
    R.H. Peake
    Everett 'Moon' Lunamin returns from battles in Vietnam determined to gain wealth and social status mining coal during the coal boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Moon struggles with his cousin George Landsetter, a reclamation officer, and surface mining competitors whose greed exceeds their ethics. He succeeds and marries his high school sweetheart, whose family accepts hi...
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    15,06 €

  • Love and Death on Safari
    R.H. Peake
    Jimmy Russo is a successful businessman and an obsessive lister of the world’s birds-until his murder while on a safari in Sierra Leone, Africa. Few of his fellow travelers mourn his death, as his constant negativity, foul mouth, and abuse of his wife, Jane, have long since alienated them. One of them, Jackson Burnbridge, has known the couple since meeting them on a birding tou...
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    11,65 €

  • Birds and Other Beasts
    R.H. Peake
    There is tremendous variety in form, theme, and tone in the poems in this volume. Many of the poems may strike the reader as corroboration of Thoreau’s view of wildness and wilderness because Peake’s love of wild things forms his poetic center, but this book also includes intense love poems as well as celebrations of birds and trees and lightning bugs. Though Peake celebrates n...
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    11,94 €

  • Beauty’s No Biscuit
    R.H. Peake
    A sequel to Moon’s Black Gold, this novel deals with the struggle of George Landsetter to keep his five hundred acres of woodland from Dave Blackmun, a lawless miner, and criminal kingpin. Helped by Mike Barton and the FBI, George brings down Blackmun while trying to court Heidi Leaves, head of a non profit promoting better mining laws. ...
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    12,64 €

  • Rare Bird Alert
    R. H. Peake
    On a flight to a birding tour in Australia, Margaret Smith develops a friendship with Hammond ('Porky') Frank. On the first part of the tour, they become close friends, although Margaret ('Maggie') becomes suspicious of Porky. On the northern part of the trip, they are joined by a new assistant leader, Jameson Kanger, who begins a scheme with Porky. Left to herself, Maggie spen...
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    9,53 €

  • Moon’s Black Gold
    R. H. Peake
    Everett 'Moon' Lunamin returns from battles in Vietnam determined to gain wealth and social status mining coal during the coal boom of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Moon struggles with his cousin George Landsetter, a reclamation officer, and surface mining competitors whose greed exceeds their ethics. He succeeds and marries his high school sweetheart, whose family accepts ...
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    12,84 €

  • Birds and Other Beast
    R.H. PEAKE / R.HPEAKE
    There is tremendous variety in form, theme, and tone in thepoems in this volume. Many of the poems may strike thereader as corroboration of Thoreau’s view of wildness andwilderness because Peake’s love of wild things forms hispoetic center, but this book also includes intense love poemsas well as celebrations of birds and trees and lightning bugs.Though Peake celebrates nature,...
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    7,94 €

  • Beauty’s No Biscuit
    R.H. Peake
    A sequel to Moon’s Black Gold, this novel deals with the struggle of George Landsetter to keep his five hundred acres of woodland from Dave Blackmun, a lawless miner, and criminal kingpin. Helped by Mike Barton and the FBI, George brings down Blackmun while trying to court Heidi Leaves, head of a non profit promoting better mining laws. ...
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    11,71 €

  • Jaykyll’s Joust
    R.H. Peake
    John Jaykyll, professor at a small college in southern Appalachia, is having a mid-life crisis resulting from his conflict with the new college president, who hates his mountain origins, and dislikes Jaykyll because he is defending mountain literature and culture and the young professor in charge of this program who is accused by a crazy French professor of having an affair wit...
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    11,65 €

  • Moon’s Black Gold
    R.H. Peake
    Everett 'Moon' Lunamin returns from battles in Vietnam determined to gain wealth and social status mining coal during the coal boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Moon struggles with his cousin George Landsetter, a reclamation officer, and surface mining competitors whose greed exceeds their ethics. He succeeds and marries his high school sweetheart, whose family accepts hi...
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    11,71 €

  • Love and Death on Safari
    R.H. Peake
    Jimmy Russo is a successful businessman and an obsessive lister of the world’s birds-until his murder while on a safari in Sierra Leone, Africa. Few of his fellow travelers mourn his death, as his constant negativity, foul mouth, and abuse of his wife, Jane, have long since alienated them. One of them, Jackson Burnbridge, has known the couple since meeting them on a birding tou...
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    11,70 €

  • Rare Bird Alert
    R.H. Peake
    On a flight to a birding tour in Australia, Margaret Smith develops a friendship with Hammond ('Porky') Frank. On the first part of the tour, they become close friends, although Margaret ('Maggie') becomes suspicious of Porky. On the northern part of the trip, they are joined by a new assistant leader, Jameson Kanger, who begins a scheme with Porky. Left to herself, Maggie spen...
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    9,62 €

  • Beauty’S No Biscuit
    R. H. Peake / RHPeake
    A sequel to Moons Black Gold, this novel deals with the struggle of George Landsetter to keep his five hundred acres of woodland from Dave Blackmun, a lawless miner and criminal kingpin. Helped by Mike Barton and the FBI, George brings down Blackmun while trying to court Heidi Leaves, head of a nonprofit promoting better mining laws. ...
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    16,37 €

  • Love and Death on Safari
    R. H. Peake / RHPeake
    Jimmy Russo is a successful businessman and an obsessive lister of the world’s birds—until his murder while on a safari in Sierra Leone, Africa. Few of his fellow travelers mourn his death, as his constant negativity, foul mouth, and abuse of his wife, Jane, have long since alienated them.One of them, Jackson Burnbridge, has known the couple since meeting them on a birding tour...
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    16,49 €

  • Moon’s Black Gold
    R. H. Peake / RHPeake
    Everett Adamo ('Moon') Lunamin returns from Vietnam battlefields determined to acquire wealth and social status by starting a surface mining company at the height of the coal boom in the late 1960’s and 1970’s.Lunamin attempts to mine in an efficient, environmentally friendly way and runs afoul of competitors whose greed exceeds their business ability and ethics. He also comes ...
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    12,55 €

  • Birds and Other Beasts
    R H Peake
    There is tremendous variety in form, theme, and tone in the poems in this volume. Many of the poems may strike the reader as a corroboration of Thoreau’s view of wildness and wilderness, because Peake’s love of wild things forms his poetic center, but this book also includes intense love poems as well as celebrations of birds and trees and lightning bugs.Though Peake celebrates...
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    15,07 €

  • The Little Dog Laughed
    R. H. Peake / RHPeake
    Everett A. ('Moon') Lunamin returns from battles in Vietnam determined to gain wealth and social status by becoming an entrepreneur in the coal industry at the height of the coal boom in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.Moon struggles with his cousin George Landsetter, a reclamation officer, and his surface mining competitors, Dave Blackmun and Dab Whacker, whose greed exceeds ...
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    12,57 €

  • Jack, Be Nimble
    R. H. Peake / RHPeake
    Jason Malmuth becomes President of Pine Mountain College determined to change what he considers its rustic image. Aided by venal Provost Bottleby and a reluctant but compliant Dean Hiram Grudger, Malmuth seeks to eliminate the school’s Appalachian Studies Program. The faculty of the program oppose him, but are hampered by the psychological problems of John Jaykyll, their leader...
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    12,28 €