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  • Henry M. Stanley-The Man From Africa
    Robert Edmond Alter
    One of famed crime author Robert Edmond Alter’s less-well-known books, Henry M. Stanley: The Man from Africa concerns the life of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he later claimed to have gr...
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    16,66 €

  • First Comes Courage
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Robert Edmond Alter, best known as a mystery author, turns his considerable talents to stories of heroes and courage under difficult circumstances. These true-life historical retellings include tales of war, heroism, adventure, and survival-all of which required courage under extreme pressure or life-threatening circumstances. ...
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    16,69 €

  • Heroes in Blue and Gray
    Robert Edmond Alter
    'Heroes in Blue and Gray' presents the stories of famous people from the american civil war. 3 ...
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    22,22 €

  • The Red Fathom
    Robert Edmond Alter
    It takes guts to challenge death.Vern Rigby, professional diver, beach-bum and ladies' man, was the best in the business until the day he helplessly watched while a tiger shark chewed his best friend to shreds. From the Red Sea to Singapore, the word went out: Rigby had lost his nerve. He'd joined the losers.Now there was a second chance—a diving job on an old schooner ...
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    14,24 €

  • The Trail of Billy the Kid
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Here is the exciting biography of one of America's greatest folk heroes, said to have killed 21 men-- one fo each year of his life. The trail of Billy the Kid, traced against the backdrop of one of the bloodiest range wars in the history of the Old West, recreates both the facts and the legend. It follows Billy from the time his family moved out West to the final showdown w...
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    11,35 €

  • Swamp Sister
    Robert Edmond Alter
    The swamp had no name and no landmarks: just cypress, Spanish moss, and alligators—and a wrecked plane with eighty thousand dollars inside it. The man who found the Money Plane could have any woman he wanted—even the deliriously carnal Dorry Mears—as long as he kept the source of his fortune a secret. But in the swamp no secret was ever safe. And neither was anyone who had Dorr...
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    11,22 €

  • Who Goes Next?
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Of all creatures, man is the most difficult to keep caged. There is no textbook on escape, yet every prison, no matter how 'escape proof' it is claimed to be, has lost some of its unwilling guests. Here are twelve true tales of men whose ingenuity and determination would not permit them to languish in confinement. Some were famous, some not; some imprisoned justly, some unjustl...
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    11,23 €

  • Thieves Like Us
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Cheops' daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built a pretty big pyramid.Many centuries later, beautiful Greta Brandt also made some fancy burial plans -- but they were for her husband Farley, who wasn't dead yet. And until he was, Greta intended to lea...
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    10,44 €

  • Listen, the Drum!
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Matt Burnett joins the militia when he hears of pending French and Indian attacks upon colonial settlers. He immediately finds himself regarded as a hero and at the same time a spy-suspect, both situations arising from a series of incidents involving the young Major George Washington.Matt and Chief, his elderly Indian accomplice, begin their adventure by foiling an ambush of Wa...
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    14,24 €

  • Carny Kill
    Robert Edmond Alter
    That's a knife in his chest, just like the kind my ex-wife used to use in her knife-throwing act. But that was a long time ago. Before she married the owner of this carny... And there's the owner now. He's the dead man.CARNY KILL. A mystery from the author of Swamp Sister and The Red Fathom. 3 ...
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    13,26 €

  • The Treasure of Tenakertom
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Thurms, seventeen-year-old son of an Egyptian general, is banished from Thebes by his father for insubordination. Banishment means a tedious assignment of patrolling at the edge of the Sinai desert. But rather than a monotonous life, Thurms runs into adventure when he rescues Kemheb from Khabiri bandits. Kemheb, younger than Thurms, hints he is more than a runaway slave, as Thu...
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    14,24 €

  • Rabble on a Hill
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Shad Holly and Nat Towne are brought together when they are involved with a British patrol in the streets of Boston. Shad, an experienced frontier fighter, and Nat, a young actor, eventually are engaged in dangerous missions during the siege of Boston. Both are among the defenders of Breed's Hill, a name not so well known as nearby Bunker's Hill, thanks to the confusion...
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    14,09 €

  • The Dark Keep
    Robert Edmond Alter
    THE DARK KEEP is a story of 13th-century England. Martin of Tressling, an orphan raised by a Norman uncle, yet kept at an indefinable distance by the same uncle, while strangely befriended by their Saxon enemies. Martin struggles with divided loyalties until he must choose sides in the inevitable climax. Finally, he learns the mysterious circumstances surrounding his own backgr...
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    14,23 €

  • Red Water
    Robert Edmond Alter
    Jess Hanna is shanghaied aboard a whaling ship. Unlike most boys in the 1820s, Jess has no desire for the danger of a sailor's life, and he suffers greatly from the filth and backbreaking labor of the whaler. From the beginning, the voyage is beset by storms, accidents, and an evil scheme of the first mate to 'lose' the ship and its cargo in the icy Antarctic Sea. But Jess,...
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    14,09 €

  • Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers
    Robert Edmond Alter
    When a young alligator tad with a disfigured snout brings humiliation and discomfort to Dad Peps, there begins a legendary feud between 'Shovel Nose,' who grows to the stature of a great gator, and Dad Peps, who fancies himself as a great gator grabber.It is more a laugh-aloud series of encounters than a deadly feud, and you will enjoy the blow by hilarious blow description of ...
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    16,80 €

  • Sex With a Married Woman
    Robert Mark Alter
    n this short and entertaining book are the secrets to having great sex with the most wonderful woman a man will ever know-his wife. In plain, pointed, often funny language psychotherapist Robert Alter says that the marriage bed is the best place on the planet for great sex, that marriage is the best sexual position there is. If a man learns a few things about his manhood, his...
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    13,09 €

  • Pen of Iron
    Robert Alter
    How the King James Bible has influenced the style of the American novel from Melville to Cormac McCarthyThe simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning-and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways ...
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    25,46 €

  • It’s (Mostly) His Fault
    Robert Mark Alter
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    37,71 €

  • Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
    Alexander Whitney Knowlton / Robert Alter
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    17,39 €