A Burgess: 17 books

Aviation fans and experienced or aspiring pilots of any age will enjoy these entertaining stories from a successful charter pilot. Anyone interested in general aviation, its history, and the funny and sometimes-scary adventures of a professional pilot will enjoy Mark Burgess' stories. With...

Dopers, dropouts, scenesters, and hipsters shark Seattle in search of the next big thing. Or they refuse to search and opt to slide down the dark ladder. No bottom there. No traps. No dead end. There heroin will tell you you're brilliant, you're in touch, you're so, so inside. The addict's path mimics...

Kenneth Toomey, de wereldberoemde, van zijn geloof gevallen homoseksuele schrijver, krijgt van de aartsbisschop van Malta het verzoek steun te verlenen bij de heiligverklaring van don Carlo Campanati, de latere paus Gregorius xvii. Campanati is een gehaaide manipulator die snel opklimt binnen het...

Art Collecting for Beginners: A Quick Start Guide to Art Design, Buying Paintings and Collecting Art Work and Art Auctions   Buying and collecting art intelligently can be done by anyone. That's right, anyone. You do not need to have experience in collecting art, previous knowledge...

Art Collecting: A Beginners Guide Art collection is a very stimulating and inspiring hobby for all. It isn't just for the rich and famous, but even regular everyday people too. There are various forms of art that you can choose from, especially since art's definition can greatly vary from one person...

This here is a novel laced with diabolical deeds, heroic intentions and unbelievable events. Festooned with dastardly characters, the plot reeks of misadventures and daring exploits and contains so many twists and turns that you will be left gasping for breath as you try to keep up. Egged on by his...

A menacing evil, vile and lethal, has come to manifest beneath the opulent towers of glorious Asim-dar. Tasked with what appears to be the simple quest of taking the life of an unscrupulous nobleman, Quillan, the Lion of Vashtan, soon finds his straight-forward mission far from the easy undertaking...

Sheila Myhra just wants to know why. Why no one had ever prepared her for the responsibility of possessing incredible powers. Why no one had ever told her how to use those powers to battle her renegade father and his pet Demon, Malphas. So when a legendary lost explorer, a painted buffalo hide, a...

The financial markets are made up of people from very diverse backgrounds but whether by long or short term investment these market participants all have a desire to win by varying degrees. Many market participants, especially short term traders are often too interested in the release of some fundamental...

This is the fourth and last volume in Burgess' "Boy Scout Books," preceded by "The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp," "The Boy Scouts on Swift River," and "The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail." In this story, Burgess inserts the Scouts into the life of the trapper, who...

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...

A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time. A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, Mary Hooper, and Andrew Smith....

20 stories of magic and technology Almost everyone carries a smartphone these days. They sit in pockets and on tables. They sleep on headboards and are the first things their owners check in the morning. They’ve edged out more mundane equipment like calendars and MP3 players. They...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...