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John Richard Alden (January 23, 1908, Grand Rapids, Michigan – August 14, 1991, Clearwater, Florida) was an American historian and author of a number of books on the era of the American Revolutionary War.
Richard and Judy Book Club display at W.H. Smith, Enfield. The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club, featured on the television chat show. The show was cancelled in 2009, but since 2010 the lists have been continued by the Richard and Judy Book Club, a website run in conjunction with retailer W. H. Smith.
Powers wrote four books of fiction, The Last Catholic in America (Dutton 1973), Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Regnery 1975), The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God (Contemporary 1977), and The Junk Drawer, Corner Store, Front Porch Blues (Dutton 1992). He also wrote the self-help book Odditude (HCI 2007).
The Resurrectionist, a 2024 debut novel by A. Rae Dunlap; It may also refer to: The Resurrectionists, a 2000 novel by Kim Wilkins; Resurrectionist (James McGee novel), a 2007 novel by James McGee; The Resurrectionist Order of the Roman Catholic Church; The practice of Body-snatching; The Resurrectionist: The lost works of Dr. Spencer Black by E ...
John Crowley / ˈ k r aʊ l i / (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction. Crowley studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer.
This illustration accompanies an account of John Holmes and Peter Williams who, for unearthing cadavers in 1777, were publicly whipped from Holborn to St Giles. Resurrectionists were body snatchers who were commonly employed by anatomists in the United Kingdom during the 18th and 19th centuries to exhume the bodies of the recently dead.
John Neal felt that novels represented the highest form of prose. [1] As a novelist, he is recognized as "the first in America to be natural in his diction" [2] and "the father of American subversive fiction" for developing a new "wild, rough, and defiant American style" to break with British standards then dominant in the US. [3]
The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes written for Lyle Engel of Book Creations, Inc., to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. [1]