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"Fans of action-packed thrillers with nautical settings will be more than satisfied with Zajonc's accomplished debut, which kicks off a promising series" -Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The pirate-plagued waters of Somalia have gotten even more deadly since a mysterious red tide began killing all marine life within its reach. When a research team attempting to study the phenomenon is shot out of the sky, extraordinary measures are required...
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The second installment in the legendary Matt Helm thrillers. Matt Helm, code name Eric, has been recently reactivated as an operative for a secret American government organization after fifteen years as a sedentary photographer and family man in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his first assignment after returning to the service, he is sent to Sweden to eliminate Caselius, a long-time enemy agent. In order to do so, he must leave a trail of bodies in his...
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A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the '60s and the inside story of the music you heard on the radio. If you always assumed the musicians you listened to were the same people you saw onstage, you are in for a big surprise! In Los Angeles in the 1960s-70s, if you wanted to record a chart-topping track or album, you called in the crack session musicians collectively known as the Wrecking Crew. Consisting of artists unknown...
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Music lovers will be astonished at the influence The Wrecking Crew wielded over rock and pop music in the 1960s and early 1970s. These unsung instrumentalists were the de-facto backing band on hit records by The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny & Cher, Elvis, The Monkees and many more. These dedicated musicians brought the flair and musicianship that made the American "West Coast Sound" a dominant cultural force around...
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The incredible details of the bold, near-disastrous first Allied airborne commando raid.
Audacious to the extreme, Operation Colossus was a raid in the early, dark days of the Second World War, when Britain stood seemingly alone. After the country's defeats in western Europe in 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill insisted on an aggressive raiding campaign. Conducted on February 10, 1941, Operation Colossus was one such raid, meant to steal back...
7) The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation
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From the author of the landmark bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate-and lucrative-conservative misrule
In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us.
Casting his eyes from the Bush administration's...
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[Magnolia]
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2015
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Profiles the group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew -- featuring Tommy Tedesco, guitar; Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer drums ; Carol Kaye, Joe Osborne, bass -- who played on a slew of rock and pop hits during the sixties. Gifted, versatile and possessing the knack for turning a simple tune into something memorable, the Wrecking Crew were the players who turned the Wall of Sound in Phil Spector's head into a reality, and helped...
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
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[2015]
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Originally made in 2008 and never released until now the film tells the story of the unsung musicians that provided the backbeat, the bottom and the swinging melody that drove many of the number one hits of the 1960s. It didn't matter if it was Nat "King" Cole, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, The Monkees, The Byrds or The Beach Boys, these dedicated musicians brought the flair and musicianship that made the American "west coast sound" a dominant cultural...
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In 2016-2017, while working for the USA Today network's Wisconsin investigative team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case again Steven Avery, who had already beat one wrongful conviction only to be charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. The case became the wildly successful Netflix "Making A Murderer" documentary. In this book, Ferak lays out in exacting detail the post-conviction strategy of Kathleen Zellner,...
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"A marauding linebacker who changed the game of football, a tough-as-nails quarterback, and a fiery head coach helped the 1986 New York Giants leave an indelible mark on the NFL. Big Blue Wrecking Crew is the no-holds-barred story of the team that created Giant Football, the pound-you-into-submission, quarterback-crushing defense, coupled with a powerful ball control offense that resulted in a 1986 Superbowl Championship--the first in team history....
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"Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben...
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Fanboys vs. Zombies volume 13
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FANBOYS IN SPAAACE! Trapped on a space station with a bunch of wimpy scientists and one rogue zombie, the Wrecking Crew is faced with an intriguing new challenge-instead of destroying Earth's zombie infestation, can they cure it? Fanboys will die. Romances will bloom. And you bet Amanda's gonna get her Ripley on! Written by Shane Houghton (REED GUNTHER) and illustrated by Harvey Award-nominated artist Jerry Gaylord, FANBOYS VS. ZOMBIES is a loving...
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Fanboys vs. Zombies volume 5
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THE SAGA CONTINUES! Comic-Con is over. San Diego is completely dead...err, make that undead. Escaping the convention center was the easy part - now the Wrecking Crew has nowhere to hide as they wreck shop in the destroyed wastelands of the Gaslamp District! Written by comics sensation Sam Humphries (Marvel's UNCANNY X-FORCE, THE ULTIMATES, HIGHER EARTH) with art by rising stars Jerry Gaylord and Bryan Turner, FANBOYS VS. ZOMBIES is a loving send-up...
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Fanboys vs. Zombies volume 9
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With a nuclear bomb headed straight for Zombie Ground Zero, the Wrecking Crew must escape San Diego in search of a mysterious government compound that supposedly houses the contagion's cure! But does new WC member Kurt Kiel have the group's best interests at heart, or does he have more sinister motives? This third volume collects issues 9-12 for fans of hilarious horror mashups like ZOMBIELAND and SHAUN OF THE DEAD.
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Collects Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #32-36. It's time to cry S.O.S. — Save Our School! New York City has a new mayor, and his name is…Wilson Fisk! Yes, the Kingpin is in charge of the Big Apple, including the Department of Education! But he won't be running it alone: meet your new favorite Marvel character, Princess Fisk! What is her tragic past? Meanwhile, Lunella's problems are all in the present. For one, if she's so smart, why can't she...
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House Of M volume 1
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You've seen how the mutants and the heroes were changed in the world ruled by Magneto...but what about the villains? Their story stands revealed at last as The Hood assembles a gang of the deadliest Sapien super-criminals: Madame Masque, The Absorbing Man, Titania, The Wrecking Crew, Nitro, Constrictor, The Sandman, Crossbones, and more! At first, their goal is simple: get rich and get away with it. But their very first job may lead somewhere none...
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In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a train wreck near...
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Fanboys vs. Zombies volume 5
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Welcome to "Stories of the Apocalypse," a series of four standalone tales featuring fan-favorite characters from the FvZ Universe. This volume includes the phantasmic Drake Masterson teaming up with original Wrecking Crew member J-Mac (or what's left of him, anyway) to figure out what "unfinished business" is keeping him on the Earthly plane; the sadistic Gunther escaping into a copy of Kurt Kiel's SURVIVAL OF THE DAMNED as he hides for his life in...
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 25
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Collects Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2016) #25-36. When the Silver Surfer arrives in Manhattan warning of an ancient cosmic menace on a collision course with Earth, Lunella Lafayette must step up and solve the impossible! But without Devil Dinosaur by her side, Lunella joins forces with some new friends who are missing their own pals: the Human Torch and the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing! You don't want to miss the debut of the Fantastic Three! But...
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