It Was Fun While It Lasted

Author : M H Major
Publisher : Major Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1942473346
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Was Fun While it Lasted written by M H Major and published by Major Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M H Major’s memoir and personal letters offer an insightful account of an ordinary man’s resilience, fear, hope, and mortality as he struggled to succeed as a wildcatter in South Texas during the fifties. One of four brothers ordered by their Depression-era father to become doctors, Millard was the only son to strike out as a geologist in a business he’d been taught to distrust. As World War II raged, finding new production was easy enough. But an oilman must discover new drilling prospects year after year. A long-time consultant geologist for the King Ranch, Major details his challenges to stay in the game long after production in South Texas began to play out and other geologists had left the field.

Author : Larry Loftis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982143886
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Spy written by Larry Loftis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and Code Girls. When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live “a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious” (Time). As the United States enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline’s life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services—forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties, she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, one of the wealthiest men in Spain, Aline secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections. “[A] meticulously researched, beautifully crafted work of nonfiction that reads like a James Bond thriller” (Bookreporter), The Princess Spy brings to vivid life the dazzling adventures of a spirited American woman who risked everything to serve her country.

Author : John Maginnis
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455616275
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Hayride, The written by John Maginnis and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild and hilarious odyssey through Louisiana politics. In 1983 Edwin Edwards, one of the most investigated, reviled, and successful figures in American politics was at top form and wanted to be governor again. The politics of the Cajun governor, who ran the state for eight years with equal parts charm and savvy while leading a personal life as freewheeling and uninhibited as his politics, is exposed in all his glory.

Author : V. K. Sansone
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557055504
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life Journal (from My Heart to Yours) written by V. K. Sansone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of memories, stories, poems and letters; the pages of my life, though not in perfect order, just as they were written.

Author : P. Fraley
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595449360
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Bounds written by P. Fraley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin has set a rule for the Breed to live by, which they must obey to survive. For what man fears, he will try to destroy and so the Breed must live within mortal bounds. Alex is a man with a past. In the sixth century court of King Arthur, he is Allexus, a prince and a knight whose unorthodox style of fighting- relying on the strength of the mind as much as of the body-draws scorn from some and curiosity from Arthur. As a boy, Allexus is told by a wizard that one day he will be a force to be reckoned with. The test of that prophecy leaps to modern-day Houston, where Alex confronts a very different world and a new band of adversaries. Join Alex and Linda Kay in a love story that will tear at the heart, a tale of warriors and soldiers and of the effort to create the ultimate fighter. Go back in time to see what demolished an allegiance between two men. Learn what to live as the Breed and then ask yourself, "Could I take the blood of another to survive?" Take a close look at the everyday people you see-they could be the Breed.

Author : Beth Neal
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374351287
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Last Kiss written by Beth Neal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a seventeen-year-old girl dies and can appear to her boyfriend, she learns that her death may not have been an accident, and must delve into her past to face all the decisions she made that led to her last kiss"--

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kimberly Lang
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698166892
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything At Last written by Kimberly Lang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second Magnolia Beach romance by USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Lang, a small Alabama waterfront town is the perfect place to start over... At first sight, Molly Richards knew Magnolia Beach, Alabama, was the perfect place to escape her unhappy life. And though she's proud of the small coffee shop she’s opened, something is missing. But she won’t let herself be burned by love—again. Veterinarian Tate Harris finds the local dating scene awkward, since he's known most of the eligible ladies his whole life. But he's finding it hard to resist the unassuming charm of the sweet-faced owner of Latte Dah. And when a late-night pet emergency finds Tate at Molly's house, that fascination turns into a potent mutual attraction. But just as their relationship begins to take off, Molly's haunted past returns. Fortunately, Tate is determined to help Molly fight for the life she's been wishing for... From the Paperback edition.

Author : Joan Armatrading
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571377602
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weakness in Me written by Joan Armatrading and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles and genres to create a monumental body of work. Acknowledged as the first British female singer-songwriter to gain international success, her writing is alive with intelligence and empathy and paints the human experience with insight and emotion. Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume. It also contains an introduction by Armatrading alongside annotations to a number of songs, giving a rare, personal glimpse into the creative process of a true pioneer.

Author : Humphrey Lyttelton
Publisher : JR Books
ISBN 13 : 1907532595
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Chorus written by Humphrey Lyttelton and published by JR Books. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great Humphrey LytteltonÕ s last book, a sparkling autobiographical kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes, and entertaining stories from his colourful life, from his childhood as the son of a famous Eton Housemaster, through to his role as the irrepressible chairman of IÕ m Sorry I HavenÕ t a Clue. A Renaissance man Ð musician, writer, cartoonist, calligrapher and broadcaster Ð Humph was descended from a long line of land-owning, political, literary, clerical, scholastic and literary forebears. One of his more notorious relatives was executed for his part in the Gun Powder Plot! Last Chorus draws on some of HumphÕ s long-lost auto-biographical writings, as well a wealth of other material, including his never-before-seen private diaries, plus cartoons and Whether sneaking off when a child to buy his first trumpet, or wading ashore in Italy during World War II with a rifle in one hand and a trumpet in the other, or playing alongside such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Humph was very much his own man, and he comes vividly to life in this engaging and witty self-portrait. Every Monday night from 1967 until 2008, Humphrey Lyttelton wrote and presented BBCÕ s The Best of Jazz, and he was, famously, Chairman of the anarchic, award-winning radio programme, IÕ m Sorry, I HavenÕ t A Clue. He wrote nine books, and composed over two hundred tunes, and has Honorary Doctorates at the universities of Warwick, Loughborough, Durham, Keele, Hertford and de Montfort.