Gerald: 1985 books

One of the world’s foremost sports historians, Professor Gems has written a readable, fully illustrated book on sports history. It is the first video text in the field in which the reader can see authentic reenactments of ancient sports and videos of modern sport. It is written as a textbook for...

This book is your ultimate resource for Monica Bellucci. Here you will find the most up-to-date 99 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Monica Bellucci's Early life, Career and Personal...

A lapsed divinity student who is fascinated by astrophysics finds his best friend shot dead in a cornfield. It looks like suicide. Having returned to his farm roots near Lake of the Ozarks, Evan works as a skip tracer for the local car dealer. He learns his friend was involved in a dispute over farmland...

Rollo Hemphill has a history with a life-sized rubber doll he dressed up to look like glamorous Hollywood star Monica LaMonica. For a time, the doll's worldwide travels provided convenient cover and sensational press for her living counterpart. But now, rubber-Monica has disappeared from crusty Hugo...

In 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint pen to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history. Reynolds, an exuberant huckster who had already made and lost several fortunes, again became an overnight millionaire and then bragged that he “stole it fair...

Call Richmond went missing. Twenty years later he showed up on a family member's doorstep. He was homeless, broken, and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For the next fourteen years, his sister Rebecca took on the struggle to restore him as they faced the dark traumas and painful memories of...

Hank Ellis was murdered in his own home for dissing the cops. Cynical personal-injury attorney Eli Wolff rediscovers his idealism for simple justice when he sues the city for the wrongful death of an unarmed African-American man at the hands of two police officers. Ellis was killed in his own...

 Youthful hacker-turned-slacker Rollo Hemphill can’t help failing ever upward in three previously published comic novels, combined in this ebook edition. In My Inflatable Friend, he devises a screwball scheme with a life-sized rubber doll to make his girlfriend jealous and stumbles into a gig on...

A source of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. inspiration. This book is your ultimate resource for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.. Here you will find the most up-to-date 30 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know...

A new, multidisciplinary look at GLBT parenting Over the past 30 years, research on gay and lesbian parents has produced findings that challenge deeply rooted beliefs in child psychology about the processes through which parents influence the development of their children. Gay and Lesbian Parenting: New Directions builds on t

With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft...

A Testament To Carrie Underwood. This book is your ultimate resource for Carrie Underwood. Here you will find the most up-to-date 35 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Carrie Underwood's...

Your Complete Juliette Lewis Biography. This book is your ultimate resource for Juliette Lewis. Here you will find the most up-to-date 168 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Juliette...

Featuring nearly 200 rarely seen photographs from Edward S. Curtis’ masterpiece, The North American Indian, The Image Taker combines the little known histories and stories from 26 Indian tribes, transporting the reader to a lost age.