John Barr: 20 books

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Start by Believing

Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster

by John Barr, Dan Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020

From the Peabody Award-winning ESPN journalists, the definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless...
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by John Barr
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan....
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Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

by Danny Adkison, John Barr, Byron Daynes
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010

Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
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The City of Auckland

New Zealand, 1840-1920 (Illustrations)

by John Barr
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014

This book is the first attempt which has been made to write a connected history of the City of Auckland. Although in years the city is comparatively young, many of the events which have marked its progress have already been forgotten. With the exception, perhaps, of the principal incidents associated...
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Barr Flies

How to Tie and Fish the Copper John, the Barr Emerger, and Dozens of Other Patterns, Variations, and Rigs

by John S. Barr
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007

Barr is the most successful designer of commercially distributed flies in the world. The Barr Emerger is an unrivaled pattern for western mayfly situations, and the Copper John has evolved into the most popular fly of the millennium. Learn Barr's methods for tying his favorite flies, with step-by-step...
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Loathing Lincoln

An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present

by John McKee Barr
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

While most Americans count Abraham Lincoln among the most beloved and admired former presidents, a dedicated minority has long viewed him not only as the worst president in the country's history, but also as a criminal who defied the Constitution and advanced federal power and the idea of racial equality....
Book cover of The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales
by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly...
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Trainwrecks

How Corporate Reputations Collapse And Managements Attempt to Rebuild Them

by John J. Barr
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013

Every year corporations and individuals stumble into crises that damage and sometimes destroy their reputations. These crises strike companies across the economy in sectors as diverse as banking, manufacturing, oil and gas, food processing, high technology, resource development and professional sport....
Book cover of 50 Mystery and Detective Masterpieces you have to Read Before you Die vol: 2 (Golden Deer Classics)
by Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John...
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Coupling: The Playboy Interview

50 Years of the Playboy Interview

by Playboy, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The couples who have loved the hardest, longest and most publicly over the last 50 years are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the tempestuous Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold to the eternally devoted John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the...
Book cover of Crow: Midnight Legends Vol. 1 - Dead Time
by O'Barr, J.; Wagner, John; Maleev
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013

After a ten-year hiatus, James O'Barr returned to The Crow with Dead Time, a story he envisioned as a new Crow film. A tale of grief, reincarnation, and long-sought vengeance, Dead Time is adapted by John Wagner and illustrated by Alexander Maleev.
Book cover of 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories: Works by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Seabury Quinn, Jack London...and many more !
by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Abraham Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019

CONTENTS: ABRAHAM MERRITT 1. The People of the Pit AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG 2. Omega ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD 3. Ooze ARTHUR TRAIN 4. The Nth Power CLARK ASHTON SMITH 5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum DAVID H. KELLER 6. The Jelly-Fish DAVID H. KELLER 7. The Rat Racket DAVID H. KELLER 8. The Worm DONALD ALLEN...
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Shoreline of Infinity 1: Science Fiction Magazine

Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine, #1

by Noel Chidwick, Larry Ivkovich, Alex Barr
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016

Shoreline of Infinity is a science fiction magazine including fiction, reviews, interviews and more. Published in Edinburgh, Scotland. Issue 1 Contents Editorial: Pull up a Log Fiction The Three Stages of Atsushi, Larry Ivkovich The Spiral Moon, Alex Barr Symbiosis,...
Book cover of Lightspeed Magazine, March 2012
by John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, Gene Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012

This month, our ebook-exclusive novella is “Cleopatra Brimstone” by Elizabeth Hand. Then we have original science fiction by new writer Kali Wallace (“The Day They Came”) and Steven Utley (“Test”), and SF reprints by award-winning authors Mary Rosenblum (“My She”) and Kathleen Ann...
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