Gordon Alexander: 30 books

Book cover of Lockdown

Lockdown

Escape from Furnace 1

by Alexander Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009

Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, "new fish" Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind...
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Solitary

Escape from Furnace 2

by Alexander Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010

Alex Sawyer and his mates should have known there was no way out of Furnace Penitentiary. Their escape attempt only lands them deeper in the guts of this prison for young offenders, and then into solitary confinement. And that's where a whole new struggle begins—a struggle not to let the hellish...
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Death Sentence

Escape from Furnace 3

by Alexander Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011

Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark...
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Fugitives

Escape from Furnace 4

by Alexander Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012

Forever altered by his experience in Furnace Penetentiary, Alex has done the impossible and escaped. But the battle for freedom is only just beginning. Charged with his superhuman abilities, Alex must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets—the truth about the man who built the prison, the man known...
Book cover of The Night Children: An Escape From Furnace Story
by Alexander Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011

It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict's most brutal battles is raging. Cut off from the front, a ragtag group of young British and American soldiers finds itself being hunted by a patrol of elite German Special Forces,...
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Harvard Classics Volume 41

English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald

by William Collins, Golden Deer Classics, George Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Dulcinea in the Factory

Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960

by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2000

Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves...
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Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality

Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education

by Kayla Chan, Stuart F. Chen-Hayes, Teddy Consolacion
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001

In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few...
Book cover of A Political Companion to Flannery O'Connor
by John Sikes Jr., Benjamin B. Alexander, Michael L. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions...
Book cover of Spenser in the Moment
by Gavin Alexander, April Bernard, Elisabeth Chaghafi
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015

Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599). The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness...
Book cover of The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers
by Alexander Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

When a sixteen-year-old troublemaker named Marlow Green is trapped in a surreal firefight against nightmarish creatures in the middle of his New York City neighborhood, he unwittingly finds himself amid a squad of secret soldiers dedicated to battling the legions of the devil himself. Powering this...
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Working Difference

Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995

by Éva Fodor, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003

Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of...
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Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

by Nancy L. Green, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1997

Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring...
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Writing bestselling children's books

52 brilliant ideas for inspiring young readers

by Alexander Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007

Some people think that writing for kids is easy short books, no big words, non-existent attention spans and then fill in any gaps with pictures. But nothing could be further from the truth. Children are the harshest critics imaginable. Give a grown-up a copy of Ulysses to read and theyll pretend to...
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