Thorburn: 26 books
by Russell Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The poems in Russell Thorburn’s Somewhere We’ll Leave the World are fluid and masterful with a flow that captures an authentic consciousness. These poems breathe and allow the reader breathing room. Powerful images and deft endings arrive like the best kind of emotional left hook—the kind that...
by Mark Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
From the identity and motives of America's first faithless presidential elector to the Venezuelan yachtsman who sought the White House, Presidential Election Trivia presents over 50 fascinating facts and stories of intriguing and colorful events and personalities that have arisen during the United States'...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
A helpful guidebook to growing herbs successfully and safely, with photos included.
Herbs have been used since ancient times both to flavor food and as natural medicines. In this easy-access guide, gardener Gordon Thorburn reveals different types of herb gardens to suit your needs—from those...
Alcoholism Myths and Realities
Removing the Stigma of Society's Most Destructive Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Alcoholism Myths and Realities by addiction expert Doug Thorburn is a thorough examination of more than 100 widespread myths about alcoholism. Commonly accepted beliefs such as "proper parenting and involvement prevent alcoholism," "alcoholics lack willpower" and a key tenet, "alcoholism...
Dear Almost
A Poem
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Dear Almost is a book-length poem addressed to an unborn child lost in miscarriage. Beginning with the hope and promise of springtime, poet Matthew Thorburn traces the course of a year with sections set in each of the four seasons. Part book of days, part meditative prayer, part travelogue, the poem...
The Squadron That Died Twice
The story of No. 82 Squadron RAF, which in 1940 lost 23 out of 24 aircraft in two bombing raids
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Where's everybody else, Morrison?" –Wing Commander Paddy Bandon to Sergeant Jock Morrison, May 17, 1940
Morrison had brought home the sole surviving 82 Squadron aircraft of 12 that had set out on a bombing sortie over France earlier that day. His aircraft was so badly damaged by...
Red State
An Insider's Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In November 1960, the Democratic party dominated Texas. The newly elected vice president, Lyndon Johnson, was a Texan. Democrats held all thirty statewide elective positions. The state legislature had 181 Democrats and no Republicans or anyone else. Then fast forward fifty years to November 2010....
Me and My MG
Stories from MG Owners Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Read about the Berkshire restorer who saw a heap of old iron in the bushes and realized it used to be a 1926 bullnose Super Sports, and the seven year old boy in Norfolk, Virginia, who read a book called The Red Car and knew that, one day, he would have to have a TC, and the Dutch boy who saw an MGB...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Cassius was a truly exceptional police dog whose career became the stuff of legend and the gold standard for all dogs coming after. In just five years he scored a century of arrests, saved lives, bit half a dozen policemen, and gave his handler, PC Joe Sleightholm, the most exciting, exhilarating,...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Is there really a pub called The Toad Rock Retreat? Which one town has the pubs with both the longest and the shortest names? How many Lions, Crowns and Horses are there? How many pubs are called The Speculation, The Triple Plea, The Welcome Stranger? Why would you give your pub a name like The Geese...
Celebrities' Favourite Books
In Aid of the Alzheimer's Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, characterised by mental deterioration and degeneration of the brain, is distressing for both sufferers and those who care for them, and Celebrities' Favourite Books is dedicated to those affected.Containing around 100 letters from well-known people nominating...
Jocks in the Jungle
The Second Battalion of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, The Black Watch, and the First Battalion of the 26th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) as Chindits.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training.
Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma...
Luck of a Lancaster
107 operations, 244 crew, 103 killed in action
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her first op on the 20th, by which time No 9 had lost forty-one of their Lancs to enemy action and another five had been transferred...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This is the true story of an unusual hero. Tall, dark and handsome and often surrounded by an admiring crowd, this is no film star but an eight-year-old bay gelding from the Mounted Branch of the Metropolitan Police.From the Royal Wedding to the London riots to entertaining visitors outside Buckingham...
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