Vance: 482 books

A Township at War takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightly knit Ontario community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war. In 1914, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough was like...

Larson's Luck by Gerald Vance.

There is no argument the margarita is the most popular cocktail in the United States. There are many stories as to its origin, which I will cover, but the popularity of the margarita has stemmed from its simple ingredients, ease of mixing, and refreshing taste. Margaritas come in a variety...

Cocktails and Shooters with Dirty Names contains over 300 cocktail and shooter recipes with dirty and vulgar names. It makes a great resource for parties and other social events where proper etiquette is not important.

Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described “hack writer,” he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child...

Des tranchées de la Somme aux cañons de Manhattan, en passant par les eaux périlleuses de l’Atlantique, une course poursuite haletante qui, de steamer naufragé en U-Boot clandestin, mènera le Loup solitaire à la confrontation suprême. Et, peut-être,...

Stories from outposts of the Southern Ocean, the windiest, roughest, most isolated and most important ocean on the planet. Venture to the deep south and you will experience a world like no other – forbidding subantarctic islands, astounding sea creatures, death-defying plants, the constant company...

Sa dernière mission a été un triomphe, et le Loup solitaire, éprouve un légitime désir de se mettre au vert. Pourquoi ne suivrait-il pas les traces de Stevenson dans les Cévennes ? Mais voilà : une belle châtelaine, une...

La belle Sofia, qui se languissait derrière le comptoir d’un sordide café français en plein cœur du Londres des années 1920, retrouve soudain son véritable père, un prince russe qui la propulse dans un tourbillon de fêtes et de plaisirs, la couvre...

College is all about growing into yourself, reinventing sanity, and possibly picking up a coffee addiction. At least it was so for Sopphey Vance.Dreams in Espresso And Other Drugs is a tale of visits to the coffee shop and writing the entire night. Never stopping for sleep because when sleep...

Vital Ingredient by Gerald Vance.

The poems, songs, and letters described and written in this, the Awesome Oak volume by Vance, refer to people, places, or events either experienced by or known to the author. All accountings are true. Some, however, may be blessed with flavor and color, or flair, if you will. Those will be left to...

The Southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico are rich in Paleoindian archaeological sites, including such well-known ones as Clovis, Lubbock Lake, Plainview, and Midland. These sites have been extensively researched over decades, not only by archaeologists but also by geoscientists,...

The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems. Themes of mutability, maturation, discovery, and delight are projected through brilliant archetypal imagery controlled and perfected by a striking technical assurance. The poems are concentrated and sometimes demanding, but they are never...