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Today's Best Maine Fiction

Today's Best Maine Fiction

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Reprinted by permission of the author. Jim Nichols: “Slow Monkeys,” from Slow Monkeys and Other Short Stories by Jim Nichols, copyright © 2003 by Jim Nichols. Reprinted by permission of Carnegie Mellon University Press and the author.
Closer All the Time

Closer All the Time

Jim Nichols

In this deftly written novel, veteran author Jim Nichols strings together the bittersweet stories of several different characters bound together by shared geography and the insular nature of small-town life.
In The Life Of Jim Nichols

In The Life Of Jim Nichols

John Bowden

Growing up if you would in a functional yet at the same time a very dysfunctional family, Jim Nichols (fictional character) suffered severe child abuse from his parents yet managed to survive it all and blend inwith societyquite well. The names ...
Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

James Wilson Nichols

Nothing in the manuscript verifies the family story that Jim Nichols was one of those who went out from the Alamo to get provisions and that before he could return, the Mexicans made their final assault and the Alamo fell. We made an all- out ...
The Deerslayer Spiral: A LAW FIRM. A PHILOSOPHER. SEVEN MURDERS.

The Deerslayer Spiral: A LAW FIRM. A PHILOSOPHER. SEVEN MURDERS.

Jonathan Mark Bruce, JD, PhD

September 12, 12:59 p.m., Freeman, Stanton & Spencer “Hi, does Mr. Nichols have a second?” Jim Nichols didn't want to talk to me three weeks earlier, but I gotta talk to him now. I feel better now about the public defender work. But I still gotta ...
The Holy Terror: Captain William Nichols

The Holy Terror: Captain William Nichols

Dr. G. William Freeman

A young boy who secured such a position would probably see China before he would travel the twenty miles to Captain William Nichols, Senior nearby Salem ( Chase, ca. 1920, p. 6). Nichols started as a Father of Captain William Nichols, ...
Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, ...

James Wilson Nichols

The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820–1887 James Wilson Nichols Catherine W. McDowell. i£t One Saturday in November of 1962 a thirteen-year- old girl, Sylvia Peters, came into the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the ...
File On Nichols: Peter Nichols

File On Nichols: Peter Nichols

Peter Nichols

"Methuen are to be congratulated on launching this series...extremely useful to theatre professionals as well as to students and teachers of drama" (David Bradby, Speech and Drama)
A history of the Mississippi Governor's mansion

A history of the Mississippi Governor's mansion

David G. Sansing

HenryF. Withey and Elsie R. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (New York, 1956), 441, seem to confuse William Nichols with a George Nichols but divide William Nichols' achievements between them. Leslie Frank Crocker ...
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

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Maner, Martin, 'An Eighteenth-Century Editor at Work: John Nichols and Jonathan Swift', Papers ofthe Bibliographical Society ofAmerica, 70 (1976), 481 —99“'The Last of the Learned Printers”: John Nichols and the Bowyer-Nichols Press', ...
Westminster

Westminster

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Shown in the ftont tow ate, ftom left to tight, Ftank Eaton, Fted Eaton, James Kelty, John Kelty, unidentified, Taylot, unidentified, Matcus Nichols, Catl Nichols, Atthut Nichols, Len Jackson, Fted Bolton, and Ftank Sawyet. The othets ate ...
Diaries, 1969-1977

Diaries, 1969-1977

Peter Nichols

The playwright Peter Nichols has been a compulsive diarist all his life, starting when he was eighteen and still going strong into his seventies.
Western American Literature

Western American Literature

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... The Journal of James Wilson Nichols to be the most interesting—probably because I read it first. Not only is the book itself a handsome volume (design and typography are by Carl Hertzog-enough said), but Nichols was a man of lively and ...
A Voyage For Madmen

A Voyage For Madmen

Peter Nichols

In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems.
The Eddy family in America: Supplement of 1940

The Eddy family in America: Supplement of 1940

Ruth Story Devereux Eddy

•13630 JOHN THOMAS NICHOLS, b. Feb. 13,1861. 13631 HESTER DEANE NICHOLS, b. Nov. 2,1862. 13630 JOHN THOMAS NICHOLS (Irene Crane, Lydia Eddy, Joshua, Zachariah, Samue1, Obadiah, Samue1, Wi11iam), b. Feb. 13, 1861 ...
Riding Griffith Park: Twenty Rides Or Hikes to Enjoy in the Park

Riding Griffith Park: Twenty Rides Or Hikes to Enjoy in the Park

Jim Nichols

Guidebook to the best horseback riding trails in Los Angeles, Calfornia's 4000-acre Griffith Park.
Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

Peter Nichols

When his marriage ended, Peter Nichols had to sell the only thing he and his wife owned- their boat.
Hull Creek: A Novel of the Maine Coast

Hull Creek: A Novel of the Maine Coast

Jim Nichols

Hull Creek is a timely tale of change on the coast of Maine and the challenges it brings to the men who still seek their livelihood from the sea.
Day by Day Through the New Testament: Acts to Revelation

Day by Day Through the New Testament: Acts to Revelation

C. William Nichols

In less than a year, beloved pastor Bill Nichols journeys with us on a complete reading of the New Testament, offering insights into the writings' meanings and the wonders of God at work in our lives.
A Distant Melody (Wings of Glory Book #1): A Novel

A Distant Melody (Wings of Glory Book #1): A Novel

Sarah Sundin

Yesterday my sister, Helen, received a telegram. Jim's destroyer was torpedoed off Guadalcanal a month ago. Oh, Allie, Jim was killed. Jim Carlisle? Handsome, charming Jim Carlisle, who teased his sister about her doll, who jitterbugged with  ...
The Stanford Illustrated Review

The Stanford Illustrated Review

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□Jm 1 i i 1 1 i i i □□ Alan Hammond Nichols, with one ham-like hand hooked carelessly to his belt! Garnished, his name is Caporal Pilote Americaine Alan Hammond Nichols, Premier Groupe d'Aviation, Legion Etrangers, France. His deeds: ...
Landscaping and Horticulture

Landscaping and Horticulture

Paula Wallace

Jim Penman – Jim's Mowing Jim's Mowing began as a one-man business in 1982. Jim Penman, with a marketing budget of $24 and a dedication to customer service, started a business that eventually employed 30 subcontractors. Problems ...
Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the ...

Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the ...

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M. MOORE URRUTIA CHRISTOPHER M. MOORE ERIC P. MOORE GARY J. MOORE MARQUETTE D. MOORE ... NEY SEAN D. NEYLON THANG D. NGUYEN JOSEPH EMRON NICHOLAS DAWN C. NICHOLS ISHAM B. NICHOLS  ...
The Ohio Law Reporter: A Weekly Journal Published in the ...

The Ohio Law Reporter: A Weekly Journal Published in the ...

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Nichols, C. J., Shauck, DonDonahue, ' ahue, Newman and Wilkin, JJ., concur. Opinion. 13557 Isaac F. Hatcher vs Robert W. Palmer et al; error to the Circuit Court of Belmont County. Judgment afiirmed. Nichols, C. J., Shauck, Johnson, ...
The Kate Shugak Investigation - Box Set: A Kate Shugak ...

The Kate Shugak Investigation - Box Set: A Kate Shugak ...

Dana Stabenow

“Thanks, Jim,” Willard said, sniffling. With a hungry glance fixed on the candy bar in Jim's hand, he said, “You going to eat that, Jim?” “Willard,” Jim said, holding the door open, “a store is where people buy things. They pay for them with money  ...
Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories

Nichelle Nichols

For nearly 30 years Nichelle Nichols, African American granddaughter of a former slave-owner, has been part of the Star Trek myth as Lieutenant Uhura, Communications Officer on the Starship Enterprise.
La representación de la realidad: cuestiones y conceptos ...

La representación de la realidad: cuestiones y conceptos ...

Bill Nichols

Recogiendo el hilo donde lo dejara con su ya clasico Ideology and the Image 1981, Bill Nichols amplia sus argumentos sacando el maximo partido de los mas recientes avances teoricos y yendo mas alla que cualquier otro texto previo en la ...
Jim Brown: A Hero's Life

Jim Brown: A Hero's Life

Mike Freeman

Most of all, he was the greatest football player of all time. He was Jim Brown. Jim Brown was an astonishing physical specimen with tremendous skills and intelligence.

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