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Nick Thomas

This is a biography of Joe Walsh, from his days in the James Gang to his membership in the Eagles. One of the most colorful characters in all of rock and roll, Walsh has enjoyed a successful musical career for more than five-decades. With his offbeat attitude and quirky sense of humor, he earned a number of nicknames including the Analog Man and the Clown Prince of Rock Guitar. In the process, he wrote and recorded some of the most memorable classics of the 1970s including "Rocky Mountain ...

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Nick Thomas

Behind Eden follows the lives of four extraordinary adventurers as they make the most of the years following World War I. What starts with a split-second decision in 1925 explodes into an epic tale of love, war, betrayal, and regret as one pull of a gun's trigger ripples from a desolate canyon in Syria, through the lush scenery of Italy's Lake Como, and onto the darkened streets of occupied Paris. Along the way, meet the diverse cast of characters, human and otherwise who blur the...

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Nick Thomas

This is the fully revised Second Edition of the Traveling Wilburys story. This updated biography features a number of surprises, including details of the planned third album and the identity of the notable guitarist who turned down an invitation to join the original lineup of the group. The Traveling Wilburys were formed in 1988 when five rock legends joined forces for an informal recording session inside a cluttered garage in Los Angeles. The five seasoned musicians - Tom Petty, Bob Dylan...

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Nick S. Thomas

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Battle Earth

The bestselling epic first book in the science fiction saga 'Battle Earth' is back, and better than ever. Re-mastered and with over five thousand words of additional material. Battle Earth tells of humanity's desperate struggle to survive against an overwhelming alien invasion.A distress transmission from Mars research colony warns of an advanced and unknown enemy approaching the heavily populated lunar colony. An elite marine unit commanded by Major Mitch Taylor is dispatched to p...

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Nick Thomas

As the definitive biography of American-bred rocker Tom Petty, this book examines his extensive music career, his personal life and his many public battles. After a momentary but pivotal encounter with Elvis Presley at age 10, Tom Petty felt destined to pursue a career in rock and roll. Raised on a steady diet of Elvis and the Beatles, Petty left the safe confines of Gainesville in 1974 and headed for Los Angeles. Although Petty fared poorly with his early group Mudcrutch, he later formed ...

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Vienna, 1984. Fifty years after his first visit, retired British General Sir Herbert Christie returns to the city where he first knew romantic love and loss in the midst of civil war. But the opening of his Austrian uncle's time-capsule legacy entangles his family in a web of Cold War espionage, and forces him to confront his past and his faith as never before.

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Nick S. Thomas

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Battle Earth

The second instalment of an epic new science fiction trilogy that tells of humanity's desperate struggle to survive against an overwhelming alien invasion.After halting the enemy advance across Europe the war continues to rage in Paris. International armies have converged on the French city to make a stand. When Taylor investigates a mysterious sighting in their northern perimeter he sees that enemy forces are encircling the city. The human's are quickly running out of ways to flee...

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Nick Thomas

Jake Hearne can almost feel the cold hand of Death reaching out for him. Starting with his days as a Navy pilot, the unwelcome acquaintance had watched him from afar, but lately it appeared to be growing increasingly impatient with the distance between them. As one of his generation's most elite race car drivers, Jake had always accepted that the road to victory was paved with danger, but as the 1957 race season begins, ominous signs tell a story of time running out.From behind the...

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Nick S. Thomas

Starforce Ganymede is the first book in the epic new science fiction adventure series that chronicles the creation of the first interplanetary Starforce to battle humanity's descent into crime and corruption.One man is chosen to spearhead the new paramilitary organisation in a desperate attempt to return law and order. This elite team of officers is honed into a force ready to take on the gangs in a deadly battle across the planets, bases and moons of the Alliance.What star...

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Nick S. Thomas

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Battle Beyond Earth

Battle Beyond Earth: Resurrection. The first instalment in an epic new series that tells of humanity's desperate struggle to survive in an uncertain and war-torn future.Four centuries have passed since the end of the alien invasion that almost destroyed humanity. The surviving races, human and alien, now live in peace as allies. But when a terrifying new enemy cuts a path of destruction through the Alliance, there seems little hope of resistance. The situation is desperate, and des...

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Nick S. Thomas

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Battle Earth

The fifth instalment of an epic science fiction series that tells of humanity's desperate struggle to survive against an overwhelming alien invasion.The alien invaders were crushed on Earth and driven to the edges of the Solar System, but the discovery of how they reached Earth uncovers a deadly threat that must be overcome.Major Mitch Taylor's Inter-Allied force, combined with masses of troops and a vast Navy, assembles to take the battle to the enemy in their own lands bef...

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Nick Thomas

This is the first biography of the Black Keys. Emerging from the rust belt city of Akron, guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney formed the duo in 2001. As perpetual underdogs who recorded their first two albums in Carney's basement, the Black Keys spent a decade criss-crossing the country in a packed minivan. However, after releasing the 2010 album Brothers, the Black Keys were on their way to becoming the biggest rock band in the world. Merging alternative rock with electric blues...