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  | | Kings of Infinite Space(1st Edition) A Novel by James Hynes Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-0-312-45645-0, ISBN: 0-312-45645-X "Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a textbook publisher, to, eventually, working as a temp writer for the General Services department of the Texas Department of General Services. And even here, in this world of carpeted partit ..." |
 | | Publish and Perish(1st Edition) Three Tales of Tenure and Terror by James Hynes Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 1997 by Picador Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-312-15628-2, ISBN: 0-312-15628-6 "A typical line from Publish and Perish is the final thought of a character who's about to die in an oh-so-dreadful fashion: "This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure." Horror and humor together are always delightful, but rarely is the combination executed with such gleeful panache as in the three novellas that make up Publish and Perish. The humor is at the expense of American academics, from struggling postdocs to crusty full pro ..." |
 | | The Wild Colonial Boy(1st Edition) A Novel by James Hynes Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 1990 by Atheneum ISBN-13: 978-0-689-12089-3, ISBN: 0-689-12089-3 "After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership. Into Jimmy's turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian, vain, ironic, but well-meaning; and Clare, a beautiful, earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republ ..." |
 | | The Wild Colonial Boy A Novel by James Hynes Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1992 by Washington Square Press ISBN-13: 978-0-671-74186-0, ISBN: 0-671-74186-1 "After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership. Into Jimmy's turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian, vain, ironic, but well-meaning; and Clare, a beautiful, earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republ ..." |
 | | The Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes Published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-312-99266-8, ISBN: 0-312-99266-1 ""Paul Trilby is having a bad day." |
 | | Talks with Shorthand Students A Series of Chatty Explanations of the Principles of Pitman's Shorthand (Classic Reprint) (Hardback) by James Hynes Hardcover, Published 2019 by Forgotten Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-267-51418-2, ISBN: 0-267-51418-2 |
 | | The Wild Colonial Boy A Novel by James Hynes 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-6810-6, ISBN: 1-4668-6810-4 "over the stair said To Amiens Street, and Brian stopped at the top step, his thumbs still hooked through the straps of his pack, waiting to gather his nerve as if about to enter a maze. Whatever thrill ... with a bowspray of rain water. He made it ..." |
 | | Publish and Perish Three Tales of Tenure and Terror by James Hynes 352 Pages, Published 2010 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-7577-3, ISBN: 1-4299-7577-6 "“Well,” Kym said, as soothingly as a kindergarten teacher, “most programs automatically save the file every ten minutes.” He turned to her, the two of them naked in the harsh overhead light, pale despite two days of the sunlamp, their skin cooling from their exertions of a few minutes before. “I disabled it.” Paul's head throbbed with pain. “I turned off the automatic save.” He sagged onto the couch, and Kym perched at the edge of ..." |
 | | The Lecturer's Tale A Novel by James Hynes 432 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-7575-9, ISBN: 1-4299-7575-X "After his brush with bondage, theoretical and otherwise, Judith's playful intelligence kept Nelson from swinging too far in the opposite direction, into a harumphing, defensive conservatism. She got him ... In return, Nelson became a pinch baby-sitter for the Changeling, who hit him in the head with a Tonka truck on their first meeting. Nelson ... in love with Judith, and in an exemplary display of courtly self-sacrifice—for he was ..." |
 | | Kings of Infinite Space A Novel by James Hynes 352 Pages, Published 2005 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-6270-4, ISBN: 1-4299-6270-4 "Preston had doctored him in the narrow living room of his trailer, picking the glass out of Paul's soles with a pair of tweezers and painting the cuts deep purple with Betadine. Friday night, as they had raced away down empty streets under traffic lights blinking yellow, Preston and Nolene had explained why they couldn't take Paul and Callie to the emergency room. “The docs'd take one look at y'all,” Nolene said, watching Paul in t ..." |
 | | Anne of Green Gables (The World's Best Reading) by L. M. Montgomery, Mick Ellison, James Hynes, Rea Wilmshurst Hardcover, 262 Pages, Published 1992 by Reader's Digest Association, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-89577-434-7, ISBN: 0-89577-434-8 "When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which ..." |
 | | The Hound of the Baskervilles(Reprint) (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by James Hynes, Arthur Conan Doyle Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Barnes & Noble ISBN-13: 978-1-4351-2090-7, ISBN: 1-4351-2090-6 "When one of the members of the Baskerville family suddenly dies, Sherlock Holmes arrives on the scene with his assistant to investigate. Has the notorious Baskerville family curse struck again or is another suspect at bay?" |
 | | Heart of the West (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by O. Henry, James Hynes, William Henry Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Barnes & Noble ISBN-13: 978-1-4351-1066-3, ISBN: 1-4351-1066-8 "Heart of the West’s humorous and sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers offer the modern reader a window into the often-mythologized American West. Perhaps reflecting O. Henry’s own experience as a young man in the middle of nowhere, where women were few and far between, many of the stories are comic tales of romantic rivalry, usually featuring two bluff and feckless young ..." |
 | | Around the World in Eighty Days(Reprint) (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by Jules Verne, James Hynes Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Barnes & Noble ISBN-13: 978-0-7607-9362-6, ISBN: 0-7607-9362-X "Around the World in Eighty Days, published originally as a newspaper serial in 1872 and released as a book the following year was well received in both formats. Its hero, Phileas Fogg, is a leisured but taciturn Londoner of such mathematically precise habits that he has fired his servant for bringing him shaving water two degrees too cold. Over a game of cards, Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in ..." |
 | | The Wild Colonial Boy A Novel by Ma Hynes James Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2000 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-20442-6, ISBN: 0-312-20442-6 "After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership. Into Jimmy's turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian, vain, ironic, but well-meaning; and Clare, a beautiful, earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republ ..." |
 | | SPARROW by James Hynes Hardcover, Published 2023 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-9239-4, ISBN: 1-5290-9239-6 |
 | | Vocabulary Building in Pitman's Shorthand by James Hynes Paperback, 78 Pages, Published by Pitman ISBN-13: 978-0-273-43319-4, ISBN: 0-273-43319-9 |
 | | The Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes ISBN-13: 978-0-312-31965-6, ISBN: 0-312-31965-7 |
 | | Practical Phraser by James Hynes Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-273-42540-3, ISBN: 0-273-42540-4 |
 | | Talks with Shorthand Students; A Series of Chatty Explanations of the Principles of Pitman's Shorthand by James Hynes Hardcover, 126 Pages, Published 2016 by Palala Press ISBN-13: 978-1-356-19395-0, ISBN: 1-356-19395-1 "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..." |
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