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Michael Taylor's third Black Country novel about the Kite family of Dudley is set in the colourful world of dance bands in the 1920s. Maxine Kite - the talented musician of the family - is overjoyed to land a job as a cellist with Birmingham's orchestra. Brent Shackleton, an intriguing fellow musician, introduces Maxine to the world of dance music and soon she is the star of his swing band. She loves this new life - even though it's complicating her love life. First, Maxine discovers she is not the cold fish her old boyfriend Stephen always said she was. She falls in love with Howard Quaintance and she has never been so happy. But wild, unorthodox Brent Shackleton resents Howard and all he stands for. He decides to lure Maxine away from her staid boyfriend. He gets his chance when the band is offered a chance to go to America . . .
Ships of Strife by pulp writer Captain A.E. Dingle is part of the Wildside Pulp Classics series. Plainly, the second mate bore important news. Long Rube came over the side like a monkey and beckoned Forrester to the rail. The two mates stood in low-voiced conversation for a brief moment, then Bower tumbled down into his boat again and pulled for shore. To the surprise of Blake, Forrester sent a hail forward for him. "How much fo'c's'le talk have you heard, Dude?" asked the big mate, when the two stood together at the rail. "You got some idee what we're after?" "Some," admitted Blake, eyeing the man keenly. "Not much." "All right. Howard's the skipper o' the John Foster, yonder. He's got a gi...
The proceedings of the Association for Symbolic Logic meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, in July 1990, containing eighteen papers written by leading researchers in logic. Between them they cover all fields of mathematical logic, including model theory, proof theory, recursion theory, and set theory.