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David Halliday may refer to: Dave Halliday, Scottish professional footballer David Halliday (physicist), American physicist and textbook author David Halliday (software engineer), former CEO of Silvaco. Discover the David Halliday popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Halliday books.
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The Sammy Kelly Story
David HallidaySometimes I can’t remember what he looked like. Before my mom died. He seemed stronger back then. Taller. It’s like when my mom died something inside my father caved in. Waking up,...
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The Bankers Are Swinging From The Crucifix
David HallidayIn 2016 I buried my mother. I buried a world that had been reduced to a whisper. Two world wars, the roaring twenties, the great depression, the fifties, elvis presley. All a whisp...
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The Black Bird
David HallidayThe Black Bird concerns itself not with the baring of a soul but with the stripping down of a life. It begins with the most remote extension of the human soul, one's public image. ...
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Making Movies
David HallidayThe magic of film is recreated, taken apart, examined and lovingly satirized in an unusual work of fiction. David Halliday imagines a BBC documentary about 'the well known ...
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Bicycle Thieves
David HallidayAcross the hydro field butterflies, rags of yellow, white, orange, were tossed by the breeze from milkwood to milkwood. Dogs ran free, tearing through the long grass after unseen p...
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The Writer as a Man
David HallidayIt’s a good place to think. The bench. To mull over ideas. That’s my madness. Everywhere I look I see patterns. Patterns are someone’s idea, someone’s creation. Order is recklessly...
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Snow
David HallidayThere was a white van. Inside were four bank robbers. Next door to the bank was a restaurant. A pregnant woman worked in the restaurant. She was the wife of a detective. Outside th...
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Second Thoughts
David HallidayIt’s a good place to think. A BENCH. To mull over ideas. That’s my madness. Everywhere I look I seepatterns. Patterns are someone’s idea, someone’s creation. Order is recklessly re...
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The Puzzle
David HallidayWhat is the question? Why do we ask? If a tree falls in the middle of the forest. Where are the corners in the oval office? What does it mean to be a human being? Does the question...
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The Box by Matthew Chambers
David HallidayI met Matthew Chambers in a cafe in a small village of Hamme, Belgium. We talked on several occasions and always I had the impression that he was a man who was being pursued. I kne...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
David HallidayEdwin Drood dies. But why? His girlfriend never understood him. Though she feared for her life at times. His enemies were numerous. But would they kill one of their best dealers. D...
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Domestic Violence
David HallidayThere is shame. Embarrassment. Fear. What if someone finds out.The monster comes home to an empty house. He goes to the attic where he opens a chest. And rummages around in it. He ...
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The Assassination of a Citizen
David HallidayI don’t know if I said something wrong. But Paul changed. He wasn’t the Paul in the club. He started to act rough. He reached for the empty bottle of wine and smacked me on the hea...
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Rock
Philippe ManoeuvrePlus que de simples mémoires, l’autobiographie de Philippe Manœuvre est une plongée dans la vie de celui qui est devenu une légende du rock à lui tout seul, un personnage vibrionna...
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The Saints of Jazz
David HallidayThey began their careers in small clubs. And cat houses. In choirs. And minstrel shows. They were applauded. Made famous. At times they were loved. They made a lot of money and spe...
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The Moron
David HallidayA life of ambition leads a great man to destroy everything around him.
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Hard Brush Soft Paint
David HallidayA young painter finds passion, pain, love, and despair in gesso and canvas.
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Murder
David HallidayMurder is a book that unwinds like a movie with each poem a scene. We open with an introduction to the killer followed by the killer’s introduction to the victim at the murder scen...
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The Baltmore Catechism
David HallidayA series of poems investigating the other and how we reach it. The self is a prison. Out there may be a phantasm. Outside the hive are nightmares. And darkness. We are the round st...
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War
David HallidayTwo factions of children in separate schools find themselves at odds. One is humiliated but rises to take vengeance on the other. It was war. And the children loved it.
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The Priesthood
David HallidayThere is a special place in hell for mothers. It is on Earth. Doreen Henderson lingered for months in a dark place few could understand. The psychiatrists called it posttraumatic s...
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By The Side Of The Road
David HallidayThe TransCanada Highway was approved by the TransCanada Highway Act of 1949. Construction was begun in 1950 and finished in 1971. Upon completion it was the longest highway in the ...
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The Death of Lou Grant
David HallidayA man is dying in his backyard of a heart attack. He begins to recall his life. Except that it is not his life. It is the life of a fictional character from a popular television si...
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Leif the Lucky
David HallidayI was born in Reykjavik. When I was four, we emigrated to Manitoba. We moved to a farm near Gimli Manitoba. Home of the three Viking graves. No one is sure how they got there but I...
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Poems to Remember
David HallidayI went to an all boys Catholic high school. Boys from many different backgrounds. Rich and poor. In uniforms. Controlled by a series of rules on conduct and appearance. Our English...
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David and Denise Schenck v. Ebby Halliday Real Estate
Supreme Court Of UtahThis is an appeal from a judgment rendered against the buyers, sellers, and brokers in a lawsuit which arose out of a sale of real property. Appellants David and Denise Schenck ("S...
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The Adventures of the Invisible Man
David HallidayThe moon slept in its garden. Clouds as thin as lace were tangled in the treetops. Bats flickered in and out of the high branches. Down below in the long grass the crickets were to...
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Life at the Rectory
David HallidayI wanted to believe in something. I prayed. But all I could hear was the echoed clang of a clapper against a bell. The bell ringer was dead. The universe was empty… I was the miser...
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Galt Avenue
David Halliday“I was afraid of everything. My mother was always warning me about the world out there. I had to stay close to home. Sandra was also warned but her reaction was different. There ar...
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The Ferals that Ate Australia
Guy HullDangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmareWinner of the 2022 Whitley Award, for a book about invasive species zoology.Isolation was once ...
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Freddy
David Halliday“My name is Freddy or Willy or George. I invented history. Before me it was a bunch of things falling apart. There was no order. Catholicism and chaos.” The story of one of the gre...
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The Day After Christmas
David HallidayA young boy is disillusioned by Christmas. All the gifts have been unwrapped and everyone has gone about the business of cleaning up. And yet he feels sad. He and his best friend, ...
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Domestic Bliss
David HallidayI wait. It feels like my life no longer belongs to me. I wait for Aristotle to go to sleep. I cook dinner. I wait for Frank to come home. We eat. Frank talks about what some kid sa...
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Cameos
David HallidaySomeone you saw on the bus everyday. A colleague at work. The choir master. A girl in a brown coat waiting in line at the supermarket. A girl you went out with. Once. All these per...
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The Harry Loom Story
David HallidayI don’t know how stories are supposed to end. We are in the midst of our lives, when life seems to drift on without us, fading away into the future. Nothing ends. Things dissolve i...
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Church Street Is Burning
David HallidayA finalist in the 2003 Eppie Best Poetry Collection, Church Street Is Burning, in illustrations, short stories, and poems, tells the story of the poet as a young man. Lost. Abandon...
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The Margaret Kelly Story
David HallidayIts odd being dead. Not what I expected. Like waiting in a doctor's office. Reading old magazines. But I'm here for a purpose. To help Sam move on. That’s my husband standing there...
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Thoughts On A Stormy Night
David HallidayAnger and humor. Burning like a furnace in my head. The year my mother died. Poems from my tumor.
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The Dogs that Made Australia
Guy HullHunter. Worker. Legend. The untold story of the dog's role in building a nation.The Dogs That Made Australia pays tribute to the dogs that gave their all for our prosperity: the fe...
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Somewhere in the 1970s
David Halliday“Leaving T.O. Train shivering between the rails. Wheels and rails grinding their teeth. IMPSTONE. A book of poems keeps tapping on my eyelids. Like rain on a tin roof. A commercial...
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Rise of the Past
David Halliday2017 was a year in the wrong century. The seventeenth century. My head was on a pike outside Newgate Castle. Or someone who looked like me. Laughing at the Prince. People are start...
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The Hole
David Halliday"The stain on the cement stared back at me. I wanted to go home and get a pail of hot water and wash it off. Several ants were grazing on it. I looked around. Everything was the sa...
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Things I Forgot To Say At My Funeral
David HallidayThoughts on a life well attended. I may have been tardy but I was awake.'I wish I was handsomer. I wish I was taller. I wish my bank account would grow. I wish I didn’tsmoke. I wis...
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The Stamp Collection
David HallidayI was never good in school. Laziness mostly. I slept a lot which put my father in a hellish mood. I'm keeping down two jobs to keep you brats in bed and breakfast and all you do is...
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Hit and Run
David Halliday"I can hear her coming. A powerful roar from a great distance. , Her craggy potmarked face smoking, the long tail of fog trailing behind. She will come tumbling toward us like a sn...
