Dave Page

Acton Kade just wanted to go to work. Enjoy it. Come Home. A quiet man with no great desires until he became the filling in a blood sandwich between Brands, the PGG and the PSCC, forcing him to rebel, fight and plan. Set 200 years ahead in time in England after the Politicians and Political Activists had set their stamp on the country with their Policies enshrined in massive computer systems leading to 3 million in slave camps ... for their own good.Norms are allowed to travel in electric cars for upto 60 miles a day.Mates if allowed are chosen by the State. Unless a TP you do not fly, use motorways, choose a house or mate.Brands run the country as a Corporate and all justice is at the neighbourhood level.Friday Nighters are put into the camps, those that passed IT tests are considered outcasts and put into regional IT Centres and kept isolated. This is the story of someone pushed too far and then further by Cath, Georgina, Autumn and Annette. Aided only by Wall with some extra memory and CPU upgrades plus Wall's Backbone cocktail of course and apparently nothing else, he learns how to fight, try and win.

If you think you know F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book will come as a delightfully intimate surprise. Fitzgerald scholar Dave Page has meticulously scoured the letters, scrapbooks, and diaries of the great American novelist, offering a fresh look at the young writer and his St. Paul friends and neighbors. Readers will learn about-and recognize-the sources for the characters and the places he wrote about-as well as understand why St. Paul so inspired him. F. Scott Fitzgerald fans already know and love some of the enchanting and mischievous characters that populate his early novels and short stories. There was Bernice, who bobbed not only her hair but her cousins as well. And those pranksters who crashed the wrong party disguised as an exotic camel! And then there was the poor Southern belle who almost froze to death in the St. Paul Winter Carnivals ice palace. Many of Fitzgeralds characters and tales were based on real people and events from the young writers life, set against the socioeconomic times of the Jazz Age, where he perceived a great gulf between the haves and the have-nots in his hometown. F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota combines insights into the writers early career with the rich architectural history of St. Paul, taking readers into the homes and places he frequented. Pages well-researched analysis is complemented by Jeff Kruegers sensitive color photographs of homes still standing, and supplemented by fascinating historic photographs of lives well lived in old St. Paul.

F Scott Fitzgerald's St Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakeside parties and neighbourhood hijinks. These are stories of ambition and young love, insecurity and awkwardness, where a poor boy with energy and intelligence can break into the upper classes and become a glittering success. This selection brings together the best of Fitzgerald's St Paul stories -- some virtually unknown, others classics of short fiction. Patricia Hampl's incisive introduction traces the trajectory of Fitzgerald's blazing celebrity and its connections to his life in the city that gave him his best material. Headnotes by Dave Page provide specific ties between the stories and Fitzgerald's life in St Paul.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southern militias moved swiftly to secure the military assets within their borders. In several instances, the action required no more than demanding the key to the fort from a lone ordnance sergeant. By and large these seizures were peaceful, and in one case the militia even signed a receipt. Yet what had the South achieved? Most of these forts were little more than damp dungeons sheltering time-worn cannon, some of the War of 1812 and Mexican War vintage.Forts are, by nature, defensive structures. Thus the South dug in and waited for the Northern invaders. And they came. But they came mostly by ship and, in the case of the inland waterways and rivers, by boat?gunboat. Although more Yankee sailors were lost to exploding weaponry than to Rebel fire, naval barrages were relentles, and more forts were abandoned than defended.Dave Page's Ships Versus Shore narrates ship-to-shore engagements in the eleven states of the Confederacy along their riverways as well as their coasts. A brief tour guide follows each description, noting what visitors can find today when they see the area. Page has visited each site and notes what remains of the Confederate forts and what historical places have been preserved that were part of the nearby struggle. The text is illustrated with 130 photos and engravings.