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Alexander Fontana

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Born

The United States

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Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Nonfiction

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Clive Cussler, Robert A. Heinlein, H.C. Anderson ...more

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Jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, working with chemicals that eat through concrete or walking through fires with an SCBA, if it burns, blows up or acts like alien blood, Alex has been there.

With deep rooted research in historical writing his stories include personal experiences in emergency services, martial arts and theater effects to give us a really romping good look at what went on.

Alex travels trails and tells tales in the Northwest, with his wife and their pet fish, Sushi. (Sushi has to stay at home in the bowl though, but says “hi” too.)

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The Martial Arts of Chess

The tale of the Martial Arts of Chess, demonstrates a key secret of how businesses can be successful, and why the mere suggestion of government shutdown makes our politicians look like idiots.

One early morning, about 5,000 years ago, a village woke to a commotion. Two men were running frantically through town. The first man was carrying a live pig in his arms. The second was chasing him with a mea Read more of this blog post »

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	Pittock: the Voice of Portland 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on Vmware Vsphere 5 (Vmware Press Technology) by Matt Liebowitz, Alexander Fontana (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Art of Robert E. McGinnis

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The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

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“According to 2008/09 census there were 61,080,000 dogs in the United States. Many homeless or mistreated. There are more pet dogs than babies in the world.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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“A wiser intelligence might now truthfully say of us at this point: here is a chimera, a new and very odd species come shambling into our universe, a mix of Stone Age emotion, medieval self-image, and godlike technology. The combination makes the species unresponsive to the forces that count most for its own long-term survival.”
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