Download or read book An Old Man and a Three Legged Dog written by David Kroenke and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptian queens were buried with their dogs. Was it love, joy, comfort, companionship? Why do many people look like their dogs? Or do their dogs look like them? And who trains whom? Does the boy throw the ball to the dog? Or does the dog train the boy to throw?Who knows? Who can explain that bond?This book is part of an answer. It is the story of a man and a dog who lived and loved together through tragedy and illness: what happened, how they traveled in mountains and deserts to find meaning in life through companionship and adventure. And how it ended. It is a beautiful story of love and the power of relationship in the face of limitation and adversity.If you're looking for a joyful book in a time of restless anxiety, this is the one!
Download or read book Me an Old Pilot and a Three Legged Dog written by Rocky Morrisette and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer Rose Watson is a fifteen-year-old army brat whose father is on his third deployment to Afghanistan. Once a straight-A student and youth leader in her church, Summer Roses grades begin to slip as she sinks into a depression. She stops attending church and is even caught sneaking out of the house. The only thing that keeps Summer Roses rebellion in check is her flying lessons. But even that is taken away when her plane crashes. In desperation, her mother sends Summer Rose to Palmer, Alaska, to stay with her grandfather. She worries shell be stuck out in the wilderness, banished from malls, movies, MTV, and even cell phone service. But once there, she finds things arent as bad as she feared. Grandpa Gus restarts her flying lessons, and she gets her drivers license on her sixteenth birthday. She makes a new friend, Esperanza, and she falls for the captain of the JV football team at Colony High. But the Greatland can be a brutal place. Summer Rose is forced to handle some very difficult and dangerous adult situations. She witnesses death for the first time and has her own close encounter. Whats more, she suspects something is wrong with Grandpa Gus. Whether you are a young woman or man and ever wanted to fly, ever wanted to experience Alaska, ever thought the world wasnt fair, youll like this book. It has everything from first kisses to volcanic eruptions. And be careful; you just might learn something.
Download or read book Three Pete written by John Wayne and Michael Laughead and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Potter, once a hardworking railroad engineer, has fallen on hard times. Despite being disabled from an accident that robbed him of a life free of pain, Bill never forgets to give thanks, even for his meager meals. Without any friends but Tim, a neighborhood boy with a big heart, the old man realizes he is growing tired of his challenges in life and contemplates suicide. But all of that is about to change the day Tim leads Bill to an injured stray dog lying in an alley, seemingly left for dead. After Bill summons help from a police officer, he and the officer take the dog to a vet, where it appears the prognosis is grim. But the dog's will to live is stronger than anyone ever imagined, despite losing one of his legs. As the dog slowly improves, Bill finds a place in his heart and his home for the furry animal he names Pete. Almost immediately Bill and Pete become family and share each day with love and dedication, eventually proving that total devotion transcends even life itself. Three Pete is the unique tale of a poignant relationship between an old disabled man and a three-legged dog as they prove to each other, and the world, that there is no better love than unconditional love.
Download or read book Me an Old Pilot and a Three Legged Dog written by Rocky Morrisette and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer Rose Watson is a fifteen-year-old army brat whose father is on his third deployment to Afghanistan. Once a straight-A student and youth leader in her church, Summer Rose's grades begin to slip as she sinks into a depression. She stops attending church and is even caught sneaking out of the house. The only thing that keeps Summer Rose's rebellion in check is her flying lessons. But even that is taken away when her plane crashes. In desperation, her mother sends Summer Rose to Palmer, Alaska, to stay with her grandfather. She worries she'll be stuck out in the wilderness, banished from malls, movies, MTV, and even cell phone service. But once there, she finds things aren't as bad as she feared. Grandpa Gus restarts her flying lessons, and she gets her driver's license on her sixteenth birthday. She makes a new friend, Esperanza, and she falls for the captain of the JV football team at Colony High. But the Greatland can be a brutal place. Summer Rose is forced to handle some very difficult and dangerous adult situations. She witnesses death for the first time and has her own close encounter. What's more, she suspects something is wrong with Grandpa Gus. Whether you are a young woman or man and ever wanted to fly, ever wanted to experience Alaska, ever thought the world wasn't fair, you'll like this book. It has everything from first kisses to volcanic eruptions. And be careful; you just might learn something.
Download or read book Two Bit Dancing written by Evelyn Schneider and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cats, dogs… they approach each other with clear intentions. We have the gift of speech, yet we rarely let each other know what we want. What a stupid breed we are." Han Ascono is a computer genius employed by a prestigious bi-coastal consulting firm. On weekends he dances in an exotic strip bar. Tom Lawson is working on a routine investigation, helping a father reunite with his children. Tom couldn't have anticipated the ethical dilemma he's about to face. And he wasn't prepared for the anger—or the passion… Angela Louie is a recently unemployed mother of teenagers struggeling to make ends meet. Right now she's entering an upscale hotel fidgeting with an escort service's business card. She has, of course, no idea of the impact her lapse in common sense will have. And, there is a man buried in an Arizona grave… somone's son…
Download or read book The Blue Terraplane written by James A. Terry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Terraplane is a 89 page novel. This novel is written in the local unadorned Black dialect spoken in 1937 Bronzeville, Chicago. Bishop Flipper was a poor runaway southern Black orphaned teenager who encountered a starving crippled old Black man with a three-legged dog. After sharing his meager food with this old man, the old man promised the orphaned teenager a blessed life in Chicago for six and a half years. On July 12, 1937, Madame Madelyn, a frail pipe-smoking elderly woman, invited Bishop to her to mysterious storefront business. Madelyn, a voodoo priestess, warned her guest that his blessed six-and-a-half year period would end on July 13, 1937. This old lady offered the young man a battered old bronze magic ring, which she claimed would protect him from any harm. At noon, July 13, Bishop encounters Raoul La Croix and Paloma Issert. Raoul was huge menacing-looking, baldheaded Black man with a long serpentine stiletto who was treating the helpless Paloma Issert in the local Illinois Central train station. Paloma Issert was a young girl, from Algiers, Louisiana, who was desperately attempting to escape from Raoul. Quickly, Raoul became Bishops adversary, while Paloma became his femme fatale.
Download or read book Knack Knack written by Douglas P. Krimmel and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial truth is what enemy would use to destroy you. Pure truth does not come from the hearts of men. But from the words of God. Knack Knack has lived forever. Nobody knows where he came from or if he is even born from mankind. Some say that he is the one warrior that stuck the side of the Creator himself, damned to walk the earth for all of time. In reality, he is just a reluctant hero trying to do the next right thing. The year is 1843, and gold was on the rise. The Bonnie Loon is one such place that houses many filled with greed. The town of sin and gin. Well-Dressed Dan is one person in particular who is as ruthless as they come, but Knack Knack is no normal human, and when he shows up in town, things get complicated for Dan. What was supposed to be an easy voyage for gold turns into something much more dangerous than what Knack Knack had bargained for.
Download or read book Kolyma Diaries written by Jacek Hugo-Bader and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his 'fellow travellers', the people who give him lifts, to this benighted land. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia
Download or read book Trouper written by Meg Kearney and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.
Download or read book Safe in His Heart written by Jen Peters and published by Blue Lily Books. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She rescues stray dogs, but can she find a forever home for herself? Robin Cooper’s favorite people are dogs. She’s learned the hard way that people can’t be trusted, and bullying has left its mark on her: her planned career is down the tubes and she’d much rather rescue strays and daydream happy endings than rely on people…until an unexpected encounter with a ranch hand makes her re-think her sheltered safety. Cliff Jackson’s world fell apart when his father died and the ranch went to auction. He’s trying to get his head straight while working as a hand on his uncle’s ranch near McCormick’s Creek, Oregon. Then Robin Cooper enters his life with her smile, her compassion, and her magic around dogs. Could there be room for her alongside his grief and uncertain future? Robin gathers her courage to start a local animal shelter. She’ll need funding, council approval and, most of all, Cliff’s support. But when the ranch has problems, Cliff is torn between helping his uncle and keeping his promises to Robin. Will Robin retreat to her four-legged friends or choose love with all its risks? "Jen Peters writes sweet and satisfying romances with a dose of persevering through troubles and just the right chemistry between characters." Each book in the McCormick's Creek Sweet Romance series can be read as a stand-alone, but are most enjoyed in order: Trusting His Heart (Cat & Justin) Finding Her Heart (Ree & Mitch) Safe in His Heart (Robin & Cliff) Stealing His Heart (Raine & Brandt) The Christmas Key to Her Heart (Nora & Forrest) Protecting Her Heart (Shauna & Javi)
Download or read book Ghosts of Yesterday written by Jack Cady and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts of Yesterday is a stunning collection by multiple-award-winning author Jack Cady The Off Season, The Haunting of Hood Canal. Cady captures the sights and emotions of America, from the Pacific Northwest ("Jeremiah"), to the streets of San Francisco ("The Lady With the Blind Dog"), to the Midwest-heartland ("Halloween 1942"), along the roads and highways in between ("The Ghost of Dive Bomber Hill"), and back into the history of the American Southeast ("The Time That Time Forgot"). The stories that make up Ghosts of Yesterday are detailed and realistic portraits of the world that, despite (and perhaps because) of their authenticity, manage to convey a sense of wonder and fantastic, where anything is possible. The characters and places that Cady brings to life demonstrate clearly why he is one of the most versatile and respected writers today... His stories will move you, and change the way you look at the world.
Download or read book Wilco written by Greg Kot and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate story of one of the great American bands of our time, creators of the controversial masterpiece Yankee Hotel Foxtrot When alt-country heroes-turned-rock-iconoclasts Wilco handed in their fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, to the band’s label, Reprise, a division of Warner Brothers, fans looked forward to the release of another challenging, genre-bending departure from their previous work. The band aimed to build on previous sales and critical acclaim with its boldest and most ambitious album yet, but was instead urged by skittish Reprise execs to make the record more “radio friendly.” When Wilco wouldn’t give, they found themselves without a label. Instead, they used the Internet to introduce the album to their fans, and eventually sold the record to Nonesuch, another division of Warner. Wilco was vindicated when the album debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard charts and posted the band’s strongest sales to date. Wilco: Learning How to Die traces the band’s story to its deepest origins in Southern Illinois, where Jeff Tweedy began growing into one of the best songwriters of his generation. As we witness how his music grew from its punk and alt-country origins, some of the key issues and questions in our culture are addressed: How is music of substance created while the gulf between art and commerce widens in the corporate consolidation era? How does the music industry make or break a hit? How do working musicians reconcile the rewards of artistic risk with the toll it exacts on their personal life? This book was written with the cooperation of Wilco band members past and present. It is also fully up to date, covering the latest changes in personnel and the imminent release of the band’s fifth album, A Ghost Is Born, sure to be one of the most talked-about albums of 2004.
Download or read book Mechwarrior Dark Age 27 written by Randall N. Bills and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 25 October 3069, the extremist Word of Blake attacked the capital world of the Free Worlds League and declared the League’s leader, Captain-General Thomas Marik, a fraud. House Marik fell into disgrace and, after eight centuries of existence, the Free Worlds League shattered. Three captains-general now vie to reunite the realm:Anson Marik of the Marik-Stewart Commonwealth prides himself on possessing Marik blood and seeks to rule on its strength. Lester Cameron-Jones of the Regulan Fiefs knows the Marik bloodline is defunct; only a new royal house can resurrect the League. Jessica Marik of the Oriente Protectorate is on a mission to redeem her father’s name: the false Thomas Marik, the man who helped destroy the League. They will all find the price for their ambitions is higher than they could ever have imagined. Who will be willing to pay?
Download or read book Second and Third Grade Manual written by Emma Miller Bolenius and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kings and Queens of Roam written by Daniel Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their parents die an untimely death, a blind, nai ve younger sister becomes wholly dependent on her bitter and conniving older sister, who overprotectively imparts stories of a brutal and dangerous world until the younger sister makes a surprising choice.
Download or read book Lucky Strike written by Janine Amesta and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is finding an unexpected gem a lucky strike? After getting a late jumpstart in life, Luna Lanza isn’t afraid to get what she wants, including the place of her dreams. When she loses out on the perfect duplex and settles for a standard apartment, she’s disappointed. But Luna remains determined to make it work, even if it sparks a contentious relationship with her new landlord– the same guy she accidentally kissed in an impromptu photo shoot. Still grieving the sudden death of his brother, reformed bad boy Sam Sunderland feels trapped managing his father’s rundown apartment building. When the spunky beauty, who unexpectedly kissed him, moves in full of ideas, he can’t help being intrigued– that is until she starts changing things behind his back, endangering his position and the relationship with his father. Sam and Luna wrangle over rules and misunderstandings while fighting against the undeniable attraction between them. It’s a hard lesson to learn that ‘perfect’ can take many different forms. But will the renovations they do together lay a foundation to something more?
Download or read book The Making of a Sportsman written by Edward W. Stilwill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My relationship with Ed Stilwill began in 1981 when he joined the Grand TraverseRadiologists as the fi fth physician. I was their Retirement Trust Officer and Ed and hisassociates were my clients. In 1994 Ed asked if he could join me on a two week deer andantelope hunting trip to Montana. He drew a non-resident license and I did not. That waswhen he told me he had never hunted big game before.On our trips, Ed would bring a hard back novel and take meticulous notes. He would return home and dictate these on cassettes for our pleasure later in the year. Ed is a student of western history and in particular, American Indian history which is used extensively in his writings. These stories tell of a 43 year old who travels west and north in pursuit of antelope, deer, elk, caribou, waterfowl and upland birds. Ed makes a few mistakes but learns fast and soon becomes a sportsman with the highest regard for the animals he pursues. These are a collection of tapes that have been edited by me for this book.Ed lives and practices medicine in Traverse City, Michigan when not at his mountain tophome in Big Sky, Montana. I have taken an early retirement, moved to Helena, Montanawith my wife where we purchased horses and began a new chapter of our own.
