Download or read book An Ordinary Guy an Extraordinary Tale written by John S. Klumpp and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ordinary Guy spirits us along his journey from the post World War Two neighborhoods of the Bronx through his days as a cadet at the New York State University Maritime College to his thirty years at sea sailing as mate on oil tankers and captain of harbor and sea-going towing vessels. He allows us a peek into the the world of boats and the crews that worked them. Along the way we are skillfully transported through the rich tapestry of history that saw the Vietnam Era, the struggle for civil rights, a resignation of a president, the horror of 9/11 and the response to international terrorism. The Ordinary Guy shares with us his interpretation of these events, all the while entertaining us with tales that range from the informative to the outrageous. We are his passengers as he takes us along on his joyous and sometimes angry romp through seventy years of the extraordinary life and times of this ordinary guy.
Download or read book An Ordinary Guy An Unknown Spy written by Andrew Gilbrook and published by tredition. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Kingdom. A story based on real events. Few people are deemed smart enough to be selected and trained as a spy for Her Majesty's Government, fewer qualify. The Author is one such man, who uniquely, was chosen at the age of 16, the only person still to pass selection without an education through the university system. Andy describes his unbelievable life, from the beginning, as a child, playing in the woods and fields around his home in Maple Cross, Hertfordshire, learning the skills he had no idea he would need in his future spy world, tracking, moving silently and invisibly, undetected. His career ended, leaving him suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, after facing interrogation, torture and being stood in front of a firing squad in war-torn Angola, he escaped by stealing a small aircraft piloting, alone and injured, 700 miles to safety with only 4 hours unqualified flying experience. He faced the rest of his life knowing a dark secret had to be kept from everyone he knew. Only in 2012, when he was informed his ex-MI6 secretary had died from cancer, close to breaking down mentally, did he finally decide to reveal his secret life to his friends and family to release the buried secrets from his struggling sanity. A risky choice, one he did not take lightly, but he knew deep inside it was the only way forward for his peace of mind. Carefully written to avoid revealing any government secrets, this is his personal story, thrilling, surprising and an eye-opener into the life of, An Ordinary Guy, who truly was, An Unknown Spy.
Download or read book Just an Ordinary Guy written by William C Johnson and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rico Lopez is a twice-divorced, moderately successful Mexican immigrant who is living the life of a small business owner when unexpectedly, an agent from the local DEA office shows up with a strange request. He would like to hire Rico for one day to go undercover and gather intel for them on a suspected drug cartel leader. Unfortunately, the seemingly easy, one-time assignment goes bad, and Rico is drawn into a life as a drug agent that while dangerous, also energizes him and forces him to draw on strengths he never knew he had. Rico's relationship with Mike Andress, the charismatic agent who hired him, is at the heart of the story. At times, as his operations intensify in danger and complexity, Rico becomes scared or disenchanted. But Mike persuades him to keep going, and over time, Rico realizes he's not only a good undercover agent but he's also never been happier in his life. As his confidence grows, Rico gets romantically entangled with a sexy, saucy woman who sees Rico as her very own James Bond. Their torrid love life adds a complicating wrinkle but fortunately, before things get too out of hand, Rico's first wife re-enters the picture and gets Rico centered again. This fast-moving tale, with its ordinary hero and a rich cast of nuanced, supporting characters, leads the reader through a series of improbable events until, sooner than the reader would like, the story with a twist that caps it off perfectly.
Download or read book An Ordinary Guy written by Ken Holly and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Holly is just an ordinary guy with an ordinary past. He grew up in postWorld War II America as a middle-class boy in an old-fashioned suburban neighborhood, learning the value of hard work and absorbing the strong ethics of the Greatest Generation. But being ordinary is what makes Ken special. Whimsical and honest, An Ordinary Guy shares Kens story of how a childhood spent in Houston, Texas, in the 1950s made a lasting impact on his life. Ken was a faithful church-goer who grew up surrounded by World War II veterans and was active in Boy Scouts; in this memoir, he reveals how each of these influences shaped him into the adult he is today. He also discusses how his values sustained him in some of the most challenging times of his life. While serving in the US Navy as an aviation electronic tech and radioman, Ken had some close calls, but came out of them unscathed. Following his military service, he went back to school, built a career in electronics, and married his wife, Pat. He became a father twice with the birth of his two daughters and continued working until his retirement in 2011. Through all of lifes challenges, Ken never forgot those influential days of his youth.
Download or read book An Ordinary Guy written by Ken Holly and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Holly is just an ordinary guy with an ordinary past. He grew up in post World War II America as a middle-class boy in an old-fashioned suburban neighborhood, learning the value of hard work and absorbing the strong ethics of the Greatest Generation. But being ordinary is what makes Ken special. Whimsical and honest, An Ordinary Guy shares Ken's story of how a childhood spent in Houston, Texas, in the 1950s made a lasting impact on his life. Ken was a faithful church-goer who grew up surrounded by World War II veterans and was active in Boy Scouts; in this memoir, he reveals how each of these influences shaped him into the adult he is today. He also discusses how his values sustained him in some of the most challenging times of his life. While serving in the US Navy as an aviation electronic tech and radioman, Ken had some close calls, but came out of them unscathed. Following his military service, he went back to school, built a career in electronics, and married his wife, Pat. He became a father twice with the birth of his two daughters and continued working until his retirement in 2011. Through all of life's challenges, Ken never forgot those influential days of his youth.
Download or read book An Ordinary Man written by Paul Rusesabagina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable autobiography of the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda “Fascinating…your book is called An Ordinary Man, yet you took on an extraordinary feat with courage, determination, and diplomacy.” – Oprah, O, The Oprah Magazine As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. In An Ordinary Man, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his “guests” and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life as a refugee and activist.
Download or read book Ordinary Men written by Christopher R. Browning and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
Download or read book Memoirs Of An Ordinary Guy written by E. J. Rosenwinkel and published by Oxford Book Writers. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of great intrigue, Memoirs Of An Ordinary Guy shares the journey of one man’s extraordinary experiences across multiple continents and throughout various cultures with unique encounters and escapades at every turn. Some moments are routine, others hilarious, some deep and painful, and then there are those so unbelievably crazy you would think they were straight out of a movie. Confronting honestly with intense expression, the reader is able to form a personal attachment, enabling them to empathize and experience the highs and the lows along the way. A poignant, well connected, emotional journey from beginning to end, this story offers adventure, romance, mystery and suspense with each chapter building upon the other and each concluding with a “Lesson Learned” giving greater insight into the authors perspective of life in which readers can relate and connect to, in a personal way.
Download or read book Memoirs of an Ordinary Guy written by Daniel Stuart Olmes and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By most measures, Daniel Olmes is an ordinary guy—but he’s learned how to live an extraordinary life. In Memoirs of an Ordinary Guy, Daniel asserts that we are all capable of being extraordinary and redefines what it means to be just another ordinary person. He is living proof that extraordinary is there for all of us. It doesn’t mean rich or famous. It doesn’t mean better. To Daniel, “extraordinary” means grateful, honest, happy, loving, fearless, and faithful. Doing extraordinary things is not what makes us extraordinary. Being extraordinary is having an extraordinary perspective on our lives and the things that happen to us. Daniel’s narrative will inspire everyone to view their lives differently, remind us of the stories that we all share, and spark a renewed curiosity about a world that’s anything but ordinary.
Download or read book An Ordinary Guy Operation Saponify written by Andrew Gilbrook and published by tredition. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Kingdom, Spain, Chile. A story based on real events. Few people are thought smart enough to be selected and trained as a spy for Her Majesty's Government, fewer qualify. The Author is one such man, who uniquely, was chosen at the age of 16, still the only person to pass selection without an education through the university system and one so young. In this, Andy's second book, he describes one short operation that could have stopped the Falklands War with Argentina. SAS were in position, only the final go-ahead was needed from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She chose to fight the war. Perhaps if the PM had decided to give Operation Saponify a chance, 907 soldier's lives would have been saved. The operation was born from a personal project over many years to find escaped WWII Nazis, using highly classified documents, only available to those inside the service and information supplied by the CIA. Would he find the top Nazi? If he did, history would have to be rewritten. One Nazi Andy did find was murdered by a little known group in France "The Avengers" after Andy deliberately passed them information. This Nazi's subsequent murder proved the existence of a mole inside MI6, London. In 2012, he was informed Karen had died from cancer, did he finally decide to reveal his secret life to his
Download or read book An Ordinary Guy with the Extraordinary God written by Dick Snavely and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Snavely reveals some of his childhood experiences and personal challenges that prepared him to organize and lead Family Life Ministries for nearly fifty years. These experiences include miracles, exciting answers to prayer along with the good, the bad, and the ugly. The reader will share in Dick's early struggles from spankings in third grade, reckless driving as a teenager, the search for a wife, and getting fired as a pastor. You will also rejoice with him in his glorious victories of a personal encounter with God, working with troubled boys, the conversion of a city gang member and the building of a Christian radio station that became a network of Christian FM stations. The excitement and thrill of victory is evident in the story of Family Life Ministries/Network. Dick has often prayed "Lord I don't know where you are leading me today but help me to hang on." Dick Snavely was raised in a Mennonite family in Lancaster County, PA. He organized Family Life Ministries, New Life Homes-Snell Farm, Twin Tiers Youth For Christ, and Family Life Network. He is a graduate of Bob Jones University Dick was a film evangelist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Association, and pastored a church briefly in West Virginia. In 1957 he moved his family to New York where he organized Family Life Ministries, Inc. He led the organization as President and CEO for 47 years and was succeeded by his son Rick. He is married 55 years to Jacqueline DeVere. They have four children and eleven grandchildren. All four children are active in their church and serving the Lord. Dick is just an ordinary guy. What you see is what you get. He reveals some of the good, bad, and ugly times as he candidly tells of his life experiences in this book.
Download or read book Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout Vol 1 written by Yu Tsurusaki and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 32-year old nerdy office worker Tachibana Hinata has once again blundered at a singles mixer, no thanks to his hunky best friend who is always by his side. While he's grumbling nonstop about it on the way home, a naked goddess appears out of nowhere and sends the two friends to another world! Furthermore, the goddess plays a prank and turns Tachibana into a blond woman with a peerless body?! To return him to his manly form, the two set off on a journey to defeat the demon king, but thanks to his beauty they'll find trouble everywhere they go! Can they save the world before their lifelong bromance becomes a...romance?
Download or read book FBI an Ordinary Guy The Private Price of Public Service written by Mark Johnston and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI & An Ordinary Guy, -The Private Price of Public Service - is a memoir about the many chilling, sometimes comical, events in a career as an FBI agent and the personal price some of us paid. For me, coming from a rough childhood I confronted the choices of becoming a clergyman, crook or cop. As an FBI agent in New York and other large American cities, we faced outlaw motorcycle gangs, the Mafia, drug kingpins, and terrorists; land pirates. I personally had many successes, but hard-won victories eventually sapped my energy and spirit. Along the way I had to come to grips with the murders of a squad partner, two New York City cops and several government witnesses. The public knows little about the stress and high emotional costs the guardians of their safety pay in the constant battle against crime and terror. The favorite antidotes of many law enforcement peers —crawling into a bottle or the wrong bed—proved to provide little long-lasting comfort. FBI & An Ordinary Guy reveals the inner working of the FBI, the humanness of its family members, and the real life story behind some of its major cases. But, this factual account is told through a genuine framework of the bitter sweet contrast of the gritty horrors of law enforcement versus affectionate father to daughter communication via never mailed letters to my children.
Download or read book No Ordinary Man written by Suzanne Brockmann and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO ORDINARY MAN A scorching reader favorite romantic suspense, first published in 1996. Jess Baxter doesn’t know much about her newest tenant, the elusive Rob Carpenter, except that he’s the sexiest guy she's ever met. But then the murders start—all women who look like her. And the killer’s profile matches Rob precisely. Is Rob an innocent victim, or has Jess fallen for a killer? Originally published in 1996.
Download or read book Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout Vol 5 written by Yu Tsurusaki and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends Tachibana and Jinguji have been transported to another world. While the handsome Jinguji has been given amazing powers, the nerdy Tachibana has been turned into a beautiful girl. On top of that, Tachibana has fallen into the hands of the Demon King's army. They are helping the princess with a coup and have brainwashing planned for Tachibana. Altered memories and ancient weapons now have the two friends on opposite sides of a conflict that will shake a kingdom!
Download or read book Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout Vol 3 written by Yu Tsurusaki and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tachibana was once an unattractive salaryman, but ever since he was transported to another world, he's been stuck in the body of a beautiful blonde woman. That newfound beauty has gotten him entangled in a village's evil ritual. His food's drugged, his clothing switched for a barely there swimsuit, and he's served up to a giant squid. These types of troubles never would have beset him when he was a man! Can Tachibana reach the capital city in one piece?!
Download or read book Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout Vol 2 written by Yu Tsurusaki and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since a goddess suddenly appeared and transported him to another world, Tachibana Hinata has been turned from an average man into a gorgeous blonde woman. In order to return to his home world and old body, he and his best friend Jinguji Tsukasa are on a journey to defeat the demon king. However, the two have been accosted by forest guardians, bandits, and elves. It's non-stop and all are drawn by Tachibana's beauty! Complicating things further, Tachibana and Jinguji find the slightest brushes of their hands and glance between them will send each other's hearts racing. They're just friends though, right? Amidst the chaos, the two make their way to a bustling trading hub. But what shadows will come for them there?
