Download or read book Angel in Blue Jeans written by Lynda Stowe Landers and published by Thomas Bouregy. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katey holds a grudge against the entire town of Harmony, Texas, and she will not rest until justice is done.
Download or read book Angel in Blue Jeans written by Richard L. Coles and published by Promontory Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a typical middle-class suburb, this is a story of love, tragedy and coming-of-age which speaks to universal experiences. It follows two generations of families as they struggle with the many challenges of modern life - drug abuse, unemployment, changing demographics - yet still manage to celebrate the triumphs and find happiness amidst adversity.
Download or read book Sunflowers and Snipers written by Sally Becker and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Credited with saving 300 lives through evacuation and many more through medical aid during her time in the Balkans, Sally Becker's story is both uplifting and a warning of the true nature and price of warIn May 1993, Sally Becker went to Bosnia to help victims of war, delivering medical aid and evacuating wounded children from the besieged city of Mostar. She was dubbed the "Angel of Mostar," and was hailed for her efforts to save the children from all sides. When Milosevic ordered his troops into Kosovo her missions continued, this time on foot across the mountains, to bring sick and injured children and their mothers to safety. While doing so she was captured by Serb paramilitaries and sent to prison, but neither this nor being shot by masked gunmen could make her abandon her task. This book reveals not only the suffering of the ordinary people and the bravery of those who helped them, but also the systematic inertia and ineptitude of government institutions and the often languid reactions of the United Nations. When the UN insisted they could have done it without Becker, her response was "Well why the bloody hell didn't they?"
Download or read book Beyond the Grave written by Misty Lackey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of my poetry. Dark, Erotic, and Religious.
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Download or read book Jesus in Blue Jeans written by Laurie Beth Jones and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the hugely successful Jesus, CEO and The Path, this book illuminates examples from the scriptures to demonstrate how Jesus can serve as a model for daily life.
Download or read book Night of Miracles written by Elizabeth Berg and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feel-good book of the year: a delightful novel of friendship, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change your life, by the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she’s hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. Iris doesn’t know how to bake but she needs to keep her mind off a big decision she sorely regrets. When a new family moves in next door and tragedy strikes, Lucille begins to look out for Lincoln, their son. Lincoln’s parents aren’t the only ones in town facing hard choices and uncertain futures. In these difficult times, the residents of Mason come together and find the true power of community—just when they need it the most. “Elizabeth Berg’s characters jump right off the page and into your heart” said Fannie Flagg about The Story of Arthur Truluv. The same could be said about Night of Miracles, a heartwarming novel that reminds us that the people we come to love are often the ones we don’t expect. Praise for Night of Miracles “Happy, sad, sweet and slyly funny, [Night of Miracles] celebrates the nourishing comfort of community and provides a delightfully original take on the cycles of life.”—People (Book of the Week) “Find refuge in Mason, a place blessedly free of the political chaos we now know as ‘real life.’ In Berg’s charming but far from shallow alternative reality, the focus is on the things that make life worth living: the human connections that light the way through the dark of aging, bereavement, illness and our own mistakes. . . . As the endearing, odd-lot characters of Mason, Missouri, coalesce into new families, dessert is served: a plateful of chocolate-and-vanilla pinwheel cookies for the soul.”—USA Today “Full of empathy and charm, every chapter infuses the heart with a renewed sense of hope.” —Woman’s World
Download or read book American Monroe written by S. Paige Baty and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A highly original work that is extremely important to the study of both culture and politics. Demonstrating how the cultural icon of Marilyn Monroe provides the "body politic" in American mass-mediated society, Baty not only offers a provocative reading of the iconographic, biographic, cartographic and hagiographic modes in which "Marilyn" has been written by others, but also gives us a novel theorization of how popular culture translates, transforms, and embodies the political sphere."--Vivian Sobchack, author of The Address of the Eye "Reborn on coffee cups, T-shirts, and film footage, in conspiracy theory, biography, and necrophilia, the remembered fragments of Marilyn Monroe--so Paige Baty shows--make up cult objects of our imagined community. American Monroe is endlessly revelatory not only about the meanings of Marilyn but also about the nature of the common culture of the United States."--Mike Rogin, author of Ronald Reagan: The Movie "In this original, imaginative, and innovative book, Paige Baty asks and answers important questions about U.S. political culture by examining many mass-mediated memories of Marilyn Monroe. Baty uses our continuing national obsession with Monroe's life and death as a means of exploring the ways in which 'languages of belonging' dominate our mass-mediated political landscape. She explores how iconic representations, personal biographies, conspiracy theories, and anxieties about death shape the symbolic economy of American politics into what she calls the 'post-mortem condition.' This important inquiry about collective memory, mass media, and political culture starts with the life and the mass-mediated memory of one celebrity, but it builds into a fascinating and persuasive general discussion about the nature of knowledge and the social production of the individual self in a world where mass-mediated images and icons form the core of our collective consciousness."--George Lipsitz, author of Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place "If U.S. culture cannot forget Marilyn Monroe, readers of American Monroe will not be able to forget Professor Baty's elegant and provocative arguments. Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe are both representative figures in U.S. cultural politics. While his death is repetitively denied, Elvis's living clones endlessly populate hotel conventions and tabloids. But it is Marilyn's dissected body and haunting story of suicide that proliferate in the undead spaces of U.S. mass-mediated culture. In American Monroe, Baty writes a haunting kind of political theory. Her project probes the profusion of meanings associated with a cultural figure who is at the heart of contemporary crises in representation. American Monroe is a book about cultural memory as political practice; it is a work to remember."--Donna Haraway, author of Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Download or read book Paradise written by Judith McNaught and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author “Judith McNaught comes close to an Edith Wharton edge” (Chicago Tribune) in this sensual and sweeping romance of two former lovers who mix business with pleasure. Ruthless corporate raider Matthew Farrell is poised to move in on the legendary department store empire owned by Chicago’s renowned Bancroft family. In the glare of the media spotlight, it’s a stunning takeover that overshadows the sizzling chemistry between Matt, once a scruffy kid from steel town Indiana, and cool, sophisticated Meredith Bancroft. Their brief, ill-fated marriage sparked with thrilling sensuality but ended with a bitter betrayal. Now, locked in a battle that should be all business, dangerous temptations and bittersweet memories are stirring their hearts. Will they risk everything for a passion too bold to be denied?
Download or read book An Angel Told Me So written by Wilma Jean Jones and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amazing collection of messages and teachings dictated directly from spirit teachers/angels from the other side compose Wilma Jean Jones' book "An Angel Told Me So." The depth and quality of these messages and teachings received and the personal nature of this material engages and allows readers to feel they also are being spoken to on a level that reflects what they are personally experiencing and speaks to the heart of those willing to accept the divine nature of this deep and thought provoking material. This body of material not only offers proof of the existence of a spiritual realm outside this physical plane, but presents communications in the form of messages and teachings dictated from spirit teachers/angels who inhabit this spiritual realm. These messages and teachings received by Wilma Jean appear to be woven with a universal thread that speaks directly to all sincere seekers of truth on a personal level as each reader feels that they are being addressed as they deal with what is transpiring in their lives. As you read this material know that you too are being spoken to directly by the spirit teachers/angels inhabiting this realm and that these messages and teachings are intended for your edification and the advancement of your purpose in this existence. Know that as you read this material these teachings apply to your situations and that you are not alone as you walk your chosen path. Note the repeated first person references of these spirit teachers to themselves as "we," "our," and "us." The depth and quality of these messages and teachings are unlike anything you have ever read before.
Download or read book An Army of Phantoms written by J. Hoberman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film critic’s sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era is both “utterly compulsive reading [and] majestic” in its “breadth and rigor” (Film Comment). An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman. Tracing the dynamic interplay between politics and popular culture, Hoberman offers “the most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published, one that takes film analysis beyond the screen and sets it in its larger political context” (Los Angeles Review of Books). By “tell[ing] the story not just of what’s on the screen but of what played out behind it,” Hoberman demonstrates how the nation’s deep-seated fears and wishes were projected onto the big screen. In this far-reaching work of historical synthesis, Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe (The American Scholar). From cavalry Westerns to apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars; from movies to media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, An Army of Phantoms “remind[s] you what criticism is supposed to be: revelatory, reflective and as rapturous as the artwork itself” (Time Out New York). “An epic . . . alternately fevered and measured account of what might be called the primal scene of American cinema.” —Cineaste “There’s something majestic about the reach of Hoberman’s ambitions, the breadth and rigor of his research, and especially the curatorial vision brought to historical data.” —Film Comment
Download or read book Angel of Darkness written by Dennis McDougal and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work--and the killer of 67 people--more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse into the dark mind of a living monster. "To open this book is to open a peephole into hell".--Associated Press. Photographs.
Download or read book Angel of Hope written by Mary Tsuchihashi and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was inspired by a beautiful cemetery the author saw in southern California, after attending the funeral of a relative. She wanted to write a story revolving around a lovely cemetery. Mary Tsuchihashi has always been interested in ghost stories, especially cheerful stories, like Casper, Topper, and the Canterville Ghost. The point of this story is not to scare people, but to give a feeling that your spirit still goes on after you are physically gone. What would you like to do if you had no limits and could open a new page to existence?
Download or read book Karen Bluejeans written by George Horse and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1745 and Quebec City reigns as the capital of New France. When an abandoned infant is found and delivered to a French-Canadian couple, they adopt and name her Karen Bluejeans. As she is baptized, no one realizes that the Mic-Mak Indian girl will one day fulfill an important destiny. Some nine years later as the French and Indian war unofficially begins, the rogue Bishop Levele spews hatred and untruths to students at a convent school that includes Karen Bluejeans. As she matures and eventually falls in love with captured Royal Marine Major Jack Wales, he plants a love of democracy and brotherhood in her heart. After plotting an escape to inform British Major General James Wolfe of a secret passage that opens on the riverbank and climbs towering cliffs to the Plain of Abraham outside the walls of Quebec City. Karen Bluejeans delivers the intelligence. Wolfe sneaks his army up the secret passage. After a battle of only around eleven minutes he defeats France’s forces, virtually winning the war that gives birth to the British Empire and prompts the English language to become the dominant word in the New World. Karen Bluejeans (Pathway to Glory) is the historical tale of a Mic-Mak Indian teenager’s experiences as she is unwittingly caught up in the French and Indian War.
Download or read book John Doe No 2 and the Dreamland Motel written by Kenneth Womack and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Within a matter of hours, the FBI launched the largest manhunt in U.S. history, identifying the suspects as Timothy James McVeigh and John Doe No. 2, a stocky twentysomething with a distinctive tattoo on his left arm. Eventually the FBI retracted the elusive mystery man as a bombing suspect altogether, proclaiming that McVeigh had acted alone and that John Doe No. 2 was the byproduct of unreliable eyewitness testimony in the wake of the attack. Womack recreates the events that led up to this fateful day from the perspective of John Doe No. 2—or JD, as he is referred to in the book. With his ironic and curiously detached persona, JD narrates—from a second-person point of view—his secret life with McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and others in America's militia culture as McVeigh and JD crisscross the Midwest in McVeigh's beloved Chevy Geo Spectrum. John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel is the tragicomic account of McVeigh's last desperate months of freedom as he prepared to unleash one of the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in the nation's history. Womack's novel traces one man's downward spiral toward the act of evil that will brand his name in infamy and another's desperate hope to save his friend's soul before it's too late.
Download or read book Material Things written by Larry Spencer and published by Larry Spencer. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Spencer's riveting, interlocking narratives circle the lives of Matthew Street, Jon Lewis and Christopher Styles, in a 1970s California backdrop that takes them from owning and operating a fashionable clothing boutique into the gripping world of an FBI under cover operation, drug trafficking, prostitution and a nefarious criminal element, that brings to light a Mafia contract killer, who's out to bump off a stoolie in their midst. Material Things is based on true events surrounding the store that introduced bellbottom jeans to a hip Southern California crowd and how it became, not only a cottage industry but also an arena fraught with danger and moral strife that put the store and it's owners under close scrutiny after an alarming number of felonious activities surface. The climax is anything but conventional as Matthew, Jon and Christopher are confronted with a life threatening reality that they never imagined could happen just by selling bellbottom pants.
Download or read book The Angel Effect written by John Geiger and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the bestselling The Third Man Factor examines the shockingly common phenomenon of the "Angel Effect": when people feel visited by an otherworldly presence in times of great danger or desperation. Do "angels" exist?I If so, are they heaven-sent or products of the human brain? After the publication of the bestseller The ThirdMan Factor, which examined the phenomenon of explorers who found themselves at the edge of death and experienced a benevolent presence that led them out of the impossible, John Geiger was inundated with firsthand accounts from people who had the same experience -- a vivid presence that aided them as they faced crises ranging from physical and sexual assaults to automobile accidents, airplane crashes, serious illness, childbirth, and depression. The Angel Effect examines this phenomenon, and Geiger argues that it has the potential to aid us, even to save us, and asks whether it is a trainable skill. He investigates the numerous experiences along with historical accounts and scientific research as he reveals compelling discoveries about the human brain and our innate capacity to hope.
