Download or read book Angel on My Handlebars written by Patricia Starr and published by Summerland Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Starr, a woman of seemingly indefatigable energy and enthusiasm for life, wanted to give something back to her community and pursue a dream to bicycle across America. In 2004, at age 67, she accomplished both by pedaling to raise $22,000 to establish a perpetual $1,000 yearly music scholarship at Santa Barbara City College. The story of her arduous 50 day, 3,622 mile odyssey across America is told in a compelling way that is an inspiration to all. She proves that chronologic age can be overcome by enthusiasm, determination and perspiration. She describes the interesting people she met along the way and the trials and tribulations she endured while crossing four major mountain ranges and the long, lonely, barren stretches of highway in America's vast Midwest. Dusty detours, sharing the interstate with 18-wheelers and a bear scare enhance the daily excitement of this unforgettable journey by an incredible senior citizen. Whatever your age, enjoy the adventures! And lastly, it's a love story about a husband willing to do anything to help his wife succeed and endure the rigors of the road, and Patricia's stamina to carry it out! They both knew something else was watching over her so she wasn't out there alone.
Download or read book There s an Angel in My Locker written by Mary Lou Carney and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-five daily devotions, in which a typical middle school student discusses with his guardian angel problems ranging from boredom with church to the death of a relative.
Download or read book No Angel written by Jay Dobyns and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life. Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 mph, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols—these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard-to-imagine-but-true story. Dobyns leaves no stone of his harrowing journey unturned. At runs and clubhouses, between rides and riots, Dobyns befriends bad-ass bikers, meth-fueled “old ladies,” gun fetishists, psycho-killer ex-cons, and even some of the “Filthy Few”--the elite of the Hells Angels who’ve committed extreme violence on behalf of their club. Eventually, at parties staged behind heavily armed security, he meets legendary club members such as Chuck Zito, Johnny Angel, and the godfather of all bikers, Ralph “Sonny” Barger. To blend in with them, he gets full-arm ink; to win their respect, he vows to prove himself a stone-cold killer. Hardest of all is leading a double life, which has him torn between his devotion to his wife and children, and his pledge to become the first federal agent ever to be “fully patched” into the Angels’ near-impregnable ranks. His act is so convincing that he comes within a hairsbreadth of losing himself. Eventually, he realizes that just as he’s been infiltrating the Hells Angels, they’ ve been infiltrating him. And just as they’re not all bad, he’s not all good. Reminiscent of Donnie Brasco’s uncovering of the true Mafia, this is an eye-opening portrait of the world of bikers--the most in-depth since Hunter Thompson’s seminal work—one that fully describes the seductive lure criminal camaraderie has for men who would otherwise be powerless outsiders. Here is all the nihilism, hate, and intimidation, but also the freedom—and, yes, brotherhood—of the only truly American form of organized crime.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Angels All Around written by Amy Newmark and published by Chicken Soup for the Soul. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These true personal stories of angels, miracles, answered prayers, and divine intervention will deepen your faith and open your eyes to the angels, guardians, and guides in your life. Miracles happen every day to people from all walks of life. And angels are all around if we are open to seeing them and accepting their help. You’ll be inspired, awed and comforted by these 101 stories from ordinary people who’ve had extraordinary experiences, including: The young family caught in a snowstorm who were rescued by a man named David and hosted in his cabin—who learned afterwards that David and his family had died three years earlier on the same highway they were stuck on The widow who had been making snow angels with her husband for decades and then found two perfect ones in the fresh snow by his memorial bench one wintry morning—with no footprints leading to them The daughter whose dying mother promised to send flowers, who returned from the funeral to find her mom’s almost dead Christmas cacti had blossomed, covering an entire room with flowers The mother who saw her husband hoisting their little girl by one arm from a lake she’d fallen into, but didn’t see the man her husband says was holding the girl’s other arm The notoriously grumpy old man in a nursing home who spent a whole day happily saying goodbye to everyone and thanking them because an angel told him, correctly, it would be his last day on earth The teenager working in a hotel kitchen who was pushed away by an invisible force while standing in a group of people, and just missed being hit by a large piece of equipment that fell right where she’d been standing
Download or read book Experiences with angels and the spiritual world written by Silvia Savoia-Wälti and published by novum publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we in this world and what can we achieve here, that is the big question and topic of this booklet. And is there a spiritual world that can help us with our various big and small problems? Are there angels we can ask for help when we don't know what to do? And what is the role of the guardian angel we all know? When does he appear on the scene and can we also ask him for help? The author tries to answer all these questions as vividly as possible using examples she has experienced herself - without any missionary zeal. Every reader can take away from this what seems right for them and can help them. The author lovingly takes us by the hand to listen to ourselves and recognize why we are on this earth.
Download or read book The Angel s Name The Love and Lies Series written by Selena Rivera and published by Selena Rivera . This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love story that happens with a first glance and a whirlwind of events that are about to change both of their lives. When songwriter Rebecca Evans moves to Tennessee to pursue her career in writing music for a country singer, she meets cowboy football player, Bobby-James, who becomes an angel in her life. But she's worried she must leave her world behind. Her grandma would never understand. Will Rebecca take a chance on a new life with the man she loves? Will it be the right choice?
Download or read book God the Angels Me written by Linda Mae Valencia and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been waiting for a divine intervention in your life? Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe your dreams have a deep spiritual meaning? Do you desire to hear God's voice within your soul? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, or if the subjects of interventions, healings, miracles, and spiritual dreams simply pique your curiosity, Linda Mae Valencia's memoir God, The Angels, and Me is for you. Linda Mae Valencia has been chosen as a messenger of God and shares her inspiring life story, including her childhood in beautiful Hawaii, battling discouragement and despair, and overcoming difficult situations with the help of God. Linda Mae has witnessed and been a part of countless miracles, such as healing the sick with the laying on of hands and seeing Jesus's face in the clouds. Her dreams have come true on more than one occasion, and she attributes this all to her faith in her Lord Jesus Christ. Linda Mae invites you to journey with her through her unforgettable life stories and hopes you will become spiritually recharged in God, The Angels, and Me.
Download or read book The Best Angel Stories 2 written by Editors of Guideposts and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring stories by Eben Alexander, Mary C. Neal, Sophie Bernhard and many others. Here from the editors of Angels on Earth and Guideposts are 82 stories of real people who encountered real angels—whether the angels appear as a cloud of butterflies or a strain of heavenly music or adorned with wings and robes, these messengers offer assurance that we are never alone and that we are watched over, cared for, and loved. Included here are classic stories from Angels on Earth magazine, favorite angel stories from other books and magazines, and all-new stories that have never before been told. Meet people who have experienced impossible rescues and amazing protection, received messages of love and comfort from beyond, and died and visited heaven before returning to Earth. See how the innocence of a child or the loyalty of a beloved pet can draw angels to your side. This "big book of angel stories" covers core angel categories: Angels on Assignment Angels Watching over Me Calling All Angels Angels from the Realms of Glory Touched by an Angel Sleep in Heavenly Peace Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! This is a book filled with hope and healing. Indeed, it is a book for anyone who wants affirmation that that we are not alone—that help is on the way from the other side.
Download or read book Leaving Before the Rains Come written by Alexandra Fuller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller from the author of Travel Light, Move Fast "One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing."—Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller’s own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a memoir of such grace and intelligence, filled with such wit and courage, that it could only have been written by Alexandra Fuller. Leaving Before the Rains Come begins with the dreadful first years of the American financial crisis when Fuller’s delicate balance—between American pragmatism and African fatalism, the linchpin of her unorthodox marriage—irrevocably fails. Recalling her unusual courtship in Zambia—elephant attacks on the first date, sick with malaria on the wedding day—Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller soon realizes what is missing from her life is something that was always there: the brash and uncompromising ways of her father, the man who warned his daughter that "the problem with most people is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live." Fuller’s father—"Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode" as he first introduced himself to his future wife—was a man who regretted nothing and wanted less, even after fighting harder and losing more than most men could bear. Leaving Before the Rains Come showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities, threading panoramic vistas with her deepest revelations as a fully grown woman and mother. Fuller reveals how, after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her, she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves. An unforgettable book, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a story of sorrow grounded in the tragic grandeur and rueful joy only to be found in Fuller’s Africa.
Download or read book Tinker Tales Unmentionable written by Allan Lowson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tinker Tales Unmentionable’ is a collection of previously unpublished short stories celebrating magic and motorcycles. Tinker is the son of an absentee Irish gypsy dad and a Scottish mother, raised poor and turned out on the streets after her death in his early teens. Blood will out, and he becomes a trader in iron ponies, only to become enmeshed in magic. Somehow he survives a sorcerer’s apprenticeship to Magic John, a notorious gutter-mage (detailed in previous collections: ‘Tinker Tales’ and ‘Tinker Tales Untold’) yet trouble and temptation lurk around every corner. Here Tinker falls for a witch, hazards a dysfunctional future, encounters crop circles, and generally has to ride for his life. Ride along with him a few miles, and remember the magic.
Download or read book Green Island written by Shawna Yang Ryan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST BOOK AWARD IN FICTION BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES • A stunning, lyrical novel that tells "the story of how the Tsais, a Taiwanese family, survive the 'February 28 Incident' of 1947 and precariously navigate the decades that follow" (The New York Times). As an uprising rocks Taiwan, a young doctor in Taipei is taken from his newborn daughter by Chinese Nationalists, on charges of speaking out against the government. Although the doctor eventually returns to his family, his arrival is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community. Years later, this troubled past follows his youngest daughter to America, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family—the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before. The story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, Green Island raises the question: how far would you go for the ones you love?
Download or read book Cubop City Blues written by Pablo Medina and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated Cuban American poet and novelist delivers “[a] haunting love letter to New York . . . with tales of love, death, and exile” (Publishers Weekly). Pablo Medina’s Cubop City Blues fuses raw, passionate language and elegant lyricism to breathe life into a musically-disguised New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and storytellers. Our guide into Cubop City is the Storyteller, born nearly blind and shrouded in his mother’s guilt. He’s homeschooled inside his parents’ crumbling apartment with a European housekeeper, and educated through Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bible, and One Thousand and One Nights. When he’s twenty-five, his mother and father are both diagnosed with cancer, and the Storyteller alone is left to care for them. He does so by telling them stories conceived from the prolific reading that allowed his imagination to flourish despite little contact with the outside world. Through his tales—full of magic, sorrow, longing, love—Cubop City surges colorfully to life. Moving through myriad points of view, the Storyteller imagines a world populated by both well-known figures like Chano Pozo and Jelly Roll Morton, and invented characters, most notably a mustachioed man who is stabbed by a stranger and embarks on a novel-long search for his attacker. Molded in the cadence of Afro-Cuban jazz, Cubop City Blues is a symphonic portrait of a bustling urban landscape and the intimate lives that give a city its voice. “A kaleidoscopic depiction of life in exile.” —Leonard Lopate “[Medina’s] most touching novel to date . . . A rich and stunning novel with an incredibly intricate scaffolding . . . Yet another triumph.” —Rigoberto González, Los Angeles Review of Books
Download or read book Blood Phoenix Chronicles Books 1 2 written by Michael J Allen and published by Delirious Scribbles Ink, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books 1 and 2 of the Completed Angel War Urban Fantasy series by USA Today Bestselling Author Michael J Allen. Not every phoenix is reborn from ashes. Book 1: Ashes of Raging Water When the angels could no longer be trusted, Heaven created her. The Fey invade the modern world, offering wishes to anyone willing to pay. In their latest alluring and innocuous guise, hell’s spawn seduces mankind one soul at a time. With Heaven’s angels no longer trusted to police their brothers, the Phoenix Shields are created. Quayla, one of Heaven’s new elemental shapeshifters, protects Atlanta from the Fallen Fey. Daunted by fighting a hidden war while paying her bills and juggling a relationship, she struggles to save the city from a threat no one else believes exists. But first, she’ll have to live down a mistake that murdered countless mortals and convince her boss not to execute her for past wrongs. Can our young, untrained water phoenix prove him wrong before it’s too late? You'll love this amazing, must-read adventure because who doesn't love an underdog who's got bigger problems than death? Book 2: Ruled by Tainted Blood Heartache Can Pave the Darkest Paths... All was well until our new water phoenix came. Aquaylae brought the faerie war to Atlanta’s streets. She is an agent of chaos, and she needs to be destroyed. I’ve found a way to make it right. A whisper from the past offers hope, but at a cost few others are willing to pay. To reclaim order, I must embrace madness. I must pollute my being with faerie essence and usurp their magic. I alone am suited to wield such power—the Shieldheart, the blood phoenix. To save Mare, to protect Atlanta, to destroy Aquaylae…no price is too high, not even my soul… Reading order: 1) Ashes of Raging Water (Included) 2) Ruled by Tainted Blood (Included) 3) Vengeful are the Drowned 4) Rise of the Exiled Lady 5) Razing the Last Bastion
Download or read book Dreamland written by Robert L. Anderson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From immensely talented debut author Robert L. Anderson comes a stunning, complex, and imaginative story about the fine line between dreams and reality that will appeal to fans of Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle. Odea Donahue has been able to travel through people’s dreams since she was six years old. Her mother taught her the three rules of walking: Never interfere. Never be seen. Never walk the same person’s dream more than once. Dea has never broken the rules. Then a mysterious new boy, Connor, comes to town. For the first time in her life, Dea feels normal. But both Dea and Connor have secrets, and as she is increasingly drawn to Connor’s dreams—and nightmares—the boundary between worlds begins to deteriorate, putting everyone she loves in danger.
Download or read book The Appointment written by Herta Müller and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life "I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes, will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me," the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her friend Lilli, shot trying to flee to Hungary, to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them, to Major Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wet kiss on her fingers, and to Paul, her lover, her one source of trust, despite his constant drunkenness. In her distraction, she misses her stop to find herself on an unfamiliar street. And what she discovers there makes her fear of the appointment pale by comparison. Herta Müller pitilessly renders the humiliating terrors of a crushing regime. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment confirms her standing as one of Europe's greatest writers.
Download or read book Pieces of My Heart written by Katy O. Ishee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieces of My Heart: A Free-Spirited Gypsy's Journey Thru her heart and soul...and hell. - A True Story Jump on the back with motorcycle mama Katy Ishee, as she wildly steers us on a blistering ride of unwed motherhood, familial alienation, bikers, drugs, and insane asylums--you won't know whether to fall on your knees and pray to the Almighty or get stone drunk and listen to Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. When 17-year-old Katy is forced to surrender her son to strangers, her life becomes a web of secrets, lies and rebellion. Learn the hidden, yet true secrets of how unwed mothers are treated by the System, and what actually goes on in government-approved mental wards. A vivid picture of horror is painted as she describes her ten electro-convulsive shock treatments. Her rebellion grows as she travels from Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love, through the brotherhood of motorcycling and four abusive marriages, even spending some time in sick-slick Hollywood ... across the country, back-and-forth, stubbornly refusing to give up on her dream. “Katy’s is that spirit that refuses to compromise either with her herself or the world around her. It is that spirit that refuses to be quiet for the sake of expediency but rather screams to be heard. It is that indomitable spirit that never gives up and in the end is proven to be the best of what it is that makes us human. This is Katy Ishee. This is Pieces of My Heart. This is a new, fresh voice that needs to be heard.” “This story is so shocking and strong, you have to be strong to read it. Blues guitarist/songwriter, Lonnie Mack Katy’s autobiography has been featured on many websites across the internet including Book of the Month Club at http://www.bikernet.com/News/newsarch.asp?Article=021810-2 and http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/2010/02/11/pieces-of-my-heart-not-a-love-story-to-make-you-mad-laugh-and-cry with comments from readers.
Download or read book The Outlaw s Prize written by April Lust and published by E-Book Publishing World Inc.. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outlaw's Prize is book 3 and the finale of the Skullbreakers MC trilogy! I'LL KEEP HER SAFE. I'LL KEEP HER CLOSE. AND I'LL KILL ANY OTHER MAN WHO TOUCHES HER. She should have stayed in my past. But now that she's back… I'm going to make sure she never leaves again. I might seem cruel. Or overprotective. But if there's one thing I've learned in this world, it's this: You gotta find what you love and hold it close. She got away once. Never, ever again. Because when I learn what she took with her, I explode. No one – NO ONE – hides my son from me. It seems I've got to teach pretty little Angel a lesson or two. This won't be the sweet reunion she might've been expecting. It's going to be dark, sweaty, and brutal. Because I'm an outlaw. And when you're my bride… you're playing by my rules.
