Download or read book Becoming Finnigan written by Karen Muldoon and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes we choose our path. Sometimes it is chosen for us. Sometimes we have no choice at all. Joel Finnigan was a man who experienced all three... Orphaned at an early age, bravely stepping in to fight for his country as a young man, and sacrificing a love that was meant to be, Joel Finnigan is a man of honor and courage. Althea Burnside, a brash young woman whose search for love and success has led her from one disastrous relationship to another, is a writer faced with the most astonishing discovery of her lifetime: what true love should be. When Joel meets Althea, his world is turned upside down. What is he going to do about this pushy reporter who wants to change his world and unearth long-buried secrets he would rather ignore? Does he deny her existence, or can Joel and Althea help each other become the people they are meant to be? Becoming Finnigan is an epic novel that begins in World War II and ends the day before 9/11. It is a history lesson, a lesson in faith and a tribute to the adage that we are never too old or too jaded to find love.
Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
Download or read book Barbarian Days written by William Finnegan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
Download or read book Finnigan and the Gentle Giant written by Lillian Rosewood and published by Lillian Rosewood. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the Whispering Woods, where adventure sings and shadows dance in moonlight... Finnigan is a boy who listens. He hears the secrets rustled by the leaves, the dreams murmured by the river, the melodies woven by the ancient woods. But when darkness threatens to silence their song, Finnigan must become more than just a listener. He must become a bard, weaving his own magic into the Whispering Woods. Join Finnigan on his heart-soaring journey through: Enchanted landscapes: From sun-dappled clearings to moonlit caves, lose yourself in a world both familiar and fantastical. Unforgettable creatures: Befriend a mischievous bird, face a shimmering serpent, and encounter the Moon Weaver herself. Trials of courage and imagination: Confront shadows, paint dreams with words, and learn to sing your own story into existence. A heartwarming friendship: Witness the unbreakable bond between a boy and his loyal feathered companion. "The Whispering Woods" is a tale for anyone who has ever dreamed of: Feeling the magic of the natural world come alive. Embracing the courage to face their fears. Letting their imagination soar and their voice be heard. Dive into this immersive, lyrical adventure and discover the power of stories to mend, to inspire, and to sing the world into a brighter place. Start reading "The Whispering Woods" today and let the whispers lead you home.
Download or read book Finnigan the Lionhearted written by Mary Wagner and published by Waterhorse Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOIN THE FUN, both young and old, and enjoy the latest adventures of Finnigan and his friends in this award-winning children's book series that readers have deemed "enchanting," "adorable," "heartwarming," and "good old fashioned fun"!!When the tent circus unexpectedly pulls into little Beechville, Wisconsin, absolutely nobody could be more excited than Finnigan the Circus Cat and his two "circus mouse" pals Leroy and Maximillian! All three are still living "under the radar" in the small but charming Farnsworth Circus Museum--Leroy and Max because they're mice, of course, and Finnigan because he's still being kept as a big secret from most of the Farnsworth family members. While Leroy and Max--and now the high-flying Finnigan--have grown up surrounded by vintage wagons and posters and steeped in circus history and tales of adventure, they never imagined that their wildest dreams would actually come to life! And so they set off to explore the sparkling Big Top for themselves, hoping to wrangle an audience with Finnigan's heroes, the big circus cats. As they navigate the Midway and the Big Top, the trio encounters danger and adventure, and befriend an elephant named "Tiny." And their encounters in the lions' den yield valuable lessons about courage and kindness and loyalty, lessons which will be put to the test before the Grand Finale sounds!
Download or read book The Southwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ballad of Sidney Hill written by Khali Raymond and published by savage writer publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Karma Farmers written by Pierre Hollins and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genre-defying novel about love, murder and quantum theory. A crime thriller based upon a philosophical conundrum: if science demonstrated that consciousness could survive death, how far would you go to discover if it was true? In an age of divisive belief systems, Bradley Holmeson a thirty-something bookshop manager, is attempting to cure his existential dilemma with quantum physics. Research leads him to a radical theory of consciousness based on the work of real-life theoretical physicist David Bohm, which Holmeson self-publishes in a short, seditious manifesto. He doesn’t want revolution so much as literary notoriety, hoping that success will impress his estranged girlfriend. However, his writing begins to attract the wrong attention... A reluctant philosopher embroiled in an occult experiment, Holmeson meets the violent, the obsessed and the dangerously misguided, armed only with his defensive sarcasm – and all to win back the woman he loves.
Download or read book Revision on Emotions written by Natasha Lizanne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is everything; not just life, not all love, not a focus point on murder, and not all of the entireties is mayhem. It’s a journey that comes back to the same roots, because no matter how original someone may be there’s always a purpose; a person you get drawn to time and time again, and everyone involved is painting a picture on the same canvas...they just don’t know it quite yet. This is emotions, and this is indeed relevant.
Download or read book The Light at Finnigan s End written by Jodi Gallegos and published by CTP Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleric’s Cove is home to the most brutal gang of bootleggers in Southern Louisiana, the Moret family. Desperate to find out what happened to her brother Finn, Deirdre Cassidy is determined to use her skills as a healer, as well as her feminine charms, to infiltrate the Moret crime family. Once she’s ensconced in the Moret hideout, she hopes to gather information that will lead her to Finn—or help her destroy the family that caused his disappearance. But the one thing Deirdre never counted on is Mo Moret. The eldest son and head of the Moret gang, Mo is incredibly dangerous, yet magnetic—the attraction between them palpable. Still, Deirdre doesn’t believe he'll ever set aside family loyalty for love. And even if he did, Deirdre has vowed to see the end of the Morets—whatever the cost. The second installment in the popular Rum Runners series by Jodi Gallegos, The Light at Finnigan’s End is a fast-paced romance with elements of historical fiction, set against the gritty backdrop of depression-era southern Louisiana.
Download or read book The Last Reincarnation of Steven Kinder written by Bernard K. Finnigan and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Kinder Is Having A Really Bad Day… Steven Kinder's life seems to be one bad day after another. His apartment burns down…one day after moving in. A job is lost due to a computer glitch. College records are mysteriously frozen and he’s accused of cheating his way through his degree. When paramilitary thugs bust down his door at two in the morning, suddenly he’s having the worst bad day ever. Hauled away in chains, he’s accused of being an illegal alien and thrown into a subzero coffin to linger in suspended animation forever. But life turns from bad to bizarre when his rescue becomes even more bewildering than the kidnapping. Steven is about to discover that there are aliens everywhere—real intergalactic aliens hidden just out of human perception. And that the accidents destroying Steven’s life may not have been so accidental after all... Now he’s on the run and really learning what being human is all about. Because the only thing more traumatic than learning alien souls are reincarnating on Earth would be learning he's one of them.
Download or read book Far Tortuga written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-01-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
Download or read book Fist of Rage written by Kisa Murrin and published by KM Dragonfly Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Fist of Rage collection Escaped from Rage Just when she thought she’d reached the key, he changed the lock. The murder of Olivia's in-laws was just the beginning of the downward spiral that changed her life. It precipitated the violence that landed her in the hospital on multiple occasions. She knew if she stayed, her husband Greg would kill her. If she ran, she might have a chance. Meeting Rachel gave her the opportunity to start a new life in anonymity, now, she’s running out of money. To take back her life she must face her past, filing for divorce is the only way to be free. Greg is a powerful man, he has the resources to find her once she puts herself back on the map, but she can’t hide forever. Revealing where she is brings hell to her door and is the catalyst that puts her in the golden tower of casino mogul Ian Alessandro. She’ll have to make choice, protect those who have helped her along the way, or allow them to suffer the wrath of the devil that she married. Returned to Rage New mysteries unfold, and new entanglements emerge, because secrets always surface. Olivia made her choice, self-sacrifice seemed to be the only option to spare those she cares about from the destruction that is her husband. His veiled threats make her question if she’ll ever see the golden tower that became so much more than her safehouse. It’s the place where her former life was sifted through, where she learned the secrets of her past. The place she learned to trust again and forged new friendships. The golden tower that gave Olivia refuge has become Ian’s prison. He waits for a lead that will help him find her, but each possibility turns to a dead end. With each passing day new truths are revealed, he finds his mother’s past is intertwined with Olivia’s in a web of deceit. The key to finding her may be in the hands of a man that wronged them both. Released from Rage With the threat of Greg still lingering, Olivia’s safety is absolute in the golden tower of the Lost Cities. Within the walls new unions are forged through understanding and forgiveness. The bonds of friendships are fortified in the hopes of the future. And the love between Ian and Olivia is strengthened as new life grows. When tragedy strikes, Olivia is forced to go beyond those walls leaving the security they provide. Greg takes advantage of the opportunity and makes his presence known. She must face the inferno of his rage, knowing the only way to be free is through the fire. She’ll have to burn before she can rise from the ashes. Redeemed through Rage Don’t let old ghosts steal your peace. By his own admission, Angus Kelley was not a good man, but he’s trying to be now. He spent his life as an outsider looking in, the only way to keep his family safe was to walk away, as if he’d never been there. He watched from afar as his son grew up, missing the moments and the milestones, sitting on the sidelines as a stranger to those he loved the most. An unseen, unheard sentry. When his past and present collided, Angus emerged from the shadows to defend the family he left behind. Through the turmoil, he proved his good intentions, and was given the opportunity to explain his absence. He found a place within his family, he found acceptance and forgiveness, but the ghosts of the past still haunt him. The villain he was still holding him back from living in the moment. The secrets he was forced with bind him from being truly present in the now. The only way to be free is to face who he was before and come to terms with the things he did in the past. Only the truth can absolve him. While sorting through the sins of his former life, an old foe resurfaces with a new threat. Angus must resurrect the man he was to keep the danger from destroying the new life he’s built. What would you sacrifice to keep your family safe?
Download or read book Cold New World written by William Finnegan and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. “A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people’s lives.”—Time “[William] Finnegan’s real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America’s social problems are more serious than we want to believe.”—The Washington Post A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb. William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in Cold New World. What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate book that never loses sight of its subjects’ humanity. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION SELECTION Praise for Cold New World “Unlike most journalists who drop in for a quick interview and fly back out again, Finnegan spent many weeks with families in each community over a period of several years, enough time to distinguish between the kind of short-term problems that can beset anyone and the longer-term systemic poverty and social disintegration that can pound an entire generation into a groove of despair.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “The most remarkable of William Finnegan’s many literary gifts is his compassion. Not the fact of it, which we have a right to expect from any personal reporting about the oppressed, but its coolness, its clarity, its ductile strength. . . . Finnegan writes like a dream. His prose is unfailingly lucid, graceful, and specific, his characterization effortless, and the pull of his narrative pure seduction.”—The Village Voice “Four astonishingly intimate and evocative portraits. . . . All of these stories are vividly, honestly and compassionately told. . . . While Cold New World may make us look in new ways at our young people, perhaps its real goal is to make us look at ourselves.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Download or read book Below The Obsidian Spire written by D. Larue Pepperman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the center of a secluded valley stands something that is known to be out of place. An obsidian spire rises out from the earth as if a giant thrust it there. In the spire's shadow something is happening that will birth those who will end the evil dwelling in another realm. It is often thought only evil resides in shadows, but in the recesses of this shadow, enough light shines between the darkness to nurture a power that can defeat that evil. Follow seven Chosen as they endure adventure after adventure until they are powerful enough to overcome an evil Below the Obsidian Spire... Or until the evil overcomes them.
Download or read book Redeemed through Rage written by Kisa Murrin and published by KM Dragonfly Publications. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t let old ghosts steal your peace. By his own admission, Angus Kelley was not a good man, but he’s trying to be now. He spent his life as an outsider looking in, the only way to keep his family safe was to walk away, as if he’d never been there. He watched from afar as his son grew up, missing the moments and the milestones, sitting on the sidelines as a stranger to those he loved the most. An unseen, unheard sentry. When his past and present collided, Angus emerged from the shadows to defend the family he left behind. Through the turmoil, he proved his good intentions, and was given the opportunity to explain his absence. He found a place within his family, he found acceptance and forgiveness, but the ghosts of the past still haunt him. The villain he was still holding him back from living in the moment. The secrets he was forced with bind him from being truly present in the now. The only way to be free is to face who he was before and come to terms with the things he did in the past. Only the truth can absolve him. While sorting through the sins of his former life, an old foe resurfaces with a new threat. Angus must resurrect the man he was to keep the danger from destroying the new life he’s built. What would you sacrifice to keep your family safe?
Download or read book The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
