Download or read book Buddy Jim written by Elizabeth Gordon and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out in the Park one day, children, I met a little boy not bigger than you are, who told me that he liked stories about a boy and a dog and the things they did together. He said that it must be a real boy and a real dog, and there must be other animals in the story, not great, big, fierce ones, but just neighborly ones—animals a boy might, perhaps, meet when he went for walks in the woods—and take pictures of and get to know. So this is the story of the way a real boy and a real dog spent their first summer in the real country; and the fun they had together. Buddy Jim and old Dog Sandy are waiting for us over on the front page.

Download or read book Blooms of Old Cahaba written by John B. Givhan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blooms of Old Cahaba is a compilation of six years of research and was inspired by the Givhan family history and Cahaba, the first capitol of Alabama and one of the greatest lost jewels of the Old South. From the years of flourish, before the Civil War, affluent Cahaba was widely celebrated all over the world for its rich bounty and the finest cotton land known to civilized man. Blooms of Old Cahaba consists of something for everyonestories from the Old South, passed down from many generations of family and friends and told as correctly as can be for hearsay through the years. It contains excerpts from the diary of a Civil War soldier who was fighting in Wilsons Raid in Selma, Alabama while writing his storya first-hand account and much more. You will understand how our history affects the current generation through the eyes of a young man leaving his childhood for college but not before he comprehends his past. Blooms of Old Cahaba holds many documents and artifacts including diaries and wills, awards, and commendations of the Givhan family from early 1800s and includes many other historical documents and facts, all rolled together in an intriguing novel that takes you time traveling from before the Civil War into modern day.

Download or read book Jim s Course written by Bryan Candy and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim is a young man who dropped out of college, opting for a comfortable income in a union work place. Boredom, women, his declining mother, and an event from his past plague his day to day life. Things take a turn for Jim when he makes a gruesome discovery early one morning. While arriving to work, he notices a large box near the parking lot, and decides to investigate. He opens the box to find the dead body of a young woman. He panics. He reaches in, grabs an item from the body, closes the box, and heads into work. What follows is Jim's continued downhill spiral with his personal life coupled with the growing guilt of what he's taken from the body.

Download or read book The Last Session written by Steven M. Schalchlin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brothers Huxten written by Jenny Hula Curry and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theo and Buddy Huxten: happy, respectable, decent-but is there more to these two? Is there more than even the brothers themselves know about themselves? Someone has all the answers; but.who?

Download or read book Through My Head written by Bradley M. Fralick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-06-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you react if you went to sleep one night, a young dentist beginning to build a successful practice to support your wife and two kids, and woke up fuzzily seven months later to find that you were a different person. You had a cast on your important right hand, not because it was broken, but because your brain wouldnt or couldnt send the signals to relax the muscles, and your hand tried to curl into a fist. Your right foot was pretty weak because your Achilles tendon had been cut and stretched, so that your foot wouldnt curl up like your hand. You had lost your sense of balance, and your mind wouldnt allow you to speak without repeating your words so fast that your tongue couldnt keep up, and people could no longer understand you without straining. You had difficulty making decisions, and you couldnt remember any decisions that you made. To make things worse, you saw two or three, or sometimes more images, and your brain wouldnt integrate them into one. Brad Fralick woke up in this way in 1994. His practice had been sold, and his life was forever changed. This book is a record of his remarkable journey toward thinking clearly again. It might be called a book of short essays. It is actually a chronology of his thoughts. As Brad recovered, he initially had to write his thoughts down, because his short term memory was so bad that he couldnt sustain a thought train, and he couldnt communicate verbally. He couldnt straighten his right hand, and couldnt control his left hand well enough to write with pen or pencil, so he began to learn to type on a keyboard with one finger of his left hand. We encouraged him to write everything that went through his head, and he initially found it easier to write about a fictional character going through his own life experiences. Later, he began writing his views of politics, religion, and just about any aspect of life. Writing was important to Brads recovery, but computer games have been even more instrumental. Contemporary research suggests that mental activities with many arbitrary, simple rules may help recovery of cognitive function. Have you ever heard of a more enlightened description of computer games? Hoping that a game or two would help put other broken brains back together, we set up a web site to present comments on games as a sort of mental gymnasium, or biofeedback treatment thats fun. Brad wrote a few game reviews, and then began to write about a fictional character Dr. Sgt. Milko, a dentist who was an enlisted man in the Army. As the fictional stories were written, Brad published them on this web site in chronological order, with most recent stories at the top of his table of contents. These stories are collected in the second portion of this book "THE MILKO STORIES". They are published pretty much in reverse chronological order, newest stories first. Some make you laugh, some make you cry, and some just make you think. They each reveal a new aspect of the recovery of his brain. Surprisingly, many of the stories are of adventures that actually took place years ago as Brad was growing up. Brads long term memory was not impaired by his brain injury. Neither was his imagination. Brad eventually began to publish his thoughts about contemporary life as a Traumatic Brain Injury survivor. He added a new section to his web site to publish these comments. The subject of his attention ranges from the wild fires that almost burned the Los Alamos national laboratory to his relationship with his son...

Download or read book On Patrol written by Lt. Walter Philbrick and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lt. Philbrick has detailed true stories that happened during his police career. The stories are educational and entertaining. You will learn what a police officer thinks and reacts under extreme life threatening events. The Author talks about life on duty and off duty and how being a police officer affects your life at home. Across America, every day, a police officer kisses his wife and kids goodbye, knowing that he or she might not come home that night. It’s one of the only jobs in America where there is a good chance you could be killed that day on duty and never see your family again.

Download or read book Girl with a Secret written by julia derek and published by Adrenaline Books. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sam visits his new girlfriend, Yasmine, he discovers that she has hanged herself. Devastated, he gets drunk instead of calling the authorities. Detectives Cooper and White soon determine that foul play was involved in the death, and everything points to Sam having killed Yasmine. Sam knows he’s innocent, so he sees no other option but to become a fugitive. He must find the killer or risk going to trial where there's a big chance he'll get convicted. He believes the killer can be found at the shady strip club where Yasmine once worked. In the process of seeking the killer, he starts to realize that Yasmine had a secret that she kept from him. A dangerous secret that could lead to his own death if he digs deep enough. NOTE: GIRL WITH A SECRET is a stand-alone murder mystery with no explicit sex and little violence.

Download or read book Buddy and Earl written by Maureen Fergus and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An understated winner of a friendship story. ... simultaneously of-the-moment and timeless.” — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW What’s in the box that Meredith has carried into the living room? Buddy doesn’t know, but when the small, prickly creature says he is a pirate — and that Buddy is a pirate, too — the mismatched friends are off on a grand adventure. In this first book in the best-selling Buddy and Earl series, a dog who likes to play by the rules meets a hedgehog who knows no limits. Their friendship is tender and loyal, and their adventures are funny and imaginative. Maureen Fergus’s text is witty and understated, and Carey Sookocheff’s art emphasizes both the humor and the warmth of this odd and loveable animal couple. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Download or read book My First Love and Other Disasters written by Francine Pascal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Martin’s in a bad way. Falling for Jim, the school hottie, was just the start of it; now she finds herself caught up in major plots to win him over, while at the same time getting rid of his annoyingly gorgeous girlfriend, Gloria. So when she hears that Jim’s going to be spending the whole summer on Fire Island, Victoria knows that this is her chance to be noticed. She promptly signs herself up for a summer as a mother’s helper there—it’s got to work! But Victoria’s about to learn that first love can easily collapse into total disaster...

Download or read book More Than a Lifetime written by K.M. Rutledge and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than a Lifetime by K.M. Rutledge [--------------------------------------------]

Download or read book Watermelon Pete and Others written by Elizabeth Gordon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Watermelon Pete and Others" by Elizabeth Gordon is a delightful collection of stories that celebrate the charm and simplicity of rural life. Gordon's narratives are filled with endearing characters and heartwarming moments that evoke a sense of nostalgia for a bygone era. The titular character, Watermelon Pete, and the other inhabitants of these stories come to life with Gordon's vivid storytelling. Each tale is a window into the joys and challenges of rural existence, making this collection a delightful read for those who appreciate wholesome and character-driven storytelling.

Download or read book From the Sparrow s Nest written by Ralph Allen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sparrow's Nest is a first edition collection of the short stories and poetry of Ralph Allen. The wide range of themes, plots, and characterizations reveals the challenging experiences of the author. Most of these stories have won writing awards.

Download or read book Uncertain Ground written by Joseph Croall and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business partners Ron and Neil invest in an attractive East African location following their reluctant forced exit from Zimbabwe during the new land reforms and policies that took hold in the country in 2003. Years later, both men find themselves, their clients and their acquaintances drawn into an unavoidable set of circumstances involving national law enforcement, an international investigation agency and high-level criminal activity. Strong bonding relationships and humour, along with lust, killing and survival come together in this gritty and gripping novel set in the city and in the heart of the largest game reserve in Africa.

Download or read book The Concrete Lawyer written by Adam Barrist and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Brown is a young Philadelphia lawyer with a stagnating career. While wallowing in the comfortable but humdrum life of an automaton Associate at the Krauss, Carlson law firm, and without clients of his own, Brown realizes little intrinsic reward in tirelessly serving the firm's partners. Suddenly, though, Brown finds himself in high demand as three big-name corporate clients seek to retain his services in rapid succession. He believes that his ship has come in, and that fame, fortune, and, most importantly, an offer of partnership, are soon to follow. Brown is lured to Paris by the new client presenting the seemingly most lucrative prospects, but he is unaware that he was chosen by that client for a sinister, dark purpose, rather than for his legal skills. Little does Brown know that each of his new clients are complexly intertwined in a scheme that will place him in great peril. As the story races through the streets of the French capital and back to the City of Brotherly Love, Brown is faced with the undesirable reality of being forced to commit dastardly out-of-character acts to save his career, his marriage, and his very life.

Download or read book Not a Fire Exit written by Christopher Finlan and published by Milverstead Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim and Sarah Knox, two individuals who make an extraordinary couple, are about to have their lives changed forever by a single cupcake. From the first Nolan Knockout to the last drop of Gringo Moreno, it's a love story wrapped in a mystery.

Download or read book Honeymooners written by Chuck Kinder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two outlaws of love (and literature) at large in their own Wild West. Ralph Crawford may be a talented short-story writer -- one of the best in the Bay Area, in America, in the 1970s; hell, in the whole English-speaking, late-middle-twentieth century -- but off the page he's only human. In fact, as his wife, Alice Ann, can attest, he's a mess: a jealous but faithless husband, an inveterate bouncer of checks, a plunderer of private misadventures for the sake of his fiction, and an often hapless drunk. When his (similarly human) buddy, Jim Stark -- a novelist burning with ambition, promise, and humiliation over his own failed marriage -- promises to deliver a cargo of incriminating letters to Ralph's latest paramour, a dark lady in Missoula named Lindsay Wolfe, the lives of all four are changed in ways none of them could predict.Careening across the western states during the twilight of the San Francisco underground, Chuck Kinder's already semi-legary masterpiece, twenty-five years in the making, is a rueful, comi-tragic juggernaut of good and bad intentions gone awry, high seriousness and hard living, and the gradual, painful coming of age of two couples who have spent the best years of their lives raising bad judgment to an art. With affection and self-savaging wit, Kinder captures the siren song of the writerly vocation in all its squalor, destructiveness, and glory.