Download or read book Goodbye Duluth written by Michael Flynn and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodbye Duluth By Michael Flynn When star-struck young Martin Reilly leaves his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, to follow his dreams in Hollywood, he ends up blowing any chance he ever had in the film industry. After doing some serious soul-searching, Martin launches into a different calling from above. Drawing on experience from his Hollywood days, Martin finds his new job satisfying and a perfect fit… until it becomes just that—a job. As Martin begins teetering back down the road to self-destruction, he receives help coming from surprising places, restoring his hope and giving him the courage to find his way back to his original dream.
Download or read book No More Mondays written by LaVonne Misner and published by ProStar Publications. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They did what most people only talk about. LaVonne and her husband Tom sold their home in Minnesota and launched a six year sailing adventure that took them from their homeport in Duluth Minnesota, up the St. Lawrence Seaway, down the Atlantic Coast, through the Caribbean, Panama Canal, and onward to the South Pacific and the pristine coastline of New Zealand.
Download or read book The Wheels of Friend written by Eric Norland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one mans attempt to make peace with a world that was on the brink of mutually agreed upon destruction. He chose a bicycle as his medium of expression and named it Friend. His intent was to go from California and head east until going to The Soviet Union. He wanted to meet Soviets and show others that they were alright. He made it as far as East Germany but was not allowed travel any farther east. From there the traveling cyclist heades for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. And then onward around the world. He ran out of money after one year of traveling. He traveled across large continents like Australi and China and circumvented the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. In all he comes away with a world experience and a new way of looking at the planet.
Download or read book Sanctified Street written by Edward Roy and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverend Roy has written a series of articles which share his life story from past to present. Each article is a look into a particular time in Reverend Roy’s life. The word or title of reverend often allows some to believe Mr. Roy has always followed God’s Word and did not willingly or consciously participate in street life. That is not the case. Mr. Roy, now Reverend Roy, has seen and has been involved in the street life game for many years from childhood to adulthood. And side note here, he was very good at it before he became weary. Sick and tired of being sick and tired, Mr. Roy began the journey of tapping into his life’s purpose. But it did not happen overnight. It did not happen easily. It did not happen without his understanding that change needed to occur. It did not happen without his full participation in his own life. His journey helped him come to understand that God loves you no matter who you are, no matter what you’ve done, no matter the circumstances you were born into. Reverend Roy’s son holding his own son
Download or read book Stagecoach to Hellfire Pass written by Paul Evan Lehman and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stargazer S Journey written by Mark Reed and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne is an avid stargazer, and nothing makes him happier than being with his boyfriend, Adam, beneath a night sky that is blanketed with stars. They live near a park and lake along a dead-end street, and late-one evening, while gazing through Waynes telescope, they see a flash of light in the distance with a boom of thunder. Theyre both concerned and curious about what it was. Perhaps a small plane had crashed, or something else could have exploded. They werent sure. So they both decide to go for a hike over the trails behind their house. Their journey begins after they meet two strangers beside the lake. One is human, and the other is much different. Both have come here on a mission of great importance. There are vile and hateful individuals from another dimension who have come here to conquer anyone they can get their hands on, and they must be stopped before Earth becomes their next target.
Download or read book Goodbye to the Dead written by Brian Freeman and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Jonathan Stride's first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride's relationship with current lover, and fellow detective, Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go all the way back to the last year of Cindy Stride's life. At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of a domestic murder investigation. Gorgeous, brilliant Janine Snow--a surgeon transplanted to Duluth from Texas--was the prime suspect in the shooting death of her husband. Cindy believed her friend Janine was innocent, but Stride thought all the evidence pointed to the surgeon--even though the gun was never found. Despite Cindy's attempts to help Janine, the case led to a high-profile murder trial in which Janine was convicted and sent to prison. During the current investigation, Serena finds a gun used in the murder of a woman connected to an organized crime syndicate--a gun that turns out to be the same weapon used to kill Janine Snow's husband. Two unrelated cases years apart suddenly have a mysterious connection. As Stride investigates the possibility that human traffickers are targeting women in the Duluth port, he begins to question whether he made a terrible mistake eight years ago by putting an innocent woman in prison. And whether he will ever be able to make peace with the memory of his beloved wife and give his heart to Serena.
Download or read book My Four Friends written by Joe McGraw and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a day when farm folks pitched in together to accomplish tasks too big for one person, when strangers shared car rides, and housewives lingered over cups of hot coffee, a small boy named Joe discovered the richness of life on his grandfather's farm. A gentle, adventurous, and proud boy enraptured by farm life, Joe learned at a tender age that he had a way with animals, both domestic and wild. On Grandpa's farm, he became fast friends with a dog, a deer, a rabbit, and even a blue jay. His feathered and furry companions seemed to understand him just as perfectly as he did them. Their many carefree escapades included hunting woodchucks, visiting the barbershop, playing in the schoolyard, riding in the rumble seat of Grandpa's coupe, fishing in the creek, eating spaghetti lunches at the county fair, and much more. A memoir from the heart, this is the spirited tale of a young boy coming of age in a bygone era as he makes lasting memories and enduring friendships exploring field and forest with a bevy of animal buddies.
Download or read book White Ermine Across Her Shoulders written by Ethel Mortenson Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Ermine Across Her Shoulders has all the elements expected by readers of Ethel Mortenson Daviss poetry. The lines are highly imagistic and intense. Descriptions of the earths beauty are intermingled with comments, sometimes caustic, about the human experience. Often a music rises that is both emotional and filled with language and insights that remain in the memory long after the book has been put down. This, Daviss second volume, speaks eloquently about Kevin Michael Davis, her son who died of cancer in 2010 in Poughkeepsie, NY, and touches on other family relationships, making some of the poems more personal than those she has published before. These poems are balanced with an understanding of the universe and all of its creatures that encompasses both delight and wisdom. What makes this collection appealing is an intellectual depth that resonates, in the way of Emily Dickenson, with the imagistic and emotional core that has always been a hallmark of Daviss poetry.
Download or read book Timber Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Duluthian written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For the Good of the Order written by John Watson Milton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of our history, one that has slipped from memory in the passage of time. The story of Nick Coleman, one of his generations most inspired leaders, while overdue, is still worth telling, and surely it carries important lessons for us now. Walter F. Mondale In January 1973, Nick Coleman became the fi rst Democrat in 114 years to lead the majority in the Minnesota Senate. He provided the vision and leadership required to enact the Minnesota equivalent of Lyndon Johnsons social and economic programs known as the Great Society. This was the high tide of liberal politics in Minnesota, the crest in voter support that also sent Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale to national prominence. For the Good of the Order chronicles Nick Colemans role in the legislative cauldron that resulted in Minnesota being recognized throughout the country as the state that works. Despite spirited political challenges, these remarkable achievements resulted from genuine collaboration from both sides of the aisle. Moreover, the debate over these initiatives helped raise Minnesotas legislative branch to coequal status with the executive. Sadly, they also marked the beginning of the demise of civility, respect, and compromise among lawmakers. Coleman was an Irish-American, and proud of his heritage. His talent for leadership was surely enhanced by his Celtic wit and view of the world. No caricature of the Irish pol, however, Coleman used his verbal gifts and charm to offer reasons why a hesitant colleague could safely follow him when votes were needed for controversial bills. He led from the front, especially when debate was most intense, and unfl inchingly took the fi ercest fi re from adversaries. When Nick Coleman left the political arena in 1981, a wave of conservatism was sweeping the country. Since his departure, much of the agenda Coleman fought so hard to accomplish has been diluted or reversed. Nevertheless, his legacy remains an inspiration to all who believe that a society should be judged by how it treats its weakest and least powerful. Perhaps Hubert Humphrey voiced this belief most succinctly when he said, ...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life: the sick, the needy and the handicapped. Those were the people Nick Coleman fought forand never forgot.
Download or read book Winifred Sanford written by Betty Holland Wiesepape and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the author's sudden end to her lucrative writing career in a study that sheds light on both Sanford's career and the domestic lives of women in the 1920s and 1930s.
Download or read book Faces on the Clock written by Larry Bauer-Scandin and published by Eagle Entertainment USA. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guy is tough, and so is his message. (By Ruben Rosario, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, MN August 2011. Edited for length) Like the U.S. Postal Service, apparently nothing keeps Larry Bauer-Scandin - foster dad to 125 - from his self-appointed rounds. Not the weather. Not the heart ailments or the genetic neurological disorder that robbed him of movement and rendered him legally blind. The 64-year-old Vadnais Heights resident just gets up and does it. "My life was normal for the first nine years of my life until 1957 when my foot went to sleep, except that my foot never woke up," Bauer-Scandin told a group of inmates from the 3100 unit at the Dakota County Jail. But that's not the main message that Bauer-Scandin, a retired probation officer and jail counselor, wants to deliver on this day. "Whom do you blame for your problems?" he asks the group of 34 men, who are members of IMC, or Inmates Motivated to Change. Under the program, inmates with chemical dependency or mostly nonviolent offenses sign an agreement to take part in several programs and pledge not to make the same mistakes that keep landing them in lock-up. "What people need to do is stand in front of a mirror and ask: 'How much of the problem is mine and how much is it somebody else?' " I first wrote about Bauer-Scandin five years ago. It was centered on his life as a foster parent. As he told the inmates, two of his former foster kids are cops, one in St. Paul. Two are soldiers deployed to Iraq. One's a millionaire. One's an author. Most are raising families or staying out of trouble in spite of hardships. But "15 are dead," said Bauer-Scandin, author of "Faces on the Clock," an engrossing memoir about his life. The dead include suicide victims, including an 11-year-old, others from AIDS and "my last one, they found in three or four pieces, as I understand." Bauer-Scandin's worth writing about again for what he continues to do at great pain and sacrifice without pay or fanfare. He didn't sugarcoat or pull punches with his audience. "What I'm afraid is still happening is that the system is trying to figure out how to get tighter," he told them. "The sentences are getting tougher." And it's not the police, the sheriffs, the courts or even the folks in state and county-run corrections that are responsible for the race to incarcerate. "It's the legislature," Bauer-Scandin said. "And legislatures have been known to do very stupid things." He also faults the media and a gullible public that forms opinions and dehumanizes people strictly on what they watch on TV and not on real-life experiences or knowledge. "What do they see?" he said. "They see the Charlie Mansons. They see the unusual. They see the extreme. Most of you aren't that way. But that's what makes the news." Yet he doesn't divert from his main message: It's up to the inmate to take a positive step and choose the right way. "Get yourself back into a position where you can influence those people, to be able to go to a school board or a city council or legislative meeting and have your voice heard. "You can't fight the system from in here," he concluded. "You have to be out there." The inmates applauded and, one by one, stood in line to shake his hand on his way out the jail complex. His progressively debilitating disorder is taking more of a toll these days. But he steered the scooter inside the van and deftly wiggled his frail body into the driver's seat. He has no complaints, he told me. He will continue to go out and speak as long as God and his wife allow him. "I hope something stuck," he tells me before he drives off. I hope so too, Larry.
Download or read book The Sanguines of Alchemy written by Steve Zwolinski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main issue with our lives is that they are too short to do what we all want to do. We spend it making ourselves happy, making others happy, and making sure our legacy lives on forever. Such is the case of three young women, all connected through their parents and a set of experiences with a chemical which allows them to heal others through contact with their bodily fluids. For one, Hope Malott, shielding parents and good demeanor mean she is in control - until her father passes away. She must then judge for herself. For another, Duluth Kane, a life on the run and distrust means she must decide for herself before she passes from the rigor of her condition. And for another, Orion Prasda, it is a life spent in revenge of escape of what others would call a gift. The world around them is only to watch....
Download or read book Enemies written by Francis Adam Kenmore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Catalona, esteemed professor of biochemistry, is running on empty. He has failed to do anything productive at work for so long that his university is about to fire him – tenured or not. His home-life is no better. His wife has finally had enough and walked out the door. He can’t deal with either. The last thing Dr. Catalona needs (or, perhaps, the one thing) is a good confrontation. He gets one when he flees a minor traffic violation and sets a homicidal cop in pursuit of him. Dr. Catalona has made an enemy of someone he should never have antagonized. What he doesn’t realize is that he and his enemy grew up at the same time in the same rural community many years ago. They were enemies then – and have been ever since. He does not realize how intertwined his life and that of his pursuer have been. Nor does he realize how interwoven are the threads of his own life. With everything going on, the next year of Dr. Catalona’s life will be interesting. It will change him – if he survives.
Download or read book Gold Then Iron written by Marty Duncan and published by PageFree Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Operation Dragonlair, a 1938 quest by U.S., British and Japanese military officers to recover a golden talisman hidden in northern Minnesota.
