Download or read book Playing with the Enemy written by Gary W. Moore and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of fathers and sons, baseball, a world at war, and second chances. “I loved [it]. You will, too” (Jim Morris, author of The Oldest Rookie). Gene Moore was a small-town Illinois farm boy whose passion for “America’s Pastime” made him a local legend. It wasn’t long before word spread, and the Brooklyn Dodgers came calling on the teenage phenom who could hit a ball a country mile. Headed for stardom, and his dream within reach, Gene’s future in the majors was cut short by World War II. In 1944, after joining the US Navy, Gene found himself on a top-secret mission: guarding German sailors captured from U-505, a submarine carrying one of the infamous Enigma decoders. Stuck with guard duty, he decided to bide the time by doing what he loved. Gene taught the POWs how to play baseball. It was a decision that would change Gene’s life forever. The story of a remarkable man told by his inspired son, “Gene’s journey from promise to despair and back again, set against a long war and an even longer post-war recovery . . . [is] a 20th-century epic that demonstrates how, sometimes, letting go of a dream is the only way to discover one’s great fortune” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Download or read book The Migrant written by Nicholas Sheridan Stanton and published by Just Imagine It Ink. This book was released on 2007 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family. The word is both sweet and bitter. We spend our lives running to and running from the safety or confines of this uniquely social phenomenon. Meet young Tina Lopez, Ethan Kelly, and K.C. Littleton. The path they take into one another's lives is almost too fantastic for fiction.

Download or read book Brick written by Kevin Anderson and published by Kevin Anderson. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains the novella Spear and the novelette The Iguana Chronicles. Spear is a prose elegy using elegy scansions, deeply influenced by Joyce's work with Dublin's dialect. My dialect is that of the California desert. It will appeal most to people who were involved in the 1980s/90s fanzine culture. There is a riddle element too. Each paragraph contains a pop cultural riddle solution. These riddles are in the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The Iguana Chronicles is a different beast all together. A jangling sprawling shaggy dog story featuring my folkloric depiction of Iggy Pop and the Stooges.

Download or read book Silverlining written by Robert Barry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Barry born March 17, 1928 in Bellingham, WA, sailed through life with many adventures on calm and tranquil seas, a few swells, some choppy waters, tropical turbulent storms, and a few heaving tempestuous hurricanes with full sails he landed on the South shore of the Big Island of Hawaii. Living high above the sea, with a 180-degree vista of the great Pacific with his wife of 32 years, three dogs Caramel, Maile 2 and Duke and two cats Ginger and Cocoa, he pursued some land adventures. Enjoying the good life in paradise, he headed up and navigated the Neighborhood Watch for 15 years and the Ranchos Road Maintenance Corporation for 10 years in the town of Ocean View meeting many challenges with much enthusiasm, sharing knowledge, and attaining many goals for the community. On July 15, 2013 Bob passed on peacefully in his sleep and is off on an adventure in another dimension! Fair sailing Bob! I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination Jimmy Dean Until we meat again! A Hui Ho Your ever-loving wife..Patti

Download or read book Trust Based Selling written by Kerry Johnson and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New psychological research into NLP has uncovered easy-to-use, customer-focused strategies to help you understand what your prospective customer is thinking. Now one of America's foremost business psychologists will explain the concepts and provide you with applicable techniques using NLP skills to increase your sales. In Trust-Based Selling you will learn how to: • MOTIVATE your prospects to sell themselves • DISCOVER your customer's unique buying strategy • PUSH a buyer's hot buttons with the “as if” technique • DETERMINE your client's dominant decision modeso you can present information exactly the way they want to buy it Let NLP help you reach your sales goals. Isn't it time you put these strategies to work for you? Kerry Johnson, MBA, Ph.D. is an internationally known author and speaker who presents at least 12 programs a month to audiences from Hong Kong to Halifax, and from New Zealand to New York, traveling 8,000 miles each week. In addition to speaking, Kerry currently writes monthly for fifteen national trade and management magazines whose editors have dubbed him "The Nation's Business Psychologist."

Download or read book Desert Guards written by Holley Trent and published by Holley Trent. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sons of the fallen angel Gulielmus thought they were just taking out some supernatural trash in Eastern North Carolina. A year later, the effects of their brawl reverberate half a country away in New Mexico. Fortunately, the trouble surfaces in the best possible place: on the ranch of one of Maria’s oldest shapeshifter families. THE COUGAR’S PAWN Cougar shifter Mason Foye’s father died, leaving him the heir apparent of the alpha position of a group of mutinous cats. Now the absentee goddess who originated the species is sending him on an ill-timed mate hunt. And for once, her message is clear: convince stranger Ellery Colvard to become his mate, or else. THE COUGAR’S TRADE Hank Foye can’t find the logic in the goddess La Bella Dama pairing a shapeshifter group’s second-in-command with a meek and quiet human nurse. Given the chaos at home on the ranch and inside the Cougar group, Miles Bennet is a liability. He may have escaped being cursed, but he still has to get his house and heart in order. And Miles isn’t going to make it easy for him. THE COUGAR’S BARGAIN Hannah Welch doomed cougar shifter Sean Foye to spend the rest of his life in his animal form when she refused to accept him as a mate. To make peace with her new community, she bargains with La Bella Dama to free Sean from his furry affliction. The price? Finding him a more suitable mate. But now Hannah’s not so sure she should give him up. THE COUGAR’S WISH A desperate entity trapped in a hellmouth pleads for cougar shifter Belle Foye’s help. Former soldier Steven Welch’s job is to keep her away from the hellmouth by any means necessary. It’s just his luck that the bold and reckless alpha’s sister has taken a shine to him…and that his own secret supernatural situation could compromise everything they’re working for.

Download or read book The Cougar s Bargain written by Holley Trent and published by Holley Trent. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Welch doomed cougar shifter Sean Foye to spend the rest of his life in his animal form when she refused to accept him as a mate, but now she has no choice but to make peace. She strikes a bargain with the Cougar goddess La Bella Dama that frees Sean from his furry affliction, but also requires that Hannah to find him a more suitable mate. When the goddess sends them on a mission to root out a group of dangerous forgotten shifters, Sean has no choice but to put his anger toward Hannah on ice. The sooner he can get back to the ranch, the sooner he can disentangle himself from the hostile woman who was supposed to be his mate. But now Hannah’s not so sure she should give him up. He’s the only man who’s ever made her feel comfortable in her own skin—and her own fur, too. Unfortunately, Sean’s got hang-ups of his own. Just like her, he’s used to being overlooked. Can she prove to him that their destiny deserves a second chance? Or will they continue to walk alone, rejecting the loving, yet daunting, future Fate had in store for them?

Download or read book The Sweet and the Dead written by Milton T. Burton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distilled in Texas and the Delta, a straight-no-chaser crime novel set around the legendary Dixie Mafia Manfred Eugene "Hog" Webern, a retired Dallas County deputy sheriff, is talked into going undercover in Biloxi, Mississippi, in a multistate effort to nail a group of traveling Southern criminals who have been tagged by the press with the lurid name "Dixie Mafia." After making contact with the gang's nominal leader, the notorious Jasper Sparks, Webern begins to worm his way into the group's confidence. He also meets and becomes involved with an old friend of Sparks, the mysterious Nell Bigelow, a former assistant federal prosecutor whose daddy "owns half the Delta." Having gained the gang's trust, Webern soon learns that the score being planned is the massive robbery of a wintering carnival of an entire year's receipts. Joining in planning the job, he meets such well-known hijackers as Slops Moline, a Charleston, South Carolina, killer and armed robber; Lardass Collins, the country's premier car thief; Tom-Tom Reed, one of the world's most skilled safecrackers; and the infamous Raymond "Hardhead" Weller, an Alabama-born moonshiner who has pulled off more than two dozen high-profile contract killings in his seventy years. As the story develops, Webern is drawn into a maelstrom of robbery, mayhem, and senseless violence that threatens to engulf his very being. And before the final curtain falls on The Sweet and the Dead, we learn that in the murky world of Southern professional crime, nothing is ever quite what it seems to be.

Download or read book Business Story written by Franco E. Scanloni and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of information processing experienced significant developments during the sixties, seventies, and eighties. From punch card unit record equipment to transistorized computers to desktop computers with enormous storage and processing capabilities, the lives of most people around the world have been impacted dramatically. Scarcely anything we do nowadays is not affected in some way by computers. Against this backdrop, Business Story tells the story of Dave Richards who begins a new job as director of information systems for the Department of the Environment, full of anticipation and enthusiasm, and discovers on his first day that he has entered a battle zone fraught with pitfalls and booby traps. Business Story is a story that will appeal to all those interested in the field of information processing, whether it be as a manager, an analyst, a programmer, or a user. In the end, it will be the people who shape the results and decide the day, not the technology, no matter how advanced. At least, let us hope so.

Download or read book If You Lived Here You d Be Home Now written by Claire LaZebnik and published by 5 Spot. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the well-loved author of Knitting Under the Influence and The Smart One and the Pretty One comes a new novel about a young single mother trying to move out of her family's shadow. Rickie left home a long time ago-so how is it that at the age of twenty-five, she's living with her parents again, and sleeping in the bedroom of her childhood home? At least one thing has changed since high school: She now has a very sweet but frequently challenging son named Noah, who attends the same tony private LA school she herself attended. Rickie fit in fine when she was a student, but now her age and tattoos make her stand out from all the blond Stepford moms, who are desperate to know why someone so young-and so unmarried-has a kid in first grade. Already on the defensive, Rickie goes into full mother-tigress mode when her small and unathletic son tells her that the gym teacher is out to get him. She storms the principal's office, only to discover that Andrew Fulton, the coach, is no dumb jock. As her friendship with Andrew develops, Rickie finds herself questioning her assumptions-about motherhood, being a grown-up, and falling in love.

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

Download or read book Notes From Underwhelmed written by Haydn Sweterlitsch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Used by over half a million students, the best-selling Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children offers the next generation of physical education teachers the best guide in step-by-step techniques for teaching physical education. This text covers everything from games and activities suitable for every developmental level to teaching strategies and guidelines for every classroom situation. Whether instructors are starting a new program, restructuring an established one, or working with a team in an existing system, Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children provides the best combination of theoretical framework and hands-on activities available. The Sixteenth Edition underscores the importance of activities taught in Part II of the book for student use later in their careers. It also provides an updated video package, and emphasizes the importance of lifetime physical activity through inclusion of club activities, lifetime sports, and discussion of helping students develop healthful behaviors.

Download or read book Faithful Place written by Tana French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post), the bestseller called “the most stunning of her books” (The New York Times) and a finalist for the Edgar Award. Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.

Download or read book Of Man and Animals written by Thomas R. Hauff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes we want to walk outside of ourselves. We want to stretch our imaginations by strolling in someone else's shoes for a few minutes. Of Man and Animals is a book for looking through other people's eyes. In these twenty fictional short stories, the reader is invited to laugh, cry, ponder, fear, love, and hate with a series of different characters. These stories emphasize the interconnected essence of our lives and how each particular moment carries an array of interesting experiences. They will bring the reader into the small, yet impacting, minor moments in other people's lives, and leave you with questions to ponder such as: What is the world around us really like? How do we act as we experience the world around us? How do we rationalize and connect our experiences and thoughts? And why do we act without even realizing our own motivations and desires on some occasions? This book is a book for pondering while at the same time enjoying a few moments apart from the daily lives we lead.

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan 1981 written by Reagan, Ronald and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Download or read book I Used To Be Somebody written by Ed Uravic and published by Ed Uravic. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don't know why, but for some reason people find my one-two boilermaker punch of Kerouac and Hawkeye Pierce somewhat amusing. I'm a real prize. I lost my glamorous job as a professional drinker, I mean Washington lobbyist, after I won the war but lost the battle with a Lying Cheating Scum. The Wife kicked me to the curb, down the street and all the way out of town. Now I'm back in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the Bedford Falls I thought I had escaped. Just to prove I lost my mind, I go and fall for some sob story about a kid with leukemia and her family going broke, from a peaches and cream siren who distracted me with her allure. So I'm up against the biggest players with the deepest pockets, I don't have any plastic, and I'm not even getting paid. How am I supposed to buy people? Here's the thing: I kind of like the little girl, Rosa, held hostage by a bunch of greedy insurance industry bean counters. She's a fighter. And I hate it when my friends get jerked around by The Man. The players in this little drama will tell you they're not to blame. That it's not personal, it's just business. Look, I'm just a guy with a winning smile and a fabulous wardrobe, but I don't buy it. For me, it's always personal. I may not have a perfect record or always play by the rules, but when I'm in, I'm all the way in. And I'm not joking around anymore.

Download or read book Ronald Reagan written by United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: