Download or read book In the Zealots Crosshairs written by James Covington and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Crosshairs written by Stephen Spignesi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assassinations often change the course of history. Here is an intriguing look at dozens of notable assassinations and attempts throughout history, including complete details about the assassin, the victim, the circumstances of the attack, and the outcome. In the Crosshairs also features photos of many of the victims or would-be victims, and rare archival material, including excerpts from original police reports. High-profile celebrities, political figures, religious leaders, and many others have fallen prey to assassins, and many have survived. In the Crosshairs is arranged in alphabetical order, by last name, and includes such details as: On November 8, 1939, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt – 12 minutes after he left a room where he was making a speech, a bomb went off. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat would probably have survived the assassin’s bullet on October 6, 1981, if he hadn’t taken off his bulletproof vest – but he didn’t like the way it made his suit bulge. Robert John Bardo, the murderer of young actress Rebecca Schaeffer, carried with him to the crime scene a copy of J. D, Sallinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, just like Mark David Chapman did when he murdered John Lennon nearly nine years earlier. From notable murders (Abraham Lincoln, Gianni Versace, and Indira Gandhi) to little-known attempts (George W. Bush, Wild Bill Hickock, and Andy Warhol) here is a surprising, informative, and intriguing book that deserves to be on every history buff’s bookshelf. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Archie in the Crosshairs written by Robert Goldsborough and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery fans will devour this entry into the classic, wisecracking Nero Wolfe series, in which Wolfe must track down a dangerous gunman—or risk losing his right-hand man Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket and a smile on his lips. He has just reached Nero Wolfe’s stately brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Street when a sedan whips around the corner and two gunshots ring out, nearly hitting Goodwin. It is a warning, and the message is clear: The next bullet will not miss. Rotund investigator Nero Wolfe has made more than his fair share of enemies over the years, and it seems one of them has decided to strike, targeting Wolfe’s indefatigable assistant. Some might run for cover, but Archie Goodwin is not the type. With the help of Wolfe’s brainpower, Goodwin will find the man who wants him dead—unless the killer gets to Goodwin first. Nero Award–winning author Robert Goldsborough continues the brilliant work of Rex Stout in this classic mystery series. According to Publishers Weekly, “Goldsborough cleverly captures the tone and language of the originals. Rex Stout fans can only hope he has no plans to wind up the series soon.”
Download or read book A Zealot s Destiny written by Braxton DeGarmo and published by Christen Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is trying to eliminate the British Royal Family? And why? After all, the monarchy is largely ceremonial and symbolic. What does the Stone of Destiny have to do with an ancient Biblical promise? Where is the Throne of David? God promised David that someone would sit on his throne throughout eternity. It’s that earthly throne that Christ will claim upon His return. And yet, where did it go after King Zedekiah was overthrown and exiled to Babylon in 585 BC? Why would a new world leader, who waits in the shadows to assume his role in history, want to claim the Throne of Promise as his? When The Assembly is tasked to fulfill this leader’s wish, will they succeed in thwarting God’s plan? Based upon a mix of Biblical prophecy and current events, A Zealot’s Destiny, Book 5 of the MedAir Series, is a political thriller that will take you on a breakneck roller coaster of action. An explosion at a royal residence in England leads to a small town in Missouri. Is it terrorism, an assassination … or both? Agents of the Royal Protection Service, FBI, and Secret Service … some, or all, could be corrupt. From Westminster College back to Westminster Abbey, Lynch Cully doesn’t know who to trust. In the end, his life will never be the same. You won’t want to put this book down.
Download or read book The Underground Zealot Collection written by Jerry B. Jenkins and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection bundles the entire 3 volumes of Jerry Jenkins’ popular Underground Zealot series together in one e-book, for one low price! #1 Soon Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government’s prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion—flush it out, expose it, and kill it—until his life is turned upside down and he is forced to look at life in a different way. As Paul begins to unravel the truth about what he has found, events taking place around the world are starting to make sense. Something big is coming—something that can’t be stopped. And it is coming soon. #2 Silenced Enter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate Christians. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles, which have only cast further suspicion upon Christians. Meanwhile, Paul struggles with how to tell his family about his newfound faith without raising the suspicions of his ruthless father-in-law. A gripping, futuristic thriller that will keep you glued to the page. #3 Shadowed After God intervenes with a miracle of global proportions, the tide is turned on international atheism and the National Peace Organization (NPO). The underground church has grown to the extent that Christians are becoming the majority. Agent Paul Stepola and his wife Jae are exposed and forced to become international fugitives. The NPO will stop at nothing to capture Paul and eliminate the underground church—until God intervenes and the final judgment is at hand.
Download or read book A New Day written by Michael Difeo and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if...? In the ashes of a dead culture, a new world is born. After the world is destroyed and all memory of the past is lost, a time capsule is unearthed. In it is something called the New World Testament and a Torah: two writings that threaten to shake humankind down to its very core. It was a tough time for the human race. Reduced to small groups vying for recognition in a harsh environment, people struggle to survive after rediscovering religion. One society, the Union, will do anything to stop the religious neophytes whose most cherished belief is that Christ will be born in their time. Ardent, a Union vanguard trooper and a warrior, had orders to hunt down the Judeo-Christians, at whatever cost in lives. He has second thoughts when he meets Bandy, the love of his life, a Judeo-Christian. About the same time, a child is born: a baby boy named Jesus, the Second Coming of Christ. What if God is about second chances? What if this is the world's second chance? What if Christ isn't crucified this time? What if he is? This novel is a thought-provoking journey into the world of "WHAT IF...?" A New Day is Difeo's fourth novel. It's more than a fable or a fantasy; it is an epic imagining of a post-Apocalyptic world.
Download or read book The American style University at Large written by Kathryn L. Kleypas and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education is an edited collection by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall that analyzes the recent expansion of American universities overseas as well as the emergence of American-style universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The contributors examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world and explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.
Download or read book High Value Target written by Andrew E. Slough and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osama bin Laden dead? With no body, no photos, and only alleged genetic samples as proof, half the world believes bin Laden's well-publicized death was a hoax. On May 1, 2011, did Navy Seal Team Six just miss the al Qaeda leader in his Abbottabad compound? Or, warned by Pakistan's ISI, did bin Laden escape into the high Hindu Kush where he continued execute attacks against the U.S. and its allies? Told by Scout Sniper Jack Hull, HIGH VALUE TARGET is the real story of the death of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda's horrific revenge on the U.S. mainland. "A well-written and engaging novel that provides jarring insights into the complexities of the war in Afghanistan, and into those who are fighting it." -Lt. General U.S. Army (Ret.) Robert Gard, PhD "A great novel on the death of Osama bin Laden, HIGH VALUE TARGET is a page-turner in the tradition of Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin, and Dale Brown. We now have a new hero named Jack Hull to watch out for. HIGH VALUE TARGET shows us, in great detail, how it really happened and what we need to be wary of in the future. I could not put it down--a great read!!" -Lt. Col. U.S. Army (Ret.) Professor of Military History and English John K. Swensson
Download or read book Corrupting Dr Nice written by John Kessel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-02-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Vannice is young and very, very rich. Returning from the Cretaceous period with a living baby dinosaur, he encounters two con artists who are working across time--and they know an opportunity when they see it! "The most deft, most entertaining, and politically savvy time-travel novel of the '90s".--"The Washington Post".
Download or read book Faerie Curse written by Emma L. Adams and published by Emma L. Adams. This book was released on with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the leader of the local witch coven is murdered, all evidence suggests foul play of the faerie variety. With a group of anti-supernatural assassins running around town, I have to figure out their connection with the dark faeries before my best friend Isabel, the new coven leader, becomes the killer's next target. Nobody ever crosses the witches and escapes unscathed, but with the ancient Sidhe, all bets are off. I need to have my wits about me, otherwise one mistake might spell the destruction of our world. Book 5 in the Changeling Chronicles urban fantasy series. If you love twisty plots, fast-paced action, and magical found family, you won’t want to miss this epic urban fantasy series for fans of Luanne Bennett, BR Kingsolver, and Deborah Wilde.
Download or read book The New World Beginning written by Michael Difeo and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-08-18 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given a second chance, would humans crucify Christ again? From the ashes of an apocalypse, a new world is born, with no memory of its past. The survivors discover a buried time capsule containing the New World Testament and a Torah. Within the harsh environment, they now struggle to once again understand religion. At the same time, a Child is born: a baby boy named Jesus, the Second Coming of Christ. What will these humans, new to faith and struggling just to live, do with this Child? Michael Difeo’s novel The New World Beginning is not just a thoughtful meditation on religion and its role in human life. It is a romance and an action-adventure book. It is full of miraculous hope and, sometimes, even comedy. Though the fan of religious science-fiction will love The New World Beginning, it is perfect for any free-thinking adult who is open to their imagination leading them to the truth.
Download or read book Abyss written by David Hagberg and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk McGarvey, the hero of the "New York Times"-bestselling smash "The Expediter," is back in a high-octane eco-thriller about alternate energy. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
Download or read book The President written by Drew Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Banking in Oklahoma 1907 2000 written by Michael J. Hightower and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State’s first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower’s new book demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907, and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices. Much as Oklahoma banks shed their frontier persona to become more tightly integrated in the national economy, so too was decentralized banking revealed as an anachronism, utterly unsuited to an increasingly global economy. With creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 and subsequent choice of Oklahoma City as the location for a branch bank, frontier banking began yielding to systems commensurate with the needs of the new century. Through meticulous research and personal interviews with bankers statewide, Hightower has crafted a compelling narrative of Oklahoma banking in the twentieth century. One of the first acts of the new state legislature was to guarantee that depositors in state-chartered banks would never lose a penny. Meanwhile, land and oil speculators and the bankers who funded their dreams were elevating get-rich-quick (and often get-poor-quick) schemes to an art form. In defense of country banks, the Oklahoma Bankers Association dispatched armed vigilantes to stop robbers in their tracks. Subsequent developments in Oklahoma banking include adaptation to regulations spawned by the Great Depression, the post–World War II boom, the 1980s depression in the oil patch, and changes fostered by rapid-fire advances in technology and communication. The demise of Penn Square Bank offers one of history’s few unambiguous lessons, and it warrants two chapters—one on the rise, and one on the fall. Increasing regulation of the banking industry, the survival of family banks, and the resilience of community banking are consistent themes in a state that is only a few generations removed from the frontier.
Download or read book Patriot s History of the Modern World Vol II written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling historians turn their focus to America’s role in the world since the end of World War II Schweikart, author of the number one New York Times bestseller A Patriot’s History of the United States, and Dougherty take a critical look at America, from the postwar boom to her search for identity in the twenty-first century. The second volume of A Patriot’s History of the Modern World picks up in 1945 with a world irrevocably altered by World War II and a powerful, victorious United States. But new foes and challenges soon arose: the growing sphere of Communist influence, hostile dictatorships and unreliable socialist allies, the emergence of China as an economic contender, and the threat of world Islamification. The book reestablishes the argument of American exceptionalism and the interplay of our democratic pillars—Judeo-Christian religious beliefs, free market capitalism, land ownership, and common law—around the world. Schweikart and Dougherty offer a fascinating conservative history of the last six decades.
Download or read book Neo conned Again written by D. L. O'Huallachain and published by IHS Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moral, political, and legal problems surrounding the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq are addressed with uncommon frankness in this collection of essays by some of the world's most influential academics, lawyers, journalists, politicians, and military, intelligence, and media experts. Contributions include academics such as Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Claes Ryn; journalists Milton Viorst, Robert Fisk, Kirkpatrick Sale, and Justin Raimondo; former CIA professional Ray McGovern; former Defense Intelligence Agency professional W. Patrick Lang; and Fr. Jean-Marie Benjamin, personal friend of the former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Traiq Aziz. Discussing the Iraq war and related issues such as the legal foundation of the war on terror, the detention practices at Guantanamo bay, and the roots of the American neoconservative ideology, the essays illustrate the hypocrisy and illegality of America's stance on terrorism and its policies of aggression in the Middle East.
Download or read book Seven Deadly Sins of Management written by Ian Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light and easy read with some serious and heavyweight messages, 'Seven Deadly Sins' is a 'must read' for all managers, would-be managers, management teachers, students of management and shareholders. In it the author explores some of the behavioural characteristics in management that can lead to sub-optimal financial performance and undermine both reputation and shareholder value. He supports his contentions by using examples from well publicised and high profile corporate events alongside personal insights and experiences from his interesting and varied career. The book offers food for thought for shareholders, both large and small, and for the managers who perpetrate the seven deadly sins. Emeritus Professor Henry Ellington summarised 'Seven Deadly Sins' as "excellent, well-written, extremely informative and helpful and (at times) highly amusing".
