Download or read book Sacred Chronicles written by David Fernandez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London Cowgirl written by Melissa Dougherty Anderson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When spunky Colorado cowgirl Willow Rose Channing moves to London, she has to trade her pink cowgirl boots for a posh prep school uniform. This is a story about self discovery, and making the best out of a new situation. This novel also explores the butterflies in your stomach feeling of having a first crush.
Download or read book Somber Town written by Michael Sanchez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was growing up in New Jersey at about eight or nine years old, I use to watch World War I and World War II history documentaries on the PBS channel and would try to write down everything that the narrator was saying in a composition book. I enjoyed doing that and did it for about a year, but I soon moved on to other things that kids at that age enjoyed. Little did I know at that time that many years later, I would write and publish my first book titled “Vine Street.” I guess that the skill was always in me, I just didn’t know it. I was always fascinated with the movies from Hammer Film Productions, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stephen King, but one day I saw a movie that inspired me, directed by John Carpenter. That movie was “Halloween.” So, I came up with an idea for my first book, but it took another 35 years to get it started. I guess it’s never too late, and finally finished it. It has now been two years since my first book was published and I am excited about my newest creation titled “Somber Town.” All small towns have secrets, and this one is no different, but with a little twist. The genre I chose is suspense, thriller, and a little horror in between, but hopefully, the readers will enjoy it.
Download or read book Bulletproof Manifesto written by Kevin Foreman and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulletproof Manifesto Wayne's Port, Arkansas is a great place to visit. There's casino's, Night Clubs, Lakes to fish in, places to swim and campgrounds to stay at during the summers. There are race tracks, restaurants, and amusement parks. These things, however, are not what Wayne's Port are remembered for. 25 Years ago, tragedy struck and many lives were lost. Dusty Franklin, Michael Pierce, and Clyde Lovett disappeared and have never been seen since. Homes were looted and burnt to the ground. Many lives were lost and there was no evidence of foul play. Without evidence, there can be no investigation. Life limped on and the town was left to ponder, as to who, why, and would there ever be resolve, or justice. One day
Download or read book Cheapskate written by Darren Crockett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keyana was a young, black, attractive woman seeking to seize a millionaire for a husband. She longed to live the extremely rich life that she experience as a child. Before she had quit her job Keyana had save a substantial amount of money to prepare for her treasure hunt. One bright Friday afternoon Keyana had a chance encounter with a young man named Lamont. Lamont was a college student who went back to school to take a business course. His primary intent and goal was to establish a business. To earn his school credit he was assigned to work at Lamont enterprise, which was his class project. Lamont was also a ladies man. Every Friday his employer would send him to the bank to deliver a substantial amount of money. On his way to the bank Lamont had the misfortune of tripping on the sidewalk. The money he was carrying came tumbling out of the box he was carrying, falling onto the ground. This is how the two of them met. At this meeting Lamont deceived Keyana, leading her to believe he was someone he wasnt. At the same time, Keyana herself was secretly celebrating the thought that she had suddenly met Mr. Right. Lamont also found Keyana attractive, and there was definite chemistry between the two. Later that night, they went on a date that they both would never forget
Download or read book The Deadly Award written by B. T. Roman and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling novel, chemist Daniel Thomas tries to prove that his wife and unborn child were murdered. He makes it his mission in life to seek revenge. Meanwhile, deadly lint particles are unleashed in Miami, victims are dropping like flies, and he is the prime suspect. Homicide Detective Steve McDonald has been confined to administrative duties for publicly embarrassing the department following the death of a suspect in his custody. He is reassigned to active duty in time to help hunt down the "Lint Killer," as the police try to save the lives of thousands of potential victims. An international game of power, greed, and money is discovered as the investigation takes a new turn. Born in Nicaragua, B.T. Roman is a legal assistant for a real estate law firm in Miami. She previously worked in the crime lab bureau of the Miami-Dade Police Department. This is her first book. Deadly Affiliations is the second book in this series, and a third is already in the works. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/BTRoman
Download or read book A Lesson in Red Beans and Rice written by Katherine T. Tousant and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Lesson in Red Beans and Rice" is a contemporary, high-concept novel about life's do's and don'ts as one struggles to make transition from being a child to becoming an adult. It boldly addresses the tough decision each individual has to make regarding when and how the invisible line separating the child from woman or man is crossed. Written in form of fiction, the book opens with a conversation between two lifelong-best friends, two sixteen-year-old girls, two weeks before their Junior Prom. In the conversation, there's a sharp division between them on when and how a first event should be shared. Marie, the carefree adventurous one, is convinced Junior Prom night is when they should become sexually active. Lisa, more serious, is set on them abstaining until marriage as they'd earlier pledged. Lisa looks on in surprise as Marie boldly proclaim, "If you really love him and he loves you; then, you owe it to each other to share your love. Humph! Girl, you'd better wise up and stop all that old timing stuff." In response, Lisa cocks her head to the side, echoes Marie's statements and asks, 'Old-timing stuff?' Since when do you call having good morals 'old-timing stuff,' my friend?" From those statements, the girls and the many other facinating characters introduced in the work speak openly and honestly about their hopes, fears and desires for love and happiness in a conversation revealing of every facet of the issue. The work traces the days of the weeks leading to Prom. Excitement and conflict is present on every page. The book shows a through analysis of solving conflicts between body, mind and spirit. It uniquely addresses many basic issues facing youth today. The readers will be able to share in the special events so common to all of us.
Download or read book Always Ready My Henry Rifle written by John Bourgeois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young boy from the south side of Chicago in the 1850s who joins the Illinois Seventh Volunteer Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War with his Henry Rifle.
Download or read book Afgantsy written by Rodric Braithwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came to the rescue with American arms. Humiliated in battle, the Soviets hastily retreated. It is a great story-but it never happened. In this brilliant, myth-busting account, Rodric Braithwaite, the former British ambassador to Moscow, challenges much of what we know about the Soviets in Afghanistan. He provides an inside look at this little-understood episode, using first-hand accounts and piercing analysis to show the war as it was fought and experienced by the Russians. The invasion was a defensive response to a chaotic situation in the Soviets' immediate neighbor. They intended to establish a stable, friendly government, secure the major towns, and train the police and armed forces before making a rapid exit. But the mission escalated, as did casualties. Braithwaite does not paint the occupation as a Russian triumph. To the contrary, he illustrates the searing effect of the brutal conflict on soldiers, their families, and the broader public, as returning veterans struggled to regain their footing back home. Now available in paperback, Braithwaite carries readers through these complex and momentous events, capturing those violent and tragic days as no one has done before.
Download or read book The King s Mail New Edition Revised written by Henry HOLL and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Way of War written by Tom Engelhardt and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of TomDispatch.com “tackles our military fetish . . . He takes on our war-possessed world with clear-eyed, penetrating precision” (Mother Jones). Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to present day, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end. Since 2001, Tom Englehardt has written regular reports for his popular site TomDispatch that have provided badly needed insight into US militarism and its effects, both at home and abroad. When others were celebrating the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, he warned of the enormous dangers of both occupations. In The American Way of War, Engelhardt documents Washington’s ongoing commitment to military bases to preserve—and extend—its empire; reveals damning information about the American reliance on air power, at great cost to civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan; and shows that the US empire has deep historical roots that precede the Bush administration—and continued through the presidency of Barack Obama. Praise for Tom Engelhardt and The American Way of War “Engelhardt is absorbing and provocative. Everything he writes is of a satisfyingly congruent piece.” —The New York Times “Tom Engelhardt provides a clear-eyed examination of U.S. foreign policy in the Bush and Obama years, and details unsparingly how Obama has inherited—and in many cases exacerbated—the ills of the Bush era.” —Daniel Luban, Inter Press Service “Tom Engelhardt is a national treasure and always worth reading.” —Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan
Download or read book We Others written by Steven Millhauser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination. • "A book of astonishingly beautiful and moving stories by one of America’s finest and most original writers.” —Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness and light, love and lust. The stories gathered here unfurl in settings as disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporary Connecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and Thomas Edison’s laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging cast of characters, including a knife thrower and teenage boys, ghosts and a cartoon cat and mouse. But all of the stories are united in their unfailing power to surprise and enchant. From the earliest to the stunning, previously unpublished novella-length title story—in which a man who is dead, but not quite gone, reaches out to two lonely women—Millhauser in this magnificent collection carves out ever more deeply his wondrous place in the American literary canon.
Download or read book Building the Yellow Wall written by Uli Hesse and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of the rise of Borussia Dortmund Towards the beginning of the twenty-first century, Borussia Dortmund were on the verge of going out of business. Now they are an international phenomenon - one of the most popular clubs and fastest-growing football brands in the world. Every fortnight, an incredible number of foreigners eschew their own clubs and domestic leagues and travel to Dortmund to watch football, while people from all corners of the world dream of doing the same - of standing on the largest terrace in the world, the Yellow Wall. How did this happen? How could a club that hasn't won a European trophy in twenty years so thoroughly capture people's imaginations? Building the Yellow Wall tells the story of Dortmund's roller-coaster ride from humble beginnings and lean decades to the revolution under Jürgen Klopp and subsequent amazing success and popularity. But it also tells the story of those people who have done as much for the club's profile as any player, coach or chairman - Dortmund's unique supporters.
Download or read book Manifest Destinies written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the 1840s, Manifest Destinies captures the enormous sense of possibility that inspired America’s growth and shows how the acquisition of western territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep fault line that would bring war in the near future. Steven E. Woodworth gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive. It was a decade in which the nation significantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California, and the Pacific Northwest; William Henry Harrison ran the first modern populist campaign, focusing on entertaining voters rather than on discussing issues; prospectors headed west to search for gold; Joseph Smith founded a new religion; railroads and telegraph lines connected the country’s disparate populations as never before. When the 1840s dawned, Americans were feeling optimistic about the future: the population was growing, economic conditions were improving, and peace had reigned for nearly thirty years. A hopeful nation looked to the West, where vast areas of unsettled land seemed to promise prosperity to anyone resourceful enough to take advantage. And yet political tensions roiled below the surface; as the country took on new lands, slavery emerged as an irreconcilable source of disagreement between North and South, and secession reared its head for the first time. Rich in detail and full of dramatic events and fascinating characters, Manifest Destinies is an absorbing and highly entertaining account of a crucial decade that forged a young nation’s character and destiny.
Download or read book China s New Nationalism written by Peter Hays Gries and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the roles of perception and sentiment in the growth of popular nationalism in China. At a time when the direction of China's foreign and domestic policies have profound ramifications worldwide, Gries offers a rare, in-depth look at the nature of China's new nationalism, particularly as it involves Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations—two bilateral relations that carry extraordinary implications for peace and stability in the twenty-first century. Through recent Chinese books and magazines, movies, television shows, posters, and cartoons, Gries traces the emergence of this new nationalism. Anti-Western sentiment, once created and encouraged by China's ruling PRC, has been taken up independently by a new generation of Chinese. Deeply rooted in narratives about past "humiliations" at the hands of the West and impassioned notions of Chinese identity, popular nationalism is now undermining the Communist Party's monopoly on political discourse, threatening the regime's stability. As readable as it is closely researched and reasoned, this timely book analyzes the impact that popular nationalism will have on twenty-first century China and the world.
Download or read book Motor City Champs written by Scott Ferkovich and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1930s, the Motor City was sputtering from the Great Depression. Then came a talented Detroit Tigers team, steered by player-manager Mickey Cochrane, to inject new pride into the Detroit psyche. It was a cast of colorful characters, with such nicknames as Schoolboy, Goose, Hammerin’ Hank and Little Tommy. Over two seasons in 1934 and 1935, the team powered its way to the top of the baseball world, becoming a symbol of a resurgent metropolis and winning the first-ever Tigers championship. This exhaustively researched account provides an in-depth look into a remarkable period in baseball history.
Download or read book The Curse of Deadman s Bluff written by William J. Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Springdale, Ohio is a middle-class town nestled in southwestern Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati.It's a quiet, sleepy town which has a secret.In the early 1920's a man named Michael Westerly moved into this old house on Deadman's Bluff, overlooking a graveyard, but there was a reason Mr. Westerly chose this spot. He was into voodoo and trying to make zombies out of the townsfolk, but when the townsfolk got wind of this, they tried to drive him out of town, and ultimately they lynched him, but Mr. Westerly got his revenge, and 100 years later, the town of Springdale, Ohio was the epicenter of a conspiracy that brought Mr. Westerly's threats to fruition. Now the townspeople, including the Smith family, who moved into town in the summer of 2025, to flee for their lives in the ensuing zombie apocalypse. Can the Smiths and the townspeople of Springdale survive the nightmare that they find themselves in, or be swallowed up by "The Curse of Deadman's Bluff"
