Download or read book Michael s Eulogy written by Christopher Selna and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael's Eulogy centers around one man having to play God over a decision that pertains to not only a convicted murderer, but also the lives of a whole town and especially, the man's late best friend. Danny Gardner is asked to speak the eulogy at the funeral of his childhood best friend Michael Connolly, who had committed suicide, leaving a letter for everyone to read. But a day following the funeral and Danny's return home, he's given a letter written by Michael, explaining in riddles the true reason of suicide and that the original letter is more of a ploy. Confused and uncertain of the letter'smeaning, Danny recalls a pastmurder of a female classmate of theirs. Having to investigate hidden lies surrounding her murder that entails with the letter, Danny returns to Michael's hometown, but this time to cross examine the town's most protected secret that could destroy the entire town if discovered and revealed. ChristopherWilliamSelnawas born inMission Viejo, California. When hewas six his family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, where he attended Sandpiper Elementary, Desert Shadows Middle School, and graduated at St. Mary's High School. After graduation, Christopher enlisted in theMarines and served four active years and was discharged honorably. He then attended Scottsdale Community College, and after a year of tending school, he decided to move to Los Angeles and pursue a screenwriting career. During his time in Los Angeles, Christopher Selna had worked at three restaurants as a bartender, notably Mastro's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills. Deciding that there were too many distractions he moved to Oregon with half of his first novel completed. Shortly after, he finished that novel and two more afterwards. Leaving Oregon a year later, he returned to Arizona where he started and finished his fourth novel, Michael's Eulogy. He still resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, and is working on a new novel.
Download or read book The Last Eulogy written by Gary M. Handel and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Hand has a problem on his hands. After surviving the meat grinder of his divorce, his ex-wife is keeping him from seeing his kids. His attempt to rectify the situation by taking his ex-wife to court, results in Mike being on the receiving end of some of the most humiliating verbal tirades and one sided decisions anyone could imagine coming from a New York State Judge. With his life completely unraveled, Mike makes the fateful decision to take his own life.In The Last Eulogy, Mike recounts his life in painstaking detail as he watches his own funeral take place.Michael looks back in death at the happy times growing up in the late 1970s. He recalls how his conservative ideology was cemented when he heard Ronald Reagan utter the words the hostages have cleared Iranian airspace. This is the story of how Michaels world view is shaped by the events around him, from the taking of American hostages in Iran in the nineteen seventies to witnessing first hand, the attacks of 9/11, which motivated him to defend the country he loves by becoming a Federal Air Marshal.Now in death one question remains. Who is that person at his funeral giving the last eulogy?
Download or read book The Suicide Funeral or Memorial Service written by Melinda Moore and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To our knowledge nothing with The Suicide Funeral (or Memorial Service): Honoring Their Memory, Comforting Their Survivors' scope and depth has ever been published. This is an aid to anyone who will be called upon to do a funeral for the nearly 43,000 suicides in America each year. This book is designed to assist clergy, chaplains, and other faith leaders as they develop sermons and homilies for a funeral service. Its mandate is to help those searching for inspiration even though they may feel confused or uncertain undertaking such a daunting assignment. Those who plan and lead a funeral service may enable family and friends to understand and participate intentionally in their grief process. Clergy can have a significant impact on how people react to the suicide as well as provide comfort and assistance to those left behind on their journey through grief. Your leadership will influence how the suicide's bereaved are treated by others in the days, weeks, and months following the death. Because suicide does not discriminate by race, socio-economic status, or religion, a broad range of faiths and denominations are represented in this book's sermons, services, and perspectives.
Download or read book William Michael Kenealy written by Howard S. McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1957* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Let Them Be Not Forgotten written by Michael Smathers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Them Be Not Forgotten is a book of funeral eulogies and meditations collected over forty years of ministry by the author. It is intended to keep alive the memories of some of those he has helped bury. For the Christian, the grave represents not only the end of life on earth, but also the first step into a new existence. This book is designed to help the living maintain Communion with those Saints that have gone before them. It may also be of interest to genealogists and others who find it enlightening and edifying to study the past lives of their ancestors and predecessors. The book not only illuminates the lives of those profiled, but weighs the heft of their character, the breadth of their contribution to their community, and the spirituality of their souls.
Download or read book The Craft of Professional Writing Second Edition written by Michael S. Malone and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Craft of Professional Writing, 2nd edition is the most complete manual ever written for every form of professional (and professional quality) writing. Its chapters range from toasts and captions to every form of journalism to novel writing, book authorship and screenplays. The book offers techniques for the writing of each form, sample templates, and the advice on navigating a career in each writing field, including public relations and commercial writing, journalism in all media and self-employment as a freelancer. It also offers sections on the tools of writing, including pacing, editing, pitching, invoicing and managing the highs and lows of the different writing careers.
Download or read book The First Family written by Michael Palmer and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The President’s teenaged son is threatened by a potentially fatal illness that is rooted in dark secrets from a long-buried past. President Geoffrey Hilliard and his family live in the ever-present glare of the political limelight, with relentless scrutiny of their daily lives. The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the President’s son Cam, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss his troubles as teen angst. But Secret Service agent Karen Ray, whose job is to guard the president's family with her life, is convinced Cam’s issues are serious – serious enough to summon her physician ex-husband for a second opinion. Dr. Lee Blackwood’s concerns are dismissed by the president's team – until Cam gets sicker. Lee must make a diagnosis from a puzzling array of symptoms he's never seen before. His only clue is a patient named Susie Banks, a young musical prodigy who seems to be suffering from the same baffling condition as Cam. Hospitalized after an attempt on her life by a determined killer, Susie’s jeopardy escalates as Cam’s condition takes on a terrifying new dimension. Is someone trying to murder the President’s son? As Lee and Karen race for a cure to Cam’s mysterious and deadly disease, they begin to uncover betrayals that breach the highest levels of national security. Returning to the same Washington, DC setting of The First Patient, which former President Bill Clinton said “captured the intense atmosphere of the White House,” The First Family is a riveting new medical drama from acclaimed novelist Daniel Palmer, in the tradition of his late father, New York Times bestselling novelist Michael Palmer. Praise for The First Family: "Terrifying and all too plausible—Daniel Palmer continues his father's tradition of delivering authentic and high-velocity medical suspense. The combination of medical chills and high-level Washington make The First Family irresistible.” —Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Paranoia and The Switch "Palmer's The First Family gives you likable characters to root for, a top-notch villain, and enough excitement to make your hair curl. Have fun with this thriller." —Catherine Coulter, author of The Devil's Triangle “Double the trouble, twice the action, and quadruple the enjoyment, this is a high-octane game changer.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Bishop's Pawn and The Lost Order “High-stakes and intelligent, The First Family is everything you want in a medical thriller. Chilling!” —Robert Dugoni #1 Amazon, Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author of My Sisters Grave "The First Family is adrenaline-fueled entertainment that twists, turns, surprises and satisfies!” -John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author "A Palmer novel transports you into the complex world of medical-legal-social ethics.The First Family doesn't disappoint, wrestling with the murky questions of what we can do versus what we should do. Gripping.” —Kathy Reichs, New York Times bestselling author and creator of Bones
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 2094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Michaels Family of Burke County North Carolina written by Elizabeth H. Michaels and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Michaels (1790-1876) married Sally/Sarah (1792-1879) and lived in Burke County, North Carolina. They raised 8 children. Includes families of Herron, Queen, Clay, Connor.
Download or read book THE BOOK OF MICHAEL A Very Wealthy Man written by Jeanne Gossett Halsey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXCERPT: ""Hello."" [WAIT FOR ANSWER] ""Hello."" [PAUSE] I can wait here all day until you say ... ""Hello!"" [LAUGHTER] Raise your hand if you've ever heard Michael Gossett begin a concert or a speech or any kind of public speaking, with that little schtick? [PAUSE] For once, I'm not sorry. That was how I began the Eulogy for my beloved brother Michael Leon Gossett, for the audience seated at Christian Life Assembly church in Langley, British Columbia, Canada; on Thursday, August 15, 2019 - ten days after Michael suddenly experienced ""the happiest day of a Christian's Life"" (as our father always told us) by means of a unexpected massive heart attack at his home.
Download or read book The Kennedy Heirs written by J. Randy Taraborrelli and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet. A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous privilege against the backdrop of American history, this third generation of Kennedys often veered between towering accomplishment and devastating defeat. In his revelatory new book, acclaimed Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli draws back the curtain on the next generation of America’s most famous family. John Kennedy, Jr.’s life in the public eye is explored, following the Kennedy scion as he faced the challenges posed by marrying his great love, Carolyn Bessette. Riveting new details are shared about the couple’s tragic demise—and why Ethel Kennedy advised Carolyn not to take the trip that would ultimately end her life. John’s sister, Caroline Kennedy, had her own complicated relationships, including a marriage to Ed Schlossberg that surprised her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and an unexpected bond with her mother-in-law, Mae Schlossberg. Additional stories, many shared here for the first time, illuminate the rest of the Kennedy dynasty: Kara Kennedy, Ted’s daughter, and her valiant battle against lung cancer; how Ted’s wife, Vicki, introduced a new era of feminism to the Kennedy family; the lifelong struggles with addiction faced by Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Patrick Kennedy; the unexpected way pop star Taylor Swift helped Conor Kennedy heal after the death of his mother, Bobby’s wife Mary; and Congressman Joe Kennedy III’s rise to prominence. At the center of it all is the family’s indomitable matriarch, Ethel Kennedy—a formidable presence with her maddening eccentricities and inspiring courage. Based on hundreds of exclusive first-hand interviews and cultivated over twenty years of research—including numerous Oral Histories from the JFK Library and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute—The Kennedy Heirs is an epic drama of ambition, scandal, pride and power.
Download or read book Project Semicolon written by Amy Bleuel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of PostSecret, Humans of New York, and If You Feel Too Much, this collection from suicide-awareness organization Project Semicolon features stories and photos from those struggling with mental illness. Project Semicolon began in 2013 to spread a message of hope: No one struggling with a mental illness is alone; you, too, can survive and live a life filled with joy and love. In support of the project and its message, thousands of people all over the world have gotten semicolon tattoos and shared photos of them, often alongside stories of hardship, growth, and rebirth. Project Semicolon: Your Story Isn't Over reveals dozens of new portraits and stories from people of all ages talking about what they have endured and what they want for their futures. This represents a new step in the movement and a new awareness around those who struggle with mental illness and those who support them. At once heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, and eternally hopeful, this collection tells a story of choice: every day you choose to live and let your story continue on. Learn more about the project at www.projectsemicolon.com.
Download or read book Consumed by Fire written by M.F. Pennington-Waseem and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter covers Eventide, a tiny hamlet nestled on the New England coast where pristine beauty masks a moral cancer seething beneath the surface. Like many old towns, Eventide is steeped in secrets and hypocrisy, and into this maelstrom Ana Michaels arrives. Born out of time, rejected maternally, and adored by her father, all is lost after a car crash takes the lives of their parents, and Ana and sister Sarah are left to their paternal grandmother. The last link in a genetic chain of events, the affection-starved and withdrawn Ana becomes dominated by fate and family. Only after years of passivity does she finally rebel, and flee to forge a life of her own. Summoned by news of her grandmothers imminent death, Doctor Ana Michaels, a successful psychiatrist, returns home only to find herself on a collision course that radically alters her life and those around her. Sisters Ana and Sarah share a psychiatric practice, and despite warnings from violent patients and grisly murders paralyzing the community, Anas headstrong independence places her directly in the path of peril. Darkness overtakes Ana after sexual assault by a trusted mentor leaves her pregnant and alone to face the consequences. As her familys facade is stripped away, Ana becomes entrenched in the murky past of a town that buries its secrets. A series of devastating discoveries unearth underground genetic breeding in Eventide -- and even more staggering truths she wished had remained buried.
Download or read book Eulogy of Lost Souls written by MICHAEL S. VASSEL and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell me what you remember ... and what you need me to pass along." Jim Miller was born with a unique ability. He can see and speak to spirits trapped here in the mortal world. He also learned at an early age that the reason these spirits haven't moved on is because they feel like they have some unfinished business here on Earth. And that if he asks them two simple questions - what do you remember, and what do you need me to pass along - he can help them move onto their afterlife. When Jim's sister suddenly goes missing, he contacts the local authorities in Dunedin for help. But after a week when no progress is made on her case, he travels to Florida to find her. With the help of his best friend Kenny, and her two friends, Sarah and Debbie, he quickly discovers that there's more to her vanishing than may meet the eye. That her sudden disappearance may be linked to a Cuban drug family - or possibly the FBI. Can Jim use his ghostly abilities to find his sister? Or will he become another victim of the notorious Diaz cartel?
Download or read book Remembrances and Celebrations written by Jill Werman Harris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich anthology of memorial tributes that offers a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremendous comfort and perspective during our times of loss. The likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, W.H. Auden and Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as ordinary folk from the seventeenth century to the present are mourned and celebrated in the memorable eulogies, condolence letters, poems and epitaphs collected in these pages.
Download or read book Always Remember written by Geoff Allshorn and published by Clouds of Magellan. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of AIDS in Australia, expressed through forty objects and images - newspaper clippings, books, films, TV, music, memorials, activism and art. Not to mention badges and milk cartons. Allshorn tenderly recalls his own experiences and struggles. More broadly, Allshorn probes the meanings behind the many silences, exclusions and (mis)representation, while at the same time celebrating the heroic work of many ‘heroes of the epidemic’.
Download or read book Congressional Record Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes history of bills and resolutions.
