Download or read book My Life It S Been a Hell of a Ride written by Liam Adair and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By telling this story, I hope to introduce incidents that have occurred in my life, but hopefully, in random order, to make it more enjoyable. Please, if you would bear with me, I would like you, the reader, to continue with me to the end. It could just be worthwhile continuing to the last page. For your participation, I thank you.
Download or read book Fighter Pilot written by Christina Olds and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter Pilot is the memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force, Robin Olds. Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—and an ace with 12 aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend. He arrived in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them. Proving he wasn't a WWII retread, he led the wing with aggressiveness, scoring another four confirmed kills, becoming a rare triple ace. Olds, who retired a brigadier general and died in 2007, was a unique individual whose personal story presents one of the most eagerly anticipated military books in recent memory. Please note: This ebook edition does not include the photo insert from the print edition.
Download or read book Crossing Sexual Boundaries written by J. Ari Kane-Demaios and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transgender" has become a convenient umbrella term to cover a collectivity of individuals (including cross-dressers, transvestites, transsexuals, and intersexuals) who do not conform to traditional norms of gender identity or behavior. Until recent centuries, transgender behavior has rarely been the subject of scholarly or public attention. During the 20th century, medical advances in hormone therapy and reconstructive surgery, the worldwide publicity generated by the Christine Jorgensen story in the 1950s, and the popularity of such plays and movies as La Cage Aux Folles and The Birdcage make the subject much more visible for society. This book is a compilation of autobiographies of women and men who openly describe their different and often very difficult journeys, frankly. Using a decade-by-decade format, the contributors provide the reader with critical insights into the process of realization that led to their various gender expressions. The contributors include homosexuals, heterosexuals, and bisexuals, and their life stories make clear that a good deal of diversity exists within the gender community. A thorough introduction by the editors provides many insights into gender issues from a biological, socio-anthropological, and historical perspective.
Download or read book I Forgot to Remember to Forget written by Norman Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In I Forgot To Remember To Forget Norman Johnson calls upon his sixty eight years of experience in the fields of entertainment and broadcasting to bring the reader series of vignettes of the lives and careers of some of America's top entertainers, many from East Texas and Nacogdoches, his adopted home town. Throughout the book Johnson relives his own personal encounters and friendships with most of the people he writes about including artists from various genres of music as well as Broadway and movie acts, politicians and just everyday folks. This is simple history from one who got to know each individual up close and personal. Johnson expands upon his previous book, The Kid and The King, to include dozens of singers and actors who thrilled and entertained you through the years.
Download or read book Your Wildest Dreams Within Reason written by Mike Sacks and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks's unique humor pieces--craigslist ads, lesser-known tantric positions, letters to famous authors, lists, jokes, and the occasional illustration--into one handsome volume. Ever accidentally sent a mass e-mail to your office describing your Not Safe-For-Work fantasy kingdom? Or been confused about the ground rules at a cuddle party? Looking to rent an overpriced room in the Hamptons from a co-dependent sociopath with a checkered past (and a hot tub)? Good. Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks’s unique humor pieces—Craigslist ads, lesser-known tantric positions, letters to famous authors, Shaft living in the suburbs, a classic-rock DJ suffering a nervous breakdown, the occasional list—into one handsome, convenient volume. Originally published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and McSweeney’s, among other venerable publications, Sacks’s writing is original and sharp, yet broadly funny. Whether it’s a groom tweeting his wedding and honeymoon in real time, or a publisher offering editorial suggestions for The Diary of Anne Frank, Sacks’s work tangles contemporary social satire with his absurdist sensibilities.
Download or read book I Gotta Tell You written by Matthew Wayne Seeger and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book concludes with speeches delivered on special occasions, such as commencements and the celebration of the Statue of Liberty, when Iacocca donned the role of celebrity and statesman.
Download or read book Struggling to Survive written by Vinnie Keller and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling your sons, you still don’t feel right for the past 20 years and you don’t know what is going on is hard to do. How do you assure them that their dad will be ok? He doesn’t want them to worry more and keep being upset. Vinnie has had a hard life. He’s been through major health issues and had to battle them to survive. He’s had to deal with his demons to live for his sons. How does he do it? How does he live a life that isn’t a life? Vinnie thought he finally conquered his demons but feels he is being pulled back into that world he thought he had left. On top of all that is going on, other obstacles have risen for him to battle. But he knows whatever comes his way, he’ll have to conquer these obstacles to be here and to keep being a father to his sons. Struggling to Survive tells the continuing story of Vinnie’s life and what is going on now and what he is battling. His journey is still ongoing and he feels like it’s never going to end. How much more can a person take and deal with? The never-ending physical, emotional and mental feelings and pain still has a hold of him. How is he surviving everything, how is he feeling inside? To know he is still dealing with everything for the past 20 years has Vinnie very tired. But one thing about him, Vinnie will never give up or quit in getting what he wants and getting to where he wants to be. What he is looking for is an end to this nightmare of a life and live the rest of his life pain-free, happy, and with his sons. Vinnie’s saga continues. Let’s take a look on how this courageous man deals with life and how he is going to overcome this life that has been handed to him. The continuing battle he endures for himself and his sons and how he is set to end his story. No quit in him, he’s a warrior. Vinnie says, “I feel compelled to continue telling my story in hopes of helping others who are struggling in life. I do struggle to survive. We are not promised tomorrow, so live your life to the fullest. LIVE…”
Download or read book Money Is The Motive 2 written by Toni Michelle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money Is The Motive 2 picks up right where the first series ends. Tori Leigh and her unborn baby girl lives are in jeopardy of ending before the next chapter can begin. When her lover Juice is shot by an unknown assailant and then picked up by Federal Agents, Tori doesn't know which direction to go. Things continue to spiral out of control now that The Feds, Goons and old enemies are all hot on her trail. Tori is faced with making one of the biggest decisions of her life. Does she go into hiding to protect her and the unborn child? Or does she risk it all by going hard and possibly die trying? Who can she turn to? Where can she go? Who can you trust when everyone has a Motive and it's Money?
Download or read book All My Life written by Rucy Ban and published by Rucy Ban. This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCESeventeen-year-old Kari meets Neil Mars. "Neil as in Armstrong and Mars...as in Bruno." A boy who beats every vampire, werewolf, highlander fantasy Kari has ever had. But she knows she can't get close to him. Not ever. Because that would mean telling him everything. Coming clean. And Kari can't bear the idea of changing the way Neil looks at her. Like she's the only girl in the world. His reverence is something too precious to lose. Perhaps even at the cost of losing him. "A sweet read with lots of quirky banter, angst and a touch of smexy." - Tamsyn Bester"This is THAT story...the one that grabs you from the first page and you just can't seem to put the book down till you find out the ending!" - NovelGrounds "A really smartly written, funny new adult romance...no cliffhanger!" - Poppy
Download or read book Broken written by Sasha Marshall and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 SIBA HUMOR AND NEW ADULT WINNER! "Guitar Face rocks!"--She Hearts Books Blog I was born to make music and bring the masses to their knees. . .until, I wasn't anymore. Until the thought of doing all of this without him made me sick to my stomach. Henley Hendrix survives a crash that kills her closest band mate. She'd like nothing more than to retire from music, to hide, to heal, to disappear. She's tried. But her family is music royalty. Her brother is a rock star in his own right, and every friend she has is connected to the business one way or another. I'll get sucked back in. I'm scared I won't survive rock-n-roll again. Won't survive Jagger, won't be able to put him back in the box. Jagger Carlye is Henley's dirty little secret. Rock god, her brother's best friend, part of his band, and someone who loves the guitar as much as she does. Henley's loved him since she was a girl, but there are some things you don't do in this world. One of them is that you don't risk your brother's band or your heart in an industry that feeds on rejection and scandal. Love might not be enough in a world that grinds you down and puts you in a fishbowl. And then there is Kip. My best friend, a drummer who never shuts his mouth. I should've fallen in love with him. My world would be so much easier. Henley comes back to the world of rock-n-roll, puts a toe in the water, and creates a ripple that will rock the safe little life she's created for herself. NOTE: This is a rock star romance series with a strong female lead, bad boys, and rock romance. If you are looking for a story of redemption with comic relief and a heavy sexual mind, you've found it. If you are offended by hot, tattooed rock stars, who are vulgar, then this is not the book for you. Please be warned, this book is not for anyone below the age of 18. The book contains sex, death, violence, and harsh language. Author Bio: Award-winning author Sasha Marshall, a concert photographer, toured with legendary bands such as The Allman Brothers Band. A self-proclaimed free spirit, she's most often found outdoors, or painting a canvas, capturing a photograph, people watching, reading a book, or writing a new book. Sasha makes her home in the beautiful state of Georgia and loves to hear from readers. Visit her website at SashaMarshall.com.
Download or read book The Burden Within written by Birtie Finch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a man that I came to know from the small town of Owensboro, Kentucky. His given name was Robert Burden – for short, some call him Bob – but he now goes by the name 090902 in a Kentucky state prison. Bob was born in 1963 to Bobby Burden, Sr. and mother, Dorothy, and he has one sibling, Enus, his younger brother. Bob’s life story intrigued me because he continues to be able to get through another day knowing that, for all practical intents and purposes, his life is at the point of being over. I have always heard that God puts no more trouble on a person than he or she can handle, but in Bob’s case, you will learn about the burden within – not only the burdens of the past that he has to carry every day but those that come from behind prison walls.
Download or read book Heft on Wheels written by Mike Magnuson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years ago, the closest Mike Magnuson thought he would get to participating in a sporting event was sitting in the local bar, slamming pitchers of beer and watching the NFL playoffs on TV. He was thirty-eight years old, smoked a pack a day, drank a case or two of beer a week, and carried 250 pounds of weight on his five-foot-ten-inch frame. Getting on a bicycle for a peddle around the block could have been dangerous in his condition, let alone trying to keep up with a group of racer-fit riders for forty-five miles at a clip, but that is just what Mike decided to do. He was sick of it all—the booze, the cigarettes, and the heft. He could have been seriously hurt. But he wasn’t. In Mike’s words, he was merely “handed his proverbial fat ass on a platter” three times a week and kept coming back for more. Heft on Wheels charts in hilarious detail every curve in Mike Magnuson’s 180-degree journey from the big guy at the back of the pack to the lean, mean racing machine setting the pace for the group. Along the way we meet his friends, colleagues, and family and learn how even a healthy obsession can have its uphill climbs. For a start there’s the starvation diet and the nicotine patches, not to mention the skin-tight XXL cycling outfit and the insanely unrealistic goal of completing the Bridge to Bridge Incredible Cycling Challenge—proudly billed as “100 Miles of Pure Hill”—within the year. Yet, through it all, Mike never loses his sense of humor (though after having a quick conversation with God on one particularly grueling hill, he does believe he has come within spitting distance of losing his mind). Filled with triumph, heartbreak, and hilarity, Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting from one place to another, in more ways than one.
Download or read book Life Is Not a Stage written by Florence Henderson and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television. Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned. Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult, including stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce, her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose.
Download or read book The Taking Down of a Criminal Empire written by Liam Adair and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Benson, following on from his many successes solving serious crime cases, he now has his former nemesis the Assistant Chief Commissioner dancing through hoops Someday Everything will make perfect sense, So for now, laugh at the confusion, Smile through the tears, and keep, Reminding yourself that everthing, Happens for a reason.
Download or read book If These Walls Could Talk Pittsburgh Penguins written by Phil Bourque and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PITTSBURGH PENGUINS HAVE BECOME ONE OF THE MOST STORIED FRANCHISES IN NHL HISTORY. Winners of five Stanley Cup championships, the Penguins have hosted generations of stars from Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr to Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, all of whom have left an indelible mark on team history. Phil Bourque, who helped earn two of those Stanley Cup victories and who now serves as color commentator alongside Mike Lange for Penguins radio broadcasts, has gotten to witness more than his fair share of that history up close and personal. In If These Walls Could Talk: Pittsburgh Penguins, you'll relive some of that history, from Bourque's memories of training camp with Lemieux to his stories of celebrating with (and having to repair) the Cup. Through singular anecdotes only Bourque can tell about current and past players, coaches, and opponents, this book provides fans with a one-of-a-kind, insider's look into the Penguins' greatest moments, disappointments, and everything in between.
Download or read book Politically Incorrect written by Peter de Villiers and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his tenure as the first black Springbok coach, Peter de Villiers was in the news, and not always for the right reasons. His battle to be accepted and respected by the rugby fraternity started from the moment his appointment was announced, when his new boss admitted that De Villiers had got the job for reasons ‘other than only rugby’. In his four years as Bok coach, De Villiers experienced huge successes – a series win over the British & Irish Lions and a Tri Nations trophy – but he also suffered the ignominy of coming last in the Tri Nations and seeing his World Cup dream shattered by the controversial officiating of referee Bryce Lawrence. In addition, his outspoken nature and colourful application of the metaphor alternately amused and horrified South African rugby fans, and his close relationship with his senior players begged the question: Who was coaching whom? Now, in his autobiography, De Villiers answers this question and addresses many more: How he managed to progress from the dusty streets of Paarl as a rugby-mad youngster to the highest job in South African rugby; why his employers tried to manipulate him but failed; why he stuck with John Smit as captain in the 2011 Rugby World Cup; and where his passion for rugby will lead him next. If rugby fans thought they knew Peter de Villiers before reading this book, they will think differently afterwards.
Download or read book A Touch of Desire Dark Mafia Romance written by Alessa Steel and published by XSN. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bella When I first saw Salvatore D'Angelo, he captivated me. Powerful and masculine, he commanded attention wherever he went. Yet beneath his lethal exterior, I sensed a warmth that drew me in, despite my initial naivety about his world. As we navigated the challenges of the Mafia together, I was amazed by Salvatore's complexity - ruthless in business yet fiercely protective of his loved ones. He became my safe haven, my partner, the father of my children. Salvatore sees past my sweet facade to the strength and intelligence that lie beneath. With him, I've found the courage to embrace all that I am. Salvatore From the moment I saw Bella, I was captivated by her raw beauty and spirit. As the powerful Mafia boss, I was used to women seeking my world. But Bella was different - sweet yet with an intriguing edge. Pursuing her was a risk, yet something about her made me throw caution aside. Beneath her innocence, I sensed remarkable strength. As we faced challenges, I was amazed by her resilience. Though I am ruthless, Bella saw past that facade to the man I truly am. She became my confidante, my partner, the mother of my children. Bella balances me, grounding my dark impulses. Our journey has been tumultuous, but the love we share is unbreakable. Bella brings out the best in me, and I will ensure she never regrets trusting this Mafia king. This book is the second part of a two-part series. It is highly recommended to read the first part, "A Zest of Danger," before delving into this installment to fully appreciate the ongoing story, character development, and plot progression.
