Download or read book Nelda Sees Green written by Helen F. Sheffield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A welcome quietness settled over Witherspoon academy in early June. School was out for a while causing teachers to breathe a sigh of relief. Five of the instructors had plans for a cruise. Three of these had plans for murder.
Download or read book Nelda Sees Red written by Helen F. Sheffield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript is a contemporary novel that challenges readers to solve a murder mystery. The suspects are a close-knit group of medical center employees. The book features a variety of well-developed characters and an exciting, unexpected conclusion. The main setting for this mystery is a small East Texas town, with a couple of excursions to the Texas Gulf Coast and Aspen, Colorado. Each suspense filled chapter is a short story ending with a cliffhanger. These episodes are interlinked to propel the protagonist, Nelda Simmons, toward a successful resolution. Summary: The mystery begins with the murder of a doctor who owns a health clinic. Nelda discovers the body, and calls the young sheriff, John Moore, who doesn't mind Nelda's aid in solving the mystery. Nelda has considerable experience in solving criminal cases because she assisted her late husband in his work as sheriff. All the workers at the clinic are suspects and have good reasons for wanting him dead. None of them have air tight alibis for the night of the murder. The plot continues with the drowning of the murdered doctor's wife and warning to Nelda in Latin. This Latin phrase is one in a series left by the murderer after or before crucial events. All the messages appear in red lipstick of a particular brand and color. Some of the major events that occur after the two deaths are: the sabotage of Nelda's car and the major car accident that followed; the near drowning of her niece, Sue; predawn visit by the murderer; confrontation in Aspen with the killer on a downhill bicycle ride, and the final outcome. This is a Fireside Mystery with approximately 70,000 words in twenty-six chapters
Download or read book Women of Courage written by Helen F. Sheffield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women of Courage" They Never gave Up, is an inspirational book that tells how three brave women fought back from adversities to live productive lives, and give back to the community. Linda Warren suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. She would not let this disease, or years of rejection of her first book, keep her from becoming an award winning author. Her novels entertain and help readers by relating to concerns in their own lives. Teresa Maurer has multiple sclerosis, but lives a full life. She is a successful Beatrix Potter Storyteller and literacy advocate encouraging hundreds of children to read each year. Her performances draw school children from all over Texas. Their smiles as she relates a Potter story are rewards she cherishes. Marsy Clarke is a crusader for the physically and mentally challenged citizens in Texas. For more than a decade, Marsy has helped implement programs that find jobs and housing for those in need. Her desire to become a crusader was kindled by her son, Andrew, who was born with disabilities. Travel with them through their lives. Feel their despair and triumphs as God leads them to reach higher planes.
Download or read book Rudder written by Thomas M. Hatfield and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudder From Leader to Legend Thomas A. Hatfield In this first comprehensive biography of James Earl Rudder, Hatfield covers Rudder's storied military exploits -- from years spent stateside training the all-volunteer 2nd Ranger Battalion to the unit's trek over the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc during the D-Day invasion. 540 pp. 68 b&w photos. 8 maps. Bib. Index. $30.00 cloth
Download or read book The Pyre King written by Georgina Makalani and published by Georgina Makalani. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family isn’t always what you think it is. Twins learn what they are to each other, siblings learn what they are not and a mother is replaced by another. Connecting them all are the flames that wove through Burasal so long ago. Now, new flames are burning across the kingdom revealing secrets and magic long thought lost.
Download or read book Home Cookin written by Brian Clary and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Swayne, Lupe Sylvia-Sotomayor, and veteran legal secretary Gertie Chase have been working for an exceedingly difficult Texas attorney for eighteen years, five months, and twelve days when they suddenly find themselves jobless after she dies at her desk. The deceased lawyer’s greedy son has designs on the office and demands that the women spend their last two weeks on the firm’s payroll referring out all his mother’s cases to other attorneys. As the three co-workers comply, they happen upon an unknown case file that involves Gertie’s childhood friend whose pipe fitter husband died of a rare asbestos-related cancer. When the women learn that their deceased boss never took action on the matter, Gertie decides to handle the case while impersonating her former boss. After she enlists her two cohorts to help, they embark on a journey filled with complications and consequences and where only time will tell if they will solve the case or if one or all of them will end up behind bars. Home Cookin’ shares the entertaining tale of a seasoned legal secretary as she and her two co-workers take on a complicated case after their boss falls from grace and dies at her desk.
Download or read book More Than Memory written by Dorothy Garlock and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years have passed since their passionate young love went wrong. Now Nelda returns to her Iowa farmland home, only to rediscover her teenage love who was, for a few brief months, her husband. But is their love reawakening?
Download or read book VooDoo Queen written by Billie Ovens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voodoo Queen is a story that takes place in Lake Charles, LA. Dating 1940. In this book you will travel the roads leading deep into the swamplands where Voodoo takes place unbeknownst to many others. A young woman, Nelda, celebrates her eighteenth birthday. Little does she know that on this particular day her life will turn upside down. She is the only daughter to James and Sally Hebert. Or so they thought. When this young woman experiences things that not many do she finds that life isn't as grand as one would think for an only child of a wealthy Banker. James and Sally find that their daughter bears a mark. Making her tied to Voodoo that is thought to no longer be practiced. A woman begins to follow Nelda and her parents claiming that Nelda is her daughter. Which places fear into the Hebert family. The events that follow lead them all deep into the swamps of Louisiana into a gathering of Voodoo magic. There is human sacrifice and more that comes.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Color of My Heart written by Sarah Martin Byrd and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the foothills of North Carolina, Laura Carter has it all: a nice home, wonderful adoptive parents, two lovely teenage daughters, and a to-die-for handsome husband. As they celebrate freedom on the Fourth of July, she's certain that nothing could ever shatter her perfect American life: Or could it? An unexpected letter from her great-grandmother brings Laura face-to-face with her birth family. At their first, shocking meeting, she receives a stack of diaries that trace a heartbreaking voyage from Africa to Jekyll Island, Georgia, via a slave ship. Thanks to the missionary who lived with her ancestors in Africa and taught them how to speak and write English, Laura holds in her hands a gripping record of their lives. Could the realities of her mixed-race heritage destroy her family? Laura tries to live honorably, but her husband resists, and daughter Lakin has her own secrets. Lurking in the shadows is a small group called the brethren. The brethren's dirty deeds are meant to p
Download or read book World of Baby Names A Revised written by Teresa Norman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most comprehensive baby name reference guides available, featuring more than 30,000 baby names, has been revised and expanded. Each chapter focuses on names from specific countries, regions, and ethnicities, including details about traditional naming customs. Each entry contains various spellings and pronunciations, as well as the name's meaning, history, etymology, and derivations.
Download or read book Broken Brain written by Joseph Huerta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huerta's BROKEN BRAIN: SURVIVING A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY details his firsthand experience of living through a near-fatal brain injury. During a ski vacation in Colorado, Huerta fell off a fifteen-foot cliff and shattered his skull in countless pieces. For twelve days, he was in a coma and eventually woke up to the long journey of recovery. Told in a riveting & animated voice, this memoir delivers an intimate perspective on what it means to beat the odds.
Download or read book Treadwell written by Dana Joy Wyzard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After living for sixty years in the cabin of her birth, Nelda Pike is as resilient and self-reliant as she needs to be. Like other residents in the backwoods town of Treadwell, she guards her anonymity with a fierce tenacity and a shotgun. When she discovers a terrified young woman stumbling beside the country road, Nelda goes against her better judgment and offers temporary sanctuary. As the only witness to her mothers brutal murder, seventeen year old Laura is running for her life. Successfully tracking her to Neldas secluded cabin, the killers forcibly abduct Laura and disappear into the backwoods. Enraged, Nelda reaches out to her lifelong friend, Wosie Mae - a woman as irascible and indomitable as Nelda herself for help. Together, two old women with shotguns, and a geriatric hound, are now on the murderers trail.
Download or read book How to Rig an Election written by Nic Cheeseman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves. Based on their firsthand experiences as election watchers and their hundreds of interviews with presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, election officials, and conspirators, Cheeseman and Klaas document instances of election rigging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, including notable examples from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States—touching on the 2016 election. This eye-opening study offers a sobering overview of corrupted professional politics, while providing fertile intellectual ground for the development of new solutions for protecting democracy from authoritarian subversion.
Download or read book Historic Houston How to See It written by Lucinda Freeman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In HISTORIC HOUSTON: HOW TO SEE IT, Lucinda Freeman brings Houstons history to life by coupling entertaining stories that highlight influential personalities and key historical events with day-trip itineraries, providing a comprehensive and useful guidebook for heritage tourists interested in the history of Houston and surrounding region. Freeman is a native Houstonian, a fifth-generation Texan, and the daughter of two parents who also wrote books on Houstons history. She relies on careful research and personal experience to offer unforgettable adventures into early Houston and Texas. She brings to light colorful historical characters like Sam Houston, Deaf Smith, and legendary cattle rustler and oilman Shanghai Pierce. Freeman also recounts stories of immigrants and highlights events from key time periods like the Texas Revolution, Antebellum Texas, and the Civil War, offering guided day-trip plans for seeing it all, including historical markers, museums, plantations, battle sites, and renovated historical buildings. HISTORIC HOUSTON: HOW TO SEE IT com bines historical facts and easy to- follow itineraries with captivating anecdotes about the famous, the infamous, the heroic, and the eccentric in order to provide a fascinating, in-depth glimpse into a forward-thinking city and region with great personality and character. For more information about the book and related projects and events, visit www.historichoustontourism.com
Download or read book A Bohemian Life written by Nelda Hirsh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bohemian Life is a fascinating blend of biography, early California social history, and the story of emergence of California Impressionist painting. Carefully researched, the book offers an intriguing account of Evelyn McCormick's life and times in San Francisco, Monterey and Paris in a beautiful art book format. Evelyn was an unusually independent young woman who followed her lover to Paris and Monet's Giverny in 1889. Painting was her passion as well as her livelihood, and she chose to pursue her talent over the traditional roles expected of a woman. Her exuberant spirit and lively personality make an absorbing and often surprising tale about the art world around the turn of the century in America and Paris. McCormick's art is a splendid revelation for the world of American Impressionism.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
