Download or read book Ole Man on the Porch written by Bryan Gregory and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Bryan Gregory was born a preacher's kid with a streak of the devil in him. He made it a point to enjoy life and pulled a host of pranks. But now, he's a retired North Carolina State Trooper hiding out in Pennsylvania. For many years Gregory wanted to share his experiences, but found life too hectic. Now, he shares his intriguing, and sometimes hilarious, tales of life as a state trooper in Ole Man on the Porch. From seemingly routine stops that result in foot chases, fights and car pursuits, to intentionally misdirecting a lost rookie trooper, Gregory's stories are highly entertaining. While Gregory's career as a trooper certainly had its share of ups and downs, it was also extremely rewarding. Ole Man on the Porch provides a rarely seen insider's perspective on law enforcement.

Download or read book Old Man on the Porch written by Burge and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Old Man and the Cat written by Nils Uddenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Man and The Cat is a story of how Nils Uddenberg, retired Professor of Psychology became a beloved cat-owner even though he had never wanted a pet of any kind. One winter morning the author discovered a cat—whom he would later find was homeless—sitting outside his bedroom window, staring at him with big yellow eyes. Slowly but surely the cat worked itself into his life. This award-winning writer who has a background in psychology could not stop himself from going deeper into the cat's inner life. Does she have a sense of humor? Is it possible to attach human feelings to her? And the trickiest question of all: Is our little cat actually interested in our attachment to her? With humor and self-awareness, Nils describes how his existence changed after the cat moved into his house. The feelings she stirs up are a surprise to him and he quickly finds himself falling in love with this speckled grey-brown little lady.

Download or read book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book The Old Man and the Fiddle written by and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old man insists on playing his fiddle without stopping, as his house collapses around him and his neighbors complain.

Download or read book Solomon s Porch written by Janet Morris Grimes and published by Elk Lake Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time. Solomon is running out of it. A broken and forgotten man fighting the demons of dementia, he longs for the past when both he and his beloved military town of Ginger Ridge once thrived. When his stooped body collides with the hardened realities of the present, Solomon lies in a coma as an unidentifiable victim of a hit-and-run accident in a faraway city. With nothing to keep him going but flashbacks of relationships from his past, Solomon has no idea what a difference he will make on the future ...

Download or read book Going Home written by A. American and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 of The Survivalist Series If society collapsed, could you survive? When Morgan Carter’s car breaks down 250 miles from his home, he figures his weekend plans are ruined. But things are about to get much, much worse: the country’s power grid has collapsed. There is no electricity, no running water, no Internet, and no way to know when normalcy will be restored—if it ever will be. An avid survivalist, Morgan takes to the road with his prepper pack on his back. During the grueling trek from Tallahassee to his home in Lake County, chaos threatens his every step but Morgan is hell-bent on getting home to his wife and daughters—and he’ll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Fans of James Wesley Rawles, William R. Forstchen's One Second After, and The End by G. Michael Hopf will revel in A. American's apocalyptic tale.

Download or read book An Old Man and a Three Legged Dog written by David Kroenke and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptian queens were buried with their dogs. Was it love, joy, comfort, companionship? Why do many people look like their dogs? Or do their dogs look like them? And who trains whom? Does the boy throw the ball to the dog? Or does the dog train the boy to throw?Who knows? Who can explain that bond?This book is part of an answer. It is the story of a man and a dog who lived and loved together through tragedy and illness: what happened, how they traveled in mountains and deserts to find meaning in life through companionship and adventure. And how it ended. It is a beautiful story of love and the power of relationship in the face of limitation and adversity.If you're looking for a joyful book in a time of restless anxiety, this is the one!

Download or read book The Old Man written by Thomas Perry and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A finalist for the Barry Award for Best Thriller To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big dogs and a grown daughter with a life of her own. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple drivers' licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country and two Beretta nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Now, the toppling of a Middle Eastern government suddenly makes Dan Chase, and the stunt he pulled thirty-five years ago as a young hotshot in army intelligence, a priority again. Racing across the country and beyond, Chase must reawaken his survival instincts to contend with the history he has spent his adult life trying to escape, coming face to face with an army veteran-turned-agent who plays the game just as he once did. Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move 'almost faster than a speeding bullet' ( Wall Street Journal) and The Old Man is no exception.

Download or read book The Old Man and the Girl written by Gary M. Martin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a church invite to an upcoming revival the assistant pastor and two children encounter a cantankerous old man sitting on his front porch swing. The old man demands that they stay off his property. He is not interested in what they have to say. Against the wishes of the assistant pastor twelve-year-old Emily Teagle strode up to the front porch to give the man a religious track. In anger, the man throws the track on the floor. The assistant pastor takes Emily's hand and they leave. Emily returns the next day and offers to cut the man's grass. At first, he refuses, but she is relentless. Later, she learns that his name is Buck. Through her stubbornness a close relationship begins to form. As time goes by Emily learns of the man's fractured life that has brought him to where he is. With her help and a determination to follow God's leading she sets out to help Buck mend his life. For a time, things go well, but then tragedy strikes and it seems that Buck's past is about to repeat itself.

Download or read book Old Man Whickutt s Donkey written by Mary Calhoun and published by Parents Magazine Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this retelling of La Fontaine's fable, a man, a boy, and a donkey, enroute to the miller with a sack of corn, are criticized by their neighbors no matter who walks and who rides.

Download or read book No Country for Old Men written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Download or read book Hallowed Ground written by Larry Minnix and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are nearly fifty million Americans who are sixty-five years or older, according to the US Census Bureau. However, the reality of caring for your aging parents or yourself is becoming increasingly complicated. How do you or your loved ones navigate the future and stay happy, active, and engaged in society? Author Larry Minnix spent his entire career in mental health and aging care professions. In Hallowed Ground: Stories of Successful Aging, he offers prescriptive advice and insightful anecdotes about aging that everyone can use as we look toward the twilight years. Drawing from personal experience and more than four decades in a career in aging services, he covers the critical topics related to aging such as intimacy, retirement, and senior communities, among others. Hallowed Ground is a story collection of people who have a legacy of lessons to teach us so we -- and our loved ones -- can live the best of our last days.

Download or read book Struck written by Keith Pyeatt and published by Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Old Man and the Chair written by Álvaro López and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving to a rural area far away from the city, a young man meets an old man who is very well-respected in the town. Over time, they become good friends and the old man advises him to be humble, because a humble person is welcome anywhere; to always seek wisdom and to stay away from people that cause problems. The old man tells him things from his life, his sadness and joy. The young man treasures the old man’s valuable advice, considers him one of his best friends, and tells him about the dreams he has had, his experiences and many more things that nobody knew.

Download or read book Japanese Fairy Tales written by Yei Theodora Ozaki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.... In telling these stories in English I have followed my fancy in adding such touches of local color or description as they seemed to need or as pleased me, and in one or two instances I have gathered in an incident from another version. At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority...

Download or read book Confederates written by Thomas Keneally and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful novel of America’s Civil War told through the voices of Confederate soldiers, turncoats, and Stonewall Jackson in the weeks leading up to the great slaughter at Antietam In the summer of 1862, as the Civil War rages on, a ragtag Confederate army consisting of young boys and old men, storekeepers, farmers, and teachers, gathers in Virginia under the leadership of Tom “Stonewall” Jackson, ready to follow their sainted commander to glory—or hell. One of these men, Usaph Bumpass left his wife, Ephie, behind to join the Shenandoah Volunteers, only to discover Ephie’s lover, Decatur Cate, among his comrades. Still, Usaph remains steadfast in his devotion to a cause he does not fully understand, even as troubling memories of home invade his mind on the march north. But a dark destiny awaits brilliant military strategist Jackson and his Southern boys, as hard truths about war, loyalty, love, life, and death are revealed in the fires and bloodshed at Antietam. A breathtaking work of historical fiction that captures the human face of war as few novels have done before, Confederates has been compared to Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace as an artful, honest, and profoundly moving depiction of the lot of the soldier. Shortlisted for Great Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Prize, this masterful tale of love, duty, and conflict from author of Schindler’s List Thomas Keneally is an enduring and unforgettable classic of Civil War literature.