Download or read book One Eyed Cat Takes Flight written by Mitchel Cohen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchel Cohen's 2nd award-winning book of selected poetry touching on personal topics within a highly charged political context. A No-Holds-Barred takedown of Henry Kissinger and other Enemies of the People, but minus the rhetoric. Mitchel cares about language, and it shows. Both accessible (from years of selling his poetry on NYC's subways and inviting instant feedback and criticism) and meticulously crafted, this book is a joy to read .... Will make your blood boil and die laughing at the same time! Great cover painting by Haideen Anderson.

Download or read book One Eye on the World written by John L. Shields and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Eye on the World takes readers on a serious yet humorous journey of the glory years of the newspaper industry. This was before the sad state of many faltering newspapers and the biased media in today’s world. The book’s title comes from the author, John L. Shields, losing one eye at one and a half years old. Having only one eye impacted John’s life, but he turned it into a positive and was known for his unusual sense of humor. Throughout a career in several states—West Coast, East Coast, and in between—his path crossed with well-known entertainers, politicians, and news makers. Readers will find an interesting recounting of history, from John’s birth in 1942 through the present. The author had a front row seat to some of the most dramatic changes in US history—events that changed the world. Readers will ride along with someone who spent almost fifty years in newspapers as a newspaper carrier, circulation mail-room employee, reporter, sports editor, editor, supervisor for groups of newspapers, and CEO/publisher. Those years—from 1959 to 2007—were some of the most turbulent, and brought some of the most dramatic changes for the country, both good and bad. John’s stories give readers insight into a reporter-editor-photographer covering schools, tragedies, corruption, and human interest. These stories bring readers into the newsroom of daily newspapers, and how decisions are made.

Download or read book The Brights Pond Bundle Prayers of Agnes Sparrow Charlotte Figg Takes Over Griselda Takes Flight eBook ePub written by Joyce Magnin and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 1347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bundle contains The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow, Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise, and Griselda Takes Flight. The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow No longer able or willing to leave her home, the unusual Agnes Sparrow has committed herself to a life of prayer... and it has resulted in numerous miracles, both large and garden variety, including a prize-winning pumpkin. The rural residents of Bright's Pond, a quirky Pennsylvania town, are so enamored with Agnes they plan to erect a sign in her honor on the interstate. Agnes wants no part of it and sends her sister to fight city hall. But when a stranger comes to call asking for his miracle, Bright's Pond is turned on its head and Agnes' feet of clay are exposed, forcing the town to its knees. Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise Newly widowed Charlotte Figg purchases a double-wide trailer sight unseen and moves to the Paradise Trailer Park with her dog, Lucky. Unfortunately, neither the trailer nor Paradise are what Charlotte expected. Her trailer is a ramshackle old place in need of major repair, and the people of Paradise are harboring more secrets than Bayer has aspirin. Charlotte’s new friend Rose Tattoo learns that Charlotte played softball and convinces her to rally the women of Paradise into a team. Reluctant at first, Charlotte warms to the notion and is soon coaching the Paradise Angels. Meanwhile, Charlotte discovers that the manager of Paradise, Fergus Wrinkel, abuses his wife, Suzy. Charlotte sets out to find a way to save Suzy from Fergus and in the process comes to a difficult realization about her own painful marriage. Griselda Takes Flight Now that her sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably living at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda learns to fly—literally--after a pilot makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright’s Pond. But Griselda’s newfound freedom (and her flight time with handsome pilot, Cliff) is hampered by other happenings in town. Like the gold digger who prances around town and is supposedly engaged to Stella Kincaid’s brother--the lottery winner who is in a coma. And there’s Ivy Slocum’s dog, Al Capone, whose adventures continue long after they should. When Chief of Police Mildred Blessing starts investigating the gold digger, however, things really heat up--for Griselda and all the residents of the unique Pennsylvania hamlet called Bright’s Pond!

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Download or read book Hope Takes Flight written by Gilbert Morris and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I is about to forever change the lives of the Stuart family. Hope Takes Flight is book 2 in the repackaged American Century series from best-selling author Gilbert Morris.

Download or read book When Life Takes Flight written by Sabina Jayde Danglais and published by When Life Takes Flight. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When life takes flight, should you run for cover? At the tender age of fifty, Jayde announces to her family and friends, that she's decided to move to Florida. Friends cheer her onward...family members wonder if she's going through a mid-life crisis. The struggles and changes through out her life, has left her fighting to hang on to her spirit. Her decision to resign from her job, of fourteen years, cuts her retirement benefits substantially. With the country in a recession, most jobs posted are on hold. Her on-again, off-again second marriage of some twenty-eight years may not survive this decision! br> Is it worth it? Has she made the right choice? Each attempt made to leave for Florida, is opposed by unexpected hurdles. What is it that's holding her back; why won't Texas release her?

Download or read book Directory of American Poetry Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Of Saints and Miracles written by Manuel Astur and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetic and magical ... Astur's language is meticulous and vivid."—Asymptote A literary crime novel about family conflict in the Spanish countryside: breathtaking, tragic, sensuous and magical. Marcelino lives alone on his parents’ farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countryside of northern Spain. It’s the place where he grew up, the place where he doted on his baby brother, the place where he protected his mother from their father’s drunken rages. But when Marcelino’s brother tricks him out of his house and land, a moment of anger sparks a chain of events that can’t be reversed. Marcelino flees to the wild peaks of rural Asturias, becoming a cult hero as he evades the authorities. Into this, author Manuel Astur interweaves family tales and fables about the sun and the moon, about death and love, and offers glimpses into the lives of other villagers and the history of their community. Astur’s poetic language and seamless blend of lyricism with the grotesque renders this book a treasure for the reader. Of Saints and Miracles is a sensuous portrayal of an outcast’s struggle to survive in a chaotic world of both tragedy and magical splendor.

Download or read book An Eyeball in My Garden written by Jennifer Cole Judd and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of frightening and not so frightening poems for children.

Download or read book Bird Stories from Burroughs written by John Burroughs and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bird Stories from Burroughs" is a book created after the sketches of John Burrough, an American nature writer famous for his keen observation of the animal life of the Northern states. His tales of the beautiful, feathered creatures are artistic, perceptional, and sensational.

Download or read book Taking Flight Duo written by Alexander Belyaev and published by TSK Group LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two writers, two styles, two approaches to one subject. What if a human being could fly? Join the two lions of Russian/Soviet science fiction and fantasy – Alexander Belyaev and Alexander Grin, as they explore the possibility of a flying man from their unique viewpoints.

Download or read book Metal Biology Takes Flight The Study of Metal Homeostasis and Detoxification in Insects written by Stephanie E. Mohr and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metals such as copper, iron, manganese, and zinc are clearly required for proper metabolism and development, while imbalances can lead to systemic dysfunction and disease. As a result, organisms have evolved complex genetic systems for the regulation of metal levels, including import, export, and sequestration of metals within cells and sub-cellular compartments. The study of metal biology in insects has the potential to greatly expand our understanding of metal biology. The results of such studies might point to new possible therapeutic interventions for neurological and other human diseases, as well as new strategies for insect disease vector control. The articles collected in this Research Topic comprise review and original research on metal biology in insects.

Download or read book On Flying Objects written by Emil Hakl and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prostitute wakes up one morning to discover her boyfriend has tattooed obscene messages all over her body... A woman tentatively goes back to her new boyfriend’s flat, only to find it packed with toy soldiers and intricately reconstructed war scenes... A retired pilot flaunts his wealth by keeping pets in the lap of luxury — a gold chain for his goat, even stranger indulgences for his dog... The men in Emil Hakl’s fiction are, like the title of one story, oddballs. Whether evading the expectations of adult life, or finding themselves drawn to characters they’re simultaneously repulsed by, each one holds a mirror up to the peculiar failings of masculinity. But as they carouse, argue, philosophise and binge their way through the streets of Prague, they also offer the reader stark moments of insight and pathos. Given Hakl’s flair for the surreal, his laconic sense of humour, and unflinching scrutiny of those closest to him, it’s easy to see how these stories have elevated him to the status of cult hero in his native Czech Republic. Early Press: 'Hakl's downbeat humour never flags, often tied to flashes of lyricism... Co-translators Petr Kopet and Karen Reppin capture the tarnished tenderness of these superfluous men as, inevitable as winter twilights or morning hangovers, "Sadness arrived, the king of all emotions".' - The Independent. ‘Europe is heavy with history in these stories and the traces left by cataclysm and upheaval — these are present in these tales, and yet coexist with a kind of wry and knowing playfulness.’ — AS Byatt, The Times

Download or read book The History of Living Forever written by Jake Wolff and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of life The morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conrad’s lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he was not just a chemist, but an alchemist, searching for a mythic elixir of life. Sammy’s death was sudden, yet he somehow managed to leave twenty years’ worth of his notebooks and a storage locker full of expensive, sometimes baffling equipment in the hands of his star student. The notebooks contain cryptic “recipes,” but no instructions; they tell his life story, but only hint at what might have caused his death. And Sammy’s research is littered with his favorite teaching question: What’s missing? As Conrad pieces together the solution, he finds he is not the only one to suspect that Sammy succeeded in his quest. And if he wants to save his father from a mysterious illness, Conrad will have to make some very difficult choices. A globe-trotting, century-spanning adventure story, Jake Wolff’s The History of Living Forever takes us from Maine to Romania to Easter Island and introduces a cast of unforgettable characters—drug kingpins, Big Pharma flunkies, centenarians, boy geniuses, and even a group of immortalists masquerading as coin collectors. It takes us deep into the mysteries of life—from first love to first heartbreak, from the long pall of grief to the irreconcilable loneliness of depression to the possibility of medical miracles, from coming of age to coming out. Hilarious, haunting, heart-busting, life-affirming, it asks each of us one of life’s essential questions: How far would you go for someone you love?

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Download or read book The Currach and the Corncrake written by E. Piotrowicz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widowed and now the last lonely inhabitant of a small island in Northwestern Ireland, Seán is tired, grieving, and ready to be done with his life. Long estranged from his only child, and spurred by his wife’s last words to him, Seán dreams up an elaborate plan that cannot fail to heal the rift between them—a plan that will test the strength and resolve of an elderly hero who would rather stay in his chair by the fire with a cup of tea. The Currach and the Corncrake is a heroic journey of hope and reconciliation. It is about monks, monsters, and manuscripts; boats, birds, and old bones.

Download or read book World s Greatest Classics in One Volume written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 28594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki...