Download or read book Patti and the Briefcase written by Evelyn Wagner and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please Mother, write what happened when you and Dad were in Canada. Write it all out so I can have it. And so this book was born--made as a gift to our daughter. I felt I remembered every word--every detail because the summer of '53 had burned itself into my memory never to be erased. The incidents that seem particularly amusing now, were extremely painful at the time. Some were intensely embarrassing. I told them to no one. I am no longer that shy farm girl from Central Oregon. Now I am happy to share with you the way my God was always there when needed, and how He used unexpected ways to solve unexpected problems.
Download or read book Patti s Journey in Faith written by Evelyn Wagner and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patti sat there pleading for God's protection. Was this the way the boat felt out on the Sea of Galilee when the disciples were so afraid? She tried to picture Jesus right beside her on a plane that felt like it was out of control. Patti watched the lightning as it flashed outside her window. She thought about their guardian angels riding along with them. Grow with Patti (Evelyn) on her journey. A journey of faith, prayer and love. Share the tears and joys of a young wife, mother, and daughter learning to trust and to lean on her Best Friend. Let her encourage you and reinforce your faith as you also find the same inner strength. Patti serves a BIG God. Join her as she discovers just how much God cares about her, and realize her God is your God too.
Download or read book COLD CASE SQUAD written by John F. Nolan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Sergeant Patricia (Patti Mac) McAvoy’s career was turned upside down when an undocumented Mexican teen-aged boy was found strangled, floating in a 55 gallon drum in South Oyster Bay, Long Island. Inspection revealed he was carrying rosary beads and wearing a diaper. Simultaneously, McAvoy was transferred to Nassau County, NY, Homicide Squad South as a public relations ploy. Following a hostile reception from woman hating Detective Captain Peter J. Brennan, Patti was handed a cold case squad and exiled to an attic stacked floor to ceiling with cold cases. Brennan saddled Patti with four detectives, culled from his bad boy list, turning her assignment into a set up for failure. Outwitting Brennan by using guile and ingenuity, Patti led her team to a daring manslaughter arrest. Taking note of Patti’s leadership, a detective confided about his case of a murdered boy in a floating barrel, inexplicably removed from the active murder list and placed in the dead file as a special investigation. Patti attempted to re-open the case and ran into the infamous police “Blue Wall of Silence.” Patti browbeat Brennan into releasing the case. Breaching the “Wall,” cold case squad yielded two “persons of interest,” a prosperous attorney and a Roman Catholic Monsignor who was the Police Commissioner’s twin brother. Patti discovered the meaning of the ‘loneliness of command’ as she descended into the squalid world of sexism, racism, corruption and worst of all, pedophilia. The gruesome trail took her to the pillars of society. Patti found herself in the crosshairs of vile violent men, who would love to put a bullet between her eyes. The investigation exposed a massive political cover-up leading to the top of the food chain and ripped open a sleepy suburban county with the arrests of a powerful figure and Brennan.
Download or read book The Briefcase written by Charles Holt and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is money truly the root of all evil? When Chester Harte finds a briefcase full of money—lots of money—a battle of wits ensues between the naval engineer and a dogged DEA Special Agent. From the Florida Keys to Connecticut casinos and some of the country’s best-known racing tracks, The Briefcase takes the reader on a riveting adventure as several parties join in the hunt for the missing sting money. Relationships blossom, wither, and are challenged; and mafia and drug cartel involvement lead to violence and murder. All the while, Chester Harte must race to stay one step ahead of those intent on recovering the briefcase.
Download or read book Measuring Leadership Development Quantify Your Program s Impact and ROI on Organizational Performance written by Jack Phillips and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prove the financial value of your programs—so funders can’t say no “Not measuring the impact of leadership development is like dieting without weighing-in. This outstanding book offers a very logical and practical approach to measuring the impact of leadership development.” —Dave Ulrich, Professor, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and partner, The RBL Group “This book explains many of the reasons why current leadership development practices miss the mark. A must-read for anyone who wishes to implement a meaningful strategy for developing leaders in their organization.” —Rajeev Peshawaria, Executive Director and CEO, iclif Leadership and Governance Centre “Leadership development is an area we instinctively know we need in organizations, but we struggle with how to link it to results. Patti, Jack, and Rebecca make measurement a clear and simple process.” —Whitney Hischier, Assistant Dean, Center for Executive Education, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business “Measuring Leadership Development is one of the best business road maps I’ve seen in quite some time. These three doctors of philosophy offer the right prescription for ailing corporations in today’s business climate. I highly recommend it as an essential navigational tool in any corporate handbook.” —Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers MOJO and What Got Your Here Won’t Get You There “In addition to synthesizing and integrating various streams of information into something meaningful and compelling, the authors outline the fundamental questions that anyone who truly cares about making a difference should answer and they also provide pragmatic approaches and applications to insure high impact.” —Teresa Roche, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Agilent Technologies About the Book: Leadership development is one of the driving forces behind strong organizational performance. However, when executives look to run their organizations leaner, they view it as a luxury. Now, Measuring Leadership Development gives talent managers a full toolkit for presenting their leadership development programs in terms of identifiable business benefits, including—for the first time—an accurate bottom line for return on investment in the program. Jack and Patti Phillips have set the standard for ROI Methodology, and here, with Rebecca Ray, they show you how to measure, in real numbers, the impact a leadership development program has on an organization. This complete package gives you sought-after advice for developing leaders with a conveniently measurable, results-based approach as well as the tools you need to collect, analyze, and report relevant data. With this one-of-a-kind book, you can get up and running fast to: Design, deliver, and sustain a periodic ROI evaluation process Provide executives and stakeholders with the confirmable data they demand in terms they understand Use your evaluation data to drive improvement in your organization Effectively value the ROI of a leadership development program using the same standard ratio accountants use for equipment and buildings Colorful case studies from some of the world’s best-known companies illustrate how to establish best practices and avoid common pitfalls. You will turn to this book again and again for its authoritative, go-to advice and techniques. Take the lead in improving your company’s performance with Measuring Leadership Development.
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Download or read book She ll Never Tell written by Hunter Morgan and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book of a romantic suspense trilogy. When overweight, insecure Marcy Edmonds awakens from a coma, plastic surgery and weight loss has turned her into the woman she's always wanted to be. Someone is now paying attention, and he thinks she's exactly the kind of woman he'd love--to kill. Original.
Download or read book Washita Love Child The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis written by Douglas K. Miller and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I first met Jesse Ed Davis in the late ’80s. . . . [He was a] gentle yet intensely present giant who was a legend of an artist. . . . In Washita Love Child, Jesse Ed Davis is resurrected in story.” —Joy Harjo, from the foreword No one played like Jesse Ed Davis. One of the most sought-after guitarists of the late 1960s and ’70s, Davis appeared alongside the era’s greatest stars—John Lennon and Mick Jagger, B.B. King and Bob Dylan—and contributed to dozens of major releases, including numerous top-ten albums and singles, and records by artists as distinct as Johnny Cash, Taj Mahal, and Cher. But Davis, whose name has nearly disappeared from the annals of rock and roll history, was more than just the most versatile session guitarist of the decade. A multitalented musician who paired bright flourishes with soulful melodies, Davis transformed our idea of what rock music could be and, crucially, who could make it. At a time when few other Indigenous artists appeared on concert stages, radio waves, or record store walls, in a century often depicted as a period of decline for Native Americans, Davis and his Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, Seminole, and Mvskoke relatives demonstrated new possibilities for Native people. Weaving together more than a hundred interviews with Davis’s bandmates, family members, friends, and peers—among them Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Robbie Robertson—Washita Love Child powerfully reconstructs Davis’s extraordinary life and career, taking us from his childhood in Oklahoma to his first major gig backing rockabilly star Conway Twitty, and from his dramatic performance at George Harrison’s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh to his years with John Trudell and the Grafitti Man band. In Davis’s story, a post-Beatles Lennon especially emerges as a kindred soul and creative partner. Yet Davis never fully recovered from Lennon’s sudden passing, meeting his own tragic demise just eight years later. With a foreword by former poet laureate Joy Harjo, who collaborated with Davis near the end of his life, Washita Love Child thoroughly and finally restores the “red dirt boogie brother” to his rightful place in rock history, cementing his legacy for generations to come.
Download or read book HEART SOUL ROCK N ROLL written by Janet R. Stafford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindsay Mitchell has hit forty - and hit it hard. Although she has a fulfilling vocation as an assistant minister at a central New Jersey church, she now finds herself wondering what the next twenty years of her life will be like. In particular, she looks fondly back on the good old days with her college band, the Poison Pen Society. "I just want to rock one more time before I die," she tells friends Sue and Patti. Someone must have been listening. When Patti invites Lins to spend her vacation at Point Pleasant Beach she meets Neil Gardner, front man for the Grim Reapers - and Neil is looking for a new female lead singer. But agnostic Neil and his complicated, messy life might just be more change than Lins has bargained for.
Download or read book The Woman Who Was the Corridor written by Tannie R. Meader and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman Who was the Corridor chronicles the most secret and subtle invasion imaginable. Its not only an exciting adventure, but also an amazing one, as a Texas ATF Agent tries to discover the truth in the darkest heart of Louisiana. The Woman Who Was the Corridor reveals not only the footprints, but also the heartbeat of aliens in our world. They are here and the truth is now! Andie Blue thought she was on the southern singing tour of her dreams; she was wickedly used and ensnared by The Corridor. ATF Agent, Martin Evans, was on the trail of a gun smuggler when he ran into The Corridor and lost the only thing he ever loved. Deia Rankin has a ceramics production firm, the old family plantation, and a son who resurrects the dying. She has fought her way to national recognition as an artist and as a very astute business woman, and has revitalized her Louisiana hometown. Her nights are disturbed by an unseen Presence as she becomes the corridor for transdimensional aliens. Reaching all the way to the United States Senate, her story involves the ATF, alien technology, and terrifying changes to human bodies. The trail of transdimensional aliens leads to Washington. A Louisiana Senator has called in a national archives scribe who has purloined the encrypted entry, but only the Senator knows the whole truth about The Woman Who was the Corridor and how to use it. Before he ever thought of becoming a sentor, Jamie Philpot was her lover and Martin Evans was his enemy.
Download or read book A Relentless Hope written by Gary E. Nelson and published by Gary Nelson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Depression and related illnesses threaten to wreck the lives of many teens and their families. Suicide driven by these illnesses is one of the top killers of these young people. How do teens become depressed? What does depression feel like? How can we identify it? What helps depressed teens? What hurts them? How do families cope with teen depression? In A Relentless Hope Gary Nelson uses his experience as a pastor and pastoral counselor to guide the reader through an exploration of these and many other questions about teen depression. Nelson has worked with many teens over the years offering help to those who find themselves confronted by this potentially devastating attacker. The author also uses the story of his own son's journey through depression to weave together insights into the spiritual, emotional, cognitive, biological, and relational dimensions of teen depression. Through careful analysis, candid self-revelation, practical advice, and even humor, this pastor, counselor, and father reminds us that God's light of healing can shine through the darkness of depression and offer hope. A Relentless Hope is written for teens, parents, teachers, pastors, and any who walk with the afflicted through this valley of the shadow of death. Endorsements: ""Whether you are a youth struggling with depression, a family member of a depressed teen, or a pastor, counselor or teacher providing support and help in such circumstances, this book is a must read as the most informative and helpful volume available on the subject."" --Merle R. Jordan Professor of Pastoral Psychology Emeritus, Boston University School of Theology ""This story of a family is an incredible gift of honest reflection. So many families deal with the issue of teen depression. . . As the dean of a theological school I am aware of the numbers of youth that my students deal with who are in this book. Depression, self-medication with alcohol and drugs, self doubt and even considerations of suicide as an answer--all are in our communities and probably in even a small church. This book is about an attitude that avoids denial, attempts to keep a sense of humor, and believes in the miracle of life. Thank you, Tom, for allowing your story to be told."" --Maxine Clarke Beach, Vice President and Dean, Drew Theological School This is a story of amazing grace! I love the challenge Gary gave the reader throughout the book: ""Never give up on loving!"" I was reminded in a very tangible way of the limitless capacity of God who loves us the same way--He never stops! What an incredible mantra for all of us: ""Never give up on loving. . . . Never!"" I wonder how different our world would be if we practiced this command? --Rev. Dale Seley, Pastor Downtown Baptist Church, Alexandria, Virginia About the Contributor(s): Gary E. Nelson, DMin, is a United Methodist minister who for thirty years has worked with teens and their families as a local church pastor and as a pastoral counselor. He currently pastors a church in West Virginia.
Download or read book Solemnly Swear written by Nancy Moser and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of four jury members serving on a manslaughter trial.
Download or read book Hearts on a String written by Kris Radish and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Kris Radish delves deeply into the emotions of five very different women who are thrown together by chance—only to discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. Holly Blandeen has always cherished the story her grandmother told her about the thread that connects all women, tying them forever in sisterhood. It’s a beautiful idea, but with all the curveballs life has thrown her way, Holly has often felt isolated, different from other women. That starts to change when she meets four strangers in an airport and they agree to share a luxury hotel suite because a powerful spring storm is barreling across the country, stranding travelers from California to Florida. What begins as a spur-of-the-moment decision becomes an unlikely, unexpected, and sometimes reluctant exercise in female bonding, as these five exceptional women—each at a crossroads—swap stories, share secrets, and seek answers to the questions they’ve been asking about life, love, and the path to true happiness. A storm may have grounded them for the moment, but after this wild adventure in which anything can and does happen, they’ll never have to fly solo again.
Download or read book The Lure of the East written by Marilyn Jenkins-Madina and published by Rodin Books + ORM. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable journey of one of the first women to become a curator of Islamic art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and an internationally recognized scholar in the field. As a girl growing up in Frenchtown, New Jersey, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina recalls first learning about the Egyptian pyramids in sixth grade. That discovery opened her mind to the possibility of not only learning more about worlds far removed from her small-town existence, but of actually experiencing them and living them. Throughout her life, opportunities to follow uncharted roads have presented themselves in ways that she has not dismissed. It has been the driving force in her career and her life. She became a curator of Islamic art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and an internationally recognized scholar in the field. She took more than 50 international trips, most of which were to the Middle East, at times and in locations where women were not exactly respected or welcomed in a capacity of authority. She came to enjoy an enduring friendship with Kuwaiti royalty. And, last but certainly not least, she became the wife and partner-in-adventure of a wonderful gentleman from Damascus who was a professor at Columbia University and also a Kurdish agha. From the banks of the Delaware to the shores of the Arabian Gulf and beyond, The Lure of the East: A Curator's Fascinating Journey is the story of her remarkable journey. Dr. Jenkins-Madina began her long curatorial career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1964. Having received her B.A. from Brown University in 1962, she continued to pursue her education while working at The Metropolitan Museum, earning both her M.A. and Ph.D. during this time. From her initial appointment as Curatorial Assistant, she rose through the ranks during her forty-year tenure as curator in the Department of Islamic Art and was named Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2004. This memoir is meant to inspire others to dare to take their own road less traveled.
Download or read book Fraudulent Intention written by Scott Hilsen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of a corporate deal gone bad and the internal investigation that exposed a shocking online fraud. For SouthPoint Bank, its purchase of Internet Connections, or ICon, was a risky way to boost its stock price, and the deal was rushed so that the Chairman of SouthPoint could stay in power. For ICon, being acquired by SouthPoint was its last chance to cash in on the Internet boom, but the President of ICon was looking for more than money he needed a way to escape a secret that ICon had been concealing through a conspiracy of fraud. After an insiders tip, SouthPoint launched a surprise internal investigation of ICon. When the investigators found a connection between ICon and the Russian Mafia, the investigation suddenly turned into a dangerous race against the clock to expose the fraud and to save SouthPoint from financial ruin. From Andorra in the Pyrenees Mountains to Antigua in the Caribbean Sea, Fraudulent Intention$ twists and turns around the shadowy world of online adult entertainment.
Download or read book The Good the Bad and the Guacamole written by Rebecca Adler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tex-Mex waitress and part-time reporter Josie Callahan is about to serve up some Lone Star justice in this spicy Taste of Texas Mystery from the author of Here Today, Gone Tamale. Tourists are pouring into the town of Broken Boot for the annual Homestead Days Music Festival. Opening the celebration at Two Boots dance hall is smooth-talking country singer Jeff Clark, the ex-boyfriend of Josie’s best friend, Patti Perez. When the charming Clark woos Patti onstage in an attempt to rekindle some sparks with his old flame, Josie fears her friend will end up as just one more notch on the singer’s guitar strap. To impress her editor at the Broken Boot Bugle, Josie and her Chihuahua, Lenny, pursue the singer to Patti’s house, hoping for an interview. Instead, they discover Clark facedown in a bowl of guacamole with a bloodied guitar at his side. With Patti suddenly a murder suspect, Josie must use her reporter skills to find out who had a chip on their shoulder—before the killer double dips.... INCLUDES TEX-MEX RECIPES!
