Download or read book They Call Me Jake written by Jakob Smith and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating memoir, Jakob, a Welsh-born Australian, takes readers on a remarkable journey that begins with a troubled youth and a life-changing decision. After running into legal trouble as a teenager, his family sends him off to sea on Scandinavian ships, where Jakob finds himself working out of Brooklyn, New York, joining ships engaged in global trade. It’s the era of rock and roll, with an atmosphere of freedom, free-spiritedness, and indulgence. However, tired of the endless partying and constant financial struggle, Jakob sets his sights on a new path. He travels to England, enrolls in a navigational school, and earns his license as a ship’s deck officer. But his thirst for adventure and reinvention leads him to an unexpected destination - Israel. Jakob’s love for the kibbutz lifestyle and a young woman on the kibbutz captures his heart. However, as war disrupts the region, their relationship crumbles, and Jakob finds solace in a hippie commune on the sunny shores of Eilat. Through ups and downs, Jakob’s journey takes him across continents, from the Canadian Arctic to Thailand and beyond. His tale is one of resilience, self-discovery, and the pursuit of a meaningful life amidst the challenges and uncertainties of a rapidly changing world.

Download or read book They Call Me Jake written by David W. Krieger and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After going through some life-changing circumstances and witnessing how the color or one’s skin (or fur) can affect how he or she is treated, David W. Krieger felt that telling this story through the eyes of his rescue dog was a perfect way to address the obvious racist ways people today still perceive others and act towards them. This story is intended to indirectly address issues of racism, unfair treatment, and bullying in our society today. About the Author David W. Krieger grew up in the small town of Boston, New York, a suburb of Buffalo where he enjoyed playing baseball and football throughout high school, and at Canisius College in Buffalo, where he earned a degree in Physical Education. While at Canisius, Krieger also served in the Navy reserves as a heavy equipment operator in the Seabees. After transferring to the Army reserve, he received an Army ROTC commission and served on active duty in the Medical Service Corps, earning a master’s degree in health services management from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor while at Fort Hood, Texas.

Download or read book Call Me Mrs Miracle written by Debbie Macomber and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curl up on a cozy winter night with this classic uplifting holiday story from New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Also a Hallmark Channel original movie. This Christmas, Emily Merkle (just call her Mrs. Miracle) is working in the toy department of Finley’s, the last family-owned department store in New York City. And her boss is none other than Jake Finley, the owner’s son. For Jake, holiday memories of brightly wrapped gifts, decorated trees and family gatherings were destroyed in a Christmas Eve tragedy years before. Now Christmas means only one thing to him—and to his father. Profit. Because they need a Christmas miracle to keep the business afloat. Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. She wants to give her eight-year-old nephew, Gabe, the holiday he deserves. Holly’s widowed brother is in the army and won’t be home for Christmas, but at least she can get Gabe that toy robot from Finley’s, the one gift he desperately wants. If she can figure out how to pay for it… Fortunately, it’s Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children happy, she likes nothing better than helping others—and that includes a bit of matchmaking! This Christmas will be different. For all of them. Originally published in 2010

Download or read book This Is As Big As It Gets written by Michael R. Whitcomb and published by SERENDIPITY. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jake Miller Ii written by Bill Mack and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-09-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAKE MILLER II: The Millennial Mob, starts out with Jake's sister innocently asking Jake to look into why her daughter's friend got beat up at the shore. He discovers it involves drug dealers. The situation qucikly escalates into chapter after chapter of murders, assassination attempts, explosions, drug deals, stakeouts, near death experiences, car bombs, more murders, and frame ups. This book is a follow-up to Jake Miller, and just like the first book, you'll find it tough to put this one down, and even tougher to figure out 'who-done-it?'

Download or read book Gordon Allen s Provender written by Gordon Allen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 3rd, 2013 Are we alone in this vast universe? Jake and Steven McClain had problems of their own to even consider that question, not even when the answer was an undeniable no, and staring them both in the face. Neither McClain knew of the others existence. Both faced disastrous consequences if they chose the wrong path back from hell. Jake and Steven McClain had more in common than their last names or saving their respective Clan’s from total and complete annihilation. Steven was born on a planet named Provender a world literally created by the Torill, a flesh eating race from another Galaxy. His descendants’ were brought to Provender by the Torill to proliferate and multiply into enough live flesh to sustain the Torill when they returned 200 years later to again take on the once mighty Froellian peace keepers of the Milky Way. The Torill were not the immediate problem, saving his Clan from those on Provender who had declared they would defeat and then annihilate Steven and his once mighty Blackwatch Clan was. Jake’s home world is Earth, he’d lived a sheltered life for most of his 25 years, that is until he discovered that Earth was going to be struck by not one, but two asteroids that could easily destroy the human race. What-if’s are explored in Provender, such as what if we are not alone or what if Earth is struck by an asteroid, and What if two humans with drive and determination, and who share the same ancestor’s, find each other? What then? Are humans capable, or even worthy of existing at all in the Milky Way Galaxy? Can a fledgling species just beginning its move into space unite the people of other worlds in time to stop the annihilation of an entire Galaxy by a superior force empowered by vengeance and a historical need to eat living sentient flesh? Follow Steven and Jake McClain as they discover that the Universe does not revolve around their respective worlds. That there are many sentient civilized worlds that discovered that fact long before sentient life walked on Earth.

Download or read book Where Did All These Gods Come From written by Steven Reider and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a story of archaeologist Jake Steiner who discovers the origin of the gods of mythology whether Greek, Roman, Norse, or even the gods of Egypt. He also discovers the love of his life, and through a series of events he uncovers a plot to create super-soldiers using the DNA of the skeleton of a Nephilim.

Download or read book Kingman 1971 written by Gary Reeves and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingman Ranch is the third book of the Kingman-1971 series. Brent Kingman has returned home wounded, very ill and plagued by nightmares that nearly drive him crazy at times. As lightening rips through the sky on his wedding night he reacts as if still in combat and Jamaica safety is, once more, threatened.

Download or read book Jake s Mountain written by Arlene Rose and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I hear screaming." Annie and Jake were asleep in their secluded mountain home when they awoke to the sound of someone screaming. But there were no signs of anyone there. Unscrupulous developers were trying to buy their mountain to turn it into condos, a ski resort and a uranium mine, creating an environmental disaster for the land and the town. Could there be a connection between the two? When his horse and dog are killed, Jake's brothers return home to help save the mountain and solve the mystery of the screaming. All this has only brought Annie and Jake closer together, strengthening their deep and passionate love.

Download or read book Whodunit written by Anne C Martens and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1981-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dying of the Light written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young homeless man begins helping in a retirement home. By living and working there, he is confronted more and more by the problems of aging. When asked to interview some residents for a paper he records lonely depressed men, a woman afflicted with Alzheimer's, and men and women highly alert into their nineties but physically handicapped. All residents are glad somebody is listening to them. Through their talking, Jacob realizes that to become old is hard work and his life is changed forever.

Download or read book Chasing the Big Leagues written by Brett Baker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's convinced that his baseball dreams are over. But after the 1994 Major League Baseball strike prematurely ends the season, the playoffs, and even the World Series, Jake is about to get his lucky break. Strike be damned, the owners will have a team for the '95 season, even if they have to open tryouts and spring training to anyone who can hit or throw the ball. After scoring contracts for the Toronto Blue Jays, Jake, his best friend Brian Sloan, and an unlikely cast of new teammates have just six weeks to learn how to play like never before, amid a slowly building crescendo of public curiosity, media scrutiny, and a labor dispute that could put them on the field come Opening Day—or dash their dreams at any minute. Based on the true stories of the 1994–95 replacement players, Chasing the Big Leagues is an exciting novel about shared dreams and competing interests, best friends and second chances, growing up and finding love.

Download or read book The Eighth Evil written by Dorothy K. Morris and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book in the Mockingbird Hill saga, the North and the South come together in battle again, although on a nominal scale. Anthony Parish, war weary Confederate soldier, returns home, his mind and heart set to rebuild his life on his beloved Low-Country plantation, Tally's Nook, only to find it totally destroyed by fire. In Charleston, the Perry sisters, Yankee haters both, chose to flee their confiscated home rather than share a roof with Yankee invaders and conquerors. These three converge on Mockingbird Hill plantation, already occupied by Margaret Grenville, her child and three loyal and devoted ex-slaves who refused to leave their homeland. The fireworks begin. The atmosphere becomes even more explosive when Charlie O'Donnell, Margaret's father, returns to Mockingbird Hill with two Yankee ladies in tow. Anthony's hands are already full with these pyrotechnics when he finds the Hardway orphans on his doorstep. What can he do but bring them in? He is faced with serving as peace keeper and provider to the menagerie of souls who call Mockingbird Hill their home, while he struggles to rebuild two war ravaged plantations. In "The Eighth Evil" you meet love, hatred, anger, pride, sorrow and joy. You see how some character's lives are made fuller and more beautiful when they overcome their negative attitudes, and you see how some are destroyed by clinging to useless prejudices and self-centered ways.

Download or read book Far Memory written by Sannie Patch and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is an archaeologist. While digging in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy, she dreams...? imagines...? remembers...? a 29-year period in ancient Rome where they were husband and wife and were killed in the horrendous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. He is a photographer. While taking pictures of Tibetan monasteries, he remembers a twelfth century life in Tibet where they were young lovers whose relationship ended tragically when she died in an Alpine landslide. They were fourteenth century Anasazi Indian cliff dwellers who were separated when famine and drought forced the people to leave their sacred land. They are back again as lovers in twenty-first century Los Angeles, but there are monumental problems to be overcome before they can be together. As this thriller unfolds, readers learn that sexual peccadilloes, lies, corruption, and financial extravagance by leaders of church and state were much the same in yesteryear as they are today.

Download or read book Patsy from Dakota written by Evelyn Watson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interviews written by Zada Murphy and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raise A Glass Box Set 1 written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set contains books 2-4 of the Raise A Glass series. Included titles are Never A Bridesmaid, Always A Bride; Love At First Fight; and Everything She Never Wanted. Never A Bridesmaid, Always A Bride Alyssa left fifteen years ago after falling in love with Jake. Now she's back with a string of failed marriages and more baggage than an airport. Jake found the family he'd always dreamed of having when he moved to Bereton. Losing Alyssa hurt, but he couldn't bring himself to leave her home after it became his, too. They both know rehashing the past is a bad idea, but they can't resist the pull that drew them together all those years ago. Maybe time does heal all wounds. Love At First Fight Andie never let anyone in. Even her best friend didn't know the secrets she hid. No one knew the real her. Not really. Cody loved Andie for as long as he could remember. As his best friend's little sister, he knew she was hands off, but that didn't stop him from loving her. When they're thrown together during his renovation of her house, Cody's feelings and Andie's secrets are revealed. Together they have to decide if they're meant for each other, or if it's not worth the fight. Everything She Never Wanted Henry lost his best friend years ago. She walked out of his life and never looked back. It didn't help that she left right after he confessed he was in love with her. Cynthia had big dreams of places far from her small town home. But when those big dreams blow up in her face, home is the only place left to go. She never forgot Henry, or the friendship they shared as kids, and when he needs her, she vows to make up for the hurt she caused him years earlier and be there for him. Henry knows getting involved with Cynthia will only bring him pain, but he has a hard time resisting the woman he's always loved. Especially when she seems to want him just as much.