Download or read book Chasing the Stargazer written by Ronald R. Koegler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of lifeguard days and of political boss Nucky Johnson get psychiatrist Don Carter thinking about his youth in Atlantic City. Plagued by guilt over an arrest made under the Boardwalk three decades earlier, Don returns to his hometown and finds a wasteland of empty lots and gaudy casinos. Gone is the vitality of former times, when Nucky and then Hap Farley ran the show. As Don puts it, The town has turned to shit! What he doesnt know is that the stargazer he arrested so long ago is waiting for him. Soon Don is swept up in a criminal world he does not understand. Complicating the situation is his infatuation with Laura, an old flame. In desperation, he turns to a man he has deliberately avoided for yearsBenito Desimone, his wifes uncle and a leader of the Philadelphia Mafia. Benito shares Dons love for Pirandello and uses the Sicilian author to try to bring him to his senses about Laura. When Benito makes Don an offer he cant refuse, Don has to decide whether to join forces with him. This psychological thriller reaches its dramatic climax in the mountains of North Carolina.

Download or read book K9 Partner written by Jim McIlwain and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K9 Partner By: Jim McIlwain K9 Partner is a thrilling novel about the institution of a K9 officer in the previously sleepy and crime-free town of Westfield. Randy Thompson, an officer with the Westfield Police Department, is frustrated that his town is turning into a hotbed of drug trafficking and crime. After a particularly grizzly standoff involving a domestic dispute, Randy is sent to the Southern Training Academy to train with a K9 officer. There, he meets Nero, his soon-to-be crime fighting partner. Upon their return to Westfield, Nero and Randy quickly become the toast of the town as they foil crime after crime. The culmination of their efforts together is not to be missed. This riveting novel is full of action, suspense, and hope as this unlikely duo takes on the crime threatening to tear their hometown apart.

Download or read book 22 Minutes written by Jeff Spevak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history. But he paid a price and buried the horrific memories for decades. In the manner of Mitch Albom’s highly successful Tuesdays with Morrie, 22 Minutes is a searing account of a survivor coming to terms with an incident he had suppressed for sixty years and the writer who painstakingly put together the clues about what had happened. Author Jeff Spevak was confronted with a dilemma: How do you tell the story of a man who can’t bring himself to talk about the most epic moment of his life? A clever fellow who’d scrapped to survive in a fashion that seems quaint today, Coleman tested himself as a teenager by swimming across lakes, building homes from foraged lumber, running a Navy carpentry shop as though he were a member of the scamming crew of McHale’s Navy. He was a self-taught sailor who’d become a legend on Lake Ontario. At age 96, Ernie was still sailing. Ernie Coleman talked of his life frankly – his honest remembrances of brawls and regrets. But he refused to talk about the one thing that had haunted him for decades: the sinking of his ship the Vincennes and his nightmares of men screaming in the burning sea, of incinerated corpses still manning the anti-aircraft guns. Through interviews with Coleman's family and others who knew Coleman, and arduous research Spevak finally put together what had occurred the night of the horrendous loss of his ship, the USS Vincennes, a cruiser sunk during the World War II Battle of Savo Island off Guadalcanal. Four big ships and more than 1,000 sailors were lost that night in a 22-minute battle, the worst open-sea defeat in the history of the United States Navy. Gripping, moving, highly personal, 22 Minutes is Coleman’s story of the incident he had buried for more than 60 years. Did Ernie pursue sailing with such intensity, at a time when most men his age are sitting in front of the television, waiting for the end, so that he did not have to close his eyes and remember that night on the Vincennes? “I know why those kids come back from Afghanistan and shoot themselves,” he said sadly one morning, sitting on the shady patio at his home. “You lay awake at night, reacting, reacting, reacting. Because it’s so real.” 22 Minutes has enormous potential to match some of the best-selling first-hand World War II memoirs published in recent years.

Download or read book Cup of Bitterness Cup of Joy written by Beth Nelson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-03-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cup of Bitterness Cup of Joy spans about 65 years in the lives of two young girls who were sexually abused as young children. Elizabeth is a pastor's daughter who was molested on the one occasion that she was left with someone other than a family member. Mara is the child of a woman who sells herself to men and has no apparent concern for the welfare of her child. Mara is physically and sexually abused by this woman's husband. Mara is befriended by a teenager who comes briefly into the home to escape the juvenile justice system of New York City. He takes her to New York to get her away from, 'Old Rat.' Throughout her life there are people besides George who love Mara and seek to help her, but she is unable to wholly receive this love because she has so much pain and anger as a result of men raping and generally using her. In her fear and hatred of men and unwillingness to turn her life over to the Lord, she becomes a homosexual. Elizabeth also fears men and does not deal well with relationships, but because she has a loving supportive family and looks daily to the Lord for guidance her life flows mainly in tranquil paths. However, she does not have a real relationship with a man (not sex but give and take and trust) until she meets Bart Franklin, a pastoral student, who challenges her to be honest, to put the Lord first, and not to run away from situations. This the story of two girls whose lives are briefly intertwined in childhood and then years later are interwoven by God's grace and wonder once more. Their bitterness has turned to joy. .

Download or read book Where the Mersey Flows written by Lyn Andrews and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-04-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl determines to leave her privileged upbringing behind for Liverpool's slums, but can her new life bring love and happiness? Lyn Andrews writes a compelling saga in Where the Mersey Flows - a reminder of the power of friendship, loyalty and love. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Katie Flynn and Cathy Sharp. Leah Cavendish and Nora O'Brian seem to have little in common - except their friendship. Nora is a domestic servant and Leah the daughter of a wealthy haulage magnate but both are isolated beneath the roof of the opulent Cavendish household. Instantly they recognise kindred spirits in each other. When Nora is unfairly flung on to the streets by Leah's grasping brother-in-law, the outraged Leah follows her, defiantly declaring her intention to move into a house in Liverpool's docklands, alongside Nora and her impoverished family. But nothing can prepare Leah for the squalor that greets her in Oil Street. Nor for Sean Maguire, Nora's defiant Irish neighbour... What readers are saying about Where the Mersey Flows: 'This novel is gripping and interesting... A stunning read' 'Wonderful story, as always with this author - five stars'

Download or read book BROKEN Memoir written by R. A. Rios and published by RA Rios. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Re-Release Through the short pages of this book we follow Robert as he is thrown into a life of misery and sever abuse, beaten to the point of death a number of times. He has only one life line, but that person must fight for survival as well. As I look back I often said to myself, if only I had sought mental help things may have been different. But it was so hard to admit it I needed help. So many times I have uttered these words to myself…..I will always be broken until I die!

Download or read book An Unexpected Life written by Joseph Blotner and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corrected typescript of Blotner's memoirs.

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Download or read book The Life Plan written by Jeffry S. Life and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For men seeking to make over their bodies and turn back the clock, "The Life Plan," a "New York Times" bestseller, delivers the keys to a fitter body, a stronger immune system, and a richer, fuller life.

Download or read book Where the Heart Is written by Glenice Crossland and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as The Ever Open Door, this is a story told with warmth and humour, about a hard working, down-to-earth community in a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War and its aftermath. Yorkshire, 1940: Kind Sally Butler and her husband Jim are content in their little house on Potters Row. Jim's only complaint is that Sally is too soft hearted, always at the beck and call of any neighbour, friend or even stranger. Sally, on the other hand, accuses Jim of being a soft touch for anyone after a drink or two at the Rising Sun. Both accept that neither will ever change and they love each other and their daughter Daisy deeply. Theirs is a close-knit family in a close-knit community where gossip – both good and bad – abounds and neighbour looks out for neighbour. And when Sally's generosity leads to an inheritance it should mean a change of life for the better, instead it brings danger and difficult choices for them all...

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Download or read book Blue flame written by Robert A Webster and published by Tektime. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-pace Supernatural Thriller takes you from battles raging beneath turbulent seas to the dark stillness of space, where mortals, angels, and demons, battle to mold the populus of planet earth. Death comes to us all; whatever creed, colour, religion, or gender we are, it is an inescapable fact. For most of us, our work on this mortal plane is over, but for thefew, their job has just begun. Introducing, P.A.T.H., Paranormal Assisted Treasure Hunters; three psychically gifted individuals brought together to form a powerful mediatory force between the Mortal World and the Spiritual Plane. Assisted by their spirit protectors and commissioned by lost souls, they find treasures hidden by the souls during their lifetime which they give to their mortal beneficiaries. This fast-paced supernatural thriller follows a sinister plot planned during World War 2 and instigated in the present day, as the team need to discover the connection between the demon spirit of the twentieth century’s greatest despot and his son, the current US President, in Book 1 Return of The Reich. In its race to discover another planet to colonise for its overstretched population, humanity overlooked one thing. When a planetary event occurs around planet earth, the Afterlife Guardians send the PATH team on three quests, the outcome of which will determine the fate of humankind. Should they succeed, people will continue with their safe but chaotic existence However, failure could be a terrifying, yet necessary option, in this gripping climax - book 2, Covenant of the Gods Translator: Robert A Webster PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

Download or read book Under Fire written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the epic struggle of World War II, W.E.B. Griffin’s bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfare—with new weapons, new strategies, and a new breed of warrior—on the battlefields of Korea... In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy’s report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps—and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their families, names such as Inchon and Pusan will acquire a new, bloody reality—and become their greatest challenge of all...

Download or read book Companions in Courage written by Pat LaFontaine and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat LaFontaine shares the personal details of his own struggle with depression and physical rehabilitation, as well as those other amazing athletes who were challenged by adversity and won. These are stories that will inspire others with the determination, courage, and winning spirit necessary to break through life's roadblocks and succeed.

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Download or read book Sanctuary Catch written by Pumphrey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refuge has a type of magnetic energy that pulls a certain type of person to its safe haven. For these, there is no other safe place on Earth. The people called to Refuge are special for one reason or another and do not fit anywhere else in the world. Misfits? Perhaps, or maybe just misunderstood humans whove been lost beneath the unforgiving umbrella we call normal. Its a place for doctors who have performed medically assisted suicide and were about to be incarcerated for their beliefs. A journalist might end up in Refuge because he wouldnt reveal his sources and was bound for prison. A police officer that used his weapon justly in the line of duty might avoid an unjust prison sentence by living in Refuge. However, there are others, too. Some were born with the ability to use a greater portion of their brain than others. Some were born with enhanced abilities due to a drug administered in vitro. Finally, certain residents have experimented with the occultblack or white in their dabbling. Difficult to find, Refuge seems like any other rural village in Nevada until you meet its mysterious citizens.

Download or read book Assembly written by West Point Association of Graduates (Organization). and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: