Download or read book How Come Nothing Ever Kills Granddad written by Patrick M. Sheridan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seventy years, Pat Sheridan has lived an extraordinary and lucky life. He faced life's problems without ever losing his sense of humor, his spirit, or his optimistic outlook. His autobiography takes us inside a family of twelve children, raised in Detroit, and shows us the funny side of growing up in a large family in the post war years. He gives us a very candid look at life in the United States Army in the nineteen sixties. His civic and political activities led him to meetings and shared speaking engagements with U. S. Senators, Vice Presidents of the United States, and a meeting in the Oval Office with President Richard Nixon. We follow his business career with a no-holds barred look at the people he worked with as he progressed toward becoming the Chief Executive Officer of several companies. As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a Fortune 500 company, he worked with the financial giants of Wall Street. Pat and his wife, Diane, took their family on annual vacations that eventually brought them to thirty countries. His insights and the humorous incidences that they encounter make for an irreverent tour guide for traveling abroad. Having survived several cancer operations, hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes, dozens of kidney stones, and more than a dozen other surgeries and diseases, he calls himself, God's lab rat. His latest cancers led his granddaughter to ask her mother, "How come nothing ever kills granddad?"

Download or read book Men of the White Sandy Vol 1 written by Sarah M. Anderson and published by Sarah M. Anderson. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to the White Sandy, where the cowboys are the Indians, but they also drive pickup trucks, have cell phones and occasionally advanced degrees. Change is coming to the White Sandy reservation--will the men of the Lakota tribe find their place in this new world with their women by their sides? The Medicine Man: The White Sandy Reservation needs a doctor, and Madeline Mitchell needs to do a little good in the world. It seems like a perfect fit, until she meets the medicine man, Rebel Runs Fast. As far as Madeline can tell, Rebel's sole mission is to convince her patients that modern medicine can't help them. And the fact that he makes her heart race every time he looks at her only irritates her more. Rebel swore off the white man's world—and women—years ago. But he's never met a woman like Dr. Mitchell. She doesn't speak the language, understand the customs, or believe he's anything more than a charlatan—but she stays, determined to help his people. He tries to convince himself that his tribe doesn't need her, but when patients start getting sick with strange symptoms, he realizes that he needs her more than ever. Originally published as Mystic Cowboy (2013): The Rancher: Mary Beth is the kind of woman who wishes she had a five-second delay on her mouth. The swath of verbal destruction she leaves is why she goes west to start over. But any resolve to hold her tongue is lost immediately when she meets Jacob, a Lakota cowboy who says next to nothing – especially about the black leather mask that covers half his face. Jacob’s silence is his armor in a white man’s world, but even that isn’t enough to protect him—or the mute girl he guards—from forces he can’t control. Fascinated by the masked cowboy and drawn to defend the girl, Mary Beth finds herself in the middle of a decades-old power struggle that only she could talk her way out of. Originally published as Masked Cowboy (2013) The Shadow: Nobody Bodine is a nobody who came from a nobody and will always be a nobody. He disappears into the shadows—no one sees him if he doesn’t want them to. He exists in neither the white man’s world nor the tribe’s, dispensing vigilante justice when he sees fit. Until Melonie Mitchell shows up on the rez. From the first moment he lays eyes on her, he can tell there’s something different about her. For the first time in his life, Nobody feels like a somebody in her eyes. Melonie has come west to run the new day care on the White Sandy Reservation. When she discovers that Nobody a self-appointed guardian angel for the boy in her care, she’s intrigued. But how far will he go to keep the boy safe? And will she be able to draw him into the light? Originally published as Nobody (2015)

Download or read book Manitou Canyon written by William Kent Krueger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cork O'Connor disappears days before his daughter's wedding while searching for a missing grandfather.

Download or read book Touch the Top of the World written by Erik Weihenmayer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done). From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life into something truly miraculous. "An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine."—Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air

Download or read book Road Through Midnight written by Jessica Ingram and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places are interspersed with oral histories from victims' families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera. With Road Through Midnight, the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance and transforms the way we regard both what has happened and what's happening now—as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.

Download or read book Theda Surviving the Past and the Present written by Theda Brothers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: none

Download or read book Never Stop Shutting Up A Book of Advice and Other Things You Didn t Ask For written by Mike Falzone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Falzone makes videos on YouTube. He talks about things you should and shouldn't do in your day to day life. More importantly, he thinks he knows everything. "Honest and funny, in the same vein as Greg Behrendt and Chelsea Handler, this is the bible of good advice that you probably didn't take but really should have". Meghan Tonjes - YouTube Celebrity "Mike's one of the funniest people I've ever met, and I once did a Google Hangout with Richard Dreyfus. Seriously, I've done that." Travis Helwig - @FriendfromHS "Mike Falzone taught me all sorts of stuff about myself. Like the fact that I completely love Mike Falzone. Can any other author tell you that? Absolutely not. Also, I finally learned what 6-year-olds smell like." Jenny Jaffe - College Humor

Download or read book Degree of Guilt written by Barbara Harken and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a year of teaching rotten students and dealing with an even more rotten boyfriend in Chicago, Maggie Witkowski wants to enjoy her inheritanceher grandparents lakeside cabin in northern Wisconsin, the idyllic summer retreat of her childhood. As she begins cleaning the neglected cabin, Maggie has no idea that the past is about to catch up with the present in a way she never could have imagined. With most of the cabins heirlooms sold by her mother, Maggie is left with nothing but her memories and a multitude of problems. Worse, the townsfolk who doted on Maggie as a child have branded her grandfather a murderer. And then there is the ghost who suddenly makes his appearance known. Dead since 1963, Larry Denison is helplessly attached to the Witkowski cabin. A rascal during his life, he must now perform a good deed before he can gain entrance to a happy eternity. Unfortunately, Maggie, whom he sees as the pain in his side, is his only way outand up. In this intriguing mystery, a woman defending her grandfathers name must brave insults, pranks, and assaults on her life to find the truth and ensure justicewith the help of a ghost with his own agenda.

Download or read book If I Ever Get Out of Here written by Eric Gansworth and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name. Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white kids being nice to him -- kids like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend? Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock 'n' roll.

Download or read book Shaking the Sugar Tree written by Nick Wilgus and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous -- and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stone’s throw away from Dumpster-diving. Noah was a meth baby and has the birth defects to prove it. He sees how lonely his father is and tries to help him find a boyfriend while Wiley struggles to help Noah have a relationship with his incarcerated mother, who believes the best way to feed a child is with a slingshot. No wonder Noah becomes Wiley’s biggest supporter when Boston nurse Jackson Ledbetter walks past Wiley’s cash register and sets his sugar tree on fire. Jackson falls like a wet mule wearing concrete boots for Wiley’s sense of humor. And while Wiley represents much of the best of the South, Jackson is hiding a secret that could threaten this new family in the making. When North meets South, the cultural misunderstandings are many, but so are the laughs, and the tears, but, as they say down in Dixie, it’s all good.

Download or read book Polish Cinema Today written by Helena Goscilo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much more accessible system of film production, with growing expertise in distribution and marketing. By the early 2000s, an impressive, diverse cohort of filmmakers broke through the gridlock of a small set of esteemed, aging auteurs as well as the glut of imported Hollywood blockbusters, empowered by the digital revolution and domestic audience appetite for independent work. Polish directors today challenge sacrosanct bromides about national and gender identity, Poland’s historical martyrdom, the status of the influential Catholic Church, and the benevolent family, while investigating the phenomena of migration and sexuality in their full complexity. Each thematic chapter places these recent films within a historical/cultural context nationally and transnationally, and designs its analyses of specific works to engage general audiences of film scholars, students, and cinephiles.

Download or read book The Doomsday Medallion written by Avanti Centrae and published by Thunder Creek Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next standalone installment of the #1 international bestselling "Da Vinci Code meets Tomb Raider" VanOps thriller series is a heart-stopping story of spies, lies, and family ties. WINNER, POLITICAL THRILLER OF THE YEAR - BESTTHRILLERS.COM BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GLOBAL THRILLER FINALIST - JUNE 2022 CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS Sixteenth-century French prophet Nostradamus predicted the Great Fire of London, Napoleon’s conquest, Hitler’s rule, and the atomic bomb. Can the VanOps team keep the old seer’s secrets out of blood-stained hands? Aikido black belt Maddy Marshall is celebrating the completion of her black ops training when news of a military takeover in the South China Sea shocks the world because it was predicted by a sixteen-year-old French student. When intel chatter spells danger to Avril, the young seer, VanOps Director Bowman assigns Marshall and her twin brother, Will Argones, to protect the girl. Emotions between the siblings are running hot due to their aunt’s recent stroke, which has reminded them of the childhood accident that scarred both his chin and her heart. Tensions ratchet higher when they arrive at Avril’s home to find the instant social media star has been kidnapped, leaving them with only clenched fists and cryptic clues that lead to a formula encoded on an etched-bronze medallion. While Taiwan fears an invasion that will set off an apocalyptic chain of events, Marshall and Argones race through medieval French towns, Italian cathedrals, and ancient Greek temples attempting to find Avril before their enemies use the girl to discover the Holy Grail of military intelligence. If the team fails, they won’t need a crystal ball to know millions of innocent souls will be destined to join Nostradamus in the afterlife. The Doomsday Medallion is an electrifying, globe-trotting thriller that delves into humankind’s timeless fascination with prophecy and illuminates the mesmerizing and dangerous potential of a weaponized oracle. Fans of Dan Brown, Steve Berry, and James Rollins will get an adrenaline rush turning the pages of this standalone thriller. "With a jaw-dropping, rewarding twist at the end, every mystery, crime, and thriller fan should read Doomsday Medallion." —San Francisco Book Review “Epic.” —BestThrillers.com “Masterful. A perfect blend of roller-coaster thrill ride and historical revelation.” —David S. Brody, bestselling author of Cabal of the Westford Knight "An action-packed, high-stakes journey through ancient European landmarks in search of a secret so powerful it can explain the past and predict the future." —Al Pessin, multi-award-winning author of the Task Force Epsilon thrillers "One of the best thrillers of the year." —Rick Treon, author of Divided States, a 2021 Best Thriller Book Awards finalist Awards and critical acclaim for the VanOps series: THE LOST POWER (VanOps #1) won: - Genre Grand Prize - Chanticleer International Book Awards - Honorable Mention - Hollywood Book Festival - Bronze Medal - Wishing Shelf Book Awards SOLSTICE SHADOWS (VanOps #2) won: - Global Thriller Genre Grand Prize - Chanticleer International Book Awards - Bronze Medal - Readers' Favorite Awards "The Lost Power opens a tantalizing new series that combines historical mystery and cutting-edge science into a masterwork of international intrigue." ~ James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author "...a good ole' fashioned rip-roaring adventure from start to finish." ~ Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author "From Mexico to Jordan, the action never stops until the nail-biter of a conclusion." ~ Chico Enterprise Record

Download or read book Find Him written by Alice Hayes and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day Gabriel tells Mary she will carry the son of God, Lucifer comes up with a plan. A short time later, he announces that he intends to use his gift of being invisible to God to break him and then partner with Satan to rule the world. But before the two dark souls can unfurl their plan, they must first wait until the humans want Jesus Christ dead. While Lucifer starts rumors, recruits men for the Roman Army, and tortures Christians, he asks Satan to distract God by having fun with Jesus. Under no circumstances is Satan to kill Jesus. After Jesus is led to the cross and eventually laid to rest in a sealed tomb, Lucifer and Satan move the stone that blocks the entrance, and abduct Jesus. As God and the arch angels are left confused, the world tumbles into chaos. Will anyone be able to find Jesus or will the Savior remain missing forever? In this dramatic tale, Satan and Lucifer abduct Jesus Christ and lead the world into uncertainty as a battle between good and evil ensues amid a desperate search to find him.

Download or read book Once Upon a Cowboy written by Stina Lindenblatt and published by Stina Lindenblatt. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinderella's fairy godmother just turned hot. And male. Very, very male. My three priorities in life have always been: the horse ranch I manage with my brothers, my family, and my best friend, Sophie West. Sophie is the ranch’s horse trainer—or as we call her, our horse whisper. She’s hot as hell, but mixing business with pleasure never ends well. Been there. Done that. Had it branded on my ass. But apparently Sophie’s biological clock is ticking. She’s let it slip that she’s ready to find her soul mate or at least a nice man. The first problem? She’s socially awkward around any guy she’s interested in. The second problem? If she doesn’t find her true love in town, our ranch could lose the best damn horse trainer around. Problem number three? She wants me to be her “fairy godfather” and help her become more confident. We’re talking lessons on kissing and clothing-optional activities so that she can ask out the new vet in town. Which is problem number four—and the biggest issue of all. I want to be her Prince Charming. But I’m going to have to put my heart on the line to win hers. Once Upon a Cowboy is a standalone romance. All the books in the series can be read in any order. KEYWORDS: cowboy love, cowgirl, happily ever after, love books, love stories, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, small town romance, small-town secrets, smokin’ hot cowboy, small town romantic comedy, contemporary romance, contemporary western romance, family saga, guaranteed HEA, handicap, learning disorders, no cliffhangers, siblings, brothers, steamy romance, western romantic comedy, cowboy romantic comedy, friends-to-lovers, cinderella romance

Download or read book London Theatre Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fool s Gold written by Albert William Palmer and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TALE OF TIME TRAVEL, LOVE AND MURDER! It’s 2015 and Patsy Lyndell, cub reporter for the Tucson Clarian, and Joe Mack, an Arizona State Patrolman, investigate a double homicide on a lonely road near Slag, Arizona, an old ghost town. It’s 1885 and Pete Larkin, an Arizona Ranger, and his young friend Jimmy Sullivan, investigate the murder of Pete’s pa and his pa’s best friend on a lonely road near Slag, Arizona Territory. It’s 2015 and Antonio Piazza DeAngelo has found a way to travel though time. Planning to steal treasures from the past, he defies his grandfather Vincente Piazza DeAngelo, a reformed mob hitman. Accidentally, the time machine brings the four investigators together, suspecting that the murders in 2015 and 1885 have been committed by the same killers. It’s 2015 - The grandfather fears that his grandson’s plans to loot the past could change the course of history and perhaps their very existence. It’s 1885 - Pete and Patsy discover they have found the missing pieces to their lives, but with little hope they can bridge the time gap. It’s 1850 - It all comes crashing down in a climactic battle between Antonio and his grandfather, and with the help of the two lovers, resolves to turn Antonio’s greed into Fool’s Gold.

Download or read book Theatre Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: