Download or read book Mack to the Rescue written by Jim Lehrer and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a medical situation forces him out of the political race against a governor looking to privatize state government, Mack ends up supporting an unlikely candidate who ends up in a questionable situation of his own that throws his whole campaign into turmoil.

Download or read book Mack to the Rescue written by Jim Lehrer and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he's not anchoring the NewsHour on PBS, Jim Lehrer may be found casting a satirical eye at America's heartland in such books as Crown Oklahoma and The Sooner Spy. Mack to the Rescue is the latest of his successful One-Eyed Mack novels. Set in Oklahoma and tracing the exploits of a fictional lieutenant governor, the series allows Lehrer to address contemporary national issues with a unique blend of humor and insight. When Governor "Buffalo Joe" Hayman calls for privatizing state government, Mack decides to oppose his re-election bid, but a medical mishap prevents Mack from running. While attending a lieutenant governors' conference in Washington, he suddenly collapses. Hospitalized, he is given a heart bypass operation intended for another patient. Mack backs out of the race and throws his support behind his flaky friend and former state house Speaker, Luther Wallace. Embroiled in a medical malpractice suit while following Luther's questionable shenanigans, Mack finally has no choice but to come to the rescue when the governor's race takes a particularly ugly turn. Rife with Oklahoma-isms and brimming with memorable characters, this is political satire at its best, employing ironic twists and sharp dialogue to poke fun at government foibles. Inventive and hilarious, it demonstrates once again that Lehrer knows Middle America and its ways all too well.

Download or read book The Sooner Spy written by Jim Lehrer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant governor "One-eyed Mack" is left in charge of Oklahoma just when a foreign spy turns up and the state is overrun by secret agents.

Download or read book Aliens Rescue written by Brian Wood and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Marines are the elite military fighters of the future, battling alien threats across the galaxy. One hero has the chance to fight alongside Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks, who saved his life from Xenomorphs so long ago. Following the events of Aliens: Resistance, Alec Brand, the colonist rescued by Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks, has grown up into an elite Colonial Marine. A secret mission brings him back to the Alien-infested moon where he was rescued...and face to face with the past. Brian Wood (Massive, Aliens: Defiance) joins artist Kieran McKeown (Halo: Lone Wolf) for an action-packed battle against a dangerous alien threat. Collects Aliens: Rescue #1-#4.

Download or read book Tag Book Included Ozzie and Mack and Toys to the Rescue written by LeapFrog Enterprises, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Big Rig Rescue Big Rescue written by Chris Gall and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Gall gives truck books a fresh set of wheels in a bright story of wreckers, tools, towing, and teamwork. When a semi-truck crashes in the snow, Big Orange is ready. With a crane, chains, a webbing strap, outriggers, and a winch, Orange will get the semi back on its wheels—and when the job is too tough to tackle alone, Big Blue is there to help. Together they get the semi free and upright. Now, Orange is ready to tow the semi back to the shop, but a storm is coming.?.?.?.?Good thing Blue is around to help when Orange hits ice! With lively storytelling and engaging artwork, acclaimed author-illustrator Chris Gall motors through a brave and stormy tale of big-rig gadgets and collaboration.

Download or read book Incoming written by Richard Mosse and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major humanitarian and political issue of our time is migration and with his latest video work, Irish artist Richard Mosse has created a searing, haunting and unique artwork. Projected across three 8 meter wide screens, the film is accompanied by a loud dissonant soundtrack to create an overwhelming, immersive experience. Moving from footage of a live battle inside Syria, in which a US aircraft strafes Daesh positions on the ground, to a scene showing pathologists extracting DNA from the bones of unidentified corpses of refugees drowned off the Aegean island of Leros, the film opens a testimonial space of historical document bearing witness to significant chapters in recent events mediated through an advanced weapons-grade camera technology. Narratives of the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, are captured using an extremely powerful thermal camera not generally available to the public. This super-telephoto military camera can perceive the human body beyond 50km day or night, reading the biological trace of human life. The camera translates the world into a heat signature of apparent temperature difference, producing a dazzling monochrome halo-image which alludes literally and metaphorically to hypothermia, climate change, weapons targeting, border surveillance, xenophobia, and the bare life of stateless people.

Download or read book Catching Light written by Roy M. Anker and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anker examines 19 popular films, showing how they convey a range of striking perspectives on the human encounter with God. Organized by genre, these selected films present different, surprising ways in which God shows up amid the messy circumstances of life.

Download or read book Six Weeks to Live written by Catherine McKenzie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this internationally bestselling “suspenseful story that will keep you reading past your bedtime” (Kaira Rouda, USA TODAY bestselling author), a woman diagnosed with cancer sets out to discover if someone poisoned her before her time is up. Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor’s appointment: she has a terminal brain tumor—and only six weeks left to live. Stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family close by her side. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she’s determined to discover who might have tried to get rid of her before she’s gone for good. Separated from her husband and with a contentious divorce in progress, Jennifer focuses her suspicions on her soon-to-be ex. Meanwhile, her daughters are each processing the news differently. Calm medical student Emily is there for whatever Jennifer needs. Moody scientist Aline, who keeps her mother at arm’s length, nonetheless agrees to help with the investigation. Even imprudent Miranda, who recently had to move back home, is being unusually solicitous. But with her daughters doubting her campaign against their father, Jennifer can’t help but wonder if the poisoning is all in her head—or if there’s someone else who wanted her dead. “Part whodunnit, part family drama, this textured and utterly spellbinding story unravels in surprising ways you won’t see coming” (Christina McDonald, USA TODAY bestselling author).

Download or read book Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers written by Chris Grabenstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you add up 1 middle-school bully 2 bank robbers 57 dogs in peril 4,000 missing dollars and 5 daring troublemakers led by the one and only Riley Mack? 1 crazy caper! In this merry, mischievous romp, master storyteller Chris Grabenstein introduces Riley Mack—a twelve-year-old hometown hero you'll never forget.

Download or read book Love You Wild written by Becka Mack and published by Nielsen. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattered. That's the best way to describe Claire Thompson after the ultimate betrayal. When her long-term boyfriend cheats on her, Claire decides she's done with men. Maybe forever. Healing the pieces of her broken heart seems like too impossible a task. Rumor has it the best way to get over someone is to get under someone new, but a rebound is the last thing she wants or needs, and she's definitely not letting her guard down for anyone, especially not for charming, sexy-as-sin, multi-millionaire playboy Avery Beck. Avery Beck, womanizer extraordinaire, prefers his women with no strings attached. Until he sets his eyes on Claire. As fiery and feisty as her hair, with stubbornness and tenacity to match, he's sure he's never worked harder for anything. Avery is determined to tear her walls down one piercing gaze, one lingering touch, one sweeping kiss at a time. He's never given up before, and he doesn't plan on starting now. Will Avery's wild heart finally be tamed? Or will this be the one time the relentless millionaire doesn't get what he wants?

Download or read book Last Mission written by Lisa Childs and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the best-laid plans can go up in flames… Mack McRooney is retired from military special ops, but there’s one final mission he has to take on—catch the saboteur targeting his brother-in-law’s firefighting team…even if that means becoming a firefighter himself. Partnering with state trooper Wynona Wells, however, was not part of the plan. Mack and Wynona are fighting their fiery attraction to one another and a deadly saboteur. And if they lose this fight, they might just also lose their lives… From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Hotshot Heroes series: Book 1: Red Hot Book 2: Hot Attraction Book 3: Hot Seduction Book 4: Hot Pursuit Book 5: Hotshot Hero Under Fire Book 6: Hotshot Hero on the Edge Book 7: Hotshot Heroes Under Threat Book 8: Hotshot Hero in Disguise Book 9: Hotshot Hero for the Holidays Book 10: Hunted Hotshot Hero Book 11: Hotshot's Dangerous Liaison Book 12: Last Mission

Download or read book Captain Mack and the Monstrous Moon Mites written by John Lomas-Bullivant and published by Walker. This book was released on 2010 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action, drama, silliness, naughtiness and comedy abound in this full-colour comic book for newly-independent readers, based on the popular CITV series. Captain Mack is on an outer space rescue mission to save some stranded astronauts from a fuel leak in their space shuttle. But some nasty alien Moon-Mites are lurking in the moon craters. Fortunately Captain Mack's got an arsenal of superpowers and gadgets he can use to thwart them, and save the hapless astronauts. There's not much time to kick back and relax after his exploits before disaster strikes once again in Sunshine City. Oh no! It's a disaster! Never fear, Mack is here! Sky Rockets to the Rescue! The bright and colourful comic-strip format makes this accessible series a terrific choice for newly-independent readers. It is full of action, humour, adventure, rockets and a reassuring theme of good versus naughty. It is based on the popular CITV series, which has its own website featuring games and downloads for the fans. Captain Mack introduces a wonderfully benign superhero to the very youngest of readers.

Download or read book Frog and Fly written by Jeff Mack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six slurpy stories, two comical combatants, and one laugh-out-loud picture book Frog and Fly are constant companions. There is only one problem . . . Frog thinks Fly is delicious! This leads to a never-ending battle of wits with laugh-out- loud consequences. Told in six short comic stripstyle chapters, Frog and Fly will delight kids and leave them begging for yet another slurpy story.

Download or read book Speaking of Jesus written by J. Mack Stiles and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gospel really is the best news anyone will ever receive. So why do Christians shy away from talking about Jesus outside of church? And, when they do speak of Jesus, why do they often get a disinterested or scornful reponse? Mack Stiles offers a wealth of answers, ideas and stories in this heads-up, hands-on evangelism handbook. His creative strategies for reaching an ethnically, culturally, economically, educationally, geographically and ideologically diverse world with the best news ever are drawn directly from his own work as an evangelist in today's student world. In Speaking of Jesus he shows readers how to keep their eyes open for "divine appointments," how to approach others with a servant spirit, how to cross relational barriers, how to simply tell one's own story of faith, and how to answer questions with honesty and confidence. Speaking of Jesus may well be an Out of the Saltshaker for the 1990s and beyond. With contagious enthusiasm, Stiles stresses that evangelism isn't about exhibiting superhuman courage or perfecting specialized techniques or exercising extraordinary gifts. Instead, he shows that people of faith can use everyday situations and everyday language to pass on the simple--and simply wonderful--news about Jesus.

Download or read book The House That Mack Built written by Susanna Hill and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mack is the foreman who is building a house in this new three-dimentional pop-up board book. The cumulative text, based on the familiar rhyme 'This is the House that Mack Built', desribes each machine and process as it happens. There is the excavator and the 'cement mixer churning around, that poured the foundation into the ground'. There are the carpenters and the 'roofer, with balance so light, who nailed down the shingles nice and tight'. And of course Mack who oversees the whole construction. Ken Wilson-Max's dynamic illustrations and paper engineering pop-up on each spread bringing to life the building a house.

Download or read book Shoot em Up written by Janey Mack and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mob’s running guns—and her family’s running wild. Meter maid turned undercover cop Maisie McGrane managed to survive her first sting operation with just a few minor stab wounds—and some lingering emotional scars. An assassination attempt on the mayor brings the ATF and DEA to Chicago, and they’re counting on Maisie’s underworld connections to help them infiltrate and cripple a cartel running guns and drugs into the city. But she won’t be going it alone. The DEA’s hand-selected charismatic hard-case Lee Sharpe as her partner and protector. And he’s taking his assignment seriously . . . in every way. But with her meddling Chicago PD family threatening to expose her true identity at any moment, Maisie will have to scramble to stay one step ahead of them, the cartel, and her new partner before her cover is shot. Praise for Time’s Up “Mack’s outstanding debut conjures equal parts Janet Evanovich and Michael Harvey... A fast and furious plot that expertly balances menace and laugh-out-loud hijinks.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Mystery buffs will not only be swept up in the ingenious and well-crafted plot but will love the irrepressible Maisie.” —Library Journal, Starred Review