Download or read book Thirty Seconds to Midnight written by ELGIN J. DOBBINS and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is a complex creation and has become more so over the millennia. When one considers how far the world has come since creation, and the direction in which it is going in the modern era, something must be done. Into this world we see Richard Moses who is a simple man with old fashion values. He lives in a part of the country where these traits are admired. Richard Moses is a man of conviction and has always tried to do the right thing in everything he does. Th is has endeared him in the eyes of the Lord. Because of this, GOD looks upon him with favor; and because of his righteous living, GOD chose to visit him. Th e purpose of the visit from the Lord was to tell him about an event that would change the world forever. GOD charged him with letting the world know about this event. Richard reluctantly takes on the task, but did not realize how diffi cult it would be. Every form of human emotion is experienced, and he becomes the apex of a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. Th e sacrifi ces he made in the name of GOD were enormous; and potentially lethal to him and selected members of his family.

Download or read book Songs written by Michael Smith and published by epubli. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs - A collection of 10 short stories. The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines - A lucky weekend in Las Vegas. Hocus Pocus - A Magician uses real magic. Don't Worry About the Government - A US politician tells the truth; a Political Fantasy? Joys Of Christmas - Santa needs a minder. County Fair - Following a serious accident, a woman waits for her memory to return. P. Machinery - Political memoirs of popular deception, from the late-1990s. Medicine Show - A hair-raising story from way out west. The Happening - The truth about Area 51? Becalmed - A businessman is given an opportunity to re-assess his priorities. The Voice - A man gets more than he bargained for from his computerized home.

Download or read book Thirty Seconds Before Midnight written by Helen J. Beal and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the old money runs out and the new money rolls in? Welcome to Bestwood, a dilapidated estate in the wilds of the English countryside where Herbert, a giant land tortoise presides over the tatty menagerie. The zookeeper, Bob, and his daughter Stella are mystified when rock legend Dave Palmer arrives with his twin sons; that is, until they announce their plans to reinvent Bestwood as 'Palmer Springs - Where Hope Is Eternal' - a luxury refuge for creative souls - and no place for a menagerie. This contemporary retelling of the classic Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, takes sex, drugs and rock and roll, mixes them up with doses of evolution and pantheism and swings between comedy and tragedy.

Download or read book General George Hannibal Busch written by David L. Chisling and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And now for something completely different--Monty python The world the truth! An original history book of political satire fantasy, about the glorious president and military occupation of Iraq. The roots and background of this book come from my university degree in Classic History, combined with a profound interest in Military History. This knowledge triggered a simple and intriguing idea during the heated U.S. Presidential election of 2004. I observed that the U.S. Militarys invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, reminded me of General George Armstrong Custers Indian Campaign of 1876. The never-ending bloody fight in Iraq against savage enemies by the U. S. Army, appeared similar to Custers epic massacre of the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Little Big Horn. I started making several jokes about this at my workplace, and the jokes expanded into a book idea. I now give you the futuristic fantasy tale of General George Hannibal Busch, and the epic Battle of the Little Big Oil Well in the great U.S.-Iraq Wars of the 22nd Century! This book will expand into a series, covering the overall War on Terror.

Download or read book RUBICON written by Barry T. Childs and published by Barry T. Childs. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RUBICON is the story foreshadowing the next September 11th attack; you want your government leaders to read before the next attack. RUBICON, a cybersecurity thriller, is an epic battle of good versus evil where Xander Ridge and Paul Ross are locked in a fight to control the ultimate cyberweapon —hospitals collapse —planes fall from the sky —power and communication grids collapse —financial markets and economies plummet —the fate of the world to hangs by a final thread on the precipice of Armageddon on the hope that Xander Ridge vanquishes Paul Ross. Imagine you awoke to sporadic power outages, traffic backing up behind failing traffic control lights, the trains stop, and a series of bizarre news podcasts sharing odd stories of chaotic financial markets and empty bank accounts. You roll over, snatch up your phone –the battery almost depleted, and check your bank account –your money is gone. Your stomach snarls and pits as the fear grips you. The phone goes dark. A sinister force helps Iranian agents avenge the assassination of General Soleimani by murdering American and British deep-cover spies and coordinates global cyber-attacks —leaving the world with one hope: Xander Ridge. Only Xander can stop Ross and his axis of evil. Paul Ross and his evil partners unleash hell with asymmetrical warfare, bringing the world to Hell's precipice. With the world on the precipice of Armageddon, the American President presses Ridge into service to defeat Paul Ross. Paul, jealous and spiteful of Xander's success, holds firm that he is the preeminent cyberweapon designer. Paul Ross will stop at nothing —to destroy Xander's life and business to steal Rubicon. Ross brings the fight to Ridge. Ross drags Ridge through hell—ceaselessly attacking Ridge's conviction to secure Rubicon. Ross is incapable of producing a Rubicon-esque cyberweapon. Ross must force Ridge to use a version to steal Rubicon's code. Ross unleashes a cyberattack, crashing a commercial airliner. After the crash, Xander realizes that Ross wants Rubicon at any cost. Ross poisons Amelia, Xander's terminally ill daughter, with a dastardly cyberattack, altering the chemical makeup of the IV fluids and medicines. Ross tries to crash Xander's plane. Unable to kill Ridge, Ross unleashes the cyberweapon on civilian aviation —spinning the world into terror. Upping the pressure on Ridge, someone orders an attack on Xander's home, endangering the Ridge family. Xander must come to terms with the fact that he must use Rubicon to stop Paul. RUBICON is the story you want to read before the world darkens.

Download or read book A Choice of Love written by Dean Robbins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder and Revenge Rock a Sleepy Minnesota Community Average people get entangled in web of crime and love in new book When a troubled young mother is violently murdered, everyone becomes a suspect in A Choice of Love (published by iUniverse), the debut novel by Dean Robbins. Philip Cellars lives a quiet life in the sleepy town of Eagleview, a suburb to Minnesota's Twin Cities. Harsh winters and an introverted nature keep Philip mostly to himself, but the one constant in his life is Kelly Worth, his neighbor, friend and coworker. Each morning, the two ride together to work and enjoy a pleasant companionship. When Philip pulls up in front of Kelly's mobile home one frigid November morning, he senses that something is amiss when she's not outside waiting for him. When he goes in to check on her, Philip is stunned to discover Kelly's lifeless body surrounded by blood and covered in stab wounds. Detective Mike Silverton is assigned to the case and immediately begins an investigation. Ostensibly, the main suspect is Gerri, Kelly's ex-husband and the father to their one-year-old daughter, Stephanie. Detective Silverton arranges for the child's babysitter, Jill Watkins, to care for the child while the investigation gets underway. As Philip and Jill get to know one another and bond over their grief in losing Kelly, Det. Silverton's investigation reveals that Kelly had told friends she had a boyfriend in the days leading up to her death. Philip finds himself one of several additional suspects, and the plot further thickens when Jill shoots and kills Gerri in self-defense. Falling madly in love and eager to get custody of the now-orphaned Stephanie, Jill and Philip spontaneously decide to get married. Jill becomes distant following a miscarriage at the wedding and Liz, a lawyer who's been advising Philip throughout the whole ordeal, has fallen in love with him. When the newlyweds' home is burned down, and the brakes are cut on Liz's car, it's clear that someone still has a score to settle. Will the truth come to light before it's too late, or will the killer finally exact revenge? Find out in the mesmerizing pages of A Choice of Love, a novel that skillfully blends romance and suspense until its surprising end.

Download or read book Paper Soldiers The War Writers written by Kelly Chance Beckman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN EPIC STORY OF HEROISM BY FOUR HEROES. A WAR HERO, A PEACE PROTESTER, A NEWS CORRESPONDENT IN THE WAR, AND A WRITER IN AMERICA. THEY WERE THE GOOD GUYS FIGHTING TWO WARS. IT IS A LOVE STORY OF AMERICA IN TIMES OF WAR AND PEACE. THE HIDDEN TRUTH AND LIES COME TO LIGHT. THE VILLAINS ARE MANY AND POWERFUL, USING THEIR POWER AND MONEY TO KEEP THEIR WAR PROFITS HIGH. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WAS PAYING A HIGH PRICE FOR THEIR GREED, CORRUPTION AND CONSPIRACIES. THE SOLDIERS FOUGHT FOR THEIR BELIEFS AND AMERICA IN A WAR TURNED AGAINST THEM. IT WAS BETRAYAL AND TREASON OF THE HIGHEST WAR CRIMES. THE TRIAL FOR TREASON WAS THE ANSWER. THE WAR WRITERS SURVIVED THE CENSORS AND GOVERNMENT WHO PAINTED A ROSY PICTURE WITH THE FALSE TRUTH. IT WAS FACT: VIETNAM WAS WON ON THE BATTLEFIELD; BUT GIVEN AWAY AT THE PEACE TALKS. ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHAME! THE WAR WRITERS AND NEWS CORRESPONDENTS GAVE THEIR LIVES SO AMERICA MIGHT RETURN TO THE BEAUTIFUL, WITH TRUTH AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

Download or read book On the Clock written by Emily Guendelsberger and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she travelled to North Carolina to work at a call center, a place where even bathroom breaks were timed to the second. And finally, Guendelsberger was hired at a San Francisco McDonald's, narrowly escaping revenge-seeking customers who pelted her with condiments. Across three jobs, and in three different parts of the country, Guendelsberger directly took part in the revolution changing the U.S. workplace. Offering an up-close portrait of America's actual "essential workers," On the Clock examines the broken social safety net as well as an economy that has purposely had all the slack drained out and converted to profit. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to get the job done. Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest - and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity. On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans.

Download or read book Damaged Goods written by Stephanie Gagne and published by Gagne & McCraw. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supremacy, Immortality and Demonic Magic. Welcome to Terra, where a third of the Realm is owned by the sons of the God of Wrath, Forrest and Jason Carson. Journey alongside the brothers and learn their past as they struggle with the God of Death, his Hunters, and two unlikely companions: Lola Hart, the cyclone of Chaos, and Vitane Todd, a Human with a slim chance of survival. Tensions will rise to new heights and the Omne will be hurled into its greatest discord.

Download or read book Midnight s Children written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker prize and twice winner of the Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children is "one of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" (New York Review of Books). Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication--with a new introduction from the author--Salman Rushdie's widely acclaimed novel is a masterpiece in literature. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

Download or read book The Prophecy Collection The End Times Survival Guide The Coming Apostasy Russia Rising written by Mark Hitchcock and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three popular books, now collected for the first time in one special edition! We live in a world that seems to be on the verge of coming apart. Shootings. Killer viruses. The threat of nuclear war. All of it is just too real. What is happening in our world today is moving Christians to return to the foundations of our spiritual existence. Believers everywhere must get back to what matters most. We must always remember our battle, at its most basic level, is spiritual. In The Prophecy Collection, popular Bible teacher Mark Hitchcock helps you discover spiritual insight and spiritual tools to understand what’s happening—and to prepare for the future—through three important works: The End Times Survival Guide The Coming Apostasy (coauthored with Jeff Kinley) Russia Rising As we prepare for the Lord’s coming, it’s time to understand the biblical truths you need to know in order to face an increasingly decaying, darkening world. No matter what the future holds, anchor your spiritual health and welfare on the immovable rock of God’s Word.

Download or read book The Four Flashpoints written by Brendan Taylor and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely account of the four most troubled hotspots in the world’s most combustible region Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, and its regional ambitions are growing. Reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may be assembling more nuclear weapons, despite diplomatic efforts to eradicate his arsenal. Japan is building up its military, throwing off constitutional constraints imposed after World War II. The United States, for so long a stabilising presence in Asia, is behaving erratically: Donald Trump is the first US president since the 1970s to break diplomatic protocol and speak with Taiwan, and the first to threaten war with North Korea if denuclearisation does not occur. The possibility of global catastrophe looms ever closer. In this revelatory analysis, geopolitical expert Brendan Taylor examines the four Asian flashpoints most likely to erupt in sudden and violent conflict: the Korean Peninsula, the East China Sea, the South China Sea and Taiwan. He sketches how clashes could play out in these global hotspots and argues that crisis can only be averted by understanding the complex relations between them. Drawing on history, in-depth reports and his intimate observations of the region, Taylor asks what the world’s major powers can do to avoid an eruption of war – and shows how Asia could change this otherwise disastrous trajectory.

Download or read book Dollars and Change written by Louis G. Putterman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In short, Putterman connects the field of economics with other important spheres of life, building bridges of understanding that are too often absent in the study of economics.".

Download or read book International Relations and the Problem of Time written by Andrew R. Hom and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is time and how does it influence our knowledge of international politics? For decades International Relations (IR) paid little explicit attention to time. Recently this began to change as a range of scholars took an interest in the temporal dimensions of politics. Yet IR still has not fully addressed the issue of why time matters in international politics, nor has it reflected on its own use of time -- how temporal ideas affect the way we work to understand political phenomena. Moreover, IR remains beholden to two seemingly contradictory visions of time: the time of the clock and a longstanding tradition treating time as a problem to be solved. International Relations and the Problem of Time develops a unique response to these interconnected puzzles. It reconstructs IR's temporal imagination by developing an argument that all times - from natural rhythms to individual temporal experience - spring from social and practical timing activities, or efforts to establish meaningful and useful relationships in complex and dynamic settings. In IR's case, across a surprisingly wide range of approaches scholars employ narrative timing techniques to make sense of confounding processes and events. This innovative account of time provides a more systematic and rigorous explanation for time in international politics. It also develops provocative insights about IR's own history, its key methodological commitments, supposedly 'timeless' statistical methods, historical institutions, and the critical vanguard of time studies. This book invites us to reimagine time, and in so doing to significantly rethink the way we approach the analysis of international politics.

Download or read book The Theology of The United Church of Canada written by Don Schweitzer and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Church of Canada has a rich and complex history of theological development. This volume, written for the general reader as well as students and scholars, provides a comprehensive overview of that development, together with an analysis of this unique denomination’s core statements of faith and its contemporary theological landscape. When the Methodist, Congregational, and Local Union Churches in Canada, as well as most of the Presbyterians, came together as The United Church of Canada, the theological commonalities between them were significant. Over the succeeding decades, this made-in-Canada denomination has continued to define its convictions through consensus-building and large-scale studies. This volume, written by leading scholars, outlines key faith perspectives in areas such as creation, the Trinity, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, sin, mission, and sacraments. No book like this has appeared in over seventy years, and readers will find insight here that is unparalleled in its scope. In creative tension with each individual member’s freedom of conscience, the United Church as a whole has continued to express its commonly held faith in dialogue, continuity, and critical interaction with the faith of the worldwide, historic Christian community.

Download or read book Mother s Voice on Season s Wind written by Henry Howard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of my writing, like much of the way I live and view the world, has been shaped by my mother. We were close enough to be part of each other's heartbeats, and when she died, on May 26, 2008, everything about her simply became part of me. We thought alike on every major subject, so this volume of poetry is both a tribute to, and a reflection of, everything she stood for and believed in. The poems are mine, but the voice is hers, speaking through my words. At the same time, the various sections accurately reflect the experiences, challenges, triumphs and losses that have made me the independent person I amalways shaped, at least in part, by my mother's influence. In this volume, you will read my words and hear my mothers voice on every seasons special wind, a calm and steadying voice on the endless winds of change.