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Tripping Over is a true story of life in post war England in the 1950s and 1960s. It tells the story of John, who grows up in the shadow of his dad, a returned war hero. John senses he is different but not in a good way and knows he has big shoes to fill. He is not coping well. Beleaguered and confused, poor judgement and clumsiness dog his every move. When his parents visit the annual Earl's Court Motor Show to buy a new car but return with a boat instead – turmoil follows. Later he is...
| Автор | John Hickman |
Violet Rose is a self-proclaimed sixth grader super-sleuth, a foster child who discovers that many of the people in her normal suburban town are actually supernatural beings hiding in seemingly ordinary lives. With best friends Lindsey and Ciara, a spirit from a Renoir painting, Violet is a little detective that never gives up, solving cases after her homework is done while learning about the magical gift her grandfather gave her before he passed. Featuring exclusive pages and bonus character...
| Автор | Emma Davis |
Have you ever gotten so sick of idiots in the «Government» telling you how to run your life, what speech is permitted, what medical procedures you will have, what vaccinations to take? Tired of being lied to, taken to war, or carted off to prison for a «thought crime»? <br />Have you ever just wished to be King of your own island country so you can tell everyone else to «screw off»? <br />Let me tell you about the twisted path I was compelled to take in me efforts to find freedom...
| Автор | Dr. Steve Rolland DC |
A young person follows his parents to Australia after his family fled Syria. After time in a refugee camp his family comes to settle in Sydney. There Simon begins to develop his natural abilities as a footballer. He takes baby steps at first then striding out into the world of professional football. Soon his coaches realize how special his talents really are so they mark him down for future greatness. But life as a professional footballer has its own problems. Simon will need a lot of support....
| Автор | Greg Pius |
The Light Where Shadows End is more than a war story; it is a story about spiritual transformation; about transcending war through love and reconciliation, about healing through faith and forgiveness. <br />Cantalupo is a war hero, and a witness. He shares the intimate details of war crimes and terrifying battles, of brutal inhumanity and extraordinary kindness, of pointless death and enduring survival. <br />His story takes us on a journey into death’s far reaches and transcends the...
| Автор | rg cantalupo |
I started writing poetry to honor my dead mother who loved poetry. Poetic verses grew inside my mind as I watered them with my own observations. By settling on writing only short poems I give time poor readers a chance to get a quick 'bite" of reality. This is why I call them 'fast poems'. In this time of global crisis our own emotions are exposed to great stress. My fast poems attempt to expose futile attempts to master stress but also to praise the brave ones.
| Автор | Gregory J. McKenzie |
This is the early years in a story about a most remarkable female. Peacemaker at birth she goes on to bind an extended family in times of enormous upheaval. There are many problems for Rosie to overcome. Her birth mother dies when she is two so this infant is raised by her grandmothers. Her two brother fight continually with Rosie often having to seperate them. Once Rosie goes to school she is targeted by trolls. Then she has to watch her best friend attempt suicide. \\\but everything works out...
| Автор | Gregory J. McKenzie |
"The Bulk Challenge Experience" is a story of a dreadful journey and near catastrophe on a leaking ship, during the fracas of the Liberian Civil War in 1996. Bound for Ghana, the 1500-capacity fishing vessel was over-loaded with nearly 4000 passengers and several tons of cargo. The anticipated 3 days journey turned to 10 unforgettable and miserable days on the Atlantic Ocean, with no food, water or medication. How did the passengers make it? The author tells of his personal experience on...
| Автор | I. Ezax Smith |
YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR FIRST TIME…as gourmand and gourmet author William Maltese proves in this charming memoir, wherein he reminiscences about his first-time encounters with thirty of his favorite menu items during his extensive world travels. Maltese, author of six cookbooks and his WILLIAM MALTESE WINE TASTER'S DIARY volumes for mainstream publisher Wildside/Borgo Press' «Traveling Gourmand» series, takes you on a fascinating culinary journey from the pubs of Ireland, to the lemon...
| Автор | William Maltese |
This book is written by a person with autism who did nt find out till he was 17 years old. It covers everything from what to look for in a little kid to what to look for in a adult. From the 36 most asked questions asked by people to people with autism. The difference between temper tantrums and autism. That a meltdown looks like and what a shutdown looks like. why stimming is a necessary part of autism and how to make it work for the person with autism. About his life story fro earliest...
| Автор | Jeremy Tolmie |
William Augustus Bowles – a British Loyalist during, and for a quarter century after, the American Revolutionary War. Part soldier, part dreamer, and part adventurer, he went from service in the British Army to joining the Muskogee Peoples, rising to be a respected war chief among the Native Americans. He waged war on the Spanish and fought to create a Native American state.<P> His story embodies the idea of the individual hero: Bowles is resourceful, far-seeing, and selfless, always...
| Автор | Joseph J. Millard |
Steve Biko made a deep impression on youngsters in his hometown, Ginsberg. Among them was Xolela Mangcu, who here delves into Biko's own childhood: Steve as prankster at Forbes Grant school, and his lack of interest in politics – until, at St Francis College, his brother Khaya is arrested and Steve too is bundled into a police car. Mangcu looks at how Biko has affected the course of his own life – and at the legacy he left, giving us the courage and the language to claim our freedom.
| Автор | Xolela Mangcu |
In the early twentieth century, money, power, and reputation were king. With outlaws like Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson roaming the streets, it was a lawless time, with lawless individuals taking their fates and fortunes into their own hands.Emmett Long was one of them. Bank robber, moonshiner, gambler, and—on occasion—even a killer, he made his own rules. But he varied from the typical story. Instead of dying at the young age of thirty-something in a blaze of guns and fury, he lived to...
| Автор | Asa Dunnington |
Between the years of 1996-1999, Gint Aras lived a hapless bohemian’s life in Linz, Austria. Decades later, a random conversation with a Polish immigrant in a Chicago coffeehouse provokes a question: why didn’t Aras ever visit Mauthausen, or any of the other holocaust sites close to his former home? The answer compels him to visit the concentration camp in the winter of 2017, bringing with him the baggage of a childhood shaped by his family of Lithuanian WWII refugees. The...
| Автор | Gint Aras |
“The Colorado River speaks,” Will Falk insists in How Dams Fall . Written while Falk was involved in the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking personhood and rights of nature for a major ecosystem, the Colorado River, this essay, at once lyrical and analytical, explores the American cultural, and his personal, relationship with one of the world’s most famous—and most misunderstood—rivers. Responsible for speaking on the...
| Автор | Will Falk |
From the small-world accidents of finding lost toys and meeting old friends in strange places, to apparent twists of fate that lead to historical events, people continue to find meaning in coincidence. In Great Pan is Dead , author Eric D. Lehman investigates this phenomenon through the lens of his own mysterious stories and ponders how the puzzles of our lives fit together. From a frightening encounter in England’s Lake District to a moment of transcendence in the Sistine Chapel,...
| Автор | Eric D. Lehman |
Before you were born, I went on a journey that would take me around the world completely, a spherical, three-dimensional journey. A journey of dirt and blood. A journey of taste and bodily sensation. A journey of texture. I am writing you because I want you to live in this world, to feel it in its fullness, its depth. I want you to fall in love with the world, flawed and sorrowful as it is. Your lives and the world as a whole—these are indistinguishable to me—depend on this.
| Автор | Theodore Richards |
Falling Up is a moving personal essay about the struggle to become an authentic, vulnerable, purpose-driven man in the 21st century and, ultimately, about making one’s dream a reality. Along the way, award-winning poet, Scott Edward Anderson learns to see the world anew through the eyes of his children, through a deep engagement with the natural world, and through learning—and teaching others—to tell stories in a more personal way. Falling Up is a late...
| Автор | Scott Edward Anderson |
My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world.–from the IntroductionActual reader feedback:"I am completely baffled as to how you can congratulate...
| Автор | Tucker Max |
When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell—and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death’s door....
| Автор | Kenneth McKenzie |
Walter Stansell of Straffordville, Dan Sarazin of Golden Lake, and Henry Taylor of Bancroft did what they had to do to preserve some of Canada's rural history. Stansell preserved the age of steam by building working models of machines used during the past century. Master canoe make Dan Sarazin (Chief White Eagle) has given many hours of his time to the preservation of old Native skills. Taylor still builds hand hewn log cabins, splits his own shingles with pioneer tools and carves reminders...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Banished from Earth over three thousand years ago by a powerful young Celtic King, the demon named Noro has had time to plot his revenge. Summoned back from the dark abyss of nothingness, Noro is unleashed by those who wish to use him for their own gain. A young video gamer born with the heart and soul of an ancient warrior, Justin, escapes the monotony of his daily life by spending every waking hour living in an online fantasy world. Forced by fate, Justin must now confront real life to save us...
| Автор | Michael Kutcher |
So much has been left unsaid about the passing of legendary music innovator Prince Rogers Nelson. Prince, a prolific musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Purple Rain,” “Batdance,” and more, challenging even the “King of Pop,” Michael Jackson, for chart supremacy during the 1980’s. “Tribute: Prince Rogers Nelson” features new pages and a special cover by rock artist David Frizell.
| Автор | Michael L. Frizell |
Kraken stands revealed, and it's time for war! The Academy is under siege from the evil Kraken, who has been pulling strings from behind the scenes since before the girls met. We also take a closer look at Gloss, the loner of the group. The strongest and most mysterious of the group, Gloss has been hiding a secret from the others, something that might just tear them apart, right when they need to be their strongest. Horrible things have happened to the other girls, and Gloss has to make a...
| Автор | CW Cooke |