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This best-selling comic series has been featured on CNN, Fox News, and OK! Magazine. Award-winning journalist, talk show host, wife and mother– Meredith Vieira is all of these things and more. At the height of her career, Meredith walked away from it all to put her family first. By refusing to compromise her beliefs and by constantly reinventing herself, Meredith is living proof that women CAN have it all. Follow along as two young girls from dysfunctional families discover the secrets of...
| Автор | Brent Sprecher |
They don't come any more desperate than this housewife. After the Blue Birds and PTA meeting, Lori Reed finds the art of assassination as satisfying as block parties. But make no mistake, Lori Reed is Lady Sniper, a venomous, heartless killer who meets her own brand of justice for the highest bidder… until she crosses paths with the Muse of Justice. The 10th Muse is about to face a test greater then she imagines, as she finds herself in the crosshairs of Lady Sniper's scope.
| Автор | Darren G. Davis |
Nelson Mandela of South Africa is one of the most important figures of the last century. He is a symbol of the struggle against racial and political oppression, and a model for sustaining that struggle with grace and decency. Born into an elite family of the Thembu people, Mandela could have had an elevated place under European control, but he chose a different route. He became a successful lawyer, political activist, national leader, fugitive guerrilla, and finally a prisoner of South...
| Автор | Clay Griffith |
This special, one shot includes bonus material never before seen. Greek mythology has documented the nine Muses, the inspirational daughters of the almighty Zeus. But history forgot one– the Tenth Muse. Emma, Brett, and Dawn were the best of friends– until Emma disappeared, leaving only a note saying goodbye. Now, eight years later, Emma is back, without answers. What happened to Emma? What is her connection with Grayson Bishop, and, most of all, how did ordinary Emma Sonnet become the...
| Автор | Marv Wolfman |
In Issue #2 of this thrilling 4-part series, Detective Darcy Walker dons a makeshift costume and hits the seediest parts of Angel City to investigate the death of her father. Unfortunately, at work she is saddled with a new partner, Det. Steve Rafferty, who is tasked to track down and bring in this masked vigilante. As her job collides with her nighttime activities, her own investigation leads her to an unlikely suspect: Dr. Noah Goddard. But how could a man who’s been in a coma for over a year...
| Автор | Paul J. Salamoff |
For comic book fans the world over, Jack Kirby was the king. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917, TidalWave Comics is now celebrating his life with their latest bio-comic «Orbit: Jack Kirby.» This new bio comic will highlight how an artist helped change the face of comic books. For almost three decades, characters were trapped within each panel, but Kirby's cinematic style broke the boundaries of the sequential boxes, as he would use the whole page as his canvas. This style of graphic story...
| Автор | Jon Judy |
OPEN THE HEART of Self-Discovery through the Life and Amazing Works of Walt Whitman<br><br>Walt Whitman was known as the "Good Gray Poet" who paved the way for modern American poetry. The epithets "good" and "gray" make Whitman sound dull to the modern reader, yet Whitman was anything but dull. <br><br>In "Whitman's Self: Mysticism in the Life and Writings of Walt Whitman," Paul Hourihan...
| Автор | Paul Boone's Hourihan |
What is a "normal childhood?" Does it include almost being murdered by your sister with an ax? Speeding around town in the back of a station wagon because your mom is chasing an "alien spaceship"? Being busted by the police for intent to light a pond on fire? Tackling your mom to the ground and wrestling a knife out of her hand because she was trying to kill your dad? While my stories may be unique, readers will be able to relate to the broader themes are part...
| Автор | Bo Bennett PhD |
This book will not teach you how to fight physically, but mentally–how martial arts training can give you a powerful, mental edge and a strong mindset. It's a book about how martial arts helped me on my personal journey–how martial arts helped me realize the power of respect, discipline, and honor. It will show the importance of controlling your focus and not letting anger, frustration, or fear destroy you. This is a simple story of an ordinary man who deeply has...
| Автор | Anthony Vano |
I first joined the fishing tackle industry as a fishing rod engineer for Shimano, this was later followed by the role of Product Manager for the fishing division. I have since moved on in my career; but as all fishermen know, you can never quite be really that far from what's true to your heart; hence my writing of this book. <br><br>In short, the book introduces the various fishing categories, walks you through the process of how a blank is made, explains blank terminology...
| Автор | Daniel Chee |
I first joined the fishing tackle industry as a fishing rod engineer for Shimano, this was later followed by the role of Product Manager for the fishing division. I have since moved on in my career; but as all fishermen know, you can never quite be really that far from what's true to your heart; hence my writing of this book. This book details some of my bittersweet and sometimes funny personal fishing memoirs which I hope would be a good read for you when you are not out on the water.
| Автор | Daniel Chee |
Sylvia Stanger has always lived in the asphyxiating brick community around Canal Street in New York City in the fifties. She never stepped over the invisible line that separated the Jews from the Italians. She was a voluptuous woman in her thirties, married to Martin who worked at his uncle's shirtwaist factory, with two young daughters.<br><br>One morning, an ordinary morning, something changed. Sylvia work up as usual one morning but the day was anything but usual....
| Автор | B. K. Smith |
Open the Heart of Self-Discovery through the Profound Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau<br><br>Henry David Thoreau was a lover of Nature and a believer in living the simple life. Using his literary gifts to write "Walden," an account of his two-year experiment at Walden Pond, he became one of America's most important writers of the 19th century. His writing has influenced leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. and continues to inspire...
| Автор | Paul Hourihan |
The Confessions of St Augustine (AD 401) is an autobiography of St Augustine. It consists of thirteen books and essentially outlines his deep regret in living an immoral youth and how he converted to Christianity. The book was also considered to be written as prayers to "God".<br><br>Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format....
| Автор | St Augustine |
In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers' Project. One of the group's most noteworthy and enduring achievements was the Slave Narrative Collection, consisting of more than 2,000 transcripts of interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple words, provided often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage....
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This sequence of authentic and audacious war-time escapes keeps the reader spell-bound from start to finish. Garry Willmott has unearthed a series of escapes which would be the envy of Houdini. From the chilling history of escapes from Colditz, escapes from comparatively humane British POW camps and from a Prisoner-of-War camp in Australia, these are all carefully selected to enthral us with the ingenuity and brazen boldness of the escapees. Each story is totally unique and each forms a contrast...
| Автор | G. S. Willmott |
Accompanied by Turkey, his little 'hunting' dog, Derek Pugh founded several outstation schools in the most remote parts of Arnhem Land and gained a rare insight into a traditional way of life which has been witnessed by only a few outsiders.<br /> <br />By turns reflective, tragic and hilarious, Turn Left at the Devil Tree is a memoir of a visiting teacher among the Indigenous people and wildlife of the Top End of Australia. It is also a history – revealing some little...
| Автор | Derek Pugh |
'Garry Willmott asked me to be a preview reader of Serendipity: A Gallipoli Love Story. Having read five of his previous books I agreed immediately. I thought I would read it in a month however once I began reading I couldn't put it down, I completed the manuscript in two days. The story begins in Tasmania and follows the main character to Gallipoli and onto his life in Turkey and beyond. I recommend this book to anybody who enjoys an absorbing story based on historical fact.' –...
| Автор | G. S. Willmott |
The story of Rosina Farrington Stone takes us from her childhood in Maine to the California Gold Rush in 1851. She was the first teacher and the first bride in Grass Valley. We learn about her family living during the last half of the 1800s in gold rush country. The story is significant to the history of Grass Valley and, thus, to the State of California. Barbara Ann Warren inherited her 2nd great-grandmother's gold thimble and wants to tell the story of Rosina's life.
| Автор | Barbara Warren |
In the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. <i>Black Cat 2-1</i> is the story of one pilot who made it home and the valiant men he served with who risked their lives for the troops on the ground. Bob Ford invites readers into the Huey helicopters he flew on more than 1,000 missions when he and his men dared to protect and rescue. For those whose voices were silenced in that faraway place or who have never told their stories, he creates a tribute...
| Автор | Bob Ford |
When her family homesteaded in 1915, seven-year-old Lenna O'Neill found her first love: the South Dakota prairie. Born in Wisconsin where her Irish immigrant father had come to study for the ministry, she discovered best friends in her pony Duke and her collie Fanny as she adapted to the harshness of prairie life. Eventually the hard times of drought drove the family back to live in a town, but she never forgot the wonders of her life as a child on the South Dakota prairie. Lenna recorded...
| Автор | Lenna Kolash |
Transgender Profiles: Time for a Change is an inspirational volume from Linda DeFruscio about the courage it takes to become the person you have always felt you were inside – to shirk off the mask that you have worn for your whole life until this moment. As an electrologist, Linda sees clients every day who are in the process of transitioning to a different gender, and she is there to help them in their journey of self-expression and the claiming of their identity. Filled with twenty unique...
| Автор | Linda Defruscio-Robinson |
Three cousins, inseparably bonded through music. Each became a star; their story would become a legend. J. D. Davis’s enthralling new biography of famous cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley, born within a twelve-month span in small-town Louisiana during the Great Depression, draws from exhaustive research and personal connections with friends and family. Davis recreates the irresistible and life-changing power of music that surrounded the cousins as boys and shaped their...
| Автор | J.D. Davis |
On an uncharacteristically warm February day in Texas, a young couple sets off in search of a new adventure. The quiet, isolated woods of the resort offer the perfect setting for a romantic weekend for two. They challenge each other to an ATV ride and start off energized, excited, and ready to explore. The adventure that follows, however, is not what they anticipated. After crossing several cattle guards successfully, Donna Valentino attempts to navigate another—only to crash into an unmarked...
| Автор | Donna Valentino |