Heroes of the Hook
Author: John Hollands
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780904596038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Hollands
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780904596038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric Rieseberg
Publisher:
Published: 2014-07-30
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780692242261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In high school, Eric Rieseberg's parents were advised their son should pursue a trade rather than go to college. Eight years later, at age twenty-six, he became the youngest-ever CEO of a community hospital. How? Eric sums it up in one word: "heroes." Eric grew up in a dysfunctional family with a military dad and a mom who suffered from mental illness. By the time his family moved to Manhasset, New York, a hamlet on the north shore of Long Island, Eric had moved seven times. He never particularly cared for textbooks, wasn't a studious kid, and never brought home a report card with an A on it. Manhasset High School has always ranked in the top one hundred high schools in the country, and the year Eric entered Manhasset High, it was ranked in the top ten. There he was: a non-academic young man who was suddenly injected into one of the best high schools in America. At Manhasset High School, Eric was introduced to lacrosse, and played on the school's championship team. As a lacrosse player, he endured the first of many "face plants," (literally and figuratively) he would have throughout his life. And it was also through lacrosse that Eric met his first hero. Throughout his life, Eric has been blessed to have five men in his life, his heroes, to whom he attributes his ability to recover from his many face plants. Each of his heroes came along at a tipping point in his life, and helped him overcome the odds and change the outcome that might have been. Heroes Alongside Us is both a tribute to the men who were the key to his success and a case for the crucial role of heroes. Written for guys and the women who love them, this book is both hilarious and heartbreaking, as Eric shares his story to exemplify how heroes help foster success-sometimes against all odds.
Author: John McDermott
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006-08
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0595392318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The wounded soldier winced as he groveled in the wet and muddy shell hole trying to find more cover. The explosion of artillery shells made his ears ring and fear forced him into a fetal position. Each time he moved, pain from the shrapnel imbedded in his leg, burned its way through his mind and body. The continuous bombardment sent screaming shells from the Germans answered by Allied artillery followed by earth shaking convulsions that muffled the cries of men shouting for help-praying at the top of their lungs as they died. Sergeant Handson conquered his pain and fear as he looked around for his men. They were piled like cordwood from the bottom of his shell-hole to the top. Blood and urine mingled with warm brain matter trickled down from the bodies above him. It was too much-he lapsed into unconsciousness. This terrible memory would haunt him for the rest of his life. Many nights found him weeping in his bathroom, shaking with fear-shuddering, as imaginary body fluids flowed over his skin. He never told anyone, he preferred to pray his way from their horror.
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Published: 2016-10-31
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ISBN-13: 9780989560375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Heroes of Red Hook is a collection of eighteen cosmic horror tales taking place during the Jazz Era with a very specific focus. Our heroes and heroines are the outsiders who are most often blamed (wrongly so) for the actions of various alien horrors of the mythos. Our heroes and heroines are members of ethnic and religious minorities, immigrants, independent free thinking women, those with special needs, and members of the LGBT community. This collection features people struggling to overcome not only the horrors beyond mankind's understanding, but an oppressive society seeking to deny them basic human rights.
Author: Susan Ware
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1999-07-13
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0684868725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The pages of the past are full of characters who remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of men and women, whether famous or humble. Where would America be without George Washington, or Daniel Boone, or Sojourner Truth, or Babe Ruth? Where would we be without so many characters who are less well remembered today? Historians and biographers regularly come across stories of little-known or forgotten heroes, and this book provides a chance to rescue some of the best of them. In Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five of the country's leading historians recount their favorite stories of underappreciated Americans. From Stephen Jay Gould on deaf baseball player Dummy Hoy; to William Leuchtenburg on the truth behind the legendary Johnny Appleseed; to Christine Stansell on Margaret Anderson, who published James Joyce's Ulysses; these portraits can be read equally for delight, instruction, and inspiration Taken together, however, the whole is much more than the sum of its parts. Every culture needs heroes who lead by example and uplift us all in the process. Too often lately, historians have been more intent on picking apart the reputations of previously revered Americans. At times it has seemed as if the academy were on the attack against much of its own culture, denying its past greatness while making heroes only of its dissidents and doubters. Yet as this collection vividly demonstrates, heroes come in many shapes and sizes, and we all gain when we remember and celebrate them. Forgotten Heroes includes nearly as many women as men, and nearly as many people from before 1900 as after. It expands the traditional definition of hero to encompass not only military figures and politicians who took risks for great causes, but also educators, religious leaders, reformers, labor leaders, publishers, athletes, and even a man who started a record company. Many of them were heroes of conscience -- men and women who insisted on doing the right thing, no matter how unpopular or risky, commanding respect even from those who disagreed. Some were famous in their day and have since been forgotten, or remembered only in caricature. Others were little-known even when alive -- yet they all deserve to be remembered today, especially at the gifted hands of the authors of this book.
Author: Jason Hook
Publisher: Firebird Books Limited
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781853140273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts Geronimo's art as a guerrilla fighter and the culture, life, and warfare of the Apaches.
Author: Donald E. Westlake
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: 2001-04-11
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0759522383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critically acclaimed for his recent bestseller, "The Ax, " Westlake returns with a tale of twisted psychological suspense involving two cunning authors--and one deadly proposition.
Author: Fanny E. Coe
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →True stories of ordinary people exhibiting heroism in the course of doing their jobs.
Author: Janet Benge
Publisher: YWAM Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781883002817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and first president of the United States.