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Author: William Gardiner Hutson
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780865341432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He seemed to work magic in the oil business as he established wildly successful ventures. California at the turn of the century was his stage and his adventures read like fiction until his luck seems to run out and he exits to China. Was he a huckster from the outset?
Author: Justin Jones
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1491767510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the 1921 race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, violence tears the city apart. One woman, Apple Lewis, is caught in the carnage. She barely escapes with her life, but luckily, two mysterious men rescue her. They whisk her away from the bloodshed and give her another chance at a mystical life she never could have imagined. Her saviors are decedents of an ancient Native American tribe referred to as Spirit Walkers. The Spirit Walkers discovered the fountain of youth, and now Ms. Apple is offered the opportunity to share their immortal gifts. Upon acceptance of their offer, her travels take her away from Tulsa and on an enigmatic journey as the world changes around her. Her passage through time and place is not without threats, however, as villains long for the secret of her eternal youth. To protect herself, she receives other strange gifts from the Spirit Walkers. Ms. Apple has the chance to see the world turn for decades and decades without fear of age or death, but that does not make her immune to horror or conspiracy.
Author: Alan C. Shapiro
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2002-02
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0595213375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jim Carlson’s most vivid memories of childhood are of his estranged father’s obsession with parring the Savage. Located on the island of Caramus, the 458-yard, par 4, 16th hole at Wild Links has presumably never been parred. At age twenty-five, Jim sets off to Caramus. Over the course of this golfing weekend, his life is forever transformed. There is the beautiful Tina, who presents Jim with a challenge to rival his own dream of parring the Savage. And there is John; a handsome, solidly built enigma of a young man who can knock the cover off a golf ball and plans to make his own run at the Savage—by using a gold ball, a 9-iron, and a little bit of magic. Nine-Iron John is a tale about reconciling a painful past with the hope for the future. It’s about fathers and sons, the fertile territory of the male ego, about coming to terms with the pursuit of athletic and sexual conquests. It’s about the search for dignity and self-respect, the desire to love and to be loved. It is the story of the journey that all men begin… that only a select few ever manage to successfully complete.
Author: Scott Jameson Sanders
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-01-12
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1662444427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Call Me Cecilia is story about a high school ladies’ man who messes with the wrong girl. In the course of courting his new conquest at a party, Cecil accidentally falls on top of her in a drunken state. In an angry response, the girl, Beth, uses her special powers and puts a spell on Cecil, effectively sending him into a parallel world where he has to be a female for a full year. Over the course of that period, Cecil, now called Cecilia, gradually transforms from the boy he was into the girl he is to become. He must adjust to the many male and female differences and make sense of who he is while living out his female life. Over the course of time, Cecilia endures the horrible pain of a breakup and losing a lifelong friend. At the end of the spell, Cecilia must then decide whether to remain a girl or go back to being the boy he was before his transformation.
Author: Rodney Erb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2002-09
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1403344175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I remember the first time I met John, or "Johnny B" as most folks referred to him - it was at his daughter, Melody's wedding rehearsal, where I was best man for my friend Jeff. John was dressed in his best attire - new blue work pants with suspenders, blue suit with a white shirt and a navy colored neck tie. He had difficulty finding shirts with a large enough neck, so instead of the top button holding his shirt collar together, the task was forfeited to the necktie. He and his wife Anne had married a bit later in life, as did both his daughters, so he was 79 years old at the time of Melody's wedding. Anne told him, with a voice still slightly tainted with a Slovak accent, "Papa, when you walk Melody down the isle, walk straight. Don't walk like an old man." John looked at her over his glasses and said, "I AM an old man."
Author: Gift Ruremesha
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1504993454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A car was coming towards her. Surprisingly she didnt see it and I couldnt get to her in time. I saw it slam into her. I saw her fly into the air and land on her arm. I saw it yet I couldnt stop it. I didnt see the driver; it didnt really matter at that moment in time. All I cared about was my mother. But something felt odd, like dj vu. Doli and Nymphandora are both running away from their past. They both find themselves in Chicago, and as they get to know each other, they realise they havent left their past behind; it has simply followed them. So what are they going to do? Are they going to run again or stay and fight?
Author: Allie Burton
Publisher: Alice Fairbanks-Burton
Published: 2019-09-13
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1951245016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An ancient knot entangling her in magic. A driven leader intent on controlling a curse. A disgruntled slave unwilling to bow to a goddess. Needing to suck up to her parents, spoiled boarding school student Cleo Carruthers decides to make an effort and attend classes. Except the teachers can’t see her. The Knot of Uset has woven a web around her and she’s become truly invisible. A slave to Queen Cleopatra in a previous life, Warrior Antony refuses to serve anyone. But when a modern-day goddess demands his help, he can’t say no. Saving the world must take precedence over his wishes, until his desires get tied in a knot by Cleo. Trapped in a strange world, together the two teens must secure the magic of the knot and become unbound from the relic’s powers. But they are being hunted by those who want them to disappear. Permanently. Will sacrificing themselves be enough to save both their worlds? “The climax was absolutely superb…this is a series you are going to love.” – Cashmere (Originally published as Cleo’s Curse) Other books in the series: Warrior’s Destiny, Warrior’s Chaos, Warrior’s Prophecy
Author: Sarah Jackson
Publisher: Serenade Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Feathers fly when the president of the district poultry club and his prize-winning rooster are brutally murdered just days before the district agricultural show. Senior Constable Ivy Driscoll has been transferred to the rural police station of Donnywell following a scandal at her city precinct. But no sooner has she arrived than crimes start being committed. Even though she is the granddaughter of the Country Women’s Association royalty, Ivy is quintessentially a city girl, knowing nothing of domestic life, baking or rural daily life and goings on. Ivy must solve the murders to prove herself fit for the job, win the hearts and minds of the locals, and restore calm in the small town she would very much like to call home.
Author: Daniel Bultmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1317116208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency. While some commanders punish by inflicting physical pain, others use re-educative methods. While some prepare soldiers by using close-knit combat simulations, others send their subordinates immediately into battle. While these variations cannot fully be explained by the ideological set-up of different groups or by their political orientation, the basic assumption of the study is that they nevertheless do not emerge at random. This book puts forth that the type of power being utilised depends on the habitus of the respective commander and, as a result, becomes socially differentiated. Furthermore, power practices are shaped by the classificatory discourse of commanders (and their soldiers) on good soldierhood and leadership. The study found multiple ’habitus groups’ inside the field of insurgency, each with a distinctive classificatory discourse and a corresponding power type at work. While commanders shaped the dominating power practices (such as military trainings, indoctrination, systems of rewards and punishments, etc.), low-ranking soldiers took active part in supporting or undermining power according to their own habitus formation. This book helps professionals in this area to understand better the types of power practice inside insurgencies. It is also a useful guide to students and academics interested in peace and conflict studies, sociology and Southeast Asia.
Author: Ona Russell
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2015-03-16
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1632930471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Los Angeles, 1928. Oil, oranges and site of the C. C. Julian Petroleum stock scandal, a Ponzi type scheme to rival any in American history and a foreshadowing of the decade’s looming, economic crash. As one of the scheme’s victims, Ohio probate officer Sarah Kaufman—still reeling from the KKK murders she helped solve in Tennessee—is in the city to attend the trial of the perpetrators, in particular of the “friend” who convinced her to invest. Sarah is eager for justice and committed to seeing the trial through. She’s glad she’s alone, that her lover Mitchell isn’t there, that after court she’ll have time to herself. But when a Mexican woman she barely knows winds up dead, Sarah’s plans are thrown upside down. Suddenly she finds herself in a nightmarish trial by fire, one that takes her from the glamour of Hollywood to the Tijuana frontier, tests her deepest beliefs and leads her to discover not only a killer, but a part of Los Angeles built on a terrible secret. Includes Readers Guide.
