Author: Scott R. Stahlecker
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 153202620X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
David Stahlecker was six years old when his life changed forever. He was walking home from school one afternoon when he was struck by a speeding car and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In Picking Wings Off Butterflies, David's father recalls that dreadful day and the years that followed, revealing a relationship that is as tumultuous as it is endearing. Both of them seek to move past the tragedy to live meaningful lives, but just as everything seems to be heading in the right direction, they're derailed by the American justice system. Humorous and brutally honest, this memoir celebrates the sacred relationship between a father and son. Ultimately, their search for meaning leads one of them to find God and the other to lose his faith. Be prepared to delve deep into the darkest motives of the human heartand paradoxicallyto be nourished by the tenacity of the human spirit with Picking Wings Off Butterflies.
Picking Wings off Butterflies
Author: Scott R. Stahlecker
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 153202620X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
David Stahlecker was six years old when his life changed forever. He was walking home from school one afternoon when he was struck by a speeding car and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In Picking Wings Off Butterflies, David's father recalls that dreadful day and the years that followed, revealing a relationship that is as tumultuous as it is endearing. Both of them seek to move past the tragedy to live meaningful lives, but just as everything seems to be heading in the right direction, they're derailed by the American justice system. Humorous and brutally honest, this memoir celebrates the sacred relationship between a father and son. Ultimately, their search for meaning leads one of them to find God and the other to lose his faith. Be prepared to delve deep into the darkest motives of the human heartand paradoxicallyto be nourished by the tenacity of the human spirit with Picking Wings Off Butterflies.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 153202620X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
David Stahlecker was six years old when his life changed forever. He was walking home from school one afternoon when he was struck by a speeding car and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In Picking Wings Off Butterflies, David's father recalls that dreadful day and the years that followed, revealing a relationship that is as tumultuous as it is endearing. Both of them seek to move past the tragedy to live meaningful lives, but just as everything seems to be heading in the right direction, they're derailed by the American justice system. Humorous and brutally honest, this memoir celebrates the sacred relationship between a father and son. Ultimately, their search for meaning leads one of them to find God and the other to lose his faith. Be prepared to delve deep into the darkest motives of the human heartand paradoxicallyto be nourished by the tenacity of the human spirit with Picking Wings Off Butterflies.
The Murders in the Endicott Hotel
Author: David Murphy
Publisher: Dreameyrie
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Murder and mystery in the mountains! With the wealthy, Machiavellian, feuding family dynamics of Game of Thrones, the wintry sense of entrapment of Murder on the Orient Express, and the suspenseful implications of technology gone awry of Jurassic Park, The Murders in the Endicott Hotel is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you turning pages. Thanks to a scientific advance, Daniel Larch's company, Pioneer Medical Technologies, has ostensibly reformed five serial killers. The courts release the reformed citizens into Larch's custody, and he takes them to a private hotel in the Alaskan mountains. Larch believes that his fortunes are improving. But when Larch gets caught having an extramarital affair with the company lawyer, and his wife asks for a divorce, he finds himself in trouble. Larch's problems snowball when the company's competitors, led by the vendetta-driven Grishuk family, appear unexpectedly. A blizzard hits the Endicott, and the guests and hotel staff are cut off from the outside world. The lodgers find themselves trapped with five serial killers-all of whom are only supposedly reformed. Then Daniel Larch drops dead, and suddenly the valuable inheritance of his multibillion dollar medtech company goes up for grabs. More guests are killed, and at the scene of each crime, Detective Walter Churchfield finds a poetic note that he believes will lead him to the killer. Readers are saying: --Twist: The plot twist at the end is very exciting and worth the wait. --I enjoyed the detective throughout this book. So many fun suspects and possibilities it had your gears going the whole time. --It’s a locked room mystery, but definitely a hell of a locked room. So many great suspects and possibilities for the killer... --The Murders in the Endicott Hotel is built on an interesting and unique premise, many many murders, and a sharp but believable detective. I really like the thought put into this, and the eventual reveal of the murderer was very smart... --This was an interesting and fun read. I enjoyed the writing style and the mystery.
Publisher: Dreameyrie
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Murder and mystery in the mountains! With the wealthy, Machiavellian, feuding family dynamics of Game of Thrones, the wintry sense of entrapment of Murder on the Orient Express, and the suspenseful implications of technology gone awry of Jurassic Park, The Murders in the Endicott Hotel is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you turning pages. Thanks to a scientific advance, Daniel Larch's company, Pioneer Medical Technologies, has ostensibly reformed five serial killers. The courts release the reformed citizens into Larch's custody, and he takes them to a private hotel in the Alaskan mountains. Larch believes that his fortunes are improving. But when Larch gets caught having an extramarital affair with the company lawyer, and his wife asks for a divorce, he finds himself in trouble. Larch's problems snowball when the company's competitors, led by the vendetta-driven Grishuk family, appear unexpectedly. A blizzard hits the Endicott, and the guests and hotel staff are cut off from the outside world. The lodgers find themselves trapped with five serial killers-all of whom are only supposedly reformed. Then Daniel Larch drops dead, and suddenly the valuable inheritance of his multibillion dollar medtech company goes up for grabs. More guests are killed, and at the scene of each crime, Detective Walter Churchfield finds a poetic note that he believes will lead him to the killer. Readers are saying: --Twist: The plot twist at the end is very exciting and worth the wait. --I enjoyed the detective throughout this book. So many fun suspects and possibilities it had your gears going the whole time. --It’s a locked room mystery, but definitely a hell of a locked room. So many great suspects and possibilities for the killer... --The Murders in the Endicott Hotel is built on an interesting and unique premise, many many murders, and a sharp but believable detective. I really like the thought put into this, and the eventual reveal of the murderer was very smart... --This was an interesting and fun read. I enjoyed the writing style and the mystery.
My Billionaire Grump
Author: Camilla Isley
Publisher: Pink Bloom Press
ISBN: 8887269831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
When Lucy planned a summer trip to Florence, she didn’t expect to have to go single. Or for the hotel manager to cheat her out of her river-view room. And especially not for a broody, handsome stranger to offer to swap rooms with her. Offer is a euphemism. The mysterious George Emerson sort of brutalizes her into accepting the exchange. His gesture is as kind as the tone in which he poses it is barbaric, leaving Lucy rightfully confused. What is it about this man that makes her heart race while simultaneously making her want to punch him in the face? Only an unforgettable vacation under the Tuscan sun will unravel Lucy’s true feelings. An enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine rom-com.
Publisher: Pink Bloom Press
ISBN: 8887269831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
When Lucy planned a summer trip to Florence, she didn’t expect to have to go single. Or for the hotel manager to cheat her out of her river-view room. And especially not for a broody, handsome stranger to offer to swap rooms with her. Offer is a euphemism. The mysterious George Emerson sort of brutalizes her into accepting the exchange. His gesture is as kind as the tone in which he poses it is barbaric, leaving Lucy rightfully confused. What is it about this man that makes her heart race while simultaneously making her want to punch him in the face? Only an unforgettable vacation under the Tuscan sun will unravel Lucy’s true feelings. An enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine rom-com.
And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign
Author: Harold Gildston
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595820429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"Gordon floated out of the commander's office. He sensed his fortunes had turned 180 degrees. On the pinnacle of a phenomenal high, incandescing like lights on Broadway, he now believed that the backbreaking labor he had performed for his father on the roofs of Brooklyn had a larger purpose. His feet carried him to where his prayer book lay open to the well-worn page containing the sentence" and the Lord shall raise an ensign " "And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign" is a World War II male Cinderella story of sorts-with seductive and serendipitous twists. Charles Gordon, a handsome, well-spoken Jew from a poor working-class Yankee family, enters a naval officer's program along with almost exclusively southern classmates. With some fairy-godmother luck and remarkable feats of derring-do, accomplished despite the erection of malicious and prejudicial obstacles, Gordon eventually becomes an oddball hero among awestruck peers and admiring superiors. After earning the rank of ensign, an unexpected sequence of events ends with the virgin officer serving brilliantly as the Navy's youngest lead fighter director on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific war zone. Unforeseen and unjust consequences of dangerous liaisons, however, threaten to destroy him completely.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595820429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"Gordon floated out of the commander's office. He sensed his fortunes had turned 180 degrees. On the pinnacle of a phenomenal high, incandescing like lights on Broadway, he now believed that the backbreaking labor he had performed for his father on the roofs of Brooklyn had a larger purpose. His feet carried him to where his prayer book lay open to the well-worn page containing the sentence" and the Lord shall raise an ensign " "And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign" is a World War II male Cinderella story of sorts-with seductive and serendipitous twists. Charles Gordon, a handsome, well-spoken Jew from a poor working-class Yankee family, enters a naval officer's program along with almost exclusively southern classmates. With some fairy-godmother luck and remarkable feats of derring-do, accomplished despite the erection of malicious and prejudicial obstacles, Gordon eventually becomes an oddball hero among awestruck peers and admiring superiors. After earning the rank of ensign, an unexpected sequence of events ends with the virgin officer serving brilliantly as the Navy's youngest lead fighter director on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific war zone. Unforeseen and unjust consequences of dangerous liaisons, however, threaten to destroy him completely.
Starting with Alice
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442446420
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
After she, her older brother, and their father move from Chicago to Maryland, Alice has trouble fitting into her new third grade class, but with the help of some new friends and her own unique outlook, she survives.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442446420
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
After she, her older brother, and their father move from Chicago to Maryland, Alice has trouble fitting into her new third grade class, but with the help of some new friends and her own unique outlook, she survives.
Fallen Angels Book Club
Author: R. Franklin James
Publisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 1603819185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Fallen Angels Book Club has only two requirements: the members must love books and have a white-collar criminal record. Hollis Morgan fits the bill. Left holding the bag in an insurance fraud scheme concocted by her now ex-husband, she served her time and is trying to rebuild her life. All she wants is for the court to pardon her conviction so she can return to law school. After one of her fellow members is murdered in a scenario straight out of a club selection, Hollis is once again the subject of police scrutiny. Refusing to get stuck with another bad rap, she sets out to investigate her fellow club members. Is one of them really blackmailing the others? As a second member dies in yet another book-inspired murder, Hollis realizes that time is running out. Everything rides on her finding the killer--not just her career aspirations. She must identify the killer before she herself becomes the next victim. Everyone is convinced she knows more than she lets on. But what is it, exactly, that is she supposed to know? The Fallen Angels Book Club is the first book in an exciting new mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Hollis Morgan.
Publisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 1603819185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Fallen Angels Book Club has only two requirements: the members must love books and have a white-collar criminal record. Hollis Morgan fits the bill. Left holding the bag in an insurance fraud scheme concocted by her now ex-husband, she served her time and is trying to rebuild her life. All she wants is for the court to pardon her conviction so she can return to law school. After one of her fellow members is murdered in a scenario straight out of a club selection, Hollis is once again the subject of police scrutiny. Refusing to get stuck with another bad rap, she sets out to investigate her fellow club members. Is one of them really blackmailing the others? As a second member dies in yet another book-inspired murder, Hollis realizes that time is running out. Everything rides on her finding the killer--not just her career aspirations. She must identify the killer before she herself becomes the next victim. Everyone is convinced she knows more than she lets on. But what is it, exactly, that is she supposed to know? The Fallen Angels Book Club is the first book in an exciting new mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Hollis Morgan.
ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous RPG
Author: Daniel D. Fox
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524854964
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 1658
Book Description
Powered by HTML, this Zweihander eBook edition is published with a nuanced reflowable document layout. It includes: Reflowable text and images Sidebar navigation via device contents Hyperlinked Table of Contents and Index for fast, easy searches Hyperlinked cross-references throughout the book Tap and zoom illustrations This digital format differs from standard fixed layouts and PDFs. We highly suggest users download a sample before purchasing. WELCOME TO GRIM & PERILOUS GAMING Featured on Forbes.com, ranked one of the best-selling fantasy tabletop role-playing games at DriveThruRPG, and having sold over 90,000 copies worldwide, ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is a bloodier, grimmer, and grittier version of classical tabletop role-playing games. This revised edition is published in celebration with Andrews McMeel Publishing and features a refreshed layout, new artwork, rules clarifications, color plates by Dejan Mandic, and errata. ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is a game where your characters will: Live in a gritty, "realistic" fantasy world Make morally grey decisions & enact vicious reprisals Uncover insidious plots & political intrigue Take part in heart-pumping chase scenes Venture into the wilderness & survive its perils Desperately fight in clandestine & open field combat Defend themselves from injuries, madness, & mutations Encounter sanity-blasting creatures & their minions Using the Powered By ZWEIHÄNDER d100 game engine, you will create grim characters, write perilous adventures, and build your own low fantasy & dark fantasy campaigns. These rules are a perfect fit for Renaissance and medieval-styled adventures, too. You can also use this book to create your own home-brewed worlds, whether inspired by the works of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher, George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Glen Cook’s Black Company, Myke Cole’s The Armored Saint, Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane, Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastard series, or other "grimdark"-inspired media. This all-in-one game includes most of what you need to play: a character creation guide, game mastery rules, and a bestiary brimming with creatures both fair & foul. All that’s left are a few friends, pencils, and a handful of dice. ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG awaits, and the fate of your grim & perilous tale hangs in the balance!
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524854964
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 1658
Book Description
Powered by HTML, this Zweihander eBook edition is published with a nuanced reflowable document layout. It includes: Reflowable text and images Sidebar navigation via device contents Hyperlinked Table of Contents and Index for fast, easy searches Hyperlinked cross-references throughout the book Tap and zoom illustrations This digital format differs from standard fixed layouts and PDFs. We highly suggest users download a sample before purchasing. WELCOME TO GRIM & PERILOUS GAMING Featured on Forbes.com, ranked one of the best-selling fantasy tabletop role-playing games at DriveThruRPG, and having sold over 90,000 copies worldwide, ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is a bloodier, grimmer, and grittier version of classical tabletop role-playing games. This revised edition is published in celebration with Andrews McMeel Publishing and features a refreshed layout, new artwork, rules clarifications, color plates by Dejan Mandic, and errata. ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is a game where your characters will: Live in a gritty, "realistic" fantasy world Make morally grey decisions & enact vicious reprisals Uncover insidious plots & political intrigue Take part in heart-pumping chase scenes Venture into the wilderness & survive its perils Desperately fight in clandestine & open field combat Defend themselves from injuries, madness, & mutations Encounter sanity-blasting creatures & their minions Using the Powered By ZWEIHÄNDER d100 game engine, you will create grim characters, write perilous adventures, and build your own low fantasy & dark fantasy campaigns. These rules are a perfect fit for Renaissance and medieval-styled adventures, too. You can also use this book to create your own home-brewed worlds, whether inspired by the works of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher, George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Glen Cook’s Black Company, Myke Cole’s The Armored Saint, Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane, Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastard series, or other "grimdark"-inspired media. This all-in-one game includes most of what you need to play: a character creation guide, game mastery rules, and a bestiary brimming with creatures both fair & foul. All that’s left are a few friends, pencils, and a handful of dice. ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG awaits, and the fate of your grim & perilous tale hangs in the balance!
A Time to Love
Author: Billie Cantrell McNabb Maguire
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1463445067
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
It was an age of innocence and sometimes ignorance. I want to memorialize what a wonderful era it was in which to be a child and to grow old. It began as a chronological biography, but that was not the way life is lived. Stuff happens and rehappens, appears and disappears, changes and remains the same. Thus my memories and emotions became a haphazard collection of short sketches and stories. Early on the decision was made to mainly include the good "stuff." We begin this saga with my grandmother Jenny's story. the matriarch of the clan. "Jenny Cantrell was born October 29, 1858, in a farmhouse near Red Sulphur Springs. She is one-half of a set of twin daughters born to James and Elizabeth Ratliff. Mrs. Cantrell grew up on a farm in Mercer County near Littlesburg. One year a young Charlestonian, James M. Cantrell came to Mercer County "to take an interest in the mines." They fell in love and at 16 years of age, Jenny Ratliff became his bride."
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1463445067
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
It was an age of innocence and sometimes ignorance. I want to memorialize what a wonderful era it was in which to be a child and to grow old. It began as a chronological biography, but that was not the way life is lived. Stuff happens and rehappens, appears and disappears, changes and remains the same. Thus my memories and emotions became a haphazard collection of short sketches and stories. Early on the decision was made to mainly include the good "stuff." We begin this saga with my grandmother Jenny's story. the matriarch of the clan. "Jenny Cantrell was born October 29, 1858, in a farmhouse near Red Sulphur Springs. She is one-half of a set of twin daughters born to James and Elizabeth Ratliff. Mrs. Cantrell grew up on a farm in Mercer County near Littlesburg. One year a young Charlestonian, James M. Cantrell came to Mercer County "to take an interest in the mines." They fell in love and at 16 years of age, Jenny Ratliff became his bride."
Environmental Philosophy
Author: Christopher Belshaw
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317490037
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This introduction to the philosophy of the environment examines current debates on how we should think about the natural world and our place within it. The subject is examined from a determinedly analytic philosophical perspective, focusing on questions of value, but taking in attendant issues in epistemology and metaphysics as well. The book begins by considering the nature, extent and origin of the environmental problems with which we need to be concerned. Chapters go on to consider familiar strategies for dealing with environmental problems, and then consider what sort of things are of direct moral concern, examining in turn at animals, non-sentient life-forms, natural but non-living things and deep ecology. The final part of the book investigates notions of value, natural beauty and the place of human beings in the scheme of things.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317490037
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This introduction to the philosophy of the environment examines current debates on how we should think about the natural world and our place within it. The subject is examined from a determinedly analytic philosophical perspective, focusing on questions of value, but taking in attendant issues in epistemology and metaphysics as well. The book begins by considering the nature, extent and origin of the environmental problems with which we need to be concerned. Chapters go on to consider familiar strategies for dealing with environmental problems, and then consider what sort of things are of direct moral concern, examining in turn at animals, non-sentient life-forms, natural but non-living things and deep ecology. The final part of the book investigates notions of value, natural beauty and the place of human beings in the scheme of things.
jenny the mail-order bride
Author:
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description