Author: Viola Dougherty
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770976396
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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Takes the reader on an 80 year journey through sexual and mental child abuse, dysfunctional families and remorse, telling the true inter-generational story of drug and alcohol addiction that led to the writer's son becoming "the man behind the cardboard sign."
Author: Hans Peter Richter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140322051
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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"Superb, sensitive, honest and compelling . . . a simple but terrifying tale of the destruction of a single Jewish family."--The New York Times Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family had a good home and enough money, and in Germany in the early 1930s, many were unemployed. But when Hitler came to power, things began to change. Friedrich was expelled from school, and then his mother died and his father was deported. For Friedrich was Jewish.
Author: Christine Lambden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0985701609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Back in the 70's when Bonnie Pearce was a teenager and perky slogans abounded, she thought this was the dumbest one of all. Now, she's having a day that really does seem like the first day of the rest of her life. Fed up with her job and her arrogant boss, Bonnie has decided it's time for her to live happily ever after. She's chosen the small Texas town of Cambridge as the site of her newly rehabilitated life and, with the help of some new friends and her extremely involved family, she'll give it her best shot. Can a battle-hardened veteran of the technology wars slow down to the pace of a small-town factory? Or will the factory and the town have to change their pace to keep up with her? Cambridge Knights (in Shining Armor?) is the tale of what happens when a modern-day princess gets a good look at her knight in shining armor and starts to wonder if she was right to let him carry her away on his white horse.
Author: Tyson Motsenbocker
Publisher: Worthy Books
ISBN: 1546003460
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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In this powerful memoir, following the death of his mother, Tyson Motsenbocker retraces the journey an 18th century priest took in this harrowing story of one man’s pilgrimage of healing and finding beauty and hope in tragedy. After years on the road performing at sold-out venues, Tyson Motsenbocker returned home to the impending death of his 57-year-old hero and mother. He begged God to heal her, but she died anyway. When they buried her body, Tyson also buried the childhood version of his faith. Shortly before her death, however, Tyson became intrigued by the complicated legacy of Father Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan monk and canonized saint who dedicated his life to the idea that tragedy and suffering are portals to renewal. Father Serra built Missions up and down the California coast, spreading Christianity, as well as enabling and aiding in the oppression and colonization of the native Californians. Tyson discovered Serra’s “El Camino Real,” a 600-mile pilgrimage route up the California coast that had been largely forgotten for more than 200 years. Two days after they buried his mother, Tyson set out on a pilgrimage of sorts, intending to walk from San Diego to San Francisco along the El Camino, following in the footsteps of the saint. Tyson’s journey takes him down smog-choked highways, across fog-laden beaches, past multi-million-dollar coastal estates, and along the towering cliffs of Big Sur. And as he walks, Tyson also wrestles with his faith, questioning the pat answers and easy prayers he once readily accepted, trying to understand how hope and tragedy can all be wrapped up in the same God. The people he meets along the way challenge his understanding of the meaning of security, of what it means to live a meaningful life, and of the legacies we all leave behind. Where the Waves Turn Back is both part journal and part spiritual memoir, and ultimately, a thrilling and deeply satisfying read that asks questions that will resonate with readers seeking meaning in an utterly disorienting age.
Author: George C. Chesbro
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504008316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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A circus-performer-turned-PI uncovers dark secrets in a Hudson River town in this novel of “bloodcurdling adventure” and “genuine suspense” (Publishers Weekly). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as “Mongo the Magnificent”—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. When his friend, FBI agent Michael Burana, suspiciously drowns in the small town of Cairn, New York, Mongo’s pursuit of the truth takes him up the Hudson River to the scene of the crime. Long known as a village populated by artists, intellectuals, and writers, Cairn has recently become home to ultraconservative political commentator Elysius Culhane, whose autobiography title, If You’re Not Right You’re Wrong, is less a pun than a personal manifesto. Mongo couldn’t care less about politics, but there’s something about Culhane that just isn’t right. And as Mongo and his brother, Garth, attempt to discern the real reason for Agent Burana’s death, they will uncover a conspiracy that could leave them both swimming with the fishes . . . The Language of Cannibals is the 8th book in the Mongo Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author: John Lutz
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786032790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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JOHN LUTZ IS. . . "A MAJOR TALENT." –John Lescroart "ONE OF THE MASTERS." –Ridley Pearson "IN RARE FORM." –The New York Times Book Review "AMONG THE BEST." –San Diego Union THE HUNT BEGINS. . .AGAIN Will Harper was an NYPD hero. Then fate, a fiery blast, and departmental politics burned down his career. Now Will is again in the line of fire as a disgraced FBI profiler pulls him back into the action—on a hunt for a serial killer authorities don't even know about yet. "Fast-paced. . .Edge-of-your-seat suspense mixes well with a hefty dose of reality." —Publishers Weekly "Lutz always delivers the goods, and this is no exception."—Booklist
Author: Lisa Tuttle
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553902849
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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The award-winning author of The Mysteries returns with another captivating novel in which modern-day enigmas and age-old myths come together to bear spellbinding fruit. Nestled on the coast of Scotland, Appleton was once famous for its apples. Now, though the orchards are long gone, locals still dream of the town’s glory days, when good luck seemed a way of life. And outsiders are still drawn to the charming village, including three very different American women. . . . Enchanted by Appleton’s famously ornate library, divorcée Kathleen Mullaroy has left her cosmopolitan job to start anew as the town’s head librarian. . . . Widowed Nell Westray hopes for a quiet life in the place she and her husband spent their happiest moments. . . . And young Ashley Kaldis has come to find her roots. But when a sudden landslide cuts Appleton off from the wider world—and the usual constraints of reality—the village reveals itself to be an extraordinary place, inhabited by legendary beings and secret rooms. Most unexpected is a handsome stranger who will draw all three women into an Otherworld where, as in Eden, the bite of a single apple can alter the course of reality . . . if only one of them will believe.
Author: Richard Fleming
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476631484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Richard Fleming served as a scout with the elite U.S. Marine 1st Force Reconnaissance Company during the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War. Dropped deep into enemy territory, Recon relied on stealth and surprise to complete their mission--providing intelligence on enemy positions and conducting raids, prisoner snatches, and ambushes. Fleming's absorbing memoir recounts his transformation from idealistic recruit to cynical veteran as the war claimed the lives of his friends and the missions became ever more dangerous.
Author: Ben Pastor
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 1908524812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Wehmacht officer Bora is sent to recently occupied Crete and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by Himmler. All the clues lead to a platoon of trigger-happy German paratroopers but is this the truth? Bora takes to the mountains of Crete to solve the case, navigating his way between local bandits and foreign resistance fighters.
Author: Shumona Sinha
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1646052390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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‘Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.’ —Le Monde Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. Down With the Poor!, which borrows its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is the story of a woman who, little by little, is contaminated by the violence of the world.
