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Deserts and jungles, rebels and missionaries, bullets and acts of bravery, heaven and hell on earth-these are all part of a young man's remarkable, true journey through thirteen African countries with his brother and two best friends. Erik Mirandette was completing a two-year stint with a humanitarian organization in Morocco when, continuing his quest to live the life he was created to live, he set off on an unforgettable pilgrimage. Beginning in...
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Lu Anne Henderson was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal Cassady, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises. The two married, and soon they were hanging out with a group of young would-be writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. But Neal and Jack initially didn't like each other very much. Lu Anne ended up loving them both, and she taught them how to love each otherin effect, making the Beat...
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A nations government should create order. We put faith in government to uphold and maintain the well-being and safety of its citizens. Currently, in Afghanistan, the government does not seem to maintain anything at all. In Afghanistan, starving children cry out in hunger. The government does not provide food, shelter, or schools. The countrys opium production rate has doubled over the course of the past two years. Does a country in such cultural uproar...
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Many people today are wanting to know, "Are we living in the end times?" What will happen before the antichrist comes into power? Will America be a key player in the end times?
In this book, I start the first chapter with what I believe will soon be coming, the chip being implanted in humans. I realize the mark of the beast will not be given until the antichrist comes into power. Many believe it will be the chip. I discuss in chapter 2 why I believe...
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True stories of life in Florida, from persevering through natural disasters and crime to encounters with celebrities and alligators. Includes photos.
More than twenty million people live in Florida, that unique land that juts off into the Atlantic. They are ranchers and golfers, sunbathers and retirees. And their lives often fall within the realm of the perfectly normal. But sometimes these Floridians, many of whom have flocked from elsewhere, find...
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Only In America with Larry the Cable Guy volume 12
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Larry spends some time in and around New Orleans to see the way they do things in the Big Easy. First, Gar Fishing: Larry goes after the freaky fish that is the favorite challenge of the good ol' boys of Morgan City, Louisiana.
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Only In America with Larry the Cable Guy volume 11
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Larry finds an array of qualities that make America great as he rolls through the Bluegrass State. First, he visits the great American worker at the great American plant making the great American muscle car--the Corvette.
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Kathleen Phelan (nee Newton) was utterly unique; a female vagabond who embraced the freedom of the tramp lifestyle and philosophy. Like the infamous women explorers of the Victorian era, she traveled before as a single woman adventuring to every place on the planet funding her travels through canny bets on horseracing.
At age 26 in 1944, she met and married author and fellow tramp, Jim Phelan who introduced her to his literary circle. She tramped...
12) Shelter in Place
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The government is after someone, but who-and why? A riveting manmade disaster thriller from the author of the popular The Journal and EMPulse series.
As the small resort town of Kapac, Ohio, prepares for their annual August festivities, another preparation is underway of a more malicious nature. A suspicious toxic spill on the only road in or out, by unknown agents, quarantines the town and threatens not only its livelihood, but also its very life....
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Love and revenge novels (Cydney Rax) volume 1
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"Something's wrong with her perfect marriage, but Kiara Eason isn't sure what. Her ambitious husband Rashad is the last person who'd ever cheat--and she never imagined she'd stray. Still, why is she confiding so much in her handsome coworker Eddison? And why is she wondering what would happen if she put her marriage to the ultimate test--secretly setting Rashad up with a younger woman to see if he's tempted?"--Page 4 of cover.
14) Last year
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"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...
15) Fading Primrose
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Every love has a name that pronounces love with intensified intonation striking a chord within, but what's the legacy love leaves behind? Some journey seems indubitable that you forget to notice the blurred destiny ahead. Love is one such journey that has no standard guide books even though it's the only road being travelled most by countless travellers of love. It's not that the road is less taken; it's almost taken but hardly has any road maps for...
16) Urgent Justice
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A small-town sheriff will catch a predator, come hell or high water... Nothing raises Sheriff Jack Lamburt's hackles like a child in danger. After a local orphaned teen disappears under suspicious circumstances, he vows to bring her home safe. And there'll be no escape from the world of pain he'll leave in his wake... To track down the missing girl's abductor, Jack teams up with the only resident who can spot the culprit out of a crowd-a feisty 90-year-old...
17) The Feather
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Once upon a time there was a King who reigned over a country as yet, for a reason you may learn later on, undiscovered-a most lovely country, full of green dales and groves of oak, a land of dappled meadows and sweet rivers, a green cup in a circlet of mountains, in whose shadow the grass was greenest; and the only road to enter the country lay up steep, boiling waterfalls, and thereafter through rugged passes, the channels that the rivers had cut...
18) Healing Magic
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Eva Grace Connelly is a witch and a beloved healer. Rodric McGuire, paranormal expert and descendent of faerie warriors, adores the flame-haired beauty. But their future is on hold as a family curse threatens her life. Centuries ago, the Witches of New Mourne struck a dark bargain with the Woman in White. In exchange for peace, the malevolent spirit takes a Connelly witch from each generation. Eva Grace is convinced she can heal the ghost's troubled...
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To defeat the vampires, Luke must destroy their god. The vampires have taken too much from Luke. He's lost friends and family. Because of them, he's been forced to live an immortal life of brutal conflict. Now he's going to take everything from them. Luke must overcome everything the vampires and their dark god throw at him. Assassins, werewolves, elite vampires, and the money and power of the bloodsuckers are arrayed against him. He might be a powerful...
20) Falling For You
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Gabriel, a Brazilian-American, has always known he was gay. Because of his father's disapproval as a young kid, he's been forced to hide the biggest part of himself for years.Billy is your typical lumberjack who was raised to be as manly as possible by his carpenter father. He grew up believing the only road there was to take was getting a wife and a couple of kids but yet it never felt quite right to him.Gabriel meets Billy when Billy is hanging...