Author: Niphaphone "Laura' Robertson
Publisher: Rose Gold Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9781952070341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this book, the author shares how she discovered her reason to come to America. She shares stories of her childhood and of her family members, some killed during the Communist Rule in the '70s. The author's father, a prisoner did a daring escape and took his family to a refugee camp in order to survive the war that was devastating the country of Lao. The author courageously shares her experience, reading the newspaper clippings and stories written about her, her family, and her friends. In this book filled with the history of their journey into a new life, she shares the kindness of strangers and how without them, their lives may have ended. A definite must-read! Powerful,, riveting, and truly engaging.
Forty Dollars and a Dream
Author: Niphaphone "Laura' Robertson
Publisher: Rose Gold Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9781952070341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this book, the author shares how she discovered her reason to come to America. She shares stories of her childhood and of her family members, some killed during the Communist Rule in the '70s. The author's father, a prisoner did a daring escape and took his family to a refugee camp in order to survive the war that was devastating the country of Lao. The author courageously shares her experience, reading the newspaper clippings and stories written about her, her family, and her friends. In this book filled with the history of their journey into a new life, she shares the kindness of strangers and how without them, their lives may have ended. A definite must-read! Powerful,, riveting, and truly engaging.
Publisher: Rose Gold Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9781952070341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this book, the author shares how she discovered her reason to come to America. She shares stories of her childhood and of her family members, some killed during the Communist Rule in the '70s. The author's father, a prisoner did a daring escape and took his family to a refugee camp in order to survive the war that was devastating the country of Lao. The author courageously shares her experience, reading the newspaper clippings and stories written about her, her family, and her friends. In this book filled with the history of their journey into a new life, she shares the kindness of strangers and how without them, their lives may have ended. A definite must-read! Powerful,, riveting, and truly engaging.
40 DOLLARS AND A DREAM.
Author: VIDAL. GUZMAN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788210415210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788210415210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Forty Dollars
Author: Allan Hardin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469795010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Set in the American Southwest in the 1870s, Forty Dollars is a western with an eclectic blend of many different characters consisting of southern expatriates, carpetbaggers turned ranchers, Mexican bandits, working cowboys, and a biblical quoting bounty hunter. The central figure is Jake Romero, a white man raised by Lipan Apaches and trained to be a scout with uncanny abilities, some of which are mystical or shamanistic in nature. Jake is hired by a wealthy rancher to track for a vigilante group whose mission is to rid the territory of cattle rustlers and horse thieves. After an eventful three weeks in which he witnesses a lynching, is involved in a shootout with a nest of rustlers, and has a disastrous encounter with Mexican bandits and an expatriated Southern General, Jake returns to the ranch to collect his pay. The rancher refuses to pay him, so Jake steals the mans prize stallion, stating that the rancher will get the horse back when Jake gets his forty dollars. This sets the stage for a confrontation between Jake and everyone that wants a piece of him, for one reason or another.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469795010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Set in the American Southwest in the 1870s, Forty Dollars is a western with an eclectic blend of many different characters consisting of southern expatriates, carpetbaggers turned ranchers, Mexican bandits, working cowboys, and a biblical quoting bounty hunter. The central figure is Jake Romero, a white man raised by Lipan Apaches and trained to be a scout with uncanny abilities, some of which are mystical or shamanistic in nature. Jake is hired by a wealthy rancher to track for a vigilante group whose mission is to rid the territory of cattle rustlers and horse thieves. After an eventful three weeks in which he witnesses a lynching, is involved in a shootout with a nest of rustlers, and has a disastrous encounter with Mexican bandits and an expatriated Southern General, Jake returns to the ranch to collect his pay. The rancher refuses to pay him, so Jake steals the mans prize stallion, stating that the rancher will get the horse back when Jake gets his forty dollars. This sets the stage for a confrontation between Jake and everyone that wants a piece of him, for one reason or another.
Forty Dollars, Two Suitcases and a Dream
Author: Carroll Kroeger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781532739774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Seventy Years with the Right Woman! An incredible love story about a WWII veteran and a school drop-out waitress who met in 1946 and were married after a remarkable six weeks romance. They lived and worked from coast to coast in the U.S. and experienced fantastic adventures overseas that took them beyond their wildest dreams. In 2016, they celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781532739774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Seventy Years with the Right Woman! An incredible love story about a WWII veteran and a school drop-out waitress who met in 1946 and were married after a remarkable six weeks romance. They lived and worked from coast to coast in the U.S. and experienced fantastic adventures overseas that took them beyond their wildest dreams. In 2016, they celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary!
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Scribner's Magazine
Encyclopedia of Wit and Wisdom
The Churchman
Theater of the Mind - Dreams, Symbols & Meanings
Author: Rasa Von Werder
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430313978
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
GuruRasa answers, What is the purpose of dreams? Q 1 WHAT is a dream? A A communication system from the unconscious mind to the conscious Q 2 What are SYMBOLS? A The MEANS by which the unconscious SPEAKS to the conscious Q 3 What is the PURPOSE of dreams? A Dreams accomplish these things and more: 1 They SAVE LIVES and SOULS.................................... 2 Warn us of danger; physical, emotional and spiritual to ourselves and others 3 Tell us the true feelings, intentions or interior state of others 4 Reveal our own interior state, sins, virtues and gifts, phobias and desires 5 Explain mysterious situations or incidents 6 Explain WHAT WOULD BE if we did a certain thing 7 Explain the reactions of others to us if we met them or communicated with them 8 Explain what TO DO or NOT TO DO
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430313978
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
GuruRasa answers, What is the purpose of dreams? Q 1 WHAT is a dream? A A communication system from the unconscious mind to the conscious Q 2 What are SYMBOLS? A The MEANS by which the unconscious SPEAKS to the conscious Q 3 What is the PURPOSE of dreams? A Dreams accomplish these things and more: 1 They SAVE LIVES and SOULS.................................... 2 Warn us of danger; physical, emotional and spiritual to ourselves and others 3 Tell us the true feelings, intentions or interior state of others 4 Reveal our own interior state, sins, virtues and gifts, phobias and desires 5 Explain mysterious situations or incidents 6 Explain WHAT WOULD BE if we did a certain thing 7 Explain the reactions of others to us if we met them or communicated with them 8 Explain what TO DO or NOT TO DO
An American Tragedy
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 915
Book Description
Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 915
Book Description
Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.