Author: Racine Summers
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665548215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
The old saying goes “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Unfortunately, it rained lemons, they seemed to be thrown at me from every angle. I’d accumulated an ungodly amount of lemons. Some started to rot, some dried up, others were so sour you could feel your eyes sweat just looking at them. I tried to set up a lemonade stand, I really did, but masking sour with sweet only takes you so far now doesn’t it. I was sick of lemonade, and quite frankly, not having it with the lemons. So, I did what any sensible woman would do; gathered them up, traded them for a paper and pen, jotted down a thing or two, and before I knew it, a tale unfolded before me. Needless to say, I present you with my version of lemonade.
Sermons and Addresses, Question Drawer and Other Proceedings of the Christian Convention Held in Chicago, September 18th to 20th, 1883
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evangelistic sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evangelistic sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Hardware and Housefurnishing Goods
A Future from the Past
Author: Anthony Williams
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434928470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Susan Drayton is an attractive 18 year-old. Her future is promising, and quickly turning out to be full of surprises. The mysterious twist and turns of A Future From the Past begin when she is asked to accompany her employer on business to the locally famous Henbury House. The Henbury House becomes the center of Susan Drayton¿s new romance and career. It will soon become evident to Susan Drayton and her fellow characters that this house is the center of much more and the house¿s history may determine her future. Or, is it the reverse order?
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434928470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Susan Drayton is an attractive 18 year-old. Her future is promising, and quickly turning out to be full of surprises. The mysterious twist and turns of A Future From the Past begin when she is asked to accompany her employer on business to the locally famous Henbury House. The Henbury House becomes the center of Susan Drayton¿s new romance and career. It will soon become evident to Susan Drayton and her fellow characters that this house is the center of much more and the house¿s history may determine her future. Or, is it the reverse order?
Life & Duty
Author: Les Joslin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499007736
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"The fact of being a citizen of the United States of America offers the opportunity--not the guarantee, but the opportunity--to live an extraordinary life," Les Joslin writes in the introduction to Life & Duty, an autobiography in which he proves his thesis as the relives the first seventy years of his American adventure. He shares these years in twenty chapters that comprise this three-part volume. Part I covers his family heritage and early years from 1943 to 1967, Part II his U.S. Navy career from 1967 to 1988, and Part III his life in Oregon from 1988. from Part I, Chapter 5, Summer 1965 on the Toiyabe National Forest... That wasn't the first time I'd dealt with an armed citizen, and it wouldn't be the last. Some of the challenges of my fire prevention job had nothing to do with wildfire prevention but everything to do with the fact I was sometimes the only public servant around to handle a situation. It had to do with that sometimes gray area between official duty and moral obligation. the previous summer, on my way to Twin Lakes, I detoured to check the dump I'd burned a few days before. Suddenly, I heard shots, just as the Lone Ranger and Tonto did in the opening scene of almost every episode, and what I saw as I neared the dump scared me. A big, beefy, fortyish man standing next to a late-model Cadillac sedan was firing a high-powerd rifle.... He'd heard me coming, and turned as I stopped the patrol truck. He didn't look particularly threatening. But there were serious unknowns. I didn't know him. I didn't know what he might shoot at. I didn't know he wouldn't shoot at me. from Part II, Chapter 10, November 1979 aboard USS Kitty Hawk... on November 28, I got up, showered and shaved, put on clean khakis as usual, and started toward the wardroom for breakfast. the usual scent of salt and jet fuel was in the air, and I had a lot on my mind. I descended two ladders to the hangar bay, only to be brought up short by bumping my head on a helicopter that wasn't supposed to be there. A quick look around revealed seven more RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters that their HM-16 markings told me belonged to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron Sixteen, not part of the ship's air wing. So that's why the swing south to Diego Garcia! They'd been flown there, probably in C-5As, and had flown aboard last night. Had I actually slept through flight quarters? I forgot about breakfast, climbed the ladders back to the 02 level, and knocked on the door of the flag N-2's office. "This isn't going to work," I said as he opened the door. "We can't fly those helicopters into a city of five million hostiles and rescue fifty hostages." "They don't want to hear that," he replied, and closed the door. from Part III, Chapter 15, Summer 1992 on the Deschutes National Forest As I walked toward the fire, I began to think. Am I doing the right thing? After all, I'm just a contract wilderness information specialist, not part of the fire organization. I hadn't been to the Deschutes National Forest's fire school. I didn't have fire clothing. I didn't have a fire shelter. Except for a canteen, I didn't have any water. and I'd turned in my last red card--the fire qualification card that rated me as a crew boss--in 1966 when I'd left the Toiyabe National Forest to go on active duty in the Navy. That was twenty-six years ago! Should I be doing this? Sure, I answered my own question. I'd started out in the "old Forest Service" where everybody did everything. I'd done this many times before, in the days before fire shirts and Nomex britches and fire shelters. I'd had five fire seasons on the Toiyabe, been on a couple big fires. ... I knew this business. I knew how to keep out of trouble. About the time I resolved that little issue, I was at the fire....
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499007736
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"The fact of being a citizen of the United States of America offers the opportunity--not the guarantee, but the opportunity--to live an extraordinary life," Les Joslin writes in the introduction to Life & Duty, an autobiography in which he proves his thesis as the relives the first seventy years of his American adventure. He shares these years in twenty chapters that comprise this three-part volume. Part I covers his family heritage and early years from 1943 to 1967, Part II his U.S. Navy career from 1967 to 1988, and Part III his life in Oregon from 1988. from Part I, Chapter 5, Summer 1965 on the Toiyabe National Forest... That wasn't the first time I'd dealt with an armed citizen, and it wouldn't be the last. Some of the challenges of my fire prevention job had nothing to do with wildfire prevention but everything to do with the fact I was sometimes the only public servant around to handle a situation. It had to do with that sometimes gray area between official duty and moral obligation. the previous summer, on my way to Twin Lakes, I detoured to check the dump I'd burned a few days before. Suddenly, I heard shots, just as the Lone Ranger and Tonto did in the opening scene of almost every episode, and what I saw as I neared the dump scared me. A big, beefy, fortyish man standing next to a late-model Cadillac sedan was firing a high-powerd rifle.... He'd heard me coming, and turned as I stopped the patrol truck. He didn't look particularly threatening. But there were serious unknowns. I didn't know him. I didn't know what he might shoot at. I didn't know he wouldn't shoot at me. from Part II, Chapter 10, November 1979 aboard USS Kitty Hawk... on November 28, I got up, showered and shaved, put on clean khakis as usual, and started toward the wardroom for breakfast. the usual scent of salt and jet fuel was in the air, and I had a lot on my mind. I descended two ladders to the hangar bay, only to be brought up short by bumping my head on a helicopter that wasn't supposed to be there. A quick look around revealed seven more RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters that their HM-16 markings told me belonged to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron Sixteen, not part of the ship's air wing. So that's why the swing south to Diego Garcia! They'd been flown there, probably in C-5As, and had flown aboard last night. Had I actually slept through flight quarters? I forgot about breakfast, climbed the ladders back to the 02 level, and knocked on the door of the flag N-2's office. "This isn't going to work," I said as he opened the door. "We can't fly those helicopters into a city of five million hostiles and rescue fifty hostages." "They don't want to hear that," he replied, and closed the door. from Part III, Chapter 15, Summer 1992 on the Deschutes National Forest As I walked toward the fire, I began to think. Am I doing the right thing? After all, I'm just a contract wilderness information specialist, not part of the fire organization. I hadn't been to the Deschutes National Forest's fire school. I didn't have fire clothing. I didn't have a fire shelter. Except for a canteen, I didn't have any water. and I'd turned in my last red card--the fire qualification card that rated me as a crew boss--in 1966 when I'd left the Toiyabe National Forest to go on active duty in the Navy. That was twenty-six years ago! Should I be doing this? Sure, I answered my own question. I'd started out in the "old Forest Service" where everybody did everything. I'd done this many times before, in the days before fire shirts and Nomex britches and fire shelters. I'd had five fire seasons on the Toiyabe, been on a couple big fires. ... I knew this business. I knew how to keep out of trouble. About the time I resolved that little issue, I was at the fire....
Between East and West
Author: Muge Galin
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791433843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791433843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.
Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett
Author: Frederick B Agard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004655395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004655395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
The Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories in One Edition)
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 3982
Book Description
The Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood is a comprehensive collection of the renowned author's 10 novels and over 80 short stories. Blackwood's literary style is characterized by his mastery of the supernatural and the occult, often creating atmospheres of dread and mystery in his works. His stories delve into the unknown and the unexplained, exploring themes of spirituality, nature, and the paranormal. Set against the backdrop of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Blackwood's writing is both captivating and eerie, drawing readers into a world where reality and the supernatural collide. The collection showcases Blackwood's ability to blend horror with philosophical inquiries, making it a must-read for fans of supernatural fiction. Algernon Blackwood's own experiences with the supernatural and his deep interest in mystical traditions heavily influenced his works, adding depth and authenticity to his storytelling. His exploration of the human psyche and connection to the natural world provides insight into his motivations for writing such captivating tales. The Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood is recommended for readers seeking to immerse themselves in the haunting and enigmatic world of supernatural literature.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 3982
Book Description
The Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood is a comprehensive collection of the renowned author's 10 novels and over 80 short stories. Blackwood's literary style is characterized by his mastery of the supernatural and the occult, often creating atmospheres of dread and mystery in his works. His stories delve into the unknown and the unexplained, exploring themes of spirituality, nature, and the paranormal. Set against the backdrop of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Blackwood's writing is both captivating and eerie, drawing readers into a world where reality and the supernatural collide. The collection showcases Blackwood's ability to blend horror with philosophical inquiries, making it a must-read for fans of supernatural fiction. Algernon Blackwood's own experiences with the supernatural and his deep interest in mystical traditions heavily influenced his works, adding depth and authenticity to his storytelling. His exploration of the human psyche and connection to the natural world provides insight into his motivations for writing such captivating tales. The Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood is recommended for readers seeking to immerse themselves in the haunting and enigmatic world of supernatural literature.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer + The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026804538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer + The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” contains 4 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884, is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. Tom Sawyer Abroad, published in 1894, features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody ofJules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders. Tom Sawyer, Detective was published in 1896. In the novel Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026804538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer + The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” contains 4 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884, is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. Tom Sawyer Abroad, published in 1894, features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody ofJules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders. Tom Sawyer, Detective was published in 1896. In the novel Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2880
Book Description
Mark Twain's 'The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain' is a literary masterpiece that exemplifies Twain's witty and satirical style. Known for his sharp social commentary and keen observations of American society, Twain's novels tackle important themes such as racism, classism, and human nature. His use of humor and irony make his works both entertaining and thought-provoking, earning him a lasting place in the American literary canon. The novels in this collection showcase Twain's versatility as a writer, from the adventurous tales of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' to the insightful satire of 'The Prince and the Pauper'. Readers will be captivated by Twain's vivid storytelling and unforgettable characters, making this collection a must-read for fans of classic literature. Mark Twain's unique perspective on the world around him shines through in each of these timeless works, making 'The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain' a valuable addition to any reader's library.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2880
Book Description
Mark Twain's 'The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain' is a literary masterpiece that exemplifies Twain's witty and satirical style. Known for his sharp social commentary and keen observations of American society, Twain's novels tackle important themes such as racism, classism, and human nature. His use of humor and irony make his works both entertaining and thought-provoking, earning him a lasting place in the American literary canon. The novels in this collection showcase Twain's versatility as a writer, from the adventurous tales of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' to the insightful satire of 'The Prince and the Pauper'. Readers will be captivated by Twain's vivid storytelling and unforgettable characters, making this collection a must-read for fans of classic literature. Mark Twain's unique perspective on the world around him shines through in each of these timeless works, making 'The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain' a valuable addition to any reader's library.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn - Complete Edition
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027234778
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn - Complete Edition". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain, who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there," Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two books. Contents: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027234778
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn - Complete Edition". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain, who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there," Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two books. Contents: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective.