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...evocative and moving...entertaining...riveting-Kirkus Reviews Vivid memories of an assault by his boss at age 16, of being cornered and trapped by young thugs, of fleeing the police, of a big bank error in his favor... This is the tell-all account of Vince Burke's exceptional life that rose from his father's abandonment. To escape anti-gay bias, he went undercover in his glamour careers as a newsman, a Madison Avenue adman, a Manhattan landlord. Now he's discovered a new emotion: forgiveness, and he offers letters of forgiveness for past prejudice. Burke exposes his adventures on enigmatic Fire Island. He admits to anti-social opinions. He lived everywhere: Greenwich Village, the Hamptons, Provincetown, the UK, in a 26-room chateau in the countryside of France. We meet magnificent people, and a few evil ones. Finally, Burke proclaims his life, "86 years worth living." "...engaging...poignant...worthy of acclaim." 4 of 4 stars-Online Book Club

Murmur No More is a young adult mystery about a young girl named Zanni, when her best friend is murdered by a serial killer she''s unable to let things go so she follows after the killer. She''s obsessed with understanding why her friend had to die and why he has to kill. She dreams of the killer as she ventures to to his crime scenes and during this time she makes a friend named Kaede whose father is a police detective. As she gets more involved with Kaede''s family and the murders she learns she may have more reasons to chase after the killer than she first thought.

The ten-year-old, Sam Brody, first took notice of the city of New Orleans when he heard the molasses rich voice of Fats Domino and his accompanying piano. Upon that rock he began assembling his fantasy kingdom. Sam filled his mind with its facts, food, music, geography, and history. He now resides in the city of his dreams, where the spent two years studying journalism. The Crescent City Gazette hired him to undertake writing a weekly series about prostitution from the prostitute''s viewpoint. What unfolds exposes the reader to the charm, ambiance, culinary pride, and attitude of the New Orleanian people. It also enters a morass of sex, political corruption, romance, mystery, and murder. This story sorts out the sordid, sweeping the dreams of a young man into the adult world and putting him in the center of a drama maybe only New Orleans could conjure up. Welcome to The Big Easy. Laissez les bons temps rouler. Let the good times roll.

Kilgore''s Colt is the story of two run-aways. One is a veteran of the Spanish-American War whose post-war life has collapsed into a failed bank robbery. His escape in a freight train box car collides with the other run-away, a tough talking kid who witnessed a Chicago political killing and is pursued by the killers. The pair has no use for each other, but must cooperate to escape the boxcar before they are discovered. The desperate escape reveals the kid is actually an18 year old girl in boy''s clothes. They decide to stick together as father and son when they emerge from the woods into the prosperous town Bakerfield. Through good luck and relying on each other, they are accepted. The law and killers are relentless. Back-to-back, the pair must face their past in a cloud of gun smoke.

Life is sometimes reduced to a few choices. This autobiography is about a young American who decides to serve his country and ends up going to war. Being drafted or joining the military offered one a good chance to see Vietnam up close and personal, but becoming an officer offered an even better chance.The years of 1965, 1966, 1967, were dangerous years for young American men between the ages of 18 and 24. In 1966, the draft was expanded in some of the areas of the country to intakes twice a month. The policy was used mainly in the larger metropolitan areas of the country. Since I was already in the Army by then, it didn''t affect me. By 1968 our involvement in Vietnam would reach 520,000 soldiers. I was 18 in 1966, single, not going to college and healthy. I was grist for the military mill. I was one of thousands of young men in the work force right after high school in the mid 1960''s.The war in Viet Nam ended up causing over 400,000 casualties (dead and wounded). There were nearly 3 million men and women who served in Viet Nam, and 7 million total in the military during the era. I served as what was affectionately called a ground pounder, aka an infantryman, military occupational specialty (MOS) 11B. After graduating from OCS my MOS became a 1542 Small Infantry Unit Commander, later changed to 11A. That MOS put me in line to become a casualty.This book gives you a look at my life growing up in Michigan, and what my life was like after being wounded and returning home from Vietnam.

It takes a village to raise a Type I Diabetic from Crib to Adulthood. These true accounts of living with Diabetes will take you on a journey of the past Diabetic interventions and solutions for sustaining life to the present most modern products available for Diabetic care and a glimpse the medical -tech advancements on the horizon for the future Diabetic Care. A near fatal car accident confronted my child''s life to hang in the balance between life or death and completely complicated living with Diabetes. The evolution of Medicine, Science, Mathematics and Technology has certainly served very well in sustaining and providing the best quality of life for my Type I Diabetic child. If you are a Juvenile Diabetic or rendering care to an Insulin dependent Diabetic; this book is a must read.

In today''s world people have been thrown into situations that they may never have faced before. The purpose of this book is to share with people that they are not alone; there is someone who has had this experienced before they have. If there is a circumstance that is unacceptable to someone in their life, the hope is that this book will give them encouragement and strength to change it. The reader is asked to know in their heart that they are worthy and that they are loved. A prayer is being said for each person who reads these poems that they may have the resources to live a happy, productive & healthy life and that they may follow their dreams.

When a young Irish nun, a surgical nurse is assigned to work in Africa with a Swiss/Italian doctor, a widower, emotional sparks fly. Born in a Gaelic village in the West of Ireland, Anya, a precocious and bright child, escapes from an alcoholic and abusive father, by joining an order of nuns. "I saw you like a beautiful bird wanting to fly but having its wings clipped" admitted her mother. Falling in love and feeling the world had left her behind, she makes a soul wrenching decision. Overcoming tragedy and crises during five years of World War II, but supported by loving relationships, her spirit is finally set free. Against all odds she achieves the highest nursing position in England. Anya finally becomes the woman she was meant to be.

"That we women who here to fore have had to sit quietly at home and wait for news from the battlefront have been given that great privilege of doing our small part".  Ida Cecelia HabegerSo wrote the author''s grandmother as she sailed into Honfleur Harbor, France, in 1917, to begin her assignment as a Red Cross nurse in World War I.When the "forbidden" trunk of her youth was finally opened after the death of both of her parents, this maternal grandmother''s journal was one of the first treasures to be found. Grace, who was given the middle name Cecelia after her, never knew this grandmother and immediately became intrigued to know more about her and other family members.It began a family journey of discovery. Hundreds of letters revealed personalities, life-changing events, and the joys and sorrows lived during tumultuous times in America- the Flu Pandemic of 1918, WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. She discovered the special romance and enduring love of her parents and the origin of her family''s taco tradition. Historic details, original artwork by the author, letters between family members and delicious recipes combine to tell this compelling story of a transplanted 20th century American family in the Southwest."One of the traditions that brings us together as a family is our love of Tucson style Mexican food. For special occasions, my mother would make tacos. Why tacos? I have discovered that the taco tradition started with my maternal grandmother, Ida Cecelia Habeger, whom we called Nana. Nana was a fabulous cook and she made her tacos fresh from the tortilla factory. My mother and father met in fifth grade at Samuel Hughes Elementary School on 5th Street, in Tucson, and it seemed from stories told it was "love at first sight". Mom would invite Dad and his best friend, Tom Rorbach over for her mother''s famous taco dinners. My grandparents loved to see how many the boys could eat and teased them that they both had "hollow legs". In one of Mom''s letters she reminds Dad that he holds the record at eating seven tacos! My parents literally fell in love over taco dinners in Tucson! The taco tradition continues to this day, and remain a favorite in our family! At the beginning of each chapter are my original watercolors of the Sonoran Desert, a lists of historic events taking place in Arizona and the world, and family pictures throughout. The letters are transcribed in their original form although a few corrections were made for comprehension. Included in Tacos Amores in Tucson, is a chapter of delicious family recipes that were shared and written by hand among family members and friends before access to the internet. The four branches of our family tree that Mom started years ago are at the back of the book for your reference.

Daniel "Stitch" Cromwell attempts to salvage his life after an airplane crash disfigures him and kills his wife. Despite his success as an elite Air Force fighter pilot, his efforts to fulfill his life's ambitions are frustrated by a relentless series of impediments-prejudice, blackmail, kidnapping, and cynical manipulation. He secretly flies for the CIA and smuggles $40 million worth of cocaine for a Mexican drug cartel in desperate pursuit of his elusive goal.

From a very young age growing up in southern California, Steve Taylor, knew he wanted to do something with his life to save wildlife and wild places. What he didn't know then, was how much fun it would be. During his career he met many interesting people and interacted with many fascinating animals. This book tells those stories.Steve was born in 1947 and grew up in Inglewood, California, just outside of Los Angeles. He didn't have an early mentor when it came to animals, but he had a passion. He would collect various lizards and amphibians and keep them in cages behind the garage. After reading several books by British zoologist, Gerald Durrell, he knew he wanted to work in a zoo. A couple of years after graduating with a degree in Biology from the University of California, Irvine in 1969 he took an exam at Hollywood High School along with 1200 others to get a job as an animal keeper at the Los Angeles Zoo. Having the seventh highest score on the exam, he was soon hired. While at the Los Angeles Zoo, he took his first of many "zoo trips." On this trip he traveled on Greyhound buses and saw nineteen zoos in thirty days.He worked hard and continued studying biology at Long Beach State University while looking for opportunities to advance his career. While giving a paper at a regional conference entitled, Mother-Infant Behavior of the Scimitar-horned Oryx, he met the Executive Director of the San Francisco Zoological Society who offered him a job as manager of the children's zoo. It was like having his own zoo. In fact, he actually lived in the children's zoo so he would be available if an exotic animal had to be hand-raised. His favorite were two young orangutans.From there he moved on to become the Director of the Sacramento Zoo. His dream had now come true - he was a Zoo Director at 34-years old. It was a small zoo, but with an impressive animal collection. During his tenure he created a plan to expand the Zoo from its 12-acres. Unfortunately, there was considerable opposition by a neighborhood group. When recruited to become director of the 180-acre Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, he accepted it. In this book he shares his insights into leading a zoo and the successes and some mistakes he made during his long career.The most interesting stories involved the people he met, some famous like Betty White, and many not so famous. The animal stories, including orangutan and gorilla escapes that fortunately ended with no harm to the apes or staff, show the uniqueness of running a zoo. Having seen over 350 zoos and aquariums worldwide, Steve takes a bold step in this book by sharing his opinion of the best zoos and aquariums in the world, although freely admitting that others have differing opinions.Travel has been Steve's other passion and most of his travel involved viewing wildlife or attending various zoo and/or conservation meetings. He has led over thirty African safaris, plus led groups on other ecotourism destinations. In 2002, he walked with friends 120 miles through Tsavo National Park in Kenya. Other than the twelve countries he has visited in Africa, he has viewed wildlife in New Zealand, Australia, Borneo, the Pantanal in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, the Galapagos Island, Costa Rica, India, every country in Central America and a few others.Retired in December 2012, Steve continued to lead safaris, attending conservation meeting, consulting, acting as a chair of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums accreditation inspection teams and being a Board member of the Akron Zoo.

"...I have been married fifteen months, and we have moved fifteen times. Lest our monthly vacations arouse suspicion, let it be quickly known that my husband is not a piker - he is an engineer. Not the nice sane kind who drives a train and always gets back to his starting place, my husband is an engineer-in-the-field, and we have neither starting nor stopping place..." Joan Getchell Cole was a prolific writer, and recorded every adventure, small and large, that she had while travelling for her husband's work with the Pitometer Company as a Water Works engineer. Growing up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, spending summers by the water, this nomadic life was new and exciting for her. When they settled and had their three children, Joan continued to write - sometimes entries in her children's baby books, sometimes longer pieces on "Wartime Bedpan Techniques" or "Youth Today" - and she gathered and kept all this writing hoping to put it in the "book of happy memories" she always planned to write. When Joan passed away suddenly just shy of her 36th birthday, she left her three children and husband with this abundance of words and reflections on the life she had led. When she had grown into a woman, her eldest daughter, Joan Cole Pendergast, collected and kept all she could find of these writings, and compiled them into this book with the help of two of her grandchildren. My Book of Happy Memories is the book Joan never got to finish, and is a labor of love from the daughter who remembers her as a warm and loving woman, full of life.

God's plan has always been available to us in the form of prophecy. He told us it would be "sealed up" or made difficult to understand, until the time of the end. God told us his plan would be to allow man to rule for a period and then take the governance of man over. He would then rule and be our God, and we could have a close relationship to Him (like it was in the Garden of Eden). Before one can learn and understand bible prophecy, we need to understand the fundamentals. The first half of this book will help people to understand many important concepts outlined in the Bible so that they can later understand some of the meanings of these prophecies. This book clarifies the transitional period of the ending of man's government into God's government through a series of events already described to us through prophecy. Along the way, many men will not recognize God's authority or His administration of the events to take place. In other words, they will continue to rebel against God and suffer the consequences. God allows a protagonist (Satan) to deceive many men and allows men to choose who they ultimately want to rule over their souls.Bible prophecy is very clear on the remaining events which are about to unfold. When we apply the understanding that we have learned, the coming events are more clearly understood and can be seen as the prophecy predicted. In fact, the events have already been foretold through a series of: 1.) seals opened; 2.) trumpets blown; and 3.) vials poured out. In this book, a description of the seals that have already been opened, and the trumpets which have been blown is made very clear. This book describes the prophecy and applies historical facts to show that many prophecies have already occured.

This is a collection of stories grounded in friendship. Each unique story speaks to the different characteristics of friendship. This is designed to help you reminisce about your connections and value the memories you have established with your friends and family. This book will make you giggle and make you sob but most importantly validate who you are as a friend!

Some of you may have or may not be familiar with Codis Hampton II Blogs, Articles, or Books. His readers can attest to the unique style, grace in which he phrases his description of life in general. This book details a series of down-home humor yet realistic opinions on various subjects, including Race, Politics, Health, Black History, Current Events, Love, and Friendship. After reading his works, you will know Hamp, up close and personal. And by all means, be glad you met him.

Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Art Therapist's Journey follows Ann Owen's journey in healing her childhood sexual abuse. Owen's father abused her when she was a young child. Decades later, she earned two master's degrees, in fine art and expressive art therapy and taught art. When counseling she used art as part of her healing practice. With Owen's own paintings, Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse offers others examples of how creative artmaking can provide a safe technique for holding and exploring emotions. When strong feelings are outside the body yet in a safe container, healing may be facilitated. These paintings encourage people to explore emotions when words are not enough or cannot be spoken. The images could help readers remember things forgotten or may reveal situations too scary to speak aloud. Owen's ideas and techniques for healing complement each painting.

I'm a honest man on a mission to change lives for the better through my deep conscious poems filled with: love, joy, and honesty. Sharing with you my life story will help you to open up your heart to God in your prayers. Always remember that God looks at the heart of both men and women, anything that you feel rather bad or good give it up to God & he will make a way for you.

Sharing great stories from childhood and school experiences, community and church activities, athletic success, and twenty years of professional achievements and failures, Richard addresses challenges that demands proven leadership skills. Understanding the impact, Richard has created what he calls a GPS guide for building successful teams. Richard introduces leadership soft skills to enable coaches, pastors, teachers, entrepreneurs, youth leaders, and managers to develop collective success. With so many distractions around us, FRUSTRATION can easily consume us, thereby, distracting from the objective of leading winning teams. The Mike Method (TMM) translates the FRUSTRATION into actionable solutions. By introducing common "F" words; to include Foundation, Focus, Fundamentals, and Follow Through. The list goes on where the reader can explore these powerful attributes of leadership when faced with a wall of frustration. Richard's writing is authentic. His methodology is based on personal experiences and people survey sampling. To those readers that have a desire to derive improved effectiveness as a leader, this is a must-read GPS guide. The Mike Method simplifies the thinking that grows winning teams!

This book provides 125 short stories or brief scenes for you to chew on, depending on your mood at the moment, or what is happening in your life. These short stories reflect topics that happen to all of us at one time or another, or provide a trigger to our imagination, making us wish we had experienced them or hopefully could someday. Perhaps some of them we hope we never experience. This book covers romance, spiritual thoughtfulness, silliness and humor, satire, the beauty of nature, inspiration, and interesting stories about life.Be aware that the book comes with some warnings and disclaimers: If you don't want to kiss your lover with more intense passion, then please do not read this book. If you don't want to find yourself transported to scenes that inspire you in your life, or to live vicariously through other's experiences, then you certainly should avoid this book. If you don't like to laugh and don't appreciate silliness and humor, this book is not for you, because it will make your belly flop up and down while you laugh. If you dislike good - natured satire and are easily offended by truth, then you should read it, because the author will teach you how to become more open minded, if you dare. If enjoying the beauty of nature on God's great earth is an anathema to you, then absolutely this book is not for you. If you are afraid of shedding a tear, then there are a few sections that might make you shed a few - so you might need to have some tissues ready. If you are already spiritually fulfilled in this beautiful yet difficult and challenging life, then you should read it anyway, because it will satisfy your soul even more.So, if you dare, go ahead and read it. Kiss your lover with passion like you never have before, laugh until your belly jiggles, and allow your soul to experience inspiration and love, even at the cost of tears. Who knows, it may even change how you look at life a little bit. But most importantly, always be thankful for your blessings from God, understanding that despite your disappointments in life, there is always someone who has it worse than you, but says nothing about it and smiles.

The scrappy Jewish kid who captivated readers in Louey Levy's Greatest Catch and Louey Levy's Perfect Pitch is now headed back to Newburgh, the city that never really left her. Before she can get home, though, she has to go through a few things: a crazy career as a journalist and labor activist; volunteering simultaneously for both Special Olympics and Planned Parenthood; becoming a mother; a failed marriage; and much more. Finally it's resilience, compassion and maybe a little shove from G-d that point her to her true love and her true self. Fans will rejoice to know that Heading Home includes a new "Three Kid Detectives" story, and there's no doubt that readers will find this Abrams novel to be a funny, touching and perfect culmination of the Louey Levy trilogy.

This book is about twin brothers Pierce Samuel and Robin Stephen Tomlin born 1836 on a plantation in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia. Their family are Irish descendants who came to America to find a better life for them and for their future families. They both entered Military Academy West Point in 1856 and both graduated in the class of 1860. Since the brothers were always divided about slavery, when the war broke out between the states, Pierce sided with the South and joined the CSA (Confederates States of America) and Robin sided with the North and joined the USA (United States of America). It tells about the Civil War battles they were in from 1861 to 1865. When Pierce and Robin were captured and sent to POW (Prisoner of war) camps, both were released and returned to their units to finish out their military careers until the war ended.

At the height of the Cold War, Sergeant Peter Ackerman and his wife, Trudi, are sent to Berlin to rescue a fellow Western agent. Eventually, they all find themselves in hot water and must make a perilous escape across East Germany and Czechoslovakia-with only Peter's scientific mind, Trudi's faith in God, and a surprising defecting Soviet pilot to guide them. To Climb Cold War Mountains is a novel of history, adventure, and the complexity of the aftermath of World War II. Gary R Hall arrived in West Germany in 1956 at the age of eighteen, beginning a soldier's career that would include over twelve years in Germany. Based on his experiences on both sides of the Iron Curtain, he has written a page-turning "what might have been" story based in steely fact.

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert EinsteinThe professor continued, "When we discuss the concept of bending reality, and that our own perceptions have the power to create and bend that reality, then we begin to scratch the surface of what the mind is capable of and the infinite possibilities contained within it."Jake Jackson grew up in a small, unassuming town in rural Illinois. As he heads into his mid-twenties, his life seems to be following a predictable, comfortable path ... until one fateful day when he has a chance encounter with a stranger on the back streets of Chicago who appears to be homeless-but things may not be what they appear to be. Asked to take care of the stranger's companion, a little dog named Milo, Jake is confronted with an unexplainable mystery when the dog he has agreed to take care of runs into an abandoned factory and vanishes without a trace.As Jake does his best to make sense of it all, things seem to keep taking a turn for the worse, leading Jake down a dark road where he must question everything he has come to understand about what is 'real.' The only thing that all the unexplainable events seem to have in common, other than Jake, is the presence of a large, mysterious dark void-"The Nothing." With a growing sense that he may be running out of time, Jake races to discover what is happening to him and the world around him.

After Ninette Peterson died, she came to Sally Muir and told her about her experiences after death. Thus they began their daily chats, which opened the amazing world of the afterlife. Experience the marvels alongside her as she reveals remarkable landscapes, color baths, angelic helpers and experiences the life review. She talks of traveling among the stars, going to places on Earth, and even to the center of the Earth. She tells of her relationships to those who she loved on Earth and moving through the spiritual planes. Many of the things people wonder about the afterlife are shown to them in detail. Also described are experiences with those who wanted to communicate with loved ones and get help with other issues. Sally would pray for them and they would contact her. Each one had a different life experience, a different death, and a different need. This is a fascinating book for those who have ever been curious about the afterlife.

Contextualized Mathematics is an approach in teaching and learning math that uses applied math to problems that are real life math problems that individuals can relate to and understand; an integral foundation for teaching and learning.

It is the story of an adventure as it unfolded in a moment of time, in a place far away, in the Caroline Islands of Micronesia. It is a place that holds many secrets, a place unto itself, known to just a few. This story will take you there. The people are real. Some, who like a rare few, got to lead fictional lives once in a lifetime. It is the story of an incredible journey, back in time, to islands nearly beyond reach, aboard a 44-foot sail boat, and the perils of mariners who dare go there. It is the story of the Micronesian people themselves; how they arrived there millenniums ago from out of Asia, and how they persist today living by sheer intelligence, guts, and a small abundance afforded on precious small atolls and in the sea around them. It is the story of the Carolinian Navigators who knit this people into one, able to sail trackless hundreds of miles in carved canoes, without instruments, using only the powerful knowledge of stars, the sea, and the sky, passed to them unwritten from their ancestors, generation after generation, back to the beginning. It is the journal of a Peace Corps Volunteer who got to live among them, as a stranger in a strange land. Who learned the rhythms of life, attuned to nature, without clocks. Beyond Time.

Blissfully Human is an intimate account of a profound spiritual awakening. In the long tradition of mystics throughout the ages, the author provides a unique window into the "inner journey" that accompanies the expansion of consciousness. The narrative begins with the energetic transformation of the body itself. This stage is often referred to as an awakening of Kundalini or Holy Spirit, and is necessary to prepare the vessel to facilitate the vast energy of transcendence. This is often correctly considered the last step from one point of view, but it is also the first step of an endless magical journey into the unknown. In the wondrous events and encounters that follow, the reader is offered a glimpse into the heart and mind of the mystic during the radical transformation. This includes the awakening of Spirit within, multi-dimensional perception, merging into unity consciousness, and the embodiment of the transcendent in the physical form. The book focuses primarily on sharing the experiential aspect of the various awakening phenomena, whether they be physical, subtle, or celestial. Of course, no mystical account of this type would be complete without multiple attempts to convey the indescribable bliss states that accompany the journey. Blissfully Human has something to offer all who are on the spiritual path, whether they are experienced spiritual aspirants or have newly engaged the journey. While the details and imagery are necessarily unique to the author, the greater story reflects the true multidimensional nature of all human beings. Furthermore, the narrative reveals helpful universal truths and lessons that accompany various stages of an awakening. This archetypal story is thus every human's story, and any reader can find themselves somewhere on its pages... and perhaps the inspiration to renew their own magical, mystical unfolding.