Frayed Shorts

Author : Brian Lehman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1684703999
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Paint written by Brian Lehman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WAR PAINT is a quirky thriller and a naval warfare story like no other from the Vietnam War. It is April 1972 and the fading war has suddenly reawakened with the Easter Offensive, a massive invasion by North Vietnam into South Vietnam. United States troop strength in the war has fallen to new lows and twenty-year-old surfer Jeffs Ryder is a new member of the crew of a destroyer known as the Rat at the very time that the United States Navy has become the tip of the spear in repelling this aggression. He and his fianc?e Cathy's lives are turned upside down as his ship and many others are sent to the war. Unknown to Jeffs and the crew of the destroyer, their most dangerous enemy is not the one they expect. A secret group committed to the destruction of the ship, and an unbalanced navy fleet commander have joined forces in a conspiracy to send the Rat on a perilous mission and a confrontation with patrol boats carrying ship killing missiles.

Author : Roger F. Kennedy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145688669X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Short Fiction written by Roger F. Kennedy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-25 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Short Fiction of Roger F. Kennedy now appears in a two book set – Volumes 1 and 2 Volume 1 comprises 27 newly edited stories from The Windup Man and Lauri with an i. Volume 2 includes 24 newly edited stories from The Three of us and Mirror Image. Kennedy’s ironic imagination and wit shine through with fast-moving plot lines and dead-on dialogue in the time-honored tradition of pulp fiction.

Author : IVAN PHILLIPOWSKY
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1647336392
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A ROOSTER’S TALE & OTHER SHORT STORIES written by IVAN PHILLIPOWSKY and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surya, a rooster belonging to Sonu Devi who ekes out a living selling Desi Eggs to the town of Mainpuri. Surya greets every dawn with lusty crows that can be heard by all in the village (who don’t mind as also by the residents of the Spa (who do mind) adjoining the plot of land owned by Sonu Devi. The residents of the Spa, all rich managers and socialites, who have come to the Spa for a taste of the rural life, object to his crowing so early in the morning and complain to the spa manager to do something about it. The manager contacts his ‘consultant’ Gajjo, hired exclusively to deal with problems of the locals. What follows is a hilarious concatenation of events that can have only one ending.

Author : R.W. Hart
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149178430X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frayed Ribbon written by R.W. Hart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Rollins is in the hospital with a high-risk pregnancy under doctor’s orders for bed rest when several car crashes cause the ER to be overrun with severely injured victims. In an effort to help, Gail befriends a lonely young girl named Lexie. Gail cares for Lexie and even calms her screams at night. They become attached, especially when Lexie’s parents disappear. In an effort to comfort the now panicked Lexie, Gail gives her a dog ornament to cuddle while she sleeps. Soon, though, Gail is released from the hospital—a birthday gift from her doctor. She comes back later to check on Lexie only to find the little girl gone. She tries desperately to locate Lexie but runs into privacy laws and red tape. For years, every one of Gail’s birthdays act as a reminder of the girl she failed to protect. Having exhausted all avenues that might lead her to Lexie, her hope hangs on a puppy decoration and a prayer. Lexie is never far from Gail’s mind. Will she discover what happened to the lonely child, or will Lexie become another lost face in the desolate crowd?

Author : Joshua Seidl
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105105261
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cloudburst written by Joshua Seidl and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three cultures, Native American, Euro-American and Metis come together in this 1934-2010 historical fiction. Setting: Great Lakes region, a pristine wilderness community. Dynamic interplay in love and conflicts, the story features Baby boomers in thier formative years. Thisn is the follow up companion to the book, Hawk Dancer. The Elder prtagonists, Jacob Hawk Dancer (Ojibwe/Norwegian), and Job (Potawatomi)promote conciliation among races and classes of people. They mentor the youth of the 1960s through the Great American Civil Rights movement, American Indian Movement, and the Vietnam war era. The first ever Native American Franciscan Order is established, the Congregation of St. James. The kids come of age in the 70s and continue the work of inculturation, promotion of Indigenous cultures in the Churches and society. Eventualy, they are the elders. They see the passage of the American Indian Freedom of Religion Law, Aug. 11, 1978. Endearing but not soft and cuddly. Exciting, dramatic.

Author : June Hines Moore
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433670186
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Etiquette Advantage written by June Hines Moore and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in a dog-eat-dog world, you should still know which fork to use.From proper grooming to proper attire, from dealing with foreign clients to dealing with the caterer, knowing the dos and don'ts of etiquette in the workplace is imperative for a successful business person. In the midst of a marketplace that has abandoned its social graces, it is the responsibility of the mature Christian to act with propriety and kindness. June H. Moore, a businesswoman and believer, teaches corporate Christians how to behave commendably, respecting their fellow workers even in the ferocious world of commerce.

Author : Jane Bidder
Publisher : Accent Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178375138X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Witness written by Jane Bidder and published by Accent Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alice, a middle-aged mother and wife, sees a couple having sex in the park, she is embarrassed but walks on and thinks no more of it. Later, however, a policeman knocks on her door, asking her to make a statement about what she saw. The man from the couple is notorious for taking advantage of young girls, and the one from the park was only fifteen. Alice is the only witness. If she gives evidence in court, she might stop the man from hurting more vulnerable adolescents. But by putting herself on the stand, Alice risks exposing her own past ...

Author : Peter M. Magolda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100098043X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It’s All About Jesus! written by Peter M. Magolda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to be a collegian involved in a Christian organization on a public college campus? What roles do Christian organizations play in the lives of college students enrolled in a public college? What are evangelical student organizations’ political agendas, and how do they mobilize members to advance these agendas? What is the optimal equilibrium between the secular and the sacred within public higher education? What constitutes safe space for evangelical students, and who should provide this space? This book presents a two-year ethnographic study of a collegiate evangelical student organization at a public university, authored by two “non-evangelicals.” The authors provide a glimpse into the lives of college students who join evangelical student organizations and who subscribe to an evangelical way of life during their college years. They offer empirically derived insights as to how students’ participation in a homogeneous evangelical student organization enhances their satisfaction of their collegiate experience and helps them develop important life lessons and skills. Ironically, while Christian students represent the religious majority on the campus under study, Christian organizations on this campus mobilize members by capitalizing on members’ shared sense of marginalization, and position themselves as cultural outsiders. This evangelical student organization serves as a safe space for students to express their faith within the larger secular university setting.The narratives and interpretations aim not only to enrich understanding of a particular student organization but more importantly to spark intellectual discourse about the value of faith-based organizations within public higher education. The role of religion in public higher education, student involvement in the co-curriculum, and peer education are three examples of critical issues in higher education for which this idiosyncratic case study offers broad understanding. It’s All About Jesus! targets multiple audiences – both sacred and secular. For readers unfamiliar with evangelical collegiate organizations and the students they serve, the authors hope the narratives make the unfamiliar familiar and the dubious obvious. For evangelicals, the authors hope that the thickly described narratives not only make the familiar, familiar and the obvious, obvious, but also uncover the tacit meaning embedded in these familiar, but seldom examined subculture rituals.The authors hope this book spurs discussion on topics such as campus power and politics, how organizations interact with the secular world around them, and how members can improve their organizations. Additionally, this text urges secular readers in student affairs to consider the many benefits, as well as liabilities, of “parachurches” as co-curricular learning sites on campus.Lastly, given that the authors lay bare their methodology, their use of theory, and the tensions between their perspectives and those of the participants, this book will serve as a compelling case study for courses on qualitative research within religion studies, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies fields.

Author : Iliana Regan
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1572848693
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fieldwork written by Iliana Regan and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award–nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how Regan’s complex gender identity informs her acclaimed work as a chef and her profound experience of the natural world. Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north. Long based in Chicago, she and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she’d long expressed as a chef, but experienced most intensely growing up. On her family’s farm in rural Indiana, Regan was the beloved youngest in a family with three much older sisters. From a very early age, her relationship with her mother and father was shaped by her childhood identification as a boy. Her father treated her like the son he never had, and together they foraged for mushrooms, berries, herbs, and other wild food in the surrounding countryside—especially her grandfather’s nearby farm, where they also fished in its pond and young Iliana explored the accumulated family treasures stored in its dusty barn. Her father would share stories of his own grandmother, Busia, who’d helped run a family inn while growing up in eastern Europe, from which she imported her own wild legends of her native forests, before settling in Gary, Indiana, and opening Jennie’s Café, a restaurant that fed generations of local steelworkers. He also shared with Iliana a steady supply of sharp knives and—as she got older—guns. Iliana’s mother had family stories as well—not only of her own years marrying young, raising headstrong girls, and cooking at Jennie’s, but also of her father, Wayne, who spent much of his boyhood hunting with the men of his family in the frozen reaches of rural Canada. The stories from this side of Regan’s family are darker, riven with alcoholism and domestic strife too often expressed in the harm, physical and otherwise, perpetrated by men—harm men do to women and families, and harm men do to the entire landscapes they occupy. As Regan explores the ancient landscape of Michigan’s boreal forest, her stories of the land, its creatures, and its dazzling profusion of plant and vegetable life are interspersed with her and Anna’s efforts to make a home and a business of an inn that’s suddenly, as of their first full season there in 2020, empty of guests due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She discovers where the wild blueberry bushes bear tiny fruit, where to gather wood sorrel, and where and when the land’s different mushroom species appear—even as surrounding parcels of land are suddenly and violently decimated by logging crews that obliterate plant life and drive away the area’s birds. Along the way she struggles not only with the threat of COVID, but also with her personal and familial legacies of addiction, violence, fear, and obsession—all while she tries to conceive a child that she and her immune-compromised wife hope to raise in their new home. With Burn the Place, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In Fieldwork, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes, and stories, that reveal the forces which inform, shape, and nurture our lives.

Author : Robert H. T. W. Nieder
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149315463X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Is Just Yesterday with Lots of Tomorrows written by Robert H. T. W. Nieder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fi ctional tale that contains slight spiritual messages and subtle social issues sprinkled into it. It is a love story between a young angry hateful shrimper who lives in the village of Edgewater which is located along the St. Johns River in northern Florida and a young Gullah woman who is from St. Helena Island off the Beaufort coast of South Carolina. A boating accident occurs out in the Atlantic Ocean in which Billie Barrett is washed ashore on Hunting Island, South Carolina. After medical attention is given to Billie he is taken in and cared for by a Gullah family living in St. Helena Island. It is in this household that he meets Bridgette Kamau who tends to him on a day to day basis. A connection is made between the two and Billie has a change of heart in his ignorance as he falls in love with her. You will read into it what you will and get out of it what you perceive.