Authorhouse mai 2014 (56 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the twenty-third century, Earth's scientists finally unlock the secret of faster than light travel, and humankind begins journeying to the stars. Unfortunately, the travel comes with perilous risks. While exploring the galaxy and looking for habitable worlds for human colonization, the United Earth Space Force exploratory ship, Copernicus, is destroyed by an encounter with an unexpected meteor storm as it orbits a newly discovered planet twelve light years from Earth. Of the more than one hundred scientists and crew members aboard, only a few escape to the surface of Planet Tau Ceti g-one being Chris Elliott, a thirty-six-year-old xenobiologist who now must struggle to help himself and the other survivors to stay alive on an unfriendly, alien world. With dwindling resources and no communication with Earth to coordinate a rescue, the group is forced to battle hostile elements and creatures never before seen by humans. Now only time will tell if any of them will live long enough to see a rescue. In this science fiction thriller, a young scientist leads the charge as he and the remaining crew members attempt to survive on an unwelcoming planet with nothing but ingenuity, perseverance, and hope.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - It is only in music that Evelyn Bell allows herself to let go. She is happily spending her days as a professional pianistuntil her life is suddenly turned upside down when, during a public performance, a mysterious vision appears before her. After Evelyn locks eyes with a strange young man she has never seen before, she is returned to reality as quickly as she leftand without any answers about his identity. As she stands and receives applause from the audience, Evelyn cannot forget the man's beautiful, intense eyes that seemed to stare directly into her soul. But who is he She returns home, only to be plagued with odd flashes of light that leave her reeling. She attempts to go about her life, although she cannot help but wonder what else awaits her in what is becoming a bizarre chain of events. She has no idea that the man's mysterious appearances have only just begun. In this compelling tale, a woman seeking answers embarks on a journey of self-discovery through her memories, where she must learn to embrace loss, change, and her true destiny.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Grace Young believes that we are all warriors and miracles who, through various struggles and challenges, have each acquired fracture lines. With the hope of bringing peace, empowering women, and encouraging a movement that emphasizes inner strength, self-love, and courage, Young shares details of her amazing journey through life, during which she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, learned to trust her power and find her voice, and eventually healed her own fracture lines. Young begins by offering a glimpse into her chaotic childhood, overshadowed by a violent, alcoholic father whose unpredictable rages cast a dark cloud over a dysfunctional family situation. After her mother suddenly died and her father remarried, she quickly learned to trust her intuition in order to survive within a volatile home environment. Even after she was raped by an uncle at age seventeen, she somehow managed to pick herself up, attend college, and marry-without any idea that soon life would once again test her strength. Fracture Lines is the true story of one woman's life experiences as she finds the power within to overcome her greatest challenges and define her destiny.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - One who Forgets and One who is Forgotten One in eight over the age of sixty-five and one in three over the age of eighty will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. In her memoir, author Joan Sutton narrates a moving account of her years as caregiver to her husband, noting that 'Alzheimer's is a disease of the brain that is paid for with the currency of the heart.' A member of the board of overseers of The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, she stresses the need to develop more effective treatment for the eight million Americans currently diagnosed with this incurable disease, pointing out that for every patient there is a large circle of others also affected. Sutton offers practical advice for the care of the caregiver and the patient, and shares the pain that came as she watched pieces of her husband's self disappear. Following his death, after what Nancy Reagan described as 'the long goodbye', she writes candidly about coping with her new status as a widow and the aching loneliness of the heart that is the price paid for having known a great love. All profits from the sale of this book will benefit The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation/Canada. Cover design by John R. Lewis. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The sagebrush prairie passed by outside the bus window and the landscape grew dim in the fading sunset, leaving his hometown far behind. Maybe the tumbleweeds swirling in the wind alongside the bus were an omen; time would scatter bad memories just like wind chasing tumbleweeds.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - THE BOOK IS A STUDY IN THE FAMILY LIFE OF EIGHT FAMIILIES LIVING IN A SMALL APARTMENT HOUSE IN A MAJOR AMERICAN CITY. THE STORIES PROVIDE A GLIMPSE INTO HOW EARLY TRAUMAS AND CONFLICTS EFFECT OUR LIVES, INFORM OUR LIFE DECISIONS AND HOW WE LEARN TO SURVIVE.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An edifying fictional story of a woman trapped by her false realities as the results of, the sanctuary of the sanctity of the most sacred vow, marriage. For better or worse Instead the central character, (Melody) in the most profound sense, nearly trips over the threshold head-long into insanity, with eyes-wide closed. Upon her awakening Melody finds like the 'Tale of 'Sleeping Beauty' a lifetime has passed her by. She wants, she needs, she must and she will get answers. 'Knock, Knock, Knock' the unthinkable, becomes real and deadly. A bittersweet victory, Melody gets her answers, via 'Blunt Force!' A must read tale of reparation for mental, physical, spiritual abuse, of the protagonist and ultimate victor its conclusions.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Cain, a quixotic anti-hero, navigates the foreign and hostile world of construction as he builds the Twin Towers prison in LA. The novel follows Cain through the seven stories, nine counting the foundation and roof, of this brooding building culminating with the violent LA riots. Whop, Cain's personal Virgil, guides Cain through the hell of work-site accidents, deaths, graft, greed, incompetence, and disillusionment. Unlike in Dante's Inferno, Whop does not guide Cain to redemption. Instead, Cain's foreman, Nickels, applies pressure to Cain's mental state as the steel assaults his body and soul. While Cain sinks deeper into the construction site his hold on reality blurs by the surreal bombardment to his senses. He absorbs the maddening orchestra of noises and sights; the Native American iron worker, Coyote Eye, killing himself for his beloved; the rodbuster who robbed banks to escape the job; the sex addiction of Big Daddy and his crew of looneys; and the merciless steel trying to murder Cain one piercing shard at a time. The rest of the crew: Iron Horse, Tiny, Willie the Elevator Operator, Righteous Eddy Edmond, and the Funky Red Headed Dread Lock Dude notice Cain's odd behavior, but they do not recognize his mental instability. As the Rodney King riot takes to the streets nine months later, LA burns in the night sky while Cain, Nickels and the cold steel collide.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Dianne Haley Vots on her sister Lynne: 'I knew she thought of me because wherever she went she always brought me presents. While I treasure all of those presents, I see now that she herself was the most precious gift.'.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Summer-Lynn Caldwell, the daughter of First Lady Winter Caldwell-Ridley is on a path of vengeance; to destroy her mother and her mother's first love, Emmanuel Stello Washington. This story chronicles the trials and tribulations of a young woman who is dealing with issues of faith, family and personal failures. Take a privileged look into the private thoughts of a tortured soul. Spinning off from her first novel; Lost Letters of a Lonely Girl, Cherry Devore has continued the saga of pain and sadness, in the heart of a young woman, under a generational curse.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Meet Kenneth Wise: owner of his own private investigation agency. He is recently requested by the police captain (Joseph Mahan) to work along side detective on the force. Together they investigate a number of found suicides. As the body count rises, new developments take form for the investigating team in this metropolis. Join them in this mental struggle to understand what is happening to everyone. Remember, investigators are required to treat all suicides as a potential homicide: homicidal suicide.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - He's a herb at school. He has all the things wrong with him that he could possibly have including being black, poor and skinny as a twig. His parents, one German and one Brazilian, make a very odd pair. They obviously aren't his. He's no one special. Just a 12-year-old kid in Queens, trying to overcome the worst with wry humor and the little he has. This is his lullaby. This book contains twenty of the best short stories by Frantzline Tingue. Whether it is about a girl who can fl y in 'To Fly,' or about a boy and his grandma in 'Grandma's big bear hug.' All the stories are written for the en-tertainment for readers of all ages.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - David Blue and his girlfriend Deanne Byrd are ready for a peaceful Labor Day party at his farm in Port Clinton, Ohio. They've invited five of their friends from college to share in the festivities, but events take a strange turn when a freak blizzard descends upon the peaceful Midwestern countryside. Trapped at the farm, unexpected guests soon appear, people definitely not invited. David believes one of the arrivals is actually his doppelgänger -his evil twin-here to destroy David and his friends. But is the doppelgänger real or is David suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder Can David convince his friends that there really is a doppelgänger in the house, or will they just think him mad When guests begin to disappear, the tension increases, and no one knows whom to trust. Has David led his friends into a death trap If so, he is the only person who can save them from his own worst enemy.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - As a young man, Robert A. Michael read Ayn Rand s The Fountainhead and the book changed the direction of his life, inspiring him to pursue a career in architecture. He believed in Rand s modernist idea of the autonomous man of independent-mindedness and integrity. Robert follows his dreams but is continuously disappointed. He desperately wants to join the pantheon of modern architectural heroes, but for him, the valiant life of the architect that Rand promoted is elusive. His career catches the attention of his clients, his peers, and his industry and then he disappears. Theories rages, but the truth is elusive. His personal and professional despair is well known, feeding rumors of suicide or foul play. Journalist and architectural critic R. M. Beckley knew Robert well, and now in The Architect s Suicide he shares his thoughts on his mysterious disappearance in this fictional account. In his own pursuit of truth, Beckley interviewed those who knew Robert as a friend, mentor, and peer. He also explores what impact the problematic nature of architectural practice in the latter half of the twentieth century may have had on Robert s life and disappearance. By thoughtfully weaving reality with imagination, The Architect s Suicide, a fictional account of factual events, brings readers deep inside the convoluted life and mysterious death of an influential and missing American architect. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Two Philadelphia natives meet at Salem College in Winston Salem. Nathan Ross Freeman is Aileen Muhammad's poetry and screenwriting professor. She believes he is her blood brother by some accidental occurrence. He says maybe in another life. She begins to write stories. He shares his and here they are. The threads that weave the fabric of these stories, the entry into the avenue of the muse and the poetic conjures are startling and satisfying.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Rapid-fire action and humor burn hot in the fourth book of the Frank-3 Enroute series. Join Las Vegas street cop Rod Randel, aka The Hawk , his powerful partners, and raging rookies as they lead a blazing charge on the cliffhangers from book three, It Ain t Finished. Solutions evolve! Rod s long-time partner, Sam Sikes, aka Grumpy, quits after his family is threatened. Randel must triumph without him! Someone is eliminating the Drug Lords. Who s next What happened to Officer Riley s abducted wife, Carrie How will the sheriff solve the rash of burglaries that strike Vegas, escalating the stress on the already overloaded police department Follow The Hawk , who remains #1 on the Cuban Cartel s hit list, as he leaves a scorching trail on his prey. 124words. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Stars are born.legends are made.then there's Nicky Spade. Nicky Spade was a dreamer. There was no way he would live and die in his hometown, Middleton, Michigan. Unexpectedly fate would step in and grant him his wish. Surprisingly he would get everything his heart desired, but with all good things comes challenges. Unforeseen events would change Nicky's life forever. The only question he forgot to ask himself was, 'Does getting everything you've ever wanted mean ANYTHING if you lose the one you love '.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Some years ago, a Canadian travel campaign aimed at the United States described the country as 'The World Next Door.' It is a spectacular place to visit, the 'world' that is so close to us, filled with sparkling, friendly cities, incomparable natural areas, world-class museums and national parks, and lovely people who invariably welcome the visitor. Jack Dold, Director of Golden Gate Tours of California, takes the reader on a coast-to-coast tour, exploring nearly every facet of this beautiful Canadian world. Six imaginative tours with the alumni of the University of California, Berkeley, take you from Atlantic to Pacific and from the U.S. border to the Arctic, exploring Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritimes, the unique Province of Quebec, the frozen north of Hudson's Bay Company and the Land of the Midnight Sun along the Alaska Highway and the route of the Klondike. Visit Canada's superb cities, filled with welcoming people and attractive parks and museums. Enjoy the incomparable beauty of unfettered nature, and relive the drama of a nation of explorers and trappers and immigrants who slowly came to populate their enormous land. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Part V of our story takes us back in history to a time before the Tillington dynasty began. This is the 16th century, King Henry VIII is on the throne of England, and his chance meeting with a shepherd boy heralds the beginning of events which will change the young man's life completely, and will shape the lives of all who come after him. Our story begins, however, a little further forward in time, and here we meet two young women, one of whom is bored and frustrated with her life, and goes in search of adventure, and fulfillment of her young desires, with ultimately devastating consequences. Out of this devastation, however, is born a dynasty, although as we will see as our story enters the present day, everything is by no means as it seems, or as history would have it. Percival struggles to come to terms with his recent past and with his immediate future, and is persuaded to go on a journey to face his tormentor one last time. Alice meanwhile considers undertaking a journey of a very different kind; should she risk the safety of her two infant children, Bronwyn and Elizabeth, in order to return to the rainforest which she so loves Miles and Florence continue their desperate quest to find their daughter, Rebecca, who herself becomes privy to information which will make her see her life, her parents, her beloved Victoria, and her entire future in a quite new light. Keith is given the chance to express his musical ability in a way that he would never have imagined, and once again Victoria and her brother Michael are central to our story. Michael has a decision to make of the most fundamental nature, and Victoria is left to wonder how to reconcile her own future when so much uncertainty haunts her past. Here we encounter death and rebirth, love and bitter hatred, as these two most extreme emotions do battle within the lives and souls of our characters. Ultimately, underlying the day to day lives of the people who live near to and around the village Green is a search for a better life, and a search for truth. For all that certain people in our story can be sure of is that somebody is lying.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - As soon as Lily Harrison makes her way into the world, her nursemaid, Shannon, notices something is different about the beautiful baby. After she hands Lily to her happy parents, Shannon wrestles with how to tell them that Lily has Child Mind, a disability that is not accepted in her land ruled by a king determined to kill any baby born with a handicap.After Shannon reveals Lily's condition to her parents, they must decide whether to secretly care for her or send her to the king where she will almost certainly meet her demise. Shannon, who is certain Lily is going to do something special in her life, is relieved when Lily's parents decide to care for her until she is two and then tell the authorities she has died in a horrible accident, before sending her away to live in an Elven monastery. But when they discover the authorities are closing in sooner than expected, they must immediately put their plan into place. But little do they know that sometimes even the best plans do not go as expected.In this captivating tale, a special little girl who embarks on an adventurous quest to live is eventually led to a final showdown with a king-and to her true destiny.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The normally quiet life in a small, rural town is ripped apart by a series of strange and violent deaths. The sight of brutally dismembered bodies is becoming disturbingly commonplace in a place where this sort of crime was once unthinkable. All the townspeople know is that a dangerous predator keeps striking from the shadows and that no one is safe from its insatiable appetites. There have been a few sightings, but no one can really describe what they've seen. What appears at first glance to be a gray man shifts into something far more elusive upon closer inspection. With the help of a horse she rescues and the wayward spirit of her Confederate soldier great-grandfather, two most unlikely champions-the town's veterinarian and her young daughter-emerge. Hoping to make a deal and solve the mystery, the vet's daughter makes a strange deal with a powerful yet shy entity whose true intentions are as mysterious as the deaths. This entity's power reaches across time and existence, even into the creation of entire worlds and civilizations. The stakes couldn't be higher: the fate of the soldier's soul hangs in the balance, as does the continued existence of his descendents. A battle is building between unknown forces, and the collision between them has the potential to change their destinies and future memories for all involved.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Before twelve-year-old Megan Blayne moves to Hollow Mountain, she believes that nothing can ever come between herself and her twin sister, Cate. Even though they have different personalities, they are forever bonded by blood and wear matching green amber rings. But just as myths about peculiar happenings around the town begin to overwhelm their daily conversations, Cate and her ring suddenly disappear. After Megan embarks on a desperate search to find her twin, she is met by a mysterious serpent who opens his mouth and drops Cate s ring at her feet. But as quickly as the snake appears, it disappears, along with the ring. Terrified and more worried about Cate than ever, Megan sets out on a daring adventure in a fantasy world more dangerous than she ever imagined. As she begins unraveling a complex puzzle that she hopes will lead her to Cate, Megan encounters a strange boy, an evil lord, and serpent people who will do anything to get the one thing they want most. In this fantasy novel, a girl on a quest to find her missing sister must rely on help from an unlikely new friend as she attempts to save two worlds from a terrible fate.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Mysterious paranormal activities surrounding the hamlet of Heystone are serious enough for Reverend David 'Durley' Hudson to investigate the situation. Sinister creatures crawling out of the shadows have been leaving havoc and death in their wake. In contrast, a stern warning from an exorcism in a faraway land also adds an evil ingredient, and links to a phenomenal being known as the War Witch become apparent. After finding a long-hidden diary containing a soldier's dark experience in the First World War, Durley is shocked to the core. A secret in the diary leads to a dilemma even Durley cannot comprehend, and it will be no easy task for him to convince his sister Sarah to help him. But the only way for him to unfold the truth is to enter the hellish world of the War Witch. But her hell does not come alone.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book describes the circumstances which led to a vicious rape and its aftermath. It also illustrates the search of a woman anxious to find her birth mother after living many years as an adoptee.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Forget what you think you know and who you thought you were to save us all. This is all that is asked of Jenelle when she wakes up in a strange place. Join Jenelle on a whirlwind journey where she learns the truth about herself in an enchanting world. Experience as she finds that even in paradise life is full of surprises. She will learn a new life that is full of hope,magic, and secrets, including a foretelling that will change her life forever.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK - Protagonist Chris Low is a selfish, arrogant and hugely famous rhythm and blues Singer who's on the verge of losing it all in the new book 'Th e Real Love Series Book 1: Chris Low Superstar' from Talib Abdul Muhammad.'It's a story about love, real love, and discovering the things in one's life that are truly important,' Muhammad says. 'It's about the importance of respecting the people in our lives who love us and it's also about the power of forgiveness.'Chris Low is the biggest r&b star on the planet and he thinks that the world revolves solely around him, until suddenly his world starts to unravel due to his infi delity and arrogance. First his girlfriend of eight years, Coco leaves him after she catches him cheating on her with a fan. Then he puts his singing career in serious jeopardy after demanding that he be released from the record label that gave him his start. But the owner of the label Jacob Monroe refuses to release him and sets out to destroy Chris when Chris's manager plays dirty. In the midst of him fighting for his career and his woman, his mother, Clare is forced to reveal to him a shameful secret that she's been keeping for 40 years. A secret that will change his life!Readers will witness love, lust, betrayal and revenge unfold between the pages of this riveting, dramatic and sometimes humorous and touching novel.The real life issues that this book touches will surely make Muhammad's message- Life is bigger than any one person's ego- real for all who read it.'My book is not mushy and far-fetched,' Muhammad says. 'It is very entertaining, but it is real. It doesn't try to make the characters lovable all the time. It makes them human instead.'.…