Xlibris feb 2004 (14 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Unintended Results: New Chapters in an Ongoing Story contains about 37 pieces of writing and a running commentary that bring the author's story up to date from the printing and distribution of his The Age of Illusion: Some Writings and a Memoir (1999). It presents views on some of the events of these years, including September 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq. The book has many details that have not appeared on the author's Web page, including a fragment, 'In the New Payne Whitney Clinic, July 13, 2003'; a short story, 'Susan Will Adopt'; and two 'poems.'.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - On the run from Chicago authorities, John Milton is a wanted felon. His life, as he knew it, will never be the same. He guards deadly secrets in hope of preserving his future, but he won't let go of the past.Coalwater is an intricate and mysterious game of cat-and-mouse between Milton, a crooked politician, an investigator at the end of an undistinguished career, and a puppet master pulling all the strings. Millions of dollars are missing with the click of a button--retrievable by only one man.When Milton disappears, the case goes cold--until an episode of America's Most Wanted thaws the icy chill of an open murder investigation. An unsubstantiated call to the show's hotline instigates a manhunt leading to the quiet an unsuspecting Wyoming town of Coalwater ellipses.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Psalm of Psaint Mabel follows Mabel Wirtanen, a ham fisted Finnish masseuse from Michigan¿s Upper peninsula, on her quest to become a spiritual force the likes of Mother Theresa or Ghandi. The award winning novel describes an uncommonly honest middle-aged single woman¿s frustrating, and hilarious, journey to self-knowledge. What new fresh hell is this she asks herself repeatedly, as she tries to make her heart and mind so pure all will recognize her spiritual glory, rendering completion of her childhood fantasy to become an American Lutheran religious celebrity, a pseudo saint.Escaping the confines of her small town, (where her dream is stifled because everyone knows her faults), for more fertile and fresh fields, Mabel takes on American economic inequities and the special justice reserved for the upper class, while working as a masseuse on a luxury island off the coast of South Florida. Perhaps the first novel to detail the work of a massage therapist The Psalm of Psaint Mabelis also a landmark in portraying Yooperland, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. So insular a part of the USA it is sometimes left off the map by the likes of Newsweek magazine, the author gives voice to the peculiar Finnglish accent dying out with the older generation. The string of unintended consequences as the Finnish Masseuse wrestles Beelzebub ring true in the style of great literary fiction. Dark humor acts as medicine for the soul as Mabel Wirtanen¿s escapades clarify her true potential during the time of the Thomas-Hill hearings and the Kennedy-Smith Palm Beach Trial, events that outed the problems of women speaking truth to power. Will the needed Big tips corrupt her plans for even ersatz piety She walks the razor¿s edge of how to work the money mojo while still appearing ethical and good. A Buddhist nun with a menagerie of stray dogs, an unhappy but sincere psychiatrist, an alcoholic New Age girlie girl, present edifying confusion into Mabel¿s belief in the importance of being natural while striving for unattainable moral perfection. The story covers the lingering effects of Vietnam, date rape, spinsterhood, homelessness, euthansia, sexual harassment, Hurricane Andrew and the dream that got away.Read reviews at other book sellers¿ sites online. Intrigued, but the book is too expensive Encourage your local library to purchase a copy and help the author feed her dog during the coming End Times.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The tale of Max Schlemmer is powerful, compelling non-fiction. Max is a 'renaissance' man who survives the danger of whaling in the frigid North Pacific, works on various Hawaiian sugar plantations, captains sailing vessels, pioneers the guano business on Laysan Island, takes on the duties of mid-wife, is a Honolulu Police captain, and a motorman with Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., and always a man devoted to family and country.Max is also an entrepreneur. In his early years in Hawaii, he gained 'squatter's rights' to Laysan Island. Later he established his home on this tiny, distant, and isolated island. Though many business ventures failed, he dreamed of a 'kingdom' on Laysan Island. Perhaps he dreamed and schemed also about the vast riches to be gained in the bird plumage trade.Max Schlemmer, Hawaii's King of Laysan Island takes place during an interesting period of Hawaiian history. Max is involved in rioting which leads to the overthrow of the monarchy and to Hawaii becoming the Territiory of Hawaii. Max is a constant gadfly to the local authorities; his actions often lead them into uncharted waters and reverberates finally in Washington D.C.Max Schlemmer, Hawaii's King of Laysan Island is also the story of the life and death of an island.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The year is 1929. Two sixteen year-old migrant boys, Charlie Griffin and Emerson Moore, find a huge gold nugget while working in South Carolina on the world's biggest earthen dam. Charlie is killed when the tunnel they are digging caves in. Emerson survives and keeps their discovery a secret.Seventy-three years later Blake Lubeck, a greedy and ambitious businessman, hears the legend of Lake Murray's gold. The earthen dam undergoes reinforcement because it lies on an earthquake fault. During construction the lake is lowered, exposing buried villages and Emerson's secret. With the help of a cruel hit man and a callous woman, Lubeck begins his campaign to become rich. In order to salvage the gold, he must dig under the dam without anyone knowing. Inevitably, someone finds out. Lubeck resorts to blackmail and murder to keep his secret.Two hurricanes and a ghost upset Lubeck's plans. Monsoon rains fill up the lake and threaten to breach the weakened dam. Will the courage of a young boy and his great-grandfather's spirit be enough to save a city from Gold's fool.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Scan this book quickly and you will think that philosophy has finally recovered a sense of imagination. Read it carefully - and recognize that every work and every author 'reviewed' here are but mere possibilities (except for one) - and you find yourself in the midst of an extraordinarily imaginative and audacious projection of what philosophy might become. 'Reinventing the culture' in the new Millennium; reinvoking the 'hidden possibilities' of human and more-than-human Others; reopening ethics in the direction of 'possibilistic' process; even 'teaching on the edge'. Oh for such a Philosophy! Oh for such Philosophers!' - Violet Woodsorrel Oxalis.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This story of the King family -- their stormy, God inspired, romantic and often adventurous lives, adapts its title from Mark 3:17 of the Bible, because A. D. and Martin King were fiery preachers. It explores provocative episodes of the civil rights movement, in large part through the remembrances that A. D. King shared with his daughter Alveda. 'Sons of Thunder' examines the civil rights movement's triumphs against extraordinary odds and the human flaws and frailties that give texture to this explosive chapter of our history; recasting the story in a fresh, compelling light.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - On a stormy January morning in 1962, the libertarian minister of prestigious First Church lies dead in his study, the victim of a brutal knife attack. Five months later, the dead minister's young successor and his Sunday night date discover a hidden room in the church basement used as a pornography studio. How the minister's unsolved murder and the studio relate, the events leading to them and their aftermath shape this sexually charged novel spanning farm country in south New Jersey and city streets in New York's Manhattan.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - THE CODEA NOVEL BY JAY CURTISCLASSIFICATION:Contemporary Action-Adventure Science Fiction, with as much science as fiction involved. The novel is as much an action-adventure story as it is science fiction and involves romance. It is not at all typical science fiction, but rather a projection of science, intelligence reports and rumors, and religious precepts and teachings to a logical, but yet novel, conclusion. The novel would also fit in the genre of a mild thriller.SYNOPSIS:FACTUAL BACKGROUND: The novel is based on weaving several very interesting factual premises, military intelligence rumors, historical legends, and religious precepts and teachings, all of which are pushed to a logical but extreme conclusion in developing the story.1. In 1997, Michael Drosnin, an investigative reporter, wrote The Bible Code, a nonfiction account of the work of cryptographers and other scientists who put modern computer decryption technology to the task of deciphering a purported hidden code in the Torah, which reveals everything about the future of everyone. Although it has its critics and detractors, the book and the work it details are both credible, if not indisputable, and startling, if not downright frightening. The concept of such hidden predictions was one Sir Isaac Newton spent most of his life devoted to unraveling, but he failed at what he believed was his true, God-given mission in life. Only the advent of the modern computer with its light speed calculations made it possible to. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Yankee Tsunami: An Engulfing Wave by Andrew R. DiConti is a historical novel that covers a period of a year (1898-99) aboard the USS Boston, an innovative warship for the period. The adventures and exploits of Gamble Crane, a newly billeted crewmember, is a continuation of Yankee Tsunami: The Ocean Erupts, which began his adventures in exotic ports. Crane's taboo romance with Emily Chan, a girl of Chinese ancestry from Monterey, California, becomes complicated. Both lovers are American citizens, yet the mixing of the races in 1899 is viewed as scandalous. Crane's love for Emily is precipitated by their adventure that frees two young girls forced into the slavery of prostitution. This event begins Crane's metamorphosis of understanding. Learning of Emily's struggle to gain acceptance in the white community of Monterey begins the conversion of Crane into an advocate for human rights of non-white peoples in each port visited by the Boston. Gamble now empathizes with the struggle of people living on the rim of the Pacific, called 'heathens' by whites. With Gamble Crane as our guide, we learn what the world was like as told by the Pacific Rim peoples. We are exposed to the unsettling effects brought to bear by Manifest Destiny, America's governing principle seen by many in the region as racist. From that point, Crane views his encounters from a different perspective. Be it Okumura-san, an important Japanese government official in Nagasaki; Lanakila, the Kahuna Nui of Honolulu; Donaldina Cameron, the avenging angel of Chinatown; Agamemnon Asher, a shipmate who's like a brother; or Montague, a retired shipmate and expert in Asian culture - they all have an indelible impact upon the life of Gamble Crane.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This work was inspired by a poem found in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Tales of a Wayside Inn' The story is set in Norway, England and Denmark, circa 1000 AD The tremendous conflict between advancing Christianity and entrenched Paganism sweeps the characters into a maelstrom of war, political intrigue, murder, greed and the success or failure of personal ambitions. Political enemies have murdered the family of Olaf Tryggvesson of Norway and four-year-old Olaf has been sold into slavery. He is found and rescued by his uncle, who sees an opportunity for revenge by setting Olaf, grandson of the late King Harold of Norway on the throne. Young Olaf is placed in the court of Novgorad Russia to be trained in the ways of power while his uncle Sigurd seeks alliances with the Roman Church and King Svein of Denmark to further the plan. Upon gaining maturity, Olaf is married to the daughter of King Burislav of Poland as a political move, then enlisted in the violence of Denmark's attempt to invade and conquer England. His reputation as a skilled military leader, together with his amassing a huge fortune in the spoils of war, soon enables him to invade Norway and to claim the throne.Olaf's lukewarm acceptance of Christianity soon alienates the Roman Church as an ally and his growing military power and independence causes Svein of Denmark to view his former comrade-in-arms with alarm. Olaf reacts to every turn in his fortunes by returning to the violence, which is his consistent area of expertise. The death of his first wife and the attempt of his second wife to murder him lead him to embark on military adventures dangerous to all around him. Finally he must plan one last battle to defeat his foes. On the eve of the battle he recognizes his own failings as King and protector of his native people. He vows to subjugate his passions for the good of the people, but his immediate problem is to defeat Svein, his former mentor. Olaf is killed in the battle, thus laying No.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Writing Box is a contemporary novel of coming of age, friendship, seduction and love. It follows the footstep trails of the kindred coincidences and curious happenstances of two women. Part is written as a chronicle of Vanessa Fernandez during eighteen consecutive days, and part is braided throughout fifty-four years of Ursula Ransom¿s life. Ulitmately, The Writing Box brings these two women together at the steel design of crossroad destiny.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is a rare find, sharing all the joys, stresses, desires, and challenges Samantha faced throughout her first three years of transition. Not always easy to read or glamorous, it details one woman's desire to live fully in this world as her true self. It is a shining example of the resilience of the human spirit and is sure to inspire hope in all who read it.'--Kris Keniray, Sexuality EducatorSometimes the greatest adventure a human being can go on is not the discovery of a far-off, distant land. Sometimes the greatest adventure is discovering the secrets that lie within. Through the Jungle: A Traveler's Guide chronicles the story of Samantha's discovery of her true self. Sometimes happy and enlightening, often dark and disturbing, her journey takes you through three years of her life told as it happened through her personal diary.This story gives the reader a glimpse into a world very few people will ever experience first hand, the world of a transsexual male to female.…