Book Description
In the tradition of "A Season on the Brink" comes the riveting story of the Lakers' turbulent 2000-2001 season. 16-page photo insert.
Author : Elizabeth Kaye
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2003-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071412612
In the tradition of "A Season on the Brink" comes the riveting story of the Lakers' turbulent 2000-2001 season. 16-page photo insert.
Author : Charles R. Smith
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0821444212
This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James. Powerful, provocative, and entertaining, these plays have been produced by professional theater companies across the country and abroad. Four of the plays are based on historical people and events from W.E.B. Du Bois and Countee Cullen to the Harlem Renaissance. Accurate in the way they capture the political and cultural milieu of their historical settings, and courageous in the way they grapple with difficult questions such as race, education, religion, and social class, these plays jump off the page just as powerfully as they come to life on stage. This first-ever collection from one of the nation’s leading African American playwrights is a journey down the complex road of race and history.
Author : Gil Parker
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1553955412
A tale of clashing Egos, Arrogance, Power and blind Devotion to Duty during the Vietnam conflict.
Author : Irene Radford
Publisher : Bookview Cafe
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611385369
Harmony, a new utopia for space-faring humans. Or is it a thinly disguised tyranny locked into a rigid caste system, slavery by another name? Either way, xenophobic Harmony holds the secret to Badger Metal, a unique ceramic-metal alloy that protects people from the radiation and hard vacuum of space. Sissy grew up Worker Caste on the planet Harmony, her only hope for survival is to remain unnoticed, hiding her full array of seven caste marks. A devastating quake appears to be a major temper tantrum by the goddess Harmony. Sissy sings the planet, and her goddess back to benign quiet—matching the vibrations of her voice to the vibrations of the planet. This one act throws her into the role of High Priestess. Then she discovers she is the only one who can prevent her world from falling out of harmony into chaos. Jake has reinvented himself from wild pilot, to spy, to Sissy’s bodyguard while he hunts for the precious formula for Badger Metal. Can he find it and protect Sissy from outraged priests who fear change more than death, before civil war, and invasion, bury them all?
Author : W.H. Collier
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469745084
A giant comet is hurtling toward Earth, and the world learns that all life on the planet will be obliterated in just seven days. Stanleys Comet is a gallows humor view of the precipitous decline of civil society upon the news. Events unfold from the perspective of Stanley Caldwell, a thirty-five year old assistant copy shop manager who resides with his mother in Baton Rouge , Louisiana, and Dr. Herschel Stanley, an embittered junior grade NASA astronomer whose accidental discovery of the comet catapults him from obscurity to momentary notoriety. In The Third Love, the followers of Smith, an executed convict who taught that good and evil are physical qualities controlled by the laws of the physik, acquire a nuclear weapon with the intent of putting Smiths teachings into practice. The novel is set in the near future at a time when computers and efficient economics have relieved the majority of the need or even the opportunity to work. Instead, most pass their days in meaningless isolation watching multivision, a form of three-dimensional television and internet with a picture more real than reality. The novel centers on the life of an ordinary guy in such a society, while following the Presidents political calculations that in the end coincide with the aims of the followers of Smith. Although the two novels of In Extremis are separate in conception, both are darkly humorous studies of individuals and societies under extreme stress and each explores the role of choice, chance and fate in determining the final outcome.
Author : D. J. Riley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595122787
Love Like No Tomorrow is a contemporary romance novel about a young widow, Sarah Williams, and her struggle against the trustee of her late husband's estate. Dylan Reese is a man driven by greed, power, and lust who will stop at nothing to not only get her fortune, but Sarah as well. However, when he attempts to blackmail Sarah's new love, a handsome young singer, Steven Robertson, his plan begins to unravel. It is the saga of Sarah's friends and family who, in an effort to reunite Sarah and Steven, travel from Orlando to Beverly Hills to the small island of Antigua. Their journey is one of laughter and young love, heartbreak and tears, letting go and growing up. In the end, however, it is a portrait of Sarah, a woman who loved and lived life with grace, dignity, and courage, who soared on the wings of Steven's love. She loved him with no regrets. She loved him like there was no tomorrow.
Author : Christopher Hinz
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497619777
Human colonists defend their planet from terrifyingly advanced assassins in this tale of “fast-paced action and political intrigue” (Library Journal). This is the third novel from award-winning novelist Christopher Hinz. Beginning where the critically acclaimed Liege-Killer and Ash Ock end, The Paratwa chronicles the lives of the Irryan colonists as they prepare for the imminent attack of the fierce and vicious Paratwa assassins. Facing the threat of their dark enemies, an Irryan named Gillian must also cope with her inner turmoil, as the madness of her nature threatens to consume her life. She discovers that she is a genetically modified creature whose purpose is to serve the needs of others, and the course of her destiny is not in her own hands.
Author : Thomas M. Askew
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 146914025X
BIRTH TO HOMELESSNESS This story is a fifty year journey about an alien, born Thomas M. Asshole on the planet earth. At point fifty years of age in human form, alienate into his son on earth. Fifteen years have passed since the writing of Birth to Homeless. In those fifteen years, I, His Son Thomas M. Askew is now in the tenth year of my recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. I am now sixty five years old, living life to the fullest and will pen the entirety of the last fifteen years or more in my next book. Peace to all those out there in the world going through what I have been through. We fall down, but we get back up.
Author : Billy Coffey
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0718026845
“IN A LIFE FULL OF LIES, HE FINALLY SETTLED FOR THE TRUTH.” No one in Mattingly ever believed Bobby Barnes would live to see old age. Drink would either rot Bobby from the inside out or dull his senses just enough to send his truck off the mountain on one of his nightly rides. Although Bobby believes such an end possible—and even likely—it doesn’t stop him from taking his twin sons Matthew and Mark into the mountains one Saturday night. A sharp curve, blinding headlights, metal on metal, his sons’ screams. Bobby’s final thought as he sinks into blackness is a curious one—There will be stars. Yet it is not death that greets him beyond the veil. Instead, he returns to the day he has just lived and finds he is not alone in this strange new world. Six others are trapped with him. Bobby soon discovers that this supposed place of peace is actually a place of secrets and hidden dangers. Along with three others, he seeks to escape, even as the world around him begins to crumble. The escape will lead some to greater life, others to endless death . . . and Bobby Barnes to understand the deepest nature of love.
Author : William A. Kofoed
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2017-08-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 138717391X
I am told that I am a philosophical poet. And I suppose that I am in that I want meaning in what I write. I want people to think and feel about m poems and the world Some how to me, this has become a trilogy of books. The first book of life lived, the second of being old and the third of looking to death. These are not over shadowing themes just thought that ran through my mind.