Unlikeliest Hero
Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher :
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
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ISBN : 9780816305278
Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher :
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
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ISBN : 9780816305278
Author : Teresa Toten
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0385678355
Two-time Governor General's Award nominee Teresa Toten is back with a compulsively readable new book for teens! When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her--to play Batman to her Robyn--whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have a "normal" relationship when your life is so fraught with problems? And that's not even to mention the small matter of those threatening letters Adam's mother has started to receive . . . Teresa Toten sets some tough and topical issues against the backdrop of a traditional whodunit in this engaging new novel that readers will find hard to put down.
Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : Remnant Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2016-11-07
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Author : Brandon Varnell
Publisher : Kitsune Incorporated
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0997802847
Christian is the Catholic Church’s best executioner. Dedicated. Devout. Deadly. Ever since the Church saved him from the decimated ruins of his hometown, his commitment to their cause has been unshakable. Then he’s sent to execute Lilith, who lives in Seal Beach, California. He’s baffled. Lilith is afraid of men. The Church believes she’s a succubus, but he just can’t see it. Yet the way men—both human and monster alike—act as if they’ve been possessed whenever she’s near is disturbing. With lustful men attacking Lilith and monsters attacking him for being near Lilith, Christian must uncover what’s really going on, and soon, or innocent blood will run through the streets—as will his own. Love. It can kill a man.
Author : Steven H. Gittelman
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0761855076
At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in business matters, the youth squandered his wealth on horses and women on two continents. None of the Vanderbilts gave as much fuel for gossip to the curious public as Alfred. By the time the extravagant playboy boarded the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, he was the subject of numerous scandals, including the suicide of four different women. But as the ship went down, he spent the last minutes of his life rescuing women and children and forgoing his own life. How is it that this wraith, this gluttonous, opulent youth, could undergo an entire change of character in his last few moments? Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt follows Alfred’s journey from philanderer to hero in this incredible, never-before-told story of the hero of the Lusitania.
Author : Frances May Doss
Publisher : Pacific Press Publishing Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780816321247
Infantry men who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon owed their lives to him. In the midst of a fierce firefight on Okinawa that felled approximately 75 men from the 1st Battalion, Private Doss refused to seek cover and carried his stricken comrades to safety one by one. This and other heroic acts earned him the highest honor America could bestow on one of her soldiers--the Medal of Honor.
Author : Ben Montgomery
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1613734336
The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was also destroying her: leprosy, which so horrified the Japanese they refused to search her. After the war, army chaplains found her in a nightmarish leper colony and fought for the US government to do something it had never done: welcome a foreigner with leprosy. This brought her celebrity, which she used to publicly speak for other sufferers. However, the notoriety haunted her and she sought a way to disappear. Ben Montgomery now brings Guerrero's heroic accomplishments to light.
Author : Jordan Marie
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2019-05-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781097430178
My world is shrouded in darkness. She is my light. AllenI lived in hell. When my brother-in-law saved me, pulled me off the streets and helped me to get clean, I hated him.I only wanted it all to end.Then, I met her.Jessie's smile was so beautiful, it found a way to shine into the darkness for me.I should have stayed away from her.She deserves more than I can ever be.But, after just one taste I can't let her go.I want to keep her...Welcome back to the world of the Filthy Florida Alphas. For these men, love happens quick and they fall hard, even for the most unlikely of heroes. ***Please note this book was previously published under the title Until I Saw You. It has all new material added and some content change.***
Author : Patricia McCormick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0062411101
Perfect for fans of suspenseful nonfiction such as books by Steve Sheinkin, this is a page-turning narrative about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and pacifist who became an unlikely hero during World War II and took part in a plot to kill Hitler. Written by two-time National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick, author of Sold and Never Fall Down and coauthor of the young reader’s edition of I Am Malala. It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time. He had put his papers in order—and left a few notes specifically for Hitler’s men to see. Two SS agents climbed the stairs and told the boyish-looking Bonhoeffer to come with them. He calmly said good-bye to his parents, put his Bible under his arm, and left. Upstairs there was proof, in his own handwriting, that this quiet young minister was part of a conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler. This compelling, brilliantly researched account includes the remarkable discovery that Bonhoeffer was one of the first people to provide evidence to the Allies that Jews were being deported to death camps. It takes readers from his privileged early childhood to the studies and travel that would introduce him to peace activists around the world—eventually putting this gentle, scholarly pacifist on a deadly course to assassinate one of the most ruthless dictators in history. The Plot to Kill Hitler provides fascinating insights into what makes someone stand up for what’s right when no one else is standing with you. It is a question that every generation must answer again and again. With black-and-white photographs, fascinating sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, this book should be essential reading.
Author : Deborah Abela
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0143781502
I, The Wolf, am sick of being the bad guy. I'm taking over this book. Dear Readers, Fairytales are nonsense. They're full of wolves pestering pigs and picking on sweet little girls in red hoods. But I would never do those things. I knit! I bake blueberry pie! You know what I really want to do? I WANT TO RESCUE A PRINCESS! And if I can't? I QUIT! Yours sincerely, Wolfie Wolfie may want to be a hero, but he's about to discover that arguing with this book's narrator is not the best way to improve his imagea