Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Betty Marvin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1462047009
At sixteen, Betty runs away from the small river town she's always known, to live in Los Angeles with her father, an outrageous used car salesman and avid gambler. It is the first journey in what will be a remarkable life among remarkable people: Betty's first job out of college is as Joan Crawford's nanny, caring for the Crawford children at the height of the star's career. Hollywood is about to play an even larger role in Betty's life when she meets a young ambitious actor named Lee Marvin. After a whirlwind courtship and a trip to Las Vegas, Betty and Lee are married. In this unique memoir, both hilarious and touching, we follow Betty as she creates a family with Lee, and is by his side as he works with Marlon Brando, John Wayne and a host of other stars. She is the penultimate hostess and Hollywood Housewife. Nobody knew what was really going on at home - until, unable to take Lee's womanizing, drinking and abuse, Betty leaves him and strikes out on her own. What follows are adventures that could only be Betty Marvin's; from the building of her career as an artist. To a love affair with an Italian King, to dire straits as investment con artists leave Betty suddenly homeless. After years of the Hollywood life, Betty is left with only her car, her dog and her typewriter. Forced to employ all of her skills to survive, she comes out on top. This is the story of a woman who finds the real riches that come with learning the value of a joyful life.
Author : S.M. Parker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 148148205X
After her father's death, Rilla Brae puts off thoughts of college to take over his lobstering business, while helping an archaeology student excavate nearby Malaga, an uninhabited island with a ghost that beckons her.
Author : Modean Moon
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459279611
"Ms. Moon writes with a spellbinding intensity that will keep you up till the wee hours of the morning…." —Romantic Times A VOW TO LOVE Ginnie had been an idealistic young woman when she'd married dynamic Neil Kendrick. She'd wanted to be a good wife to her husband and a wonderful mother to his son, Todd. But Ginnie quickly learned that Todd's resentment toward her would destroy her marriage, and that even her deep love for Neil couldn't overcome the child's meddling ways. But now, years later, Ginnie desperately needed help. A web of danger was quickly surrounding her, so she turned to Neil—the one man she could trust…the one person who could truly protect her. And in doing so she discovered that the love they shared had never really died….
Author : Simon R. Green
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101637633
Twice upon a time, Prince Rupert and Princess Julia saved the Forest Kingdom. They have earned the right to live happily ever after. But there’s a blue moon on the rise.... Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they’d grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes. Legends never die, but it seems they cannot retire, either. Hawk and Fisher’s adult children, Jack and Gillian, have been kidnapped. They were taken by the Demon Prince, an old enemy from the Forest Kingdom who challenges the couple to one final battle for their lives. But Hawk and Fisher believe there’s another motive behind the abductions, one connected to a case they worked in Haven many years ago—a case they refuse to discuss. They have no choice but to return to the Forest Kingdom, to be Prince Rupert and Princess Julia one last time in one last story—of the kind of things that happen only once in a blue moon....
Author : Dave Walsh
Publisher : DW Science Fiction
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The bullet from a lone assassin unleashes a symphony of destruction in the galaxy. Locked up in endless meetings, Valencia finds herself at the whim of the Terran government while they plot the best use for the amazing powers she can command... Or at least the powers she could command. With each passing day, her connection with the Sentinel slips from her grasp, leaving her desolate and depressed. Across the galaxy, Drake grapples with the immensity of his own transformation. Shielded by Valencia from Terran officials, he’s raising the heir to the Gra’al throne in his own isolation while danger simmers inside of him that promises to tear him apart unless he can learn to control it. Progress stops for no one, though, as a fringe extremist group invites chaos back into the galaxy, stoking the flames within Terran space to arise and destroy the carefully won peace with the Gra’al. The crew of the Trystero ride again, the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance.
Author : Erik Pethersen
Publisher : Litres
Page : 1177 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 5044146803
Author : Michelle Dare
Publisher : Daring Romance LLC
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
Cocky. No word better described Solomon. He projected the playboy image, but only he knew the truth. Deep inside, he wanted what his brother and friends had—a mate. Fifteen hundred years was a long time to be alone. Solomon’s pure vampire bloodline and family name made him desirable, but that didn’t take away the loneliness. Lilah was fiercely independent and distrusting of paranormals out of necessity. Some treated her with contempt because of her half cheetah shifter/half fae heritage. They thought she was beneath them when she was actually superior. Someone was determined to take Lilah’s life, but who was behind the attacks remained a mystery. Solomon fought off the first assault then became Lilah’s sole protector until he uncovered who wanted to harm her. One wanted a mate, and the other didn’t. But fate didn’t ask for their opinion. They could only fight what was meant to be for so long before the inevitable happened. If they managed to stay alive, maybe they would learn what it meant to be fated.
Author : Michael A. Stackpole
Publisher : Invoke Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0997791225
Uncharted Worlds—an exciting new speculative fiction series featuring bestselling and award-winning authors. These ten mind-boggling adventures include tales of ancient aliens, other worlds, and imagined futures. Join authors Michael A. Stackpole, Matthew Costello, F. Paul Wilson, Thomas F. Monteleone and others as they take you on a thrilling ride from the inner and outer edges of our universe and from the past to the future in: Uncharted Worlds—Xeno Encounters
Author : Duane L. Martin
Publisher : Duane L. Martin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2023-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
When they volunteered to move to Scotland to start up a second operation, they all had their own reasons for doing it. Some wanted to prove themselves, while others just wanted to make a fresh start. Whatever their personal reasons were for going, they all still had the same mission, which was to free slaves in the Faranox dimension, explore new dimensions, and to make friends wherever they could along the way. Unfortunately, their first journey into one of the previously unexplored dimensions turns into a bit of a disaster when they encounter a very hostile race of creatures that are both primitive, and terrifying. When an amulet is lost during a wild escape from these creatures and ends up in the hands of their queen, things go from bad to worse when she accidentally uses it to open a portal. Soon enough she finds herself in the human dimension, with a team of very desperate people trying to capture her and send her back home before she winds up getting spotted, or even worse, killing someone. Later, while the team is exploring around in the Faranox dimension looking for villages with slaves that needed to be set free and sent back to their home dimensions, they come across a rather unique village, the likes of which no one from either team has ever encountered before, and meet a tribal leader who could very well become a key ally in the days to come. Trackers is book 7 of the Unseen Things series.