Weitere Bücher, die Sie mögen werden

• 

  While I Remember

  Becky Grubbs Ritter

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This is the true story of some who have lived; heroes and failures, resourceful and talented, delightful and disappointing human beings whose "days are like grass, flourishing like a flower in the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone; its place is remembered no more."' But while I still can, I will remember.The tale is told in three parts intertwined with amusing and heart-breaking stories, peppered with historical references. Part One: Those Who Came Before includes ancestors who: entertained on a riverboat during the Civil War, played piano during silent movies, taught in a one room schoolhouse, delivered milk to front porches in a horse drawn wagon, participated in dance marathons during the Great Depression, and served as a fighter pilot in World War II. Part Two: Childhood to Car Keys begins with baby boomers (the author being one) and the construction building boom of the early 1950's, wrestlers competing for the Olympics in Rome, middle class families with big dreams and a built-in swimming pool, Kennedy's assassination, Teen Town at the Y, race riots in the summer of 67', the first draft lottery for the Viet Name War, and the author gets her car keys.Part Three: Self Determination involves: negotiating a changing world, a family collapse, drug culture, 1970s traveling Show Band, unrequited love, searching for truth, searching for truth in Florida, singing in a trio, finding God, losing God, playing in a piano bar, waiting tables, alcohol consumption, continuing to search for God, "naming it and claiming it," "Jesus Freaks," and finding a life.About the Author: Becky Grubbs Ritter is a lover of books, history, and learning. She is a maker of things, a musician, singer, and burgeoning author. At the core she is wife, mother, grandmother, and “post-evangelical” Christian…just another flower flourishing in the field and feeling the wind blow.

  Zum Buch

• 

  CODE NAME: THE FOX - Operation...

  DD Dr. Hal Bradley

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Two years since the rape and murder of Harold Brandon’s beloved wife, Shelly, he strikes his scythe of vengeance upon one man and his entire cartel. 
   
  “Hey gringo, are you lost?” 
   
   “No. Not lost. Looking for someone.” 
   
  “Who are you looking for?” 
   
  “I’m looking for a dead man.” 
   
  *** 
   
  Shelly was raped and murdered by the Sonora Cartel two years ago. And since then, Harold has been juggling his sorrow and rage amid a standing contract on his life set at one million dollars. 
   
  When a grieving former drug-lord-turned-minister-turned-contractor is also being hunted like prey, he adapts. 
   
  Harold was forced to hide in the shadows and isolate himself from friends and family. He was also driven to undergo plastic surgery twice. 
   
  Heartbroken, seething, unrecognizable, and with unlimited government resources at his disposal, Harold now has the upper hand and plots to find Enrique, the Sonora Cartel’s #2 man, with every intention of killing him — slowly and in true cartel fashion. 
   
  Just like how they killed his wife. 
   
  Will Harold succeed? 
   
  Find out for yourself in “Operation Durango Cartel: Harold Brandon’s War Against the Cartels”, the second installment to the bestselling “Code Name: The Fox” series by prolific author Dr. Hal Bradley, DD! 
   
  If you’re looking for a roller coaster of blood, betrayal, and vengeance, then get ready to meet your next favorite book!

  Zum Buch

• 

  The Pearls of Parlay

  Jack London

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Pearls of Parlay (1911) Parlay, who has become the ruler of the atoll of Hikihoho after marrying the queen there, summons the leading traders of the South Seas to his atoll for an auction of the whole of his fabulous collection of pearls. But that day is precisely at the peak of the hurricane season and when their ships have gathered in the atoll's lagoon the barometer starts going through the floor, as the mother of all hurricanes is on the verge of destroying not only all the ships but the island as well.

  Zum Buch

• 

  90 Minutes in Heaven - A True...

  Cecil Murphey, Don Piper

  • 2
  • 4
  • 0

  The mega bestselling book that started the heaven publishing phenomenon is now a major motion picture starring Hayden Christensen and Kate Bosworth and produced by Michael Polish. Don Piper's incredible true story continues to expand its reach to more people than ever before.After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced dead at the scene. For the next ninety minutes, he experienced the glories of heaven. Back on earth, a passing minister felt led to stop and pray for the accident victim even though he was told Piper was dead. Miraculously, Piper came back to life, and the pleasure of heaven was replaced by a long and painful recovery.This special edition of Don's life-changing story includes a new preface from Don about the making of the movie, plus a personal update on the impact the book has had on him, his family, and the millions who have already heard his story. It also includes a note from the publisher, stories from readers, and Scriptures and quotations on heaven.

  Zum Buch

• 

  Proust's Overcoat - The True...

  Lorenza Foschini

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  “A rare and wonderfully written book of literary detection that is heartbreaking as well as thrilling.”—Michael Ondaatje, author of The English PatientIn the tradition of Simon Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman comes Proust’s Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini—the charming, endlessly intriguing story of a collector’s obsessive search for the personal effects of legendary author Marcel Proust. This fascinating true story introduces readers to a truly delightful character—Jacques Guérin, owner of a perfume company in France—and enthralls them with his relentless lifelong pursuit of all things Proustian, even the author’s most mundane possessions.

  Zum Buch

• 

  Her Beautiful Brain - A Memoir

  Ann Hedreen

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her own beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner’s daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent ‘60s, and got her B.A. and M.A. at 40 so she could support her family as a Seattle schoolteacher―only to start showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in her late fifties, taking Ann and her siblings on a long descent they never could have anticipated or imagined. For two decades―as Ann married, had a daughter and a son, navigated career changes and marital crises and built a life making documentary films with her husband―she watched her once-invincible mom disappear. From Seattle to Haiti to the mine-gouged Finntown neighborhood in Butte, Montana where Arlene was born and grew up; from Arlene’s favorite tennis club to a locked geropsychiatric ward, Her Beautiful Brain tells the heartbreaking story of a daughter’s love for a mother who is lost in the wilderness of an unpredictable and harrowing illness.

  Zum Buch