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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The provocative novel The Pelican Fables is a coming-of-age story about a young man who learns to confront his sexuality in a conservative all-boys prep school.Carter Moran is a handsome new faculty member at Melbourne Prep, the Melbourne Preparatory School for Boys. After obtaining his master's degree, Carter has accepted a one-year teaching position at Melbourne before he is to begin a fellowship at Harvard University. But amidst the conservatively charged atmosphere of the Melbourne School, Carter begins to come to terms with his sexual identity - an awakening made more difficult by the close relationship that develops between Carter and Adam Proffit, one of the school's most promising students whom Carter suspects may be secretly attracted to him. While Carter tries in earnest to keep his relationship with Adam at arm's length, this is complicated by Adam's increasingly bold advances. Carter is torn between coming to terms with himself, maintaining the integrity of the teacher-student relationship, and fearing that he will either lead Adam on or break his heart in the process. After the friendship that develops between Carter and Adam crosses the line, the futures for which they have worked so hard hang in the balance as their fates are decided by a less than understanding school administration. At a school that prides itself on forging great leaders from the young men who go there, Carter and Adam are forced to decide who they want to become - a decision that will change their lives forever.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This exceptional narrative highlights Julie Thong's courage, determination, forgiveness and spiritual belief for love and freedom. It is also a lesson in basic clemency, a description of compassion, and a suggested point for everyone who desires a purposeful life. Julie's passion is to encourage people to live life to the fullest. This compelling true story demonstrates the making of a legacy from adversities such as war, starvation, slave labor, deprivation of freedom, immigrant and divorce. Julie shares never-before-told stories including entries from her remarkable love story. In this autobiography, she provides more than the extraordinary saga. Readers will also be touched and inspired as they absorb the valuable lessons Julie Thong has learned during her first twenty-five years in America.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Like most people in the mainline Christian tradition, I am a matter of fact disciple of Jesus. We are accustomed to God dealing with us in ordinary predictable ways. We are used to God going about the business of the world in an orderly fashion. But sometimes our rationality is not prepared for mystery, even miracle in our modern times. Yet, we find these throughout the scriptures in God's dealing with people of old. So, when God speaks to people like me in the language of mystery, dream and sign even though operating with a rational mind, we are forced to take a deeper look at a Reality that is bigger than our rationality. God still calls to us, for there is a hunger in all for the 'numinous', the spiritual, the extraordinary in the ordinary which transcends the space, time, material box. This writing is the story of a discovery that I never 'dreamed' of making. In trying to escape this 'call' I unintentionally became like the prophet Jonah of old - trying to runaway from the voice that called me.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Silent Capitulations: The Kemalist Republic Under Assault brings to life the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Turkish political life. It paints an uncompromising picture of a regime determined to appease European skeptics of Turkish adhesion to the European Union by capitulating to their demands on all fronts.Turkey's inability to unite its eastern and western parts is attributed to the dominance of an oligarchy of feudal lords, tribal chiefs, big business, and a ruling class who all masquerade as if they are part of a functioning democracy. Suffering from the ravages of tribal conformity and tainted by corruption and cronyism, the society is showing signs of an astonishing degree of deterioration. When municipal governments are a relic of the past and taxation is a tangle of dysfunctional measures, when justice is crippled by archaic arrangements and a web of vested interests control corporations-the nation is indeed under attack.Using arguments developed through the use of events and anecdotes, author Sedat Sami offers a deep examination of the Turkish social and political scene as well as a dramatic account of the Islamist onslaught against the Kemalist Republic.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - New-Age Renaissance Man tells the story of an inner city Italian boy growing up in a male-dominated household with Archie and Edith Bunker for parents and an eclectic supporting cast of neighborhood characters. Through a series of life experiences he comes to realize that the world around him is swiftly changing. Clinging to the ideas of the old ways, he must find common ground with his new surroundings. The sexual revolution of the 1960s changed his view of modern women, and while searching for wealth in Middle Class America he found a mixed bag of success and failure. A funny but instructive look at the life of an Italian baby boomer that mimics the ethnic experience of the time.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This isn't an ordinary Civil War tale. It is the all-true but little-known story of Adam 'Stovepipe' Johnson-Kentucky legend, Texas hero, and Confederate cavalry officer-who boldly led the first Confederate raid across the Mason-Dixon Line to capture the thriving river-port community of Newburgh, Indiana, during the American Civil War. Not a shot was fired.With the politically divided landscape of Civil War Kentucky and the steamboat economy of the Ohio River as its backdrop, this is the historically accurate account of surprise nocturnal strikes, opportunistic military occupations, and a swashbuckling Rebel icon's daring daylight invasion into the Northern homeland that sealed the fate of western Kentucky for the remainder of the war.Vivid, thorough, and painstakingly researched, Thunder from a Clear Sky documents five critical weeks of 1862 Civil War history and shares the untold tale of one man's immeasurable impact on a nation at war.'A fascinating account of how a skilled former Indian fighter gathered a few Kentucky rebels and 'woke up' the slumbering Indiana Home Guard.'Evansville Courier & Press Book Reviews'An important and, until now, largely neglected story about the American Civil War. Thunder from a Clear Sky stands as a fresh and important contribution in a field long studied.'-Professor Randy K. Mills, Ph.D., Oakland City University, author of Jonathan Jennings: Indiana's First Governor.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As a squad leader for the First Infantry Division (The Big Red One), Sergeant Meyer was involved in several major battles at Du Dop, An My, the Tet Offensive and Thu Due. This book describes the combat action as well as the daily routine of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. It neither glorifies nor condemns the war but highllights the sacrifices made by ordinary men.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Fraud: Book Four examines corporate fraud in the United Kingdom compared with that of two civil law neighbouring countries, France and Germany, as well as the United States. The objective of the study is to discover how fraud occurs, how the two different legal systems treat fraud, contributing factors, and if recommendations were made to authorities in an attempt to combat this illegal activity.The UK can learn much from the French legal system and the way France prosecutes corporations. Germany's Criminal Code is equally comprehensive in its prescriptive definitions of fraud, especially corporate fraud. Although the UK is striving for a general law against fraud, the UK Fraud Offence Bill is very inadequate, lacking detailed solutions. The UK has become entrenched in upholding legal privilege, bowing to intense lobbying by the legal profession. And the use of electronic evidence, vital in prosecuting modern corporate fraud, remains overlooked.The attitude toward corporate fraud in the UK remains laissez-faire. By analysing corporate fraud in the US, France, and Germany, author Sally Ramage highlights examples that the UK can take from these countries that combat corporate fraud without derogation of established international human rights.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ed Anderson was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa. After World War II he settled in Portland, Oregon and later in Kirkland, Washington. He has 4 children. He retired in 1987 as claims adjuster for a large insurance company. He is now Secretary/News Editor for the USS Neches AO-47 Association.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - OneLilo is a book of poems and thoughts covering areas such as the elasticity of mind, self knowledge, the treadmill of our dreams, the entertainment of our miseries, the fake and easy solutions to our problems, the baggage of memories, the giant genetic lottery, religion, the clash between our principles and our comfort, the simplicity of our happy unimportant moments, the fact that it's the last word that kills and that we cannot hate what we are afraid to touch.It also attempts to shed some light into the shapeless friends, the transparent rope we often try to balance on, the discovery of our weaknesses before they discover us and the view that optimists are not people who are optimistic about their future but those who are optimistic about their past.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Author Aiman A. AL-Maimani offers a complete and concise reference for changing the way you think about life. Comprehensive readings on the subject of success and state-of-the-art techniques for personal achievement will help you make a major shift in the way you think about yourself and the world around you. How to Attract Wealth, Health, Love, and Luck into Your Life Immediately shows you how you can become a new person-one who can turn any dream into reality.Through a unique combination of quantum physics and positive thinking, AL-Maimani presents a three-week plan to put you on the track to greater focus and concentration. As you change your thoughts, you'll send different messages to the universe; the universe, in turn, will respond accordingly.Do you want to find personal success in your life, but you're not sure how to achieve it Then How to Attract Wealth, Health, Love, and Luck into Your Life Immediately is for you!

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This writing consists of the inside story on hunting and fishing as it really happens. As a writer of how to articles in outdoors magazines, I always felt they never told the whole story. Planning for success is important, and taking a trophy animal or a big fish is rewarding and fun.I can remember lying in the hospital with not much hope of ever being in the outdoors again, with cancer. As I thought of my outdoors experiences I found that the real pleasure in the outdoors were the memories of family and friends, and all the adventures along the way, the funny mistakes and just watching everyone have fun. Of course there were big bucks and large fish on these outings too.Many people make hunting and fishing a job, and miss the real reason for being out in nature, enjoyment! Just participating by laughing and living the moment no matter what, is the key. So sit back and relax, kick your shoes off, and travel memory lane with me. Prepare to at least smile or even laugh for then you will be as happy as me, hunting and fishing now cancer free.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When Dr. Yuri Kuchenkov learns that his daughter has lung cancer, he desperately plans a way to raise money for treatments-by selling a nuclear suitcase bomb to an Islamic terrorist organization headed by a wealthy Jordanian businessman.The nuclear device is secreted inside a container and put aboard a ship headed for the Port of Newark. But CIA Agent Peter O'Brien learns only part of Kuchenkov's story before both O'Brien's informant and Kuchenkov are killed. Thinking that O'Brien knows about the plan to detonate the bomb near New York City, the CIA agent becomes the terrorist's next target. O'Brien manages to call his friend, New York Times journalist Hank Brennan, and desperately pleads for help.Brennan embarks upon a reckless scheme that puts the life of the woman he loves at risk and brings him face-to-face with the terrorists, who will stop at nothing to fulfill their mission.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - .In flight with American Airlines10:00 p.m., 27th April 1949Dear StephanieI hardly know where to begin. I am on a monstrous machine that is taking me thousands of miles away from you.Did you stay to see us take off After I left you I had to wait in the passengers' lounge for nearly an hour, and I never spent a more miserable hour in my life! Parting may be 'sweet sorrow,' but I don't mean to be parted from you again. The next time I hold you in my arms you won't get away-ever!Merstham, 29th April 1949Dear PaulI wonder where you are now. I suppose still traveling ever farther away from me.You know, I just didn't get used to the idea that you were going-even right at the end when you kissed me goodbye, I just felt numb. When I went back to the field alone to wait, the truth came over me and I felt so miserable.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The dying Leola watched the Air Force pilot whom Anna loved, and could never have, take her hand and lead her into the living room. She had never seen a more beautiful scene. Anna's dress, sheen of white, molded to the curves of her body in a whispering shuffle as they danced to the soft music. Who could have known that the ten-year-old motherless, freckle-faced, skinny child she had taken as her own would grow to have such beauty and poise What a bonus for her to have character, leading her to love and nurse those old war veterans under her care. Whether she was the tomboy in overalls repairing a roof or visiting an old man at his whiskey still, there was always the woman-a woman unlike any other. Here was the prize of Leola's Mountain, always caring, educated with funds furnished by a moonshiner and a carpet mill worker. Whether in a white gown or a nurse's uniform, it quietly proclaimed all the purity that was underneath. She was a mountain gal. She was Anna Beam. Brutal and evil men came to harm her and Anna. Could the old moonshiner and his misfit friends save them.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Coon Dog Chronicles are a varied assortment of events and experiences that have marked some sort of strange turning point in my life. Why these particular stories I haven't a clue. A brown paper bag, a three-legged horse that refused to give up, three wild dogs that only wanted a friend. A brief talk with the wind. An old cowboy's last rodeo. The heart wrenching account of a friend's tribute to a dying daddy. It has occurred to me that these and other similar events have formed the substance of what I perceive to be my soul. Hopefully you will enjoy an identify with some of these. Possibly they will remind you of events in your life. And you will realize that such is the stuff of which we are made. Pieces of my heart have been lost along the way. For those I will continue to search. Adios Rj.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Everyone knew that President Kennedy would wax poetically at the appropriate juncture in late September about Abraham Lincoln and the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Few could have guessed, however, the enormous political impact that resulted from the President's remarks. Recording his words for usage at the Lincoln Memorial on Sept. 22, the President wonderfully captured Lincoln's signing as 'one of the most solemn moments in American history.' The meaning could not be clearer; the Emancipation Proclamation symbolizes not an end but a new beginning-even if the populace did not anxiously await details of the 'somber story' ('the struggle to convert freedom rhetoric to reality'). Acknowledging the past as 'bitter years of humiliation and deprivation' for African-Americans, President Kennedy started to find his voice on civil rights and began to move in a different direction. In his next two paragraphs, the President appropriately expressed his admiration for what one scholar later termed 'a grace undeserved' for how 'the Negro retained his loyalty to the United States and to democratic institutions, displayed by his valorous conduct in two world wars,' and how 'the Negro never stopped working for his own salvation.'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Literally all healthy relationships will benefit by understanding and appreciating this historically first true clarification of love eliminating confusion over what it is and how to find and build upon it. This useful descriptive definition of love is invaluable for those interested in increasing the success of any relationship. One of a host of interesting insights is that genuine love is more than emotion.Janet Ackerman-Smith BSN, MA, MSDuring a fifty-year ministry this is one of my very few 'absolute endorsements' because Dr. Joseph Smith has put together a manuscript of such thoughtful and practical concern. Most of the books on the counters of our local bookstores are not of the same caliber that he offers. Reading this manuscript was, for me, an adventure of discovery. I find his book not only fulfilling but exciting. The organization quickly brings the reader to an appreciation that 'love defined' can really have an impact on not only the way we understand and then react with others, but how we may do this responsibly. This is the secret genius of this book!Reverend William J. Murphey.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A group of fun-loving scuba divers called the Sea Dogs find themselves hoodwinked when their biannual dive trip to the Florida Keys is rearranged on an innocent pretense. Their friend Ray Stellar has just inherited a spectacular island off Key Largo, and asks the dive team if they'd rather vacation on his island instead of their normal destination. Eager to save money, the team accepts the free trip.When they arrive on the island, the divers find themselves up to their necks in dirty deeds. To settle his mounting debts, Ray's boss has made a deal with a drug kingpin; and the Sea Dogs unknowingly become involved in the arrangement. The DEA soon shows up, and the Sea Dogs are stalked, used as pawns, and almost get their ship blown up. But their happy-go-lucky attitude and positive perspective see them through, and they manage to thwart the drug kingpin.Just when they thought the bad times were behind them, they stumble onto the lost treasure of Black Beard the pirate. Kidnappings, Black Beard's ghost, and hilarious mishaps plague the Sea Dogs at every turn. Will the Sea Dogs ever find peace and quiet in their lives again, or will their trip be the vacation to end all vacations.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I found this book to be riveting and very informative. It brings out the essence of solid theological connotation. The book deals with Biblical substance and truth, and it leaves fictional metaphors out of the equation. It is a product of diligent research and a higher level of scriptural perception. It is a composition composed of validity and merit and I highly recommend it to everyone with a genuine interest in learning sound Biblical ideology.Rev. Dr. Willie C. Surles, Jr. D.M.E.2000 Graduate of Covington Theological Seminary. Rossville, GA.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this stunning work of contemporary fiction, Chevalier has succeeded in illuminating one of the unspeakable tragedies of our age: the exploitation of illness. Rendering the depravity and misfeasance of our modern-day temples of medicine with scholarly aplomb, the gripping narrative in Sarcophagus chronicles the journey of an inspired physician and an intrepid biophysicist as they strive against all odds to develop the world's first effective targeted, injectable gene delivery system-the coveted holy grail of genetic medicine.It is a time in history when terminal cancer patients languish on the chain while medical institutions, academic research centers, and giant pharmaceutical companies struggle in unison against the emerging tide of genetic medicine in a misguided effort to maintain the authority and applications of their loathsome poisonous treatments.Written with the passion of a patient advocate and the omniscience of an astute insider, and set against the bleak and timely backdrop of clinical pathos, Sarcophagus is a compelling journey of discovery and descent into the netherworld of modern medicine as it stands poised at the threshold of history.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Shortly after his retirement, author Robert S. Ashton buys a 1983 Nordic 40 sailboat. He names the boat Chandelle, not realizing at the time that it will be his home for the next ten years.Along with his friends, Don, Roger, and Martha, Ashton soon joins a group of boats preparing to brave the Gulf Stream and adjacent waters from Norfolk, Virginia, to the Caribbean. During the next ten years, 'Captain' Ashton sails to numerous destinations in his quest to circumnavigate the globe, including the Panama Canal, the Galapagos Islands, the Fiji Islands, Africa, and Australia. Ashton meets an eclectic group of people, experiences a variety of cultures, finds new members for his crew, and discovers the freedom of sailing the open waters.This Old Man and the Sea is a must-read for any sailing enthusiast, revealing the highs and lows of extended life at sea with wit, wisdom, and insight.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Little Thing Called DestinyWhenever destiny is involved, one's life is completely changed.Trixie Rose is no exception. After receiving a phone call from anestranged uncle, Trixie finds herself whisked away to Mist Island, aplace filled with mystery and superstition.While there, Trixie stumbles upon a portal and makes a discovery farbeyond her wildest dreams: the world of Quarteze.But, every discovery has its flaws.An enemy from Quarteze's past has come for revenge, and the warof light and dark has begun anew. With the powers of magic gonethe world is slowly falling into the grasp of the Shadow One. Withthe help of her two new friends, Trixie must find the fabled TwilightFalcon and destroy the Shadow One once and for all.The clock is ticking.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the quiet city of Fallbrook, Jared is having a rather ordinary, boring day at school. But ordinary is about to become extraordinary in the space of a few minutes .After Jared arrives home from school, he's astonished to discover his cell phone morphing into a strange object with three red buttons, an oval-shaped black screen, and a short, red antenna. The object propels him to another dimension where he watches a warrior battling a volcanic creature.These strange happenings start to make sense when Fallbrook is suddenly invaded by inter-dimensional beings. Jared and his five friends are granted powers based on the elements of nature and charged with the duty to protect the world from harm. When an unsuspected twist leads them to another world, they will realize the true terrors and dangers of evil and come face to face with the ultimate tempter of living beings-Satan himself.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Bells of May is the tale of a family rooted in the mystical Harz Mountains of Germany. Five generations of women are forced, by circumstance or choice, into unfamiliar lives-on the other side of the mountain and halfway around the world.A descendant of Celtic priests, Katherine Allewelt is a surprisingly pragmatic girl until her well-arranged life is shattered by her doomed relationship with a young miner. Heartbroken, Katherine accepts a servant's position in the city, where she matures, educates herself, and shares a deep friendship with her mistress while fighting an attraction to the master. When her mistress dies, Katherine returns home and tries to pick up the threads of her old life.Follow the saga of Katherine and her descendents for the following one hundred fifty years through love, loss, and challenge.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Twelve-year-old Angela and thirteen-year-old Tony are neighbors and best of friends who have a penchant for getting into trouble. While playing in Angela's creepy basement one day, they discover a secret portal that leads them to a magical world beyond their wildest imaginings.In this new and exciting realm, they train to become wizards, meeting an eclectic cast of characters along the way. But even in this place,Angela and Tony become embroiled in mischief. After all, what kid wouldn't want the power to transform into a beastly dragon or the ability to commandany inanimate object to fly across the room As the two become enveloped in the realm of mysterious creatures and beings, they must face a cruel and evil wizard who plans to overtake the magical world. Can Angela and Tony defeat him before the wizard destroyseverything they've come to love.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Just before he is awarded the Victoria Cross for courage and bravery in the Delhi Rebellion of 1857, a black British colonel named Reginald Peabody discovers that he has inherited a tobacco plantation in Virginia. After he and his lifelong friend, Nicolas Squires, escape court-martial in England for speaking against the British government, they arrive in Virginia and have to deal with the plantation's overseer whose family has managed the land for more than one hundred years.When Peabody frees over three hundred slaves and offers them equal shares of land, runaways from all over the South converge on the farm. But when the Virginia state government charges him with property theft, Peabody's estate wages war with the Virginia militia.Underestimating the training skills of two battle-experienced British officers, the militia is ill prepared. To end the tension, Peabody offers Virginia a proposal that will alter the country's destiny.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - He held her tight, gratefully hiding his eyes in the hair that billowed down past her shoulders. A day before he had felt the master of his kingdom, and today the kingdom was gone.The daughter of wealthy British aristocrats, Sarah Blantyre tries to fight her growing feelings for the gardener's son, Thomas Harrison. But on the evening of her eighteenth birthday, Thomas gently kisses her and confesses his love, thus beginning a passionate relationship that defies social barriers.America beckons the couple with the promise of a new life, and Sarah sacrifices her pampered existence to travel with Tom to the vast Nebraska prairie. With the help of their American friend, Justis Taylor, the couple heads out in a covered wagon for the bustling new settlement of Omaha, Nebraska.Their adventure demands courage and strength beyond their reckoning. Thomas and Sarah will soon discover whether the demands of a partnership between man and land are more than they can bear. But will a man's love for his wife be as enduring as the obsessive love he has for his land.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Joe, George, and Richard Youngblood, three white brothers growing up in the rural South during the Great Depression, live in a world of paradoxes: love and hate; doubt and faith; and sadness and humor.In his poignant memoir I Must Remember This: A Southern White Boy's Memories of the Great Depression, Jim Crow, and World War II, author George Youngblood shares stories about everything from the brothers' first awareness of death, sex, and race to the truth about Santa Claus. They smoke rabbit tobacco, tremble at ghost and snake stories, watch haircuts for excitement, get baptized, and gawk at locomotives and alligators.Hard times draw the Youngblood family closer to their father's black farm workers. With one family in particular they form a symbiotic relationship in the hostile world of poverty, disease, and segregation. I Must Remember This is Youngblood's family story as they hope, work, and laugh with little cause-and succeed with basic honesty, respect, and an astounding sense of humor.