Westbow press aug 2004 (58 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Secrets, Mystical Adventures in Ancient China is a magical journey of friendship, determination, and of course, secrets.Lee, pretending to be a boy for her own safety, is befriended by Old Woman. She is taught how to fight as a warrior and makes a lifelong friendship with a magical dragon named Chou who can change shape, spin webs, and fly!With Chou and the emperor's son, Ti by her side, Lee can finally realize her destiny of ruling ancient China. First, however, they must learn how to fly a dragon, conquer pirates, discover lost treasure, and help the people of China fight the evil emperor. Lee and Ti learn how important friendship, and sometimes even keeping secrets, is to their success.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A fish out of water.Thomas Richard Jackson, a mundane man, with mundane aspirations, living a mundane existence, until an alien snatches him from a bad situation, transporting the human to his ship.Thomas discovers that he is no mere guest. The alien has big plans for him, plans that include transforming Thomas from a wimp to a hard-nosed killer. Why Because the alien intends to send the human to assassinate the leader of a powerful interstellar empire.Since Thomas has never harmed a fly, the idea of him being an assassin troubles him greatly. But to refuse, is to condemn Earth to a vicious conquest, its inhabitants to enslavement. What choice does Thomas have Earth's fate rests on his shoulders. But first he must survive the alien's intense (to say the least) training. Because it won't matter if Thomas survives the mission. so long as he is successful! This fish out of water will have to grow some teeth, and fast.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Other Published Poetry Booksby LeRoy Robert Allen'ALOHA' Fat Man Says.Poems'ALOHA' Hong Kong Nights'ALOHA' Philosophy One-O-None'ALOHA' Fat Man Says.Collection'ALOHA' Another World'69 Poems' SelectedSmiles and CriesPicture Color Poetry Books'ALOHA' Open The Door.Poems'ALOHA' Silk And LaceThe author's poems relate to the true life of our human condition, together with dreams and fantasies of 'Love Loving Love' will make reading very interesting to those persons that have had some heartaches along the way. The 'Guys and Gals' that know the 'Girlboy Game' doesn't always play out just right, those of you that have experienced both the good and bad will appreciate.Now is the time to have another good taste, as the author has seen the waves smooth the seashore and has also walked over the hot desert sand, which he will share with you, his experiences from the school of 'Hard Knocks.'This author has walked his talk and now is writing.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is to share the visions of love, life, and passion with poetry and prose. It is for the passionate heart that burns like fire, and the tender lover that moves as gentle as a butterfly but is as direct and deliberate as Cupid's arrow. Come share the passion and warmth that inspires new love to float on a cloud.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the spring of 1922, World War I veteran James Buckner is scraping by breaking horses and working part-time as a night watchman in Corinth.Unexpectedly, Mike Stone, an old friend from Buckner's cavalry days, shows up. He says he's headed for South America, but Buckner suspects he's on the run from the law. Stone soon gets into a scrape that leaves a local policeman dead.Buckner arrests his old friend, but before he can get him to trial, Stone is taken from his cell and murdered. Buckner is convinced that Corinth police chief Baxter Bushyhead is behind the killing of his friend.Bushyhead is also behind most of the crime in Corinth, and Buckner swears to bring him down. With the help of the alcoholic Dr. Jeff Peck and black saloon-keeper Elroy Dutton, both World War I veterans, Buckner attacks Bushyhead where it will hurt most, in his gambling and bootlegging profits.Veterans' Day reaches a powerful, explosive climax as Buckner challenges Chief Bushyhead, his gangster allies, and the Corinth Police Department.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Healing His Wounded Church exposes the 'roots' of the problems in the Catholic Church, and brings fresh thinking to bear for 'laying the axe' to those 'roots.' It is plainspoken, authentically Catholic, and rich in content. Having a vision of healing come from the spiritual journey of a common layman provides new and innovative thinking.It serves a pressing need in today's Church. Couples have been led into sinful practices in their marriages. Two generations no longer know their Faith. Few understand the spiritual life and how to pray. This formation is presented with practical simplicity for clergy and 'lay apostles', as well as for couples and families. It leans heavily on John Paul II's 'Theology of The Body' and teachings on family and spiritual life. There are several deeply personal 'surprises' included, which are an inspiration.According to the author, Catholic Culture has run aground and must rise from the ashes of Pagan Modernism spawned in a 'camp of death.' The book calls for fidelity to Christ and to the teachings of his Church. Only the salve of Truth will 'Heal His Wounded Church'.setting us free from sin and error.'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Forbidden Seed, which takes place in medieval France, is a story of intrigue, power and control, love and even murder. Stéphane LaForte and Jacqueline York, passionately in love, are caught between the rivalry of two powerful lords. This rivalry shatters their world.France grows weary with anticipation of war as the conflict increases between the two most powerful lords of France, Lord William of Poitiers and Lord Hugh of Lusignen. Further to inflame their fury, dispute over a region called Fecond-Terre erupts between Lord Geoffroy, whom is sworn to Lord William and Stéphane's father, with Lord Victoir, whom is sworn to Lord Hugh. As tension escalates between Geoffroy and Victoir, pressure between Lord William and Lord Hugh builds. France becomes a pressure cooker waiting to explode.After Lord Geoffory's murder, his manor descends into chaos as Young and inexperienced Stéphane fights to maintain control, loosing the only woman he loves, Jacqueline, who is forced to marry Lord Victoir's son. This story is about Stéphane's struggle to survive and his deep love for Jacqueline.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - French billionaire Jean Luc Lafarge has conquered the world of business; now he is determined to conquer the world of international power politics. His goal is nothing less than the restoration of France to its former glory as a world power--at the expense of the United States.Assisted by the merciless soldier-of-fortune Paul Rennard, Lafarge sets out to isolate and humiliate America using a campaign of shocking terrorism, massive economic subversion, and manipulation of public opinion on a global scale. His plots range across five continents. He ensnares the French president in his schemes, hijacks the diplomatic process to solve the problem of disarming North Korea, and undermines the United States in the UN.Three intelligence operatives form an unlikely alliance to foil Lafarge's schemes: Maria, the beautiful CIA agent; Moshe, the brilliant Israeli Mossad spy; and Daniel, the French expert on international financial crimes.A global summit meeting is scheduled which will shift the balance of world power away from the United States. As America suffers crushing blow after blow, the three spies race to uncover the plot--but will they be on time.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Closeted Lieutenant Governor George Vantage is sworn in as governor after the sudden resignation of the incumbent but soon finds himself threatened by an anonymous caller eager to expose the 'faggot governor.'Reporter Michael Harrington views the new governor as his ticket onto the front page of his newspaper. He knows firsthand that Vantage is gay but he also senses that there is a bigger story.Jason Covington is a peeping tom who gets off watching the new governor sleep. His antics end when security cameras catch him spying on Vantage.Harrington thinks things are going well until the state patrol tracks the young man caught on security cameras to Harrington's apartment. Then his story on the governor's son and a gambling bill hits the front page. Soon Harrington becomes part of his own story when he answers his phone and a voice on the other end threatens to kill him if he doesn't back off.The situation explodes when Vantage wakes up and sees a silhouette in his bedroom window. Security guards shoot from below and Vantage grabs his gun and shoots without thinking. A body crashes through the window exposing Vantage to all.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Blue Spring, last of the Senedo Indian tribe, and Dylan Jones, the Wolf Killer, are caught in the struggle between European conquerors and Native Americans in the land of Eighteenth Century Virginia. A massacre brings these two people of different worlds together, and they vow to build a life that spans their differences.Will the struggle for land and power between the Colonial leaders of early Augusta, and the opposition of the Native Americans who live on the land, leave room for the dreams of thousands of Indians and settlers Join this lone survivor of massacre, meet the ones she comes to love, and share her life's journey Through Buffalo Gap. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mischievous Rascal is the story of a mother's unflagging zeal to correctly raise her mischievous rascal of a son and of that rascal's search, some sixty plus years later, to understand his mother's fury and his father's ghostly presence.'One's innate ability to face, overcome, and be strengthened by unpleasant experiences is key to human survival. The story of Thomas reveals how one child's resiliency stood in the face of adversity.'--Carol Haberberger, Special Education, County Juvenile Facility 'Why Thomas didn't end up in prison is a silent miracle.'--Jeanette Price, Legal Assistant'What lends depth to this work is the author's honesty in examining and understanding his life experiences in the hope of bettering his grandchild's opportunities for health and well-being.'--Arlene Landau, Therapist'The author takes us on the journey of a young boy seeking what he needed most, only to find it outside of his own family.'--Cameran Haire, Corporate Managing Director. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Reitan, a rifleman with the Third Infantry Division in World War II, has written a vivid story of four teenagers (one of them an American) who join the Resistance in France during World War II. The American becomes an underage rifleman with the Third Infantry Division and participates in the battles experienced by the author. Set in the grim reality of wartime France, this dark-edged novel presents interesting characters, fast-moving action, true-to-life instances of ground combat, and a touch of bittersweet romance.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - If you found a diary, would you read it What if you were supposed to read it Follow a scientist in his dirigible called the Zognaut, and witness a remarkable diary you are suppose to read. Have you ever wondered what the tooth faerie actually does with your baby teeth Have you seen a rock that could float These are some of the stories that will inspire the young and old alike. Each story has an illustration that sends the mind asking for more as you begin to travel with the Zognaut. Taylor's Tales is a unique diary that pulls you into the journeys, and delivers the facts behind the fiction.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Great! Just what I need. Another Christmas. Another rotten Christmas.' So starts Warm, for Christmas, Sean 'Pachy' Kavanagh's journey through Christmas 1986 when, at 11, he tries to keep his family from falling apart three years after his mother died. Along the way he confronts rich bullies, a preoccupied father, and an overbearing aunt. He schemes against the distemper of his brother's drug addiction and searches for reasons something called ovarian cancer would take his beloved mother. His successes are mixed. Pachy's answers to life's biggest questions are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant. Finally, with the help of three mysterious Christmas gifts left on his front porch and a beautiful doctor, Pachy comes to understand what's important. Warm, for Christmas is about real life and real problems and one boy's awakening and acceptance of the wonder of Christmas and his mother's gentle and insightful legacy.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Please Mama Please is the story about years spent in an orphan's home, and memories of a broken family.Part IFor five years two brothers, three sisters and I were farmed out to an orphan's home. There we were not only separated from our mother, but each other. I was being constantly told, 'You're nothing but white trash,' and in many ways the staff tried to prove it. Physical and mental abuse was the norm.Part IISix children make their escape from the home. Finally we are home with Mama, but we are still in reach of the supervisor of the home. Mama is arrested for kidnapping and taken to jail. In court she pleads with the judge to keep her children. The fear of being taken back to the home until I reach eighteen bring haunting nightmares.Part IIII marry and begin my own family. My nightmares of the home keep following me. Moving to Tennessee I struggle to put those nightmares behind me, and then tragedy strikes compounding the nightmares to almost unbearable proportions.Please Mama Please ends with shocking truth of why we were 'Throw Away Children.''Please, Mama, Please is a vivid and moving account of the author's life and will give others insight into the complex, fragile world of children. It will also, let's hope, inspire them to see that children in their own spheres never suffer such trails and tribulations.'--Judith McCulloh, Executive Editor, University of Illinois Press.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Chez Vicalle Too was inspired by the genius of Emile Durkheim who wrote: 'All social realities--VALUES and PROCESSES--are created by humans. The social and ideational world represents NO entity without humans. Such a world is the REFLECTION of the socialization experienced by EACH individual in his or her cognitive development.'The surreal quality of Chez Vicalle Too was inspired by Marcel Duchamp and Edward Gorey.Readers of Chez Vicalle Too are encouraged to read A. S. Byatt's novella Morpho Eugenia and view the movie Angels and Insects which was based upon the novella.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Read this book to:See The Rockville Variations of El Greco's Fabula and Michaelangelo's Last Judgment.Understand mysterious Indian castes and Jewish secret societies.Learn about those famous and naughty 17th century French salons.Get some pretty good information about Christian relics.What some well-known people said:'There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.'--Denis Diderot'There are only two kinds of money in the world: your money and my money.'--Milton Friedman'There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and laziness.'--Franz Kafka'On one issue at least men and women agree: They both distrust women.'--H. L. Mencken.'The faults we first see in others are the faults that are our own.'--Honore de Balzac'To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.'--Bertrand Russell.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 101 Simple Suggestions and Quotations to Express Compassion and Empathy is a useful aid for anyone wishing to become more compassionate. Linda Furiate began this simple, little book the day she received a telephone call from a dear friend, who had been in an accident the night before. Although the vehicle was totaled, her husband walked away with nearly a bruise and she suffered only a few, broken ribs.This did not stop Furiate from feeling the emotional pain they both endured. Having to fill in that evening as a group leader and counselor for her friend, Furiate began a dialogue with her clients on how to express and develop compassion. She utilizes these simple gestures of compassion and empathy such as:Think about some recent adversity you have experienced. Now thank God and yourself for this blessing and for the positive meaning of the experience.Allow yourself to be loved. Most people who feel as though they are unloved are usually the ones who have built walls around themselves, not allowing love to seep through and into their being.Take the time to read this book to help yourself develop compassion and become more at peace with your being.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This ends the perpetual cycle of food ignorance!Christine Ravago brings to your apartments what mom forgot to teach you about food and cooking. Thawed contains the fundamentals of cooking through easy recipes, photographs, and basic guidelines for buying and storing food, grilling, and entertaining.After the first few years of college or even your first years starting a career and after you've had enough greasy pizza and microwave dinners, Thawed serves as a fool-proof start to your cooking repertoire. Thawed fuses timeless recipes with sugar and spice to bring you excitingly modern meals to pass on for generations.The recipes featured in Thawed have been tested and tasted by your peers, and the results are in.it's easy! Whether it's to impress the girl you just started dating, to gather friends together for a round of juicy gossip, or to celebrate youth, Thawed provides you with the cooking know-how and elegant meals that will leave your guests utterly astonished.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Gift of Life is the author's memoir about her older daughter, Linda, inheriting a rare disease called Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. Linda, a beautiful talented person with a husband and two young boys, fought her disease forcefully, before being put on the lung transplant list.The book describes not only Linda's determination to live, but to care for her family while connected to a 50-foot oxygen cord. Before her illness, Linda loved the outdoor life and was able to keep spring unfolding year round with her ability to raise beautiful flowers, keep an immaculate green lawn, and to care for her numerous animals. Even while ill, she continued to try to do the same by living an abundant life. The book expresses her experiences at the hospital, before and after the lung transplant. It, as well, teaches about who should be tested for Alpha 1, the trial of being on a lung transplant list, the rejection medications, and the Hospice program.Finally, it expresses how the family assisted and how the family is affected when a loved one is ill.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Great Caravan is the first of four books in the Secret Of The Realm series.The Great Caravan is a love story with many twists and turns. Alexander and Victoria met for the first time on the caravan. Even though they came from different worlds, they discovered a world that they had not known before. LOVE. As their caravan pushed toward northern provinces, their strengths emerged together as they faced much tribulation and hardships.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - .it seemed like I didn't belong to my self. I felt like a ghost that just hangs around until one day it finds and lives in a real body full of love, confidence and fun to be around.J.P. and I, ages four and six respectively, were home alone again, this time for the second or third day in a row. Then there was a knock, the firm, authoritative kind. It's usually the cops in these situations, as was the case in ours. Much to my brother's chagrin, and to my secret relief, I opened the door.We were bounced from home to home amongst relatives who, I believe, creatively shielded us from the pain and revolution of the sixties because I didn't get the honorable chance to march nor raise my little fist and holler the words, Black Power! I never felt poor, I was healthy and smart and things just seemed wonderful. So, I was fine, as long as I was with family, especially Daddy. I was his little girl, his princess. He made me feel like a queen. Then one day I was dethroned. I had become this thing called 'foster' child. As a little girl quickly becoming a teenager, I was obsessed with the quest to reclaim my identity as a 'normal' person by defying the foster child stigma that would haunt me throughout college life and as a young adult, until I met a world-renowned meditation master. Her teachings would change my life, forever.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Tell 'em 'That's MY Money You're Messing With' is an invaluable resource for anyone who plans on one day retiring or who is already retired. It contains the fiduciary practices from The Center For Fiduciary Studies at The University of Pittsburgh making it an invaluable report for: All 401(k) participants; who unwittingly may be subjected to an employer's negligence, resulting in a hidden yet large loss to their portfolios.All employers who have delegated the 401(k) responsibilities to other professionals, believing they have abdicated their fiduciary responsibility.Most Important; All seniors who wish to safely stay ahead of inflation.Author Gordon Bell AIFATM brings over 35 years of consumer research experience, going behind the 'Hidden Data Line' to reveal what are essentially trade secrets. In a clear easy to understand language, Bell points out the steps that define prudence leading to a more secure and affluent retirement. Tell 'em 'That's MY Money You're Messing With', reveals a litany of fiduciary concerns that can lead to getting market like returns with no risk of principal, reducing taxes to 1.5%, and owning long-term care insurance without the costly premiums etc.Tell 'em 'That's MY Money You're Messing With' is a useful resource for anyone contemplating retirement, no matter their current status.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In these seven stories set in Alaska and New Mexico, Detroit and Chicago, Andre Miftaraj gives us characters who encounter situations in the physical world, and sometimes beyond the physical world, that through danger and heartbreak deliver them to someplace strange. There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears explores spiritual injury and recovery through stories that are both haunting and frightening and that depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary aspects of experience, and find the bass note, the truth that hums beneath it all. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Richard kept to himself most of the time living a normal university student's life. The only problem was history could not be forgotten and destiny could not be forsaken as an assassin tries to kill him in his university dorm.In an attempt to find his enemies, he finds new friends and leads a group of superheroes into stardom. In the midst of the group's unknown future, Jean Lorenz and her team of secret agents plot to take over governmental agencies and stop mutant groups from ever forming.Unknown to both groups, the Earth is the home of a queen destined to lead an ancient alien empire to save the galaxy from galactic Armageddon.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Every child dreams of a perfect life. Matt Tylo was no different except that he was gay.TAINTED HEARTS is a story of a gay man's journey to achieve everything he ever wanted despite the odds. Through his struggles, Matt becomes a determined individual who suddenly believes his dreams can come true. He meets and falls in love with Doug Cavazos. After years of dating, they decide to have a child of their own, especially after Matt's best friend, Maureen Farnsworth, agrees to have their baby. While Matt sees his life taking shape, Maureen develops complications with the pregnancy and decides not to give up the baby.As Matt awaits the birth of his child, something tragically goes wrong with the delivery. Matt struggles to salvage his relationships and the dream he once had. After finding evidence that confirms his own suspicions, Matt realizes that there is more to the people he holds closest to him. The journey that follows leads Matt down a path filled with lies, murder, and deceit from which he cannot return and will undoubtedly regret for the rest of his life.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is a world where chaos became an order.and the order chaos.It is a world where the generation of today destroys what was built yesterday by fathers & grandfathers.It is a world, which is retreating back for centuries and refuses to go forward for only one day.It is the world, which is ruled by the jungle law and where all values & principles are lost.It is the world who pretends to adopt freedom & democracy as slogans & motes but they are not applicable in reality.It is the world where the human values & human rights are lost.Doesn't deserve to be tried And why not to be tried The Trial of the World, it is a novel or an artistic attempt in a style of a tale intended to direct this world and make it come back to the right path.It is an attempt to awake the conscience of those who are given the authority & decision-making so as to awake this conscience. People's rulers.This world should be tried!!It should be!.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the new millennium hamlet of Marktree, Massachusetts (just west of Boston), the Pongawog Indian tribe has gained the right to dock a Long House casino boat on their sacred territory along the meandering Charles River. During excavation of the dock, two bodies are exhumed from a cold spring bog. Their mysterious appearance sets off a chain of strange events that unravels the history of the town and turns the lives of its citizens inside out.Key to this mystery and its solution are a spirit circle of psychics operating through the local Unitarian parish; like their spiritualist ancestors they attempt to solve the mystery of the bog couple through psychic means combined with historical research. History recapitulates itself age after age; and as the ancient wisdom warns: the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children. Yet carrying on in the old way of hard scrabble Yankees, these citizens of Marktree muster up like the Minutemen of old, and press on through the round of four seasons into an uncertain, but perhaps redeemable, way of life.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Beyond the Great Whites is the third of four books in the Secret of the Realm series. The Great Whites mountain range did not only separate two great nations, Estapan and Bolsalvia, but isolated them from one another. Ragnar, a Bolsalvian, was forced from his village and became homeless when he was just a small boy. This his journey as a young boy transforming into adulthood, overcoming many hardships as he matured as a great warrior and leader of all the tribes.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this profound yet practical guided journal Tracy E. Houston, M.A. provides readers with a new perspective on leadership: being comfortable in the naturalness of who we are as a key leadership trait. This radical new approach will increase your ability to influence others by developing the pervasive, penetrating power of being real. The unquestionable power that comes from knowing yourself endures all change and trumps traditional hierarchies. Leading by Belonging provides a platform to:Gain purposeful direction with exercises that translate and manifest personal essenceEnhance business relationships by creating internal wisdomBuild integrity by correlating core values with your personal and professional lifeEngage in thoughtful discoveries that allow you to find meaning and joy within your professionCreate awareness and vitality by clarifying ethical and value positionsDevelop an anchor in times of change by cultivating a sense of belongingLeading by Belonging provides a platform where we can shift energy gears from being a force driven into a force of expression, forged in passion, melded into our experience of life.a personal frontier that translates our challenges and sufferings into an answer of pure potential.…