Westbow press jan 2006 (15 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Wilbur Bone must use all his inner-strength to control his emotions as he drives his lifelong best friend, Michael Moresby, to the airport for the last time. On the seat next to him, is a box containing Michael's remains.Minutes later, Wilbur steps onto a two-seater plane with Michael's ashes and heads to Lake Ontario where he carries out his friend's final wishes. As Wilbur begins grieving his loss, he learns that Michael has left him his dive boat and business, sixteen photographs of sunken ships, and a mysterious poem. But there is only one problem: Wilbur has never conquered the fears that overtake him when he dives. Still, Wilbur knows that Michael spent a lifetime fruitlessly diving for treasure and feels obligated to continue his quest. Now as danger looms ahead, Wilbur must determine whether the clues will actually lead to riches and, more importantly, if he can survive the treacherous, deep waters of Lake Ontario.White Treasure is the thrilling tale of a retired English teacher's adventure after he inherits his best friend's diving boat and risky mission beneath the surface of a Canadian lake.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Alex sat, his back rigid, his mind frozen. He had dealt with many contemptible people, but Hardy exceeded the boundaries of villainy. How could he do this to Ellie Gentle Ellie, whose only sin was to need tenderness, to make Alex a present of her unopened gift of passion, a gift Hardy had refused. His heart ached for her. How in the name of anything human could a husband betray no sign of altered emotion for six long months while harboring this swinish 'show and tell' trash He wanted to strangle the man, to force the color of suffering into that flat-white, lifeless face. He realized he'd already refilled his glass with port. His head was humming. His gaze moved from the decanter to the man behind the gun. Al1 that wine, and now the port. Had Hardy actually drunk any What were his intentions Certainly he would know the perfect potion for a slow death. And the gun.was it to keep them imprisoned at the table until the poison infiltrated their veins Or did he intend to poison and shoot them, a Rasputinish overkill He, who had been accused of the ability to read minds at countless negotiating confrontations, hadn't even a good guess.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Shortly after the tragedy that we now know as '9-11', Bryce Ross flew across the country to bare witness to his aunt's last will and testament. The choices he made, as well as the resulting events that followed, changed his life and our futures forever.His determination to expose questionable facts and circumstances involving the Kennedy Assassination provided him with the motivation to adhere to the passionate and obsessive terms of a substantially funded trust that was created by his late uncle.Freedom is a choice that we all take for granted. A government of the people is what fosters our liberties and protects them from coming under the control of others. Bryce considers whether wealth should be allowed to continue its dominance over our trusted and elected officials when the pressure reveals itself to be life-threatening.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Of the chapters I have been privileged to read, you have created a stunning, beautiful story, the best you've ever done, and I enjoyed every word. You wrote magic.'-Richard S. Wheeler, author of over fifty historical novels and winner of the Owen Wister Award and several Western Writers of America Spur Awards As was the custom, Libby and Thomas had retired to the parlor after the Sunday meal. A roaring fire warmed the room as Libby set a newly acquired Ming vase, a Christmas present from her mother, on the mantle piece. When she turned around, Thomas surprised her by dropping to one knee and taking both of her delicate hands into his larger ones. 'Libby, ta me i ngra leat. An bPósfaibh tú mé And not waiting for a translation, Libby said, 'Yes.' When she heard Thomas professing his love for her and proposing in Irish, it was music coming from his soul to hers. The arrival of the love letter the next day, cemented her commitment and future to the only man she would ever love.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - THE YANKEE VILLAGE OF LONG RIDGE CRADLES OUR STORY of a boy and girl working, play-wrestling, and growing amid the red barns and broad haylands adjoining their homes.After school and doing chores, when the long afternoons of Eastern War Time turned warm with the season, the young pals rode a great, black horse across fields and over stone walls, moving as one rider with its animal power.They often sought a deep pond in the forest, stripped to scant underwear and swam in the chill waters, then sunned themselves dry on a warm shelf of rock. In these swift hours, stolen out of time, they left unspoken the special feelings they sensed, signified by tasting each other with a first kiss beside a woodland spring.Yet time and the war were hurrying their lives. Come darkness on the hill and they could see on the horizon the flaming glow of dying American ships, loaded oil tankers torpedoed by Nazi submarines.Yet before the young couple finishes their teen years, they leave the Ridges to seize their futures at home, at sea, and in a world at war. It was a time when all goodbyes were uncertain and some were forever.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From the time she was a small girl, 28-year-old Maggie Gaffney disregarded the gift that her Granny Gaffney proudly insisted she had inherited from her father. She always regarded the premonitions and overwhelming feelings of danger as nothing special, just common everyday feelings. The fiery haired Irish lass who grew up in the brownstones in Chicago, was summoned by her maternal grandfather to visit him in his huge mansion, Glenmoor Manor, in Southern Indiana. Maggie had no wish to know Donovan O'Connor, a wealthy businessman, who had disowned her mother when she married Maggie's father and she would have refused to go if her Granny Gaffney had not insisted. The headstrong Maggie agrees to go. When a feeling of impending doom overcomes her on the train, she dismisses it. But after her arrival, she becomes embroiled in a mystery that involves her grandfather, a secret society, and murder. Trying to unravel the mystery, Maggie finds herself in peril as well as falling in love. She begins to believe that there just may be some truth to her gift, her Irish Legacy .…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An obsessive womanizer, a wealthy poet, an Iranian philanthropist, and a New York abstract expressionist painter fiercely compete for the attentions of Eleanor von Schroeder, a self-assured, beautiful woman in her twenties in the hectic Madison Avenue world of the 1960's. Eleanor has them believe she loves each of them simply by being the even-tempered, gracious, good-humored girl she is. But though she is compliant and fun-loving to a degree she is unconquerable in ways that count. Her would-be lovers will not give up and Eleanor will not give in, until circumstances change and a difficult solution occurs.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Anita Powers struggles to move beyond the experience of a horrific attack and assume a leadership role in a major corporation. Sherry Malone has married a black man in defiance of family and friends, and engages in a desperate effort to save her troubled marriage. Grayson Malone is a man who loses a promotion to Anita Powers and embarks upon a dark journey toward revenge.Julian Quintana takes the bold step of revealing his potentially career-ending secret to his new boss, Grayson Malone. But Julian's secret compares little to the truth behind the most risky relationship of his life. And Phoebe Jackson contemplates killing herself because she is tired of living with the devastation left behind by a bullet. But Phoebe fights to hold on because her boss, Anita Powers, needs her now more than ever.Merging with Monsters is a blunt, shocking and highly entertaining examination of the personal battles waged within America's corporate culture. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The last remark chilled Jill to the bone. Her mind was racing. What did she have here It was a confession from a killer. The man she once thought she was in love with was a murderer. This was no protector of the public; he was as bad as her uncle. If he was telling her the truth, it must mean she was in danger again.no way Jack. She reached slowly for her purse on the seat beside her. She fumbled with the clasp to get to her revolver. Her hand closed on the metal. Slowly she pulled the weapon free, put it level under the table, and pulled the trigger.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is a true story. It relates to the author's stay at the Protestant Children's Home, Detroit, Michigan, referred to in this book as The Home. The book deals not only with the children living at The Home during WWII, but also with their experiences in Detroit at that time.'C.G. Mitchell's account of his childhood days growing up in The Protestant Children's Home is a vivid peek into Detroit's past through the eyes of a child who lived there. Mitchell expertly weaves the historical tidbits of a bygone era with the touching story of a boy and his brother doing their best to bring a measure of joy and comfort in a potentially joyless existence.'-Julia Elliott, Managing Editor, Mirror Newspapers, Royal Oak, MichiganC.G. Mitchell is the author of I Quit-I Promise, Storytime Anytime, and Marching to an Angry Drum. Recently, the author has compiled a DVD of Camp Tinega from three 16mm films made between 1939 and 1941.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Night Maze: A Journey into the Residue of Karma is an all-encompassing gothic horror narrative that will take you down the ethereal path to many enchanting avenues of suspense-to the horrors of vampires, werewolves, devil worship, and to the ends of the universe.Each character carries their own deep, dark shadows that lie within the reservoir of human existence and whose mentalities reach the many diversities of human kind. Night Maze is the story of the strangest beings that dwell within the darkest recesses of humankind.Who are these strangers that hide in the shadows Night Maze explores all of the human emotions and experiences that reside within the realm of karma and its references of rebirth and atoning for the rights and wrongs that we place upon others and ourselves. These rebirths are the terrors that shape our attitudes and behavior for either good or evil.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Alex, Lassiter and Brukk all looked up at the same time when they heard the roar of the two low flying Fighters that buzzed their positions. It was immediately followed by an attack Jetcopter that hovered above. Military vehicles and soldiers began to drop down from airborne supply and troop carriers on all the hillsides. The first thought that came into the two adversaries minds was that the other had brought in air and ground support and they were about to be overrun. That thought stopped when a loudspeaker from the 'copter' began its announcement.'ATTENTION COMBATANTS. YOU ARE ILLEGALLY WAGING ARMED CONFLICT. LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS. PLACE HANDS ON TOP OF HEAD AND COME INTO THE OPEN. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN AIR AND GROUND STRIKES ON ALL, I REPEAT, ON ALL YOUR POSITIONS. WE HAVE SEVERAL HUNDRED HELLPOINT TROOPS ON EACH OF YOUR FLANKS. IF EITHER GROUP FIRES ON THE OTHER OR ON OUR TROOPS WE WILL TAKE OUT YOUR ENTIRE POSITION. ACKNOWLEDGE BY THE LEADERS OF THE TWO GROUPS COMING INTO THE OPEN AND NO ONE WILL BE HARMED. YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO COMPLY OR FIRING WILL COMMENCE.'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 1916, Thomas Grayson travels to the isolated mountains in eastern Kentucky to establish a school for the children of the area. He enters a community in a harsh and secluded part of the country that he cannot help but contrast to the gentle fields and rolling hills that he left behind in the Kentucky Bluegrass region.Thomas encounters the timid children and takes on the almost hopeless task of improving not only their minds but also their lives. When he meets and forms a close friendship with the wealthy Roger Taliaferro, his life will change forever. Taliaferro secretly holds the mineral rights to much of the land in the area and awaits the arrival of the railroad in order to make a vast fortune from the mines.Roger asks Thomas to tutor his wife, a beautiful Melungeon named Lily, many years younger than himself. Thomas and Lily observe a teacher-pupil relationship until they can no longer contain their growing passion. The two struggle to foresee their future as the country plunges into World War I. Will their love survive, or will fate lead them down a different path.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the Wings of Sivananda-Valentina, our Holy Mother shares Her Heart and Wisdom with devotees and students who seek to expand their consciousness through the practice of Yogic spiritual disciplines at Her Retreat, The Light of Sivananda-Valentina.This book covers twelve months of various spiritual Observances which include Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Yogic traditions. Whatever our beliefs might be, we gain new insights into our own religions through these inspired writings. These discourses were transcribed from spontaneous, unrehearsed discourses and so have a vitality and life which is seldom seen on the written page. The Wings of Sivananda-Valentina tenderly lead us upward to new heights and give us the inspiration and the wings to soar ourselves.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Being a parent is not easy and certainly not without tears or pain, but to love and be loved while sharing life with that new person is a fantastic feeling and words fall short in description.This book is a celebration of the miracle of birth in so far as it brings together a wide range of birth stories by various women from different walks of life. They show how these women experienced the various stages of pregnancy, the pain of birth, the joy of birth, but also, in very few cases, how they came to terms with the sad loss of the child.The work is a valuable source of comfort, reassurance, and pertinent medical information. The book will be treasured especially by the new mother who will be reassured that she is not alone in her experience, however unique that experience will prove to be.…