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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book begins in a small town setting where aviation has earned a bad name because of an avoidable fatal crash. It is autobiographical only in the sense of the author's progression from non-interest to intense involvement in all aspects of flying. The title 'Near Misses' describes close calls as well as choices that determined final outcomes. The highlights of an aspiring Naval Aviator's struggle to become a fighter pilot are revealed. Along the way, bits of historical and technical information are included The main theme is that anyone attempting the same task could benefit by either avoiding the pitfalls described or by being prepared to compensate for them in ways similar to those of the author.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Derrick Kirk Alexander Jr. realizes that the US government has reached their tolerance level toward acts of international terrorism when he is recruited from American University to work as a deep cover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. His role in government is so secretive that he, along with several operatives known as the 'dirty boys,' answer only to a US senator who has full support from the president of the United States. Kirk's missions take him across the globe to punish those who would harm a US citizen. Life is rewarding until he finds that the same government he's sworn to defend has now targeted him. Kirk learns that sometimes in life, your only ally is the enemy you've targeted to die.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Moving across country from the 'Bible -belt' to the desert of Nevada, a couple discover an ancient clan of vampires hiding in plain sight. Soon after settling into their new home in Copper Town, strange things begin to happen. As they make their plans to escape, they discover that others are determined to keep them captive.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - LOYAL TO THE CAUSE - the cause of a 'Devine Destiny' came from ThomarJefferson to James Madison and was a promise for a new country with new ideas and dreams. The dream of a 'United States' which would stretch east to west from Atlantice to Pacific and north to south from Canada to Mexico. LOYAL TO THE CAUSE - is a historic epic entwining the lives of the Butler family with 'DevineDestiny'. Patriarch Clayton Butler graduates from the new West Point military acamemy and plans a trail to the west coast through indian lands. His adventures carry him into the war with Mexico and the battle at the Alamo. His son Clayton Butler Jr. also graduates from West Point to become an officer during the Civil War. His knowledge of the west, and in particular, the City of San Francisco, make him the ideal candiate for aborting a Confederate plot to divert $20 nillion in gold bars from California to the southern Confedercy. LOYAL TO THE CAUSE - is a saga abounding with intrigue, deception, life-long friendships, patriotism, family honor and love to make this the acme of historical fiction.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A form of free verse unlike any other, The Stage Of Martyrdom, is filled from beginning to end with Powerful, and poignant writing. Providing a keen insight to the human mind and heart, as it experiences the many stages of Love. There's something for everyone in this book, as Abi Rodriguez delivers a masterfully crafted work of Art, which speaks to us in a timeless manner - as Love itself is never ending.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Haunted by his abilitiesGian searched the world for answersbefore he returned to the Vatican.There Faith his soulmate, and Pablo, her brother, battle with forces bent upon their destruction.Once home Gian continued to struggleeven though everything about him was supernatural.His nightmares continued.He fought to find the truth.Untilhe uncovered a secret hidden for decades.One that changed everythingAnd the lives of everyone he loveda secret that placed all of their lives in jeopardy.Four young people are about to change the worldSometimes all you need isHOPE.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Billy Boy' is a humorous story about an altar boy growing up in a small New England town and the many conflicts he encounters along the way. When the mysteries of faith, sex, and the world around him were rationalized with a young mind and an imagination that ran wild within his head. When trying to stay one step ahead of parents, teachers, and the law, he often found himself two steps behind. Although this mostly true tale takes place during the rock and roll era, it could have happened during any time period. This is a must read if you like to laugh, especially at adolesence.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This account covers so many sites-a railway station in Berlin, Germany in 1933, a penthouse overlooking the mountains that surround Genoa, Italy, the World War II experience of picking cotton while an Athens, GA, high school student, to Atlanta, to St. Louis, to Chicago and eventually to the newly formed city of Sandy Springs, GA, which she created and leads as Mayor.The major issues of life in America for the past 60 years are addressed through the life of an unusual lady with humor as well as mature perception. The struggle between labor and management, the women's movement (we've got to get out into the world), the racial conflicts that engulfed the nation and especially the South, and the conflict between central cities and their suburbs, and finally the sometimes ridiculous aspects of politics all come alive as Eva narrates the twists and turns of her unusual life.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a young, talented dancer from France arrives to join Gregoire Fellini's dance company, Greg's life is changed forever. He, the strict, serious dance maestro, falls in love. Nicole is perfect: beautiful, kind, adored by everyone. In this, the first part of 'Heaven Promises No Favours', enjoy the saga of a beautiful and passionate romance set in the glamorous world of London ballet - savour every moment as the scene is set and events unfold.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - After a tragic drunk driving accident, the woman who had been my friend, sister, mentor, and overseer was taken from this world. Tonya survives through a tale she began before she passed away what seems like eons ago. As I promised her, the novel she began to write so long ago, I've completed. We combined words to form the story we always wanted to complete together.You Were There is based on her life story of teenage alcoholism and drug addiction, loss, fallen hope, the steps she was forced to take to clean up, and picking up the pieces to move forward with her life. Fortunately, I was there to witness the transformation, which in fact transformed me. As people, we search for great signs and inspiration; however, it can sometimes be found in the smallest places. She inspired me with her courage, understanding of life, strength and caring. I was there with her through college, and through the initial adult years before her passing.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 1971, teachers Barb and Clark Olson, together with the two small children, moved to Gondar, Ethiopia. For four years, Barb kept a detailed journal about the family's experiences, recording people's stories and events both domestic and political, local and national, chronicling the early days of the revolution, as well as the drought and famine moving across this East African nation. Barb now lives with her husband in Springfield, Illinois where she writes and is a community organizer. This book is a 'Thank you' to the people of Gondar and a tribute to the resiliency and vision of Ethiopia's youth. Several of these stories are published separately, including the children's book, Christmas in Gondar, Five Ethiopian Stories, available soon.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Leah is a single female who headed west to become a pioneer. She encounters a lot more than she ever could have imagine. She falls for a rustic mountain man that takes her on wild adventures. She stands against renegades, the army, gunslingers, robbers, and more. The town never new a city girl could save their town. This is only the first book of many to come in this series. It's full of lies, murders, mysteries with a twist that will leave you wanting more and so much more. My books will always have the same peple, setting, and all. The whole town knows secrets about Leah and her devoted mountain man that you could never imagine. Even their own parents are in on the mysterious life they have among the Cheyenne Indians and the president of the United States. The trust is always an issue from the shy school teacher to the owner of the saloon.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Inspired by his blog of the same name (which is inspired by what the author considers to be one of the great all-time 'Simpsons' quotes), So, Do You Like . Stuff is a collection of Mike Kenny's funniest material.Follow the author as he questions whether or not he picked up the correct child from daycare. Watch and learn as he interprets nonsensical hit songs. Feel for him as he attempts to accomplish the mundane tasks assigned to him by his father-in-law. Hide in fear with him as he passively fights off grizzly bears by hoping they go away. So, Do You Like . Stuff is a compilation of newly improved, reedited columns and blog posts, as well as original, previously unreleased material. 'Stuff' may cover a wide range of topics, but the themes here are common to everyone-family, work, health, . cat condominiums. The usual. Just, unusually funny.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Uchechi grew up in a rural village before winning a scholarship to study at one of the major international universities. There he met Annarossa who challenged him to an academic competition. In the process of a very bitter rivalry, she fell in love with him. Annarossa's family refused to accept the relationship. Someone attempted to kill Uchechi because of his affair with Annarossa. What happened next This book captures in high drama, conflicts created by differences in cultural backgrounds and the triumph of love, as set in a university environment. It highlights some of the difficulties, which people face in a world of increased human mobility and cultural contacts. It is an example of how people can transform their new environments, overcome challenges and use available opportunities to affect in positive ways, how their future is shaped. It is a global story that is worth telling. 'Intense drama, intense passion.the audacity of love.' - Emmanuel Akinwumi. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Thirteen year old Bobby Bain is helpful, friendly, well-loved by all. Bobby also has a dark side. He lures his girlfriend into the blackness of an abandoned coal mine, rapes her and then maneuvers her into the open mouth of a deep elevator shaft-down, down to her death. Months later Bobby watches Internal Revenue agents sell his father's machine shop for back taxes. And then he finds his father dying at the end of a rope, a suicide. Bobby swears vengeance-he will kill federal tax collectors. Years pass and Bobby embarks on his mission. He kills two IRS agents and others in spectacular ways, leaving no clues to his identity. Federal and local lawmen join forces and get on the killer's trail. The action rages across Ohio to the abandoned coal mine where young Bobby did his first killing.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The year is 2059, and computer expert Brad Cole has no idea who he is.After being beaten and left for dead, Brad comes to with no memory of his past, his present-or his identity. As he struggles to rebuild his lost memories and life, he learns about the sinister secrets his company doesn't want him to understand. When he learns that his company has duped the staff into working on building pathways to a parallel world it has discovered, he is compelled to make a series of expeditions to this even more dangerous parallel world-known only as Zone 2-in which the Nazis emerged victorious at the end of World War II.There, he finds brutality, pain, and danger. There is little comfort for him in the seemingly familiar trappings of this puzzling world under Nazi control. It offers as many surprises as it does similarities to the life he struggles to remember. With the help of a beautiful and mysterious woman, Brad explores this strange new realm, desperately hoping to find the answers he needs.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Crimson and Indigo are two young, star-crossed lovers whose journey has propelled them from one existence to another-across multiple lifetimes and alternate realities to a place where their love could survive. But now, with both near the end of their existence in a world where the past, present, and future coexist, the two temporal travelers forge a new relationship with one another in the fever of a budding love affair. For Crimson, an assassin, the past no longer has any meaning. The once torrid love affair that consumed her has become nothing more than a fleeting memory. Yet, she is strangely drawn to Jake Ramious, the hotshot freighter pilot she engaged to deliver a survey team to a mysterious planet at the heart of a spatial rift. Now, some fifty years later, Crimson is taunted by the memories of her previous existence, the probability of losing the one thread of her life capable of rekindling her love for Indigo, and the prospect of being consumed by the metamorphosis of two universes. Internally torn like never before, Crimson must confront her own demons and find a way to restore her future-before her beloved Indigo is erased from history forever.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lieutenant John Luttwak, who appeared in two of the short-form books, now returns to Hollywood station to command his eight-man homicide squad.Detective Jack Stiles is a 38-year-old career cop with a stellar record of service. He's a former college tight end, fast and tough, capable of body-slamming and cuffi ng a suspect twice his size. Stiles' partner, Traci Little, a former patrol offi cer with plenty of street smarts has now advanced to the Homicide squad. She and Stiles are Luttwak's most intuitive detective unit. Secretly, and against Department rules, they are deep into sex. Another detective unit is Dick Cheevers and Ed Chase. Cheevers is black, smart and scary. Backing him up is Chase, white as ice cream, not that either one cares. Irv Miller and partner Kaz Kazurian are opposites in temperament. Miller is contemplative. Kazurian is hot-tempered, a give-no-quarter cop in accordance with his European blood lines. Luttwak and his troops are frustrated by clever, corrupt and merciless killer Victor Krait, straight out of a dime stretch at Terminal Island and looking for revenge. And so it goes in Hollywood, city of the night.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The second in a series of mystery novels set in Portland, Oregon featuring ex-Coastie turned private investigator Matt MacKinnon. In this book Matt is hired by the mother of a man who was murdered to find his killer. During the investigation Matt meets a homeless young couple that are suffering through difficult times.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Four girls four completely different worlds. One look was awkward. She was nearly three hundred pounds and stood nearly six feet tall, but her mind was genius and heart was pure. One girl as perfect as only beauty can imagine, but the abuse was leaving an unseen ugly trail. Call the next one normal, but then again what defines normal for the secrets she holds makes her far from it. Finally, meet the one who is looking for love, but what is love All searching for a piece of peace. In a journey to change their lives they find they share one thing in common. The journey each girl takes carries them into paths unseen as a search for love and happiness guides them into their futures.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is about a journey of one thousand tears and a smile. It's a stroll along the rocky shore of memories, a visit to the ruins of dreams and a voyage across the hazardous ocean of life. The idea started as a challenge to break through the boundaries of silence, to prove that the soul has its own sanctuaries and that only those who absorb its suffering manage to fathom its depths. Whether Shams has succeeded in revealing the tales of her soul or not is yet to be found through the pages of this book.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Last Voyage of Peggy Jean is a love story, a story of love for the ocean and ships by a former merchant mariner and his only daughter. Jim McAndrew and Rebecca Jean's shared love is a sailboat named after Jim's wife, Peggy Jean. In the beginning the sailboat is a non contentious member of the family but as the years pass the two Peggy Jeans become rivals for Jim's affection; sometimes one, sometimes the other, gaining the upper hand. An important part of this equation is Rebecca Jean, a daughter as much in love with the ocean and ships as her Father but also a daughter whose love for her Father and his approval influenced most of her choices in life. When Jim's wife dies, the sailboat reasserts her place in his life but this time Rebecca Jean is left behind. Her Father has taken Peggy Jean back to the ocean alone. But is he alone Rebecca Jean's search for her Father along the inter coastal waterway and the Caribbean brings home the simple truth that she is by herself and responsible for her own life. This triangle of love between a Father, daughter and a 31 year old sailboat is a compelling love story and one not soon forgotten.…