Xlibris jul 2008 (193 résultats)

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Frozen in a block of ice and awakened 11,000 years later, a woolly mammoth is nursed back to life by a herd of distantly related coos. His existence is discovered by Ian and Ina Stevenson and their friend, Baird, who live a simple life in the hills and dells of the northern Scottish Highlands. When Ina combs the wool from the herd of coos to create exotic yarns, she realizes one animal is much different from the rest. His ragged, fringed coat reminds her of shag carpet, and so the wooly mammoth is named Shag.Shag grows quickly, and he grows so large he fears for the herd's safety and shelters with the Stevensons, who welcome him as a family member into their hearts and home. When megalomaniacal fashion designer Monsieur d'LeFolb and his nine Mo-Dels arrive to stage the ultimate outdoor fashion show in a nearby hamlet, the Stevensons' secret is discovered.Monsieur d'LeFolb desires Shag for himself, and the planned photo shoots turns into a mammoth hunt. Ina, Ian, and Baird vow to protect Shag from this commercial fascist, who not only desires the exquisite wool but plans to clone the animal for use in age-defying cosmetics.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Homosexuality, A.I.D.S and VooDoo, is the true to life story of the Jackson family, growing up in Memphis, TN during the 60¿s and the 70¿s. Their lives were just as turbulent as the turmoil during the Civil Right¿s movement. The main Character Ray, tells the story of the brutal rape of his older brother Jerome, and the shock of learning that his younger brother Lawrence was also gay. Most interesting is the fact that Lawrence was also the victim of demon possession as well as being infected with A.I.D.S. Reading this book will take you from one dramatic moment to another. Yet this is an inspirational story of triumph against all odds. See how Ray used, his faith in God to help his entire family make it through a maze of seemingly over whelming situations. This story, will make you laugh, cry and feel inspired.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - On a beautiful Greek island, Captain Beth Walker marries CIA agent Matt Price, but after her nephew, Steven, leaves the island, he is kidnapped. When Arab television shows Steven kneeling blindfolded and his captor threatening to behead him, the CIA identifies the location as Damascus, and sends Beth, Matt, and an Israeli agent to rescue him. The chase moves to Kurdistan, where an American Special Forces colonel, senior Kurdish leaders, and an avatar of the Cult of Angels agree to aid them.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Set in the early Eighties, A Sky for Arcadia is the story of a woman named Mary Ann, who awakens from the nightmare of an attempted suicide to what she considers the nightmare of daily life. This book chronicles her struggle to live without alcohol and drugs while trying to save a business, her surviving child, and what remains of her soul. Poignant, insightful, and sometimes painfully honest, A Sky for Arcadia explores the fact of living in an imperfect world, where dreams may not come true and the ending is not always happily ever after. But we must deal with this reality and accepting this is the litmus test which separates those who - while stumbling on life's obstacles and falling down - choose to stand up again, and those who remain lying down and whimpering. So Mary Ann decides to re-examine herself, to struggle to be free of drugs and alcohol, and somehow act like a responsible parent. Always afraid of feeling too much or not enough, the day finally came when she was content with the happiness that warms her being as she looks at the starry night sky. This is her story - and knowing how she made her journey may change you forever.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The writers of Concord, Massachusetts' literary past are alive in present day in Honor in Concord. They appear as characters who struggle between their need for freedom and self-determination and the sense of responsibility they feel toward the commitments they have made. Do the commitments we make define or limit us Is freedom and illusion Are we ever truly free Honor in Concord also asks: What if we choose to honor our lives What if we choose to honor who we are and who others determine themselves to be What if we choose to honor the commitments we've made to ourselves and others leaving our hearts intact, rather than allowing our lives to shatter out of a sense of boredom or regret or out of the mistaken belief that none of it matters anyway The message here is that all that we think, say, and do has meaning. Our actions and intentions make up the very essence of who we are and help to form the circumstances of the world in which we live.Honor in Concord presents a weave of fiction and fact that includes extraordinary moments from the author's own life, as well as poignant images that she draws from Concord's literary past, like that of Thoreau in his final days struggling to complete his essay, Walking; Hawthorne 'drifting into the sea of infinity' as he writes; and Martha Hunt's act of 'purification' in the waters of the Concord River. It is through this mix of reality and imagination that we see the link that exists between the present and the past and we are reminded of the presence of spirit in our lives. We are reminded of what Emerson called the infinitude of the soul. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is a step by step account of Rosa Parks intentional role in sparking the modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's. Contrary to popular belief, she wasn't just tired that day when she sat in the last row seat of the all white section of the bus in Alabama. She was on the other hand tired of racial injustice. Rosa Parks understood she needed to be arrested in order for her case to go to trial. This would allow her to challenge and overturn the 1896 Supreme Court Ruling of Plessey V. Ferguson, Separate but Equal. Included are excerpts of the trial to demonstrate that she was threatened with hard labor on the Chain Gang if she lost the case. The court would force her to pay all cost involved in the supreme court case . She repeatedly refused and pressed forward. Who in their right mind would take that chance Yes, a revolutionary backed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP. She humbly let Dr. Martin Luther King jr. take center stage for the second phase of the revolution. The international stage scale via Passive Resistance Movement and Civil Rights Marches. While Malcolm X ensured the success of the Civil Rights Movement by offering America the violent alternative to injustice if necessary. Rosa, Martin And Malcolm all had the same goal, non-tolerance towards hatred and violence utilized by the oppressors in America. Rosa Parks gave the Civil Rights Movement the dignity needed to unite America.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - National Politics Is Everybody's Business is a compilation of newspaper columns and letters written by John D. Rigazio, a former businessman from Barrington, NH, who ran for President of the United States in 2004. It gives his insight on many problems facing the United States today, and offers solutions as well. In his book, Rigazio questions the terminology used in America today regarding the class system, stating there are no 'middle class' Americans. He also deals with the situation in Iran, our trade with China, the yearly deficits of $500 billion which we pay for our national debt, how the WTO (World Trade Organization) is not in the best interest of America, how to reform the welfare system in America, and why we must repeal the 2005 bankruptcy law.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - I have always had a hard life .It started as a child, from the time I was born.I did not have a normal childhood, seeing and hearing the things that a normal child would not see or hear. I know that is why I picked the men that would beat and commit adultery on me. And why I trusted a person like Melissa Cooksey, that turned my life into a living hell, and she almost murdered me.I am here by the grace of God; I am here for a purpose.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - AWAKENING AWARENESSDuring the course of preparing for publication, many personal interviews were made in a test of the present stage of awareness of an individual's sense of self, of who the 'I am' really is. These interviews were generally spontaneous, conducted in a natural setting during a conversation in which I would take advantage of a pause and quietly say:'I am going to ask you three questions which will change your awareness of who you really are. You will simply give me one-word answers, and by doing so you will begin to think of yourself in a new way.First: Are you more than a body Yes, I am more than a body'Second: Since you are more than a body, what is the 'more 'What is the 'more' than my body My Soul.Third: Since your soul is 'more' than your body-think now-are you a body with a soul, or are you a soul in a body Which has domain, your body or your soul Which is the real you (Longer pause)Most replied by saying 'I am a soul in a body.'\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*'With' or 'in' is determinative, and the one you choose, like a fork in the road, will control your path ahead.If one chooses 'with,' it is an admission that Darwin is right; we are Homo sapiens, intelligent animals descended from the ape. As Donald Trump said, 'Life is what you do when you are waiting to die.'If one chooses 'in,' then one believes we cannot die. We are Human Beings, ascended from within, on the earth but not of it, destined to graduate when our bodies die and we return to the universe from whence we came as Souls in the form of radiant energy.The key to the fork in the road is awareness, for we become as we think. Who we think we are is that which we become. Descended from the ape or ascended from within, there is magic in the awakening of awareness of who is in control during our time of life on earth, and the personal awareness of who 'I am' ignites the presence of enthusiasm within us-entheos: God within.\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*BEING . . . is Nathan Shippee's autobiography of his Soul following his out-of-body experience.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - About the Book This is the tale ofKris Kringle an awfully sloppy toymakerwho dreams of a tattered toy sketchand loves a Clausnamed Evelyn. It is also the tale ofa devilish Mr. Dwho has a vendetta against a Clausnamed Santa. And it is also the tale of Santawho won't let go of his Rulebookeven in face of a karate-chopping Clausnamed Mrs. C. All of these characters are knotted togetherby a magical curse and an ancient contractwhich can only be unraveled with the help of a lawyernamed Daniel Webster. Reader, A Read-Aloud Movie for You Awaits . . . .…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In the gruesome battle for Guadalcanal, David Levy was skipper of PT 59, one of several Patrol/Torpedo boats that were among the first U.S. Navy vessels to engage Japanese warships at the beginning of World War II. Dave's wartime experiences in the South Pacific marked one of the most transformative periods in his life. In the Navy he quickly learned to assume a 'deal-maker' persona that helped him get along with fellow PT boat skippers, many of whom, like future president John F. Kennedy, came from privileged East Coast families. He got to be known in the Navy by the nickname 'Hogan,' famous as 'the guy to go to,' who could get things done, organize parties well-stocked with liquor and women, obtain supplies when none seemed available, and, in those early, desperate days of the battle for Guadalcanal, also perform in the top ranks of competent PT boat skippers. The PT boats were small, maneuverable, and fast, and they were given the seemingly impossible mission of regularly engaging and sinking the much larger and more numerous destroyers, cruisers, and battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Dave's PT 59 was in the thick of all the action. These brave PT boat skippers, many of whom were graduates of Ivy League colleges or the U.S. Naval Academy, were a hard-partying group, and their 'fast times' during World War II epitomized the intensity with which life was lived by those who, like Dave, were fully engaged in the deadly struggles of the Pacific War. Dave's wartime experiences shaped the rest of his life, a long journey that has included a successful law career, annual ski trips to his vacation home in Aspen since the early 1950s, and fishing all over the world.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Beneath the endlessly buoyant exterior of the sports journalist laid a young man combing the professional landscape in search of his niche. Don Ladas's radio expertise in 1954 was limited to that of knowing how to turn one on and off. But when a sportscaster position opened up at WJOL in Joliet, Illinois, he decided to give it a shot and see where it went.Fifty-four years later, he had become a member of nine Halls of Fame and one of the most revered figures in the city's 156-year history, with his Ten Pin Topics show reigning as the longest-running bowling broadcast in the country.A straight-shooting product of the Depression Era, Don's first encounter with national sports heroes took place in an ice house where Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, two of baseball's greatest hitters, were holding court. It was only the first of many rubs with the stars of the games. Before his career as a radio man, Don once spent a memorable nine innings sitting beside and joking with Ted Williams. After assuming his role behind the microphone he would track the career paths and earn the respect of numerous local athletes who went on to make it on the grand stage: Ed Spiezio, 'Billy Boy' Thompson, Tom Thayer, Bill Gullickson, Jesse Barfield, Terry Gannon and Mike Alstott, to name a few, all count themselves lucky to have had the support of the man whose name became synonymous with WJOL.Of equal import to his enormous cache of experience in the world of sports is his dedication to the community, and the indelible mark that his works have left on both the city and its people.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - How do wives of prominent men respond when their husbands' careers are threatened Will they shed ethical and moral values to protect their men and luxurious life-styles Explore the darker side of these Alpha Women: And their Men in this intriguing tale of deceit, secrets, and the struggle for power. You'll discover that behind every man lies an alpha woman. …

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Know a little more about Wall Street as Otto Theurkauf's shares his fifty-year experience with Scudder, Stevens & Clark. This period yielded victories and defeats - and he has some fun and useful things to share about how the stock market works. Along the way, meet some fascinating individuals as he takes you on some side trips. It's a ride you won't forget.…

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