Xlibris sep 2007 (79 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Meet the NeeNy Haired Family. The tiniest family of forest people anywhere. Because of their small size and shiny skin, they are really cute and chased away from their home. Can they ever find a place where they can truly belong A nice warm place to call home. Follow their fascinating journey in the little people in the forest. A delightful picturebook by Doris Wright Garrett. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In his first adventure alone after his father's death, young William Walkingstick has stumbled upon a new world-a world of bitties and hat towns, giants and faeries, woodsmen and enchanted forests. His first acquaintance in this new land is a friendly giant named Eril, who wears a most amazing hat. Upon Eril's hat sits an elegant miniature town with little houses and shops, cobblestone streets, and lampposts shining with pinpricks of light. William is smitten with the tiny folk who live there, the bitties, and dreams of someday earning his very own hat town.But adventure comes William's way when the hat towns are stolen by Egad the Terrible, and he finds himself caught up in a heart-stopping rescue mission. Drawing from the quiet strength of a gentle giant, inspired by the unassuming and sometimes rib-tickling spunk of a lion-hearted bittie, and urged on by the determined faith of a wayward faerie, William learns the meaning of true bravery and realizes he has possessed it all along. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'The gathering of the ravens presages a disturbance of the natural order.'Attorney Harry Jenkins is back in A Trial of One, the final installment of the unsolved saga started in Mary E. Martin's Conduct in Question and continued in Final Paradox.Jenkins is on a frantic search for shares of Elixicorp Enterprises stock, worth over thirty million dollars, for his elderly client, Norma Dinnick. The shares were originally sold to raise money for research into memory loss in seniors. Ironically, no one seems to remember just where the shares might be. Pursuing Jenkins through Toronto and London, and to the darkened, narrow calles of Venice, is Dr. Robert Hawke, a sinister madman who claims to have the cure for Alzheimer's disease.As their chase unravels a decades-old fraud, yet another search is underway for the mysterious Q.Dorothy Crawford, widow of Jenkins' law partner Richard Crawford, believes Q, a jealous lover or angry husband, has murdered her husband.With its memorable characters and vivid landscapes, along with author Mary E. Martin's signature blend of humor and suspense, A Trial of One delivers an ultimately satisfying conclusion to the Osgoode Trilogy.Final Paradox, the second in the Osgoode Trilogy, won a 2007 Honorable Mention in the Hollywood Book Festival.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Socks is an independent person who avoided getting involved with others. However, several people in the small community where he went to work eventually taught him to appreciate the companionship and support of others. One by one, they penetrated his shell - and found his heart. In this endearing novel, readers will also be introduced to several unique and colorful characters.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Jesus promised the disciples three things-that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.'-Chesterton, G.K.A Prophetic Call to the Conservative Church in America-Return to the Kingdom!Is life in the kingdom not working for you in the way you have been led to believe If you're open to a more Biblical understanding of the kingdom and its implications for your life, then stick your toe in the water: you are ready for Thy Kingdom Come.Addressing some very important issues within the conservative Christian movement in the United States, Thy Kingdom Come is for anyone who wonders what is meant by The Kingdom of God and for those who yearn to understand how it relates to their beliefs and day-to-day life. Full of quotes from the Bible and detailed analysis, personal stories from Ray Ashmore's life, and answers to common questions asked by believers, this groundbreaking work teaches what the scriptures really say about the kingdom.If you're ready to challenge what you've assumed or been taught, then let Ashmore broaden your horizons. The journey into kingdom life is an important one-and the time has come.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In Spirit Warrior, Donald Wigton Jr. celebrates his life as a hunter and a Christian. In a series of stories that blend spirituality and nature, he recounts tales that only hard-core outdoorsmen can relate to: the buck that got away, the rattlesnake's venomous bite, or simply the glory of God's beautiful Earth.When Wigton comes between a bear and her cubs in 'Bear Bait,' he finds his soul-soothing Sunday quickly transformed into a think-fast-or-die situation. He is soon pinned under the bear, fighting for his life, but quick thinking and a generous dose of prayer save him from death. This seasoned seeker's perspective has a magical way of placing readers in the midst of each fascinating story.Wigton urges hunters to give back-instead of just taking-to preserve the world as we know it, for truly spiritual hunters understand that someday all of God's creatures will be one in the spirit world. Learn how to seek God within yourself and nature as he shares poems that celebrate the glory of the Lord, of hunting, and of the spiritual realm.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This poetry collection portrays one mans journey through lifes exquisite angles and the endless refractions of the heart. Personal, emotional, sensuous--each poem portrays moments and dreams well worth portrayal upon the canvas of the page. Jeffrey Ritters words illuminate a chapter of life we have all livedthe yearning of the heart. For him, this chapter ended, in peace and fulfillment, at waters edge.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Within the hallowed walls of the cathedral, there is intrigue -- and murder. Monsignor Nick Hartery, former chancellor of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, now on the outs, is promised a bishop's hat by the cardinal if he makes the scandalous suicide of Danny Hall, a young ex-priest, 'go away.' Hartery soon discovers that the handsome ex-priest was murdered and that Duryea, the current chancellor, is somehow involved. Hartery, in love with a woman and driven by ambition, wonders about pursuing the killer. However, Hartery is changed by his contact with Catherine Yacenda, a Mexican mystic and ex-nun. He pursues the killer, discovers a shocking secret -- and the mystery behind the death of Danny Hall unravels.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In a beautiful weekend in June, a group of academics meet at Bellwether University in Lost Valley for an International Conference on Multicultural Initiatives. When an underemployed scholar of English literature and a computer programmer scheme to solidify their relations with the women they love, they enmesh themselves in a tangle of plots that involve the personification of a famous scholar, the theft of a cigar store Indian, and an attempt to enter the school's mascot, a pit bull, in the local dogfights.The characters include a Dean who began his career escorting young ladies at their comings out, the Dean's unacknowledged English daughter, an inarticulate Head of Communications who loves dogs and goldfish, a President with high ambitions but confused intelligence, a visiting Australian with a problematic accent, a misty poet, an uncertain feminist, a gushing multiculturalist, the Chinese innkeeper who reluctantly hosts the conference, and a sinister professor of English whose multiple schemes are fittingly rewarded at the end.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Long Book Description: Love Song for Dancing Strings (32542)'Forget the flute case. Get your butt behind me and run! We've got to make it to the house, Gino.' With that desperate plea, Sophia, a young and talented puppeteer, chides and hastens her youthful flautist-companion, Gino, to run for home and safety. They must escape the German landmines about to destroy the heart of Florence. It is August of 1944.The Germans are losing World War II, but angry at Italy's surrender and negotiated alliance with the Allies, their withdrawals from Italy become hot rakes of needless destruction, aided by fervent neo-Fascists propped up by Hitler-backed Mussolini. The withdrawing Wehrmacht destroys many villages and towns, loots artworks and continues to conscript workers, deport Jews and jail or murder defectors.The stage is set for tensions at every level: between German and Allied military forces; between partisans and liberals in Italy and Spain and neo-Fascists across Europe; between Communist/Socialist parties and conservative Roman Catholic support of Fascism in Italy and Spain; between starving Italian women and children and occupying armies; and between Jews who hide and struggle to survive and those who support the Nazi final solution.On the August night the departing German Wehrmacht activates its landmines and destroys many magnificent renaissance buildings and Arno River bridges in Florence, Sophia, a brilliant puppeteer whose family has for generations operated a famous marionette theater, and her flautist, Gino, a refugee youth she befriends, hide in her cellar. They survive the night of terrifying explosions, although the mines destroy much of the back wall of their house.Their home is damaged and unsafe, and Sophia - who has used marionettes as cover when acting as a courier for the partisans in a local cafe - must flee. Gino, a young and strong adolescent must leave with her in order to escape German labor camp conscriptions.The partial destruction of the back wall of Sophia's house reveals a hidden storeroom they think was once an old wine cellar. Searching for things to take with them or trade on the black market, they force open an old trunk and discover an ancient manuscript, some gold ducats, a few not-too-valuable gemstones and a roll of drawings Sophia thinks are backdrops for their stage. She reasons they were discarded with unused, exotic porcelain marionette parts and old scripts.Sophia and Gino realize they must survive alone and without family support. Sophia's father is a conscripted worker, and her brothers are soldiers in different armies: one in Italy, and an older brother, Achille, who disappeared from his International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Gino's parents died during bombing raids, and Sophia has promised to care for and protect him. Rather than hide and risk discovery or death, they decide to make their way to Barcelona to find Sophia's older brother.Their identification papers and ration cards are buried by debris, and they escape with a few articles of clothing, several marionettes, a folding traveling stage, and selected items from those discovered in the newly revealed storeroom: a mysterious, ancient manuscript they later learn is the memoir of a thirteenth century trading trip through the middle east to South China made before Marco Polo by a Jewish merchant from Ancona; gold ducats that prove basic to survival; and the roll of renaissance drawings that later prove to be valuable for the renovation of their lives.Much of the plot turns on the odd fact that the thirteenth century merchant who wrote the memoir-manuscript has the same family name as Sophia. Moreover, its cover page bears the signature of Sophia's father (among many others) and includes a written charge to care for the manuscript and related objects. They cannot leave it behind.Who was this merchant who bore the same family name An ancestor Or is the document merely an old marionette play us.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'A Memoir of Absence' by Frederic Colier. Ever since Salinger, nine seems to be a magic number when it comes to rendering debut short story collections. Frederic Colier's A Memoir of Absence is no exception. Embarking on an evocative journey through the heartland of our own delusions, Colier's terse prose guides us beyond the barren cultural plane of our all-too-malleable American dreams taking us into a realm of intellectual urgency, linguistic renewal, and eventual hope. Here - where relativist cant, contemporary platitudes, and even shocking news become no more than the white noise of a fleeting civilization - there is nothing more alarming than the ensuing silence left by those collisions that never get the chance to take place. In the title story, an estranged father and son are each relegated their own brand of dystopia only to find that it is their respective torments that ineffably bind them to one another. While one pursues impossible love around the globe, the other tries making sense of the void surrounding him. Oddly, it is their parallel misfortunes that find shelter in the harmonious space of absence recalled. Similarly, Lipstick on the Fishbowl depicts how grief often blinds one from seeing the object of loss. As a bereaved businessman searches for the proper way to express loss for his departed wife, he begins to overlook the significance of her passing. As for those in throes of jealousy misreading even the best of intentions, The Depth of Swimming Pool is a somber portrayal of a woman who - in her state of constant apprehension - ends up undermining that which she most desires. But whether it is observers dreaming of becoming participants, or the emotionally alienated hordes for whom pain becomes a final solace, the terrain traversed by Colier's nine stories is neither one that would fill a postcard nor one that sports the trendy wasteland so readily employed by our time's countdown artists. As the lonely overweight opera singer Josephina considers the abject proposals of a sexless man, or the abused young woman in Cristianos y Moros finally returns home to confront her dismissive parents, we note with relief that Colier's intention is not to flesh out some vague musings about our era but to attend to those who straddle the crossroads of a world where choosing a direction is no longer a value in itself. If there is a poignancy to be had, A Memoir of Absence says we're to find it in those uncertain moments when event is temporarily subsumed by interpretation. This does not mean that observations made by characters are lucid or objective. On the contrary, it is our vulnerability to catch phrases, our compromised visions, and our pathos while estimating our own suffering hearts that bring integrity to our lives. Colier's short stories are the fragments of a lost anthem - the disparate melodies that once made up what we mystically referred to as, the human spirit.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Connecticut Senator Tom Felice, a decent, four-term, highly honored Democratic member of Congress, fights for his life in a private room for high-level politicians at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. He is within mere steps of the grievously wounded and mutilated soldiers whom he had betrayed and from which the VIP patients in Ward 72, like the disgraced Senator Felice, are carefully segregated.Felice was snared by French security agencies, invisibly assisted by the Mossad, in a Paris hotel room while accepting a bribe from a Syrian terrorist. Expelled from France as a persona non grata, he suffered a debilitating stroke aboard the US Air Force plane returning him home. Major Monica Howard, a US Army Medical Corps physician with the Felice congressional delegation on the aircraft, skillfully lessens the stroke's potential lethality. A mere few hours earlier, she had colluded with Mossad agents. Back in Washington, Felice's colleagues vote his expulsion from the Senate as the Justice Department files charges against him for abetting terrorism.In Connecticut, a Byzantine plot unfolds, ultimately removing the acting Republican lieutenant governor, Eileen Martino. Only months earlier, she had replaced the former governor whose crimes of corruption led to his imprisonment; crimes in which she is now being incriminated. Martino's political collapse brings to office the next governor in the line of succession, a popular state senate leader, Domenic Guillermo, a Democrat, who appoints Bill Rice, a well-known and Washington-based Connecticut lobbyist, to the seat of the now-resigned Senator Felice.How did it come to this Senator Felice was induced by Tyler Hendricks, his former chief of staff, now a lobbyist, to legislate the transfer of a $720 million defense contract from a Utah company, earmarking it to the lobbyist's Canadian client. The contract would provide the US Army with an anabolic steroid for use by US Special Operations troops operating in Iraq and Afghanistan at the every edges of human performance. A terrorist cell operating in Canada dispatches four Syrian doctoral students in the reputable York University molecular biology program to infiltrate the company and contaminate the steroid's preparation with a deadly bacterium. Belatedly, Canadian intelligence and other agencies raid the company, following the French seizure of Senator Felice and his terrorist co-conspirator in Paris.But in Washington, greed, personal ambition and political power beggar troop welfare. Senate Republicans shamelessly exploit their Democratic colleague's humiliation and anticipate a Republican replacement to Senator Felice, a move which would critically alter the margin of Senate control. But House and Senate Democrats from the New England delegation move aggressively in two directions; first cooperating with the party leaders in Connecticut to keep the seat in Democratic hands; then, to transfer the Canadian contract to an Israeli pharmaceutical company which had only recently established operations in Rhode Island and on the Connecticut 'pharma' coastline. Curiously, the US lobbyist for the Israeli company is appointed to the Senate seat mere hours after the acting governor quits, her successor sworn in and Senator Felice, now facing life-threatening surgery, resigns.Feckless US and Canadian intelligence agencies are slammed by elected political overseers for their ineptness: they were idle during the scandal, fearing political repercussions incurred from tracking a Senator or interfering with seemingly 'normal' business transactions. Nor did Congress' hypocritical scorn of defense contracts with foreign companies matter much in the face of effective lobbying.The story envelops terrorism in greed. Elected political leaders are easily deceived by slick lobbyists who readily exploit their relatively low compensation levels and high-living aspirations. Indirectly, lobbyists seize the reins of elect.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The title story details the author's experiences from birth through childhood and on into adulthood and of coming to terms with the vagaries of life and the human condition in its myriad manifestations. The world of the author unfolds as she journeys from home to embark on her nursing career as she shares her experiences with fractured relationships; sickness and health; with love and loss; and finally with death and dying and the grieving process-and the realization that communication with loved ones continues even beyond the grave.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - You think you know Think again! Dexter Miles, a low level hustler just released from an 8-month prison stay, finds himself caught up with two Jamaican brothers and their posse of marijuana dealers, better known as the 'Rude Bwoys.'Dexter has no idea what he is involved in. The Five-0 Syndicate had taken control of the City of Albany and it's streets. Extortion, fear and a badge was all detective Matthew Lawrence and his partner Steven Barker, known on the streets as 'Batman & Robin', needed.Dexter was almost untouchable until he met Precious Child. Caught in a vicious love triangle that nearly killed his first love and unborn child. He is faced with a decision he doesn't want to make. All hell breaks loose in the Bronx and Dexter must head the Albany operation. The Five-0 Syndicate wants in and Dexter Miles wants out.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Long Summary All Things Flow is the third and final book of The Sandpoint Trilogy set in northern Idaho; it is the continuing story of the principal characters from Apology to Grouse Creek and Ten Percent Marriage plus a sprinkling of new ones. Two middle aged new-comers have arrived to live beside Grouse Creek for different reasons: Rhododendron-to enjoy a late-life relationship with Mother Nature; and Elliot-to build a house in the wilderness and then write a book about it for profit. Rhododendron soon discovers that she is confronted by a long suppressed grievance against her husband-a grievance for which she ultimately sees no remedy except to move on with her life. Nathaniel is again drawn into the adversity that afflicts the world beyond his mountain home when a US Marshal appears at his log house with instructions for him and Esmeralda to pack-up and leave. The result of the marshal's visit is the jailing of Esmeralda and Chico, and the gun-shot wounding of Nathaniel as he escapes into the woods. Nathaniel's cousin Barry becomes despondent over the untimely death of his wife, a death that has left him with a precocious seven-year-old daughter to parent. One afternoon in a smoke filled blackcap patch, Barry and Rhododendron discover that each has a desperate hunger for the other and that neither is inclined to deny his appetites. Victoria receives a telephone message from a man who introduces himself as Dennis and tells her that he believes that the two of them could combine their efforts toward a mutual goal; that he has in mind two things: expanding the territory served by The Gallery from the upper five counties of the Idaho Panhandle to the whole wide world; and expanding The Gallery's product line to include all artistic endeavor. Dennis also mentions that Victoria is to consider the inordinate amount of money required for this venture to be no object-she is to leave the money to him. Thus begins to flow a rapid stream of events: Nathaniel goes to Emily at Arrowhead Point to recuperate from his gun-shot wound and to plan his return to The Old Growth to defend his home. Emily takes advantage of Nathaniel's convalescence to paint his portrait. Barry resigns from the US Forest Service as the result of political chicanery and moves to Washington, DC, to work as the understudy for the senior senator from Idaho. Rhododendron divorces Elliot and moves to Spokane, Washington, to work for The Sierra Club and to be near Barry. Victoria accepts Barry's seven-year-old daughter as her change. Dennis and his life-long lover, Doris, inform Victoria that they want her to become the modern day Lorenzo de' Medici for the entire planet. Victoria is stunned by the radical changes looming before her should she accept Doris and Dennis's financial donation; but she cannot imagine not accepting the opportunity that is hers for the taking. By the end of the tale, readers have become aware of what Lucretius, the Roman poet and philosopher, had written centuries before: that no single thing abides-but all things flow.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Friendly Monster was the code name for the B-29 bomber in the pacific area during World War II. The author is John W. Cox, the commander of a remarkable flight crew and their tour of duty during the war. It starts with their training period and introduction to the state-of-the-art airplane. The crew participated in the first bombing attack on Tokyo since the Doolittle raid in 1942, then on to the end of the war. Highlighted are descriptions of the bombing,strafing and air combat the crew experienced on the missions they flew from the Marianas Island of Saipan, shortly after arriving in November 1944.The book covers a period from April 1944 to July 1945. John Cox left the service in 1945 as a Captain with over 1000 hours flying the B-29 including 450 hours in 33 combat missions against Japan. Although the crew of the 'Mary Ann' experienced some close calls and survived dangerous missions, no man on the crew was lost or wounded. A remarkable feat and a testament to the crew's professionalism and dedication. They were credited with shooting down 21 Japanese aircraft with 10 confirmed kills and the tailgunner Cpl. John Sutherland of San Antonio, Texas emerged as the Ace of the Marianas with 5 confirmed kills. The crew was awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and three battle stars. In addition to the adventures of the 'Mary Ann' the book chronicles and demonstrates the capability of air power to destroy and defeat a modern empire without the need to set foot on enemy territory.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Sometimes heartbreaking but always inspiring, Hanna's War is a poignant love story which chronicles the life and trials of a woman who becomes engaged in a protracted struggle with breast cancer. The author, her husband, describes that struggle as a decade of 'exhilarating highs and gut-wrenching lows.' In Hanna's War, he captures both extremes with graphic detail and moving narrative.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - BOOK REVIEW A true inspirational story, about overcoming the obstacles in life and staying on a positive level. Always be responsible for the choices you make in your life and do not blame your past. Stay close to God and let Him guide you. Most important, learn how to forgive.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is a book of poems. Each poem depicts a personal story. Stories witnessed by a Medical Social Worker while working with hospice patients and families. Wondrous stories that need to be shared. Stories that demonstrate hospice as a program that is as much about living as it is about dying. After you read this book, you can't help but be moved by the tremendous strength of individuals and families who are coping with one of life's greatest fears; death. This book is an attempt to show that while death can be sad, it is more often to do with love.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Derrick of Loneoak Island.Found as a young child along a roadside late at night. Alone. Except for a strange pendant in his possession. Years later, when he seeks to discover the mystery of his past, he is swept into an epic adventure that will take him across Elinala. Along the way, he will gather unlikely allies: a centaur, a troll, a heatherfolk seer, a bitter steward, and a maiden who lives among unicorns. Together they learn that heartstone-the ancient stone of healing that had been hidden centuries ago-has been found by a corrupt steward working in the court of a paranoid king. And only Derrick of Loneoak Island can stop the power from being unleashed across the world. The secret lies within Derrick's pendant, a pendant that also contains heartstone. And only he can unlock it. …