A Conspiracy of Dunces, the third in Shaw's Pistol Thicket trilogy, is a rollicking send-up of John Kennedy Toole's 1980 Pullitzer Prize winning A Confederacy of Dunces. Ignatius P. Reilly, a product of Ignatius J's New Orleans neighborhood, is a 270 pound college star whose NFL destiny is sidetracked by a football injury. Not to be diminished, I.P. is sped upon a godly mission by his church, Trinity Baptist of Pistol Thicket, La., to install an evangelical president in the White House. Along the way, he is assailed by two liberal Marxist Occupy-DC beauties -- Lizza Sachs and Myrna Minkoff -- who make his life a political hell until . . . love happens. Ignatius P stretches his luck and his madcap schemes about as far as can be done as he works himself into the Bachmann campaign while countering the vicious assaults from Lizza and Myrna. Ignatius P. is supported by Tim Sorenson, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Jim Loughlin, a Bachmann operative. But wait . . . but wait . . . there's a big election night party, November 6, 2012, in Charleston. Readers will be overwhelmed by the unexpected!!!
From surviving a horrific terrorist attack in Northern Ireland, to the violence of the Gulf War and an assault course of harrowing experiences in Iraq, Bosnia and Columbia, Major Bill Shaw had seen it all. But Bill's strength and courage was tested to its absolute limits when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Posted in Afghanistan after two years in Iraq, Bill was responsible for the safety of four hundred men in a full-scale danger zone in one of the most dangerous countries in the world. The married father and grandfather, who had risen through the ranks to become a commander of men and an MBE, had long accepted that each day could be his last. But he never expected to find his own life at risk under a corrupt legal system. Thrown into prison and forced to share a cramped, vermin-infested cell with sixteen Afghans, among them members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Bill had no idea when, or even if, he would see his family again. This is the incredible true story of a brave soldier who survived some of the toughest war zones in the world only to face the nightmare of being wrongfully imprisoned a very long way from home. Gritty and gripping, this powerful military memoir is an eye-opening account of life on the frontline.
In the years between the assassination of JFK and the selling out of America by an actor playing the president, a generation came of age. Too late for Woodstock or to feel like legit Boomers, and too early for glam, grunge and Gen-X, the kids of the seventies went about the business of growing up and figuring out how to fit into an America that was beginning to lose its grip. In a small town in the central Colorado Rockies, the stunning natural landscape abetted one young mans struggle with boredom and lifes questions. Here is an incomplete record of that boys early years.
A history of the Chicago baseball team which, after being founded in 1900, went on to become a three-time World Series winner although the club lost the 1959 World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
A brief history of the team who played in the nation's capital for seventy-one years as the Washington Senators, and who in 1972 relocated to Arlington, Texas as the up-and-coming Texas Rangers.
The Apostle Paul had a passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ. His life goal after his transformation was to disciple other Christians and see them grow in the grace and knowledge of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit that is available to them. Paul was a disciple-maker, and as such conducted a personal ministry of one-on-one biblical counseling. In essence, biblical counseling is a process of warning, stimulating and encouraging people to Christ-likeness. Paul believed that all maturing Christians are called at some time to counsel others that God has providentially brought into their lives. He expressed confidence in this principle in Romans 15:14: I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. Here is a practical resource that will give you confidence to share the same wisdom that Paul applied from the Word and the same power from the Holy Spirit upon which he relied when counseling others. Read what Paul taught about sin and temptation, renewing the mind and walking by the Spirit, women in ministry, race relations, the place for pharmaceuticals in the life of a Christian, and much more. Book jacket.
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