This “sweet tale” of a Vermont family’s annual trek to New York City to sell trees is “a cross between It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol” (USA Today). Every holiday season for nearly twenty years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees on Jane Street in New York City. They arrive from Vermont the day after Thanksgiving and leave just in time to make it home for Christmas morning—and for a few weeks they transform a corner of the Big Apple into a Frank Capra-esque small town alive with heartwarming holiday spirit. A lovely, lovingly illustrated little gem of a book, this delightful tenth anniversary edition of a beloved Christmas classic tells the poignant, inspiring story of an unforgettable family that brings the Christmas spirit to life on a street corner in Manhattan and the warm, wide circle of friends who have welcomed them to the neighborhood. Christmas on Jane Street is about the transformative power of love—love of parent and child, of merchant and customer, of stranger and neighbor. The ideal Christmas story, it is about the lasting and profound difference that one person can make to a family and one family can make to a community. “A heartwarming story”—Newsday “A touching tale fragrant with the season . . . a special treat for those who love Christmas trees.” —Tampa Tribune
There's a cougar in every woman . . . waiting. Mature Georgette, no different. Formed in her stamp, hidden deep within, the fascination that would change her life forever. All to a vehement fever that went unchecked for years. Such was this irresistible desire to delight in men her junior . . . building . . . that it eventually took control. Overnight dawned a cougar rampant. Hungry, she set out for the hunt up of one such boy alone in the springtime of his life. The sultry warmth in her eyes priming only the dreamboats with her flaunt displays of tempting fullness. Where to draw the line? Any shame merely vanity while the willingness was all her. Desperate to embrace reciprocal love . . . she paraded the hotspots in search for a thrall of love so special, so real that for the first time, she'd be spirited away. He's out there and by damn, she's going to find him.
Any book about Georges Durst can hardly be accurate as volumes could be written about this multifaceted individual. I decided to undertake this work only because I feel that I owed a strong sense of debt to this man who has enriched so many of us with his creativity.
Judge Simone Thompson presides over the most high-profile case of her career: the child custody case of movie sex symbol D. Anthony Whittaker. As both become consumed by an irresistible passion to each other, the potential for scandal--and murder--is incalculable.
The White House stated “A band of vigilantes claiming to be US veterans hiding behind the American flag destroyed three medical buildings in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Defense Secretary called them “GI-Jihadists” wants to teach them that civilians control the military, not veterans.” A group of veterans suspected of stealing top secret documents hires Billy Gottfried. Before he can talk with them, one client is killed in a mysterious explosion. Within days his law clerk disappears. A third explosion claims the life of an FBI agent and uncovers the remains of the law clerk. Gottfried realizes he’s involved in a greater problem: Washington’s power brokers are engaged in a conspiracy to privatize the military by outsourcing food services, hiring private security, and, to help the CIA gain influence in the regions, they’re building foreign weapon factories controlled by tribal leaders loyal to nobody, especially the United States. Enlisting the help of Col. Joseph Vecchio, former air force covert operative, and Dominic Perretti, FBI director of counter terrorism, the three men and Betty O’Grady, topless dancer turned legal assistant, lead the veteran’s fight to convince the White House to drop its opposition to bombing the factories. Silent Heroes – veterans fight against terrorism - is a novel based on true facts. The factories are discovered by American troops, many returning home with missing limbs and tragically disfigured bodies. Their stories are not only ignored, their Commanders order them to keep quiet... The CIA and State Department warn the White House that “The stories told by the soldiers are not true. The buildings are pharmaceutical factories making medicine for the local inhabitants.” Failing to convince the White House, the veterans take action and then return to the states as “Silent Heroes,” accompanying a single flag draped coffin. They’re greeted by the media who, echoing the Secretary of Defense, calls them “GI Jihadists committing terrorist acts while hiding behind the Flag.” Are the veterans GI Jihadists or are they truly Silent Heroes protecting US troops from IEDs and other explosives made in the factories. Silent Heroes – veterans fight against terrorism” presents the facts and the reader is asked to render a verdict: Silent Heroes or GI-Jihadists?
This is a story about George, his father and his grandfather. Three days before his 18th birthday, he and some friends discover a cave. As the storm overhead begins to fall, their lives are changed forever when George discovers a horrible secret on their adventure. A secret that spans several centuries, a secret that holds a quiet town captive in fear and unrest. Is George strong enough to accept his fate or will he fall prey to the curse as his father did.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.
1 Law 4 All - Vegas This second book in the 1 Law 4 All series dives into the heart of political corruption with a remarkably diverse band of characters. Vegas dances from adventure to adventure beginning with the mysterious disappearance of Mark's twin sister, Janelle. From American Samoa, Kitiona calls on her 1 Law 4 All Foundation pals to investigate. The fledgling 1 Law 4 All Foundation parleys the missing person's report into a web of political deceit. Soon they are confronted with overtones from the American and Asian mobs and a Fast and Furious, Mexican cartel. With Las Vegas as ground zero, the Foundation tries to solve the mysteries surrounding Janelle. The threats of murder and the realities of gun battles stimulate the adventurous overflow. How will the Jimmy and the Foundation pioneers avoid tragedy? Or will they? 1 Law 4 All - Vegas mingles drama and intrigue with realistic people-like characters. Jimmy and the Foundation members team with LVPD detective Rick Rizzo to track Janelle's missing person's clues through the American Southwest, China and on to Washington, DC. A senior Senator plays the political system becoming rich along the way. His above the law attitude combines with a lifestyle of drugs and sex. One night he makes a decision he's made many times before. But this cover up attempt leads to scheming, mayhem and murder.
The Doctor Is In . . . Again! Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? No, you say? Well, good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are in! Again! Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexes—those burning questions like Why doesn’t my husband ever listen? or Why does my wife ALWAYS have to pee? And of course, Why do men fall asleep after sex?, plus plenty of others to keep you fully informed. Full of smart and funny answers to an onslaught of new questions, all in a do-ask-we’ll-tell spirit that entertain and teaches you something at the same time, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? offers the real lowdown on everything everyone wants to know about all things anatomical, medical, sexual, nutritional, animal, and mineral, but would only ask a physician after a few too many, like: • Why do you have a “bionic” sense of smell when you’re pregnant? • Does peeing in the shower cure athlete’s foot? • Is a dog’s mouth clean? • Can you breastfeed with fake boobs? • Does thumb sucking cause buckteeth? • Do your eyebrows grow back if shaved? Bigger, funnier, and better than ever, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? proves that in the battle of the sexes, as in most things, a little Q&A is a safe, effective, minimally invasive remedy. Also available as an eBook
This drama surrounds a teenager from American Samoa named Kitiona Tuafa. Kitiona's struggles and ingenious tactical sense are interwoven throughout her adventure. Kitiona goes to San Francisco, home of Amerastar, the parent corporation of the Motorhead factory for whom her father worked. She asks pointed questions while visiting Amerastar searching for the truth about her family's recent death. Kitiona uses her ingenuity to prove her doubts about Amerastar and its owner. Her quest to find answers triggers attempts on her life. Through a series of events, a discouraged Kitiona becomes part of a team that helps illuminate her haunting mystery. Ben Green, a former attorney, befriends Kitiona. They team up with four law students to investigate what happened to her family. They go after Amerastar and their owner, a politician, Senator Bonni Giardina. The law students, Mac, Jimmy, Juan and Carol get involved with Kitiona and Ben through a series of misadventures. Together with two of Ben's old military contacts, they investigate the fire that killed Kitiona's family. Their findings of the fire's cause trouble to all concerned. Their investigation, motivated by Kitiona's revenge on the political elite, takes unexpected twists and turns. They follow the facts, connect the dots and hammer out a plan. Will the bad guys react and make mistakes? Billy Angel's '1 Law 4 All' series begins with an upper class, powerful politician trying to squash one of us common folk. Kitiona and friends challenge a politically corrupt senator hiding within our government. Angel's '1 Law 4 All' series is about applying our laws equally throughout America's social structure. In the first book of his series, a rag-tag group becomes seasoned investigators to probe and research the facts. They fight off attempts on their lives to find the truth. Who killed Kitiona's family? Will Kitiona's team find justice and prove that No One is Above the Law?
Our '1 Law 4 All' gang is dragged into a complex multinational, election fraud scheme. The gang's client champions fair and free elections. The battle lines are drawn. The political windmills established. The 1 Law 4 All Foundation teams with a voter justice group to ensure no tampering with the coming national election, especially in Florida, gator country. We begin with a small group of wealthy progressives. Their influence finds two corrupt congressional representatives swindling the American public for personal gain. The story's deception rides a trail through the Russian mafia in Moscow, Brooklyn and Atlanta. They involve the daughter of made, East Coast mobster and his brother. Follow the friction and jaw-dropping revelations between two international gangster groups. If this innovative technologically superior voter fraud scheme succeeds it will upset the world's order forever. The 'Club' concocts the most intricate, ingenious voter fraud scheme in U.S. history. Imagine waking one morning realizing that an unsettling fraudulent election turned the country's future over to a small group of international progressive Marxists. Within Angel's creativity - solving, investigating and exposing 'political windmills' produces enjoyable reading. From the serious to the comical situations, the reader's in for a rollercoaster of reading enjoyment. Even Gator's insights into the dark side of human nature will tickle your funny bone while giving you some political hope for the nation's future.
The Mitts Paragon is a story, based on facts, about the Mitts family in rural southwest Arkansas during the 1920's and 1930's. At a time when the entire nation was struggling to survive through the Great Flood of 1927, the Great Depression beginning in 1929, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's, The Mitts Paragon details a few of the trials and hardships the family endured and their conviction to do what was right, even in the face of adversity, when other people might have conceded defeat. It tells of the simple, treasured moments they embraced, rich with frequent laughter which seemed to knit the family closer together when other families were unraveling. It tells how both the trials and treasures strengthened and enhanced their moral character. Their strength of character grew when hard work, truth, honesty, and fairness failed to provide another's basic needs. It continues from one family's natural aging and decline to the building of a new, younger family that will continue to bear the torch.
Why watch TV when you can read about it? Featuring more than 600 previously unpublished photos, TVparty! offers fascinating, untold stories from TV's golden age.
This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom Muddy Waters and B. B. King held in high esteem and who created the prototype for Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and those who followed. Bloomfield was a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which inspired a generation of white blues players; he played with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, when his guitar was a central component of Dylan's new rock sound on "Like a Rolling Stone." He then founded the Electric Flag, recorded Super Session with Al Kooper, backed Janis Joplin, and released at least twenty other albums despite debilitating substance abuse. This book, based on extensive interviews with Bloomfield himself and with those who knew him best, and including an extensive discography and Bloomfield's memorable 1968 Rolling Stone interview, is an intimate portrait of one of the pioneers of rock guitar.
John Alexander and bestselling author Billy Hollis show programmers how to develop enterprise-level Web applications using Microsoft's popular programming language—Visual Basic.NET. Features the incomparable insights and programming know-how of two popular Microsoft insiders, arming developers with proven tips and workarounds to use in their own projects Provides step-by-step instruction for creating business Web applications using ASP.NET and VB.NET Companion Web site contains all the code for the sample application
Show off your happy dog! Every Friday from September 6 – October 2, 2009 the authors will choose a photograph of a happy dog to post on their website and treat the winner to a fabulous prize package. See www.happydogland.com/contest for details.A well cared-for dog is a happy dog. This book goes beyond grooming to explain how the personal touch can make a big difference in a pet’s physical and emotional health. From basic first aid to understanding the complete needs of a canine companion, Happy Dog shows pet owners step-bystep how to: • Monitor a pet’s health • Set up a stellar home grooming station • Brush, bathe, and dry a panting pal • Dog-proof the home and travel right With his extensive expertise, Billy Rafferty includes invaluable and exclusive features, such as: • A yearly grooming calendar • Appraisals of products and tools on the market • Safety and emergency preparedness tips • Pet nutrition, exercise and play rules • Illustrations and photos throughout—including special appearances by celebrity dogs With the expert knowledge condensed in these pages, reading Happy Dog could be the best thing a dog owner ever does for a furry best friend.
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