Bunky is a collection of nostalgic stories from my Idaho childhood. Born in 1943, on the tail end of the Silent Generation, I just missed being a Baby Boomer. These stories of my childhood contain the common elements of growing up along with a serious accident and a death.
Mad Dog Goes to Hollywood is a continuation of the Copper Thieves and Mad Dog Steel Time books. But Mad Dog Goes to Hollywood can be enjoyed on its own. Filer 'Mad Dog' Wilson's adventures in Hollywood and Nevada include stunt work, making a commercial, Las Vegas casino hopping, a golf Scramble, being hunted by a hit man, rescuing a cocktail waitress, finding ancient Native American artifacts, UFO sightings, and the end of an era in his professional and family life. But life goes on for Mad Dog in his new career as an ore train driver; and with new friends in a new town. Read Mad Dog Goes to Hollywood to catch-up on the latest adventures of Filer 'Mad Dog' Wilson.
The news hit her in the face like an old frying pan. She did not know what to do when her cousin gave the particulars surrounding her brothers death. A brother she never set eyes on. A brother her father deliberately did not tell her about. After days and days of reading upon his trial, she grew angry about the truth, he was hanged for a crime he did not commit! Her great annoyance heightened when evidence of his innocence fell into her lap with one telephone call. An email she received was more proof that Herman Perry Dennis Jr. was framed for the murder of Ruth Farnsworth. She remembered her father and his struggle with alcoholism. She also remembered his intelligence and how people marveled at it, yet she never understood why it was impossible for him to go a day without drinking. After she listened to her cousin describe his ghastly nightmare, she finally understood. Herman P. Dennis Jr. was an upright young man, who appreciated his Blackness and was proud of it. He was very intelligent and joining the Air Force in the 1940s was proof of it. In his walk during his enlistment, he tackled with racism. He spoke and wrote about it. The beautiful young lady was killed, but not by the hands of Herman P. Dennis Jr.. Black men, by definition of Whites in those days, desired White women so much, until they would go to any length to have one, so with rape came a lynching. It did not matter if the person was guilty, someone had to pay. The town of Rosewood Florida came to mind when she began writing about her brother.
This study explores the aesthetic of Poe and Hitchcock in terms of a set of common obsessions, techniques, and genres. The structure of the study revolves around Eureka, Poe's explicit and allegorical treatise on the development of the universe. Each chapter explores the similarities and differences between Poe's and Hitchcock's treatment of such issues as doubles, the perverse, voyeurism, and romantic obsession. While Hitchcock's films consistently mirror plots, imagery, and relationships within Poe's tales, Perry also shows how Hitchcock's resistance to the traditional trappings of gothic tales sets his films apart from the works of Poe and gives them a unique touch.
Mad Dog and the Call to Duty begins when Filer is contacted by Charlie Boyd, a former Seabee who served with Filer in Vietnam. Charlie offers Filer a job to retrieve a Mini bulldozer they used on a dangerous mission to repair a Marine Corps helo pad at firebase Foxtrot. Charlie wants the Mini for his personal Museum. Filer has doubts bout accepting the job, but after consulting his Coffee Crew buddies and his female pal Hoops, he accepts the job. Now Filer recruits Ted Johns, a gaffer, he met when he was a stuntman on the Copper Thieves, a movie made in part about his first job as a lineman. Next, they recruit Jordan Cross, an independent film and documentary producer who used the two as security for her Burning Man Festival filmed at Black Rock City in the Nevada desert. The last member of the team is Erica Franklin, a Fresno school teacher, Filer met at the Burning Man. After landing in Chu Lai, Vietnam where Filer was stationed in Vietnam Filer meets up with Michael, a renegade Frenchman, living by his wits in a country that expelled his grandparents and parents. Michael advises Filer to hire a Filipino crew to help retrieve the Mini. Once the Mini is found and prepared for transport to the states by a cargo plane Filer and his team make plans to visit Angor Wat in Cambodia and finally a well-earned beach vacation in Thailand-job over and done. But their adventures are not over.
Filer ‘Mad Dog’ Wilson is enjoying a well-earned retirement from his years as a lineman, heavy equipment operator, and ore train driver in Soda Springs, Idaho. With time on his hands Filer spends mornings with his Coffee Crew friends at the Union Diver. Filer and the Coffee Crew become involved in a sweat for a charity at the nearby reservation casino, a stake-out leading to a drug bust, and the citizens’ arrest of a meth cooker, a house flip, and finally helping film a documentary of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. All of this before celebrating Filer ‘Mad Dog’ Wilson’s 75th birthday.
Kent Anderson * Edna Buchanan * Amanda Cross * James Crumley * Philip Friedman * James W. Hall * Ed McBain * Michael Malone * Joyce Carol Oates * Shel Silverstein * Eric van Lustbader Her toenails were bloodred, her lips were blue in Edna Buchanan's "The Red Shoes," a riveting tale that takes us into the life of a foot fetishist who steps into the middle of a murder....What happens when a hard-nosed insurance investigator lights up a joint and sniffs out a case of arson? It's a tale that only Elmore Leonard could tell, in "Sparks."...Elizabeth George reaches into English history in "I, Richard," as an academic obsessed by a priceless artifact plots a deadly course of seduction--only to discover that fate is the most quixotic mistress of all. From lethal spikes to fatal kisses, from mad dogs to battle-crazed Englishmen, here indeed is Murder and Obsession, in these and 12 other all-new stories from Anne Perry, Dennis Lehane, Eric van Lustbader and others. For these are the best of the best, America's favorite writers exploring a deliciously chilling subject: obsession at its most insidious.
Filer ‘Mad Dog’ Wilson, journeyman lineman, has settled down with a family and a nine to five job doing distribution work for P. G. & E. in Portland, Oregon. His involvement with ex cons, a philandering boss, copper thieves, and high voltage transmission work is behind him. (Read The Copper Thieves) Then he is told of the sudden unexpected death of his father; and soon after the funeral, he is given notice of a seasonal layoff by P. G. and E. His wife Abbey tells him he should take some time off, but Filer would sooner work through the loss of his father. Ozzie Harper, a long time friend, gives Filer the chance to return to the excitement of transmission work doing electrical construction and wire work on steel towers, in Deer Lodge, Montana. It isn’t long after arriving in Deer Lodge that Filer is once again caught up in adventures with bikers, kidnappers, movie stars and strippers; and all of this after his dangerous day job as a journeyman lineman.
My name is Dennis Perry. During my first year of Peace Corps service in Benin. I survived a revolution, participated in a land-grab, and ethnic cleansing. In my second year of service, I accepted an invitation to experience life as the old, old Africans lived it. Besides my duties, as an Animal Traction Volunteer, to train and provide health care for thirty-five pairs of bulls I helped the villagers of Kolokonde, Benin obtain a grant of $5000.00 to rebuild their market place. Finally, in 1973, I sat in on a meeting between Benin agricultural officials and the Red Chinese.
In September 2020 NSA’s Utah Data Center started red flagging email messages between several Federal and State agencies requesting confirmation of an active bio agent from the CDC. A Forest Service manager in Washington State notified the FBI concerning an explosive device attached to an active bio agent. The FBI signaled Homeland that an active weapon system of foreign origin had been found in the forest of Washington.
Jim Palmer, a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, with a B.S. in botany, is missing after a year on the job with Rex Scottas Eco-Farm. When the local authorities of Crystal Springs, Idaho, a small town close to Eco-Farm, refuse to open an investigation into her sonas disappearance, well-to-do Chicago matron and widow Amanda Palmer asks her friend, newspaper owner/editor Winston OaShay, to help her find her son. Winston sends his best investigative reporter, Gage Brayden, to locate Jim, or to get the story behind his disappearance. Gage starts his investigation in Crystal Springs and discovers there is much more to Jim Palmeras disappearance than a youthful road trip. Gage Braydenas search for Jim Palmer is an education into the dark secrets of a small town. Tantric sex, mind control, and black magick form a maze Gage has to find his way into and out of before he can tell Amanda Palmer what happened to her son.
As you journey through my experience from the gates of hell and back, I hope that you find comfort and encouragement. Most of all, I hope that you find your way back to God. If God can forgive me for being a Drug Dealer and Drug Addict, He can surely restore you too. I pray that this book will save, help guide and restore any individual whom the devil has sifted as wheat to their rightful place with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The road I took was not easy, but I overcame and I want someone else to know that they can too. Don't quit help is on the way! Get a made up mind to take back what the devil stole from you, because it belongs to you. After this rebuild the faithful man within yourself and serve the Lord diligently, knowing that at the end of a dead end situation is an open invitation to eternal life.... because the King lives!
The news hit her in the face like an old frying pan. She did not know what to do when her cousin gave the particulars surrounding her brother's death. A brother she never set eyes on. A brother her father deliberately did not tell her about. After days and days of reading upon his trial, she grew angry about the truth, he was hanged for a crime he did not commit! Her great annoyance heightened when evidence of his innocence fell into her lap with one telephone call. An email she received was more proof that Herman Perry Dennis Jr. was framed for the murder of Ruth Farnsworth. She remembered her father and his struggle with alcoholism. She also remembered his intelligence and how people marveled at it, yet she never understood why it was impossible for him to go a day without drinking. After she listened to her cousin describe his ghastly nightmare, she finally understood. Herman P. Dennis Jr. was an upright young man, who appreciated his Blackness and was proud of it. He was very intelligent and joining the Air Force in the 1940's was proof of it. In his walk during his enlistment, he tackled with racism. He spoke and wrote about it. The beautiful young lady was killed, but not by the hands of Herman P. Dennis Jr.. Black men, by definition of Whites in those days, desired White women so much, until they would go to any length to have one, so with rape came a lynching. It did not matter if the person was guilty, someone had to pay. The town of Rosewood Florida came to mind when she began writing about her brother.
Men need to know that they are not alone in their confusion, anger, and pain following involvement with an abortion experience. There have been more than 40 million abortions in America since 1973. If even just 10% of the men related to an abortion are in pain, then there may be more than 4 million men suffering in silence right now. That's roughly equivalent to the entire population of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Or the combination of everybody living in Alaska plus everybody living in Connecticut. Or nearly everybody living in either Kentucky, Alabama, or South Carolina. You are not alone! You are courageous to seek healing. With this Bible study, you are about to begin the process of repairing and recovering. Your body is God's temple. Repairing damage to your spiritual and mental health is part of your responsibility as a "temple" owner. Like any home improvement project, this process may involve a little work, a little sweat, and a little pain. But it is worth it! Repairing His Story is a five-session Bible study for men related to an abortion experience. The study can be done individually, but we suggest a group setting for maximum benefit. Our experience shows that men often do not care to journal as much as women. Additionally, men are more often stuck in the anger stage of grief recovery. This Bible study was written from scratch, specifically for men, based on our multiple-year experience working with post-abortive men. Using the grief cycle as a structure and focusing on the names of God that reveal His character and desire to heal us, this Bible study examines denial, bargaining, anger, forgiveness, and resolution.
Women need to know that they are not alone in their confusion, anger, and pain following involvement with an abortion experience. There have been more than 50 million abortions in America since 1973. If even just 10% of the women related to an abortion are in pain, then there may be more than 5 million women suffering in silence right now. That's more than to the entire population of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Or the combination of everybody living in Alaska plus everybody living in Connecticut. Or nearly everybody living in either Kentucky, Alabama, or South Carolina. You are not alone! You are courageous to seek healing. With this Bible study, you are about to begin the process of repairing and recovering. Your body is God's temple. Repairing damage to your spiritual and mental health is part of your responsibility as a "temple" owner. Like any home improvement project, this process may involve a little work, a little sweat, and a little pain. But it is worth it! Repairing Her Story is a five-session Bible study for women related to an abortion experience. The study can be done individually, but we suggest a group setting for maximum benefit. Using the grief cycle as a structure and focusing on the names of God that reveal His character and desire to heal us, this Bible study examines denial, bargaining, anger, forgiveness, and resolution.
You are not alone in your confusion, anger, and pain. There have been more than 50 million abortions in America since 1973. If even just 10% of the women related to an abortion are in pain, then there may be more than 5 million women suffering in silence right now. That's roughly equivalent to the entire population of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Or the combination of everybody living in Alaska plus everybody living in Connecticut. Or nearly everybody living in either Kentucky, Alabama, or South Carolina. You are not alone! We don't hear much in the media about this pain, but there are women who are speaking out (for example, the "Silent No More" campaign). You are courageous to seek healing. You are about to begin the process of repairing and recovering. Your body is God's temple. Repairing damage to your spiritual and mental health is part of your responsibility as a "temple" owner. Like any home improvement project, this process may involve a little work, a little sweat, and a little pain. But it is worth it! This is the Leader's Guide for a Bible Study for small groups of women who wish to pursue healing of guilt and anguish following an abortion.
From a murderous mother to a famous actor accused of killing his wife in cold blood, gripping true crime exposés from an award-winning journalist. Mother’s Day: The true story of Theresa Cross Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered two of her own daughters—with the help of her sons. It would be almost a decade after these horrific crimes before her youngest daughter, Terry Knorr Graves, revealed her mother’s history of unfathomable violence. At first, she was met with disbelief by law enforcement and even her own therapist, but eventually, the truth about her mother’s monstrous abuse emerged. Award-winning journalist Dennis McDougal details the pathological jealousy, rage, and domineering behavior that escalated into appalling acts of homicide and destroyed a family. Blood Cold: In May 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death in a car parked on a dark Hollywood side street. Eleven months later, Robert Blake—her husband, the father of her child, and the star of the classic film In Cold Blood and the popular 1970s TV detective series Baretta—was arrested for murder, conspiracy, and solicitation. Did Blake kill his wife? Did he hire someone to do the job for him? Award-winning journalist Dennis McDougal and entertainment-media expert Mary Murphy recount a real-life crime story more shocking and bizarre than any movie.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.