Cinnabar: beautiful home on a hill, site of historic battles, home to both happiness and adventure. The house has one name but many pasts, as settlers felt a house that had to be alive. Must have a name, plus that's the way they also got mail and Don Cush's book describes as many of them as he knows. From times of Washington and to the Civil War to an unfortunately being 'accidentally' set on fire in the year nineteen ninety-nine the walls of Cinnabar have withstood the test of time, the bullets of the French, the arrows of the Iroquois and the ranting and railings of children, even general, Custer on the way to Gettysburg, loved. Cinnabar to a great extent. He disobeyed general Grant and stayed an extra night with his regiment to take in the grace and glory of Cinnabar at a party at the grand ballroom, many majestic balls were held in Cinnabar's great ballroom for most both of the important people of the era, the formal Fox hunts of the dignitary through the majestic countryside of Maryland, before it was tainted by strip-malls and development. They say that Cinnabar is only haunted by the memories and stories that lie within their walls, and if this is the case, the majestic Cinnabar probably longs for a proper poltergeist or two. At times instructive (teaching good horse-sense and practical fire-making skills), at times historically fascinating (including the retelling of a long-forgotten and technically "erased" Civil War battle), at times a bittersweet reflection on the nature of human relationships, Cinnabar is the story of much more than one man, one family, one plot of land. It's about the choices we all make, and those moments when life takes us wholly by surprise...
When the author takes a day trip to Tijuana, he's just after a couple stiff drinks and an escape from the rigors of being a front man for a international billion-dollar computer company. What he finds instead is a run-down orphanage full of malnourished, haunted children and the ardent Madres who watch over them. At the Casa, the orphans have bags under their eyes and harbor strange secrets. They keep their eyes glued to the floor and they cling to the stucco corners of the compound, shying away from visitors despite their eagerness to explore anything connected with the outside world. Into this hive stumbles Bob, with the lone goal of testing out his fancy American computers on the Spanish-speaking children. But he soon loses his focus when he meets Guillermina, a sickly yet precocious eight-year-old whose genuine smile wins his cold, tired heart almost immediately. But as Guillermina's English skills improve, so does her ability to reveal the nuns' secrets, secrets which threaten the core of Mexican society and Catholic rule. While the author and Guillermina attempt to forge a happy path to adoption, details about the Casa begin to surface from their quiet depths, and the pair soon fears for their lives. Guillermina and the Rose is a true story of a relationship formed in the midst of chaos and corruption. Despite the problems that besiege them and the trials they must face, the author and Guillermina never doubt their love and need for each other, and their faith is a testament to what is possible when we hold tight to hope and have faith. All is completed when a rose is presented to Guillermina in a crowd from a child that no one sees but her and her new father. Yet, Guillermina holds a rose from out of nowhere
Seeing the World while Still in College...and Getting Paid details the fun and occasionally harrowing adventures of a young man as he travels the world working on a Navy vessel in the summers to pay for his tuition. From floating restaurants to shark-filled canals, the life of a radio officer aboard the U.S.N.S. Darby is packed with action and romance that would make any college student today jealous, for this isn't your typical internship, not by a long shot.Taking place just after World War II, Bob's journey to the ends of the earth is filled with lore and tall tales, truths and consequences. He must rely on the advice and information not of a series of blog posts or well-edited travel books, but upon the words of crewman Taylor, a brawny rapscallion with a knack for pranks, and First Officer Sinclair, only slightly less mischievous.As the ship sails from New York to Japan, from England to Caracas, Bob's eyes and mind widen with each port-of-call. He has dinner in a geisha house, breakfast with a German prostitute and her family. He finds women wherever he goes, and more than a few times barely escapes the next day with his clothes on. He learns about customs he's never known and places he never dreamed of. And as the ship moves forward, so does he.Seeing the World... reminds us that life itself is a journey, and that opportunities exist in the strangest places. Often, risking comfort for adventure pays off, and we should never be afraid to climb aboard the ship of our choosing-even if we can't always see what's beyond the horizon.
Parents the worldwide, constantly are faced with the situation of raising a child coupled with what educational method would be best for the child. Well, let's look at the methods of education in America; there are public, private, boarding schools and military schools. Manlius was one of the top rated private military schools in America. Establish in the 1800s. Yet, in the later years of the 20th century, it had fallen on difficult times due to the Vietnam War, and a dislike for anything military tied with the incompetence of the new management of the school, Manlius failed. However, a school in Dewitt, a couple of miles from Manlius, which was a highly regarded private, non-military and a day school decided to acquire the name of and history of Manlius. Thereby, allowing the school to live and maintain its records and alumni. This brief narrative of the years I attended Manlius was just a couple of years before its demise. However, it was typical of the years that had gone before the demise. Only the cadet's names changed. The students were all from well-to-do families throughout America and the world, which boarded at the school during the school year. I expect I was not a typical student, as I was free thinker and basically a wild kid. Yet, I do describe the average life of a Manlius cadet at its peak of existence and what you would expect at such a school. The school was created by four classes of cadets. One; was goodie two shoes. Two; was the wild Bunch, Three; was just average guys and the fourth classification was all those that didn't fit into the first three. Now if you take one step back and look at how Manlius separated its cadets. It was by three companies, and a fourth company called headquarters, which was the band, in total making four categories of cadets. For some, unbeknown characteristics of each company could be applied to each class of the worldly people described above. Thus, by living your life at school, you were basically living every day the environment of the world you about to enter upon leaving school and starting your real life after Manlius. However, most of the things I did and pulled I expect someone before me had done the same. There is always one like me, and every class and every school of the country. Manlius, motto Manners Maketh Man was something a cadet kept with him all his life. As a child he entered Manlius, and graduated as a man of renown and respect, and destined for a brilliant future. This entitlement was due to what they had learned at Manlius, either by attendance of the classes or by osmosis of the environment itself.
One of life's paths that I was destined to travel was developed and nourished while at Camp Hawthorne. The other path was living in military schools, one of which was Manlius Military School in Manlius, New York. The latter path was highlighted in my previous novel Manlius Military School Adventures; however, the current story concerns itself with my life at Camp Hawthorne, an all-boys camp in Raymond, Maine. I spent my summers from the age of seven to eighteen at Camp Hawthorne. Each summer, I grew older, not only physically, but also mentally due to the camp's Harvard influence, courtesy of Major Bigelow. Camp Hawthorne was owned and directed by Major Bigelow, the head of Harvard University Medical Center's Department of Child Psychology. The camp was for the elites of the private educational systems of America and the world. Most of my foundation for later life was forged while attending Camp Hawthorne. My love of sailing, nature, and horses originated from my years at Camp Hawthorne, along with much of my understanding of girls, which I acquired from our association with Camp Minnehaha and the secret advice of the Harvard psychology intern students who were acting as counselors. If by nothing else, we learned by osmosis from our association with our counselors, as they did not realize how much we picked up from their own indiscretions. Between the counselors and the proximity of an all-girls camp, Camp Minnehaha, the younger boys learned a lot on this new subject. Once a week, the camps had coed parties for their older campers during the summer. I am quite sure the boys learned a lot from the girls during those parties. The same rationale applied for the girls, much to the regret of both camps' counselors. For me, that special camp girlfriend was Sally.
During my university summers, I took a job as a radio officer aboard a U.S. Navy merchant Marine ship named the USNS William O. Darby. The function of the Darby was to pick up soldiers and their families from foreign ports and return them home to America. The Darby sailed the seven seas, and I have written many novels of my adventures from those days. During this time, I met the fictional goddess of the wind Mariah head-on. A hurricane of eighty to one hundred miles per hour and twenty to thirty-foot waves. That storm made you feel like a yoyo going back and forth, walking on the walls of the cabin as if they were the floors. During the storm, we rescued twenty passengers from lifeboats set adrift from a sinking ship. It was the strongest storm I had ever experienced while sailing. The storm was one of the greatest of my adventures at sea. Not only did I face the fury of nature, but I also met an angel named Jane. We had a glorious, if short-lived, romance at the forepeak of the ship, which unbeknownst to me, Sinclair, the first officer on the ship had observed from the bridge, much to my later embarrassment. In all my many adventures with girls, Jane was the only one who ever came close to my beloved Ann.
In America's students of medical universities are not allowed by law to use children to experiment on. However, in Mexico that is allowed. So, many universities send their students to Mexico to try out what they are learning in the class. This is such a story of three universities that undertake that way of teaching their students much to the regret of the children.
Since we invented the computer (Computer "it's Alive" novel) life on planet Earth has advanced by leaps and bounds, day by day. The computer was intended to simplify man's ability to accomplish mathematical functions more rapidly and accurately, a far cry from the Abacus. However, like Topsy, uses for the computer just seemed to grow and grow as it had no restraints placed upon its future growth until now. In 1983 when an advanced computer educational system for children was suggested by a large computer organization along with that company, investment of years of research and consultation with worldwide educators and psychologists on the value of using newly educational designed computer programs to teach children. This effort was documented in a book titled Integrated Approach to Children's Use of Computers. Upon completion of this research the system was demonstrated and approved by the Texas state board of Education and was ready to be placed in the public domain to teach the children's education. However, It was denied an existence due to that newly created label of political correctness. It is now 2013 and this new form of computer education for our children have long laid dormant and was placed on a shelf to collect dust. Today our children of America are lacking this innovative method of using the computer's power and creative technique to teach the fundamentals of education that will propels them into a greater future life. Instead, the children of America must depend upon past antiquated methods of education in the classroom all because of political correctness. While the answer to this new world lies dormant collecting dust. If we were to do away with this anchor of the ship titled future methods of education, the education of our children overnight would increase a hundredfold by using the power of the computer. This new form of education is waiting for someone or something that has enough gumption to expound children's education is more important than this new retard to the future of our children's education called political correctness. Thereby, allowing our children of today, not tomorrow, to take advantage of the power of the computer to be educated in a new world; it would be the, Dawning of Aquarius.
Dedicated to everyone who has ever asked where the road will take them and then taken that first step towards the unknown. However, it takes an extremely strong person armed with a sense of humor to laugh at adversity and challenge. So now I have described the "Diana" series in totality: one is the writer and the other is the reader. Just remember to keep the dreams alive and let no one put them aside, they are way too important.
Don McNay is a best-selling author, Huffington Post contributor and was an award winning syndicated columnist from 2003 to 2013. He is based in Kentucky and Greater New Orleans. This is a collection of his most highly acclaimed columns and short pieces. www.donmcnay.com
Return to Glory will challenge everything you were ever taught about human history Beginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs its readers on a magnificent tour of life in America through the triumphant stories of contemporary African-Americans. These pages are filled with the glorious contributions to the development and enhancement of world culture by the black race.
This book offers a continent-wide examination of Africa's foreign policy and diplomacy, addressing the relevance of its many languages, precolonial history, traditional value systems, and previous international relationships. African statehood predates that of Europe, as well as the rest of Western civilization, and yet by imposing Western values on Africa and its peoples, European colonialism destroyed Africa's paradigm of statehood along with its value systems that were ideally suited for this majestic continent. This two-volume book provides a comprehensive survey of the issues and events that have shaped Africa from remotest antiquity to the present, and serves as the foundation of Africa's international relations, diplomacy, and foreign policy. The first volume of African Foreign Policy and Diplomacy from Antiquity to the 21st Century discusses the determinants of Africa's diplomacy from antiquity to the 18th century; the second volume addresses the further developments of its foreign policy from the 19th to the 21st century.
Have you wondered about life after the events in the Book of Genesis took place? Are you interested in the early church and its growth? Do you like quests and intriguing plots? If so, The Garden Of Eden And Beyond is the book for you. Noah, Abram and others listened and responded when God spoke. Key elements of life B.C.E. shift to a drama on the world stage in 1000 A.D. as a contentious world emerges from the "Dark Ages." Sten, the shepherd son of a Viking father and an Arabic mother, finds an altarpiece that facilitates relationships with the Lord. Sten is forced to become a warrior in the Caliph's army; but he and his wife, Janna, become Christians and guiding lights in molding a better world. God's plan leads them to become role models in adventures through Byzantium, Mesopotamia, Norway, England, and the New World. This novel moves through time and space and, although fictitious, is replete with historical facts. Don Legler spent ten years as a Methodist minister serving small rural churches in Florida. With a M.Div. degree from Emory University and a M.Th. degree from Garrett Seminary, he authored over 500 sermons. Holding B.S., D.D.S., and Ph.D. degrees, Don had a professional career in dental education and research with over fifty professional and scientific publications. His travels and observations in Norway, Sweden, and Iraq provided the stimulus for writing this novel. He observed the roles these countries played in the spread of Christianity throughout history and was impressed to still see remnants of Christian churches among the ruins of ancient Babylon and Ur. Thus the stage was set in 1000 A.D. for this moving story of characters seeking to sustain their Christian faith and fulfill God's plan for their lives.
Who Will Be Saved? Who Will Be Lost? The past few years have seen the release of several high-profile books, including Love Wins (Rob Bell) and God Wins (Mark Galli), that attempt to clarify what the Bible teaches about the ultimate destiny of individuals after this life. Don Richardson believes the arguments posed by these authors do not account for all the biblical evidence. In Heaven Wins, the best-selling author of Peace Child and Eternity in Their Hearts offers a faith-enhancing, scripturally grounded perspective that changes everything. Are a majority of people destined for hell, as many Christians assume, or will heaven harvest the greater part of mankind? Could it be that the good news is even better and more expansive than we have dared to hope? The answer may surprise you.
THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT was copied and recopied by hand for 1,500 years. Regardless of those scribes who had worked very hard to be faithful in their copying, errors crept into the text. How can we be confident that what we have today is the Word of God? Wilkins and Andrews offer the reader an account of the copying by hand and transmission of the Greek New Testament. They present a comprehensive survey of the manuscript history from the penning of the 27 New Testament books to the current critical texts. What did the ancient books look like and how were documents written? How were the New Testament books published? Who would use secretaries? Why was it so hard to be a secretary in the first century? How was such work done? What do we know about the early Christian copyists? What were the scribal habits and tendencies? Is it possible to establish the original text of the New Testament? How do paleographers date the ancient manuscripts? How has the Greek New Testament text come down to us? How did textual variations and manuscript families arise? Just how many textual variants are there and how are they to be counted? What guarantee do we have as to the reliability of the Greek text? What are the principles and rules of textual criticism and how are they to be applied, so that we can get back the original reading? What are the collation and classification of manuscripts? What is the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) and can it be trusted? How reliable are our master (critical) Greek texts of the New Testament (WH/NA28/UBS5)? Why can we be confident that the literal translations (ASV / RSV / NASB / UASV) are providing for its readers the faithful Word of God? Their work on THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT is carried out with an apologetical mindset, to assist Christians in their defense of God's Word.
In 1996, Alexander Rumpkin was at the top of his game: he was CEO of America's largest health care organization. His ruthless trampling of people to get there is the story of The Sawdust Pile. Coming of age with two white cousins and a black kid in the segregated South, Alex had none of the tools commonly needed to climb to the top; but he succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams because he allowed nothing and no one to block his path. The Sawdust Pile is a riveting account of boys and the adults they became. Their contradictory relationships are developed with sensitivity and insight-a realistic portrayal of growing up on both sides of the color line in rural Georgia during the forties and fifties. Transitioning to the nineties and modern Atlanta, this story demonstrates with a vengeance that the boys-with all their faults and strengths-were truly "fathers of the men." ****** A sophisticated critic says: "This is a fast-paced story of boys becoming men and the lifelong consequences of youthful bonding and conflicts. Elements energizing the characters-competition, survival, domination, love, hatred, loyalty, betrayal, religion, sex, and family-are all in the mix, appearing early in this fascinating world and impacting all that follows. In a highly unusual first novel, the author delivers a bittersweet, provocative probe into the lives of men and women inhabiting The Sawdust Pile-evoking deep emotions, yet satisfying completely." Jane Penland Hoover Founder, Greensboro Writers' Guild Greensboro, Georgia
• Explains how a Vampyre is not a blood-sucking mythical figure but a shaman who is skilled in gathering, using, and storing energy for magical power and personal liberation • Reveals how to gather and store energy from the world around you and shares magical techniques, manifestation methods, and practices to utilize the energy you have collected • Looks at servitors and familiars, vampyric runes, dream architecture, money magick practices, and sex magick techniques as well as advanced practices such as healing with vampyric magick In this initiatory guide, Don Webb explains how to learn from the myth of the vampire to gather, use, and store energy for magical power, manifestation, and personal liberation. A Master of the Order of the Vampyre within the Temple of Set, the author shares a 9-month process to awaken and initiate you as a Vampyre and allow you to actualize your hidden potential. Webb begins by explaining how to gather energy from the world around you and store it in the body, in artifacts and talismans, and in groups of people, such as a coven. Through the 9 stages of initiation, the author offers guided magical techniques, manifestation methods, and experiments to utilize the energy you have learned to gather and store. He also examines familiars, Vampyric runes, money magick practices, and sex magic techniques. Sharing more advanced practices, Webb looks at the creation and destruction of egregores and how to fight off psychic vampires--those who steal your power and energies. Achieve greater self-knowledge, a deeper connection with the energies that surround you, and the power to manifest your deepest desires by walking the path of the Vampyre.
The horror of the Ton Ton Macoute has returned. At its helm, a mastermind of religious fanaticism and military strategy who is plotting a swift, brutal invasion of a troubled island. Now the zealot is about to experience the Executioner's trademark version of hellfire. Original.
This is a portrayal of two plebeian families that lived far into the Appalachian Mountains. The fiery Jasper Burnine family, Caucasian, and The Moon clan, Cherokee, were across from the other on Clear Creek. Surprisingly, they became close. The hot-tempered Burnines became bitter over the ill treatment of The Moon clan. The Moon, the ex-Cherokee warrior, became an enraged madman. Privately, he declared war on those that came to molest his family. The intruders that couldn’t escape his wrath were left as food for the buzzards and foxes. The book has a powerful story. It is fast paced, violent, romantic, bawdy, hard bitten, comical, and haunting. Life was hard in the mountains. Half the children died young. In the new nation there was little law enforcement, so each family stayed on guard. The time, 1790 to 1840, was a period of crisis for the new nation called The United States of America. Would they remain a nation? The British were lurking, waiting for an opening. The Cherokees, beaten in war, saw their land taken as white people came to settle the new continent. The Indians worried over this for years. Would they have to move across the big river to the new country?
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