Harry Maddux, a former U.S. Army paratrooper during the Korean War, has retired from a successful career in the commercial real estate development business. At age sixty five he looks forward to enjoying his recreational pursuits; snow skiing in the high sierras and deep sea fishing off his wonderful sport-fisher LAZY BONES. While trying to help his old army friend, Gilbert Rios, who saved his life in Korea high on hill 602, Harry is thrust into the dangerous and deadly world of Korean gangs and the perils of borrowing street money. This sometimes violent story is painted over a back-drop of vivid, realistic game fishing experiences that put the reader on board Harry's reverie, his beautiful fifty foot sport-fisher. A portion of the story takes place in Mammoth Lakes California but the violent intrigue occurs in San Diego. As the situation spins out of control, Harry pairs with Gilbert's brother-in-law, Scott Barlow, recently from Special Forces and the victim of the loan sharking operation. The story twists and turns as the two men are forced to use their combat skills and weapons from Scott's Special Forces arsenal.
In 2008 I started to write some recollections of my youth. Having lost my father in 1941, when I was seven years old, I grew into adulthood yearning to know more about my father's early life. Unfortunately my father's friends and family were gone leaving me with only vague memories of my father. Not wanting my own sons to be left without tangible knowledge of their father's youth I began to write. Story by story, The First Wave of Stories evolved. During the writing of the first 19 stories I was encouraged by William Ward Martin, author of The Beachboys, and a true friend, with whom I grew up riding waves at Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, California. He helped me all along the way with the proofreading and guidance for the numerous rewrites. As he read the true accounts of my youth, he convinced me that the stories had a certain story-telling flare that would appeal to readers, other than my sons. He felt many people would be interested in taking a look back at those times in the beach communities of Southern California and what it was like to grow up there in the 30's and 40's. The early stories paint pictures of what it was like to be a youngster living on the edge of the beautiful Pacific Ocean, experiencing and enjoying the sea and surf. The stories then progress on to my service in the military and later to a career in commercial real estate; all the while not losing touch with the ocean and the grand relationship I had with it and the boats that let me be at one with the sea. The stories overlap to some degree, but I tried to arrange the collection in a natural chronological order beginning with the earliest and proceeding forward. I have included enjoyable experiences with my sons, and used the real names of my boyhood friends. Growing up during the 30's, 40's and early 50's was a rich and wonderful time for me. I hope these stories provide the reader with a glimpse of those years and my experiences back then.
Throughout long profiles and conversations--ranging from 1982 to 2001--the renowned author makes clear his distinctions between historical fact and his own creative leaps
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This retrospective collection includes a bio and 27 McLean songs, including: American Pie * And I Love You So * Bronco Bill's Lament * Castles in the Air * La La Love You * Magdalene Lane * Tapestry * To Have and to Hold * Vincent (Starry Starry Night) * Wonderful Baby * and more.
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
“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.
This inspirational book reveals how Sidney Crosby has skated his way straight to the top of hockey from a very young age. Just 19 when the Pittsburgh Penguins named him captain, "Sid the Kid" went on to lead his team to three Stanley Cup championships. He became the youngest player in National Hockey League history to reach 200 points, too. Sidney holds two Olympic gold medals and several MVP awards. Already considered one of the all-time greats, Sidney credits his success to hard work. The book includes dynamic full-color photographs, a fact sheet, and a timeline of Crosby's accomplishments.
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