Jim Sheeler's Books

Obit

Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Obit

Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he will tell for the last time. Most are unknowns, but that doesn't mean they're nobodies. Their obituaries are sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, and chock full of life lessons as taught by the people we all pass on the street every day. And thanks to Sheeler's brilliant and compassionate prose, it's not too late to meet them.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0143113836

ISBN 13

9780143113836

Final Salute

A Story of Unfinished Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Final Salute

A Story of Unfinished Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler's unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final SaluteIs a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn them They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. "The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know," said Major Steve Beck. Since the start of the war in Iraq, marines like Major Beck found themselves thrown into a different kind of mission: casualty notification. It is a job Major Beck never asked for and one for which he received no training. They are given no set rules, only impersonal guidelines. Marines are trained to kill, to break down doors, but casualty notification is a mission without weapons. For Beck, the mission meant learning each dead marine's name and nickname, touching the toys they grew up with and reading the letters they wrote home. He held grieving mothers in long embraces, absorbing their muffled cries into the dark blue shoulder of his uniform. He stitched himself into the fabric of their lives, in the simple hope that his compassion might help alleviate at least the smallest piece of their pain. Sometimes he returned home to his own family unable to keep from crying in the dark. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen and of the broken homes they have left behind. It is also the story of Major Steve Beck and his unflagging efforts to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. Above all, it is a moving tribute to our troops, putting faces to the mostly anonymous names of our courageous heroes, and to the brave families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Final Saluteis the achingly beautiful, devastatingly honest story of the true toll of war. After the knock on the door, the story has only begun.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

320

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

159420165X

ISBN 13

9781594201653

Final Salute

A Story of Unfinished Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Final Salute

A Story of Unfinished Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

320

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

159420165X

ISBN 13

9781594201653

Obit

Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Obit

Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0143113836

ISBN 13

9780143113836

100 Documentary Films

By: Barry Keith Grant,Jim Hillier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

100 Documentary Films

By: Barry Keith Grant,Jim Hillier

Documentary films constitute a major part of film history. Cinema's origins lie, arguably, more in non-fiction than fiction, and documentary represents the other - often submerged and barely visible - 'half' of cinema history. Historically, documentary cinema has always been an important point of reference for fiction cinema, and the two have often overlapped. Over the last two decades, documentary cinema has enjoyed a revival in critical and commercial success. 100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films - from the Lumière brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke - and is global in perspective. Many different types of documentary are discussed, as well as films by major documentary directors, including Robert Flaherty, Humphrey Jennings, Jean Rouch, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. Each entry provides concise critical analysis, while frequent cross reference to other films featured helps to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts. Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (1992) and co-author, with Steve Blandford and Jim Hillier, of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001). Jim Hillier is Visiting Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading. He is the author of The New Hollywood (1993), the co-author of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001) and, with Alan Lovell, of Studies in Documentary (1972). His edited books include American Independent Cinema (2001) and two volumes of the English translation of the selected Cahiers du cinema (1985, 1986).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

329

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1838714014

ISBN 13

9781838714017

The River Swimmer

By: Jim Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The River Swimmer

By: Jim Harrison

Two outstanding late novellas from one of America’s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors. A brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity, The River Swimmer is Jim Harrison at his most memorable. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years reluctantly returns to his family’s Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal—of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape, and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan. The River Swimmer is a striking portrait of two richly-drawn, profoundly human characters, and an exceptional reminder of why Jim Harrison remains one of America’s most cherished and important writers, on a par with such literary greats as Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. “Trenchant and visionary . . . Harrison is a writer of the body, which he celebrates as the ordinary, essential and wondrous instrument by which we measure the world. Without it, there is no philosophy. And with it, of course, philosophy can be a rocky test. . . . I could feel Jim Harrison grinning . . . in his glorious novella The River Swimmer.” —The New York Times Book Review

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

164

Publisher

Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published Date

ISBN 10

0802193803

ISBN 13

9780802193803

Democratic Empire

The United States Since 1945

By: Jim Cullen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democratic Empire

The United States Since 1945

By: Jim Cullen

DEMOCRATIC EMPIRE DEMOCRATIC EMPIRE The United States Since 1945 Democracy and empire often seem like competing, even opposing, concepts. And yet, since the end of World War II, the United States has integrated elements of both in the process of becoming a dominant global power. Democratic Empire: The United States Since 1945 explores the way democracy and empire have converged and been challenged both at home and abroad, surveying the nation’s recent cultural, political and economic history. This account pays particular attention to mass media, the fine arts, and intellectual currents in the era of the American Dream. Concise and engagingly written, Democratic Empire presents a unique analysis of US history since 1945 and the egalitarian and imperial forces that have shaped contemporary America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

405

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1119027365

ISBN 13

9781119027362

The Ledge

An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival

By: Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ledge

An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival

By: Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington’s Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse—the pitch-black, ice-walled hell of every climber’s nightmares. An avid adventurer since youth, Davidson was a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent. But the harrowing free fall left him challenged by nature’s grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow frozen shelf, deep below daylight, he desperately battled crumbling ice, snow that threatened to bury him alive, and crippling fear of the inescapable chasm below—all the while struggling to save his fatally injured friend. Finally, alone, with little equipment and rapidly dwindling hope, he confronted a fateful choice: the certainty of a slow, lonely death or the near impossibility of an agonizing climb for life. A story of heart-stopping adventure, heartfelt friendship, fleeting mortality, and implacable nature, The Ledge chronicles the elation and grief, dizzying heights and punishing depths, of a journey to hard-won wisdom. “Plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing.”—Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute “How [Davidson] rescued himself is the core of The Ledge, and its most gripping part. The physical effort and will involved are astonishing.”—The Plain Dealer “A moving portrait of friendship and loss.”—The Wall Street Journal

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0345523202

ISBN 13

9780345523204

Dalva

A Novel

By: Jim Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dalva

A Novel

By: Jim Harrison

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: a beautifully crafted story of one woman’s journey to find her son. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam—and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul. One of Harrison’s most ambitious novels, Dalva explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of America’s most memorable writers. “There is no putting aside Dalva until the time bombs go off, the identities are revealed, and the skeletons almost literally tumble from the closets . . . Dalva is suspended in its own beauty.” —Louise Erdrich, Chicago Tribune

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

324

Publisher

Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published Date

ISBN 10

080219222X

ISBN 13

9780802192226

The Summer He Didn't Die

By: Jim Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Summer He Didn't Die

By: Jim Harrison

Three classic novellas from “one of our master chroniclers of human hungers, flaws, and frustrations.” (The Kansas City Star). Jim Harrison’s vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His highly acclaimed volume of novellas, The Summer He Didn’t Die, is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional. In the title novella, Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren and take care of his family’s health on meager resources. (It helps a bit that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town.) Republican Wives is a wicked satire on the sexual neuroses of the right, the emptiness of a life lived for the status quo, and the irrational power of love that, when thwarted, can turn so easily into an urge to murder. And Tracking is a meditation on Harrison’s fascination with place, telling his own familiar mythology through the places his life has seen and the intellectual loves he has known. With wit as sharp and prose as lush as any Harrison has yet written, The Summer He Didn’t Die is a resonant, warm, and joyful ode to our journey on this earth. “Harrison has proved to be one of our finest storytellers. These novellas are urgent and contemporary, displaying his marvelous gifts for compression and idiosyncratic language.” —Los Angeles Times

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

266

Publisher

Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published Date

ISBN 10

1555846505

ISBN 13

9781555846503

At Least I Lived Longer

By: Jim Fuxa

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

At Least I Lived Longer

By: Jim Fuxa

Whom did you outlive today? Cleopatra? Einstein? Hitler? AT LEAST I LIVED LONGER puts a new twist on biography with 3675 thumbnail profiles arranged by lifespans, down to the day, youngest to oldest, including historical figures and modern celebrities, women and men. Learning about famous people is fascinating, but surpassing them in some way is even better! As for me ... I may not have conquered the world like Alexander the Great, but AT LEAST I LIVED LONGER!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

723

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1365336387

ISBN 13

9781365336386

The Ledge

An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival

By: Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ledge

An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival

By: Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0345523202

ISBN 13

9780345523204

The Etiquette of Freedom

Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild

By: Gary Snyder,Jim Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Etiquette of Freedom

Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild

By: Gary Snyder,Jim Harrison

Snyder joins his old friend, novelist Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives. This book is a companion to the film "The Practice of the Wild" and comes with a DVD containing the film together with more than an hour of outtakes and expanded interviews.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

130

Publisher

Counterpoint LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

1582436290

ISBN 13

9781582436296

The Best of Jim Davidson

Most Requested Selections from the Author's Nationally Syndicated Radio Series

By: Jim Davidson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Best of Jim Davidson

Most Requested Selections from the Author's Nationally Syndicated Radio Series

By: Jim Davidson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jim Davidson is a Christian businessman and a native of Gould in Southeast Arkansas. His career as a public speaker, author, and motivational consultant has spanned more than forty-five years. Some of his many awards and achievements include: Arkansas Salesman of the Year, Chairman of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce's Diamond Club sales organization, Justice of the Peace in Pulaski County, Chairman of Speakers Bureau of the Pulaski County United Way, Leadership Gavel recipient as voted by members of his Dale Carnegie Class, and honorary member of the DECA & GCE Clubs of Arkansas. He has also been presented with the "Good Neighbor Award" by the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce and is the 2010 "Distinguished Service Award" winner for Conway Public Schools. In November 2013, Jim was given a Senate Citation and the Conway Community Service Award by Senator Jason Rapert during a ceremony at the Faulkner County Library. In 1980, Jim began writing and producing a daily radio program titled "How to Plan Your Life." It has been broadcast by over 300 radio stations coast to coast and heard by thousands of people each weekday. Later, in 1995, he also began writing a weekly newspaper column for his hometown newspaper, the Log Cabin Democrat, in Conway, Arkansas. With over 375 newspapers in thirty-five states running his column since its inception, it is believed to be the most successful self-syndicated column in the history of American journalism. Jim was a staunch member of the Conway Noon Lions Club for over 20 years, holding every leadership position and winning all their awards, including twice being named a Melvin Jones Fellow, the highest award in Lionism. He also served as Chairman of the Annual Golf Tournament and the Harlem Ambassador Fundraiser Event. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/JimDavidson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

252

Publisher

Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published Date

ISBN 10

1950015645

ISBN 13

9781950015641

Jim Harrison

The Essential Poems

By: Jim Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jim Harrison

The Essential Poems

By: Jim Harrison

Publishers Weekly called Jim Harrison "an untrammeled renegade genius," a poet who performed "absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

200

Published Date

ISBN 10

155659528X

ISBN 13

9781556595288

Book's by Jim Sheeler

Obit

Obit

Final Salute

Final Salute

Final Salute

Final Salute

Obit

Obit

100 Documentary Films

100 Documentary Films

The River Swimmer

The River Swimmer

Democratic Empire

Democratic Empire

The Ledge

The Ledge

Dalva

Dalva

The Summer He Didn't Die

The Summer He Didn't Die

At Least I Lived Longer

At Least I Lived Longer

The Ledge

The Ledge

The Etiquette of Freedom

The Etiquette of Freedom

The Best of Jim Davidson

The Best of Jim Davidson

Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email