The first title in a series of adventures centered around a small group of America's most elite warriors--the U.S. Navy SEAL teams. While the stories are fictionalized accounts of true SEAL missions, the authors have teamed up to bring readers the most realistic and factually accurate action possible.
Following the enormous success of his two bestselling previous novels, White Widow and Purple Dots, Jim Lehrer takes on a new and controversial subject in this ambitious story about an American soldier who, many years after the fact, is forced to relive his harrowing experience in the Second World War. The Special Prisoner takes its title from the designation the Japanese government gave U.S. airmen held prisoner during World War II—an indication of the severity with which these foreign devils responsible for bombing Japanese cities were to be treated. John Quincy Watson was a skilled young pilot flying B-29s over Japan when he was shot down and taken prisoner in 1945. Fifty years later, now a prominent religious figure nearing retirement, Bishop Watson believes he has long since overcome the excruciating memories of his months as a POW. But a chance sighting of the now equally elderly Japanese officer who repeatedly tortured him instantly transports the Bishop back to that unendurable time, and he finds himself overwhelmed by an un-controllable desire for vengeance. The result for Watson is both a vivid return to the horrors of his past and the triggering of a new series of events that are also horrific—and tragic. Engaging and emotionally poignant, The Special Prisoner delves into the complicated issue of war guilt and forgiveness, starkly portrayed in the characters of an officer from a country that refuses to admit any wrongdoing and a clergyman who is committed to a belief that to forgive is divine. This is new and controversial territory for Lehrer, and he treats it with passion and respect, while writing in the highly readable, engaging style that is his trademark. This fascinating story of what's fair in war—and what's fair afterward—is a dramatic new novel from the veteran Washington author and newscaster. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City.
Two young women traveling from Petersburg, Virginia, to Mule Creek, Montana-assignment: collect a fortune in gold to help re-establish a defeated Confederacy. One young man sent from the Rum River Ranch in Minnesota to Sweetwater, Idaho, with the task of receiving a priceless Appaloosa stallion acquired from the Nez Perce Indian Nation and transporting them both safely home. A prospector's cabin in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and a Rocky Mountain boomtown in the dead of winter. What could possibly go wrong? As Rob Blanchard and Annie McBride search for what they have lost, they realize, for the first time, that while in this world we will have trouble, there are also blessings along the trail in The Search for Freedom.
Sport science can quantify many aspects of human performance but the spiritual dimensions of sports experience cannot be fully understood through measurement. However, the spiritual experience of sport – be it described as ‘flow’, ‘transcendence’ or the discovery of meaning and value – is central both to our basic motivation to take part in sports, and to achieving success. Sport and Spirituality: An Introduction explores these human aspects of sports experience through the perspectives of sport psychology, philosophy, ethics, theology and religious studies. It includes discussions of: Spirituality in the postmodern era Spirituality, health and well-being Theistic and atheistic perspectives on sport and the spiritual Nature and transcendence – the mystical and sublime in outdoor sport Applied sport psychology and the existential Spiritual perspectives on pain, suffering and destiny Sport, the virtues, ethical development and the spirit of the game The Olympic Games and de Coubertin’s ideas of the ‘religio athletae’. This groundbreaking text will be a valuable resource for students of sport and exercise studies, sports coaching, physical education and sport and health psychology. This book should be read by all those interested in the preparation, performance and well-being of athletes.
Joe is the only son of George and Ruth Mitchell. Toiling endlessly on their dairy farm, he has rarely dated and has never participated in sports or other high school activities. Then a chance at love with Annie Jensen convinces Joe to join the track team. Freeing Joe from much of the dairy work at planting time threatens the family farm, but George acquiesces because his marriage with Ruth is fragile, and denying Joe permission to join the track team could break it. Coach OReilly allows Joe onto the team. Troy has a chance at the Conference championship, and he accurately sizes up Joes potential to place in a distance race. Joe becomes a one-point man Coach OReilly wants to count on, much to the chagrin of Mark Perkins, Troys star miler and Annies former boyfriend. Seeing Joe blossom with Annie and track affects George and Ruth deeply. They pledge to do whatever it takes to let Joe chase his dream, and their long-buried love is rekindled in the process. Joe senses the change in their relationship and for the first time in years the Mitchells are a functioning family. But things do not go smoothly. Events on the farm make losing it a real possibility. Through these rough times, each of the Mitchells has to determine what they value most, and what they are willing to sacrifice. What dreams they should pursue, and which ones they need to put the rest. Set in the late 1960s, A Mile of Dreams is a story not so much about the disappearance of family farms as it is about the strength and love of family. It is a story of father and son, of husband and wife, and the enduring power of dreams, no matter what age. Book Reviews: A Mile of Dreams Review A Mile of Dreams is a fine, multi-textured first novel by Jim Trevis. On the surface, it is a classic, coming-of-age story of a rural Minnesota teenager. Young Joe Mitchell struggles to achieve athletic glory, churns with the emotions of first love and grapples with adult-like family responsibilities. On deeper reading, however, the novel is more about strained family relationships as rural culture transitions from isolated, one-family farms to modern, commercial agriculture. A Mile of Dreams is an extremely accurate portrayal of the sheer volume of work a fifty-cow dairy farm requires, consuming nearly every waking hour of the family. Over the years, this 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. grind wears down the family, gnawing away at them physically and emotionally, jeopardizing the very relationships that family farms are supposed to embody. Because of the workload, Joe has never been allowed to participate in school sports. Now in his senior year, Joe yearns to be an athlete and finally convinces his father to allow him to run track. That decision drives the novel into unexpected twists and turns. Having to reach their own grand pledge to help Joe achieve his dreams, his parents also come of age, once again finding that relationshipsparents to son, husband to wifeare far more important than farm mortgages. And therein lies the novels true message. Urban readers, now three and four generations removed from agriculture, need this novel. Visions of life on red-barned dairy farms are and never were the idyllic situation all of us think we see as we speed by at sixty miles per hour. Farmers are real people with real relationships that can become as challenged as any two-earner family in the largest city. But farmers must also cope with the vagaries of livestock, weather, machinery breakdowns, fatigue, physical injuries and global markets while also trying to keep their relationships whole. Few of us could survive this maelstrom. I wish I had written this novel. Jim Dickrell, Editor, Dairy Today magazine This is an engaging novel about a young mans journey to adulthood. Joe Mitchell, the only child of a Minnesota dairy farm family, doggedly pursues his dream of becoming a star on his high schools track team during his senior year. Joes goal is hampered by troubles and turmoil on the farm. While c
Job was a husband, father of two sets of children, a civic leader, rancher, farmer, hunter, vintage grower and carpenter of wood, metal and stone. He was an expert in leather and ointments, a musician and even a miner. No man of the primitive East was of greater renown or more varied in occupation and skill. He was also human and guilty of unseemly acts early in his life. Interwoven within the extraordinary story of Job is a civilization before Adam and what happened to it. There is Scripture's first promise of resurrection. The folly of angels and their attempted overthrow of God is explained. There is a single reference to giants in the earth that caused separate attempts to taint human stock and prevent the first coming of Christ. The Genesis numbers are used to reveal an important 20-year relationship between Job and Moses. If desired, the information they shared would aid an apostatized church blinded to the difference between Law and Grace.
Award-winning filmmaker and writer Jim Watson draws on his years of experience exploring Catalina Island and its history to bring you true tales of the strange and bizarre side of the island. Ghosts, UFOs, pirates, criptids (including Bigfoot!), buried treasure and strange portals: Catalina has them all and more!
His life, romances and career in the 1940's Mafia and how Joe became a prisoner of love. Early life in Hoboken in a Mafia family his rise, his fall, and strange career as captive king of the sinister Sisters of St Antonia.
The works of most contemporary Christian authors will not compare with this brief account of Bible failures and successfulness that span human history from Genesis through Revelation. Copiously quoting only the Authorized King James Version, the author contends that sin is the culprit of all of man¿s problems and that its product, failure, is a ministry for believers in Christ as well as non-believers. This bare-bones searching of the Sacred Text should appeal to all lovers of God¿s Word, of which the writer argues there are few. He believes that God uses sin and failure to guide all humans toward a crossroads decision that will determine their ultimate destiny: eternity with Christ or eternity in hell without Him. The heart of this treatise is a countdown of whom the author perceives as the 25 greatest Bible failures. Others are briefly documented who realized that their only hope of salvation was looking forward to the cross of Christ or back to it. The author closes with a brief personal testimony and his loose connection with Columbia shuttle commander Rick Husband.
There have been many predictions for the Rapture of the church. The author is not the first to suggest that it will occur on a 3,500-year old Jewish feast in Leviticus 23 called "Trumpets." He offers no specific calendar day or hour for the Rapture. After nearly 30 years of study and careful contextual cross referencing of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible it is his conclusion that its actual day and hour is known exclusively by the Father. Its possible calendar day, however (Rosh Hashanah) is an annual event. The author has concluded that the Rapture is possible, even probable, on a future feast of Trumpets. His hope is that this treatise will serve as a warning for a church that is drifting ever further into apostasy.
The disclosure or revelation of Jesus Christ is becoming more likely as the world slips closer to the end of all things as we have known them. As the conclusion of the church dispensation nears we are witnessing a deadly apostasy-a departure from the Christian faith predicted nearly 2,000 years ago. Natural and man-induced calamities happen on an almost daily basis. The greater the disaster the more man is determined to overcome it without God. The more he is warned of approaching judgment the less he believes it. The author contends that billions will die in the coming judgments of Revelation because man has deliberately chosen the religion of Cain over the blood of the Lamb. The Rapture, the starting pistol of the end times, will signal the beginning of the wrath of God against the earth's inhabitants for rejection of His Son. When His fury is finally satisfied the apostle John provides a glimpse of the new heaven, earth and Jerusalem where contentment and happiness will never end.
It has been correctly taught God is good. Rarely adjured is God has an angry side, proven by over two hundred Old Testament references. Not everyone will believe what Jesus Christ has accomplished on the cross, so Almighty God has set aside a seven-year period of time to satisfy His wrath against sin and the rejection of His Son as the exclusive source for pardon: the Tribulation. As supplementary to a previous study, "The Wrath of God", author Jim Watson has assembled a plausible scenario of how the coming Tribulation might unfold. The latter portion of this study researches the Scriptural reasons for God's anger and how it will cause the death of most of the world's population just before the return of Christ.
John Quincy Watson was a young bomber pilot flying the new B-29 Superfortress in a mission over Japan when he was shot down and taken prisoner. Designated a "special prisoner," as were all Allied airmen, he, along with his comrades, suffered and almost indescribably brutal POW experience under a vicious camp commandant that Watson, with his friends, dubs the "the Hyena." When a chance encounter years after the war brings Watson, now Bishop Watson, into contact with a man he believes to be the Hyena, the Bishop must struggle with an anger and a desire for vengeance he thought he had long put aside. The Special Prisoner is a taut and dramatic novel.
Award-winning golf reporter Jim Huber delivers the dramatic insider's account of golf legend Tom Watson's inspiring run at the British Open with Four Days in July. In July 2009, the sports world watched breathlessly as Watson, just shy of his sixtieth birthday and twenty-six years after his last Open title, battled Father Time through four amazing rounds at Turnberry. In Four Days in July, award-winning golf writer and commentator Jim Huber takes the reader from tee to fairway, from green to clubhouse, providing an intimate look at Watson's inspiring run. Entering the tournament as a sentimental wild card and nine years removed from his last top-ten finish in any of the four majors, "Old Tom" proceeded to shock the golf world by shooting an opening round 65. Although commentators and fans doubted he could keep up the level of play throughout the entire tournament, Watson proceeded not only to grab the lead but carry it into the final day. In Huber's hands, we can practically smell the wind blowing off the Irish Sea as we follow Watson and caddie Neil Oxman hole-by-hole along the Ailsa Course. A fascinating parallel narrative emerges as Stewart Cink, the fellow American more than twenty-three years Watson's junior who would be dubbed "The Man Who Shot Santa Claus," catches Watson in the fading sunlight that Sunday in Scotland and claims the British Open in a heart-wrenching four-hole playoff. The first media figure to speak with Watson at the end of each day, Huber mines his exclusive interviews with this golf legend as well as Oxman, Cink, and many other luminaries to recount a heroic tale of resilience, grit, and determination. This unforgettable story of the greatest links player ever and his courageous refusal to go gently into that good night is an unforgettable story that redeems the aging athlete in us all.
Welcome to a world where the Cold War was fought not with the threat of nuclear destruction, but with Giant Monsters. Watch as the denizens of this Earth that might have been learn to harness the power of these legendary creatures for good and ill. In these seven tales you'll witness first hand as... --A young boy learns the value of sacrifice when the Japanese use a giant monster to attack Pearl Harbor... --An Inuit confronts his heritage to harness a frightening creature of the Great White North... --A false guru's greed endangers 1960s Boston... All this and more await you in the pages of MONSTER EARTH! Join editors James Palmer (Slow Djinn), Jim Beard (Sgt. Janus, Spirit-Breaker) and some of the most talented voices in New Pulp, including Nancy Hansen (Prophecy's Gambit), Edward M. Erdelac (The Merkabah Rider series), and I.A. Watson (Blackthorn: Dynasty of Mars) as they take you to frightening vision of Earth... MONSTER EARTH!
In many ways, Jim Durham has lived the same life all of us have lived. He was raised by imperfect parents, involved in good and bad relationships, experienced a range of religious influences, and worked hard to be the best person he could be. But a few critical experiences brought the essence of his life out of the shadows. A chance encounter led him to a college he couldnt locate on a map (although Durham claims there is no such thing as coincidence). The death of a son and the challenges of raising a special-needs child are just a few of the powerful influences on his writing. His decision to leave the full-time practice of law, start a new career, and eventually start his own business are all addressed in My Fathers Writings. You will learn lessons he learned, share in the struggles he endured. You will find references to writers and inspirational leaders ranging from Samuel Johnson, the Reverend Peter Gomes, and Wayne Dyer, to Ram Dass, Nelson Mandela, Buddha, and Jesus Christ.
From the humble Ingalls family cabin in the woods to Ayad Akhtar's multicultural conflicts, the Badger State's stories and imagery have long inspired. Explore how Aldo Leopold and Lorine Niedecker drew on their close observations of the natural world. Contrast the distinct novels that Jane Hamilton and Larry Watson set on Wisconsin apple orchards. Delve into Thornton Wilder's enduringly popular Our Town and the wild fiction of Ellen Raskin and Cordwainer Smith, who wrote like no one else. Join Jim Higgins for a detailed account of ten notable Wisconsin writers that blends history, literary criticism and fact.
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