This 90,000 word novel involves the life of a fifty-something black woman who, following a short-lived and devastating marriage, finds work in the King County system, ultimately as Court Stenographer. She encounters belligerent youth, judges like Horatio Morgan and inept defense attorneys who challenge her ethical and moral values. A convicted felon escapes custody, then terrorizes and threatens the life of everyone related to his conviction, including the court stenographer. Having previously worked with aggressive youth in the King County Juvenile Service Center, Shirley decided to find ways to legitimately defend herself. This ultimately proves to be instrumental in foiling an attempted robbery. It also serves to save her life in a later encounter with the escaped felon. While on vacation in a tropical paradise and away from the often hostile environment of her workplace, she meets a man who desires for her to spend all her mañanas with him. It could be like a dream come true, but it would mean moving to another country and learning another language. In the end, it could be well worth it - in more ways than one.
Lou Grimes is an ex-Chicago Police Detective who has found his niche as a Private Investigator and along with his ghostly partners in the Tombstone Detective Agency have solved many crimes. His new adventures will take him through the dark corridors of Chinatown and into the horror of its opium tents. He will have to delve into the mind of a pyromaniac who threatens a loved one. There is never a dull moment for Lou as he dodges bullets and keeps his partners way too busy!
Harold and Margaret Lewis lived in New Jersey where he worked for a newspaper company, his parents lived nearby and his father worked for the same company. Harolds mother got sick and her doctor recommended a warmer climate, so they moved to Alabama. Harolds dad took a job as a mechanic, but one day Harolds mother saw an ad for a farm that was for sale, so they decided to buy the farm. Harold and his family moved to Alabama to help work the farm and to take care of Grandma. Shortly after they arrived, Grandmas health deteriorated and she passed away. Harold went back to New Jersey, sold his home and moved permanently to Alabama. This is where the family meets Shirley Dresser and she becomes an important person in their lives.
Lou Grimes is an ex-Chicago Police Detective who lived through the stock market crash, the Great Depression, and the Race Riots of 1919. He was on a downward spiral until he begins working as a "Private Detective" which leads him to a mystery that needs unravelling and a murder that needs solving. Then there is a twist of events where he is introduced to his ghostly cousins and enters into a strange partnership all because of a cursed gun!
From his over-bearing old man to the street fights and gang wars; Tony has survived Port Nichols and all it had done to try and keep him there. It was time to move on and become the man he was destined to be. He needed to mature and the military would help him do that and more. Life lessons are sometimes very hard but never boring. Tony will have to face personal peril many times as he decides whether to give in, or clear the shame attached to his name and become a man of honour.
Many people enjoy Lakeview Park, and each one has a unique story. Between the pages, youll meet: Clarence, who thinks he might have found a winning lottery ticket Kuniko, a grandmother and widow who discovers that friendship can bloom anywhere Wayne, a former guitarist who rediscovers the joy of music Jenny, a mother whose husband is serving in Afghanistan Carol, whose journalistic assignment teaches her more than she expects Shirley, who discovers that some dreams are worth keeping Alex, for whom friendship bridges age differences and soothes a broken heart Gloria, who discovers her blessings and makes peace with her past Alice, who loves to tell jokes, even though her memory is fading Carl, who discovers that reality may hold more promise than long-held fantasy Carolina, a ghost searching for her lost child Tiffany, a teenager with hopes and dreams George, whose life is ebbing, but not his love Sheila, a young woman estranged from her family Carlos, the groundskeeper who has devoted his career to the park Lakeview Park is a collection of O. Henry-like slice-of-life stories about the people who frequent a fictitious park. These tales reveal folks of all ages, from a small child to the elderly.
The Tomato Patch fills the gap between Roadkill and Jenny Cay and completes the six-book Dan Warden Series. Dan Warden has been promoted to Lieutenant and leads the Creek County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Department’s Crime Scene Investigation Unit. After being divorced for several years, he has met a woman who astounds him with her brazen attitude toward life and her willingness to face any problem without flinching. Life is good for Dan until a paroled convict shows up with vengeance on his mind for the man responsible for putting him in prison.
Harold and Margaret Lewis lived in New Jersey where he worked for a newspaper company, his parents lived nearby and his father worked for the same company. Harolds mother got sick and her doctor recommended a warmer climate, so they moved to Alabama. Harolds dad took a job as a mechanic, but one day Harolds mother saw an ad for a farm that was for sale, so they decided to buy the farm. Harold and his family moved to Alabama to help work the farm and to take care of Grandma. Shortly after they arrived, Grandmas health deteriorated and she passed away. Harold went back to New Jersey, sold his home and moved permanently to Alabama. This is where the family meets Shirley Dresser and she becomes an important person in their lives.
The life of the visionary conservationist who created the Appalachian Trail is chronicled in this “first-rate biography of a unique American thinker” (Mark Harvey, Journal of American History). Born in 1879, Wilderness Society cofounder Benton MacKaye was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation and recreation. Spanning three-quarters of a century, his career had a major impact on emerging movements in conservation, environmentalism, and regional planning. MacKaye's seminal ideas on outdoor recreation, wilderness protection, land-use planning, community development, and transportation have inspired generations of activists, professionals, and adventurers seeking to strike a harmonious balance between human need and the natural environment. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history. Drawing on extensive research, Larry Anderson traces MacKaye's extensive career, examines his many published works, and describes the importance of MacKaye's relationships with such influential figures as Lewis Mumford, Aldo Leopold, and Walter Lippmann.
Julian shows readers how to reconcile their work and faith. Learn how to integrate God's teachings with your own talents to become the successful leader He intended you to be. This edition explores the ten most common issues facing businesspeople today and applies God's principles to these dilemmas.
If Not This Dream is an 1134-page fast-paced novel, presented in three books. In The Hausas Mdawwri chieftain Zaki sacrifices his eldest son to save the rest of his villagers from 1807 Oyo slave raiders in Northeast Nigeria. The Oyos are led by Atticus Clarke, an English slaver, making his first middle passage with his new ship, Naimah. Zaki promises his people that he will return one day in flesh or in spirit. His dream will be passed down five generations in his family. The twenty Hausas are taken from their little village in northeast Nigeria to the seaport at Lagos. The slaves spend weeks inside Naimahs belly, chained hands and feet in the tall ship, on their passage to Charleston, South Carolina. Naimah stops at Havana, Cuba, where Clarke purchases sixty-seven additional slaves and crams them into Naimahs hold. In Charleston, Naimah is met by William Biggs, a cotton and tobacco farmer who has ordered twenty Hausa Africans to work on his plantation. He pays $5000 for Zaki and $1500 each for his nineteen villagers. He also buys twenty-five additional slaves at $400 a head. Biggs invests $43,500 for fifty slaves to work his plantation. Through the years Biggs maintains a pure bloodline of Hausas. He breeds Zaki to handpicked non-Hausas in exchange for allowing the big Hausa to begin his own family with a female from his African village. Biggs trains Zaki to slowly manage the rest of the slaves as they work the cotton and tobacco fields. Nabilah, an overweight house slave, manages the day-to-day maintenance of the Biggs mansion. Biggs also puts her in charge of pairing male and female slaves and keeping records of their bloodlines. Book one chronicles the parallel lives of both the Biggs and Zaki families from 1807 to the present day.
It was a time of extreme peril. The Great Depression was winding down and World War ll was starting. The author witnessed the "Greatest Generation" first hand as he saw many young men--including his older brother--leave town and go off to war. On the home front, there developed a closeness and support of family, friends and neighbors, not seen before or since. Through good and bad times, the town's young boys hiked, fished, hunted and trapped in the streams, fields, forests and mountains surrounding their homes. It was truly an era that will never be again.
Colonel Larry Williams spent twenty-seven years in the United States Marine Corps commanding ten units and organizations while serving from Japan and Vietnam to Moscow and Beirut. Here is his account. It started by a chance discovery and years later was dramatically reoriented by a coin toss. As the high school class of 1953 anticipated graduation they chatted in the hallways exchanging ideas about future plans. His afternoon and Saturday jobs during high school did not provide enough money for college. One day while changing classes he observed a booklet on his homeroom teacher's desk that described the NROTC as how one might earn a commission in the United States Navy and even compete for a college scholarship. It contained an application! Upon graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill four years later he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps preparing to serve the obligated four years payback for his free education. It seemed like a good plan, but life often has little respect for planning. Within three years he was on Okinawa separated from his wife and their two newborns for a thirteen month deployment. On his return he joined the faculty at the Army Artillery and Missile School. Then it was another thirteen months away this time in Vietnam. Reassigned to Frankfurt, Germany he commanded Marine Security Guards in twenty-seven diplomatic posts in Europe including six "behind the Iron Curtain.” Upon graduation from the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk he and a classmate were informed by Headquarters, Marine Corps that they both were to be reassigned to WestPac (western pacific) for a year with one going to Okinawa and the other to Vietnam. Headquarters asked for their preferences. Both wanted to return to Vietnam. He lost the coin toss and it was back to Okinawa. That coin toss was to significantly restructure his career – and his life. The subsequent years included managing the security at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, California made turbulent by the prevailing civil rights and antiwar environment, contributing to the Marine Corps becoming the only military service to support every dollar spent with explicit cost-benefit analysis, in spite of opposition by the Army and the DoD fielding a totally new light armor combat capability into the Marine Corps with an innovative acquisition program completing within budget and only 2.25 years from concept to production, conducting Arctic exercises in North Norway including a night amphibious landing unseen by Russians just a mountain range away in Murmansk, commanding the largest artillery organization in the world and trying unsuccessfully to contribute to a peaceful resolution to conflict in Lebanon in 1983.
When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents guilty of murder for withholding that treatment? How should the rights of children, the authority of the medical community, and religious freedom be balanced? Is it possible for those adhering to a medical model of health and disease and for those adhering to the Christian Science model to enter into a meaningful dialogue, or are the two models incommensurable? DesAutels, Battin, and May engage in a lucid and candid debate of the issues of who is ultimately responsible for deciding these questions and how to accommodate (and, in some cases, constrain) Christian Science views and practices within a pluralistic society.
A practical, real-world training manual for mid-level management Managing to Make a Difference presents a leadership guide for those in the middle. The C-suite has a wealth of resources for leadership guidance, but middle managers face a quandary: often given little guidance on how to excel, they are also under enormous pressure to do a variety of things other than "lead." This book provides much-needed tools and techniques for building a high-performing team—without letting your other duties suffer. Organized around a coherent philosophy and based on solid research, the discussion offers a roadmap to engagement, talent development, and excellence in management. From difficult situations and organizational challenges to everyday motivation and inspiration, these techniques help middle managers achieve the goals of their organization while empowering their workers to achieve their own. Talent development is probably not your full-time job—yet it drives the engagement that results in high performance. This book shows you how to hit the "sweet spot" of middle management, with a host of tools and strategies to help you help your team shine. Motivate, inspire, and lead your team with confidence Manage through challenges and overcome obstacles Develop key talent and maintain high engagement Adopt practical management tools based on substantiated research Most organizations direct the majority of their development resources to the C-suite, but still expect their mid-level managers to attract, engage, retain, and develop talent; but successfully juggling everyday duties while maintaining team performance and leading around roadblocks leaves little room for management planning. Managing to Make a Difference offers the solution in the form of tools, techniques, and practical strategy for a high performing team.
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