When Mark McDonough was a teen, a catastrophic fire claimed the lives of his mother and younger brother. It also left Mark with burns on over 65 percent of his body. During a long and painful recovery, his faltering faith in God was strengthened by a remarkable near-death experience. Inspired to pursue a career as a plastic surgeon to help those who suffer as he has, McDonough has overcome numerous other adversities on his journey, including addiction and a stroke. Now he shares his incredible true story of survival and perseverance to bring hope and healing to those dealing with great physical and emotional pain. Anyone who has suffered or watched a loved one suffer from a personal trauma, disease, or loss that has tested or stolen their faith and exhausted their emotional resources will find real hope in this redemptive story.
On the surface, Derrick James is a mild mannered socially awkward attorney, who works a modest federal government job. While Derrick lacks any particular legal acumen or academic prowess, and possesses modest legal writing skills, everywhere he goes and whatever he does, Derrick inevitably and always makes his way to the top of the pyramid. Possessing an unflappable mental skill set and seldom suffering fools lightly, he accomplishes what needs to be done and he does it superbly well, much to the chagrin of his peers. In the twilight of his legal career, Derrick finds himself working in perhaps one of the most boring brain-numbing federal legal jobs one can possibly imagine, but it’s inside work – no heavy lifting – and the pay is pretty good too. Finally! Derrick relaxes satisfied with who he and where he is. Life reaches a comfortable working rhyme. Both daughters are in college. After many down years, he is finally setting aside some extra money for retirement. Life is good, that is, right up to the very moment that a group of jealous federal supervisors and co-workers ban together forcing him to accept a forced early retirement. Now having abundant free time, Derrick travels the world, begins a ‘get out of debt’ project and ponders how he got to ‘here’. In doing all of this, he constantly runs into the ghosts of his past most of which is rooted in his ill-fated youth spent growing up in a Catholic Orphanage, which he facetiously nicknames “The Happy Farm”. Within the realm of his forced retirement and even as life’s ghosts taunt him, Derrick finds that truth and hindsight are not necessarily friends, but with enough time and grit, he finds that, by accepting his past, he can finally accept his present, and in doing so he finally says good bye to all the enemies, all the friends and all the ghosts that haunt him, as the sun sets over The Happy Farm.
Before Tran joined the Star Runner, before he became part of the crew destined to shape his life, he was on his own, flying through space the only way he knew how - fast and dangerously. Flight of the Myserink A Star Runner Story The trouble with being a cat-like Ok'neie isn't the tail or the sharp hearing - it's the curiosity. And for Tran Zheevock, his curiosity is about to get him into more trouble than he can possibly handle. After being blackmailed to transport some containers for a band of space-faring pirates, his curiosity quickly overrules his common sense. Opening them is just the start of Tran's real troubles.
The crew of Star Runner have faced space battles, pirates, interstellar junkyards, black holes and The Bubble. But if they and their Mamoan allies are to reach human space, they must cross The Barrens - a vast unmapped region where stars are few and far between. No one knows what's out there, the dangers they're about to face. Will the resources of an entire fleet be enough for them to survive? Book Three of the Star Runner Series - an adventure in the depths of space.
Aliens don't exist. Travelling around the galaxy using wormholes only happens in stories. They're facts. In all the years that humans have travelled in space, they've never happened. But today's facts are about to become yesterday's stories for brothers Alexander, Pete and Nick Daniels when their spaceship is pulled into a black hole and lost. Now the question is, can they ever get back home?
A routine trade negotiation goes horribly wrong for the crew of the Star Runner. After a desperate chase, they find themselves in a strange blue sphere with no power, no gravity and no prospects of escape. Will it take abandoning their beloved ship in order to win them their lives? Before she gathered her motley crew, Star Runner had another crew. A crew that loved her just as much as Holas, Zheen, Pete and Ace do. This is their story.
Sell the Gem and settle here on Kiantite Five." It was the one sentence that Zheen never thought that her father would ever say. After nearly being destroyed by an ion storm and an encounter with an asteroid field, they've been grounded. Holas and Zheen are left with few options when they realise how long and how much money it will take to repair their beloved ship. Now the choice must be made. Before Holas and Zheen joined the Star Runner, before they became part of the crew that would shape the rest of their lives, they were faced with the most terrible prospect that any space-farer could ever face - never being able to travel the stars again. This is the story of the choices that they had to make.
The space adventure that began in Star Runner for three brothers, continues here in Little Red Men. Alex, Pete and Nick Daniels have dealt with being sucked through a wormhole, meeting their first aliens and getting an abandoned spaceship working again. They've made friends and enemies alike. But now their real adventure begins. Haunted space stations, dangerous space phenomena and more aliens than they could ever imagine are only some of the obstacles that threaten their journey home.
Here for the first time are all four Star Runner stories in the one volume. Star Runner - Go back to where it all began where Alexander, Pete and Nick Daniels first fall through a wormhole and meet humanities very first aliens on the far side of the galaxy. Little Red Men - In a hostile galaxy, it's always good to meet new friends, especially when you're flying in a damaged space ship and the bad guys are chasing you. Gravity Well - Star Runner and their new friends, the Mamoans, have started their long, long journey across the galaxy in their quest for home. But space can be a dangerous place with hazard's that are hard to avoid. Journey's End ? - Star Runner and her allies go back to where it all began, back to the Bubble - an energy sapping region of space where death is the most common form of escape.
Here for the first time are all 6 stories from the Star Runner Universe. The Flight of the Myserink: Tran's a smuggler and a thief. The chance to transport a dozen mysterious containers may just change his life forever. The Phantom of Krashnoa Station: When the space ship that Danal's travelling on is boarded, seized and made a part of a bizarre space station, she has to wonder if she can ever escape. Fractured Gem: An unexpected meteor storm forces Holas and Zheen to land on a strange planet. Now their life in space may have just been lost. Smuggler's Run: When Sfolan is marooned on the planet Dramazan, he has no idea if he can even survive, let alone ever get back into space again. The Black Hole Mythdemeanour: After Alexander, Pete and Nick are lost through the black hole, Alana Perry is left as the only one who thinks that they just might not be dead. Bubble Burst: Star Runner's Gheyzhimum crew are captured by a strange Bubble of space that has left them powerless. Is there any hope for escape?
Following on from the success of his first book ZARBO: RECIPES FROM A NEW ZEALAND DELI, Mark McDonough brings us MORE RECIPES FROM ZARBO, another collection of mouthwatering recipes from Zarbo Deli and Caf , combining fresh produce with interesting imported deli products. With an emphasis on mixing and matching and using the recipes as a base to work from, this book contains a great section on entertaining and assembling of platters and finger food, as well as new recipes for main meals, light meals, salads and desserts. Donna North makes a return in MORE RECIPES FROM ZARBO, bringing us more stunning food and ambient environment photographs. Examples of recipes are: *Kumara, coconut and ginger salad *Asian chicken salad with lime and kelp pepper dressing *Roasted red pepper, chorizo and smoked paprika soup *North African chicken tagine *70% chocolate ginger cookies Mark McDonough is the owner of the thriving Zarbo Deli and Caf in Newmarket, Auckland. Entrepreneurial, with a flair for what tastes good, Mark is constantly devising new dishes for his restaurant, as well as catering for corporates, combing the world for interesting deli items to import, and producing his own range of Zarbo-branded products to sell throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe. As well as catering for his appreciative clientele, Mark also cooks for his own young family, so while his dishes are creative and eclectic, he maintains that they are also easy, and above all quick.
We are here today to remember the lives of three boys." With those heart-wrenching words, Alana Perry knew that her best friends, Alexander Daniels, along with his two brothers were gone, lost inside a black hole. But when scraps of information begin coming to light, she begins to question everything until she's left with only one possible hope - what if everyone's wrong? This is Alana's story of what life was like for those the Daniel's boys left behind after they joined the crew of the Star Runner.
Before Sfolan joined the Star Runner, before he became part of the crew destined to shape his life, he was marooned on an alien planet when his ship left without him. This is the story that helped shaped his journey back where he belonged. Space. It's where Sfolan has lived his life. His father's the captain of a tradeship. It's what Sfolan's destined for too. But an unexpected mutiny has left him stranded on an alien world. He's alone, with no food, no money, no prospects - until he lands the one job that might make it possible for him to get back into space. It's not like he really need to know what he's delivering. Does he?
With the turn of the 21st century numerous apocalyptic prophecies abound predicting the ends of time, but Jonathan Callahan, a mild mannered Federal Government attorney, with some psychic ability, faces a more real nemesis, his petulant, sharp-tongued wife. Somehow he has survived almost twenty-five years of marriage and has raised two precocious teenagers daughters in the process. Yet, a miracle occurs and his wife agrees to a divorce. However, nothing is simple or easy for Jonathan. Soon he is fighting the almost ex-wife for both permanent custody of his two girls and anything else of value that isn’t nailed down. Jonathan’s best friend, a spirit guide named Masters, returns after six years, but to Jonathan’s dismay, Masters isn’t offering assistance, he’s enlisting Jonathan to help defeat a mysterious evil threatening this corner of the universe. With his domestic and universal peace efforts thwarted at every turn, ultimately, to survive, Jonathan must confront and conquer not only his almost ex-wife and the demons that attack him in his sleep, but he must finally face the shadows of his sealed past lurking within the dark corridors of his mind.
Die Whimpering, Die Defiantly Convicted of false criminal charges and forced from his soft, academic life into the purgatory of the modern prison system, survival is not the first rule, it becomes the only rule. Die Whimpering or Die Defiantly. Those are the choices presented to Professor Arthur Chesterfield. To avoid his grotesque death sentence, he agrees to participate in a secret military program. A program designed to test his genetic code - for ten years. But why are recruits exterminated, and why must he perform continuous suicide missions? Then years later, known only as Roper 3001, one of the most hellish soldiers ever forged in the history of humankind, and the most unlikely of modern heroes of epic survivability, he must finally confront not just the diabolical evils of the world and the nightmares crawling within his subconscious mind, but ultimately, he must decide whether or not he still has a soul connecting him to the human race.
“How long have I been on Prime now. Seven years? Five before the magnetic anomaly and two afterwards, not counting of course, the two hundred years in 'hib sleep', and still, there are so many mysteries on Prime.” John remains alone until the mothership arrives. However, the rescuers inform him that they came not to rescue him, but to rescue their lagging human colony located on an asteroid named 'Hope'. Nonetheless, John learns that a handful of adults volunteer to remain behind. The bad news: “Congratulations, John, you just became the ugly uncle to twelve children who think you're a cannibal.” The possibility of another destructive solar magnetic anomaly constantly reminds John that, eventually, he must resolve the final equation: is Prime humankind's last hope?
Following the success of his two earlier books and last year's diary, Mark McDonough brings us another collection of mouthwatering recipes from Zarbo Deli and Caf , combining fresh produce with interesting imported deli products. Mark writes recipes for families such as his own, where the adults want to cook interesting yet simple and effective foods. There are 90-100 recipes for meals and 20-30 recipes for extras such as jams, sauces, relishes and chutneys. Chapters include: * First Thing (granola; lime and kaffir marmalade) * Cafe Treats (chicken, leek, roast garlic and pesto pie) * Deli Delights (black olive salsa; pumpkin, orange and bay jam) * All Things Green (Zarbo kumara salad with simple sweet chilli dressing) * Try This at Home (fettuccine with hot smoked salmon, leek, white wine and sour cream) * Last Thing (chocolate, apricot and toasted hazelnut torte) Donna North once again provides stunning food photographs.
A unique tool for scholars and teachers, this translation and commentary, on facing pages with the original Latin, allows easy access to Servius' seminal work on one of the most widely-read books of the Aeneid: Book 4. -- Introduction on the life of Servius, the textual tradition -- Latin text of Vergil's Aeneid, Book 4, with Servius' commentary beneath it -- Facing-page translation of both Vergil and Servius -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Facsimile of the 1536 edition of Servius' commentary on Book 4
The reputation of Auckland's Zarbo Deli and Caf as a genuine, one-stop foodie shop is now such that the brunch and lunch queues frequently snake out the front door. The stylish and bustling atmosphere, the chalkboards heralding the day's fare, and the shelves laden with unique imported foods and Zarbo branded products: all are magnets for the knowing crowds who love to eat and cook real food. Here in ZARBO: RECIPES FROM A NZ DELI, owner Mark McDonough shares some of the popular recipes from the Zarbo kitchens, plus some of the favourites he cooks at home. Celebrating innovation and tradition and drawing inspiration from Asia, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, Zarbo's food is an eclectic mixture: fusion cuisine with a unique antipodean twist. ZARBO provides something for every meal of the day: antipasti and finger foods, pasta, pulses and grains, main meals, salads and a spectacular, not-to-be-missed sweets and baking section. Using interesting and sometimes surprising ingredients Mark's recipes come with the philosophy that food shouldn't be taken too seriously. He encourages readers to view these recipes as a base to work from and mix and match, to enjoy the process of cooking and eating, relax and have fun! 70 recipes, 120 photos with the book printing full-colour throughout. Photos comprise prepared recipe shots, ingredients and incidental 'ambience' pictures of Zarbo's kitchen and deli. Mark McDonough is the highly successful owner and chef of of Zarbo Deli and Caf in Auckland, a South Pacific deli with a real New York feel. Zarbo imports a large, unique range of fresh and packaged foods and has developed its own range of Zarbo branded products. These are distributed by more than 35 stores around NZ and exported to Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK. Later this year, Zarbo product will be making its way into selected Sydney and Melbourne specialty food stores.
When Star Runner, along with her Mamoan allies, stopped to trade for supplies with the people of Jellican III, they never expected to end up helping in a planet-wide evacuation. Worse still was the sun exploding much earlier than anticipated, resulting in the combined Mamoan and Jellican space fleets being pulled inside a newly formed black hole. Now the crew of Star Runner has to race against time, not only to find out what happened to all of their new friends, but also to find a way to escape the Bubble once more. Book Four of the Star Runner Series - an adventure in the depths of space.
Mark McDonough is the successful owner of the hugely popular Zarbo Deli and Cafe in Newmarket Auckland. Dean Brettschneider is an internationally successful patissier and baker and both have published several successful cookbooks. Now for the first time, as a result of their team-up (Dean has a micro bakery within Zarbo) they have joined to create this fantastic cookbook. The Cook and the Baker contains a collection of amazing breads, entrees, mains, desserts, cakes, cookies and pastries Each recipe is crammed full of flavour and colour from fabulous fresh ingredients, herbs and spices. There are plenty of international influences, and the recipes are all approachable and achievable by home cooks. From everyday meals to special occasions, there are recipes here for everyone including: * Wholewheat Soda Bread Sandwiches with Smoked Salmon, Onion Marmalade and Dill Mayonnaise * Italian Fish Stew * Plum and Fennel Tarte Tatin * Sticky Stem Ginger Cake with Lemon Icing Food TV is running six half-hour shows about the development and photography of the recipes for the book in the lead-up to release.
The Season of the Witch is the second in a trilogy from Etienne de Mendes. If you read the first book, The Return of the Phantom, you'll love this one. How far into the labyrinth of deception will the Phantom of the Opera descend to protect love? What monsters must he confront in order to possess a sense of soul? Unseen forces work against him. Hellish emissaries predict that the lonely and deformed musical genius will not prevail. They brag that the ruler of the twisted caverns beneath the Paris Opera House cannot overcome the weighty war being waged against him. Can the illusive Erik, who unintentionally inherited the estate and title of the de Chagny's, neutralize those that threaten to depose him? A colorful intense tale, woven through the years that followed the consummation of an unsanctioned love. Steamy scenes, lies, trickery, and mayhem are all in abundance on the grounds surrounding the de Chagny chateau.
We all know the games. The ones we played as kids. The ones we all have fond memories of, crowded around a kitchen table with family, piled in the floor with friends around the tv, or standing in front of the flashing lights of an arcade game. The games that when we look back at our childhood, we have at least one memory of. But what if, those games turned sinister? What if they were real and out for revenge? In this story collection, the games are taking over and they're out for blood.
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