Dr. Rick Taylor had delivered many babies as a doctor but he learned that being a parent was much more important and special than being a doctor when he watched the birth of his son. This very ordinary experience began an extraordinary journey shared by father and son. "Lessons of Life" meanders through the lives of Dr. Taylor and his son while exposing the unlikely situations where surprising lessons are learned. The value of the lessons is not in their uniqueness as much as in the pedestrian nature of their occurrence. Father and son each survive first loves, near death experiences and personal quests to find a place in life. The comparison of these experiences and the lessons learned provide readers with moments of joy as well as sadness. It is the familiarity of these events that remind readers to recognize their own lessons and appreciate their teachers.
A lifetime of poetry by Rick Taylor that runs the gamut of human emotions--happiness, sadness, anger, desperation--beginning with a poem about the poet's experience in a cemetery. His sense of humor is eveident throughout.
Keri, the teenage blacksmith’s son, hoped for a little more time between his first kiss and his last—but war and weather won’t wait. One of thirty chosen to serve the king, Keri joins a desperate forty-day trek out of their mountain refuge through a snow-buried wilderness. Disasters both natural and man-made defy their passage. And then the wolf pack shows up—unnaturally large, unnaturally led, and unnaturally desperate to stop them. Blood in the snow forces an unsteady Keri into physical and spiritual leadership roles he must master immediately. When one more step means death, Keri looks among the thieves, pagans, and broken saints for help, but even his love’s star deserts him. Past voices point him to one chance. Grasping his uncle’s axe, he follows the one-eyed madman to face the demons. Who will survive to write the Ballad of the Blacksmith’s Son?
Musings Under a Buckboard is a work of poems that runs the gamut of interesting topics-- romance, war, humor, family, graveyards, biography, autobiography, dreams, and animals. Rick Taylor is a published poet whose yen for writing poetry came in his later years after retirement. He has said that at seventy-plus years of age, his decision to publish volumes of poetry has come at just the right time since his objective is to publish while he is still "on the right side of the grass." His sense of humor has been cherished by many in his hometown of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, which has encouraged him to think that others in the broader writing market might also be appreciative. His first two volumes Never Alone in a Cemetery and Headstone in the Headlights have been well received.
Headstone in the Headlights is the second book of poetry authored by Rick Taylor. His first entitled Never Alone in a Cemetery was highly praised by members of the public in general and by residents of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where he now resides with his wife and dog, a red lab that makes an appearance in several of his poems. Whereas the poetry of the first book made no mention of his bipolar condition, many of the poems in Headstone deal with this difficult subject directly. Rick became convinced while writing the second book, that his bipolar experiences should be dealt with openly on the oft chance that his descriptions might be helpful to others so afflicted. Rick is a published poet who discovered a yen for writing poetry after retirement. He has said that that at the age of seventy-seven, his decision to publish a volume of poetry has come just in time. His objective is to publish while he is still "on the right side of the grass." His sense of humor has been cherished by many.
TIME AND TIME AGAIN' by RICK TAYLOR Working in a different part of the city, Bill Draper absentmindedly goes to his former home and is astonished and disconcerted to find himself projected back twenty years in time, to be greeted by his much younger wife and toddler daughters. Rick Taylor's first novel tells how this and further excursions into the past land Bill in some puzzling situations, with surprising results, both hilarious and tragic. Bill's 'gift' may seem a blessing at first, but equally it puts him in some perilous predicaments, which threaten to alter irretrievably the whole course of his life.
This sci-fi smorgasbord serves up 9 retro tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana, airlifts you to exotic locales, then rockets you to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows! Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland speakeasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches vigilante-inspired fever pitch in "The Birth." Flying taxis fight for space over New York as Johnny Grant, Private Eye, sifts streets rife with murder and corruption in "The Maltese Spectrum." It's class-warfare in Citadel City as Pandora Driver and her Car of Tomorrow cruise the shadowy streets in search of one good cop in "Ready Fire Aim." Resources dwindle as aqua farming Region 5 Spaceport Terminus pushes maximum population density, and the balance between man and machine collapses in "Bloom." The fractured politics of the fractured 1920s Aether Age leaves a sheriff struggling to find the truth in "The More Things Change." Would Ace Rango rather be locked in battle with snarling space lizards or a temperamental, little girl when "Bedtime Stories are Boring?" World War II drags on into 1958 as one Australian airship officer seeks safe harbor before the lights go out during "Darkness Eternal: Over the South China Sea." In Fascist ruled skies over prohibition-era America, a rogue pilot risks all to bring down a gang of rocket pack raiders with "The Rocket Molly Syndicate." Captain Tony Lagarto's flying boat is hijacked by a lunatic Vinlander demanding transport to a place that doesn't exist in "Storming Shangri-La." Retro adventure awaits fans of dieselpunk, sci-fi, ray-gun gothic, and pulp magazines. Download if you dare!
In 1987, Anthrax unleashed a heavy metal & pop culture touchstone with the release of their historic Among the Living album! Now Anthrax & Z2 invite you to explore the album like never before with this original anthology graphic novel! Each song on the album is given an original story by an amazing creative team, along with extra content and the introduction of the new NOTMAN designed by Greg Nicetero (Walking Dead)! Come on this dark journey into the ‘87 underground in America with these esteemed creators...
Some believers boil the Christian life down to an easy formula. Some believers fall into comparative Christianity, assuming being better than average is better than nothing. Other believers fake it, trying to look and act like they think a Christian should.But all these forms of Christianity are just settling for a cheap substitute for the real thing: genuine discipleship.So many followed Him. So few were called disciples.In The Anatomy of a Disciple, Rick Taylor will help you become more aware of what God is already doing in your life, so you can become a true disciple of Jesus Christ rather than just another follower at a distance.The paperback edition includes a unique access code to the Anatomy of a Disciple Self-Assessment, which determines exactly how you are doing spiritually, and provides a personalized report showing you where God may be specifically growing you right now.
College is a time to learn, explore, and grow, but what does faith have to do with it? In this collection of essays, gifted writers in their twenties and early thirties reflect on their college years by telling stories—some hilarious, some heart-wrenching—on the intersection of faith and college. At a time when so much is written about young adults but not by young adults, this collection allows writers to reveal their college experience in their own voice, sharing, through reflection on their own joys and sorrows, unique insight into students’ experience of college. Themes include negotiating identity, sex and sexuality, discerning the future, studying abroad, and transitions in faith. This collection includes stories from large public universities and small, faith-related colleges. Perfect for faith leaders, college administrators, study groups, young adults, and anyone who loves a college student, Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House reveals college struggles that help us reflect on faith and life in college, and forever.
Ogni primo martedì del mese torna il meglio dei fumetti legati a Star Wars! In questo numero: Alla deriva nello spazio, Zayne Carrick e il suo nuovo e strano equipaggio dovranno affrontare un’altra minaccia. Luke Skywalker si confronterà con le mostruose armi viventi degli Yuuzhan Vong su Rychel, mentre Lord Fener è stato abbandonato solo su un mondo desolato con le visioni di Padmé che continuano a tormentarlo.
Dammit!" Lemay exclaimed. "It's still a BATTLESHIP, Captain!" Presently, Lemay braced himself and they entered the barge which got under way immediately to reach the U.S.S. Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay. Lemay went to be seated and found Bart Coltrane, Colonel Wild Bill Donovan and Sir Hugh Dalton also on board. "What a pleasant surprise," Lemay said, as he extended his hand to the three gentlemen. "To what do I owe the honor to have Bart Coltrane and the world's top spies on my barge?" By 1939 the Second War had already begun in Europe. France and Western Europe nations were falling to the Germans led by the awesome but little publicized German Luftwaffe. The British Special Operations Directorate (SOE) was having great difficulties in deploying and supporting their Special Agents operating behind the lines in Occupied Europe. They called upon President Roosevelt for aircraft and crew to take on the dangerous support missions. The President responded by sending Bart Coltrane and his B-25 crew to England where they flew high-speed, tree-top altitude support missions behind the lines for British Intelligence. These were named Black Bart missions after the British pirate John Bartholomew Roberts. Black Bart as a character represents the early American volunteers who served with the British prior to the U.S. entering the war. The American volunteer's contribution to the British war effort was significant.
Ogni primo martedì del mese torna il meglio dei fumetti legati a Star Wars! In questo numero: Nel sottocittà di Taris, lo Jedi Zayne Carrick e il suo compagno Gryph dovranno cercare un passaggio per lasciare il pianeta vivi. Scappato dagli Yuuzhan Vong, Finn Galfridian dovrà iniziare il suo addestramento Jedi su Yavin 4 agli ordini di Luke Skywalker. Dart Fener condurrà le sue truppe in una disastrosa battaglia, mentre un traditore si aggira fra le file della sua truppa.
In 1973, Rick Hansen was a carefree teenager hitchhiking home from a fishing trip, a kid who lived and breathed sports. But after the truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, Hansen was left a paraplegic. For some people that could have been the end. For Rick Hansen it was the beginning of a story that is at once sad and funny, heartbreaking and inspirational. Hansen takes you from the first painful days and frightening nights in hospital, through the gritty process of rehabilitation, to his return to competition as a world champion of wheelchair sports. It is the story of the Man in Motion tour—Rick Hansen’s incredible 24,901.55-mile wheelchair journey through 34 countries around the world. It is also the love story of Hansen and his wife, Amanda, a physiotherapist whom Hansen calls his “lifeline.” And it is a success story—Rick Hansen has raised millions of dollars for spinal cord research, rehabilitation and wheelchair sports as well as raised awareness about the disabled.
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