Chad Littlefield riding in the passenger seat gets a text from Chris Kyle saying, This dude is straight up nuts Watch my six. A police officer pulled up to the house. The officer told Taya, Chris has been hurt. Have you seen Chris truck? Taya called her mother and told her something was wrong. American soldier and patriot Chris Kyle died unexpectedly on home soil at the top of his game with all the glory and medals one man could ever imagine. Suddenly, a wife was left without a husband and children without a father. The trial of his alleged killer, Eddie Ray Routh, was soon to begin when Robert Blevins felt a need to be present at the legal proceedings. Blevins had followed the tragic case from the beginning, but something in his gut told him he had to attend the trial. He traveled to Stephenville, Texas, and became witness to what would be a judicial process wrought with emotional upheaval and anger. He witnessed families experience the pain of losing a child as well as watching a child go to prison. Not immune to the emotions around him, Blevins, too, descended into despair at the loss of Chris Kyle. To Blevins, there are not enough men like Kylebrave soldiers who fight for our freedom.
Timothy begins the Timothy Wellington series by introducing this troubled child through a compelling storyline that follows him throughout his trials and tribulations in an educational system that consistently fails him.Based on life events, this fictional account of young Timothy's life will follow him through his constant struggle to not only succeed, but also his efforts to fit in and identify himself among his peers. Timothy will make you laugh as well as cry as you follow him through his triumphs as well as some of his darker moments as he deals with bullies and mean teachers in addition to his own failings.An inspirational work, this story will leave you looking within yourself and questioning your own beliefs prior to setting the stage for spies among us, the second installment of this series. Spies Among Us will follow young Timothy as he graduates and begins his career prior to being recruited by the CIA to conduct domestic reconnaissance.
With Over 60 tables, most with graphic illustration, and over 1000 formulas, Formulas for Dynamics, Acoustics, and Vibration will provide an invaluable time-saving source of concise solutions for mechanical, civil, nuclear, petrochemical and aerospace engineers and designers. Marine engineers and service engineers will also find it useful for diagnosing their machines that can slosh, rattle, whistle, vibrate, and crack under dynamic loads.
Pass White is the biography of a child born of a colored mother and white father who entered the world as a colored child but "passed white" at age five and grew up as a white boy in a white world. Jim-Bob Blevins was born in North Carolina and was sent to live with relatives in West Virginia who had already "passed white." His foster father was a coal miner and his foster mother a dynamic white woman, also with remote colored blood. Jim Bob was never able to understand the color line properly and was constantly torn between two racial commitments. His black cousin, ten years his elder, was his role model and idol. His birth mother had determined that it would be better for her child to be raised in a white environment and Jim Bob tried his best to justify his mother's decision. Still, he and his family had to walk the line very carefully to maintain a white identity. This is the story of Jim Bob's life as a child, later a soldier and airman and finally as a retired Air Force Officer who did his bit for civil rights for black people but still maintained his identity as a white man.
Seattle sci-fi author Blevins' third novel is an exciting tale about a manned mission to Mars. Stakes are high for both NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, who have combined forces to make it happen. The gamble turns into a fight for survival when the astronauts find themselves stranded, out of contact with Earth, and days from running out of oxygen.
This edition collects 23 illustrated tales of science fiction by Nelder of Great Britain and Blevins of the United States. The two authors are the founders of Adventure Books of Seattle and serve as editors for the science fiction magazine, "Escape Velocity.
November 24, 1971 - A man known to the F.B.I. as 'Dan Cooper' leaped from the aft stairway of a Boeing 727 after demanding four parachutes and $200,000 in cash. He was never seen again, and nearly forty years later, he has never been identified - until now. During the initial investigation, few in law enforcement suspected that the hijacker could actually be an employee of the airline, and that was their mistake. Kenneth Peter Christiansen, a former World War II paratrooper and later a purser for Northwest Airlines, was the man who pulled off the boldest unsolved crime in history. Skipp Porteous of Sherlock Investigations, New York, and Robert Blevins of Adventure Books of Seattle present the case that Christiansen and Cooper were one and the same. Into The Blast shows how Kenny Christiansen planned the hijacking of NWA Flight 305, what motivated him to do it, who helped him on the ground, and what he did with the money afterward. More than thirty pictures, as well as interviews with the witnesses, reveals the truth at last in this fascinating book.
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