Pregnant with Bobby Hartwig’s child, Thai nurse Silliporn tracks him down in Alabama, where, after surviving a jump from a bridge in Bangkok, Bobby’s back home taking care of stroke-victim Harold Suggs and falling in love with his gorgeous granddaughter Bee. As Silliporn finds unexpected love, as Harold learns to walk again, and as Bee herself becomes ripe with child, a rattled Bobby Hartwig sorts his scattered marbles, unraveling the haunting mystery of his shellshocked father, missing since the Suggs’ barn burned all those years ago.
Prozac has changed the way we view depression and for the better. Prozac created a firestorm of interest in a disease formerly lumped with madness and has sparked a frantic debate on the role of Prozac rendering oneself untrue. This book argues for the medicated self as the true self.
Reece Myers is trapped in a top-secret facility, Organon, following the murder of what appears to outsiders as his daughter Mia. Reece travels via seizures between universes to a strange town known as Gadam 3981 to find the real Mia who has been abducted by the mysterious entity Dahlia and replaced by the look-alike that Reece has killed. By now, Reece's wife has filed for divorce but is falling for Reece's psychiatrist Dr. Markush whose quest is to find Mia, using Reece, and bring her back. While in Gadam, Reece encounters the philosopher Schopenhauer who becomes Reece's sidekick in his quest. Reece trips between universes thanks to the help of the Abba Paulos and the Ark of the Covenant. Through his travels, Reece unravels the mystery of Dahlia and grows ever closer to finding Mia.
For about $150 anyone can access the United States' multi-billion dollar GPS program. Using GPS Outdoors: A Practical Guide for Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers, and Climbers shows readers how to plug in and enhance most any outdoor experience. Whether a hiker on a weekend trip through the Great Smokies, a backpacker cruising the Continental Divide Trail, a mountain biker kicking up dust in Moab, a paddler running the Lewis and Clark bicentennial route, or a climber pre-scouting the routes up Mount Shasta, a simple handheld GPS unit is fun, useful, and can even be a lifesaver. Described in conjunction with today's most popular GPS software, easy to understand information enables readers to: - Plan a trip - Navigate along a route - Gather data from the outing - Analyze trip data after the trip Information is power, and a GPS unit is today's preferred tool to harness the power of navigational technology for a more enjoyable, more informative, and possibly safer outdoor experience.
Russell Helms tackles tornados, virginity cults, IKEA, and cube steak with grace and the mundane horror of life that plagues us all. Finessed with a dark sense of humor, Helms explores the human condition one character at a time.
Whether you walk hard or tread lightly on local trails 60 Hikes within 60 Miles Birmingham profiles the best hikes and walks within roughly an hour's travel of the metro area. This is the book that will get you to the trail head and help you find the trail markers. It will help you find the best hiking trail to fit your needs. Have a true hiking adventure, even in the summer heat. There are cool forest trails within a short distance of summer's urban heat. This book profiles the trails of Aldridge Gardens, Ave Maria Grotto, Bald Rock, Boulder Canyon, the Cahaba and it's environs, Cheaha Falls, Coleman Lake, Deerlick Creek, Dugger Mountain, East Lake Park, Flint Creek, Fossil Mountain, Guntersville State Park, Hurricane Creek, Jemison Park, Martin Wildlife Park, Moss Rock Preserve, Noccalula Falls, Nubbin Creek, Oak Mountain, Palisades Park, the Pinhoti Trail, Pulpit Rock, ruffner Mountain, the Sipsey River and Wilderness Area, the Vulcan Trail, and many more outstanding walks and hikes. Get out. Get going. Find those trail markers. Your backyard awaits.
Godo, Ethiopia, 1986, and Reece Myers has been shot in the head and evacuated back to Alabama, his fiance Kristin in shock. As Reece fights to regain his life, the budding romance with fellow clinic nurse Emma back in Godo overshadows his engagement and spells trouble. As Reece recovers and reexamines life with Kristin, Emma longs for him and soon meets her own tragic fate.
Godo, Ethiopia, 1986, and Reece Myers has been shot in the head and evacuated back to Alabama, his fiancÉe Kristin in shock. As Reece fights to regain his life, the budding romance with fellow clinic nurse Emma back in Godo overshadows his engagement and spells trouble. As Reece recovers and reexamines life with Kristin, Emma longs for him and soon meets her own tragic fate.
Helms drives his imaginary pen through neighborhoods we may not really want to visit, but once there cannot keep our eyes from prying. From trampolines to peanut butter, The World Split Open explores the dim edges of things humorus, grotesque, and otherwise mildly frightening.
Back from Ethiopia, Emma Smith wonders if the rape has resulted in pregnancy and continues to pursue a relationship with Reece Meyers, whose engagement to Kristin seems more in peril with each passing day. Confounding the dilemma is the granddaughter of Reece's neighbors, who just wants to have fun. Humorous and poignant, the series continues.
Disappointed by a failed mortgage, Daniel treks to the jungles of Peru for an encounter with the legendary ayahuasca. He's been warned that his medications are a deadly mix with the juice of the sacred vine, but he's up for the challenge anyway.
After viciously attacking a judge, while giving him a pedicure, Jack escapes the domed city of Pan, Alabama, and begins his quest to free his secret love Lura from the grips of the Infirm, the grotesquely disabled leaders of his world--an over-the-top literary adventure in gothic Southern malaise.
In an alternate universe, Reece Myers finds himself in the small Ethiopian of Gwar, working with an Icelandic medical team and his interpreter Afewerki. When a little girl named Mia appears from thin air, the ground is set for the troubling and hallucinogenic sequel to Book Five, Fugue.
Packed with valuable tips and information, this handbook gives readers everything they need to get started. First, learn about the area's hiking possibilities, then consult the author's recommendations for special interest hikes--wildlife hikes, historic hikes, hikes for families, and more.
Disturbing and comical, Pianotown lays fame to a giant cat and kidnapped hitchhikers. When in doubt, the eclectic inhabitants of this surreal and twisted world consult messages on cans of hairspray scattered about town. Not for the faint of heart or kidney.
Tightly knit, these five stories weave an unholy melange of revenge and ultimate kindness--a Frankenstein tale, vignettes wired together, spanning a thousand years of language, birth, cruelty, justice, and incest.
Michael passes up an opportunity to date a younger woman, Anna, only to find that she has committed suicide. In his dismay, he determines to find out what it would have been like to date her. Although improbable, through sheer will and desire he coaxes and courts Anna back into being, terrifying her parents and setting into motion the impossible.
Mr. Haldane’s Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly.
After a devastating fire at an insane asylum in California, Hook Runyon has been put in charge of security for a train that is to transport the survivors, alongside the head of the asylum, Dr. Baldwin, the attending doctor, taciturn Dr. Helms, and a self-sacrificing nurse named Andrea, to a new location in Oklahoma. Hook hires a motley crew of WW II veterans to help, and they set out for the new destination. But things go awry on the Insane Train, as several inmates and attendants are found dead, and Dr. Baldwin seems increasingly disoriented and incapable of running operations. With Andrea's help, Hook begins investigating the suspicious deaths, and uncovers a trail of revenge that has been a long time in the planning...by a person as mentally disturbed as her charges.
Prior to 1870, the main routes of commerce entering Swedesboro were Kings Highway by land or Raccoon Creek by water. When the Swedesboro Railroad was completed in October 1869, it started a new era of growth in the Swedesboro-Woolwich area. Produce was loaded on railcars for distant markets. Warehouses and industry exploded adjacent to the rail yard. New banks, hotels, and businesses crowded along both sides of Main Street. Economic expansion brought more residents and new housing construction. The prosperity of the Swedesboro area from 1870 to 1950 is preserved in detail on postcards and in photographs reprinted on these pages.
El Salvador's civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody years. Unwilling to tolerate an advance of Soviet and Cuban-backed communism in its geopolitical backyard, the US provided over six billion dollars in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government. El Salvador was a deeply controversial issue in American society and divided Congress and the public into left and right. Relying on thousands of archival documents as well as interviews with participants on both sides of the war, The Salvador Option offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the available evidence. If success is defined narrowly, there is little question that the Salvador Option achieved its Cold War strategic objectives of checking communism. Much more difficult, however, is to determine what human price this 'success' entailed - a toll suffered almost entirely by Salvadorans in this brutal civil war.
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