Clouddancer's Alaskan Chronicles

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781469782232
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Clouddancer's Alaskan Chronicles written by CloudDancer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At LAST! The long awaited Volume IV of CloudDancers Alaskan Chronicles is in your hands! As youll see inside, the wait was well worth it. After the gut-wrenching and soul-baring trip down the dark side of Memory Lane that was Volume III, The Tragedies, he needed some down time to recharge the creative batteries. Time to adjust to a new, better life and future, as a recovering alcoholic. Time to assess what had gone before, with an eye toward retaining what is best, and discarding those things in his past that hampered his ability to grow as a person and excel as an individual. The results speak for themselves! CloudDancer is back in the humor mode. Once again, this charming aerial miscreant falls in love with every airplane he flies and almost every girl he runs into. Youll be beside yourself with laughter sharing CloudDancers adventures in the air, on the ground, and under the covers! Youll meet CloudDancer the FELON! Hell introduce you to some of his favorite FEDs, and youll get the inside story of how he and his fellow pilots played cat-and-mouse with the boys from Fairbanks Flight Standards District Office 61, trying to stay one move ahead in their three-dimensional chess game. Finally, ride along as CloudDancer shows one of Americas biggest 1970s pop & folk music stars how the bush pilots do it! Our only worry is CloudDancer wont promise us there will be a Volume V! But, on the upside, our favorite wing nut has revealed there are exploratory talks in Hollywood to bring the Chronicles to a screen in your living room. With fellow author and pilot Stan Jones of Anchorage, CloudDancer has developed scripts for television and movie adaptations combining his brand of aerial mischief and suspense with Stans riveting Nathan Active series of Alaskan murder mysteries! If successful, were sure CloudDancer will find the perfect Aloha shirt to complement the mandatory black tuxedo for the Oscars and Emmys!

Chronicles of a Circuit Breaker

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ISBN 13 : 9789814901550
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Chronicles

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105035263
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Download or read book Chronicles written by Ray Barrington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning columnist of the defunct Green Bay News-Chronicle provides some of his columns in handy book form. The columns cover a wide range, from the Green Bay Packers to travel, from presidential politics to final goodbyes.

Chronicles of the Time

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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800466250
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Chronicles of the Time by : Penny Freedman

Download or read book Chronicles of the Time written by Penny Freedman and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 2020. Gina Gray returns to the Lake District to share COVID isolation with her oldest friend, Eve. They are joined by Gina’s teenage granddaughter, Freda, who is finding her own home too crowded for comfort.

The Seamus Chronicles Books 1 - 3

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Publisher : Caveman Worldwide
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book The Seamus Chronicles Books 1 - 3 written by K. D. McAdams and published by Caveman Worldwide. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the journey of teen genius Seamus Robinson and his family as they survive the apocalypse and head out into the stars. A family friendly, quirky story of balancing major life decisions with your head and your heart. You'll fall in love with the characters with every turn of the page in this series that you won't be able to put down. Books 1 - 3 of The Seamus Chronicles Annihilation - Book 1 Evacuation - Book 2 Colonization - Book 3

The Colsonburg Chronicles, Book 1

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Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449740707
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book The Colsonburg Chronicles, Book 1 written by Thomas P. Wright and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family drove all day. It was quiet for Dan in the truck but torturous for Ginny in the van. If she heard are we there yet? or how much longer? or is this Pennsylvania? just onemoretime. North and east they trekked to a place seen only once before...It was completely dark when the headlights caught a simple Department of Transportation sign, along a rural highway, that read Borough of Colsonburg. Were in Colsonburg, kids, Ginny cheered over her shoulder, exhausted but relieved. The children had, ironically, all fallen asleep. * * * * * * * Petes prayer was not eloquent or well-crafted but it was from his heart and he meant every word of iteven more than he was able to say in words. It got kind of quiet and finally both looked up at each other. They stayed quiet for a few more moments. Happy birthday, Peter, Pastor Dan finally greeted him. Huh? Pete wondered out loud. Today, right now, youve been bornagain. Happy birthday. Wow, I guess so. Pete let a slight grin escape along with a nod. Pete sat on that rock and watched the water go by. He thought how he somehow actually finally felt clean and fresh like that pure water. Everything looked the same and he was otherwise just Pete Archer but he also knew he was different now and that his life would be changed. Already it felt as if a gigantic weight had been lifted from him and indeed it had been. He prayed a little more, just letting his thoughts and feelings about it all go up to God. But eventually he had to leave. Walking back up the path everything was the same but at the same time everything was different. * * * * * * * but Ginny stayed seated, her head dropped, tears falling all the way to the floor. Then a warm presence was sensed on the pew beside her and a gentle hand was felt running across the backs of her shoulders and resting on her left arm. Joanies voice was heard whispering straight into Ginnys right ear, Ill go with you if you want me to. Ginny simply nodded and the two stood up in exact formation and made their way down the aisle to kneel at the rail. Immediately they were joined by Meredith Holt and Holly Corbin. Joanies hand never departed from Ginnys arm for even a fraction of a second. Rev. Lilly came down and knelt opposite the rail from the two ladies and inquired how he could pray for Ginny. Speaking in only half sentences, split by sobs and gasps, Ginny poured out the horror story of the last months, one tissue after another being plucked from the box always there at the ready. Oh sister, even Rev. Lilly was touched, you have come to the right place today! Ginny cried all over again when she stood and witnessed the gathering of friends also standing up behind where she had been. She also let a smile escape as she embraced Joanie, a sister in so many ways except biologically. Many other hugs were shared and the whole box of tissues was consumed. Only now did the congregation begin to depart. Beth was napping when her cell phone woke her that afternoon. The display said, Mom. Hey, she started cheerfully through a yawn. You got a few minutes, babe? her mom asked. You bet, Beth promised. Ginny related the whole accountBeth listened in stunned silence, tears coming down her cheeks. Satisfied her mother was done, she half-sobbed, half-laughed , thats wonderful, Mom. Just before leaving for the evening worship service, Beths phone rang again. This time the display said Sis. Patty and Beth talked and laughed and cried and thanked God together long enough that Beth missed the service. * * * * * * * Randy, the senior member of the officerless crew said, Lets go. County, Engine 5-1 responding with three, Pete called on the radio and they joined the race to Colsonburg, sirens wailing. The radio was alive with reports from officers and orders to the many pieces of apparatus pouring into the boroughThe Colsonburg Fire Auxiliary members brought coffee and sandwiches to all the firefighters with bread, meat, and cheese donated by several store owners in the borough. * * * * * * * Pete stood next to her; he looked down at her and watched her for a moment. She was laughing with the rest, her smile wide and glowing. She looked up at him as she laughed and he smiled down at her. It was good to see her again and to see her so full of joy, despite everything she had been through. In his mind he traveled back to that horrid March day in Lewistown when she was so broken and lost; the contrast, what God had done, was so evident. The experience of seeing her that way also reminded him of just how far he had come since that life-altering August afternoon almost four and a half years ago. He had never been the same since. He simply looked at her and smiled as he said, Happy New Year! Happy New Year to you, Pete, she reciprocated, smiling up at him * * * * * * * Good night, he affirmed back over his shoulder. See you tomorrow evening, he added. See you then, she agreed before shutting the door behind her. After sitting on that step for a moment more, Pete stood up and walked to his truck. Once again he thanked God for everything He was doing in all their lives

The Sun Coast Chronicles

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Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310342910
Total Pages : 1627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Sun Coast Chronicles written by Terri Blackstock and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 1627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock’s Sun Coast Chronicles series—now available in one volume! Evidence of Mercy Lynda Barrett, a young lawyer, hates to sell her plane, but she can no longer afford to keep it. Enter Jake Stevens: wealthy, arrogant, and interested in buying Lynda’s beloved Piper. Together he and Lynda embark on a test flight that ends in disaster—hurling them into a terrifying sequence of events. One thing becomes clear: Someone is out to get Lynda . . . someone who will not be satisfied until she is dead. Justifiable Means A violent criminal with a knack for evading justice. A beautiful victim with a secret to hide. Between them stands one good cop, torn between justice and the law. This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And there’s abundant evidence to put the suspect behind bars. Just one thing bothers Detective Larry Millsaps. Young and beautiful Melissa Nelson seems to know almost too much about the evidence needed to convict her attacker. The unfolding investigation unearths a brutal track record on the part of the suspect . . . and a stunning revelation of Melissa’s own haunting past that could do far worse than destroy her credibility. Ulterior Motives Louis Dubose, international art dealer, has been murdered. The police are certain they’ve got their man. Recently fired by Dubose, Ben Robinson has a motive backed by a convincing trail of evidence. Except that one person isn’t convinced—someone who knows Ben well. Knows that he’s quite capable of trashing human lives but not of taking them. Now that person is about to gamble her own well-being on his innocence . . . when her personal indictment against him may be almost as bitter as murder. The question is: Does Sharon Robinson know Ben as well as she thinks she does? Presumption of Guilt Just one person can save the children from a terrifying future. But to do so, she must master her past. Beth Wright, a newspaper reporter, is hot on the trail of a story that could expose something very ugly at the St. Clair Children’s Home. Someone else is hot on Beth Wright’s trail—someone who wants to make sure her story never sees the press. Between them stands Nick Hutchins, a social worker who finds his own gut hunches about the children’s home increasingly confirmed, first by Beth’s investigation . . . then by a high-speed attempt on her life . . . and finally, by an intruder’s startling confession.

The Placebo Chronicles

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Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307489590
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Chronicles written by Douglas Farrago, M.D. and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache. Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession revealed by the irreverent Dr. Douglas Farrago in his popular satirical magazine, Placebo Journal—affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as “Mad magazine for doctors” and called, by U.S. News.com, “raunchy, adolescent, and very funny.” Now, in The Placebo Chronicles, Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and uproarious true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country. Submitted by actual physicians, these are the stories they tell each other at cocktail parties and in doctors’ lounges, trading sidesplitting and truly unusual tales of their most embarrassing medical moments, the grossest things they’ve ever seen in medicine, their favorite Munchausen patients, and much more, including “The X-Ray Files”—mind-boggling anecdotes and images of the oddest foreign objects doctors have removed from patients. Not for the faint of heart, the humor in The Placebo Chronicles is brutally funny—just what the doctor ordered to guard against the ill effects of an M.D.’s worst enemies: the Medical Axis of Evil, a.k.a. drug companies, HMOs, and malpractice insurers. Fully illustrated with fake advertisements—for pseudopharmaceuticals like OxyCotton Candy and Indifferex (the mediocre antidepressant)—this refreshingly honest collection invites doctors and patients alike to share the laughter, a liberal dose of the very best medicine.

The Chronicles of the Elders Malefisterium. Volume 1. The Ordeal of Freya

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Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 504331589X
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book The Chronicles of the Elders Malefisterium. Volume 1. The Ordeal of Freya written by Andrew Ognev and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The confrontation of two primal elements, Light and Darkness, is a traditional narrative motif. But what if it is no longer possible to fight against the Darkness? What if everything that exists in the world was created from it by the Demiurges? The Darkness wants the world to embrace both life and death. The world is doomed; and however hard we try to prevent its end, it only draws nearer. A Luminary arrives on Earth to keep the balance of the two forces and to prevent both sides from destroying this world. Embodied in a child’s body, he must accomplish his mission.

Chronicles of a Million Dollar Trader

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111862789X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of a Million Dollar Trader written by Don Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading strategies always look great on paper. But when it comes to trading in the real world, market chaos and human unpredictability often make even the best strategies seem inadequate to the task. The hard truth all traders eventually learn is that trading is far more difficult when your chips are down and the pressure is on. In the tradition of Edwin Lefèvre’s legendary book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Don Miller’s Chronicles of a Million Dollar Trader offers an inside look at the ups and downs, failures and victories of one of the few traders to have ever earned $1 million in a calendar year by trading futures intraday. In this detailed journal, Miller lets you peek over his shoulder as he tiptoes through a minefield of potential mistakes, miscalculations, and self-defeating behaviors in search of consistent profits. Along the way, he shares trading diary excerpts from 2008 to 2012, as well as his actual performance for every futures trading day from 2004 to 2011—almost 2,000 days worth of real trading results and analysis. You’ll follow along as the challenge of everyday trading teaches Miller the importance of focus, motivation, controlled aggression, and just showing up—especially on those mornings he’d rather sleep in. As you track his progress hour by hour and day by day through the journal, you’ll see how he recognizes his strengths and weaknesses, reaches or falls short of his daily goals, analyzes his results, and applies everything he learns to future trades, including valuable insights gleaned from sports, poker, and life. If you’re thinking of quitting your day job to be a full-time trader, Miller offers a clear-eyed look at what you’re getting into. His path to success was rocky, with ecstatic highs interspersed with intermittent setbacks. Despite his well-crafted plan, his intelligence, and his dedication, Miller began his trading career the way so many others do—with losses due to a lack of training and a poor business plan. Though he learned his lesson, ate his humble pie, and got back into the game successfully, there’s no reason for you to repeat his mistakes. Chronicles of a Million Dollar Trader reveals how successful trading is about much more than reading charts, because you’re not just playing the numbers—you’re competing against the markets, other traders, and yourself. Much like a sport, winning is the result of good planning, practice, and execution, and if you’re not on your game, then you’re already on your way to losing. If you’re a full-time trader, part-time trader, or just considering becoming one, this insightful, revealing look inside Miller’s mind offers vital lessons on how to trade like a champion.

Chronicles of America Series

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Bear. Chronicles of 2016, a veritable year extraordinaire

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Publisher : FNArena
ISBN 13 : 1635878527
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Bear. Chronicles of 2016, a veritable year extraordinaire written by Rudi Filapek-Vandyck and published by FNArena. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 was genuinely an extraordinary year for investors and for financial markets. This book offers a chronological run down of sentiment and commentary as events unfolded and the year progressed, written and observed from an Australian perspective inside the centre of turmoil and confusion. The ultimate goal is not so much to preserve the memories of what became an episode filled with macro and micro surprises, and wild volatility, but more so to preserve, accumulate and highlight experiences and insights, and to draw valuable, timeless lessons. This is not just a book about 2016. The author's ambition is for it to stay relevant long after 2016 has disappeared from everyone's calendar.

My River Chronicles

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416587179
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book My River Chronicles written by Jessica DuLong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After journalist Jessica DuLong was laid off from her dot-com job, her life took an unexpected turn. A volunteer day aboard an antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, led to a job in the engine room, where she found a taste of home she hadn’t realized she was missing. Working with the boat’s finely crafted machinery, on the waters of the storied Hudson, made her wonder what America is losing in our shift away from hands-on work. Her questions crystallized after she and her crew served at Ground Zero, where fireboats provided the only water available to fight blazes. Vivid and immediate, My River Chronicles is a journey with an extraordinary guide—a mechanic’s daughter and Stanford graduate who bridges blue-collar and white-collar worlds, turning a phrase as deftly as she does a wrench. As she searches for the meaning of work in America, DuLong shares her own experiences of learning to navigate a traditionally male world, masterfully interweaving unforgettable present-day characters and events with four centuries of Hudson River history. A celebration of craftsmanship, My River Chronicles is a deeply personal story of a unique woman’s discovery of her own roots—and America’s—that raises important questions about our nation’s future.

The Chronicles of America Series

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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Ms. Hempel Chronicles

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374602166
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Book Synopsis Ms. Hempel Chronicles by : Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Download or read book Ms. Hempel Chronicles written by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Hempel Chronicles is a "deeply affecting" (Los Angeles Times) novel of a devoted young teacher finding her way Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new—new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words into the English curriculum, enlist students to write their own report cards, or bring up personal experiences while teaching a sex-education class? Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most vulnerable, then explores those precarious moments in sharp, graceful prose. From this most innovative of young writers comes another journey down the rabbit hole to the wonderland of middle school, memory, daydreaming, and the extraordinary business of growing up.

the Me and Elsie Chronicles (and Jen too)

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Publisher : Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book the Me and Elsie Chronicles (and Jen too) written by M. L. Buchman and published by Buchman Bookworks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -a Me and Elsie story collection- Here’s some stories I writ down. Done it ’cause my best friend Jen said I oughta—what with us being some of the first gals to haul cargo ’cross the black reaches of the Up’n’up and all. She said I should put in some of the wisdom I learnt from Pap too ’cause he raised me up so fine. I always do what she says what with her being so smart and all. So here’s some of how I got my first ship Elsie. There’s some of how me and Jen was flyin’ for Planetary Engineering, workin’ them space lanes, and other bits ’bout the wonderful kinda men we met up with while stopping off at Tycho Tavern, Low-Gee Lounge on Mars, and the Europa LaunchPub (one a my personal-type favorites).

The Yale Chronicles of America Series

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Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Yale Chronicles of America Series written by Allen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: