Westbow press jun 2007 (36 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I have learned today not to be ashamed any longer, not to hide from a monster, and not to run from demons. I have been given two feet, two feet to stand tall and strong, to face those that hurt and to embrace those who love me. My feet will no longer run, and my anger will no longer remain hidden. I will not hide from those who do not understand and I will no longer protect those who violate.'One of the Best Things is a reminder of the strength of the human ability and the miraculous changes possible if we are given a chance.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hank Rogers is delighted when his intelligent yet narcissistic friend, Sam Thompson, buys the huge, old mansion next door that's been vacant for fifteen years. Hank's wife, Bobbie, and the small North Carolina town's proud Preservation Society, are confident that Sam will restore the house to its original glory. But Sam has his own ideas-about home renovation and life in general-that prove to be humorous and bizarre all at the same time.Although Hank often has great doubts about Sam's numerous quirky and poorly thought-out schemes being properly completed, he helps when asked. Having substituted Sam to fill the void left by his deceased father and older brother, Hank feels an internalized need to have Sam as his 'best friend'. Yet, he is bothered that Sam does not treat him like an adult and frequently ignores Hank's suggestions.Bobbie sees her husband catering to Sam's desires and openly voices her concerns, but Hank feels the need to keep Sam as his best buddy. After years of taking advantage of Hank, Sam may have to learn to recognize Hank as an equal.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When divorce deprives American winemaker Byron Blyseth of his estate in Tuscany, he flees to a nearby island and opens a wine bar called Boccadoro, the nickname given to him because of his 'golden palate.' He falls in love with Livia, a gorgeous widow and gifted cook who wins the restaurant star status.To Livia, Boccadoro is a dream come true. But Byron is a reluctant host who prefers sailing, diving, and delving into the legends and myths of an island known as a haven for pirates and other misfits since Etruscan times.Intrigued by the nighttime cruises of a luxury yacht owned by a sinister lawyer, Byron recruits a trio of local oddballs as fellow sleuths in a daredevil scheme to crack a smuggling ring. But Byron and Livia become targets of mysterious threats and attacks that weave a web of fear around them and turn their island paradise into a nightmare.Sizzling with the delectable tastes, fun-filled sounds, and vivid sights of the Tuscan islands and brimming with thrills, Boccadoro: The Honorary Pirate is the perfect summer read.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Arnold Craft climbs from his father's dry goods store in Brooklyn, New York, to a position of prominence as a theater director in London and on Broadway, eventually becoming a film director in Hollywood. But his intense religious indoctrination from his parents-German immigrants steeped in Calvinistic doctrine-convince him that he is in a special relationship with God, so much so that he sees God's hand in everything. This chosen status, combined with worldly success, feeds Arnold's arrogance and distorts his perception of reality to the point of delusion-and ultimately results in a bizarre tragedy.Richly dramatic, The Godsend is a cautionary tale of the dangers of unbridled transcendentalism.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thessaly alienates her husband Karl, an American air force officer stationed in England, as she defends her mother, a bitter war-widow. Mum attempts to dominate Karl as she does Thessaly. The stress between the trio builds when Mum follows her daughter and Karl to the United States and Gloucester, Massachusetts. As Karl and Thessaly's children grown up, Thessaly suffers seizures while being haunted by images of Shadowbrooks, the country house where she and her mother fled to during the stepped up bombing in World War II. Plagued by sleepless nights, Thessaly wonders if the years she can't remember could be connected to this haunting Shadowbrooks house. Mum comes to stay with them for a month each August which disrupts Thessaly, Karl and their children as Mum distorts and denies the life she and Thessaly had led at Shadowbrooks. Thessaly profoundly dreads her mother coming as she still attempts to dominate them. When Mum suddenly dies, Thessaly's seizures accelerate, but her medical tests are negative. Convinced her illness is to do with Shadowbrooks. Thessaly sees a Boston psychiatrist who brilliantly unravels her Shadobrooks hauntings. After a trip back to Shadowbrooks, England, Thessaly not only discovers the disturbing story behind her mother and herself, but also the cover-up that had sent both into decades of denial.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With a bittersweet mix of poetry and prose, Robert J. Lavery shares how he faced the darkness of sorrow and emerged into the light once more.After facing the death of his son and losing his wife of thirty-two years to breast cancer, Lavery struggled to deal with overwhelming grief. He sought solace in poetry, letting the words speak for the deep hurt in his soul. Yet in the midst of the darkness, Lavery saw hope and drew on its strength to see him through the difficult times.Love lost, Love found stands as a moving testament to the power and courage of the human spirit in the throes of pain and anguish.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Also by Elizabeth Sharland - A Theatrical Feast in Paris.Read where British, American and French writers, actors and authors wined and dined in Paris. From Moliere to Deneuve, from Hemingway to Sedaris. Find out the theatre scene there, today and yesterday. Follow their footsteps in the City of Light and discover fabulous places including the setting of the Da Vinci Code in the Louvre.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An inspiring story of love that overcomes many adversities to ultimately triumph over Alzheimer's-and offers a different perspective on the disease. It's a sentimental journey through a marriage that began on the campus of Duke University in North Carolina and moves through the suburbs in New Jersey and the communications center in Manhattan.Your heart will be touched by the uplifting look at a long marriage that fulfilled its promise that when somebody loves you everything will be all right.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through My Mother's Words is the life story of a woman who, in spite of adversity, remains strong and resourceful. She focuses on the positive and refuses to allow hardship to diminish her devotion to family or her love for life. From her humble beginnings on Casey Hill, an idyllic, picturesque area of rural eastern North Carolina, to the home where she raised her three daughters, life has not been easy. However, her story of strength, commitment, and eternal optimism will inspire others to adopt her life philosophy and to realize they are not alone.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a personal story of a young woman's struggles being a single mother while facing average to great dispiriting ordeals. Though her road was rocky one, she managed to see a relationship that has been divinely planned from the start. Which has kept her focused and disciplined to become a stronger person for what brings to her in the future.Note-This book contains mild language.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel of suspense set in Beirut, in which a Lebanese-American commando devised a reckless plan to rescue a CIA agent held hostage by a Hezbollah terrorist chieftain. Its finale takes place in the Roman ruins of Baalbeck.The author has an intimate grasp of the region where he has lived most of his life. Dark back streets are the setting for this novel of action where retaliation is sacred; heaven is the future abode of those who commit suicide.The Hezbollah chieftain is an addict and trader of hashish. Abdo Ihsan, the protagonist hints his interest of buying the drug. The chieftain promises to get him some. Abdo also learns that the Hezbollah chieftain uses the release of a falcon to blind his foes. Abdo bribes a prostitute to make the Hezbollah chieftain smoke hashish adulterated with sleeping potion.On the night of rescue, the Hezbollah chieftain becomes sick and cannot chase Abdo kidnapping the CIA agent. His only hope is to set loose the falcon to use its poisoned talons to stop Abdo. But the commando tricks the falcon into its death and they are saved from harm as they get outside the country.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written as an autobiography for the author's heirs, An Exploration of Conscience: On Becoming A Woman In The Twentieth Century And Beyond serves as a wake-up call for anyone of good conscience to confront the bigotry and discrimination that began in the European immigration in the early 20th Century, the integration of blacks in the Mid-Century, and the surge of Hispanics into the 21st Century.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four-year-old Sam Payne can knock the baseball out of the park. That 'the park' is only the back yard of his suburban home makes little difference to his mother, Martha Payne, who understands baseball a lot better than she understands parenting. She yearns to make her son a star on the Little League field, where promising young players are rewarded with a spot on the All-Star team. Fueled by endless ambition but only a pinch of maternal instinct, Payne helps her son navigate through the thrilling but often heartless world of Little League baseball. While revealing a host of parental neuroses and coaching excesses, Put Him In, Coach! delves into the inscrutable bond between mother and son-a bond sometimes forged in unlikely places. As Sam progresses from tee-ball through years of strikeouts and wild pitches and up to the brink of adolescence, he and his mother discover as much about each other as they do about the perils of the game. Most importantly, Payne learns that in raising a son, sometimes less is more-even if your kid does have a shot at becoming the next Babe Ruth. Put Him In, Coach! A Mother's All-Star Memoir, is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award. The Mom's Choice Awards honor excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. The Awards esteemed panel of judges includes education and media experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, and scientists, including Dr. Twila C. Liggett, ten-time Emmy-winner and founder of Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, creator of Baby Einstein and the Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times best-selling author; LeAnn Thieman, motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books, and Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach and founder of the Mom's Choice Awards. Parents and educators look for the Mom's Choice Awards seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families. Martha Payne's memoir has been honored with this distinguished award.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Air Force Major Michael Newman is determined to find out who murdered his FBI brother in Palm Beach, Florida. But when Michael meets the beautiful undercover NSA Agent Marissa Mendez, he encounters unexpected adventure, excitement, jeopardy, treason, and mystery. When Newman obtains information about a secret, missing dossier that might be connected to his brother's death, Michael's buddy, retired Mossad Officer and former undercover NSA agent Benjamin Shalom becomes involved. A Venezuela native, Mendez's job is to expose and dismantle Operation Copernicus-a conspiracy by the CIA and the major oil corporations in America to kill Venezuela's leader in order to obtain total control of the country's national resource.Newman, Mendez, and Shalom, with the help of legendary CIA operative Shame Callahan, search for the missing dossier to expose those responsible and prevent further assassinations. But the implications for those connected to the dossier could be more far-reaching than they had ever considered .…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sumiko Harada, a poverty-stricken Japanese young woman and her father find a key and a letter on the body of a woman accidentally killed on a street in Tokyo.Sumiko's father uses the key to open a train-station locker where he finds a diary written by a sadistic serial killer who believes he is Akuma, the Japanese mythological devil who can bring misfortune to all who see him.Sumiko uses the information in the letter and the dead-woman's identity to get a lucrative job at a popular nightclub where she meets Mark Kellner, an American journalist working in Japan. When the killer learns of Sumiko's ruse, Sumiko and Mark are drawn into a web of terror spun by a madman who will use any means, no matter how cruel, to get his diary before it becomes public information.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nothing in life comes out as planned; instead, life is a canoe without a paddle, flowing down river. Wherever the canoe happens to bump the shoreline is where your life begins to navigate its future. These are the beliefs that Edward 'Eddy' Fallon developed about his life. Take care of number one.Typically, those of Irish ancestry, born in America, refer to themselves as Irish-American but they are Irish as much as Afro-Americans are African. Edward considered himself Irish/American, with the Irish part most dominant. The 'depression' era attitudes encouraged the corruption of legislators, law enforcers and yes, the Catholic Church. All of this molded Edward Fallon's life. The goal of most Irish mothers was for the boys to become a priest or a policeman. Ed Fallon began his youth one way and soon went the other, from Altar Boy, to Boston Policeman, to hired Mafia killer. From romance to rape, tenderness to torture, kind hearted to cruel he became a man with many oxymoronic features.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I was born in the flat fertile Mississippi Delta in 1940. I grew up in a white clapboard plantation house, on the heels of the Great Depression, when cotton was still running the show in the south, and well before the Civil Rights Movement.Love took me out of the Delta, and it was love that brought me back, for there are some things that cannot be forgotten or left behind. So, here it is. After all the years that have come and gone, here is a Delta girl seeing the grand old South through a window, all but closed now.There were days hot enough to melt lead, and bitter winters that tested and forged the human spirit. And in a way, that's how I felt looking back on it. There we all were, scratching at the ground for our white gold and imagining the world beyond the cotton rows. It's my life and a heritage of pride in my homeland, my view of America, of family, of love, and ultimately of the House Not Made With Hands. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A young chemist develops a revolutionary new energy efficiency system. One that the all-powerful utilities and the government will do anything to stop .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To protect her family, Sarah Whitman is forced to kill two intruders at her ranch who are fleeing from the law after a government robbery. Those murders haunt her as she searches for her missing husband in the raw frontier town of Fort Worth, Texas during the post-Civil War era. Accompanied by her teenage daughter, infant son, and their pet dog, Sarah is aided in her quest by a saloon madam, a Shakespeare quoting newspaper owner, a young deputy marshal, an alcoholic attorney, and, through it all, the memories of her deceased father. Hounding her every move is a private investigator, Jack Kilpatrick, who suspects Sarah has knowledge of the stolen funds.The search leads Sarah into a courtroom where lynch law threatens to explode, to a remote Indian village to rescue her son, and, finally, to a sanatorium where she finds the clue that leads to her husband and allows her to Return to the Bosque.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Demented scientist Dr. Benjamin Smith has developed an experimental serum to unleash a horrifying epidemic upon the United States. Solution 222, originally meant to cure the most deadly strains of cancer, is mysteriously transforming the dead into mindless, flesh-eating zombies. The Earth is soon infested, and anyone who comes into contact with them is infected.Cloned by International Government Cloning to rid the world of zombies, children of the future are only images of what they once were. When Project IGC doctors realize that they've made a mistake, they attempt to destroy their property. The cloned children fight to escape to Eden, a place on Earth where the dead shall rest, and the living can roam peacefully. But Dr. Carey Smith, Dr. Benjamin Smith's like-minded daughter, has taken the formula to a whole new level. Will this deranged physician continue her father's twisted legacy.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Erik is only a young boy when he first discovers his great passion for music. Just before his third birthday, he listens to his mother playing the piano, and with excitement, he realizes his life will always be filled with music. Sadly though, along with that powerful and comforting emotion, there is also sorrow. Erik's mother fears him because of his facial deformity, and he is forever scarred by her rejection. His father loves and protects him and tries to guide his young son's rapidly growing genius mind and disturbed heart. Nevertheless, Erik's soul begins to fill with loathing for the world that shuns him, causing him to wage a fierce battle between murderous hatred and compassionate love. Erik's temper erupts violently at times, endangering the lives of those around him as well as his own. Ultimately, he is abandoned and left alone to battle not only a world destined to cause him harm but also his tortured heart.Discover the astonishing life of Erik, and journey into the private world and intimate thoughts of the man known as the Phantom of the Opera. Be with him as he struggles to balance his brilliant mind and tormented soul.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kansas City in the 1940s is full of corruption and danger. As the city moves from home rule to state control, law enforcement agencies struggle to overcome the criminal element on the street. But when a young Kansas City socialite, Leigh St. Marie, is found murdered in her bed, Detective Sergeant John Walker and his partner, Detective Lieutenant James R. O'Malley, become part of an elite task force of incorruptible police officers assigned to the grisly investigation.Spurred by the pressure of an impending election, the task force is pushed to come to rapid conclusion and arrest. Even though the evidence doesn't warrant it, O'Malley is ordered to arrest Leigh's brother for the crime. But when another woman is murdered, the police wonder if they have a serial killer on their hands. With time running out and pressure mounting from above, O'Malley and Walker hit the streets-hopefully before the killer strikes again.Brimming with suspense and high-speed action, Beyond Remorse portrays the seedy underbelly of crime and the heroic acts of one city's police force.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - BEYOND DUTYThe continuing story of Lt. Jeff Lacy is dangerous and sad. The story opens with Jeff's participation in a Top Secret mission to observe Russian Submarine missile tests. When he has a change of duty station Jeff lands in the middle of a dangerous plot and his beloved wife Molly is killed. In despair Jeff retires from the Navy and soon finds himself working as an agent for the CIA in the United Arab Emirates. While there he becomes partners in the Mid East Construction Company which leads him into unexpected and interesting situations. Jeff finally tracks down Molly's killer.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lieutenant John Halloway is called to a crime scene on a cold and rainy night in the middle of downtown Vegas. Once there, in the small, grassy court yard in front of the Courthouse, he finds a man bound to a make-shift cross, naked, all of his sneses brutally mutiliated. The only clues are a note left hanging around his neck and a message burned into the man's forehead.As John and his partner, Detective Laura Griffin begins their investigation they soon find out that this is only the beginning. Before they can even close the first case, they are called out to yet another one. The Guardian proceeds to take out one predator at a time. The only clues that he leaves are his calling card, signiture messges. He is like a ghost.The numbers of the victims is adding up, however suddenly there is a new evil in town and things have gone from bad to worse.Unable to find their suspect, having nothing to go on but what he chooses to give them, Halloway and Griffin are finally forced to instill the help, talents and resources of the very person they are themselves trying to find.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When H. Richardson, a young dedicated patrolman is asked to join a group of veteran detectives he sees it as an opportunity to rise in the department. This has been his dream, to be a cop-to be a detective. He will soon learn about the streets and about the choices that forces dedicated cops over the edge-all in the name of good. He will find that sometimes it is dangerous on both sides of the line and he will take you on that journey as he crosses that line in this novel-Lines Crossed.You are taken deep inside the inner-workings of a narcotics unit and their procedures from working with informants-to the undercover, and the arrest. Also shown is the corruption that goes on by the police and prosecutors. Richardson incorporates his personal and love life and how it is affected by his undercover work to make this and enjoyable fast-paced read.This is a poignant tale with lessons for everyone-police officers, hustlers and the common citizen. You will learn that there are good people on the streets and behind the badge and what forces them over the edge.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Georgia, 1972. After Helen Harmon drops her three children off at school andher husband, Jerry, leaves for his job as a security guard at the state prison,she heads to her office at the Winkler Outdoor Advertising Company inValdosta, Georgia-and is never heard from again.The Harmon family can't believe that Helen would simply vanish, but thethought of foul play is just too horrible to contemplate. Weeks and monthspass, and the family comes to slowly realize that something horrendous andtragic happened the summer of 1972.Helen and Jerry's son, thirteen-year-old Harold, takes the loss especiallyhard. Since his father is an emotional wreck, and his older sister moves away,Harold takes on the heavy responsibility of helping his younger sister copewith the loss. But his mother's inexplicable disappearance haunts him. If hecould only have the closure that every person who loses a loved one needsand wants, maybe he could somehow get on with his life.Harold grows to maturity, still longing for the mystery to be solved, eventhough it appears to be hopeless. But when a startling discovery is made bytwo brothers, it ignites a community's mandate for the truth, sending Haroldon a quest to uncover the long-buried reality for himself.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The night we left Middlesboro, Kentucky, was a cold blue night. As we past by the stock barnwhere we had been so many times before in the warmth of a beautiful sunny day, I thought tomyself, 'Something tells me I will never see this place again.' There was no heat in the car, andthe bitter icy cold winds blew up through the back seat where Linda Gail and little Junebug satholding each other, wrapped in a quilt shivering, but without saying a word. We were so cold,and I was so angry. As I silently wept, I must have dozed off. When I woke, it was daylight, andwe were in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I looked out the window and my first thought was, 'The onlydifference between this place and Hell is-fire and ice.' And if I had thought for one second thatWisconsin was Hell on earth, I was really in for a rude awakening.We arrived in downtown Detroit on a Greyhound bus in the wee hours of the night, right afterthe riots. Never in all my life had I ever seen such a wretched place.Johnnie Sue Bridges.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While the story of HENRY is not intended to convert, nor otherwise sway any disbelief or anonymous stance on the subjects of religion, reincarnation, or sexual preference, rather to consider the possibility of a resolution for the complexities of coincidence and any personal recurrent experience, in some unknown purpose often referred to as destiny. Or more aptly put, what would you do if this happened to you Supposedly, a Victorian English priest in a religious scandal, and a pregnant parishioner's wrongful death were the reasons set forth by the invisible spirit for his provident return. Also, a necessary lesson in open-communication, in order to avert such similar incidents in the present. Although, a sister's thwarted suicide as a result of severities in contrast to her mother's lesbian lover, and a disquieted brother's subsequent guilt for his lack of insightful support may have been the real historical situation for the ghost's rather prominent concerns. My purpose was considerately threefold: to understand the paranormal episode or systemic experience from a sensible and realistic viewpoint, to unravel the possible identity of the spirit in question, and to purport the paranormal cause and effect as further evidence for the probability of life after death.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Justin Collins is just an ordinary family man until a series of world events changes everybody's lives. A gas cloud is found in the far reaches of space heading towards Earth. The scientists and the government say it poses no damage to the inhabitants on Earth. What will the people do How will they react when it is here What will happen after the cloud leaves What would you do if your life turned upside down Would you act the same way.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mitch LaNue, a steadfast, hard-fisted, head-strong young man, is self-conscious of his lack of education. He has the ambition to rise above poverty and be respected, but his compassion for the underdog and his great devotion to country and honor could destroy him.One of five children, Mitch grows up in Brooklyn. When the effects of the Great Depression and the loss of a valuable patent devastate his father, Mitch's extremely juvenile mother is at liberty to raise the children in her own infantile way. Mitch's older brother Paul, keen minded and without scruples, is always scheming with ingenious swindles and knows he can con anyone. He respects no one and believes strongly in self-preservation-at anyone's expense. Victor, the youngest LaNue brother, is a cynic from a life of many disappointments. He doesn't know which brother to look up to: the bold, violent fighter or the resourceful con artist. In forming their manhood, Mitch and his brothers' personalities differ in morality, wants, and needs-but all three are determined to survive by methods inherited from their youth. From the 1929 stock market crash, through World War II, and into the Korean War, If I Die, I'll Only Be Dead recounts Mitch's life as he lives by his own unique philosophy.…