Xlibris apr 2004 (12 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ss than a lifetime ago, Georgia was pretty much as it had been a hundred years before that. Fields of King Cotton flanked a seemingly endless network of dirt roads and much of the landscape was peppered with tenant farms and sharecropper shacks. Although the distance was only about 30 miles, Newton County seemed a long way from Atlanta.This book deals with one segment of life in those earlier times. It is a story generally about the Vaughn and Thomason families and their backgrounds, but it focuses on Glenn and Sallie Vaughn, my parents. Some of the folks in those shacks were us.The purpose here is a selfish one. It is to put down for my children and grandchildren what we know about our family background, warts and all. Perhaps because of this effort the more curious members of our younger generations will be helped in their family research.It was curiosity that got me into this. Some years ago I decided to try my hand at family research and before long discovered there was a deep, dark secret back there somewhere. And, I have not been able to get to the bottom of it. The truth is we may not be Vaughns, we may be Winns.The story goes that my great grandmother, originally Margaret Elizabeth Sutherland of Abbeville County, South Carolina, ran away in the middle of the night in 1886 with her five children, one a babe in arms, and, one James P. Vaughn. We just don't know the whole story. Maybe this book will help solve the mystery.Mainly this is about two remarkable persons, Sallie Cleo Thomason and Glenn Vaughn who dealt unbelievably well with the many unusual twists and turns in their livesand hardships they encountered while raising 10 children.Most remarkable is that neither of them would refer to any of their experiences as hardships. They were not ones to complain or blame someone else for their shortcomings. When something had to be done, no matter how difficult, they just did it. They were happy and thankful.My five sisters, four brothers, five brothers-in-law, and four sisters-in-law, all, to some degree helped along the way. The in-laws deserve medals for putting up with hearing so many Vaughn stories told and retold over the years. Thanks to one and all. Special thanks go to several: To my sister Sallie Jeanette Knapp for the sketches she did; to nephews Stuart and Glenn Ozburn and Benjamin Lott for their sketches; to my son, Robert (Bobby) Vaughn for, among other things, working up the computer composite picture of Sallie and Glenn in a Modal T.My apologies for the poor quality of so many of the pictures. There are almost no pictures of Sallie and Glenn in their young years and precious few when they were older.Glenn Vaughn Jr., Columbus, GA.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by a former midnight shift police officer, this novel is based on the Miami River cops case.Set in South Florida during the 1980s, this taut action packed novel takes the reader through the crime-ridden turbulent era when a group of young and veteran police officers employed aggressive and unconventional methods on the midnight shift.Entwined with the realities of fighting crime and violence, the central character, Marcos Falcon, describes the dangers and adventures along with the bizarre and humorous wild antics of the close-knit crew. It takes you from the academy to patrol, through a major city riot and the famous multi-million dollar drug rip-off.The exploits of the Renegade Crew are boundless.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A STAIRCASE VIEW: FAITH IN AMERICA is a collection of essays in culture criticism, centering on the need for a rebirth of faith in our nation, belief in America itself, its essentially Judeo-Christian and republican heritage. There is also the sense of an objective look back, from the perspective of older years, at the status of faith and/or culture in -within-our country in the modern era.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Raising the Bar defines Ruth Bader Ginsburg's contribution to American constitutional law through her efforts as professor, lawyer, and women's rights advocate. Focusing on the years 1971 to 1980, it explores the decade during which Ginsburg founded and was general counsel to the ACLU Women's Rights Project. Several scholars have undertaken similar analyses in the past, but the missing ingredient has long been Ginsburg's own perspective, now available through her donation of private papers. Raising the Bar pinpoints Ginsburg's role in the progression of her complicated, multi-layered strategy to combat gender discrimination from theory to implementation.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Love and Dreams is a romance set in the context of New York society in a period that spans the last century. The story is woven into New York's richly textured social history and the rituals established by New York's first settlers: the WASP gentry and the German-Jewish aristocracy. Love and Dreams tells of friendship and of love. Love is powerful and the characters of this story3/4Ogden Graves, Bandit and Charlotte Hutchins, Henley and Hayes Buchanan, Andy Morgan, Alice Munro Gonzalez, Vera Whitmore, and others3/4are touchingly human. A story of friendship and love is always a story of loss. People die. Those left behind must try to transcend the limitations of life on this earth. The friends are helped by each other. They are helped by imagined or real invisibles. . . angels devoted to preserving remembrance. The characters of Love and Dreams live in a world of unqualified privilege and experience. As we join them in their struggles and triumphs, we understand them only too well. Their names may be Ogden or Charlotte or Andy. But they are really ourselves. 'It's about time she shared with us her remarkable insight into human life. . .what she has seen to be true of women. . .and, of particular note in Love and Dreams,to be true of men.' --Mary-Leighton Land Smith.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I was sort of hiding from two guys who either thought we were in business together or who wanted to kill me. 'Sort of hiding' because I could have left town and been relatively safe, but Las Vegas, NV has so many wonderful things to see and do that I decided to go to a topless rollerskating show instead. 'Sort of hiding' because I was fairly sure that the guys in question would take Door Number Two and try to shoot me, a lot. Why me I'm T. R. Macdonald, a sort-of unemployed broker/analyst from the boutique - we handle a small number of very rich clients - firm of Fields, Smith, and Barkman. My sort-of girlfriend Kandi had asked me to go to Vegas to see if I could talk to her cousin Chet, because she thinks his adoptive father, Dr. Woodrow Shaw, may be nuts. Are you getting all this There will be a quiz. Dr. Shaw asked me to go, too, and he offered to pay. It sounded like easy money. So I went. I must be nuts.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over 16,000,000 men served in the armed forces in WWII. Perhaps as many as 3%, or 480,000, had a homosexual orientation. Admittedly, several thousand were screened out before being inducted, and some later received Undesirable Discharges. 120,000 of these men saw combat action, and undoubtedly hundreds were killed, and thousands were wounded. Jack Scott, by far the most outstanding seventeen-year-old in a small town in Arkansas, is forced to confront this problem both at home and in the military. This story is his, and to a degree, the stories of his family, his friends, and his comrades in combat. The problem is handled sympathetically, if realistically.…