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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'FIRST THING YOU DO, IS NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR PREY'A wolf can sleep through a blizzard. He can run over a hundred miles without a rest. He can go days without water. He eats a third of his weight in one meal. He can pick up the scent of a prey for over a mile away. He is a relentless hunter who will wear down his prey until it drops from exhaustion no matter how big it is. A single wolf can bring down a full grown moose. He never gives up once he has made up his mind.'Miles Coffin utters these words to a group of businessmen from New York City on a hunting trip in Alaska. Their target prey; wolves.Coffin, an authority on wolves, is hired to guide them into the wilderness. The men are Max Taylor, chairman of a cosmetics company and his sons, Giff and Andy, who are at odds with each other.Although Coffin is their guide he is also a man with a purpose; to hunt and kill Midnight, a large black wolf, with whom he has a personal vendetta.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nalley, A Southern Family Story is filled with stories that make the Nalley family come alive. This book is not a genealogical record, although genealogy is included. The opening chapter portrays the illustrious life of the enigmatic patriarch, George Burdine Nalley. An active minister in the Wesleyan church for eleven years, he fell from grace because of his involvement with another woman, and he had the audacity to bring the other woman to live in the house with his wife, Emma Burns, and their children.The next twelve chapters depict the lives of the twelve children-nine boys and three girls. Since all of them are deceased, their stories were written by their children as they remember their parents and their own childhoods. These stories give a picture of life in a less sophisticated time in the rural south when people lived off the land and had none of the modern conveniences that we enjoy today.Nalley, A Southern Family Story chronicles 170 years in the life of a family. In one chapter, the dates of births, marriages and deaths of this line of the family are interwoven into national and world events. Another chapter gives statistical information on the numerous family members, including a chronological list of the births, marriages and deaths of the twelve children and ninety-four grandchildren. Newspaper clippings are included of the obituaries of the twelve children and their spouses as well as accounts of the tragic deaths which have occurred.Information on places and events pertinent to the family is recorded. The family reunion which began the year after George Burdine's untimely death in 1914 and continues to this day. Camp meeting, where families lived for two weeks under conditions even more primitive than at home, while they worshipped their God, got caught up on family news, and renewed acquaintance with old friends. Fairview Methodist Church where many baptisms, weddings and funerals of the Nalley clan took place and where many of them are buried. Central Wesleyan College, which the Rev. G. B. Nalley was instrumental in founding.This is a book that you can sit down and read, but it is more than that. It is a reference book that you can refer to over and over again when you are discussing family, trying to remember who was older, who married first, when someone died, and the endless number of other facts and fallacies that we Nalleys talk and argue about when we get together. In addition, this book is a social history of the way life was lived 'in those days' as Daddy used to say. When I think of how much change has occurred in the last one hundred years, I am grateful that we have this written record of how our forefathers and foremothers actually lived.Here it is, as complete as I can make it-the history of the George Burdine and Emma Burns Nalley family. I hope you enjoy reading it and referring to it as much as I have enjoyed putting it together. If you have a drop of Nalley blood flowing through your veins, you will want to own a copy of this book for your library.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Other America is an epic drama of an extraordinaryfamily: of Rosa and Giovanni Manzino who flee Sicily for New Yorkat the turn of the century and their eldest son Gino who carries a secretlegacy and builds an empire in the New World.Through five generations, in the fields of Sicily, the streets of New York andthe mansions of Connecticut, Santorelli gives us a world of passionateintensity - a world where men carve out new space for themselves and women holdnew sway - a world both murderous and merciful, born of violence andsacrifice, deceit and love.Letter to the ReaderI have always been a person who hasquestioned and it has gotten me into trouble many a time, with my elders andwith those who profess to know. There were times when I felt I was a wildhorse and others were trying to break me. Thank God I had the sense to keepfighting.It was not expected in my family that Iwould write. My parents were born at the turn of the century and life in ourneighborhood in Italian Harlem was limited. Few received even a high schooleducation. Our social circle was strictly limited to a small circle of friendsand family who lived within a few square blocks. Strangers were treated withdistrust and girls - especially unmarried ones - were watched over by unclesaunts, friends and neighbors.Although my mother, Anna DeGeorge, neverimagined more for me than marriage and family, she was a true storyteller whoset my soul aflame with tales of her early childhood and passionateadventures. I was a young girl when I left my mother's house for my husband's and I had only a mile to walk to get there. Looking up, I saw a sky filledwith shadows from clouds barely moving, as if the world was still. A voiceinside whispered to me that no matter what others said or expected, my journeywould take me far beyond these short blocks. For years, I had tried to be likethe other girls. But on that moonlit night, windless and calm, my own powerbegan to rise up in me. I began a life-long marriage of another kind, one withmy own destiny and my own choices.I now have a wonderful marriage, sixchildren and three grandchildren. I have had a rich, fulfilling life, filledwith travel and dreams coming true. Yet sometimes over the years, I have foundmyself longing for something more - missing something I could not name. I feltsuch guilt for this. 'What kind of person am I, who has such an extraordinarylife, not to be always grateful for it ' I asked myself. My husband would says.