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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Journalist Steve Muehler gets more than he bargained for when he flies to North Dakota to research a little-known cult led by a reclusive figure who calls himself 'Mule Hair.'From the airport, he's taken to the tiny town of Wahpeton, and from there to an old opera house that is the hub of Mule Hair's compound. The fully stocked bar with red and white wines, marijuana, and psychedelic mushrooms is a signal of things to come. Then, High Priestess Abigail, a stunning woman wearing all black, leads him to Mule Hair, who is looking down at the world from his loft and wearing black leather gloves and a smoking jacket autographed by Hugh Hefner.Mueller has only just begun to take in the eccentricities of Mule Hair and his devoted group of followers. For the next seven weeks, he will participate in a series of dark rituals that includes drugs, autoerotic asphyxiation, the eating of placenta pot pies, forbidden sex, and much more. Join Mueller as he enters a secretive world. Here, the concern is not so much the journey that Mule Hair and his followers are on; it is how that journey will end.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The trilogy is complete as Richard Stern, the FBI, and mysterious events come together. An angel must be guiding Mr. Stern from Ohio to Oregon as he continues to harass the enemy as only Mr. Stern can do. Call it luck, great premonition or both, but Stern unintentionally baffles the enemy. Terrorist leaders must change their plans to assault Middle America. The terrorist leaders continuously revise and downsize the plan as Richard Stern finds pieces of the terrorist puzzle. Stern keeps the FBI informed. Even the FBI has a tough time deciphering and believing the information from the alcoholic. Agents Ron Roman and Bill Wright use Stern's information to drive a wedge into the gears of terrorism.The crime fighter's efforts receive additional help from two highly unusual sources. Alert citizens and legends are factors that derail the terrorist's plan. Terrorist leaders are forced into abandoning schemes to hold whole towns hostage. They downsize the operation and move to a softer target.Two cities compete in a boat race. These two party boats become the targets. The FBI is confronted with the emotionally charged hostage situations. The suicide bombers have little chance of success. FBI agents have two choices and both are considered suicidal.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An extraordinarily entertaining look inside the film industry .'-Pierce Brosnan, award-winning actor and producerA veteran of over fifty years in the film industry, Robert E. Relyea gives a behind-the-scenes, first-person look into Hollywood's moviemaking landscape during the pre- and post-Kennedy years in America.Not So Quiet on the Set is Elvis Presley wishing for a normal life during a break in recording the soundtrack for Jailhouse Rock. It's dealing with street gangs and studio politics while making West Side Story. It's trying to stay alive while working side by side with John Wayne on The Alamo. It's crashing an authentic Nazi warplane against a hillside in Germany during The Great Escape. It's getting fired by the studio while filming Bullitt in San Francisco and it's battling runaway budgets and Steve McQueen's demons in France while making Le Mans.Not So Quiet on the Set presents rare insights into the mechanics and politics of filmmaking and helps define a dynamic period in Hollywood history. A unique collaboration between father and son, it is a real-life adventure that not only illustrates how the movie industry really works but provides a revealing portrait of Hollywood's loss of innocence.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's 1167, the Year of the Boar. A child is born in the northern regions of Mongolia and he will emerge as one of the greatest leaders in history. In a lawless and brutal environment of freezing winters and scorching summers, Temujin or Chinggis Qan will grow to unite his people -- and forge an invincible machine that will rock the civilized world.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dan Bollom believes there are no unimportant jobs. Thus, there are no unimportant people. In this refreshingly honest memoir, Bollom relates how this down-to-earth philosophy shaped his success in life.Throughout his early years in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Bollom experienced first-hand the difficulties and sacrifices of the Great Depression and World War II, but he also enjoyed the simple pleasures of life. Whether it was the circus coming to town, hunting and fishing near their Spring Brook shanty for the family meal, or participating in the local softball team, Bollom learned valuable lessons about hard work, dedication, and the necessity of laughter.Bollom's persistence and drive to succeed paid off. He graduated from college and landed a job at Wisconsin Public Service as an accountant. With steady determination, he moved up the ranks through the years, married and had a family, and never lost sight of his goals, eventually achieving the rank of president and CEO of the company, a position he retired from in 1997.Candid and humorous, What Makes Dan Bollom So Tall intimately shows how one man's success was not an end, but a never-ending journey.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dr. Mike Bluesman, an ex-navy scientist and his band of musicians team up with a group of Navy Seals to fight Carl Winterspoon and his army of mercenaries, who are trying to take over the Mexican oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. While doing this they come into contact with several of Winterspoon's sea creatures that he has designed to poison the oyster and shrimp beds of the Gulf Coast. During their encounters with these creatures some of the team are injured and require heroic measures by Dr. Bluesman and the Navy to save them. Non-stop action from start to finish. The musicians join forces to stop the creatures and Winterspoon before any other harm comes to their group.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Dinner was the time we all sat together and enjoyed Mom's cooking, but it was also the place we discussed the day, argued, laughed and basically caught up with each other. One thing Mom and Dad taught us was that 'no one' ate before the other. We always waited for each other and we all waited for Dad to sit down to start. What I remember the most was how good everything tasted. With a limited amount of money Mom created an abundance of easy, ethnic, earthy and Italian dishes. I have written this book for her and it is my hope that you will enjoy cooking her recipes as much as she loved Cooking For Her Family.'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - About the Christian Right's attempt to impose their religious beliefs on the Nation via political action and to eliminate the 'Separation of church and state' as defined by U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The book details Christianity's long, cruel bloody history whenever 'Christian' leaders meddled in civic affairs and recent attempts to substitute biblical beliefs for science in public education.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The purpose of this book is to provide women the missing components that usually discourage women at the novice level of working out, designing workout routines, and changing their lifestyle. The motivation, leadership, passion, and exercise information are packaged inside my book for positive results. The foundation of weight training and physical activity will change your body, mind, and perception of the artistic qualities that are hidden inside you. Naturally, the book will help you to successfully move ahead and improve your workout methods. The goal is to change women psychological perspective about the modern physical activity. The mission is for you to 'look good', 'feel better', and 'live longer'. Therefore, relax, focus and use the book to your advantage and enjoy success in sports, health/fitness, and in your profession. Stay Strong by Jeff Henry.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'On Wings of Hope - From Berlin to Caracas'is set in Europe, the Middle East, East Africa, and Venezuela. The book chronicles the adventures and misadventures of the family and follows the life of young daughter Ruthmarie.Her father, James Goerke, though Aryan, is involved in anti-Hitler activities and thrown into concentration camps on three different occasions. After his release the third time, he is forbidden to exercise his trade. This proved to be the proverbial 'last straw that broke the camel's back'. He makes the decision to flee from the horror that was Germany in the 1930s. Goerke is 37 years old.Priority number one is to look for a car, - though he doesn't know how to drive. A ten-year old Chevrolet convertible coupé catches his eye and, because he can't afford anything better, he puts down the money.His is a daring venture, to say the least. He packs his family of five into the car and they leave in the dark of night because he doesn't dare inform the landlord, lest he in turn inform the authorities. On their way to a waiting job in Afghanistan, they travel through Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. The all-too-small car becomes home for many months. Along the way they overcome difficulties, problems and anti-German sentiment, but nothing deters Goerke. He focuses only on the future and never laments leaving his homeland.In Turkey their travels almost come to an end when he is offered a job to build a zoological garden in Ankara. Within a few months the project is well underway. Unfortunately Kemal Pascha, the Head of State, dies and the nation is plunged into mourning. The sad part for the family is that the new ruler is is pro-Hitler and eventually terminates the family's resident visa. They are deported.Lebanon offers them asylum and Goerke gets a job as curator in the museum of natural history at the American University in Beirut. Two wonderful years come to an end when WW II breaks out. The family falls into British hands and they are interned. Goerke repeatedly asks for permission to help the Allied Cause, preferably in Agriculture.The first camp the family is sent to is in Palestine. There Goerke is summoned to the Camp Office and informed that the family would be sent to Africa. He was shown the order, which clearly stated that he was NOT TO BE INTERNED. On the uncomfortable train trip to Suez, German bombers dropped several bombs on the transport. In Suez, together with hundreds of other refugees, they are herded onto a ship, men and women separated, the former making the trip in the hold of the ship.They reach Mombassa and are ferried by truck to a waiting train, which takes them to the first of many crude and inhospitable camps. The first thing they see is barbed wire and Goerke realizes the deception. Instead of FREEDOM, they are interned during the following seven years.Two years after the war ends they are declared 'free citizens', though they have nowhere to go. Goerke refuses to be repatriated. Venezuela offers them asylum, but other challenges greet them: A new language and surprising customs, a different culture, as well as lack of employment and money. - - They struggle to make ends meet and gradually climb out of hopelessness.The seemingly impossible dream of having their own nevertheless becomes reality and Goerke shirks no job. He builds an access road and accomplishes the feat of building their home single-handed! The day they move in is a proud day! even if they had to sleep on the bare floor.One by one the youngsters get married, have children and move away from the 'old home'. However, the bond formed through the difficult years is strong and keeps them united, at times in spite of new in-law 'interference'. Ruthmarie's is a happy marriage, producing three children who become the center of her life.But the years weighed heavy on the old patriarch. He died at 75, leaving a big void in Ruthmarie's lif.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Contains more than 1,500 contemporary, enlightening, humorous cryptic acronyms for text messaging'--Dust jkt.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Continuing with the saga of the family Taelmann (anglicized to Talman, Tallman, Tollman, Talma, etc.), GOD BLEW AND THEY WERE SCATTERED, BOOK II, Peter's People (The Colonial Years), the author, Genevieve Tallman Arbogast, has, from extant records, laced together events that would have defined the lives of descending generations. This narrative begins in Denmark, in Schleswig-Holstein. As the map changes years later, with the end of the Thirty Years' War (1614-1648), Denmark will be sharing a political life in common with Germany and Sweden, as will the formerly independent city-state of Hambrough. However, when the allied families of Talman and de Lichte arrived in Schleswig-Holstein, it was under the jurisdictional rule of a German prince, Duke John Adolphus, who would within five years of their arrival ascend to the throne of Scandinavia as Christian IV of Denmark. For the purposes of this undertaking, however, it will suffice to say that Holstein's records, then and now, can claim a German heritage. The allied families of Taelmann and de Lichte arrived in Schleswig-Holstein about 1583, following their narrow escape from the Spanish Netherlands. Prior to their migration, they had been threatened by the rejuvenated Spanish Inquisition, revived during the Counter-Reformation movement of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century. As disclosed in Book I, the Jesuits of that movement were responsible for the burnings of so many so-called Protestant' heretics that their crimes against humanity have been compared to that of Hitler's modern day holocaust. As time elapses, the children of the next generation are caught up in the wars of Scandinavia, which evolves to eventually draw theminto the conflicts of the Thirty Years' War.' As might be expected, several members of the Taelmann family are lost on the battlefield. As a result, the elder Peter Taelmann tries to convince his fourth generation sons to leave Schleswig for opportunities in the New World. That begins an adventure for young Peter Taelmann (Talman), which, in 1647, takes him to the Island of Barbados, where he accepts a position on Island Plantation, under the employ of Philip Hill. During his tenure of almost three years, in the capacity of physician and apothecary, he strives to rehabilitate abused and injured African captives, who are being brought to the island by Captain le Blanc, the slaver. The care-for-work agreement, between the planter and the captain of the Africaneer, makes it possible for failing Island Plantation to continue growing tobacco. The struggle to return the traumatized victims to health, while running a plantation, brings many poignant moments, introducing such delightful characters as Matilda, Prissy, and Mingoe. Rudie Braithewaite and his wife Evie, who operate a tavern on the wharf at Surinam, bring color to the narrative as they introduce the young physician to the island and its history, before they become victims of the burgeoning slavery business. As matters become intense on the island, safety for the inhabitants of Island Plantation becomes a concern. Mistress Hill urges her husband to return with her and their daughter to their former home in Newport, Rhode Island. However, obsessed with the idea of again making the plantation profitable, Hill, instead, begins to search for backing to convert his 'cash crop' from tobacco to sugar cane. Those plans include thedevelopment of a shipping service, necessary to transport sugar and its by-products to the North American mainland for exportation to Europe. In the interim, the young physician becomes attracted to the planter's beautiful daughter; and, as the attraction is reciprocal, Miss Ann manipulates Peter into riding with her to exercise her father's thoroughbred horses. As he is taught the skills of an equestrian, many evenings are spent riding along a sandy stretch of beach, which separates Island Plantation from the Atlantic Ocean. T.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Her writings from the Fresno Herald, the San Francisco Examiner, The Chinese Student's Monthly, the Peking Chronicle, and other periodicals are collected in this volume in order to supplement Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan'--Dust jacket.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fiery crash at a remote air force base in the Azores archipelago takes the lives of five USAF airmen and a civilian farmer. Captain Jim Welch joins the ensuing accident investigation. After a finding of pilot error, it is determined that the crash was no accident. Absent a logical explanation, a criminal investigation begins. Several suspects surface each having motive, means and opportunity. A briefcase found at the crash scene leads Welch and Alberto Zagame, an irascible local lawyer, through a complex web of evidence and relationships as the investigation unfolds on two continents. An apparent suicide is thought to provide answers, but an autopsy reveals that death also to be murder. The protagonist grasps the connection, and is certain he knows who the killer is, but not that he can prove it. He is very nearly another murder victim before the truth is revealed in a confrontation with the killer. The main characters are introduced in the early chapters, and flash backs examine their personas. Relationships are rooted in the aerial combat arena of WW II and the culture of pre war America. As the criminal investigation winds to its climax, a penetrating overview of the military justice system of the era is offered. History, mystery and romance along with an introduction to the islands' beauty and Portuguese culture are all captured in this saga. …

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