Everyone dies famous is a story from the heartland about the uncommon lives of everyday people — the choices they make, how they live their lives, and how they die.1st Prize - Top Shelf Book Awards - Souithern FictionAs a tornado threatens their town, a stubborn old man who has lost his son teams up with a troubled young soldier to deliver a jukebox to the wealthy developer having an affair with the soldier’s wife. It’s July 2003 and the sm...

Because he is clever and fearless, Larry the ant is one of the Ant Queen's favorite subjects. One day when Larry is out foraging for food, he comes across one of the biggest grains of sugar he has ever seen. Sugar is one of the favorite foods of the ants and very important to the Queen ant's health. Using a short strand of spider's web, Larry ties the grain of sugar onto his back and sets off for the ant's nest. As Larry hurries back to the ant's nest he is confronted by a large praying ma...

The Red Cotton Fields is a story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer's family and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War. Readers will experience the demise of a southern plantation and follow two of the plantation's previous occupants (...

September 1953...Dancer Stonemason is three days from his major league debut. With his wife and son cheering him on, he pitches the greatest game of his life. And then loses everything.Told against the backdrop of America's postwar challenges from Little Rock to the Bay of Pigs to Viet Nam, American Past Time is the story of what happens to a man and his family after the cheering stops.

The story is about the existential highly educated, rebellious kid, whose only protection with the world outside his brilliant mind is his sarcastic wit and his subversive private school demeanor.At seventeen he finds himself still haunted by his mother’s abandonment and horrific suicide, the loneliness he felt since age five, and the emotional void that came from an absent father. The real drama is whether he can come to grips and separate fact from fiction in order to keep his ow...

Gerold Fürn spürte, wie sein Körper, sein Gesicht zerfiel. Hart krachte er auf den kalten Asphalt und zog mit letzter Kraft Marinas Kopftuch herunter. Darunter sah er ein zerfallenes, wie von Säure zerfressenes Gesicht ... Das Lid des linken Auges hing tief herab, so dass das Weiß des Augapfels und die roten, geplatzten Blutgefäße zu sehen waren. Der linke Mundwinkel hing ebenfalls herab, die Wange war an dieser Stelle ausgebeult, und er konnte in die dunkle Mundhöhle sehen, obwohl sie die...

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults?The Canadian population is growing older and is reshaping the nation’s economic, social and cultural future. However, the built and social environments of many communities, neighbourhoods and cities have not been designed to help Canadians age well.Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal narratives from older adults across Canada, this cutting-edge text provides a r...

In Engaging the Passion, Oliver Larry Yarbrough has gathered an impressive array of scholars to survey the wealth of ways in which the death of Jesus has been portrayed and represented in Scripture, liturgy and music, literature, art and film, theology, and ethics. In addition to addressing topics many readers will find familiar—gospel narratives, Holy Week services, Bach Passions, and well-known paintings—the essays also treat rap music, street art, a contemporary Buddhist Passion, Chagal...

Im alten Ägypten stirbt die Pharaonen-Tochter Nafri auf unerklärliche Weise. Der Hohepriester Ka-Chem vermutet, dass der verstoßene Priester Ak-Hom hinter diesem Anschlag steckt. Ak-Hom dient dem Dämonengott Orus! Er wird von den Wachen des Pharaos getötet! Jahrhunderte später entdeckt Mireille Lecure auf ihrem Anwesen eine Mumie: Ak-Hom! Das Böse erwacht! Eine blutige Spur führt durch Paris ... Kommissar Marcel Tolbiac bitte die PSA um Hilfe. Larry Brent und Morna Ulbrandson eilen zur Hil...

Don Harris findet in seiner Londoner Wohnung einen geflochtenen Seidenschal — eine Todesbotschaft der chinesischen Triaden? Sein Freund Terry Sheridan rät ihm, in dieser Angelegenheit dessen Bekannte Li um Rat zu bitten. Als Harris schließlich Li aufsucht, entgehen beide nur knapp einem Anschlag. Don Harris scheint in das Fadenkreuz der Triaden geraten zu sein, die ihre bösartigen Machenschaften nicht mehr nur in Asien betreiben. Oder stecken hinter all dem die Höllensöhne…?