An elderly woman polishes her family dining table each day with painstaking care. A man receives a long lost letter from an uncle killed in the line of duty. A young child creates his own imaginative dialogue to 1950s television shows. Ramblings of a One-Eyed Garbage Man is Jim Hart's collection of poetry that spans literary styles to capture an urban experience with profound social concern, sardonic wit, and a humorous perspective on the world that is certain to resonate with readers and ...

The story set in 1947 Brooklyn, NY features Harry Parker, a jaded world-weary ex-cop now working as a PI. He awakes to find himself on a kidnapping case for a rich young woman, JE Collins. Her stockbroker father has been taken and she has received a severed finger in return. JE's snobby lawyer is unhappy with her choice of Harry. Even Harry is plagued by the question of why she has selected him since he's not the typical rich person's detective.Aided by Doc an uptight, honest old po...

Jim Hart's newest work, "A Handful Of Smoke", is a collection of contemporary verse. The poems cover a range of themes from urban violence to the wistfully romantic. The poems cast a blazing eye on the fallible, the optimistic, the regretful. Indeed the entire gamut of the human condition. Employing various tones including the ironic, satiric, dreamy and tender, and unique meter the poems bring to the fore our sometimes dark and sometimes rosy perspectives on modern life. While his might b...

The practical, time-tested concepts in this book will provide you with benefits on three levels: Personal, Team and Organizational. You will be introduced to a set of universal principles of leadership and life effectiveness that will help you personally be at your best more of the time. Next, you learn how to be a better team leader and team player by gaining an understanding of the eight characteristics of a winning team. Finally, you will learn a proven process to create a winning cultu...

The 24-Hour Turnaround challenges people to spend one hour reading and contemplating each of the book's 24 chapters and to make a heartfelt decision to change in the area each chapter addresses. The premise is that decisions made in those 24 hours will transform the reader's career, health, relationships, and overall attitude.The authors provide specific, doable advice, biblical affirmation, and motivating examples to help readers turn their lives around. Topics include improving se...

The greatest hurdle to change is the first step--the decision to do it. After that, anything is possible. The 24-Hour Turn-Around challenges people to spend one hour reading and contemplating each of the book's 24 short chapters and to make a heartfelt decision to change in the area each chapter addresses. Decisions made in those 24 hours will transform the reader's career, health, relationships, and overall attitude. Topics include improving self-worth, setting achievable goals, controlli...

Danger. Evil. Death. Heroes can face it all, but they cannot do it alone.Throughout history, creatures both big and small have stood alongside heroes and helped them through trying times, whether on the battlefield or in their laps. In these brand-new stories, seventeen bestselling authors regale us with adventures of animal companions and how they often are the ones rescuing the rescuer.New stories by / in the world ofJim Butcher – from

Historically, many churches and theologians defended and supported race-based slavery and subsequent forms of racial hierarchy and violence. The essays in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines argue that it is urgent that the theological disciplines engage the issue of reparations by revisiting Scripture and our theological traditions. The time is now for remembrance, reckoning, and repair.

A Visit to Planet Earth is a commentary in summary form of the Holy Bible and its principles as viewed by Sam Hartfield, who passed away in 2010. Jim Stratton and his wife, Rebecca, Sam's sister, have written this book from notes and conversations with Sam in the years before his death.We sincerely hope that this little book will not only give you insight into a basic interpretation of the Bible's core values but also that it will help you connect some of those values with the inspired Wor...

Feeling discouraged and need some encouragement?Read 31 Devotions for Writers, written by published authors who want to help encourage you in your writing through God’s written Word.Writing can often be discouraging. Some writers have spouses or children who don’t understand why they spend so much time on the computer. You may face a multitude of rejection from agents or publishers. Or you may not get encouragement in the form of reviews or be nominated for an award. So why...

The Panzerkampfwagen V Panther is one of the best-known German tanks in existence and is considered one of the greatest tanks of World War II.When in June of 1941, Germany invaded Russia, Panzertruppe encountered KV series and T-34/76 tanks, far superior in firepower and armour protection to any Panzer in service at the time. It was therefore decided to design a new more powerful medium tank, which could be quickly put into production.This book details the ...

Jim Corbett became the hero of thousands of impoverished local families in the remote Indian region of Kumaon when, throughout the 1920s and 30s, he answered their pleas to rid them of the man-eating tigers and leopards which were ravaging their populations. Man-eaters roamed a region of hundreds of square miles over several years, killing the defenceless villagers at will: for example the Champawat man-eater had killed over 434 people in six years, the Panar maneater over 400.Jim,...