The story of A Christmas Carol comes to us through movies such as Disney's A Christmas Carol. However, movies skip parts of the original story. Scrooge, American Style contains the complete Charles Dickens storyline with all the characters. This new story was written using suggestions from Stephen King's storytelling book, On Writing. I also used the writing style outlined in The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. E.B.White wrote Charlotte's Web, an ...

Mike and his son Bret were abandoned by Barb—their wife and mother. After a battle with depression she had moved back East to her parents. Now, during evenings at home, Bret plays online computer games, Mike plays online social games. The game gets serious when Mike spies Barb, who is his Facebook Friend, playing golf with their common Friend, Steve. She certainly has got over her depression quickly. Feeling lonely, Mike secretly finds an internet girlfriend on a dating site. He ...

Luke Cooper, a promising young orthopedic surgeon, lands the job of his dreams working with the world-famous sports medicine physician in France who saved Luke's life ten years earlier following a skiing injury. His new mentor, Henri DeSalvo, has a dark past and sinister plans to turn world-class athletes into puppets who can be controlled with the assistance of the Corsican mob.The aspiring doctor is a quick learner of the revolutionary surgical techniques developed by Dr. DeSalvo...

30 devotional reading from 13 staff and contributors to Desiring God.Harder than you expected. Better than a fairy tale.Marriage between sinners has its inevitable messes. If you’ve been married longer than a week or two, you know how the hard realities of life in a fallen age can come crashing in. Perhaps you had a season of “once upon a time,” but soon enough you realized that this marriage, in this world, is not yet your “happily ever after.”We w...

The skills you need to slash your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and more—by 80 percentThough we may not realize it, our behavior has tremendous effects on our health, well-being, and even gene expression. In Disease-Proof, renowned preventive medicine specialist Dr. David Katz reveals that we can reduce our risk of any chronic disease by an astonishing 80 percent—more than any drug or intervention could ever hope to do.Abundant scientific evidence shows that four s...

From Amazon #1 Bestselling Author Sam J Fires comes the complete After the End series, a thrilling post-apocalyptic survival saga that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.In this gripping collection, follow Patrick Dunn, a retired ex-cop, and Holly Winters, an escaped psychiatric patient, as they navigate a world plunged into darkness by a devastating EMP attack. With survival on...

Fish falling from the sky. Hail the size of grapefruits. These are not your ordinary weather events. Get ready to learn about some of the world’s strangest weather.

Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present a focused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of sex and nature. These discussions are particularly relevant to current debates in many discipli...

Journeys is a collection of essays, poems, and stories of adventures through time, space, fact, and fiction. The writers are members of the Peninsula Writers Bloc. The Bloc was founded to create a space for writers in the San Francisco Bay Area to share their work and encourage each other. Journeys begin with genetically special teenage Time Travelers watching the creation of human art. Next, is a memoir by an American Air Force Officer's daughter during her family's new life in ...

In the chilling aftermath of chaos, can a fractured family find hope and unity in a world forever altered by devastation?Patrick Dunn, a retired ex-cop haunted by his past, has faced relentless challenges since an EMP attack plunged the country into darkness. After navigating a brutal winter to escape Salem, he finds himself in Meadowview, desperately trying to protect his children and guide Holly, an escaped psychiatric patient turned fierce survi...

The core of this edited volume originates from a special issue of the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) that goes well beyond the special issue to incorporate the stimulating discussions and insights of two Middle East Studies Association conference roundtables and the important work of additional scholars in order to create a state-of-the-field volume on Ottoman sociolegal studies, particularly regarding Ottoman international law from the eighteenth c...

The Doomsday Warrior, Ted Rockson, barely escapes from Moscow in a hijacked MIG fighter and crash lands in the Midwest of America. But this is a post-apocalyptic 2089 AD America and he must traverse the deadly wasteland to return to one of the last outposts of freedom in the Rockies, Century City. In the meantime, the Soviet Empire is preparing their most devastating attack on the American free-fighters. Enlisting a 600,000 German, Nazi-like soldier force, Premier Vassily wants to rid his ...