After Writing My Memoirs I was encouraged by my Wife and kids to chance my arm at writing a 'Fiction Novel'It took me a long time thinking about what I could write about and finally coming to the conclusion that everything that could be written had all ready been done before; so, I set about creating a story that had a different slant on the Crime Novel's; TV crime series; films about Thieves and Villains; Cops and Robber's etc.Hoping that I have achieved this and also hopi...

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Learning Python!**Includes FREE Digital Bonuses! GitHub Repository, Cheat Sheets, and More!**Learn Why QuickStart Guides are Loved by Over 1 Million Readers Around the WorldLearn Python fundamentals that can be used in any programming setting – use the guidance in this book to program your own game in a unique and practical Python learning experience.The Easiest Way to Learn Python in ...

THE ULTIMATE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO LEARNING JAVASCRIPT!**Includes FREE Digital Bonuses! GitHub Repository, Cheat Sheets, and More!**Learn Why QuickStart Guides are Loved by Over 1 Million Readers Around the WorldMaster the most popular programming language in the world. Learn how to bring websites to life with the power of JavaScript, add dynamic interactivity and rich animations to otherwise dull webpages, all with the versatile progra...

A spiritual Lectio Divinia on the Apostle Paul's Letter to Philemon. Onesimus, the main character of the letter, comes alive as he wrestles with sin and redemption, in a reflective process that walks the reader through the letter, and on to the path to salvation.

Claire Bedard, a young, successful marketing director in Boston, is completing her morning run in the Common when the man of her dreams quite literally crashes into her. The man, Ryan James, is an aspiring chef restaurateur in the city, and has been in love with Claire since he first saw her. His plan to casually meet her goes awry, but ends with a request for coffee the following day. They immediately fall in love, and together begin a beautiful relationship.What Claire doesn't kno...

Simon who was Peter returned as it had begun to get dark, he had to work quickly, he and his men had only three hours before the dawn of the Sabbath. He hoped that the Nazarene hadn’t suffered, he hoped the mixture of gall and the potion that was concocted had been enough to convince the Sanhedrin and the Romans of his death. He’d been forced to bribe the guard to break the legs of both of the men on the other two crosses to convince the centurion that they were in fact dead. He’d hoped th...

The images and characters in Robert Brown's novel The Sleeping Ute will stay with you long after you close the book.The book follows a retired police officer who finds himself starting over on a remote Colorado Indian Reservation and dealing with people and their difficulties at a level never felt before. The backdrop for the tale is a mountain range that resembles an Indian warrior sleeping, The Sleeping Ute.More than a work of fiction, the book explores metaphysical exper...

Author's note: I'm in my mid-eighties, and I've just finished writing this collection of poems drawn from my boyhood years. They're not poems about my early life-they're poems from my early life.Each poem arose from a separate journey. I went back, became the boy I once was, then took a snapshot of something happening in that place and time.The place is a small farming and coal mining community in Western Pennsylvania. The time is my boyhood years, 1929-1937 or thereabouts....

The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus**and Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries.In 1988 the University of Alabama Press published Robert Oliver Mellown’s The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus, a culmination of a decade’s worth of research into both the facts and the legends surrounding the architecture, history...

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from one bid project to the next. As Olympic bids become more deeply embedded in urban development and b...

The images and characters in Robert Brown's novel The Sleeping Ute will stay with you long after you close the book.The book follows a retired police officer who finds himself starting over on a remote Colorado Indian Reservation and dealing with people and their difficulties at a level never felt before. The backdrop for the tale is a mountain range that resembles an Indian warrior sleeping, The Sleeping Ute.More than a work of fiction, the book explores metaphysical experie...

This is the true life story of Oliver Roberts de La Fontaine, who was the last of the Wells Fargo Shotgun express messengers. Taken from his notes and journals, the book tells of his days in the early West as a rancher, miner, saloon keeper, gambler, and lawman, including his adventures of coming into contact with stage robbers and other lawless persons in California and Nevada. Later in life, Roberts de la Fontaine came to "The Walter Method," referring to its promulgator—and compiler of ...