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For some reason or another, author Linda Moore always ended up with bad people throughout her journey. She had a strange, unexplainable resistance to anything good that came her way. In Her Troubled Life, she shares her story of living a wild and tormented life. In this memoir, she candidly and honestly tells in flashbacks how being abused by her father at tender age set a dark tone for the rest of her life. Moore narrates how rapes, attempted suicides, abuse, character assassinations, infidelity, want, misery, and pain were some of her closest companions. Her Troubled Life details how Moore was blessed with musical talent, but for many years she did not take advantage of her opportunities. She met a Swiss man who helped turn her life around. A story that could be a study of humanity, Her Troubled Life discusses how one womans lifelong development was affected by an anguished childhood. It reveals Moore fullya real woman who bears the effect of what others have done to her and what she has done to herself.
Israeli and American intelligence agents must scramble to uncover the secret ancient Muslim sect, risen from the annals of history, and stop them before they are able to remake the world in their own bloody image. It's 1990 and Israeli and American intelligence agents must scramble to uncover the secret ancient Muslim sect, risen from the annals of history, and stop them. While the various intelligence and investigation agencies trip and stumble, often over each other, they seem helpless against an ancient Bedouin sect, who is careful not to leave any loose ends. But the clock is ticking. Secret formulas for a powerful chemical weapon have been stolen from a disintegrating USSR arsenal. An ancient sect, whose very name caused the Crusaders to shake with fear, is back. and have recovered the formula. They plan to use it to usher in a new age of Muslim supremacy. Will the Western powers be able to stop them before it's too late.
After a death at The White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy Georgia, to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey, he sweeps through society, revealing the highest and lowest in human nature and only slowly coming to self-understanding. He searches the points of the compass for what will help, groping for a place where he can feel content, certain that he has no place where he belongs and that he rides the rails through a great darkness. His difficult path to collect enough radiance to light his w...
Gripping and tragic, Dalko is the definitive story of Steve “White Lightning” Dalkowski, baseball’s fastest pitcher ever. Dalko explores one man’s unmatched talent on the mound and the forces that kept ultimate greatness always just beyond his reach. For the first time, Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Fastest Pitcher unites all of the eyewitness accounts from the coaches, analysts, teammates, and professionals who witnessed the game’s fastest pitcher in action. In doing so, it puts readers on the fields and at the plate to hear the buzzing fastball of a pitcher fighting to achieve his major league ambitions. Just three days after his high school graduation in 1957, Steve Da...