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The heart-wrenching and suspenseful story of a young mothers effort to get to her four-year-old son who had been placed on a major airline crossing the entire continent of North America, the unbelievable obstacles this mother overcomes, which includes conquering South Holston Lake in the midst of a huge storm, putting her own life in jeopardy, making the possibility of her surviving to be reunited with her son questionable.
If you have lost someone you deeply love, or have become strongly aware of your mortality, it’s hard to avoid wondering about life after death, the existence of God, notions of heaven and hell, and why we are here in the first place. The murder of Matthew McKay’s son, Jordan, sent him on a journey in search of ways to communicate with his son despite fears and uncertainty. Here he recounts his efforts — including past-life and between-lives hypnotic regressions, a technique called induced after-death communication, channeled writing, and more. McKay, a psychologist and researcher, ultimately learned how to reach his son. In this book he provides extraordinary revelations — direct fro...
Eating contests, animatronic singing animals, dangerous dinner theater, and butchered pigs... welcome to The Wayward Irregular. An ongoing series of storytelling and essays by Matthew D. Jordan, Devil Men, Tobacco Pipes, and the Bacon Devotional is a rewritten and recompiled selection of Matthew's work from 2009-2011, as well as several new pieces of never before published material. It's designed to make you laugh, cringe, or wedge open even the most determined door in your house. Learn how to smoke a pipe without looking like a hipster, prepare for intergalactic space travel, and maybe get hired at an advertising agency while freebasing street drugs. Clearly, anyone can write a book, and has.
From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO JORDAN is the essential handbook to the Middle East's most alluring destination. Features include: Full-colour section introducing Jordan's highlights. Detailed accounts of all the sights and attractions, including the ancient city of Petra, the Red Sea resort of Aqaba and the desert cliffs of Wadi Rum. Up-to-the-minute reviews of the best places to eat, drink and stay - in all price ranges. Practical guidance on experiencing the unspoilt natural environment, from diving in the Red Sea to trekking and wildlife spotting, plus informed background on history, religion, art, politics and nature. Maps and plans for every region.
A renowned photographer, along with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, presents a visual journey of the American dream as seen through the eyes of our children in all 50 states, which celebrates the best of the American spirit while inspiring children to follow their dreams and to never give up. Original.
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any prior historian to the chaos of battle and the trials of military life. Creating an intimate, absorbing chronicle from the ordinary soldier’s perspective, he allows us to see the Civil War anew—and through unexpected eyes. At the heart of Jordan’s vital account is the 107th Ohio Volunteer In...
The End is a novel based on a short story The End,copyrighted in 2010. This is a trilogy of stories about a character named Albert, nicknamed the Owl. Each story examines a question. The fi rst story, The End, examines the idea of whether or not a persons life actually passes before them as they die. The second story, The Endgame, is when Albert the Owl enters heaven and faces his Judgment Day. It is here that Albert the Owl sees the whole of the life just lived on Earth and discovers what judgment is and who is to judge. Through this process, Albert identifi es and initiates an act of redemption that might just fix everything that went wrong in Alberts life on earth. The third book, Endless, contains the result of Alberts act of redemption.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of the Gov. John Andrew Award (Union Club of Boston) An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans— tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions— tragically realized that they...
Victoria Rose is the sequel to Matthew Jordan. A nonstop thriller that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next. Just when you think you have it all figured out, the story takes another turn. Matt Emerson works against the clock to save his wife and son. His wife has a mental breakdown and creates an imaginary baby. Matt feels that all their misfortune is the result of a curse placed on an ancient ruby. Not only does he have these problems to deal with, but an archenemy stalking him, named Cyrenius.