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This entertaining book contains a collection of true stories providing many pages of none-stop laughs. All are strange funny stories, some sad, and some terrifying. In this collection we have the lot. Power, image, greed, corporate manipulation; with death, love, and broken families. Runaway people in hiding, looking for a new life in the remote Australian bush, only to be found by disaster and misfortune. With secrets soon discovered, and a life ending in a very comical funeral. Can a situation be cursed and all who are involved suffer a terrible penance? "The Curse of Gold" will give you a new view on the strange things that can happen... Proving yet again that gold has no master. "They wa...
All Bill wanted out of life was to be a normal bloke, and part of someone’s life... preferably a female’s life. On first glance, a reader might think this book is just another painful and sad love story, but that is not so. Bill was a walking live example of avoidable human disaster and bad luck... a sort of modern-day Medusa with an unforeseen hilarious side. The love part of this story was much more challenging, especially for all those helpful mates in the bush who had made a vow to help resolve Bill's biggest problem... finding a woman to love him. Then there are all the other interesting stories that just sort of happened around Bill... Remember, these are all true stories. Please do enjoy the reading as I did in writing them.
Set in current times. The 9th Place is a fast-moving, mind provoking, fiction thriller. A spooky story with a new twist about where we came from, and where we are all going. The plot revolves around known wonders of the ancient world, unresolved scientific mysteries, and old prophecies. A universal power is about to make a small change to correct a solar system event. Three chosen humans on the planet earth are given a fleeting chance to resolve this looming world disaster. All the main characters have normal everyday challenging lives, when they are suddenly thrown together to save the world from all life extinction. This well researched novel, complete with a dash of humour, will appeal to those who enjoy a good current could be true story. This fast page-turning and believable story, tries to answer many of the unexplained mysteries of our world including. Why do we exist? is there some purpose or plan; are we alone, or are we for some reason being manipulated. This story contains a fair portion of fact, mingled with some interesting fiction suggesting a potential answer to all of those questions, and who knows… perhaps a few more.
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A condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of its distinguished citizens, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties mentioned, and numerous biographical sketches of the citizens of such county.
Founded in Galveston in 1842 with the launch of the Daily News, the Belo Corporation entered the twenty-first century as a powerhouse conglomerate, owning four daily newspapers (including the Dallas Morning News), twenty-six television and cable stations, and over thirty interactive Web sites. The first comprehensive work to bring to life this remarkable success story, Belo blends biography with a history of corporate strategies. Drawing on company archives and private papers of key figures, including A. H. Belo and G. B. Dealey, former company archivist Judith Garrett Segura brings to life important chapters in the cultural life of Texas, from Galveston's days as the largest and most vibran...
Rick Schumann builds a tavern catering to visiting aliens, an interplanetary gathering place situated in Siberia that is known as Draco Tavern.