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Love Spiral (Paperback)
Shannon O. McGinnis, Brandon D. Jones, Lan H. McGinnis
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R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Dr Ralph Penner became an expert locksmith, a pilot and a professor
after his wife and he separated. These pursuits were activities
that he used to fill the voids in his life, but they became
extremely useful as he was faced with a summer of adventure. After
years of being single Ralph is faced with a summer of falling in
love with one lady after another and none seem to fit his dream
girl status. He does get involved with a human trafficking
organization which consumes his entire summer as he tries to
protect many young lives caught up in the illegal business of
crimes against unwitting young people from other lands. The ladies
that he meets along this summer experience don't seem to fit his
requirements of mate selection. Before the end of the book, two of
the ladies become very important to him, one very young and one
somewhere around his age. Ralph goes back to his teaching job with
full intentions of keeping in touch with two of his new friends. He
finds out that making a tough decision at his age isn't always that
easy.
Sid had a choice. He could marry a fourteen year old Mayan or let
her die as a sacrifice to the fertility god of Mayan women. The
fourteen year old girl was nice, she was sweet and she was very
pretty, but oh so young. Her name was Si. He knew he was in the
wrong place at the wrong time. He was in a real tough spot trapped
between two dimensions about five-hundred years apart. Socially he
would have to comply with the cultural requirement of marriage, but
then later as the tribal women began watching her belly, he found
out that if she didn't show a child within two years she would
still be sacrificed and he would have to marry another. Morally and
ethically, he did not intend to make anyone that young his wife.
Sounds complicated? It's not; he works it out with the best results
for everyone, even himself. How do they have a baby when they
really need one without Sid breaking his own cultural code of
ethics?
A young Indian orphan desires to do more, learn more and become
more than anyone in his tribe. His primary goal is to get an
education not available to him as an orphan living among his peers.
He accomplishes a few remarkable things before he runs away from
the land of his ancestors. He ends up on the east coast of the
United States and begins working but has no desire to keep his
earnings. Through some chance meetings and lucky breaks he begins a
college career that leads him to a PhD and eventually, he becomes a
professor admired by all. His lifetime ambition is sidetracked when
a beautiful, former student tells him that she is and has been in
love with him. I am sure everyone reading this book will be
surprised at the way it ends.
This story is about one of the Wisnook Tribal legends, albeit a
lesser legend, but nonetheless, one of great significance. We know
the greatest legend among the Wisnook is the White Panther or the
spirit leader of the tribe. At the time of this story the steamboat
had recently been invented. These powerful machines were beginning
to travel the larger waterways. A young man without prior knowledge
of such a contraption became familiar with a few of the men who
were searching for new ways of travel to improve commerce and human
transportation. This story involves the uncanny innocence of a
young Indian lad who with good luck and the right companions would
be able to do more for the world than he would have otherwise had
he not been summoned away from the comfort and friendly life among
his family and peers. Did I say peers, he had no peers. He was that
much different. His situation was much different than any normal
boy born into the Wisnook Tribe, he had a distinct birth
characteristic that made him one of the most reserved and most
challenged lads of his time. He found it very difficult to be
normal even though he didn't mind his difference.
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Propane - (a dog) (Paperback)
Robert E McGinnis; Edited by Shannon O. McGinnis, Brandon D. Jones
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R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Throughout the ages, dogs have been part of human life, beginning
so far back that there are no certain records. There have been many
wonderful, special dogs and we do have records of some of these.
This story is about one of those very special dogs that arrived
mysteriously and left the same way. Propane appears in Haiti amid
the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. This book reveals her
adventures to the United States and across the continent. She gets
involved with the lives of many people and in all cases those that
she connects with are better off after knowing her.
We are placed on the merry-go-round as babies and most of us leave
as old men and women, but the things we do while going from one
place to the next has all to do with what and who we are more than
anything else other than our genetics. You have heard that old
saying, "What goes around, comes around." I really think that is
one way to look at our situation and our relationship with others.
This story is in that vein. Our spy, Robert Copeland will be called
upon to save his friend Little Eagle who at one time stepped
forward to save him in a previous book, Little Eagle Saves A Spy.
My comments here are not intended to describe that book, but it is
mentioned briefly in order to get the gist of the reason this book
came about. This story is reversed in who saves whom, and the
situation is reversed in an unsure way in order for the reader who
has read the first book and knows there is a big difference in the
strength and fortitude of Little Eagle and the seemingly lack of
those characteristics in our main character Robert Copeland, but,
having said that, Robert always somehow gets the job done and
usually get rewarded for it.
Wisnook Treasure begins with a cross country hop in three different
planes of the same kind. A flying club has arranged for our two
main characters to fly from Texas to the East Coast of the United
States undetected. The flight requires an excellent plane with
short take off and landing capabilities along with safety and fuel
economy. The Zenith STOL CH 750 Light Sport Utility proved to be
the perfect choice for the task. The home of the manufacture of
this company is in Mexico, Missouri. The author, Dr Robert E
McGinnis is a pilot and he has long admired this great plane and
the company that makes it. His choice for using this small, neat
and proven aircraft was not difficult. Once the mystery begins, our
two companions from the previous book, The Golden Cross get
involved with government agents and unscrupulous treasure hunters
as well. A chase begins in Texas and with help and good luck; our
two companions make it across the continent and solve the riddle of
the Wisnook Treasure.
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Paradise Grows (Paperback)
Shannon O. McGinnis B. a., Brandon D. Jones; Robert E McGinnis
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R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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There are five books in this Paradise Series and in this book our
hero travels to Canada in a long and difficult search for his
parents from whom he was separated at birth.
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