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Authorized biography of Jeraldine Saunders, author of the book Love
Boats and creator of The Love Boat television series.
LIFE-LIFE IS THE ADVENTURE The physical world-the magnificent
illusion-that's the game. The Shell is where the dice are rolled.
Where the wheel is spun. Where the cards are shuffled and dealt.
Life is where the hand is played. You can see why it's so important
that we forget it's all an illusion. If we remembered, every time
we held a hand that didn't suit our fancy, we'd fold and request a
new deal. What would that do to the game, to the other players?
Every hand can't be a winner, right? Sometimes we draw garbage,
sometimes we get a pair. Maybe some-one else has a higher pair.
Somebody gets three-of-a-kind. A straight. A full house. Once in a
while someone draws a royal flush. Get it? Once in a while. Not
every player. Not every hand. That's how the game works. Life is
about playing the hand you're dealt, to the best of your ability.
If you're a really good player, maybe you can win the pot without
holding so much as a pair. Sometimes starting out with that royal
flush can be a disadvantage. Think of the royals throughout history
who inherited their kingdoms. Never had to work for them. Never had
to learn, develop muscles, grow strong. One day they discover
they're not up to the new challenges, and they wind up leaving
their heads on the block. And the guy sharpening the guillotine is
the one who began life with low numbers and no face cards.
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La Llorona (Paperback)
Rosalinda Pacheco; Joseph Robert Cowles; Edited by Barbora Holan Cowles
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R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
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The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial is a quarterly publication of the
international Carl Barks Fan Club, featuring pictorial articles
regarding the amazing worldwide influence of Carl's stories and
artwork on literature, the arts, education and literacy. For seven
decades the work of Carl Barks has been translated into every major
language, published by the millions, and enjoyed by billions of
adults and children of all cultures. The characters he created have
become household names, his stories treasured works of literature.
Yet it was not until his retirement in the 1960s that Carl's name
was made known to the public, for during the twenty-three years of
his comic book cartooning career, his work was presented to the
public as that of Walt Disney-specifically, that of The Walt Disney
Company. An American of humble beginnings from rural Oregon, Carl
Barks became the single most prolific, most published, most read
author and most viewed artist in history. This series of pictorial
books explores every aspect of his work and its ongoing global
impact. Today Carl's oil paintings of scenes featuring the
characters he created and wrote about are eminently collectible,
selling at auction for very high prices."
IN MORE THAN seventeen years of investigative reporting for
magazines and newspapers, Anthony Pignataro has written numerous
essays about life in the underbellies of seemingly upscale
communities: Orange County and Sacramento in California, and on the
tropical island paradise of Maui, Hawaii, where he has made his
home since 2003 and is editor of the alternative weekly newspaper
MauiTime. Pignataro's steamy Charley Ridgway novels of hardboiled
action and noir intrigue, Small Island and The Dead Season
(published in 2011 and 2012 by Event Horizon Press), have made
their mark with lovers of dark adventures. Stealing Cars With The
Pros collects thirty-three true stories that helped inspire his
suspenseful fiction writing.
Deep in trance during a hypnotherapy session, Edward Peterson
spontaneously regresses to an alternate life experience memory and
begins speaking an unknown language. This leads Dr. Alan Arthur
Winston to help his patient uncover a hidden realm where past,
present and future exist as one, and each new life potentiality is
chosen from one incarnation to another. In the most stunning
revelation of all, Peterson enters and describes in detail a life
experience which takes place several centuries in our future, when
tens of thousands of families live in huge geosynchronous
satellites, estranged from the Worlders below, and Earth's
decimated population suffers from a war-ravaged environment
polluted with radioactive toxins. Be prepared to have your
convictions shaken to their core by the iconoclastic revelations to
be glimpsed in L5.
Has evolution made humans into big babies? Can a grown man be
toppled with a straw and a newt? Is salamander spit the newest
weapon of mass destruction? The answers lie Somewhere Upriver.
Douglas Mortimer, just beginning graduate school, is on his way to
fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a great scientist. But
when Douglas hires an eccentric old herpetologist as a research
assistant, his plans for a successful future are derailed. He
enters a world of toxic salamanders, quirky characters and
government conspiracies, where the outlandish becomes amazingly
believable. "A memorable mind-altering venture of wildlife
biologists exploring Washington's rainforests, forging hilarious
new trails beyond the beaten track, revealing secrets hidden
beneath the skin of salamanders." -Diana Somerville author of
Inside Out Down Under: Stories from a Spiritual Sabbatical ..".
wonderful characters, action, humor, a little sex, and a vivid
picture of one of the last American rainforests. It's great
testimony that I really cared how the characters fared. And oh,
yeah; I almost forgot the toads. We learn a lot about toads, too
"-Terence Kuch author of The Seventh Effect and See/Saw ..". packed
with laughs and intrigue in which the hero meets his tests of
courage with renegade herpetologist Peter Vernon and a cast of
characters living on the fringe of society who help, hinder and
educate Douglas. It's a story of homemade beer, homemade tofu,
gourd banjos, living underground, alien encounters, salamanders,
rainforests, and field biologists who tramp through streams in
search of new species ... with a court trial and renegade FBI
agents to round out this delightful story." - Barbora Holan Cowles
author of Why wasn't my teacher in school today?
HAVING RECEIVED disturbing news from his physician,
seventy-year-old Frank Hessel agonizes over how best to tell Sarah,
his long-term girlfriend. Not wanting to be a burden, he finally
decides to break up with her, to set her free, just when they are
finally able to be a true couple after years of limited time
together. Before he can act, Frank runs into his childhood friend
and rival, Carl, who has moved back to Happy Valley following the
death of his wife. Frank is a devout Catholic while Carl was raised
Lutheran, and they always enjoyed a friendly rivalry. Carl tells
Frank that someone else from their childhood has also returned,
Jonathan Green-part of the last Jewish family in the valley. Old
friendships, ancient rivalries, and human greed and prejudice
threaten to tear apart the idyllic peace of Happy Valley.
A Cahuilla woman firmly rooted in her Native American heritage,
Snowbird Jones is a UCLA graduate with majors in forensics and
criminology. On the staff of the Santa Barbara Police Department,
Sgt. Jones investigates the disappearance of a young college girl
and learns there are 130 unsolved missing persons cases in
California which have occurred within two miles of the Pacific
Coast Highway between Mexico and the Oregon border. Jones becomes
lead officer in a statewide police task force to learn the details
of these mysterious disappearances. Yet there are no details-no
sightings, no phone calls, no credit card or bank transaction
records, or any other trails to show where this otherwise
unconnected group may have gone . . . or been taken. As cleanly as
if they had never existed, each individual has simply and
mysteriousl-VANISHED.
The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial is a quarterly publication of the
international Carl Barks Fan Club, featuring pictorial articles
regarding the amazing worldwide influence of Carl's stories and
artwork on literature, the arts, education and literacy. For seven
decades the work of Carl Barks has been translated into every major
language, published by the millions, and enjoyed by billions of
adults and children of all cultures. The characters he created have
become household names, his stories treasured works of literature.
Yet it was not until his retirement in the 1960s that Carl's name
was made known to the public, for during the twenty-three years of
his career, his work was presented to the public as that of Walt
Disney-specifically, that of The Walt Disney Company. An American
of humble beginnings from rural Oregon, Carl Barks became the
single most prolific, most published, most read author in history.
This series of pictorial books explores every aspect of his work
and its ongoing global impact.
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