Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Fifth Batch of Thursday's Free Books 1-24-2013

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The Accidental Anarchist by Bryna Kranzler

Rating: 4.8 Stars with 76 votes

Category:  Historical, Biography 

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By the time he was twenty-five years old, Jacob Marateck had been a Jewish officer in the notoriously anti-Semitic Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War, a revolutionary who sought to overthrow the Czar, and sentenced to death three times. After avoiding the firing squad for the final, unlikely time, he escaped from a Siberian forced labor camp with Warsaw's colorful "King of Thieves." Together, the two struggled to survive and obtain false papers to travel home while avoiding the Secret Police. Told from Marateck's uniquely humorous perspective, The Accidental Anarchist is the remarkable, true story of an ordinary man made extraordinary by participating in the history-making events of the 1900s in Russia and Poland. Throughout all the hardships he endured, he never lost his optimism, which was key to his survival.
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Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost by Tom Winton

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 65 votes

Category:  Action and Adventure, Drama, Humor, Literary 

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Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost is not a story of spooks and goblins. It's a powerful story about two men from two very different times. One man is mortal, the other is immortal. One is painfully ordinary, the other world famous.

Jack Phelan is a forty-two-year-old underachiever who lives in South Florida. Although he mows lawns for a living, he's not what you might expect. He's got an exceptionally sharp mind and is a self-educated Hemingway aficionado.

After Jack gets into an unlikely accident he's flown by helicopter to the nearest hospital, where he remains in a coma for four days. But somehow, minutes after he blacks out, he finds himself in Key West, Florida--rubbing shoulders with an aged Ernest Hemingway.

Hem has been sent back down to help determine whether or not Jack has what it takes to write a book for "The Main Man above the clouds." But what Ernest doesn't know is that the book is to be about him. And that its purpose is to change the world's perception of the swaggering, hard-knuckled, macho myth he has become.

Over the next four days, Jack Phelan and Ernest Hemingway travel to the legendary author's old haunts and meet up with many of his long gone friends. Some of these reunions are rollicking good times, others are highly emotional tests of strength. But wait. When their time together comes to an end, the story is still not over. That's when things really get interesting.
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Down at the Golden Coin by Kim Strickland

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 32 votes

Category:  Contemporary, Humor, Literary, Religious 

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During the horrible recession, former airline pilot, Annie Mullard, feels she has sunk to a new low when she's forced to go to a run-down laundromat, the Golden Coin, after her washing machine breaks, but it's here she meets a messiah. Even though twenty-something, blue-haired Violet can read minds, send Annie into past lives and levitate Tide, she isn't anyone's idea of a messiah. Yet Violet is equipped with the wisdom, love and humor to help Annie find a way to a more authentic life, one in which Annie is free to create her own reality and where money is not the key to happiness.
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Dangerous Journey by Joanne Pence

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 7 votes

Category:  Romantic Suspense 

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C.J. Perkins is trying to find her brother who went missing while on a Peace Corps assignment in Asia. All she knows is that the disappearance has something to do with a "White Dragon." Darius Kane, adventurer and bounty hunter, seems to be her only hope, and she practically shanghais him into helping her.

With a touch of the romantic adventure film "Romancing the Stone," C.J. and Darius follow a trail that takes them to through the narrow streets of Hong Kong, to the backrooms of San Francisco's Chinatown, to the wild jungles of Borneo, as they pursue both her brother and the White Dragon. The closer C.J. gets to them, the more danger she finds herself in-and it's not just danger of losing her life, but also of losing her heart.

[This is a completely revised edition of novel previously published as Armed and Dangerous.]
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Fifth Batch of Thursday Free Books 11-15-2012

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Now on to the books . . .

Deeds of a Master Archer by J. H. Bogran



Rating: 5.0 Stars with 5 votes

Category: Action and Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller

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Former marine Douglas Rhodes and tech wizard Tom Stevenson started the day struggling to move a washing machine in suburban California, but they'll have to finish it in a strange land battling dragons.
When they inadvertently interrupt the sacrifice to calm the local dragons' appetite, they become the besieged village's last line of defense against the flying fire-spitting terrors.
Forget finding a way home, now they fight to stay alive!

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The Life and Prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo by Wyatt North



Rating: 4.9 Stars with 14 votes

Category: Non Fiction, Religious, Biographies

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** New Original Series **
** Active Table of Contents **

Introducing an exciting new series from Wyatt North Publishing. The Life and Prayers series combines professionally researched and written biographies of iconic Christian figures with an anthology of prayers.

The Life and Prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo is the third book in this wonderful series. One part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo is an essential book for any Christian.

The Church has numerous fathers who have influenced its dogma in substantial ways. Although none of them can be singled out as the most pivotal theologian of Church history, it can certainly be said that Saint Augustine of Hippo has long been a central figure to Christian thought, informing both on the nature of God and the nature of Christian morality.

He has been quoted throughout the ages by important Christian writers, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas, and has been listed as a strong influence by Pope Benedict XVI. Through his central place in the history of Christianity, some historians have appointed Saint Augustine particularly great importance in European and World history. They have called him the last man of the Classical Age, and the first medieval man.

All books in The Life and Prayers series come complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.

This edition has a linked Table of Contents and has been wonderfully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your eBook reader.

You can purchase additional religious works directly from Wyatt North Publishing.

Enjoy.

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The Rat Who Didn't Like Rats by Blythe Ayne



Rating: 4.0 Stars with 3 votes

Category: Children's

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The Rat Who Didn't Like Rats is a charming, full-color children's book, written and illustrated by the award-winning author, Blythe Ayne.

Reginald is kind-hearted rat who loves everyone – except – rats! He doesn't realize that he is a rat himself until the beautiful Raquel comes to the ""Geese Flying South"" party – and into Reginald's life. She tells him the truth about himself, and he learns that all creatures – including rats! – are lovable.

Blythe Ayne takes care of ten acres of forest where there are not only forest rats, but mice, squirrels, raccoons, deer, bears, chipmunks, moles, rabbits, wild and domestic geese, bats, opossum, chameleons, owls, blue jays, robins, thousands of other birds, and millions of contented insects.

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Star One: Tycho City: Discovery by Raymond L. Weil



Rating: 3.7 Stars with 12 votes

Category: Science Fiction

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Mase Colton had worked for years in the harsh unforgiving environment of the Moon building Tycho City. Now, with the completion of the Farside observatory complex, a deadly danger to the Moon and Earth has been discovered. A neutron star is about to enter the Solar System.

Can Mase Colton and his counter part, Steve Larson on the Star One space station, find a way to preserve a small segment of humanity against this deadly danger? It's a race against time and the politicians on Earth who refuse to believe in the approaching neutron star.

This is a novella of 20,000 words that introduces the Star One series.
Read the exciting conclusion to this story in Star One: Neutron Star and Star One: Dark Star. Both full-length novels currently available at Amazon.

Book One: Star One: Tycho City: Discovery
Book Two: Star One: Neutron Star
Book Three: Star One: Dark Star

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