Come to Daddy Depot: The Dad Megastore! From Acrobats to Zookeepers, we have the perfect dad for you! Exchange your old dad for a brand-new one . . . TODAY! Lizzie loves her dad, but he tells the same old jokes, falls asleep during story time, and gets distracted by football while Lizzie does her ballet twirls. When she sees an ad for a store called Daddy Depot, she decides to check it out—and finds dads of all kinds! Will Lizzie find the perfect dad? Join her on this sweet and silly adventure that celebrates fathers with lots of love.
Clyde Bolton has long been a dean of the Southern sportswriting community. Now this popular columnist focuses his beguiling prose on his boyhood memories in his delightful memoir, Hadacol Days. The title is taken from a high school cheer: “Statham Wildcats on the Ball, They’ve Been Drinking Hadacol.” The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, Statham, Georgia, now as long gone as Hadacol, but equally effervescent in the author’s nostalgic but clearheaded look back at what life was like in small Southern towns of the 1940s and 1950s.
British actress Kate Robertson is living the dream: she’s got a successful acting career, a mansion in Beverly Hills, great friends, and a hunky boyfriend. Once she gets her dream role in the remake of the science fiction classic Memories, Kate gets very excited. However, since she and director Ken Lyons are both connected to a Los Angeles criminal gang known as los Diablos, her self-centered co-star John Farrell becomes a full-fledged member of a rival gang known as the Sharks. Once they discover that the two remaining gangs in the city - the Volgograd Bratva and the Hong Kong Triad - merge with each other with the goal of ruling the Los Angeles criminal underworld for themselves, the cast and crew of Memories must put their differences aside in order to avoid being exterminated in the Battle for Los Angeles.
Writing this book has helped me psychologically. It was, in part, written to help me deal with the death of my eldest son, Jamie, who was killed at the age of 23, on October 5, 2006, the day before my 59th birthday. The seed for this book was planted in my head while I was practicing my kick with a kickboard at the swimming pool at the gym I go to. For some reason, I had this crazy idea of quitting teaching and becoming a lifeguard. The idea of sitting high up there in a lifeguard stand and thinking great thoughts between heroic rescues of saving people from drowning, really appealed to me. This book is sort of a reverse coming-of-age story; maybe a going-of-age story. In it are a series of essays about my growing up and my growing old, as well as an on-going novella based loosely on my swim clinics.
Out of a life born into innocence, raised in a peaceful loving family and community comes a discovery catapulting her into a terror filled reality and life changing resolution.
"In Paradise I stumbled onto a dead body, found my new mother, and was almost murdered." In the fall of 1989, young Angela Kiln and her father move to the slowly dying town of Paradise. Once they settle into small town life, Angela and her father, a high school teacher, find that the town isn ́t the only thing dying — so, apparently, are students. As Angela and her father seek the truth behind the deaths, they will also face the truth about their own deepest beliefs. Part suspenseful mystery, part sentimental journey, Passing Through Paradise is an alternately funny, gripping, and frightening account of a young girl, her still-grieving father, and a town that refuses to recognize the future. Filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, Passing Through Paradise dramatically reveals the best and worst of human nature, illuminated against a scathing indictment of an American small town. This new edition of Passing Through Paradise includes a discussion guide for book clubs. Other novels that take place in Schreiber’s Ironwood County include Hillcrest Journal and Life on the Fly. "Passing through Paradise is tough to put down. The themes are masterfully interwoven." — Ruth Hanson, Byron Review " . . . a suspenseful story told with insight, humor, conviction, and compassion." — Andrew Johanson, Paradise Post, Ironwood County, Minnesota "Schreiber has a wide range of imagination and the talent to put it into words. . . . His imagination invents word pictures that spark the mind to envision a screen larger than Hollywood is capable of." – News-Enterprise, December 1, 2004 Helpful Link: Schreiber has posted some of his published articles, essays, and poems along with book group discussion questions for Passing Through Paradise at John Schreiber ́s Books
If you've been dreaming of getting started with clean, green, solar energy on your own, then GO SOLAR WITHOUT BIG DADDY'S HELP is for you. The age of alternative energy is upon us, and for do-it-yourselfers its now easier than ever. Small solar panel kits for under $400 are currently available at certain retail stores, with light-weight parts that are simple to set up in your own back yard. In this short 32 page booklet, Doc Trager shows you how to assemble your own solar power generator at home, and use it to power three fun and interesting solar-powered projects: 1) Solar-powered kayak 2) Solar-powered water fall for fish pond 3) Solar-powered filtration for rain collected in commercially available rain barrels. Using simple, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with color photos, The Doc makes it easy for you to create, and points out along the way that once you have the basics under your belt, there is no limit to the solar projects you can dream up and realize on your own.
"Welcome to Texas. The roaring twenties are coming to an end, and Maloy Herbert is a young boy living in a world that many of us cannot begin to image. The Great Depression is about to hit, and a poor family is struggling to feed hungry mouths. Few can recall the 1920s and 1930s with vivid clarity. Maloy Herbert has been blessed with an acute memory and he shares his fascinating childhood stories of mischief, sadness, and survival. Follow Maloy's delightful memories from the early 1920s all the way into the next century as he takes us back to a time where Model-Ts ruled the roads and air conditioning didn't exist"--Back cover
