When Jim and Staci Kirk's parents go missing, he decides to search for them himself. Unbeknownst to him, his sister and their best friend Lou, stow away to join him. It seems so simple on paper, sail from England to the Philippines and find the Kirks. But a hurricane named Erika and a relentless shark conspire against them to make the voyage one of the most perilous trips the teenagers have ever lived. Can they endure the danger? Will they find the Kirks alive or does God have another idea in mind?
These poems are more about historical events that have shaped, changed or even destroyed peoples lives. They are also events that may have effected me personally. As with all my previous books. The opinions are mine and in no way reflect what others may think
A sinister missile project in the Gulf of Guinea escapes the attention of the big powers as the diabolical ambitions of a renegade scientist puts the security of the African continent at risk. The onus falls on Nigeria to live up to her potential as the world's largest black power. She engages in high stakes diplomacy and launches kinetic action to neutralise a complex military and scientific threat with the backing of ECOWAS, the AU and the UN?but the responsibility for executing that assignment would fall squarely on the shoulders of one person: Flight Lieutenant Aminat Zechariah!
Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City until his return. Tweddell's diary captures the sounds, sights, and stench of war, its friendships and rivalries, its routine and boredom, its death, disease, and injury. Readers are taken into the battlefield and the British military’s disastrous medical services and facilities, and his month-long sight-seeing sick leave in London. Tweddell's diary suggests the allure of late nineteenth-century warfare, an appeal that drew many Boer War veterans, Tweddell included, to volunteer for service in the Great War that followed. Carman Miller's introduction presents a concise analysis of the Boer War's origins and its appeal to Canadian volunteers, and places the diarist within Quebec City's distinct society of overlapping religious, ethnic, and linguistic identities. Tweddell's diary, presented here in full for the first time, offers a rare and fascinating first-person account of Charlie's first war. It is a privileged insight into the fabric of late nineteenth-century military life, its opportunities, and personal costs, seen through the eyes of a perceptive observer and sympathetic raconteur.
Charlie's Life (in the North-American-Union) is a primarily fictional account of what the future of the U.S.A. could easily become if "we the people" don't get our @#%@# politicians under control. The North-American-Union is a TRUTHFUL goal of our politicians behind closed doors, (and sometimes openly). Charlie's Life focuses on the world from the viewpoint of a young man as he grows into his teenage years during a time in America's future when the United States turns into the North-American-Union under the rule of an evil Dictator President followed by an equally evil (appointed) Queen. The N. A. U. consists of a plot to turn the U.S.A., CANADA, and MEXICO into one continental nation (modeled after the European-Union). NO MORE BORDERS! One thing that I can promise you is that this story is NOT-AT-ALL what you are expecting. It is NOT simply a story of WAR, DEATH, AND DESTRUCTION! If you are looking for an entertaining book to read that is hard to put down, this is the book for you. Remember. the hero of this book is an early teenager. If you want SEX, or BLOOD and GUTS, you are reading the wrong book! ! ! After reading this book, if you would like to join me in changing our future for the better, read "The Secret", then join me in focusing on living in a nation that has NO interest in Global Domination or in controlling it's people through it's extremely oppressive laws. Join me in focusing on living in a society that is truly FREE, LOVING, and RESPECTFUL of EVERYONE! HAVE A LOVING DAY!
A thorough look into the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin’s career has been described, critiqued, and scrutinized. There are book-length studies on Chaplin’s music hall career, his career at Keystone Studios and the Mutual Studios. Somehow, his tenure with First National studios, however, has been largely neglected, even though it was during this several-year contractual time period that Chaplin built and occupied his own studio for the first time, that he attempted and succeeded in filming a comedy feature (The Kid) and that he helped to set up United Artists, an organization that protected the salaries and creative freedom of actors in Hollywood. This period in Chaplin’s story is especially interesting because such landmark moments are accompanied by Chaplin’s first marriage and divorce, the death of his first child, his friendship with French silent film comedian Max Linder, World War I and the role he would play in it, and the production and release of several unsuccessful films that marked Chaplin’s first creative blockage - one that threatened his future career. This book will discuss the transitional periods just before and after the First National contract, as well as the all-important period satisfying it. Archival evidence provides most of the support for the book’s assertions, from the Chaplin archive (property of Roy Export, digitized by Cineteca di Bologna, Italy), and the personal archives of other individuals or institutions discussed. Rare photos will illustrate the story.
