In this sequel to Wait-A-Minute Bridge, national tournament winner David Stevens teaches techniques of duplicate bridge for the advancing player. He includes such topics as advanced bidding systems (Two-Over-One; Precision); the squeeze play; the strip and endplay; the Principle of Restricted Choice; and several techniques and conventions for better slam bidding, play, and defense. Stevens retains the popular device of having an anonymous reader interrupt the narrative from time to time by crying, "Wait a minute!" He then explains a point in more detail, with the goal of a more complete understanding of the topic. This book is aimed at advancing bridge players who have been having some success and want to play against better competition. This book will help them succeed at the next level, and enjoy the process. Full of robust humor and many examples, Wait-A-Minute Bridge, II, is sure to be as popular as its predecessor. Have more fun; play better bridge!
Subtitled A Complete System for Bridge Beginners and Advancing Players, Wait-A-Minute Bridge teaches the basics and more advanced techniques of the play of the hand, bidding, and defense. Stevens uses the device of stopping the action from time to time by having an imaginary reader say, "Wait a minute!" He then discusses a point in more detail so the reader can understand the reasoning behind the rule. Leavened with a healthy dose of humor, Wait-A-Minute Bridge is the perfect book for bridge beginners and intermediate players. Have fun; play bridge!
(Guitar Chord Songbook). 50 favorites from Sting and the Police presented in chords & lyrics for strumming fun: Brand New Day * Can't Stand Losing You * Don't Stand So Close to Me * Driven to Tears * Every Breath You Take * Fields of Gold * Fortress Around Your Heart * King of Pain * Message in a Bottle * Roxanne * We'll Be Together * more.
Summer Bridge Explorations prepares your second-grade graduate for third grade through progressive lessons and project-based learning. This dynamic workbook strengthens cross-curricular skills with a focus on arithmetic, grammar, and comprehension. Summer Bridge Explorations makes learning last. With this dynamic series, students entering grades 1 to 4 prepare for the new year through project-based learning. Grade-level workbooks are divided into three progressive sections, one for each month of summer, and each of these sections is built around a theme-based activity that connects real-world learning with summer fun. Your child will keep learning alive by applying new skills in fun ways, all while enjoying everything summer has to offer. Lessons and activities span the curriculum, supporting growth in math, reading, writing, social studies, science, and the arts.
On an archaeological expedition, Mark Trenton and Janette Sumpter stumble across an ancient civilization and unleash the destructive power of an oracle that was better left buried. Janette flees the planet with the oracle after being confronted by the Dakrowians, an intergalactic security force, who were hired to keep the oracle safe. Sumpter is found on a resort asteroid by Harmon and her friend Martin. It's also on this pleasure isle in the stars that Stan McDermont is inadvertently drawn into a pact with Haddock, who double-crossed him years ago. The Etonians are after both Haddock and the mysterious oracle. The Argos government is after Martin. All sides meet and clash on Soltarie II.
Three novels of life at sea during World War II from the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place. Drawing on his own experiences as a US Coast Guard officer, Sloan Wilson sheds a unique light on World War II in these three unforgettable novels. Voyage to Somewhere: Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he’s being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Despite being homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a cargo of pineapples destined for Hawaii. When Barton isn’t battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he’s coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away. “One of the few honest and straightforward sea books that have come out of the war” (New York Herald Tribune). Pacific Interlude: Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean. As the Allies prepare to retake the Philippines, Grant and his crew must bring two hundred thousand gallons of high-octane aviation fuel to shore. From below-deck personality clashes to the terrifying possibility of an enemy attack, from combating illness and boredom to the constant stress of preventing a deadly explosion, the crew of Y-18 must learn to work together and trust their captain—otherwise, they might never make it home. “Powerful, passionate and authentic . . . Unforgettable” (James Dickey, author of Deliverance). Ice Brothers: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Paul Schuman, a college senior and summer sailor, enlists in the Coast Guard and is assigned to be the executive officer aboard the Arluk, a converted fishing trawler patrolling the coast of Greenland for secret German weather bases. Led by Lt. Cdr. “Mad” Mowry, the finest ice pilot and meanest drunk in the Coast Guard, Schuman and communications officer Nathan Greenberg battle deadly icebergs, dangerous blizzards, and menacing Nazi gunboats. Surviving the war will require every ounce of courage and intelligence they possess—and that’s before Mowry breaks, forcing the young officers to take command at the worst possible moment. “The best since The Caine Mutiny” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Richard Barnham Middleton's "The Ghost Ship" is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature, about which Arthur Machen wrote, "I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels." Middleton himself (1882-1911) was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide. While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, volumes of his work were published in his lifetime, as soon as he was dead, he was "discovered." Four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades. His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life. He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as "The Coffin Merchant," "On the Brighton Road," and "The Conjurer," which only hint at the richness of the larger body of his work, and suggest what kind of a literary artist he would have become if he had lived. The Pantomime Man presents an unexpected treasure-trove of Middleton's writings. It was originally published a generation after the author's death, when it had been thought that the store of Middleton material had been exhausted.
It was quite by accident that Imma Andkaer first learned that her husband, Michael, could see into a person's aura and witness injury, disease, and a variety of emotions such as anger, love, hate, and fear. In her memoir, My Manifest and the Grail, Andkaer traces a journey into a fascinating, hidden world just beyond our sight, in which everything we think and believe produces the energies of love or hate. Andkaer chronologically shares her experiences, beginning with a traumatic childhood during which her mentally ill mother was taken away from their family. She continues through her adulthood as she married, overcame a near-death experience, became pregnant, and eventually divorced the man who had come to manipulate her at every turn. As she reveals how she bravely faced life alone as a single mother of a cherished son, Andkaer recalls a dark time; she attempted suicide and wondered if anyone would ever understand her pain. It was only when she vowed to heal herself from within that she began to see visions that took her on an empowering journey to the truth. My Manifest and the Grail shares one woman's incredible life story as she unites her spirit with the "Touch" to offer an important message of healing.
A long time ago, back in the 1960s, a close friend asked me to go along with him to a book signing in Sausalito, California. I was introduced to the author. He was a recognizable and quite famous old man. He said, “Will you come and visit me in San Francisco sometime?” “Yes, I will,” I replied and didn’t think much about it. But within a few weeks my friend was asked by the old author to visit, and I was asked to go along. We greeted the old man, and he ushered us in. Then he turned to me and said, “Can I tell you things of your life? Experiences you’ve had and didn’t have and your destiny. I will record it and put it on reel to reel for you.” ”Of course,” I said, as I was very curious of what he might know about me. And so he talked about me and was very accurate. Then he took my hand and moved closer to me, close to my face. He said, “You have something to tell the world, the entire world. I don’t know what it is, but it is the entire world.” But all was forgotten for more than fifty years. A few weeks ago, Michael and I were talking about the old man. What if this was all destined – Michael’s gift of seeing in the spirit as Kirilian afterimage? My search for healing and search for God? Were we destined to be together? So we decided to ask! “Was the old man right? Was I destined to write this book and tell what has been revealed?” Michael touched my head and the touch revealed, YES. I asked out loud, “Who is the book for?”The touch revealed, THOSE WHO SEEK AND LOVE GOD, THE LOST WHO NEED HELP. And so each day, as I study scripture, I ask the questions, some about the future. There are some unanswered questions. The Lord Jesus gave these statements without my questioning: HEALING OF THE WOUNDED SPIRIT. SEVERE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT INDIA. LEARN SEED PROPAGATION. PREPARE. MY RETURN. REJOICE. The material from the touch is growing into the next book. The next book will probably be easier to write.
Wakefield is a small town where a unique collection of long-standing citizens has lived mostly in harmony, accepting of each other's foibles. But underneath the picture perfect exterior a battle rages between those who wish to preserve the historic single-lane covered bridge across the river, and the loggers who want it replaced with a modern alternative. As the days pass with no change in the dispute, tensions begin to boil over, friends turn against one another, and the town seethes with potential violence.
