Help! Somebody’s Robbing My Piggy Bank!
Help! Somebody’s Robbing My Piggy Bank!

Author: Ricky Holley

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-10-20

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 1465368612

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We live in a high tech world. With digital televisions, computers, cell phones, IPODS, and video games out there, one can become overwhelmed. There’s technology out there to do almost everything for us. When was the last time you sat down with pen and paper and did a simple math problem? You know, add, subtract, multiply, or divide. Calculators and computers can do this for us. Most of us have to do business with banks. Many of you have felt that you’ve been cheated or just plain taken advantage of by banks. There are high interest rates, overdraft fees, other fees and other hidden cost. You might be surprised to find out that banks will take money from your account without any accountability. You had better brush up on your math skills. I served in the United States Air Force and lived in several states and in Great Britain. Over the past 38 years, I’ve had bank accounts in the United States and abroad. My story is about my encounters with only four of these banks. One good and three that was not so pleasant. Money was taken from my accounts without accountability. I’ll show you how I was able to keep track of their actions and finally what I did about it.

English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate with Answers and CD-ROM
English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate with Answers and CD-ROM

Author: Michael McCarthy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1107600944

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Contains 100 easy-to-use practice vocabulary tests with a clear marking system on each page so that progress can be easily checked. It can be used on its own, for self-study or in the classroom, or to reinforce the vocabulary covered in English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate Third edition, available separately. CEF: B2.

Moonbeam
Moonbeam

Author: Giovanni Andreazzi

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2004-11-03

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1468516310

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Giovanni is the author of the suspense thriller Dedra. In Moonbeam, his second novel, two pre-teen boys find themselves on the adventure of their lives. While digging a fort to occupy their summer months, they unearth a set of bones. Camping out in the fort one night, the bones take on the image of their owner, a Native American named Teak-qua. Teak-qua sends them to the past on a special horse to avenge the wrongs of the white man. They use the skills learned from various experiences, while finding love and heartbreak along the way. This unique look at life in the mid-fifties and the atrocities endured by Teak-quas brothers will keep you entertained until the end.

Behind the Bars
Behind the Bars

Author: Frederick John Desroches

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781551300894

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Bank robbers. Who are they? Where do they come from? What motivates individuals to commit these crimes? Behind the Bars: Experiences in Crime examines these questions in this intriguing study of the life situations, relationships, and value systems of people who commit serious crimes. Based on eight years of research with law enforcement officials, the media, and interviews with more than eighty Canadian and American bank robbers, Behind the Bars goes behind the facelessness of the crime itself and into the hearts and minds of the offenders. Meet an ex-police officer, drug addicts, compulsive gamblers, a senior citizen, two con-authors, an exotic dancer, family men, informants, and career criminals. Their strikingly candid stories will inspire a great range of emotions, but most of all they will provide greater understanding of criminal behaviour. Frederick J. Desroches humanizes the offender by shedding signficant light on the social and economic conditions of offenders; on the dynamics of criminal partnerships; and on the problems many of these men experience and bring on themselves. Desroches balances the passion of criminals' stories with thematic and theoretical overviews of specific issues to create an exciting account that will capture the attention and imagination of any reader who has ever wondered why criminals commit crimes.

Amaze Your Friends
Amaze Your Friends

Author: Peter Doyle

Publisher: Verse Chorus Press

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1891241788

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SYDNEY, 1959. Billy Glasheen is flogging mailorder schemes out of a seedy back room in Chinatown. Want to play guitar in 14 days? Learn Italian in your spare time? Win big with an infallible betting system? Master the love secrets of the ancients? Bill’s your man. But there are unsettled accounts in Billy’s past, and they’re coming due. As shadowy factions line up around him, he can’t be sure if he’s the target or caught in someone else’s crossfire. Or is he imagining the whole thing? Finally an ultimatum is delivered: come up with a small fortune in hush money, or cop a bullet and a shallow grave. Six months, and the clock is ticking. It’s time to call in all debts and favours, but right when he needs them most, Bill’s old gang of beatniks, bandits, and hoochie coochie girls seem to have made themselves strangely scarce. He’s on his own. Amaze Your Friends is a dark, wild ride through a city of easy money and sudden falls, of high times and hangovers, of jukebox rock’n’roll and the lowdown flophouse blues.

Chasing the Sun
Chasing the Sun

Author: Christopher Fahy

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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To Chamberlain College in the small Maine town of Garfield comes Harry Callahan, a Maine-born aging and dyspeptic poet, to receive an honorary degree. He gets the degree all right, but in the process manages to disrupt his home town, his friends of long ago, his reputation, and the college. The depiction of the artist's life in the United States is disturbingly accurate and hilariously described, with Harry Callahan as the shambling, overweight, incurably honest example. Chasing the Sun is Fahy's comedic and humane triumph.

I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

Author: Sarah J. Robinson

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0593193539

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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.