The Way the Cards Fall
The Way the Cards Fall

Author: O.K. Williams

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2004-05-11

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1412221846

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The term "THE WAY THE CARDS FALL" is not a tutorial on playing poker, but a philosophy for life. In this book a Tennessee farm boy, who comes from a family of superior marksmen, survives the Civil War, and the reconstruction period, with the assistance of a beautiful Creole women who helps him evolve into manhood. She convinces him that, although he is intelligent, he could only utilize that intelligence by increasing his education. Then, for reasons known only to her, she forces Jason to leave. He decides to go west to seek his fortune. While passing through Fort Smith, Arkansas, his talent with firearms brings him into contact with Al, a friend of his army Sergeant. Al puts Jason into training to be a gunsmith and together they build a successful business around a pistol that Al has modified from "cap and ball" to a cartridge fed weapon. Jason's capacity to be a friend, gains him the love and help of many, in his quest to build his life, including some of the prominent men of the day such as Confederate General P.T.G. Beauregard and others. While in Fort Smith Jason meets a young girl with a past. He becomes very fond of her but he cannot forget the beautiful Creole woman. He has the misfortune to love two women. The girl's past brings Jason to the brink of disaster as he plays the cards the way they have been dealt to him, in the best way he can. The book contains twelve illustrations by the author.

Neon Vernacular
Neon Vernacular

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1993-04-30

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780819512116

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An award-winning poet’s testimony of the war in Vietnam.

Saltsea
Saltsea

Author: David Helwig

Publisher: Biblioasis

Published: 2006-05-26

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1897231857

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"Birdsong, wind: here by the ocean every noise was surrounded by silence that reached all the way to the stars. Monica studied the white shingled building above the slope of green lawn, deep bays rising two storeys on each side of the front door and the windowed porch. You felt the big rambling construction must have a memory, old thoughts. Listen, I am the voice of what once was. I am as real as the beating of your hungry heart. A flash of sun blinded her, a pirouette of the dazzling god." So begins David Helwig's Saltsea. A lovely, meditative novel, a story about memory, and about how what once was continues to affect what is and what will be. It is the story of a place, of the family that used to own it, and the people who have been its caretakers. Saltsea, a hotel on the shores of Prince Edward Island, where people come for a brief time, their lives intersecting in intimate and unforeseen ways. The characters of Saltsea are finely drawn, with humour, love and compassion. Sadness and even tragedy are a constant here, but Helwig handles it all humanely, without sentimentality, and with the control of a writer at the height of his powers. Saltsea, befitting a novel so concern with memory, is not something you will soon forget.

Read Your Future
Read Your Future

Author: Jane Struthers

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-09-06

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780312291488

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A dazzling and user-friendly, full-color primer explains the basics of the 14 most widely practiced ways to read the future, ranging from astrology and tarot to palmistry, runes, and tea leaves.

The Cards That Continue to Fall
The Cards That Continue to Fall

Author: Ruth Dykyj

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-11-14

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1499029829

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We learn that in life, things nearly always never go to plan. This was mostly the case for Hanna, a young woman whose father is a transgender, and her life always seemed to be something different to what it actually was. Through this journey of Hanna's life, she tells the story of how one of the most important things is to stay true to what you believe. Hanna was always born to roam, and that's exactly what she would do. From helping young children in Africa to working alongside orangutans and sun bears in Borneo to just visiting friends around the world, she would always be a traveler. Hanna has a great passion to make a difference in the life of all living beings! For all the misfortune that Hanna may have faced with the cards she had been dealt, she was just as equally blessed. Hanna finds truth, understanding, and contentment in her life through great friends and family and a passion for compassion!

Manchild in the Promised Land
Manchild in the Promised Land

Author: Claude Brown

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1451626673

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Manchild in the Promised Landis indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem - the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humour. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man.

The Way We Fall
The Way We Fall

Author: Megan Crewe

Publisher: Another World Press

Published: 2022-04-08

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0995216932

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It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they're old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in. And then you're dead. When sixteen-year-old Kaelyn lets her best friend leave for school without saying goodbye, she never dreams that she might not see him again. Then a strange virus begins to sweep through her small island community, infecting young and old alike. As the dead pile up, the government quarantines the island: no one can leave, and no one can come back. Cut off from the world, the remaining islanders must fend for themselves. Supplies are dwindling, fatalities rising, and panic is turning into violence. With no cure in sight, Kaelyn knows their only hope of survival is to band together. Desperate to save her home, she joins forces with a former rival and opens her heart to a boy she once feared. But as the virus robs her of friends and family, Kaelyn realizes her efforts may be in vain. How can she fight an enemy that's too small to see?

One of the Survivors
One of the Survivors

Author: Susan Shaw

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1416996567

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Fourteen-year-old Joey Campbell knows that he is lucky to be one of the survivors of the school fire. But really, how much luck is involved when he is the lone student to stand up during a fire drill? The only one who insists on getting out of the classroom? Joey’s best friend, Maureen, thankfully decides to follow, but the remaining twenty-four people in Room E201 are swallowed in the mysterious blaze that engulfs their school. Other than Joey's classroom, the rest of the students heed the fire alarm and survive, but grief-stricken parents and classmates have no one to lash out against except Joey and Maureen. Behind a fence that his dad builds for their own safety, Joey deals with rage, sorrow, and helplessness in equal measure. Some solace can be found within the pages of his journal, but ultimately he must face the living in order to accept everyone and everything that is dead and gone.

'A' Game
'A' Game

Author: Clare Wilson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1438900228

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In this book Poetic Pete(tm), AKA Peter Karplus(tm), author of Dancing with Fear, Rejection, Doubt, and Hope, and A Potpourri of Poems, uses free verse, haiku, iambic pentameter, and rhyme and an amazingly sensitive understanding dipped in his own brand of humor as he explores nature and its brilliance, and covers subjects of family and friends, making dedications to those people in his life who have held special meaning to him as well as illuminating the many shades of love and the range of emotions that are its bedfellows. Then, he follows with a selection of religion tenured poems ranging from the obtuse to the obvious. He goes on to show us a look inward into his life and people's reactions, to his speech impediments and bent body, that he has had to enlighten and change with his lifelong-learned teachings, and amazing understanding. He, then, continues with a selection of assorted poems that range from the comical to the serious aspects of life, followed by a few poems that take a surreal look at the world. Poetic Pete then welcomes us with several of his latest lyrics spanning subjects such as love, heartbreak, and even politics. And in conclusion, he ends the book with a couple short stories