Fifteen Minutes Ago

Author : Craig Tschetter
Publisher : Mill City Press, Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1635056365

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Fifteen Minutes Ago by Craig Tschetter Pdf

A Memoir: A innocent 18 year old leaves home to join the military during a time of war. He leaves because he can no longer live with the religious mandates imposed by his parents Mennonite faith. The Marine Corps boot camp and further training leave him filled with fear, uncertainty, and yet as a marine filled with pride. He serves 20 months in Vietnam during the height of the war (67-69) as a combat radio operator. Wounded twice, forced to witness a haunting murder, and living one day at a time he struggles to meet the date he can leave Vietnam. Finally he is sent to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA to become a Drill Instructor. After training seven platoons of raw recruit to face the hostile environment he left he is discharged after 4 years of a honorable decorated service. He marries, starts a family, earns his college degree while facing the hostile professors and student body in protest over the war he so valiantly fought. Years pass before he falls into a deep dark hole of depression. Obsessed with memories of Vietnam that won't leave him alone he see suicide as his only reprieve. Afraid of what he might do he finds help thru the local Veterans Hospital. No one but his wife understands the life he live and the medications required to keep him level. His family and friends see him as a happy, success former marine living life's dream. Little does anyone know the torment he's forced to live with everyday. When people ask him when he was in Vietnam, he responds by saying from November 1967 - July 1969. What he really wants to tell them is: 15 MINUTES AGO. CRAIG TSCHETTER, writes vividly about being raised by parents of strict Mennonite faith and his struggles to deal with their religious mandates. Enlisting in the Marine Corps to escape home he finds himself in the jungles of Vietnam for 20 months and then at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA as a Drill Instructor. Educated with a degree in Mortuary Science he spends the next 34 years are spent in the funeral service industry. Craig and his wife, Della, live in Brookings, SD and have two children. Their daughter and granddaughter reside in Florida and their son in Oregon.

Author : Lisa Scottoline
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466874619

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Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline Pdf

Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country, and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient. Max can't turn off the mental rituals he needs to perform every fifteen minutes that keep him calm. With the pressure mounting, Max just might reach the breaking point. When the girl is found murdered, Max is nowhere to be found. Worried about Max, Eric goes looking for him and puts himself in danger of being seen as a "person of interest" himself. Next, one of his own staff turns on him in a trumped up charge of sexual harassment. Is this chaos all random? Or is someone systematically trying to destroy Eric's life? New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts.

Author : Jack Driscoll
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814336137

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The World of a Few Minutes Ago by Jack Driscoll Pdf

Stories in the realistic tradition of lives overlooked, voices unheard, and characters trying to overcome and transcend confining circumstances.

Author : Lisa Daily
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101213605

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Fifteen Minutes of Shame by Lisa Daily Pdf

View our feature on Lisa Daily's Fifteen Minutes of Shame. What happens when America’s favorite dating expert finds out on national television that her husband is cheating on her? Darby Vaughn’s fifteen minutes of fame quickly becomes fifteen minutes of shame when the story of her divorce is splashed across supermarket tabloids. If Darby takes her philandering husband back, her career will be over. If she doesn’t, she’ll lose the only man she’s ever loved. As she rebuilds her life with help from her girlfriends, Darby has to make some tough choices, but she stays true to her heart every step of the way.

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : DC
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T0975600115001

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Watchmen (1986-) #11 by Alan Moore Pdf

Nite Owl and Rorschach confront the shocking villain responsible for the Comedian's murder. But the truth of his plan extends far beyond anything they could have imagined--and even worse, they are completely powerless to stop it!

Author : Hilary De Vries
Publisher : Villard Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812970692

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So Five Minutes Ago by Hilary De Vries Pdf

Working for a Los Angeles public relations firm whose clients are primarily has-beens, celebrity publicist Alex Davidson wonders what the firm's acquisition by a hot rival will mean for her job, becomes suspicious of her shark-like new boss, and considers an opportunity to do good in Hollywood. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Joan Bolker
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781429968881

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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker Pdf

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

Author : Samuel Byron Brittan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : MINN:31951P00998833J

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The Spiritual Telegraph by Samuel Byron Brittan Pdf

Author : Graham Soloman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781470973681

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An Ordinary Person by Graham Soloman Pdf

Peter Fletcher is just 'An Ordinary Person' as seen by so many but he has a secret side to his life - 'a paid assassin'. He has been paid to assassinate a prominent world leader, job done. Preparing his escape and retirement he unexpectedly meets a new love, matters become complicated - can Peter Fletcher get away as the net to find him closes in. Does this new love give him away, is she a plant, does she stand by him. Can he keep his cool and remain out of the clutches of his pursuers. This tense thriller will keep you glued to every page.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LLMC:NYATGXVSZ90Q

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N. Y. Supreme Court by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Finder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698409750

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Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks. Nick Heller is a private spy—an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he’s called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation. Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret.

Author : Rahul Badami
Publisher : SRB Concepts
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781641869393

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Self Help by Rahul Badami Pdf

Author : Beth Harbison
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429996082

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Thin, Rich, Pretty by Beth Harbison Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hope In a Jar, Secrets of a Shoe Addict, and Shoe Addicts Anonymous, comes a novel about old rivalries, deep secrets, and the three things all women wish they were Twenty years ago, when they were teenagers, Holly and Nicola were the outsiders at summer camp. Holly was the plump one, a dreamer who longed to be an artist. Nicola was the shy, plain one who wanted nothing more than to be beautiful. Their cabin nemesis was Lexi. Rich, spoiled, evil Lexi. One night, Holly and Nicola team up to pull one, daring act of vengeance. But they never dream that this one act will have repercussions that will reach into the future, even twenty years later. And they never realize the secret pain that Lexi holds very close, and how their need for revenge costs Lexi a great deal. Today, Holly is a successful gallery owner, who has put her own artistic dreams on hold. She struggles with her weight and for approval from her constantly-criticizing boyfriend. Nicola, is an almost-famous actress who believes that one little plastic surgery fix is just what she needs to put her over the edge into fame. And Lexi...Lexi is down on her luck and totally broke. Holly will do anything to be thin. Lexi will do anything to be rich. And Nicola will do anything to be pretty. Thin, Rich, Pretty is the story of three women who believe that happiness is the next dress size down, the next dollar figure up, or the next appreciative glance from a stranger. But mostly it's the story of how three women save each other, and show each other the path to true contentment. Told with Beth Harbison's knack for thirty and fortysomething nostalgia, and heartwarming humor, Thin, Rich, Pretty will strike a chord with any woman who has ever got on the scale, looked in the mirror, or the bank, and said, "if only..."

Author : Dale Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 088995481X

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Fifteen Minutes of Fame by Dale Patterson Pdf

Over 150 regular folks getting their time in the spotlight--some are heroes, some are far from that. But they all share one thing in common: they weren't planning to become famous.

Author : George C. Shedd
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066145248

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In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. Shedd Pdf

"In the Shadow of the Hills" is a novel by the American author George Clifford Shedd. It is an adventurous Wild West story about Steele Weir. On his deathbed, his father tells his son of a band of criminals who framed him for murder and robbed him of valuable land in the West. Steel aims to take revenge and sets on a dangerous journey to clear gather kompromat on the gang and clear his father's name.