Goat Locker Strikes

Author : Steven G. Shandrow,Greg E. Riplinger
Publisher : Bookstand Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1618633546

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Goat Locker Strikes! by Steven G. Shandrow,Greg E. Riplinger Pdf

Chief's Mess: Knock Before Entering... Oceans across the globe are erupting in piracy, drug smuggling, and all out anarchy. Retired Navy Master Chief Bob Kensey knew all about the unrest, but nothing of dark storm clouds brewing two oceans and thousands of miles away. His thoughts were on the two Chinook salmon caught earlier, now simmering in the smoker, and beating Gunny, the "Safe Haven" bar's proprietor out of another cold San Magoo beer. Life changes for the Chief when a sailing yacht is hijacked off the coast of Somalia and an unannounced visit by a shipmate from the past set wheels in motion that engulfs Chief Kensey, and a hastily recruited crew of irascible old goats on a mission destined to fail. With years of experience to call upon, and a well-placed government official to help, they undertake a mission that can only be described as the very definition of 'off-the-grid'. How many of us have asked, "What if . . . ?" Kensey, Boats, Greasey, Preacher, Fritz, and a few others did, but unlike most they took the plunge . . . Once you take the plunge with them you will know why "all" ask permission before entering the "Goat Locker."

Author : Christine Grillo
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374609986

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Hestia Strikes a Match by Christine Grillo Pdf

A Best Book of the Year at NPR A Must-Read at The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and The Orange County Register “Steamy, smart, and hilarious.” —Oprah Daily “Effervescent . . . Acerbically funny and tender . . . [A] supremely layered, emotionally and intellectually resonant novel for our time.” —Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe Christine Grillo’s Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war. The year is 2023, and things are bad—bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they’re leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it’s Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends. Hestia has left journalism (too much war reporting) for a job at a Baltimore retirement village on the Inner Harbor (lots of security). She’s single and adrift, save for her coworkers and Mildred, an eighty-four-year-old, thrice-happily-married resident who gleefully supports Hestia’s half-hearted but hopeful attempts to find love again in a time of chaos and disunion. She reckons with the big questions (How do we live in the midst of political collapse? How do we love people who believe terrible things?) and the little ones (How do I decorate a nonworking fireplace? Can I hook up with a mime?), all while wrestling with that simmering, roiling, occasionally boiling feeling that things are decidedly not okay, but we have to keep going, one foot in front of the other, because maybe, just maybe, we can still find the kinds of relationships that sustain a person through anything. Christine Grillo’s Hestia Strikes a Match is an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love of all kinds, in all its messy beauty. Equal parts wise and hilarious, it fills the heart, fortifies the spirit, and will surely help to fend off despair. In the face of the everyday wildness of our times, it asks and answers that newly constant question: How do we make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us?

Author : Max Gallimore
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781456861438

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From Here to Caprock by Max Gallimore Pdf

Author : Deborah Fritz
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781663231741

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Undeterred by Deborah Fritz Pdf

Diving into boiling hot water covered with oil, a hero responds. He freed the battleship USS Nevada from her berth during the Pearl Harbor attack. If it were not for Chief Bos’n Edwin J. Hill’s quick action, the USS Nevada’s run for the sea would never have occurred. She was the only battleship to sortie. Edwin J. Hill’s Irish roots lie in Cape May, New Jersey, the country’s first seaside resort. He resided at the renowned Windsor Hotel.. Mr. Hill met his beautiful wife in Ireland during World War I. They raised their children in the Philadelphia area and then onto Long Beach, California, as World War II loomed. Mr. Hill was three months from retirement when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. Sacrificing all for his country, Mr. Hill was a true hero that day. He freed the battleship he was aboard and gave his life to save many others. Chief Bos’n Hill was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Author : David Poyer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250020598

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The Cruiser by David Poyer Pdf

Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission—Operation Stellar Shield—which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East. As a climate of war builds between Israel and Iraq, with threats of nuclear and chemical weapons, Dan has to rally Savo Island's demoralized crew, confront a mysterious death on board ship, while learning to operate a complex missile system that has not been battle tested. But when the conflict reaches a climax, Dan is forced to make a decision that may cost hundreds of thousands of innocent lives—or may save them, but at the cost of his ship and his career. Filled with dramatic sea adventure, authentic weapons and technology, and distinguished by Poyer's deep understanding of duty and the moral choices made in combat, The Cruiser is the fourteenth novel to feature Dan Lenson in military service that carries him throughout the world.

Author : Rana Chhina
Publisher : Usi Cafhr
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081840962

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The Eagle Strikes by Rana Chhina Pdf

Author : David Poyer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466857421

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Tipping Point by David Poyer Pdf

Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify before Congress. There, he must defend his controversial decision to prevent a massive retaliatory missile attack by Israel against civilian targets in the Mideast. Shaken by the near-end of his career, Lenson returns to command uncertain of his own future, but determined to do his best by a damaged ship and an increasingly divided crew. Ordered to the Indian Ocean, Savo cruises off East Africa, protecting shipping lanes from pirates. But this seemingly-routine patrol turns ominous when an unknown assailant begins assaulting female crew members. But then, an explosive showdown begins between India and Pakistan...with Savo Island, and her unique but not yet fully battle-ready ability to intercept ballistic missiles, standing alone between two nations on the brink of the first theater nuclear war. Dan will have to battle tsunami-driven seas, incoming weapons, and a quickly tilting balance of power, as China moves inexorably in her bid to displace America in the far Pacific. The fifteenth novel in David Poyer's acclaimed series of naval adventures featuring Dan Lenson, Tipping Point is an action-packed, utterly authentic story of duty, war, and the stress of command, by the most popular living author of American sea fiction.

Author : Joe Reina
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781636302324

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The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen by Joe Reina Pdf

A historical novel based on a true story about an amazing early twentieth-century woman. She stood out in a crowd of friends and relatives from Casteltermini, a small town in central Sicily. Her story sheds light on a little-known segment of a twentieth-century diaspora, a mass-exodus from Europe by some "huddled masses yearning to be free." This oppressed group fled the dire poverty of Sicily and southern Italy to endure a subsistence lifestyle bestowed by the owners of the coal mining industry and early American factories. She was surrounded by a clan of families. They were determined to achieve a better lifestyle through sheer hard work, struggling to overcome hardships and failures on the journey to success. They came with barely the clothes on their back. Eager for work, they spoke no English and were willing to do what the average, better-educated American refused to do. This amazing woman, Maria, was married to a lackluster, strong-tempered, tough, fearless, uneducated man who never worked a steady job his entire life. She endured a series of traumas---miscarriages and still births, each time berated by her husband for not delivering a healthy child. Starting at age twelve and until she died, her immediate family was her life. Maria passed her work ethic, her entrepreneurial skills, and her determination to get ahead to her children. Her legacy lives on in the succeeding generation of the clan who were better educated and became doctors, dentists, pharmacists, accountants, attorneys, and professors. Some became entrepreneurs like Maria, owning small and large businesses. There was one common denominator: they inherited the hard work ethic and generosity from their parents. The story begins in 1915.

Author : Raven Black,J.B. Williams,Alyssa Kuhns,Holly Day,Paul Wimsett
Publisher : Hungry Goat Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781942314004

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The Clock Strikes Midnight by Raven Black,J.B. Williams,Alyssa Kuhns,Holly Day,Paul Wimsett Pdf

Meet Abigail, the newest member of an exclusive babysitting club. Her first job at the Watson house seems to go just fine, until the sounds begin. A creepy collection of stories to read at night.

Author : Ron Martini
Publisher : Ron Martini
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781932606140

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The Submariner's Dictionary Or Submariner's Compendium of Terms & Tar's Handbook of Naval Verbiage and Retired Guy's Re-familiarization Manual by Ron Martini Pdf

Submariners are a tight knit group of men bound together by training and experience, and with a language all their own. That language is perhaps a little vulgar, but never intentionally demeaning, and a little irreverent but still worldly. This work is an attempt to preserve and explain some of these curious guys who so proudly wear a shiny metal pin that looks like a strange pair of fish on their left breast. This process of accumulating this new language begins in Boot Camp, and is added to with every change of duty station the sailor undergoes. It is heard aboard the boats and, unknowingly, by family members who can't understand terms like head, deck, and overhead, and who think SOS is a distress signal.

Author : Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Jeffery Farnol,Howard Pyle,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Walter Scott,Frederick Ferdinand Moore,Daniel Defoe,Alexandre Dumas,Charles Ellms,Frederick Marryat,John Masefield,Rafael Sabatini,Harold MacGrath,Joseph Lewis French,Clarence Henry Haring,Harry Collingwood,Stanley Lane-Poole,Charles Boardman Hawes,L. Frank Baum,J. M. Barrie,R. M. Ballantyne,G. A. Henty,J. D. Jerrold Kelley,Stephen W. Meader,J. Allan Dunn,Robert E. Howard,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Ralph D. Paine,Captain Charles Johnson,W. H. G. Kingston,William Macleod Raine,Currey E. Hamilton,John Esquemeling,Percy F.Westerman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 8481 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547760634

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Davy Jones' Locker: An Ultimate Pirate Collection (80+ Novels & Adventure Stories in One Edition) by Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Jeffery Farnol,Howard Pyle,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Walter Scott,Frederick Ferdinand Moore,Daniel Defoe,Alexandre Dumas,Charles Ellms,Frederick Marryat,John Masefield,Rafael Sabatini,Harold MacGrath,Joseph Lewis French,Clarence Henry Haring,Harry Collingwood,Stanley Lane-Poole,Charles Boardman Hawes,L. Frank Baum,J. M. Barrie,R. M. Ballantyne,G. A. Henty,J. D. Jerrold Kelley,Stephen W. Meader,J. Allan Dunn,Robert E. Howard,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Ralph D. Paine,Captain Charles Johnson,W. H. G. Kingston,William Macleod Raine,Currey E. Hamilton,John Esquemeling,Percy F.Westerman Pdf

Come along on a great pirate adventure with hand-picked literary classics and true stories about the legendary outlaws: History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson) The Book of Buried Treasure The Pirates' Own Book Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini) Sea Hawk (Sabatini) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe) Hearts of Three (Jack London) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Isle of Pirate's Doom (Robert E. Howard) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) Black Vulmea (Howard) Afloat and Ashore (James F. Cooper) Homeward Bound (Cooper) Red Rover (Cooper) Facing the Flag (Jules Verne) Pirate Gow (Daniel Defoe) The King of Pirates (Defoe) The Pirate (Walter Scott) Rose of Paradise (Howard Pyle) Captain Sharkey (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Pirate (Frederick Marryat) Three Cutters (Marryat) Madman and the Pirate (R. M. Ballantyne) The Offshore Pirate (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Martin Conisby's Vengeance (J. Farnol) Coral Island (Ballantyne) Pirate of Panama (W. M. Raine) Under the Waves (Ballantyne) Pirate City (Ballantyne) Gascoyne (Ballantyne) Captain Boldheart (Dickens) The Ways of the Buccaneers (J. Masefield) Master Key (L. Frank Baum) Black Bartlemy's Treasure (J. Farnol) A Man to His Mate (J. Allan Dunn) Tales of the Fish Patrol (Jack London) Barbarossa—King of the Corsairs (E. H. Currey) Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) Jim Davis (J. Masefield) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) Ghost Pirates (W. H. Hodgson) The Pagan Madonna (H. MacGrath) A Pirate of the Caribbees (H. Collingwood) The Pirate Island (H. Collingwood) The Devil's Admiral (F. F. Moore) The Pirate of the Mediterranean (W. H. G. Kingston) The Black Buccaneer (Stephen W. Meader) The Third Officer (P. Westerman) Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby...

Author : Bob Gurnett
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781454933243

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G.O.A.T. - Tom Brady by Bob Gurnett Pdf

Who is the greatest football player of all time? This stunning book, filled with color photographs and fascinating facts, makes the case that it’s Tom Brady! G.O.A.T. stands for Greatest Of All Time—and it takes lifelong dedication, nonstop work, and unbelievable talent to reach that pinnacle. In football, that honor goes to quarterback Tom Brady. He has already led the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl victories—one of only two players in history to do so, and the only person to do that for a single team. And Brady’s still in the game at age 41! He’s also received three league MVP awards, bested any previous quarterback in helping his team win division titles, and set records in passes and touchdowns. Young fans will love discussing and debating Brady’s place in football history.

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804152495

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Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth Pdf

In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" (Time).

Author : Konn Lavery
Publisher : Reveal Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781777164010

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Into the Macrocosm by Konn Lavery Pdf

A collection of twilight zone shorts exploring the fantasy-rich past, frightful present, and uncanny future. Enter an obscure universe known through the lives of 22 souls as the Nameless One and their ghoulish companion attempt to unlock the mysterious past of how they died. Yet, danger lurks even in the post-death realm, the Midway, and it is not keen on mortal visitors. A talking goat head, celestial beings, self-imposed existential dread, devils and demons are a small selection of what awaits in the Macrocosm. Award-winning author Konn Lavery’s short story collection explores his expanding Macrocosm, sharing the same universe as his previous works such as the horror novels Cultivate and Rave, thriller YEGman, and the dark fantasy series Mental Damnation. These interconnected tales bring everything under one, strange, unsettling, cosmos. Recognition - Literary Titan, Gold Book Award, 2021 - Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Awards, Bronze Short Stories, 2021 - N.N. Light Book Awards, Finalist Horror, 2021 - The Wishing Shelf Awards, Finalist Adult Fiction, 2021 - Manybooks May 2022 Horror Book of the Month Praise for Into the Macrocosm “Konn Lavery’s Into The Macrocosm is an exceptional short story collection that explores some provocative ideas through a darkly imaginative lens reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe or H.P. Lovecraft.” – ★★★★★ Literary Titan “I loved that this novel used these dark stories to highlight the importance of self-awareness.” – ★★★★ Arganise Campbell-Nash, Goodreads “Captivating characters and a cleverly designed, fantastical plot. A highly recommended set of shorts.” – ★★★★★ Wishing Shelf Awards “With an engaging narrative and evocative artwork, Konn Lavery's Into the Macrocosm is an entertaining embrace of fantastical oddities and life beyond.” – ★★★★★ Lit Amri, Readers’ Favorite

Author : Eden Phillpotts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : English fiction
ISBN : WISC:89088300389

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The Striking Hours by Eden Phillpotts Pdf