You Re Not Lost If You Can Still See The Truck

Author : Bill Heavey
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802191861

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You're Not Lost if You Can Still See the Truck by Bill Heavey Pdf

Humorous, insightful essays on outdoor life from the renowned contributor and editor of Field & Stream—“one of the best magazine writers in America” (The Wall Street Journal). Living the life of an outdoorsman doesn’t necessarily take skill. After more than two decades of writing about his adventures (and misadventures), Bill Heavey has proven that being a true outdoorsman just takes enthusiasm, determination, and a willingness to, occasionally, make a fool of oneself. You’re Not Lost If You Can Still See the Truck gathers together more than sixty of Heavey’s best stories from his work in Field & Stream, The Washington Post, and The Washingtonian. Including retellings of his adventures hunting ants in the urban jungles of Washington, DC; braving freezing winter expeditions in Eastern Alaska; attempting to impress ladies by immediately flipping over his canoe; and planning deer hunts around dad-duties, these tales are chock full of life, insight, and, of course, hilarity. Here is a far-ranging and enlightening volume that traces a life lived outdoors, for better or for worse. “To the list of great Field & Stream essayists . . . add the name Bill Heavey. His writing is funny, poignant, acerbic, and, best of all, always alert to the absurdities of life.” —Patrick C. McManus

Author : Judi Daggy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595201495

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Call Me a Truck...I Won't Sprout Wheels by Judi Daggy Pdf

In the beginning there was, the word, a sound, a vibration. Would you like to experience the freedom from being offended, freedom from control and manipulation? ItOs all in the words we hear and the words we use. Words make up our thoughts, our thoughts make up our opinions and our opinions generally end up giving us heartburn. Thoughts come first, everything else follows and wherever you go, there you are. Have you ever tried to escape a thought? Have you ever, lost, your sense of humor? Maybe it flew out of the window on the freeway somewhere. There is a way to get it back. Discover new vistas and fields for your mind to wander through. It's just a thought. Or is it?

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780310410430

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Thunder in the Morning Calm by Don Brown Pdf

Lieutenant Commander “Gunner” McCormick is assigned as an intelligence officer to Carrier Strike Force 10, being deployed to the Yellow Sea at the invitation of South Korea for joint exercises with the US Navy. During his pre-deployment briefing, he discovers a TOP-SECRET MEMO revealing rumors that the North Koreans may still be holding a handful of elderly Americans from the Korean War in secret prison camps. As it happens, Gunner’s grandfather, who was a young marine officer in the Korean War, disappeared at Chosin Reservoir over 60 years ago and is still listed as MIA in North Korea. Sworn to silence about what he has read, the top-secret memo eats at him. Gunner decides to spend all his inheritance and break every military regulation in the book to finance his own three-man commando squad on a suicide mission north of the DMZ to search for clues about the fate of his grandfather. Risking his career, his fortune, and his life, Gunner will get his answers, or he will die trying. Don Brown is building a loyal fan base by writing what he knows best: thrillers with heart. A former Navy JAG officer and action officer in the Pentagon, Brown pens action-packed plots and finely-drawn characters that are credible and compelling. Thunder in the Morning Calm is a novel of bravery, duty, and family love that will keep readers of all ages reading straight through to the last page.

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 1519 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780310342854

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The Pacific Rim Collection by Don Brown Pdf

Bestselling author and former US Navy JAG Officer Don Brown’s Pacific Rim series is now available in one volume! Thunder in the Morning Calm Sixty years after his grandfather disappeared in Korea, a young naval intelligence officer seeks the truth behind rumors that American POWs are still being held there. Risking his life, fortune, and freedom, he leads a daring mission into the dangerous dictatorship of North Korea—all for the love of his country and a grandfather he never knew. Fire of the Raging Dragon In Fire of the Raging Dragon—the second book in best-selling author Don Brown’s Pacific Rim Series—Stephanie Surber is stationed on board a submarine tender in the South China Sea when a naval war breaks out. After a gruesome discovery escalates America’s involvement, Stephanie’s father, US President Douglas Surber, must choose to take a stand against evil . . . or save the life of his daughter. Storming the Black Ice When British geologists discover the world's largest oil reserves under the desolate, icy tundra of Antarctica, Britain and Chile form a top-secret alliance for control of petroleum resources that will rival the economic power of OPEC.

Author : Charles Haddad
Publisher : Barking Dogwood Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pity the Poor Reader by Charles Haddad Pdf

Consider “Pity the Poor Reader” as an un-textbook, an irreverent “Elements of style.” Like Elements, it’s designed to compliment textbooks. Pity is concise, memorable and portable. Under 300 pages, Pity serves as an aspiring writer’s keepsake. Concision lies at the heart of Pity. The key concepts of writing well are distilled into irreverent, memorable lines and axioms. Many of them are organized as lists that are easily printed and taped to a wall or a computer. Indeed, in testing the book with my university students, I’ve found that many of them did print out its list of axioms to keep handy while writing. I’ve also overheard students quoting Pity’s axioms to their friends. While similar to “Elements” in spirit, Pity differs greatly in style, material and organization. My book draws on current events, history, student anecdotes and my own 30 years of experience as a writer - anything to make its lessons real and relevant. It’s written in a style that skewers all pretense and officiousness when it comes to the teaching of writing. The opening chapter about craft is titled “The Tao of Writing Poorly.” It parodies the poor way that writing is taught in many high schools and colleges. Pity tries to teach whenever possible through humor. It helps to make any lesson memorable.

Author : Ken Benton
Publisher : Andrew Kasch
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000387212

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Sol Survivors by Ken Benton Pdf

Less than two days. That’s all the notice America gets of a fast-approaching solar storm so unprecedented in scale it sets the geomagnetic scientists in a panic. Many citizens don’t have the resources, or even the concern, to take preparatory measures for the overhyped-sounding warnings that life as they know it is about to be over. Joel McConnell, a self-made Washington DC businessman and survival hobbyist, is not one of those. But bugging out with his culture-loving girlfriend before the solar flare hits proves to be a too much of a challenge on such short notice. With the power grid suddenly destroyed, most modern electronics fried, and cities quickly descending into utter turmoil, they find the 500-mile journey to Joel’s well-stocked rural retreat a maze littered with opportunistic criminals and increasing hostility. That isn’t all. It soon becomes evident the sun storm did more than plunge the western world into darkness and civil unrest. It left something equally sinister behind. Something that feeds the human compulsion for disunity to such extremes it makes the recent political divisiveness in America look like harmonic brotherhood by comparison. With the effects worsening daily, Joel learns the highway is but one treacherous adversary he must defeat. Others can sprout where you least expect them.

Author : Leona Karr
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459261532

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Follow Me Home by Leona Karr Pdf

Rocky Mtn. RESCUE STALKED… Jill Gaylor wasn't supposed to have gone out that fateful day of the blizzard. But when she heard Hal Haverly's desperate plea for help over the wire, she knew she could no longer avoid the sexy cowboy she'd been skirting for months. She hadn't forgotten hid bedroom eyes, though his velvet voice made her forget that there was a stalker out there…with her name on his lips. TRAPPED… Snowbound with six men and one very pregnant woman, Jill was terrified to realize her stalker might be among them. She'd thought she could count on Hal—her hero in shining cowboy boots—to protect her, but that was before she discovered his secret. Now she was not sure who to trust—with her life or her heart. An icy blizzard rages…and heated passions burn…

Author : Mary Miley
Publisher : Severn House/ORIM
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780108209

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Renting Silence by Mary Miley Pdf

In 1920s Hollywood, Mary Pickford’s script girl is out to solve a murder with “a little sparkle [and] some wily Prohibition-era shenanigans . . . a great read” (Booklist). Former vaudevillian Jessie Beckett has found work as a script girl—with a sideline in sleuthing—at Pickford-Fairbanks Studios, run by the silent film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. When actress Ruby Glynn is wrongly convicted of murder, Pickford asks Jessie to help clear her friend’s name. But it won’t be easy. The victim was found stabbed in her bedroom with Ruby lying unconscious on the floor, holding a bloody knife. Jessie’s investigation sends her back through the Midwest vaudeville circuit, where she encounters old friends, new dangers, and her sometime-beau David seemingly involved in some shady dealings. Now it’ll take all her wits and ingenuity to find the killer without accidentally playing her own death scene. “With a well-developed and surprising plot twist, an appealing, resourceful amateur detective, and fascinating period details, this entertaining historical will delight fans of Old Hollywood.” —Library Journal

Author : Jonathan Waite
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326070540

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Return To Argenthome by Jonathan Waite Pdf

Author : Elgon Williams
Publisher : Pandamoon Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Fried Windows (In a Light White Sauce) by Elgon Williams Pdf

In the tradition of Asimov, Heinlein, H.G. Wells, and Lewis Carroll; Elgon Williams has created a universe where imagination rules and reality is not what it seems. Leave your world behind and enter an adventure forever lost but never forgotten. Where only magic is real, and anything is possible. When Brent Woods, a middle-aged computer technician delivers a new computer system to an eccentric woman who lives in a strange house with no windows, she offers to reconnect him with his childhood dreams and fantastic imagination. Alongside his best friend Lucy, Brent explores the seemingly infinite possibilities of the “Inworld” where she lives, a place where everything about anything can change with a thought. Nevertheless, in the process of remembering his past as Carlos, Lord of Bartoul in the Interrealm, Brent exposes a dark potential that threatens his family and his life as he knows it. When his youngest daughter is attacked in her dreams by the same forces that took away his kingdom, and Lucy’s. Brent seeks answers that lie somewhere in the truth of what happened in his past, and how he lost his connection to the Interrealm. He must find a way to correct his mistakes and solve the puzzle of his best friend’s life. Fried Windows: In a Light White Sauce is an unforgettable journey into imagination—a feast of delightful characters whose perspective of their worlds will change the way you think about yours—forever.

Author : Bill Heavey
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802193483

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It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It by Bill Heavey Pdf

From the beloved Field & Stream columnist: “Heavey takes us back to the joys—and occasional pitfalls—of the humble edibles around us” (The Wall Street Journal). For Bill Heavey, being a sportsman is more than a hobby—it’s a way of life. So despite living inside the DC Beltway, raising a daughter who has an aversion to “nature food,” and having zero experience with foraging or gardening, Bill attempts the ultimate sportsman’s dream: living off the land. Unsurprisingly, Bill’s foray into catching, finding, and growing his dinner doesn’t go exactly as planned. From battles with tomato-eating squirrels to a grizzly attempt at gutting perch to multiple failures at harvesting an appetizing salad, Bill stumbles through his quest for wild food with blood loss, humiliation, and hard lessons. Still, with the help of his locavore girlfriend and an eccentric neighbor who runs an under-the-table bait business, he manages to eat the way our ancestors did—and uncovers the true meaning of being full. “Bold, courageous, hilarious, honest, and touching” (Duff Goldman), Bill Heavey’s first full-length book is a must-read look at how we consume, consider, and source our most basic of needs.

Author : Sheila Ortiz Taylor
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826318436

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Coachella by Sheila Ortiz Taylor Pdf

This desert mystery novel, set in Palm Springs in 1983, is from one of Chicana literature's finest writers.

Author : Nancy Caldring
Publisher : Vincent Noot
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9788832516319

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Soap Making by Nancy Caldring Pdf

Skin care matters, and the right kinds of soap can make a big difference. Everyone knows the skin is vulnerable and capable of changing someone’s mood, someone’s immune system, and more. Therefore, in this book, we focus on creating both handmade soaps and bath bombs, which equally matter when you are taking a bath or try to be rejuvenated in any other way. In this book, you will learn to create soaps for a healing skin, soothing soaps, the main ingredients for bath bombs, instructions to apply those ingredients in comprehensive recipes, and much more. Do yourself a favor and add this book to your cart now!

Author : Bill Heavey
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781555848569

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If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? by Bill Heavey Pdf

A hilarious collection of essays dedicated to life in the great outdoors from Field & Stream’s acclaimed Sportsman’s Life columnist. For nearly a decade, Bill Heavey, an outdoorsman marooned in suburbia, has written the Sportsman’s Life column on the back page of Field & Stream, where he does for hunting and fishing what David Feherty does for golf and Lewis Grizzard did for the South. If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? is the first collection of Heavey’s sidesplitting observations on life as a hardcore (but often hapless) outdoorsman. Whether he’s hunting cougars in the desert, scheming to make his five-year-old daughter love fishing, or chronicling his father’s life through a succession of canine companions, Heavey brings his trademark wit to a wide-range of outdoor enthusiasms, running the gamut from elite expeditions to ordinary occupations. In turns hysterical and poignant, entertaining and educational, this is an irresistible addition to the collection of any avid outdoorsman—or any suburbanite intrigued by the call of the wild.

Author : Ray Istorico
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786432110

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Greatness in Waiting by Ray Istorico Pdf

Before they acquired Babe Ruth or won a single championship, the New York Yankees (née Highlanders) were a team that inspired the strongest of feelings in baseball circles. Stars such as Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, and Brooklyner Willie Keeler drew loud followings, and the team made loyal fans of those who disliked the cross-town Giants or Dodgers. Even Ban Johnson prized the franchise, which gave his upstart American League a foothold in the nation’s most populous city. Baltimoreans, on the other hand, nurtured an animus toward the team, which only a few years earlier had been called the Orioles. And former Orioles manager John McGraw hatched a plan, along with Giants owner Andrew Freedman, to sabotage the new club. This heavily illustrated volume combines a fully documented history of the deadball-era Yankees with 195 photos of the people, places, and events that figured prominently in the story.