Dead Serious Too

Dead Serious Too
Author: Stewart Perkins
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2024-09-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1035832763

Would Stan’s eccentric, fun-loving disposition continue to be subdued by low self-esteem and personal insecurities? A timid child who had grown into a slightly less troubled young man, Stan was approaching his nineteenth birthday with a pledge to continue the plan he had embarked upon nine years earlier. Signs of success were emerging. Happily, Stan believed his recent experiences in both his personal and working life were far less daunting and withdrawn than he had once imagined at the age of ten. He seemed to be on the cusp of nurturing a more confident demeanour, with the potential to enrich his life in myriad ways. With perseverance, self-control, and the support of friends and family, Stan sensed his future could develop into something beyond his wildest dreams. His destiny, however, would be shaped by how he responded to the inevitable challenges along the bumpy road of his life. While he acknowledged that some unfortunate or distressing events might strike and later haunt him, his increased confidence gave him hope that such occurrences would be short-lived and interspersed with moments of humour and excitement. Ever the optimist, he dreamed of love and happiness and possibly even forming an affectionate relationship with a lifelong partner. Illustrated through separate linked novellas, narratives of Stan’s late teenage years and early adult life can be read as one continuous novel or enjoyed as individual short stories.

Dead Serious Case #1 Miz Dusty Le Frey

Dead Serious Case #1 Miz Dusty Le Frey
Author: Vawn Cassidy
Publisher: Crawshanks Guide to the Recently Departed
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781838184780

An LGBTQ+ paranormal caper across the East End of London, involving a nerdy pathologist, a dead drag queen and a Scotland Yard detective, with hilarious results.

Dead Serious

Dead Serious
Author: Jane Mersky Leder
Publisher: Bublish, Inc.
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1946229520

My brother took his own life on his thirtieth birthday. My life has never been the same. Thirty plus years after publishing the first edition of Dead Serious, this second completely revised and updated edition covers new ground: bullying, social media, LGBTQ teens, suicide prevention programs, and more. Scores of teens share their stories that are often filled with hurt, disappointment, shame—yet often hope. Written for teens, adults and educators, Dead Serious: Breaking the Cycle of Teen Suicide explores the current cultural and social landscape and how the pressure-filled lives of teens today can lead to anxiety, depression—suicide. Leder’s own journey of discovery after her brother’s suicide informs her goal of helping to prevent teen suicide by empowering teens who are suffering and teens who can serve as peer leaders and connectors to trusted adults. The skyrocketing number of teens who take their own lives makes Dead Serious: Breaking the Cycle of Teen Suicide more relevant and important than ever. “Talking about suicide does not make matters worse. What makes matters worse is not talking.”

Dead Serious

Dead Serious
Author: Susannah Stacey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997
Genre: Bone, Robert (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 0671001183

Biddinghurst, a reputedly haunted village in Kent, seems to be home to a serial killer. Superintendent Robert Bone steps in to investigate, and instinctively tosses out the obvious--suggesting an unlikely, but terribly convincing, scenario for the crimes. Featured in "A Pocket Full of Crime" mystery newsletter.

Dead Serious

Dead Serious
Author: Eli J. Knapp
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1948814412

FOREWORD INDIES BRONZE WINNER, ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT "Diverting descriptions of flora and fauna lead into captivating lessons about biological principles, all of which are embellished with humor. A rousing read." —FOREWORD REVIEWS Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject. ELI J. KNAPP, PhD, has had a fascination with wildlife ever since obsessively counting deer on his bus rides to school as a kid. His wildlife interests have put him into kayaks, hot air balloons, dilapidated land rovers, and many pairs of hiking boots in search of new species and experiences. When not watching birds, Eli teaches courses in conservation biology, wildlife behavior, human ecology, and Swahili at Houghton College in western New York, where he is a tenured professor of intercultural studies and biology. His research interests spawn out of a three–year stint living in Serengeti National Park, where he studied the coexistence of people and wildlife around protected areas. Eli now enjoys sharing nature with his wife and three children, and has chronicled his adventures in The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: Sharing Nature with the Next Generation.

League of Titans

League of Titans
Author: Lane Smith
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 148973273X

Jaycen Alan Ford was an ordinary rich teenager living an ordinary rich teenager's life... until he wrecked his brand new Corvette. Not only did he total his car, but he escaped the vehicle as it was in mid-air and watched the rest of the devastating crash take place in slow motion. As it turned out, Jaycen was fast. Really fast. And he wasn't the only one. Soon afterwards, his parents, along with many other people, were killed in a mass murder by another speedster. On a quest to take down his parents' killer, Jaycen learns of an entire secret society of people with special abilities, and through thick and thin, has to work with them and the U.S. government to bring down a man who moves twice as fast as he does, and somehow knows twice as much about his life - past, present, and even future - than he should.

Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?

Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?
Author: Liz Evans
Publisher: Henbane Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1843961121

Marilyn Monroe has been brutally murdered. Tough, streetwise (and let's be truthful here - tightwad) ex-cop PI Grace Smith is hired to track down the murderer... But this isn't LA. It's a seedy run down English resort and Marilyn Monroe is a decidedly dead donkey.Grace is inexorably drawn into a web of greed, betrayal and murder, whilst she gamely sticks to her mantra of 'What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine if I can blag it'. As the tentacles of the case stretch out to touch on murders in the past, Grace acquires a donkey man with a secret, a potential boyfriend with a wife, a cop with a grudge, and a race against time to prevent the killer claiming another victim herself.An entertaining broth of a book, packed with comic set pieces and cracking one-liners. - The TimesFunny and engaging. Give her a go. - Literary ReviewThis is not a book to make you a better person; it will not change your life nor enhance you sex appeal but you might enjoy it. - Oxford Times

Fistful of Benjamins

Fistful of Benjamins
Author: Kiki Swinson
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0758280289

Kiki Swinson's 'Special Delivery', sees U.S. Postal service employee Gabriella Vasquez and her boyfriend, Eduardo, set-up the ultimate hustle - a drug distribution scheme using Gabriela's mail route. Business is booming - until the Feds bust up the operation. Will they betray each other for the ultimate pay-out? In De'nesha Diamond's 'Gun Play', Julian Smith doesn't remember anything about his past after he woke up in a hospital with a sexy nurse, Malena, by his side. Yet Julian is haunted by dreams of another woman. With someone targeting him and Malena, who can he trust?

The Rise of Stefan Gregorovic

The Rise of Stefan Gregorovic
Author: Buchanan John Buchanan
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450208517

The Rising, comrades, began on a hot Saturday night in August. Thus begins an action-packed tale of revolution during the Cold War. Enter Stefan Gregorovic. Ruthless and charismatic, he has limitless faith in his ability to perform great deeds. But Mariana Skowdowska, a leader of the student revolt, spurns Stefan's offer of escape to the West. He then offers to raise the capital city for the students but student leaders react with contempt towards a man they consider a deluded nobody. Enraged, Stefan resolves to prove them wrong. He raises the standard of revolt throughout the capital and routs the Secret Police. But complications develop as all eyes turn to follow the reaction of the army and, with even more foreboding, the Kremlin. Follow Stefan, as he deals with these and other problems, and find out what happens to this riveting character and his followers.

No More Sunday Mornings

No More Sunday Mornings
Author: Cheryl Joyner-Clark
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1449019994

"Put your hands together, everybody say Sunday Morning!" No! The Blackwell's want nothing more to do with Sunday Mornings or God which is not the way Ruth Blackwell raised her children. Ruth trained up her children in the church but when she died suddenly from cancer it seemed everything she taught them died with her. She left behind three precious bibles and a prayer that they will one day find their way back to God. It is true every man when he is driven away it is of his own lust and entice. Each Blackwell is driven by something. Jade, the youngest, is driven by love and surely she should be able to find it at church? When she finds herself alone and pregnant after the death of her mother, it is the church that cast her out like the woman wearing the scarlet letter. Determined to never return again she seeks for the love that's been missing in the arms of a man only to find rejection and another child. Her only source of freedom now is the club life. No longer cleaving to what she was taught but now must make her own choices her own way. Alexandria, the middle child, is driven by bitterness of the past and resolves to better her own life. Seeking for fame as a fashion designer, she is determined to make her mark in the world. She doesn't need any distractions to stand in her way. Not her needy sister, looser brother, not fine Trent Tyler, and definitely not God. Jasper, the oldest, is driven by riches but his search keeps landing him in jail. All he could remember while sitting behind prison walls was what his mother used to say "You can't hide from God." He's wasn't hiding he just wanted to do what he wanted to do? Free from prison he vows to do it the legal way but definitely not God's way. How long will the Blackwell's stop seeking a legacy and embrace the one Ruth left behind? How long will they continue to cry, No More Sunday Mornings?