IN PURSUIT OF THE FREE PASS

IN PURSUIT OF THE FREE PASS
Author: John Howard
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1477233180

John Howard, asks: WHY? Why can’t we display the Ten Commandments in public places? Why can’t we say Merry Christmas, even though that’s the holiday we are celebrating? Why do we all have to kowtow to the liberal Church of the Enlightened’s dictates and lack of morals? Why can’t children pray in school, if that is their choice? Why can’t we find out the truth about our elected leaders who pay attorneys to cover up their past? And WHAT can the right-thinking Christian majority do about changing the messages that are sent out each day, seeking to dismiss them as crazy people that seek to destroy this great nation? The United States of America is the greatest country in the world and only when right-thinking foundational principles are brought to surface, can we truly have a nation of which to be proud.

No Dribbling the Squid

No Dribbling the Squid
Author: Michael J. Rosen
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0740790501

In No Dribbling the Squid, armchair athletes--and anyone who enjoys tales of the strange and unusual--get a front-row seat at some of the world's most mind-blowing feats of strength, endurance, and eccentricity. Here are profiles of more than 70 fringe, far-fetched, and frightening sports, all featured in up-close-and-personal photos. With everything from wayward warfare (Japanese mudflinging, team snowball fighting, professional shin kicking) to displaced races (swamp soccer, outhouse racing, underwater cycling, or elephant polo), to toe- and finger-wrestling, chess boxing, extreme mountain unicycling, spitting and hurling contests, city-wide brawls, and recess games gone grown-up, there's something here to tickle any competitor's freaky streak.

In Pursuit of Balance

In Pursuit of Balance
Author: Marta S. Gabor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780970020703

Communist Romania in the early 1970s is the initial framework where Nora Mann, a physician & Tibor Rozsavolgyi, a worker, meet & get involved. This dynamic & moving tale of oppression, love, personal misfortunes & ambitions, uprooting & readjustment is populated with unique & vibrant characters. Complete men & women act out their differences, experience their emotions, make impressive moral choices & prevail against all odds. Unpredictable political & private events propel the lives of two characters coming from apparently incompatible backgrounds into a passionate relationship burdened by predicaments. Fast-moving adventures culminate in the United States of the end of the 20th century. Nora's life is an inspiring & tireless exercise in perseverance; Tibor's story resettled in Hungary -- exemplify boldness in rethinking one's life. An under-current of elusive balance follows them everywhere. Strongly anchored in accurate social-political & historical settings, the story is an authentic reflection of the difficulties inherent to emigration. Gabor's debut novel offers multi-layered plot twists, story lines & dialogues handled with the sure hand of a seasoned professional & the abilities of a born story-teller. Her voice is strong & the style ranges in tones from robust & funny, to pensive & lyrical.

North Carolina Slave Narratives

North Carolina Slave Narratives
Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006-05-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807876755

The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson.

Beyond the Bright Sea

Beyond the Bright Sea
Author: Lauren Wolk
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1448197120

'Harper Lee has a worthy successor. Wolk is a big new talent' - The Times Crow has lived her whole life on a tiny, starkly beautiful island. Her only companions are Osh, the man who rescued her from a washed-up skiff as a baby and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their neighbour across the sandbar. But it is only when a mysterious fire appears across the water that an unspoken question of her own history forms in Crow's heart, and an unstoppable chain of events is triggered. Crow sets out to find her lost identity - and, ultimately, to learn what it means to be a family. Vivid and heartfelt, Beyond the Bright Sea is a gorgeously crafted, gripping tale of buried treasure and belonging.