Love Under the K Street Bridge

Love Under the K Street Bridge
Author: Maurice A. Butler
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2023-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

People often say that homelessness can happen to anybody. It is virtually only two missed paychecks away. “Love Under the K Street Bridge” follows the journey of Jason Powell, an immensely popular high school band director, and Alexis Gordon, an internationally renowned business woman as they become successful in society, fall on hard times, and lose everything. They both become homeless and subsequently are scorned by the society that once adored them. They find each other and develop a romantic bond as they try to traverse the evils of life on the street. This fictional story highlights the fact that anybody can be just two paychecks, or one medical crisis, away from homelessness. This story is also about the power of love and how love enables man to survive anything. The struggle is real. Love is real. This is a story of the human condition.

My Love of Affairs

My Love of Affairs
Author: Sandi Hoffman
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1937110370

Sandi Hoffman Special Events is nationally known for producing celebrations of unparalleled creativity. Her clients call her a “magician,” a “genius” with flawless taste and execution who consistently delivers singular experiences loaded with “exquisite eye candy.” From elegant private dinner parties to large scale celebrations, industry events and fundraisers, lively birthdays or bar and bat mitzvahs, Sandi immerses herself in the details of an event to create a transcendent experience that is more like living theatre than party planning. My Love of Affairs showcases a sampling of Sandi’s events over the last decade, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the high-pressure, high-stakes career of an elite party planner. In this job, every night is Opening Night of a once-in-a-lifetime production attended and reviewed by critics and fans alike. These parties last for mere hours but provide memories for a lifetime.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1500
Release: 1939
Genre:
ISBN:

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2022
Release: 1940
Genre:
ISBN:

Love in '76

Love in '76
Author: Oliver Bell Bunce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1857
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Ramblin'

Ramblin'
Author: Terrell Greene
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-07-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664181407

Ramblin’, Reflections on Life, Love and War, is a commentary on life in general and on topics of current interest. Written in an easy, conversational style with sparks of humor, most chapters are like casual talk among friends. Topics range from musings on walks in a rural neighborhood, to causes and significance of declining birth rates, to memories aroused by strains of music. Three war stories are based on original documents. One is the heroic account of a young woman and her two children trying to escape the Russian Army as it rolled across Germany and savaged the population. It is based on handwritten notes by the mother. Other war stories tell about ingenious counters by the RAF to German air defenses, and first-hand observations on successes and errors in air warfare by a seasoned air commander. The book ends with three short tales.

A Culture of Deception

A Culture of Deception
Author: ROBERT LOCKWOOD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146283485X

Connecticut Senator Tom Felice, a decent, four-term, highly honored Democratic member of Congress, fights for his life in a private room for high-level politicians at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. He is within mere steps of the grievously wounded and mutilated soldiers whom he had betrayed and from which the VIP patients in Ward 72, like the disgraced Senator Felice, are carefully segregated. Felice was snared by French security agencies, invisibly assisted by the Mossad, in a Paris hotel room while accepting a bribe from a Syrian terrorist. Expelled from France as a persona non grata, he suffered a debilitating stroke aboard the US Air Force plane returning him home. Major Monica Howard, a US Army Medical Corps physician with the Felice congressional delegation on the aircraft, skillfully lessens the strokes potential lethality. A mere few hours earlier, she had colluded with Mossad agents. Back in Washington, Felices colleagues vote his expulsion from the Senate as the Justice Department files charges against him for abetting terrorism. In Connecticut, a Byzantine plot unfolds, ultimately removing the acting Republican lieutenant governor, Eileen Martino. Only months earlier, she had replaced the former governor whose crimes of corruption led to his imprisonment; crimes in which she is now being incriminated. Martinos political collapse brings to office the next governor in the line of succession, a popular state senate leader, Domenic Guillermo, a Democrat, who appoints Bill Rice, a well-known and Washington-based Connecticut lobbyist, to the seat of the now-resigned Senator Felice. How did it come to this? Senator Felice was induced by Tyler Hendricks, his former chief of staff, now a lobbyist, to legislate the transfer of a $720 million defense contract from a Utah company, earmarking it to the lobbyists Canadian client. The contract would provide the US Army with an anabolic steroid for use by US Special Operations troops operating in Iraq and Afghanistan at the every edges of human performance. A terrorist cell operating in Canada dispatches four Syrian doctoral students in the reputable York University molecular biology program to infiltrate the company and contaminate the steroids preparation with a deadly bacterium. Belatedly, Canadian intelligence and other agencies raid the company, following the French seizure of Senator Felice and his terrorist co-conspirator in Paris. But in Washington, greed, personal ambition and political power beggar troop welfare. Senate Republicans shamelessly exploit their Democratic colleagues humiliation and anticipate a Republican replacement to Senator Felice, a move which would critically alter the margin of Senate control. But House and Senate Democrats from the New England delegation move aggressively in two directions; first cooperating with the party leaders in Connecticut to keep the seat in Democratic hands; then, to transfer the Canadian contract to an Israeli pharmaceutical company which had only recently established operations in Rhode Island and on the Connecticut pharma coastline. Curiously, the US lobbyist for the Israeli company is appointed to the Senate seat mere hours after the acting governor quits, her successor sworn in and Senator Felice, now facing life-threatening surgery, resigns. Feckless US and Canadian intelligence agencies are slammed by elected political overseers for their ineptness: they were idle during the scandal, fearing political repercussions incurred from tracking a Senator or interfering with seemingly normal business transactions. Nor did Congress hypocritical scorn of defense contracts with foreign companies matter much in the face of effective lobbying. The story envelops terrorism in greed. Elected political leaders are easily deceived by slick lobbyists who readily exploit their relatively low compensation le