Musings: Best [rejected] Short Stories on the Continent Review
Editor Crawford Washington asked 17 published authors to offer their best unpublished works. These short-stories had been rejected by Asimov's, Atlantic Monthly, Ellery Queen, Harper's, Kenyan Review, National Lampoon, New Yorker, Playboy, Sewanee Review, and other respected or successful media.
Elevator Man Stories: 40 Years of Stories in the Trade Review
Elevator Man Stories is a collection of funny, colorful and serious memories of working the past 40 years in the elevator trade. Our industry now has a pretty accurate recollection of what it was like back in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. It was a different time working on equipment that required a high level of expertise. A must read for any tradesman, especially if you're in the elevator industry! "I loved reading this book and couldn't put it down. Some of the stories were hilarious! I was sad when I finished, wanting to hear more about working in the trade. I've also got a whole new respect for elevator mechanics and the dangers of working the field. - Tom Sybert - Elevator Radio Show" A perfect gift for the person who has everything!
THE IMPOSSIBLE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS Review
After completing his first novel, Prodigies - A Warring Species and the Human Heart, Dr. Tim Dosemagen decided to move toward the personal, producing in The Impossible a very eclectic and most unusual collection of delightful short stories and essays. The Impossible combines humor with irony, weaving a lifetime of observations into an easy to read digest of very intimate observations, written in Dosemagen's uniquely direct style, with a simplicity of description, an honesty of depiction, and a mastery of capturing the inequalities of life and unexplainable unfolding of the world's events. In reading these stories and essays, the reader will be alternately surprised, uplifted, shocked, chagrined, amused, and educated. One is left with a lingering appreciation at these brief portraits into so many hidden aspects of our a life, and the desire to re-read these stories and essays is happily quenched. In The Impossible, Dosemagen casts a warm spotlight on the unlikeliest events of our lives, the roles each of us play in creating our futures, and the wonderful transformations yielded by the passage of time. Ride the waves, enjoy the good yarns, take pleasure in the sarcasm of the screeds, the wisdom of the observations, and celebrate Dosemagen's continuation of Mark Twain's 'A Pen Warmed Up In Hell' tradition.
...Always a Fan: True Stories from a Life in Science Fiction Review
Mike Resnick's second collection of essays, anecdotes, speeches, and convention reports (not to mention lists and obituaries), written for science fiction fan magazines, includes topics as diverse as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Teddy Roosevelt, My Most Memorable Collecting Experience, Where Do You Get Those Crazy (Novel) Ideas?, Bathrooms I Have Known, and much more.
Writing the Stories of Your Life: How to Turn Memories into Memoir Review
Writing the Stories of Your Life: How to Turn Memoirs into Memoir shows you HOW TO:
- write freely and enjoy writing
- gain access to your memories and shape them into stories
- set goals for your memoir project and complete it
- turn journal entries into stories
- bring out the character in people and pets
- turn places into settings
- find stories from your family's past
- structure a story to engage your reader
- polish your stories and edit your memoir
- illuminate the theme in your story
- discover your own life themes
- decode how to publish your story
On the Frontline: True Stories of Outstanding Bravery by British Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan Review
TIMELINE: Untold Stories of Space Exploration: (Also Available as eBook) (Volume 3) Review
In Volume 3 of his Moonwalkers(tm) series, author John Getter once again uses his experience as NASA’s reporter-of-choice for pool coverage, private pilot and personal friend to many of the astronauts, to reveal the little-known stories behind the history of space exploration. Join John as he takes the reader on a day-by-day journey through the human adventure of space exploration from the birth of NASA in 1958 through the last American's walk on the moon in 1972. Share insider stories like the good luck urination on launch pads through the devastating losses of human life. Learn more about the triumphs, disasters and cover-ups that were such an integral part of the “Cold War” race to the Moon. This e-book includes 37 photographs from John's personal collection as well as NASA and Soviet archives. A great follow-up to John's best-selling Moonwalkers(tm) Volume 1 "To the Moon: Untold Stories of the Space Race" and Moonwalkers(tm) Volume 2 "Space Truck: Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle"
Dogs at War: True Stories of Canine Courage Under Fire Review
In military conflicts around the world, these unsung heroes have proved themselves time and again, and many have won decorations for their acts of bravery. From dragging wounded soldiers to safety to detecting a trip wire as thin as a hair or tracking the enemy back to a hideout, dogs have played a critical role in military conflicts and saved countless lives. The heroes honored in this volume include the "kamikaze" attack dogs used by Russia’s Red Army to destroy the invading Germans’ tanks, the heroic Airedale Jack who saved an entire British battalion during World War I, the parachuting dog who made more jumps during World War II than any man, and the American war dogs that saved as many as 10,000 lives during the Vietnam War. Starting with early warriors and moving through Allied dogs and American mascot dogs of World War I; para pups, anti-tank dogs, and defense dogs of World War II; the collection ends with scout dogs and other dog stories of the Vietnam War.
Stories That Won't Go Away: Women in Vietnam, 1959-1975 Review
Misty: First Person Stories of the F-100 Fast FACs in the Vietnam War Review
First person stories of 155 fighter pilots who flew in a special Top Secret mission during the Vietnam War. There has never been a book like this. These are their personal stories - full of emotion, drama, tragedy and humor.
