Jim: 5732 books

A collection of original monologues, exploring the issues around suicide from multiple viewpoints. Grouped into four sections, for use individually (for class, performance, auditions, etc.) or as a complete production.

In 1955, doctors told Jim L. Wingrove that his severely broken his arm would be permanently paralyzed. Not wanting to accept this diagnosis, Wingrove asked for a second opinion. He met with another doctor, who relayed the same bad news: his arm would never work again. But Wingrove knew something the...

An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City’s favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue—and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you’ll make their intimate...

In the opening chapter of this book you’ll discover the reasons of my lifelong passion for wanderlust－the love of traveling the world, especially on a shoestring budget. For the next three chapters you’ll accompany me vicariously on a three-month hitchhike from near Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Seattle,...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Velibor Vasovic is not political. He is a soccer player; has played for Partizan Belgrade and his national team. Scored Partizan’s only goal against Real Madrid in the European Cup. He is the rock supporting any defense. But in 1966, he starts...

A country boy from the dusty south of the depression wanders with bewildered amusement through the land of the Munchkins to the jungles of Guyana, the alleys of Istanbul, a Bedouin camel roast, the backrooms of Congress, and hither and thither and ... and it's all true. An anecdotal autobiography of an adventuresome spirit.

Fishing is the most dangerous occupation in the world: in Atlantic Canada, an average of one person dies every month while working at sea. The Deadly Sea by bestselling author Jim Wellman contains twenty-five stories about men and women who work in the Atlantic Canadian fishing industry, ranging from...

Is God dead? Jim Marion says that what has really died is our myth of God, our worn-out notion of the deity in the sky, separate from us, who intervenes in our lives only when petitioned strenuously. God still exists, but we need to update our interpretation of God’s nature. The mythic sky God was...

Born to illiterate parents in a deprived area of Glasgow ensured Joe Armstrong would be stigmatised from day one. His father was an indolent, gambling, alcoholic and his Mother ;a hard nosed, illiterate workaholic. With no one to turn to in times of need; Joe was left to his own devices; to do whatever he...

due in the main; to the trials and tribulations related to a complicated divorce helen and joe decide to relocate. Spain is their choice of country and Marbella their choice of town. Unaware of the culture, politics, moral and social differences the buy an apartment within a small community. Initally...

While in Spain Joe and Helen enrol with a casting agency, resulting in Joe being given the lead part in an advert to be filmed in Barcelona. Occasionally they fly back to Scotland and reacquaint themselves with all that is wrong with Scotland and in particular the catholic religion For Joe and Helen...

Is bacon fat meat? Chicken? Cheese? Eggs? All of these have been considered, at different times, meat or meatless foods by the Catholic Church. The eighteenth century historian Le Grand d'Aussy included several long passages on the complex history of Catholic fasting in France in his master work on...

When Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush in 1992, their campaigns spent a total of $192 million—combined! In 2012, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spent over $7 billion, including outside funding from superPACs—nearly 37 times more than just 20 years earlier. All that money didn't appear...

Jim Marrs presents the official government pronouncement on 9/11 as an obvious conspiracy. The only question is whose conspiracy it was. According to the government, the conspiracy involved about nineteen suicidal Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists, their hearts full of hatred for American freedom and...