John A : 1444 books

A beautiful mid-autumn day, just the day for a Sunday drive in the country. At least that's what former journalist Art Parker, his wife, Dr. Marsha Parker, their sixteen-year-old adopted daughter, Mary Ann Markham, and her best friend, Jennifer Martin, think when they visit a hilltop in the western...

"[A]s recently as fifty years ago people believed that reminiscing was a sign of senility....Today, along with a greater understanding of the significance of reminiscence we have seen the rising popularity of private memoirs in various forms, from oral histories by universities to audio and videotapes...

In January of 1862 Gerald Donellon, a bookish boy living on a small dirt farm in Mississippi, turned 14. By late summer he had been orphaned by Yellow Fever and, with few choices open to him, lied about his age in order to enlist in the Army. On September 16 that same year he caught up to his assigned...

This book, THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS VICTORIA NUKPEZA, is a drama cast in historical fi ction. It is basically about the marriage of a young lady, Princess Victoria Nukpeza. Her fi rst three suitors were rejected by her parents because they wanted her to have good education so that, after marriage,...

Service With A Smile!  Revisit: • Familiar figures from Canada’s automotive past Enjoy: • A trip down the streets of Perth’s colourful history  Meet: • The one armed mechanic with a bear tied up at the back of his garage  Follow the service...

For over 80 years, James Brothers Hardware stood as the retail centre of historic downtown Perth, Ontario. Crowds from town and country alike flocked there for their every need, while from their open offices on the mezzanine above the first floor, George and Lawrence James and later George's son,...

The setting is mainly Elima, a composite of the Hawaiian Islands where Kay Yoshinobu is practicing criminal law along with her husband Sidney Chu and senior partner Qual Smith. Kay specializes in thoroughly investigating the lives of her clients. And truthfulness is not the most frequent virtue of the...

At the heart of the story is the romance between Brogan, a Terran male pilot and Zalina, a female shape-shifter and the Xuhlan ambassador to Merkal.Brogan is a pilot employed by Inter-Galactic Mining to ferry cargoes of ore back to Merkal from the outer perimeter of the Realm of the Five Planets...

When the local missions Father Duffy shows up at the office of Smith, Chu, Yoshinobu and Correa, it looks at first like a routine case. Father Duffy is seeking an attorney to defend one of his clients on a possible murder charge. The routine aspect rapidly disappears when it turns out that Shelton...

We fly in a moving medium of air. We live in a moving medium of feelings. In Flying Lessons, clinical psychologist Dr. John Snyder weaves together these two realms, drawing on his experiences as a licensed pilot to illuminate the existential truths that have helped him transform the lives of troubled...

As compared with cytology’s use in other organ systems, direct cytological examination of the endometrium is not a widely practiced diagnostic procedure. This is an anomaly, because the endometrium is exceedingly available for cytological sampling, cytological sampling is comparably simple to perform,...

Spring is springing in the Pocono Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania, and Three-Zee Zook (Zelanie Zephora Zook, to be exact) and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, are enjoying the emerging wildflowers and budding branches as they begin their new jobs at the luxurious Mountain Woods resort. That is,...

I know what you are going to say – this could not really happen to one man. But I swear my story is true, although there are many out there who wish to change it or conceal it. I am nearly at the end now and all I really want is for my story to be told. No more lies, no more bearing the blame for...

A compassionate little Buddha contemplating eternity sits in the garden of a most unusual hotel in a once upon a time Singapore. The little Buddha brings wealth and happiness to a charming young Chinese cabaret dancer and singer, Mei Lin. Fame and a full belly go to the ferocious wrestler, Mad Mick...