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By J. David Spiceland; James Sepe; Lawrence A.
Tomassini
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Contents in
Brief The Role of Accounting as an Information System 1 Environment and
Theoretical Structure of Financial Accounting 2 Review of the Accounting
Process 3 The Balance Sheet and Financial Disclosures 4 The Income
Statement and Statement of Cash Flows 5 Income Measurement and
Profitability Analysis 6 Time Value of Money Concepts Economic Resources
7 Cash and Receivables 8 Inventories: Measurement 9 Inventories:
Additional Issues 10 Operational Assets: Acquisition and Disposition 11
Operational Assets: Utilization and Impairment Financial Instruments 12
Investments 13 Current Liabilities and Contingencies 14 Bonds and
Long-Term Notes 15 Leases 16 Accounting for Income Taxes 17 Pensions and
Other Postretirement Benefits Additional Topics 18 Shareholders' Equity
19 Share-Based Compensation and Earnings per Share 20 Accounting
Changes and Error Corrections 21 The Statement of Cash Flows Revisited
Appendix A: Derivatives Appendix B: FedEx Financial Statements Glossary
Index
Christian Life & Character of the Civil Institutions of the U.S
Christian Life & Character of the Civil Institutions of the U.S
About the Title:
"I was debating an ACLU attorney at
Christmas on an NPR station. I pulled out a Xerox copy of The Christian Life and Character of the
Civil Institutions of the United States and said to her: 'Until
you answer this book, the ACLU can't make a case against America's
Christian founding.' She was shocked when she saw it. She asked where I
had gotten it. The only thing that gave her relief was the fact that the
book was not in print. But now it is.
Be afraid ACLU. Be very afraid. Morris packs The Christian Life and Character
with page after page of original source material making the case that
America was founded as a Christian nation. The evidence is unanswerable
and irrefutable. This 1000-page book will astound you and send enemies
of Christianity into shock. Keep in mind that it was published in 1864
and has been out of print for more than a century. It has been newly
typeset using a very readable font and added subheads. A new Foreword
written by my long-time friend Dr. Archie Jones describes the background
of the book and provides a brief biography of the author." —Gary DeMar
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Benjamin Franklin Morris' book has been out of print for over 100 years. If you can find an original copy, it's only because you have looked in the deep recesses of university libraries where the volume is likely collecting dust on dimly lit library shelves. Organizations like the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have done their best to ignore the content of the massive compilation of original source material found in this book. If Americans ever become aware of the facts assembled by the author in this historic encyclopedia of knowledge, arguments for a secular founding of America will turn to dust.
Reprinted
by American Vision for the first time in over 140 years in 2007, we
can't keep this book in print! It is already in it's eighth printing,
again in a beautiful high-quality smythe-sewn hardback version with an
updated cover and several formatting improvements. Don't miss out on the
fantastic wealth of information this 1000+ page book has in store -
your children and your grandchildren are not being taught the truth of
history in public school and this book will correct that travesty! Christian
Life and Character could very well be responsible for the
rediscovering of the truth of America's foundation in Christianity. This
book should be the cornerstone of any personal, professional, church or
school library for as Chaplain Sunderland (1819-1901) of the 37th
Congress stated: "It may become the
morning star of the mightiest day of national regeneration the world has
yet beheld!"
Topics Include:
Topics Include:
- Sources of Proof to Establish the Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States
- The Hand of God in the Settlement of the American Continent
- Christian Colonization of the New England Colonies
- Statesmen of the Revolution - Their Views of Christianity and Its Relation to Civil Society and Government
- Christian Legislation of the Continental Congress
- Christian Ministers of the Revolution
- Christian Women of the Revolution
- Christian Character of Washington
- Christianity of American Courts, and Christian Character of Eminent American Judges
- The Christian Element in the Civil War
Who was Benjamin F. Morris?
Reverend Morris was a historian (1810-1867), son of the Honorable Thomas Morris who was a pioneer opponent of slavery and United States Senator from Ohio. A minister of the Congregational Church, Morris pastored churches in Indiana and Ohio, retiring from ministry when his health began failing. Moving to Washington D.C. with his family where one of his sons became the Assistant Librarian of the Congressional Library, Morris worked as a clerk in one of the Federal Government departments and actively helped the establishment of the Congregational Church in the city. During this time, Morris undertook the epic task of compiling the facts to produce his magnum opus, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States. For over a decade, he worked tirelessly on this project, out of a concern of the loss of our Christian heritage in civil government and the threat of de-Christianization he saw in our nation's civil government, law and public life - in 1864! He wrote: "This volume is committed to the American people, in the firm assurance that the invaluable facts which it records will be grateful to every patriotic and pious heart. In it, as from the richest mines, has been brought out the pure gold of our history. Its treasures have been gathered and placed in this casket for the instruction and benefit of the present and future. We have a noble historic life; for our ancestors were the worthies of the world. We have a noble nation, full of the evidences of the moulding presence of Christian truth, and of the power and goodness of Divine wisdom in rearing up a Christian republic for all time. That this was the spirit and aim of the early founders of our institutions, the facts in this volume fully testify." - Benjamin Franklin Morris
"As the common manual of the people [The Christian Life and Character] should be in the hands of every individual in all our borders, and, if diligently perused and faithfully improved, who can tell but, under the blessing of God, it may become the morning star of the mightiest day of national regeneration the world has yet beheld." - Byron Sunderland (1819-1901), Chaplain to the Senate of the United States in the 37th Congress
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Reverend Morris was a historian (1810-1867), son of the Honorable Thomas Morris who was a pioneer opponent of slavery and United States Senator from Ohio. A minister of the Congregational Church, Morris pastored churches in Indiana and Ohio, retiring from ministry when his health began failing. Moving to Washington D.C. with his family where one of his sons became the Assistant Librarian of the Congressional Library, Morris worked as a clerk in one of the Federal Government departments and actively helped the establishment of the Congregational Church in the city. During this time, Morris undertook the epic task of compiling the facts to produce his magnum opus, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States. For over a decade, he worked tirelessly on this project, out of a concern of the loss of our Christian heritage in civil government and the threat of de-Christianization he saw in our nation's civil government, law and public life - in 1864! He wrote: "This volume is committed to the American people, in the firm assurance that the invaluable facts which it records will be grateful to every patriotic and pious heart. In it, as from the richest mines, has been brought out the pure gold of our history. Its treasures have been gathered and placed in this casket for the instruction and benefit of the present and future. We have a noble historic life; for our ancestors were the worthies of the world. We have a noble nation, full of the evidences of the moulding presence of Christian truth, and of the power and goodness of Divine wisdom in rearing up a Christian republic for all time. That this was the spirit and aim of the early founders of our institutions, the facts in this volume fully testify." - Benjamin Franklin Morris
"As the common manual of the people [The Christian Life and Character] should be in the hands of every individual in all our borders, and, if diligently perused and faithfully improved, who can tell but, under the blessing of God, it may become the morning star of the mightiest day of national regeneration the world has yet beheld." - Byron Sunderland (1819-1901), Chaplain to the Senate of the United States in the 37th Congress
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Jim Clemmer, Growing @ the Speed of Change
Growing @ the Speed of Change
Author: Jim Clemmer
Replace fear and uncertainty with focus and perspective
The world isn't spinning any faster. But with the rapid pace of change, it often seems like it. New technologies and 24/7 connectedness make it harder and harder to keep up with demands at work and at home.
Today everyone has to live with, and find motivation in, a world of constant change. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can control how we react.
Jim Clemmer's latest book, Growing @ the Speed of Change: Your Inspir-actional How-To Guide for Leading Yourself & Others through Constant Change is required reading for anyone dealing with the pressures brought about by constant change and uncertainty.
This practical guide, uses the tools of personal growth and development to help readers find balance and thrive in a world where the accelerating pace of change is the new normal.
Here are some other features that will make this book a unique and treasured addition to your library:
These are all approaches designed to make Growing @ the Speed of Change a quick read, for our fast-moving society. Whether you keep this book in a boardroom or a bathroom I hope you keep it close at hand and that any page you flip, will offer you a practical quick hit. Wherever you skim it, you'll be "flush" with success.
Author: Jim Clemmer
Replace fear and uncertainty with focus and perspective
The world isn't spinning any faster. But with the rapid pace of change, it often seems like it. New technologies and 24/7 connectedness make it harder and harder to keep up with demands at work and at home.
Today everyone has to live with, and find motivation in, a world of constant change. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can control how we react.
Jim Clemmer's latest book, Growing @ the Speed of Change: Your Inspir-actional How-To Guide for Leading Yourself & Others through Constant Change is required reading for anyone dealing with the pressures brought about by constant change and uncertainty.
This practical guide, uses the tools of personal growth and development to help readers find balance and thrive in a world where the accelerating pace of change is the new normal.
Here are some other features that will make this book a unique and treasured addition to your library:
- “Browser’s digest” or magazine-style format with three main streams. Click here to view Chapter Three as a PDF.
- Short sections of easily digested commentary, observations, and advice.
- Condensed sidebars with stories, fables, “wise words,” or how-to points.
- Classical or modern quotations summarizing or underscoring the key message of the section or sidebar.
- “Edutaining” conversational style with liberal doses of humor and personal stories.
- Dozens of how-to practical applications to move you from inspiration to application.
- “To Keep You Growing” section at the end of each chapter links to dozens of my articles, books, workbooks, or website sections so you can dig deeper.
- Over 150 footnotes of all quotations, studies, and references that can be used for further study.
These are all approaches designed to make Growing @ the Speed of Change a quick read, for our fast-moving society. Whether you keep this book in a boardroom or a bathroom I hope you keep it close at hand and that any page you flip, will offer you a practical quick hit. Wherever you skim it, you'll be "flush" with success.
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Stieg Larsson's Books
Some of the Books of Stieg Larsson:
About him:
Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and the third novel in the series.
1-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage):
National Bestseller
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial
intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric
novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest
families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her
aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a
crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to
investigate. He is aided by the pieced and tattooed punk prodigy
Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable
iniquity and astonishing corruption.
2-The Girl Who Played with Fire:
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium,
has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex
trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating
well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and
government.
But he has no idea just how explosive the story will
be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters
are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints
found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander—the troubled,
wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire.
As
Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an
investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a
murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to
revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.
3-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest:
Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—is under
close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city
hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she’s
well enough, she’ll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her
friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will have to prove her
innocence, and to identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed the
vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse. And, on her own, she will
plot her revenge—against the man who tried to kill her and the
government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.
4-Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres, Vol. 1 Trilogia Millennium:
La primera novela de Stieg Larsson de su saga Trilogia Millennium.
Harriet Vanger desaparecio hace treinta y seis anos en una isla sueca propiedad de su poderosa familia. A pesar del despliegue policial, no se encontro ni rastro de la muchacha. Se escapo? Fue secuestrada? Asesinada? El caso esta cerrado y los detalles olvidados. Pero su tio Henrik Vanger, un empresario retirado, vive obsesionado con resolver el misterio antes de morir. En las paredes de su estudio cuelgan cuarenta y tres flores secas y enmarcadas. Las primeras siete fueron regalos de su sobrina; las otras llegaron puntualmente para su cumpleanos, de forma anonima, desde que Harriet desaparecio. Mikael Blomkvist acepta el extrano encargo de Vanger de retomar la busqueda de su sobrina. Periodista de investigacion y alma de la revista Millennium, dedicada a sacar a la luz los trapos sucios de la politica y las finanzas, Blomkvist esta vigilado y encausado por una querella por difamacion y calumnia presentada por un gran grupo industrial que amenaza con arruinar su carrera y su reputacion. Contara con la colaboracion inesperada de Lisbeth Salander, una peculiar investigadora privada, socialmente inadaptada, tatuada y llena de piercings, y con extraordinarias e insolitas cualidades. Asi empieza esta magnifica novela que es la cronica de los conflictos de una familia, un fascinante fresco del crimen y del castigo, de perversiones sexuales y trampas financieras; un entramado violento y amenazante en el que, no obstante, crecera una tierna y fragil historia de amor entre dos personajes absolutamente inolvidables.
Kathryn Stockett's "The Help"
Kathryn Stockett
About her:
1-The Help:
About her:
Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After
graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and
Creative Writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in
magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. The Help is her first
novel.
1-The Help:
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating
from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and
her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger.
Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine,
the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one
will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid,
a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has
shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his
bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she
looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest
woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she
can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally
finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her
reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly
as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless
come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.
And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define
their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary
women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever
changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers,
friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy,
humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
Nicholas Sparks's Books
Some of the books Written by Nicholas Sparks:
Author's Biography:
Nicholas
Charles Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska on December 31, 1965, the
second son of Patrick Michael (1942-1996) and Jill Emma Marie (Thoene)
Sparks (1942-1989). His siblings are Michael Earl Sparks (b. Dec.
1964), and Danielle Sparks (b. Dec. 1966, d. June, 2000). As a child,
he lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally
settling in Fair Oaks, California at the age of eight. His father was a
professor, his mother a homemaker, then optometrist's assistant. He
lived in Fair Oaks through high school, graduated valedictorian in
1984, and received a full track scholarship to the University of Notre
Dame.
After breaking the Notre Dame school record as part of a
relay team in 1985 as a freshman (a record which still stands), he was
injured and spent the summer recovering. During that summer, he wrote
his first novel, though it was never published. He majored in Business
Finance and graduated with high honors in 1988.
He and his wife
Catherine, who met on spring break in 1988, were married in July, 1989.
While living in Sacramento, he wrote his second novel that same year,
though again, it wasn't published. He worked a variety of jobs over the
next three years, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables,
selling dental products by phone, and started his own small
manufacturing business which struggled from the beginning. In 1990, he
collaborated on a book with Billy Mills, the Olympic Gold Medalist and
it was published by Feather Publishing before later being picked up by
Random House. (It was recently re-issued by Hay House Books.) Though it
received scant publicity, sales topped 50,000 copies in the first year
of release.
He began selling pharmaceuticals and moved from
Sacramento, California to North Carolina in 1992. In 1994, at the age
of 28, he wrote The Notebook over a period of six months. In October,
1995, rights to The Notebook were sold to Warner Books. It was
published in October, 1996, and he followed that with Message in a
Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in
the Road (2001), and Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003),
The Wedding (2003), Three Weeks with my Brother (2004), True Believer
(2005) and At First Sight (2005) all with Warner Books. All were
domestic and international best sellers and were translated into more
than 35 languages. The movie version of Message in a Bottle was
released in 1999, A Walk to Remember was released in 2002, and The
Notebook was released in 2004. The average domestic box office gross
per film was $56 million -- with another $100 million in DVD sales --
making the novels by Nicholas Sparks one of the most successful
franchises in Hollywood.
The film rights to Nights in Rodanthe,
True Believer and At First Sight have been sold, and Nicholas Sparks
has written the screenplay for The Guardian, though he has not offered
it for sale at this point.
He now has five children: Miles, Ryan, Landon, Lexie, and Savannah. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children.
His
ancestry is German, Czech, English, and Irish, he's 5'10" and weighs
180 lbs. He is an avid athlete who runs daily, lifts weights regularly,
and competes in Tae Kwon Do. He attends church regularly and reads
approximately 125 books a year. He contributes to a variety of local
and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative
Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he
provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually.
1-Dear John:
An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army,
not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of
his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the
kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour
of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured
his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to
re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in
love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those
two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever.
Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah,
now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of
his life.
2-The Last Song:
#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.
Seventeen
year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when
her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to
Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and
alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother
decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer
in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and
teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating
a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.
The
tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many
levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that
demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that
love can break our hearts...and heal them.
3-The Lucky One:
In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life.
After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour of duty in Iraq, he experiences a sudden streak of luck -- winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph -- his lucky charm.
Back home in Colorado, Thibault can't seem to get the woman in the photograph out of his mind and he sets out on a journey across the country to find her. But Thibault is caught off guard by the strong attraction he feels for the woman he encounters in North Carolina - Elizabeth, a divorced mother -- and he keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate love affair, his secret soon threatens to tear them apart -- destroying not only their love, but also their lives.
Filled with tender romance and terrific suspense, THE LUCKY ONE is an unforgettable story about the surprising paths our lives often take and the power of fate to guide us to true and everlasting love.
4-The Notebook:
"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the
moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a
Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a
single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson
stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or
will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?
5-The Choice :
#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled
talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we
hope we'll never have to make.
Travis Parker has everything
a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in
small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating,
swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies--he holds
the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would
only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door.
Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems to
have a chip on her shoulder about him . . . and the presence of her
longtime boyfriend doesn't help. Despite himself, Travis can't stop
trying to ingratiate himself with his new neighbor, and his persistent
efforts lead them both to the doorstep of a journey that neither could
have foreseen. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and
family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heartwrenching
question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
6-The Wedding:
With The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and his other beloved novels, #1
New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks has given voice to
our deepest beliefs about the power of love. Now he brings us the
long-awaited follow-up to The Notebook-a story of an ordinary man who
goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life... After
thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the
romance has gone out of his marriage. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of
love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining
example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year
love affair (originally recounted in The Notebook), Wilson himself is a
man unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time
at home and too much at the office, leaving the responsibility of
raising their children to Jane. Now his daughter is about to marry, and
his wife is thinking about leaving him. But if Wilson is sure of
anything, it is this: His love for Jane has only grown over the years,
and he will do everything he can to save their marriage. With the
memories of Noah and Allie's inspiring life together as his guide, he
vows to find a way to make his wife fall in love with him...all over
again. In this powerfully moving tale of love lost, rediscovered, and
renewed, Nicholas Sparks once again brings readers his unique insight
into the only emotion that ultimately really matters.
7-At First Sight:
There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never
leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely
surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent.
Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina,
married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the
birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into
a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old
wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the
course of this young couple's marriage.
Dramatic,
heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a
man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is
a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break
your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.
While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks's most deeply moving love stories.
Colum McCann's books
Buy some books Written by a bestselling author:
Colum McCann
Biography:
Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He has been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire's "Best and Brightest," and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children.
1-Let the Great World Spin: A Novel:
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.
Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.
Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.
Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.
2-365 Days in Ireland Calendar 2010 (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars):
A place where magic thrives—in the land, in hearts, in history and heritage— Ireland stays with its visitors for a lifetime. 365 Days in Ireland is a magnificent tribute to the Emerald Isle, with hundreds of full-color photographs and lyrical text by novelist Colum McCann. Fishing boats in Dingle Harbor. The pastoral beauty of sheep-dotted meadows and whitewashed cottages. The rugged, rocky west coast of Inishmore. Medieval castles falling into ruin and ancient dolmens, mysterious relics of prehistory. Plus black-faced sheep, the cascading river Inagh, Ha'penny Bridge, and cozy pubs that serve up yeasty, dark pints and hearty Irish stew. This is Ireland, beautiful, spirited, and unforgettable.
3-Dancer: A Novel:
Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the eighties, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn and John Lennon. And at the heart of the spectacle stands the artist himself, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection.
4-Zoli: A Novel:
A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature.
Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened by the world of books, which is often frowned upon in the Romani tradition, Zoli becomes the poster girl for a brave new world. As she shapes the ancient songs to her times, she finds her gift embraced by the Gypsy people and savored by a young English expatriate, Stephen Swann.
But Zoli soon finds that when she falls she cannot fall halfway–neither in love nor in politics. While Zoli’s fame and poetic skills deepen, the ruling Communists begin to use her for their own favor. Cast out from her family, Zoli abandons her past to journey to the West, in a novel that spans the 20th century and travels the breadth of Europe.
Colum McCann, acclaimed author of Dancer and This Side of Brightness, has created a sensuous novel about exile, belonging and survival, based loosely on the true story of the Romani poet Papsuza. It spans the twentieth century and travels the breadth of Europe. In the tradition of Steinbeck, Coetzee, and Ondaatje, McCann finds the art inherent in social and political history, while vividly depicting how far one gifted woman must journey to find where she belongs.
5-This Side of Brightness: A Novel:
At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs—black, white, Irish, Italian—dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Above ground, though, the men keep their distance until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow sandhogs that will both bless and curse three generations.
6-Everything in This Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories:
In his fourth book, Colum McCann turns to the "troubles" in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children. In the title story, a teenage girl must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratitude to the British soldiers who have saved the family's horse. The young hero of Hunger Strike, a novella, tries to replicate the experience of his uncle, an IRA prisoner on hunger strike. And in Wood, a small boy does his part for the Protestant marches, concealing his involvement from his blind father.
7-Songdogs: A Novel:
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. As the narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine, Collum McCann creates a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.
Harlan Coben's Books
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About Harlan Coben:
1-Caught:
2-Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar):
About Harlan Coben:
Harlan Coben is the bestselling author of sixteen previous novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Long Lost and Hold Tight. Winner of the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and the Anthony Award, Coben lives in New Jersey with his family.
1-Caught:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive.
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.
Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborate—and nationally televised—sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Coben’s trademark, Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can’t trust her own instincts about this story—or the motives of the people around her.
2-Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar):
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret, and a man's lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business--where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.
3-Long Lost:
Myron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. In a shattering admission, Terese reveals the tragic story behind her disappearance—her struggles to get pregnant, the greatest moment of her life when her baby was born…and the fatal accident that robbed her of it all: her marriage, her happiness and her beloved only daughter.
Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call. But then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Terese’s long-buried family secrets…and the very real possibility that her daughter may still be alive.
In grave danger from unknown assailants in a country where nothing is as it seems, Myron and Terese race to stay a step ahead of Homeland Security, Interpol, and Mossad. Soon they are working at breakneck pace, not only to learn what really happened to Terese’s long-lost little girl— but to uncover a sinister plot with shocking global implications.
4-Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar):
Edgar Award-winner Harlan Coben brings us his most astonishing -- and deeply personal -- novel yet. And it all begins when Myron Bolitar's ex tells him he's a father ... of a dying thirteen-year-old boy.
Myron never saw it coming. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing's news brings him to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant -- from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: The boy is Myron's son, conceived the night before her wedding to another man.
Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But finding him means cracking open a dark mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and the FBI. Somewhere in the sordid mess is the donor who disappeared. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy's true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of heartbreaking truth and chilling revelation.
5-One False Move: A Myron Bolitar Novel (Myron Bolitar Mysteries):
It’s no secret that Harlan Coben’s name is synonymous with unrelenting suspense. In this compelling fifth novel in his acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, the unforgettable sports agent agrees to protect basketball star Brenda Slaughter while trying to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
As a big-time New York sports agent, Myron has a professional interest in Brenda. Then a personal one. But between them isn’t just the difference in their backgrounds or the color of their skin. Between them is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young mafioso on the make, and one secret that some people are dying to keep–and others are killing to protect.
6-Back Spin: A Myron Bolitar Novel (Myron Bolitar Mysteries):
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel—and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family's darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron finds out just how rough this game can get.
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction—Myron Bolitar—a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.
7-Just One Look:
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least 20 years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past.
8-No Second Chance:
When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter...
Dr. Marc Seidman has been shot twice, his wife has been murdered, and his six-month-old daughter has been kidnapped. When he gets the ransom note-he knows he has only one chance to get this right. But there is nowhere he can turn and no one he can trust.
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