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Dr. Linda Kipling has had her share of excitement working as a meteorologist with the Naval Research Laboratory. Twice in four years, she and her boss, the arrogant Dr. Victor Silverstein, have faced international crises requiring heroic action. Now, in 2011, Kipling faces her most formidable foe yet: her only remaining relatives, the Müller family. Debates about climate change continue as two researchers in Greenland mysteriously disappear. Kipling soon comes to a horrific realization: not all observed climatic aberrations are coming from natural variation or an increase in greenhouse gases. Instead, someone is tampering with nature, risking a cataclysmic event that could destroy the world. Her dying father is suspicious; he believes distant relatives in South America are involved. The Müller family was once part of Hitler's inner circle. They escaped from Germany in 1945 with a fortune in gold, and now they hope to alter the world's climate for their own purposes. Kipling must head to Greenland under the guise of familial reunion in order to dismantle the Müller plan and save the planet from a climatic apocalypse. "Paul Mark Tag['s] books never disappoint. He is a gifted writer and knows how to craft a great story. . . White Thaw takes us on a great adventure [involving] global warming [and] poses the question of just how far would a group go to win." -- Simon Barrett, Blogger News Network
Rated PG-13.
Last updated: October 25, 2011.
This book is 5 chapters long, and is about the life of young teenager Natalie. She's battling with the loss of many loved ones, a mother who is drunk all the time, and the pressure of a new home. She's gotten herself into drugs, alcohol, and vandalism. These five chapters lead up to her death.
Her life after death, will start in the books to come. She becomes a reaper, and sets out to harvest souls of those who do wrong. Read more in Eva: Volume 2
simple little stories about simple little lives . . .
The story of Cartagena is quite complex, a city who started almost in the days of the continent colony and a city that has been key in several aspects of the development of the Country, but for Dominic Lazarus the story of Cartagena started the day a friend oh him was killed.
Journey is the first book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. It is the recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review.
It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a town outside Salt Lake - on his father's quest to bring his family from Switzerland to the heartland of the Mormon church. In two months, when Shake turns twelve, he'll join his buddies on a shared journey through the ranks of his father's take-no-prisoners religion. At the same time, armed with a used trumpet and his bike, he'll start another journey, on his own, to a place whose high priests aren't his father's friends but the Negro greats of jazz, men he's been taught to believe are cursed but from whose music he learns everything he dreams of being.
Shaded with Huck Finn and James Dean, Shake Tauffler is an American kid we all recognize, a kid who responds to bigotry, abuse, repression, hypocrisy, and death with courage, humor, heartbreak, often pain, and always wonder. His rites of passage are keenly drawn and vividly familiar, his dream to play jazz shared by most any musician. But his ten-year story of growing up Mormon in America takes us to an altogether different place. Journey, the first book of the trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, is for those of us who long to hunker down and lose ourselves in a big American story, one whose narrative canvas takes us from Switzerland to a southern Utah ranch, to Salt Lake and its outskirts towns, into the secret holy places of the Mormon Church, across the landscapes of Nevada, California, Las Vegas, Kentucky, Austria, the Mojave Desert. Lyrical, rowdy, unflinching, Journey follows Shake across the first four years of his search for the clarity and flight of a trumpet line to lift him like a steel bird out from under the iron sky of his faith and guide him to sexual, moral, and musical consciousness. It is a search that resolves - for now - in startling and extraordinary tenderness.
Michael Strong, literary agent and co-founder of Zola Books, describes the book this way:
"Max Zimmer has written The Great American Mormon Novel. For decades, readers have depended upon a few extraordinary writers to understand fully what it means to be an American - Philip Roth, Julia Alvarez, Ralph Ellison, Erica Jong, John Updike. Zimmer has added a critical new dimension to our shared national understanding of who we are and how we got here in this sweeping narrative. Twelve-year-old Shake Tauffler's decade-long journey through the Mormon Church and beyond will resonate with all Americans who ponder their soul and place in our changing national portrait."
Teddy is an angel- of sorts. He comes down to earth and feeds off of human energy to survive. It's both a curse and a gift. A gift because it gives him immortality now the human he was has died. It's a curse because the feeling of being human returns when he falls in love with a girl on earth.
Teddy starts to slip in to Ava's dreams and she begins to fall for him too- while she sleeps that is. Worst part is, dream entering is a big no no for Teddy's boss Zeus- so he'll have to pay the price....
Hannah Winchester was chosen to participate in a test for a product that will supposedly shape the world. Dr. Willard stresses how important focus is now, but it becomes hard to stay focused when Jason, her boyfriend, starts toying with her emotions. How long can Hannah keep the balance between serious and work and childish play?
The last thing Ruby Tabeata expected on her way to a Jack Kerouac reading was to be hauled to the police station. Just a few weeks shy of her twelfth birthday in 1958, Ruby lives in Greenwich Village and dreams of meeting famous poets while writing her own poetry. Instead, she is accused of trying to steal fruit from a local vendor and forced to go into a children’s home. Her only choice is to follow her heart—and find the one thing she needs with the power to help her heal.
Science says the weight of a human soul is 21 grams - stated at the time of death, it has been measured that a body loses exactly 21 grams; they concluded it was the 'soul' leaving the body.
This is a receiving department for the souls with a heaven and a hell side to the department.
Dr. Linda Kipling has had her share of excitement working as a meteorologist with the Naval Research Laboratory. Twice in four years, she and her boss, the arrogant Dr. Victor Silverstein, have faced international crises requiring heroic action. Now, in 2011, Kipling faces her most formidable foe yet: her only remaining relatives, the Müller family. Debates about climate change continue as two researchers in Greenland mysteriously disappear. Kipling soon comes to a horrific realization: not all observed climatic aberrations are coming from natural variation or an increase in greenhouse gases. Instead, someone is tampering with nature, risking a cataclysmic event that could destroy the world. Her dying father is suspicious; he believes distant relatives in South America are involved. The Müller family was once part of Hitler's inner circle. They escaped from Germany in 1945 with a fortune in gold, and now they hope to alter the world's climate for their own purposes. Kipling must head to Greenland under the guise of familial reunion in order to dismantle the Müller plan and save the planet from a climatic apocalypse. "Paul Mark Tag['s] books never disappoint. He is a gifted writer and knows how to craft a great story. . . White Thaw takes us on a great adventure [involving] global warming [and] poses the question of just how far would a group go to win." -- Simon Barrett, Blogger News Network
Rated PG-13.
Last updated: October 25, 2011.
This book is 5 chapters long, and is about the life of young teenager Natalie. She's battling with the loss of many loved ones, a mother who is drunk all the time, and the pressure of a new home. She's gotten herself into drugs, alcohol, and vandalism. These five chapters lead up to her death.
Her life after death, will start in the books to come. She becomes a reaper, and sets out to harvest souls of those who do wrong. Read more in Eva: Volume 2
simple little stories about simple little lives . . .
The story of Cartagena is quite complex, a city who started almost in the days of the continent colony and a city that has been key in several aspects of the development of the Country, but for Dominic Lazarus the story of Cartagena started the day a friend oh him was killed.
Journey is the first book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. It is the recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review.
It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a town outside Salt Lake - on his father's quest to bring his family from Switzerland to the heartland of the Mormon church. In two months, when Shake turns twelve, he'll join his buddies on a shared journey through the ranks of his father's take-no-prisoners religion. At the same time, armed with a used trumpet and his bike, he'll start another journey, on his own, to a place whose high priests aren't his father's friends but the Negro greats of jazz, men he's been taught to believe are cursed but from whose music he learns everything he dreams of being.
Shaded with Huck Finn and James Dean, Shake Tauffler is an American kid we all recognize, a kid who responds to bigotry, abuse, repression, hypocrisy, and death with courage, humor, heartbreak, often pain, and always wonder. His rites of passage are keenly drawn and vividly familiar, his dream to play jazz shared by most any musician. But his ten-year story of growing up Mormon in America takes us to an altogether different place. Journey, the first book of the trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, is for those of us who long to hunker down and lose ourselves in a big American story, one whose narrative canvas takes us from Switzerland to a southern Utah ranch, to Salt Lake and its outskirts towns, into the secret holy places of the Mormon Church, across the landscapes of Nevada, California, Las Vegas, Kentucky, Austria, the Mojave Desert. Lyrical, rowdy, unflinching, Journey follows Shake across the first four years of his search for the clarity and flight of a trumpet line to lift him like a steel bird out from under the iron sky of his faith and guide him to sexual, moral, and musical consciousness. It is a search that resolves - for now - in startling and extraordinary tenderness.
Michael Strong, literary agent and co-founder of Zola Books, describes the book this way:
"Max Zimmer has written The Great American Mormon Novel. For decades, readers have depended upon a few extraordinary writers to understand fully what it means to be an American - Philip Roth, Julia Alvarez, Ralph Ellison, Erica Jong, John Updike. Zimmer has added a critical new dimension to our shared national understanding of who we are and how we got here in this sweeping narrative. Twelve-year-old Shake Tauffler's decade-long journey through the Mormon Church and beyond will resonate with all Americans who ponder their soul and place in our changing national portrait."
Teddy is an angel- of sorts. He comes down to earth and feeds off of human energy to survive. It's both a curse and a gift. A gift because it gives him immortality now the human he was has died. It's a curse because the feeling of being human returns when he falls in love with a girl on earth.
Teddy starts to slip in to Ava's dreams and she begins to fall for him too- while she sleeps that is. Worst part is, dream entering is a big no no for Teddy's boss Zeus- so he'll have to pay the price....
Hannah Winchester was chosen to participate in a test for a product that will supposedly shape the world. Dr. Willard stresses how important focus is now, but it becomes hard to stay focused when Jason, her boyfriend, starts toying with her emotions. How long can Hannah keep the balance between serious and work and childish play?
The last thing Ruby Tabeata expected on her way to a Jack Kerouac reading was to be hauled to the police station. Just a few weeks shy of her twelfth birthday in 1958, Ruby lives in Greenwich Village and dreams of meeting famous poets while writing her own poetry. Instead, she is accused of trying to steal fruit from a local vendor and forced to go into a children’s home. Her only choice is to follow her heart—and find the one thing she needs with the power to help her heal.
Science says the weight of a human soul is 21 grams - stated at the time of death, it has been measured that a body loses exactly 21 grams; they concluded it was the 'soul' leaving the body.
This is a receiving department for the souls with a heaven and a hell side to the department.