13 Ergebnisse.

Selection of classic blogs and reflections on writing and blogging by a widely respected blogger, writer, and creative writing tutor.

1983, a crazy year. Stolen cars were not at the groundbreaking rate of the 70's, but the numbers were still impressive. Crap games, 40oz and weed spots, cookouts, scraps, two hand tag football in the street, went on as usual in the Garfield Heights projects. Deacon, Carter, Maxwell and Tank were counting down the days till their high school graduations. While hanging out at Deacon's barber shop, located in his basement at 5151 Columbo Street. ...

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Los Angeles bebt! Das schwerste Erdbeben aller Zeiten versetzt die Millionenstadt in den Ausnahmezustand. Inmitten einstürzender Wolkenkratzer und allgegenwärtiger Panik erzählt der starbesetzte Katastrophenfilm-Klassiker ERDBEBEN von unterschiedlichsten Menschen und ihrem Kampf ums Überleben: Bauingenieur Stewart Graff (Charlton Heston) versucht mit allen Mitteln seine Frau Remy (Ava Gardner) und seinen Boss Sam Royce (Lorne Greene) in Sicher...

Los Angeles bebt! Das schwerste Erdbeben aller Zeiten versetzt die Millionenstadt in den Ausnahmezustand. Inmitten einstürzender Wolkenkratzer und allgegenwärtiger Panik erzählt der starbesetzte Katastrophenfilm-Klassiker ERDBEBEN von unterschiedlichsten Menschen und ihrem Kampf ums Überleben: Bauingenieur Stewart Graff (Charlton Heston) versucht mit allen Mitteln seine Frau Remy (Ava Gardner) und seinen Boss Sam Royce (Lorne Greene) in Sicher...

What distinguishes Mark Charlton is an absolute honesty allied to reflective wisdom and a fresh, alert eye. He entertains, yes, and makes us laugh (or at the very least smile ruefully). But beyond that, he reminds us of what it is to be both fully and compassionately human whilst remaining rooted in the world of nature. Jim Perrin

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During my career I have flown all over the world, so have sat for ages in airports waiting for the damn planes to arrive or depart. It was during these useless, yet precious hours, that I began writing my short stories: in ÔGullibleÕs TravelsÕ I describe some of my misadventures. Some stories are unashamedly Ôchick litÕ, while others are more worldly. A few are personal and true, while some are deliberately condensed within a 60 or 100 word li...

Revenge is Wild Justice is part of the Dalton trilogy. It is set in Edwardian England where the wealthy Somerville family and the poor Dalton family live. Blacksmith's son Adam Dalton crosses the class barrier to become friendly with Sir Charles Somerville's neglected children, Philip and Juliette. Sir Charles is a respected member of society but he is a wife beater and is involved in paedophilia. He is eventually murdered and the book traces ...

Since the Colombo Plan in the early 1950s, food aid has been an important and highly visible component of the Canadian development assistance program. Until the early 1970s, however, the Canadian food aid program was little more than a loosely connected collection of disparate programs designed to meet a host of sometimes conflicting objectives. In the wake of the world food crisis of 1972-75, a growing number of groups began to question the d...

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This is the Third book in the Dalton Family Trilogy, following on from Vengeance in the Sky. Craig Dalton - a successful English vet, pilot, accomplished polo player, inveterate womaniser - enjoys an enviable lifestyle in Africa. When he falls in love with a beautiful American girl on safari, his world seems complete. But everything disintegrates when Craig's past re-emerges to haunt him. Distraught, he returns to England where a serial killer...

This is the second book in the Dalton Family Trilogy, set in the Second World War. Adam and Juliette Dalton who own the old Somerville Estate (Revenge is Wild Justice - the first book)have become wealthy. Phil, their son joins the RAF as a Mosquito pilot while their daughter Jennifer is trained as an SIS intelligence agent sent to France. A serial killer has abused and murdered several young women near RAF stations, but the police fail to trac...