My Hitch in Hell
Title | My Hitch in Hell PDF eBook |
Author | Lester I. Tenney |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2018-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1640121129 |
Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor’s epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author. Purchase the audio edition.
The Rotarian
Title | The Rotarian PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 46 |
Release | 1919-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow
Title | A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Brookes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780792277293 |
A noted cultural critic and NPR essayist offers a lively and provocative account of his hitchhiking odyssey across the United States, documenting his experiences along the way and reexamining America's onetime love affair with the road trip. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Hell's Best Kept Secret
Title | Hell's Best Kept Secret PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Comfort |
Publisher | Whitaker House |
Total Pages | 197 |
Release | 2004-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1603749926 |
How many souls have you won to Christ? How many are still walking with the Lord? All, some, a few? The facts are: Evangelical success is at an all-time low. We’re producing more backsliders than true converts. The fall-away rate—from large crusades to local churches—is between 80 to 90 percent. Why are so many unbelievers turning away from the message of the gospel? Doesn’t the Bible tell us how to bring sinners to true repentance? If so, where have we missed it? The answer may surprise you. One hundred years ago, Satan buried the crucial key needed to unlock the unbeliever’s heart. Now Ray Comfort boldly breaks away from modern tradition and calls for a return to biblical evangelism. If you’re experiencing evangelical frustration over lost souls, unrepentant sinners, and backslidden “believers,” then look no further. This radical approach could be the missing dimension needed to win our generation to Christ.
A Hitch in Hell
Title | A Hitch in Hell PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Bakjian |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780811105422 |
Going to Hell in a Hen Basket
Title | Going to Hell in a Hen Basket PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Alden Rubin |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2015-08-04 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1250066271 |
Delighting in the creative misuse of words and celebrating the verbal flubs that ignore the conventions of standard English, Robert Alden Rubin provides an illustrated dictionary of contemporary malapropisms.Everyone has made the mistake of using a word or phrase that they think sounds sort of right, but isn't. Rubin collects his favorite malapropisms in a gift book that's perfect for bookworms and wordsmiths.Some examples include:- "without further adieu" - Conflation of bidding adieu (saying good-bye) with ado (complicated doings, ceremony) to mean "without saying anything more."-"hair-brained" - Perhaps confuses hare-brained with airheaded. Hare-brained (rash, silly, or stupid) derives from the erratic mating dances of hares, as in the saying "mad as a March hare," though it also follows that someone with hair for brains wouldn't be sharp.-"I was curled up in a feeble position" - Confusing feeble with fetal, but actually makes a bit of sense!-"exercising demons" - I guess even demons need to go to the gym.Found on blogs, the deepest corners of the internet, as well as some of the most esteemed publications, Rubin gently pokes fun at the twists and turns writers put our language through.
Some Survived
Title | Some Survived PDF eBook |
Author | Manny Lawton |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 2004-01-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1565128370 |
Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished. But this is not a chronicle of despair. It is, instead, the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism, Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart.