Bøger af Rob Wood

To many folks the phrase "growing up in the fifties" brings to mind the suburban lifestyles romanticized by Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best...my Technicolor recollections paint a much different picture. Admittedly, my mom had a few things in common with June Cleaver, but the words "father knows best" never occurred to me during that entire decade. Those households were built on the cornerstones of patience and understanding. Bullethead, my father, employed a more unconventional style of parenting. Let's Scare Mom looks back through my eyes at the 1950s and lays open some of my more memorable adventures growing up on a ranch with two brothers and my best friend, confidant, and canine companion...Snorkie. Laced throughout the chapters is an unmistakable message addressing family dynamics that will surely conjure up events of your own childhood. Some of these experiences were humorous hailstorms of spontaneous dysfunction, while others served as milestones and harbored pivotal life lessons. Each episode left its mark like a raw cleave in un-sculpted stone. Perhaps most importantly, they helped me to view life through the lens of levity and led to an important realization: happiness is not a randomly allocated state of mind...but more a personal decision.

The 1888 "Celebrated American Indian Chiefs (N2)" tobacco card collection produced by Allen and Ginter, is another beautiful representation of the lithographic artwork of that time. Chiefs from many indigenous North American tribes are featured in this set. All proceeds from the sale of this digital enhancement will be donated to The Native American Rights Fund.https://www.narf.org/ Allen & Ginter Cigarettes issued its 50 card American Indian Chiefs set in 1888. Each card measures 1-1/2" x 2-3/4" featuring a full color lithographic image of a Native American leader. The images are produced from portraits from the Department of the Interior in Washington. Photographs of these American Indian chiefs were taken and used to create the lithographic images [for the cards]. There is some debate as to whom the artwork and design should be attributed to. Some folks believe that it was Charles Marion Russell, who was one of the best-known artists of cowboys and Indians at that time.

Kingfish opened his eyes at the exclamation and sat up. A young boy about six years old was playing just a few feet from him. A truck, toy soldiers, and a small boat were scattered around the boy on the sand. Looking up, he noticed Kingfish observing him. "Want to play?" the boy asked cheerfully. "Oh no," said Kingfish, "I'm a little bit old for that, don't you think?" "I don't know," said the boy, "When do you get too old to play?" Phil Fish, aka Kingfish, is about to find out he has a lot to learn. He's just an average guy who can't seem to catch a break. Life's not turning out the way he'd hoped. Until, that is, he gets some valuable advice from a mysterious lady and her tiny dog. This advice leads Phil to meet a prophetic mechanic, a dreamer on a four-wheeling beer cooler, an Asian named Bubba with a penchant for stone necklaces, and other memorable characters while he discovers what he should be when he grows up. The Kingfish Way explains the journey we're all on and how some of us have gotten off the path. The cast of characters in this wildly entertaining tale will make you smile, share a little common sense, and remind you that life was meant to be enjoyed.

"The 5 Greatest Spankings of all Time" invites you to step into a fifty-five year old time capsule, to a simpler time when the misadventures of three young brothers growing up on a small ranch in the 1950's stretch their parent's patience and sanity to the breaking point. Taking place in the shadows of World War II, this tale not only unfolds the amusing and humorous events that led up to the "5 Greatest Spankings" but it conveys a flavorful and reminiscent glimpse of a time gone by, as the tastes and smells of the 50's come rushing back. Readers of any adult generation will be entertained by the boy's ability to effortlessly transform relatively innocent intentions into calamity and chaos. Laced throughout the chapters is an unmistakable underlying message addressing family dynamics and relationships that will surely summon to mind events of your own childhood. May laughter and joy be your companions as you journey through the adventures with these 1950's versions of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

An Intimate, Human And Revealing Portrait Of The Man Who Is Making Such A Unique Impact Upon The American Scene.

A terrorist threat is communicated to the U.S. Navy in Nushu, an old Chinese script understood only by women. Cody Cochrane, an American student, argues the threat is real. When the Navy encounters a radiation victim and a corpse is mutilated, Cochrane seems vindicated. Working with Lieutenant James Purdy, she implicates a Hong Kong movie star and businesswoman with ties to the Uighurs -- Muslim-Turkic rebels in western China. What if Purdy and Cochrane are wrong? Perhaps nothing is as it seems and the real threat is yet to be discovered.