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Fight for Your Story: Live the Story You Want to Tell
Kay Cervetti
Camel Knee Publishing
2018
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This is a story of love, and hope, and wholeness. Twenty years in the writing, the details in this bold and honest story reflect the reality of a broken childhood and the tumultuous and successful journey into adulthood. It is in the fight for her story, that it became the story she wanted to tell.
She never shot a husband who didn't deserve it. A small band of Wild West cowgirls rode into stardom around the turn of the 20th century, earning nearly as much as the cowboys in the traveling shows and often out-performing them. At a time when women were discouraged from working outside the home or exercising, the Wild West cowgirls became fabulously popular stars who drew huge audiences and fans. Women around the world admired them for their audacity to lead lives outside the norm. They are some of history's forgotten women.Goldie Griffith was one of that group of early professional female athletes. She performed tricks and rode bucking broncos for the most famous showman of the time, Buffalo Bill. At the age of 19, she was married during one of his Wild West shows at Madison Square Garden before a crowd of 8,000 whistling and stomping fans. A few years later, she discovered that her cowboy husband had already been married when they wed, and she pulled out her gun. A WILLA Literary Award finalist for creative non-fiction.
Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl: The Summer of 1926 at the Horseshoe Inn
Kay Turnbaugh; Lee Tillotson
Perigo Press
2015
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A small band of Wild West cowgirls rode into stardom around the turn of the 20th century, earning nearly as much as the cowboys in the traveling shows and often out-performing them. At a time when women were discouraged from working outside the home or exercising, the Wild West cowgirls became fabulously popular stars who drew huge audiences and fans. Women around the world admired them for their audacity to lead lives outside the norm. They are some of history's forgotten women.Goldie Griffith was one of that group of early professional female athletes. She performed tricks and rode bucking broncos for the most famous showman of the time, Buffalo Bill. At the age of 19, she was married during one of his Wild West shows at Madison Square Garden before a crowd of 8,000 whistling and stomping fans. A few years later, she discovered that her cowboy husband had already been married when they wed, and she pulled out her gun. She never shot a husband who didn't deserve it.A WILLA Literary Award finalist for creative non-fiction.
Following In Their Footsteps: Historical Hikes of the Northern Front Range
Kay Turnbaugh; Lee Tillotson
Perigo Press
2019
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The Messiah Mystery: The Old and New Testaments' Inseparable Disclosure
Kay Bascom; Charles Bascom
Kay BASCOM
2006
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Keys to the Messiah Mystery: A Resource Guidebook for the Messiah Mystery
Kay Bascom
Kay BASCOM
2006
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The Messiah Mystery, a packed one-volume book, has found warm acceptance among both untaught and biblically conversant people. Their enthusiasm for getting a grasp on a panoramic overview of man's pilgrimage has caused many to wish to share in this approach. The resource Keys to The Messiah Mystery is a guidebook that brings together various materials that may be used on studying the 24 chapter book. The Keys suggest three alternative course formats that are designed for a number of settings - individual or group, formal or informal, short or long sessions.
Beneath the Pale Blue Burqa: One Woman's Journey through Taliban strongholds
Kay Danes
Big Sky Publishing Pty, Limited
2010
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On September 11, 2001, the World changed forever when ruthless Al-Qaeda terrorists launched an aerial attack on the United States of America. Oblivious to the world's terror, Kay and Kerry Danes sat half a world away, secure in an Embassy after a terrifying 11-month hostage ordeal in communist Laos.As fear gripped the globe, Kerry an Australian Special Forces soldier, comforted his wife Kay, as they struggled to come to terms with their hellish ordeal of torture, mock executions and the helplessness of leaving behind 58 political prisoners of a long forgotten war. The couple's hopes focused only on seeing their children again.In the years after regaining their freedom and working to re-piece together family life, Kerry returned to active duty with the Special Forces and Kay turned her dark experiences towards creating social justice, over the years becoming a leading international humanitarian. In November 2008, amidsthaunting memories of her Laos ordeal, Kay faced her fears and embarked on a humanitarian aid mission to deliver life-changing opportunities and aid to people devastated in war-torn Afghanistan.In an old dusty Toyota mini-van, armed only with hope, Kay and her companions, a florist from Arizona, a nurse from Texas, a public servant from Australia and a US Marine Korean War veteran, drove the ancient Silk Road amidst kidnappings, suicide bombings, carnage and chaos.This powerful story will have you gripping your chair and holding your breath, as you travel with Kay through Taliban strongholds and the remotewastelands of Al Qaeda terrorists. Her story provides a rare glimpse of places we may never visit and the courageous Afghan people determined to persevere against overwhelming odds. Beneath the Pale Blue Burqa is a truly inspiring journey and an important contribution to the selfless efforts of all who have gone before to brave the perils of Afghanistan.Foreword - By Afghan Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
When her father loses the family's Nevada ranch in a poker game, Hope McNaughton decides to win it back-from New Jersey Mafia boss Big Julie Saladino. She's got time...thirty days. Thirty days before they have to move out or swim with the fishes.Hope calls on her honorary uncles-who are totally legit, honestly-to sharpen her game. Poker champion Tanner Wingate-whose shady past is all behind him, really-wants to pull her out of that deep water and into his life. Hope doesn't want to get mixed up with card sharks who are too much like her father-irresponsible gamblers who cheat, take too many risks, and hurt their families. But she'll do what she has to do to get the ranch back.When she and Tanner both wind up in the Big Game with Big Julie, only one of them can win. And whoever walks away with the pot will be the biggest loser. But Tanner knows that the game's not over until the last card is played, and all they need is a fake black ops mission to discover that love's not such a gamble, after all.
Suspended for a hunch gone wrong, CIA language analyst Phoebe Renfrew is desperate to get her job back. But when she uncovers a terrorist plot at a Las Vegas start-up car company owned by famed ex-quarterback Chase Bonaventure, no one listens to her. The CIA doesn't care, the FBI is too busy, and the cops are too tired. Even Chase rejects her wild story about Korean gun runners infiltrating his company to harm the secretary of state. Besides, he's expecting Swedish investors at any minute...Swedish investors who speak only Korean. Chase hires Phoebe to translate at his investor meetings and tries every game plan he knows to keep her from ruining his deal. But Phoebe fears the worst. With time running out, she must nail down the bad guys, her job, and her relationship with Chase. Can she do it all and save Madam Secretary before the Las Vegas All-Elvis Revue belts out the last chorus of "Jailhouse Rock"?