Kirjahaku

Shattered following a devastating betrayal that results in the death of his friends, Lane Robinson finds himself in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a world away from his previous life as a Marine. Robinson is trying to forget the past, but healing from the deadly deceit that cut blood deep is hard, and memories of that treachery taint every interaction in his life. He misses the comradery and bond he had with his brothers in arms, and now can't help but view everyone around him with mistrust and suspicion.Robinson meets a member of the Rebel Wayfarers motorcycle club, and with an introduction into the biker's circle of friends, he finds that elusive sense of home that has been missing from his life for too long. Initiated into the club and now called Gunny, Robinson buries himself in his new life as a Rebel member.Secure within his newfound family, Gunny fills his days with solitary work and finds he possesses a gift for motorcycle restoration, forming a career out of this exacting passion. Trying to leave behind the man he was before the club, unfortunately his feelings of cynicism aren't so easy to set aside. Even within the club, surrounded by members he readily calls brother, he grants his trust to only a few. One of those is Davis Mason, national president, and a man he is proud to call friend.Into this meticulously constructed life dances Sharon Elkins, the one woman who seems to possess the ability to tear down the walls he has spent so long building. She is the first person who sees beyond his surface fa ade, the first he's let get close in so long...can he trust the emotions she stirs in his soul?As she becomes an ever more important part of his world, darkness from their former lives collides in a dangerous cascade of conspiracy and schemes. Can he protect the woman he has come to love, and will they be able to fight their way clear of the chaos that threatens to entrap them?"These towering walls you have built to protect your heart do nothing more than imprison your spirit." - Dean Jackson*Please note this book is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5). Upcoming titles in the series include: Mason (book #6), Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), and Bones (book #10).

Gunny Sacks and Gamma Rays. Ryan Quinn Flanagan. Marathon Books, 2015.

Gunny Malone had no more chance of finding happiness than any other poor Irish girl. Raised in the Dingle Peninsula on the west coast of Ireland in the early 1800s, Gunny flees from home and the church and somehow finds love. But when tragedy follows, Gunny is left to rebuild her life on the remote Blasket Islands. When famine strikes in 1845, Gunny's world is once again tipped toward disaster. In this historic Ireland adventure, you'll breathe the cool air, feel the rain against your face, and walk the rocky coast of western Ireland with the beautiful and powerful Gunny Malone as you experience the joy and pain of a time long past, with characters who will work their way into your heart, and stay with you for a lifetime.

The author, a former Marine Officer and historian brings this true story to life. If you loved movies like Casablanca, and The Maltese Falcon; private eyes like Sam Spade, Charlie Chan, and Mickey Spillane, you will fall in love with Gunny Mac and his crew of tough, zany detectives in a book that reads like a black and white movie of the 1940s and 1950s.1942... the Guadalcanal campaign and the Marines are in a fight to survive.Roosevelt is worried Guadalcanal will fall and the Hawaiian Islands are open to invasion.He orders all the money collected and burned and replaced with money with the word Hawaii written on the back of each bill. Funny money the Japs will not be able to use against us. Anyone who is someone wants to steal the money before it's burned.Gunnery Sergeant Mac...a career Marine...Navy Cross recipient and hero of Bloody Ridge is sent to Pearl Harbor to be medically discharged and become the one thing he despises a civilian; lost without his Marine Corps. Gunnery Sergeant Wojohowitz, Mac's best friend, is badly wounded and discharged at Pearl Harbor and needs Mac to help him find the one man he needs to kill. Lt. Alan Burke is a blue blood, spoiled Harvard graduate, who seeks redemption, and learns from Mac how to be a man.Lt. McCaffery, a warrior Jesuit priest and padre of the First Marine Division, Navy Cross recipient, badly wounded in the head and leg joins with Mac and protects him, by emptying the psych unit of the Naval Hospital to help all of them stay alive.Four wounded veterans...become private detectives... and get caught in the crossfire of corrupt military officers, Chinatown police, and the mafia in the cesspool that is Chinatown One last battle... for their friends... and country.

Gunny and Sharon have been through a lot together, coming out stronger in the end. Fate throws them a bone, so to speak, in a mastiff by the name of Tank.Adopting a dog means taking on all that animal's troubles, large or small. When the dog in question stands nearly three-feet at the shoulder and weighs more than 150 pounds? All the problems are big Lane Robinson has always had a soft spot for dogs. All breeds and sizes; if it's a furbaby, he's a big pushover. Gunny loves his pups. Persuaded into helping a Rebel member sort out a difficult situation, Gunny didn't expect to find a new family member in the form of an enormous mastiff. With a child on the way about to add more chaos to his life, he thought the big guy would be a temporary house guest. Take the monster-sized dog home, foster him for a little while, then place the critter with a loving family. Piece of cake.But, when he came through for Sharon in an important way, helping her through a difficult time, Gunny decided the dog had found a forever home. Remember those big problems? They're about to get even bigger This novella sits alongside Rebel Wayfarers MC book #10, Bones.18+ due to explicit content.Story in the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, timeline matches book #10, Bones. Gunny's Pups, #10.25.*Please note this is part of the Rebel Wayfarers MC book series, featuring characters from additional books in the series. If the books are read out of order, you'll twig to spoilers for the other books, so going back to read the skipped titles won't have the same angsty reveals. I strongly recommend you read them in order. Available now: Mica (book #1), Slate (book #2), Bear (book #3), Jase (book #4), Gunny (book #5), Mason (book #6), Hoss (book #7), Duck (book #8), Watcher (book #9), and Bones (book #10). Upcoming titles in the series include: Fury (book #11), and Cassie (book #12).

Memory, Ji Bai would say, is this old sack here, this poor dear that nobody has any use for any more.As the novel begins, Salim Juma, in exile from Tanzania, opens up a gunny sack bequeathed to him by a beloved great-aunt. Inside it he discovers the past -- his own family's history and the story of the Asian experience in East Africa. Its relics and artefacts bring with them the lives of Salim's Indian great-grandfather, Dhanji Govindji, his extensive family, and all their loves and betrayals. Dhanji Govindji arrives in Matamu -- from Zanzibar, Porbander, and ultimately Junapur -- and has a son with an African slave named Bibi Taratibu. Later, growing in prosperity, he marries Fatima, the woman who will bear his other children. But when his half-African son Husein disappears, Dhanji Govindji pays out his fortune in trying to find him again. As the tentacles of the First World War reach into Africa, with the local German colonists fighting British invaders, he spends more and more time searching. One morning he is suddenly murdered: he had spent not just his own money but embezzled that of others to finance the quest for his lost son. "Well, listen, son of Juma, you listen to me and I shall give you your father Juma and his father Husein and his father..." Part II of the novel is named for Kulsum, who marries Juma, Husein's son; she is the mother of the narrator, Salim. We learn of Juma's childhood as a second-class member of his stepmother's family after his mother, Moti, dies. After his wedding to Kulsum there is a long wait in the unloving bosom of his stepfamily for their first child, Begum. It is the 1950s, and whispers are beginning of the Mau Mau rebellion. Among the stories tumbling from the gunny sack comes the tailor Edward bin Hadith's story of the naming of Dar es Salaam, the city Kulsum moves to with her children after her husband's death. And gradually her son takes over the telling, recalling his own childhood. His life guides the narrative from here on. He remembers his mother's store and neighbours' intrigues, the beauty of his pristine English teacher at primary school, cricket matches, and attempts to commune with the ghost of his father. It is a vibrantly described, deeply felt childhood. The nation, meanwhile, is racked by political tensions on its road to independence, which comes about as Salim Juma reaches adolescence. With the surge in racial tension and nationalist rioting, several members of his close-knit community leave the country for England, America, and Canada. I see this comedy now as an attempt to foil the workings of fate: how else to explain, what else to call, the irrevocable relentless chain of events that unfolded...The title of Part III, Amina, is the name of Salim's great unfulfilled love, and will also be the name of his daughter. He meets the first Amina while doing his National Service at Camp Uhuru, a place he feels he has been sent to in error. Amina is African, and their relationship inevitably causes his family anxiety, until the increasingly militant Amina leaves for New York. Salim becomes a teacher at his old school, and marries, but keeps a place for Amina in his heart. When she returns and is arrested by the more and more repressive government, Salim is hurriedly exiled abroad. He leaves his wife and daughter with the promise that he will send for them, knowing that he will not. The novel ends with Salim alone, the last memories coming out of the gunny sack, hoping that he will be his family's last runaway.

Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth First Novel Prize (Africa). The Gunny Sack follows the bizarre tale of an old and unremarkable bag and the life changing secrets within it. In exile from Tanzania, Salim Juma is given a gunny sack by his beloved, but strange, great-aunt. The bag takes him back to his childhood, when he was first mesmerised by the peculiar mementos inside. He soon begins to piece together the stories hidden within, only to discover the truth behind a fateful series of events that changed his family forever.The stories that follow stretch across four generations of Salim's family, tracing their footsteps and unravelling their loves, betrayals, and incredible misadventures.The Gunny Sack is an extraordinary chronicle into the experiences of Indian migrants in Africa as they struggled under changing power structures, from German invasions to British colonialism.

Many of us have questions about God, or we never truly come to know about God, his Son, and the Holy Spirit. We may even doubt that God works in our lives at all, especially when times are difficult and there is no hope in sight. So where can we find answers? How do we truly come to know God, his Son, and the Holy Spirit? In God and the Gunny, author and retired US Marine Tom Moriarty shows us how he learned about God, Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit through a series of miraculous, often life-saving interventions in his lifeand how these interventions have made him a man after Gods own heart. Using the story of King David as an example for righteous living, Tom speaks to both his failures and his accomplishments, always trusting in God to come through when things got really hard. Life can be just as full of suffering, pain, and horrors as it can be full of happiness, success, and beautybut in every moment good or bad, God is there to protect us, bless us, and guide us forward. He is always walking the path with us, so it is up to us to let him show us the way and have faith in his helping hand.

Many of us have questions about God, or we never truly come to know about God, his Son, and the Holy Spirit. We may even doubt that God works in our lives at all, especially when times are difficult and there is no hope in sight. So where can we find answers? How do we truly come to know God, his Son, and the Holy Spirit? In God and the Gunny, author and retired US Marine Tom Moriarty shows us how he learned about God, Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit through a series of miraculous, often life-saving interventions in his lifeand how these interventions have made him a man after Gods own heart. Using the story of King David as an example for righteous living, Tom speaks to both his failures and his accomplishments, always trusting in God to come through when things got really hard. Life can be just as full of suffering, pain, and horrors as it can be full of happiness, success, and beautybut in every moment good or bad, God is there to protect us, bless us, and guide us forward. He is always walking the path with us, so it is up to us to let him show us the way and have faith in his helping hand.

Izvestnyj pisatel vybral temu, na kotoruju byl nalozhen zapret esche v 494 godu. S tekh por vse, chto napisano o svjatom Georgii, podvergaetsja zhestochajshej tsenzure i beskonechnym pravkam. Kakim bylo istinnoe dejanie svjatogo? Kak obrel on bessmertie? Chto sdelalo ego samym pochitaemym svjatym v Stepi? Otvet na eti voprosy daet Murad Adzhi, pisatel i geograf, avtor kontseptsii Velikogo pereselenija narodov.