Bøger af Barry Clay

Discover the truth about the government consuming your tax dollars from a now-retired federal employee of more than thirty-seven years. Chock full of amusing (and sometimes horrific) anecdotes (as well as the author's entertaining cartoons), no one who pays taxes and wonders how their money is being spent should miss this book. It's only one man's look at one federal organization's inefficiency, but are the other ones any better? We can only hope. But if they aren't and if you read this book, you can also chuckle at the lunacy.

From the author of "The Darkened Village: a Sherlock Holmes adventure" comes a new, different novel that blends fact and fiction into a compelling story that speaks to us today about faith, humanity, and compassion ... and about the clash of cultures and religions that can result in implacable sorrow. Shortly before the turn of the 20th century, the Tehuchian family lived in Turkish controlled Armenia. Their father, a barber, served the residents of the town of Marishka and the soldiers of the nearby Turkish garrison, walking a fine line between the Muslim oppressors and the Christian villagers who were subjugated to them. This novel weaves the true narrative of Syra Tehuchian, who was an actual witness to the events, with fictional characters to present to the reader a story that will not soon be forgotten.

"How does good literature get lost?" Barry Clay asks in the forward of "The Adventures of Romain Kalbris." Clay has rescued a nearly forgotten work of the popular French children's author, Hector Malot, the "Rick Riordan" of his day. Clay has translated and adapted it for a modern audience with new illustrations by Joshua McClymont. "The Adventures of Romain Kalbris" tells the story of a boy who wants nothing more than to follow in is father's footsteps and be a sailor. But when his father dies at sea, heroically saving members of a crew in mortal peril, his mother sends him to live with his miserly Uncle Simon to keep him safe. And so begins a series of humorous misadventures that take Romain from his small home of Port-Dieu to the big city of Paris. There are no car chases or magical creatures, but this story is magic simply in the presentation of a life that is now found only in history books. It is the story of a boy with a big heart -- and the people he meets along the way in his attempt to make his dream come true.

It is the early 22nd Century, and Susan Bachman has achieved her goal. She is a CTN - clone tank nurse - a good-paying position matching the needs of people requiring parts that are harvested from clones grown in tanks.But her world is disturbed when one of the clones opens its eyes and looks at her. She is told that this is a common event and means nothing, but it begins a series of events she cannot control and results in an end she cannot predict.This book combines the novelette "With Whom I Had Been Speaking" and the novella "Knowing with Whom I Had Been Speaking."

Surely, no camping trip could be that bad. Surely. But this novella is inspired by actual events, and the Brooks family little expects just how bad one long weekend at a state park can be. This book has also been collected in the anthology "Molded by Humor" along with other short stories and novelettes that were inspired by actual events.

Given how hard life can be, who couldn't use a dollop of humor? This collection of stories -- inspired by actual events -- provides more than a dollop. Several bushel fulls of humor are contained in its pages. And the stories are all the more amusing because they are slices of actual events -- or nearly so. "The Dip Takes a Plunge" relates just how badly a weekend visit can go... and just how deadly a bowl of avocado dip can be. "My Life of Crime" tells the sordid (but very funny) tale of four normally God-fearing, obedient boys who decide to exact revenge on their own when one of their friends is the brunt of a school prank. (The revenge doesn't go well.) "My Daughter Lauren versus the State Department of Transportation" is an almost absolutely true story of one 16-year-old girl who goes head-to-head with her state's Department of Transportation -- as told by her father. "You Drive Me Crazy" reveals the true stories of the author, his wife, and children, as the adults teach their four children to drive. You will never look at the sign "Student Driver" the same. "The Worst Camping Trip Ever" combines stories from family and friends into one long weekend of misadventure and comedy that even the wildlife found engaging. "Amusement Parks of Near Death" divulges the darker side of amusement parks -- at least from the vantage point of a man who is terrified of roller coasters and dislikes going around in circles. This book is packed with over 150 pages of comedy, humor, indiscretions -- and mortification enough for three books. "The Dip Takes the Plunge" and "My Life of Crime" were also collected in the anthology "A Little Bit of Everything," and all the titles are available in individual kindle editions.

Patience Bellamy is a middle- aged spinster who lives an unremarkable life trying to make ends meet until, one day, she comes home to a basket and several packages on her doorstep. Improbably, in the basket is an infant, wrapped in a blue blanket. The note pinned to the blanket explains that the parents can no longer care for the child. They implore Patience to provide a home for their child, and they futher warn her against taking the child to the doctor's office. And, the note adds, she'll understand once she attempts to feed the baby.This novella has also been collected in the anthology "Brushes with the Supernatural."

Have you ever encountered a Christian whose representation of God struck you as - cruel? In all likelihood, that Christian was Reformed. Christian thought is varied, but among those Christians who take their Bibles seriously, there are two main threads of Christian thought. One is the Calvinist (also called Reformed) camp. It is named after John Calvin, a 16th century French theologian. The other camp is the Arminian camp, named after Jacobus Arminius, a Dutch theologian who lived shortly after Calvin. Christians have been arguing over these two competing views for centuries. Often, non-Christians and Arminians find Reformed theology depicts God as capricious or uncaring. Reformed Christians believe other Christians are unscriptural in their beliefs. Is there an answer to Reformed theology? Clay was once Reformed in his theology and attends a Reformed Church, but he believes both Reformed and Arminian Christians have only a part of the truth. With compassion and an appeal to tolerance and humility, he attempts to take believer and unbeliever, Calvinist and Arminian, through the Bible to a third path.

World War III and the Uncivil War have left the city of Richmond devastated, and the United States is not much better. Homeland Security is the only entity left between order and chaos, and Christopher Owens holds a coveted position as a Homeland Security agent with all the perks that accompany government service. But Chris' chosen life is soon to be upset in ways he would never have expected: he is assigned to a mission that has little chance of success with a partner he does like and does not trust - a mission that will force him to leave the only life he knows. It could not get much worse than this, he thinks. But he is wrong. This tale may not be suitable for young readers.