Bøger af Charles Ray

Al Pennyback will do anything for friend and kin, so when an offer is made to buy his cousin, Winston's land, an offer that seems to good to be true, Al is asked to look into it. Back in East Texas, a place that Al left as a teen and swore never to return to, he finds that nothing is what it seems. Things smell bad, literally and figuratively, and when Al starts digging, he unearths secrets that someone will kill to keep buried.

Beatrice Terwilliger, an elderly resident of the Potomac Valley Community is found dead in her home, apparently from a heart attack. But, her niece, Zelda, thins otherwise, and to make matters worse, her aunt's will is missing. At the urging of Violet and Rose Wertheim, Zelda turns to Ed Lazenby and his friend, Ernie Cardoza for help in finding out how her aunt really died, which, of course, means that Ed and Ernie are in trouble again.

"Stay away from the lake," the old man warned. "The devil lives in that lake." Bradley heard him, but he was compelled to go to the lake. When Bradley Matthews' wife, Lena, died he was cast adrift. An orphan, Lena, and his friend, William Lewis, also orphans, had come together in college and from that time had been inseparable. Now, all Bradley wants to do is get away from the tormented memories of what he's lost. He sets out on a journey to a small town on the Chesapeake, a place where he and Lena had created fond memories. He hopes this will help him come to terms with his loss and enable him to get on with his life. On the way, he stumbles across the small town of Copper Cove, a town hidden on a byway off the main road; sparsely populated and friendly on the surface; he soon discovers that it hides a secret that could cost him his life.

Jackson Meredith wants to hire Al to find his wife, Caroline. But, Caroline's father has identified his daughter's body after a one-car crash. Suspecting there is more to the case than meets the eye, and bored because he's between cases, Al takes the case, only to find himself investigating a murder.

Ed Lazenby and Ernesto Cardoza are residents of Potomac Valley Community (PVC), a full-service retirement community just outside Rockville, Maryland. Their favorite pastimes are playing golf and spending time chatting with their friends the Wertheim sisters, Violet and Rose. Except for Violet's tendency to be a bit hypercritical of everything and everyone, life is nice at PVC, until one day, Violet turns up missing. A ransom note asks for half a million dollars and warns Ed and Ernesto not to call the police. They're faced with a number of problems: someone learns that Violet is missing and calls the police; they have no idea where Violet is being held, or by whom; and, none of them have enough money to pay the ransom. Time is running out for Violet, and our heroes are running out of options to save her.

Caleb Johnson is one of a dying breed, a mountain man who lives in a log cabin near the town of Bear Creek, Colorado. What sets him even more apart from others; he is a black man who has chosen to set himself apart from what others call civilization. Benjamin Winthrop is a former Confederate cavalry officer. He's had to sell his family's Louisiana plantation, and is on his way to settle in Oregon and start a new life. The lives of these two disparate men intersect in Bear Creek, when Ben runs afoul of a trio of local toughs who decide to hang him for his effrontery. Caleb has the bad luck to happen along just in time to save Ben's neck from being stretched, creating a relationship that neither man is comfortable with at first. When Ben hires Caleb to guide him to Oregon, things become complicated beyond either man's understanding.

Henry Waylon spent ten years on death row, before finally being executed. A day after his death by lethal injection, DNA evidence shows that he was innocent of the crime for which he'd been convicted. The judge who sentenced him to die receives a threatening note, and hires Al Pennyback to find out who is threatening him. As Al digs into the background of the crime, he finds that there's more to the case than meets the eye, and, when people associated with it start to die, he finds himself in a race against time to catch a ruthless killer.

Ed Lazenby hates camping, but he has let himself be talked into spending a week on a remote island off the coast of Maine, participating in an adventure tour. Other than his friend and neighbor, Ernesto, he only knows the Wertheim sisters, Violet and Rose, fellow residents of Potomac Valley Community. On the ferry from Bar Harbor, Ed begins to form opinions of his fellow campers, and notices signs of conflict. On the island, things only get worse, and then one of the campers goes missing, and Ed suspects foul play. Problem is, he can't prove it. When a young state cop arrives, alone except for his search dog, he asks for Ed's help. The two of them resort to some 'out of the box' techniques to catch a cunning and ruthless killer.

A straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points. Ed Lazenby knows that sometimes you have to aim at where your target's going to be rather than where it is at the moment. That was the last thing on his mind, though, when a neighbor he'd never spoken to before asked him to find her missing grandson. He was tired of people thinking he was a hero, just because he and his best bud, Ernesto Cardoza, had rescued their friend Violet Wertheim from kidnappers. But, he was also bored, so when Abigail Crumley came along with her request, he said yes. Ernesto, of course, went along for the ride-and, what a ride it turned out to be.

Writing is a solitary pursuit, and writers are vulnerable to feelings of insecurity that can lead to writer's block. Some simple, common sense ways to overcome insecurity and release the writer in you.

Title: A sermon preached before the united congregations of Wyoming, N.Y., on the death of President Lincoln.Author: Charles RayPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02753600CollectionID: CTRG98-B2713PublicationDate: 18650101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 23 p.; 23 cm

Commemorating Charles Ray's rotating exhibitions at Glenstone MuseumThis book is part of an ongoing series of publications commemorating rotating exhibitions of the artist's work at Glenstone Museum, the second of which opened in Spring 2020. The catalog includes an essay by the artist, a contribution from art historian Russell Ferguson and an introduction by Emily Rales, cofounder and director of Glenstone Museum.

Covers the various bases for building and operating a electrical contracting business - from forecasting your business potential in a given market to achieving profit goals. This book gives advice on: what you need to start an electrical contracting business; bidding fundamentals; market research and planning for the future; and more.