Bøger af David Watts

Daily Aphorisms and inspirational sayings to enhance your day. "I have loved getting these .... a mind hug in the mornings."-Linda Scarborough, Co-Publisher, Williamson County Sun"Agree or not, David Watts composes delicious mental chewing gum."-Shinji Eshima, Composer, Bass Violin, San Francisco Opera Orchestra"Each of these pearls of wisdom is a complete movie."-Lance Robbins, Executive ProducerLifetime Television

How do you get your 73-year-old mother to drive up a slope covered in lava rocks the size of a cantaloupe? How about spending a few days driving across the sandy Mojave Desert, dodging Joshua trees and chollas? Well, just invite her!

Hope in Hungnam takes place during the darkest days of the Korean War in 1950: from the brutal Battle of Chosin Reservoir to the stunning Christmas Eve evacuation of 100,000 civilians from Hungnam, North Korea. As the flames of war engulf the Korean Peninsula, US Marine Jack Stiles desperately searches for meaning in the frozen killing fields of North Korea.Bloodied by war and bigotry, Stiles' world is changed forever when he is critically wounded at Chosin Reservoir and left for dead. Nursed back to health by a mortal foe, he soon faces the realities of war, life, and love with new clarity. Hope in Hungnam tells the story of the woman who saved him, the Captain who saved them all, and the ship that did the impossible. In his riveting debut novel, David Watts weaves an epic tale of the men who fought, the men who died, and those who risked all in the most remarkable, yet almost unknown naval evacuation in all of human history. It is a story of war and hate, of love and forgiveness, but most importantly it is a gripping story of the enduring power of hope.

Daily Aphorisms and inspirational sayings to enhance your day."I have loved getting these .... a mind hug in the mornings."-Linda Scarborough, Co-Publisher, Williamson County Sun"Agree or not, David Watts composes delicious mental chewing gum."-Shinji Eshima, Composer, Bass Violin, San Francisco Opera Orchestra"Each of these pearls of wisdom is a complete movie."-Lance Robbins, Executive ProducerLifetime Television

This is a book is secretly about love. It doesn't say so, directly, yet it leads us through its many forms using an inspired choice of words: "Scary thought, trains and girlfriends." And when someone leaves a relationship: "Emptiness reliable as a broken bone" followed by: "I am the hollow reflection of your departure." Son of a preacher man and a piano player, growing up in a small town in Central Texas, his dad reading Robert Frost to him, his mother playing Offenbach's Barcarolle which made him cry, acting in one act plays, playing in the All State Band, breaking his leg in football, getting jilted by a cheerleader, he had enough experience at 17 to already be a poet. Yet he waited until middle age, rocked by crisis, reaching for understanding, poetry seemed the smart thing to do. The sensual moments in this book simply rise off the page: "You collected my tears in the teacup of your collarbone." and "It has taken a long time to get here past failures at love, at marriage, but sometimes, after all, there is this accident of grace." Poetry should scare us a little. What poetry affirms, good poetry, is that on the other side of a scare there often surfaces a thread which keeps us pressing forward through angst and the paralyses of sorrow. That life-rope we seek is affirmed by beauty and the rigorous pursuit of truth: In "Fear and Resilience" the protagonist, in a pit of worry, remembers and recovers to her ear her mother's voice which calms the fright she was facing. That discovery could not have happened were it not for facing the problem head on. As Robert Frost says, "The best way out is always through." Watts brings many talents. His subjects range from a birdhouse to a mirror in the hall, each approached with well-trained eyes and a reverence for the complicated journeys of the human spirit. How else could the right words come to interrogate the classical themes of love, loss and mortality? It took great courage to place himself within the spirit of a dying friend and record the illuminations found there as he did in the meditative and unique "Death Sequence." Something new came from that.Thoughtful reflection guided by craft; Watts is well-equipped. Yet, one more quality is essential: a depth of spirit one gains by years of what Socrates calls, "The Examined Life." Being unafraid to approach our angels and our demons candidly as Watts courageously does in this collection, pays off. As Gary Snyder affirms, "To the real work/. . 'What is to be done'."

Written in July of 2019. This book is not about an ideology. The argument of Awake vs Woke may be the loudest dog-whistle I've ever heard. This book is about the process of waking up. It's about large shifts in awareness that can be dangerous. This book is about how to survive those shifts. Namaste.

Jack Barnstone is an outside-the-box, motorcycle-riding physician who, finding himself in two kinds of trouble, leaves Texas to start a solo practice near Chinatown in San Francisco. When a patient walks in his office with an undiagnosed mortal illness Barnstone's life changes forever. Finding himself in deeper trouble than ever he must work his way through a malpractice suit, the mistrust of his colleagues and the suspicions of the San Francisco police in order to vindicate himself. Since he has arrived in San Francisco just at the start of the Summer of Love to pursue his quest he has to learn the inner workings of Hippie culture, the sinister workings of the Satanic Church while he is dodging the unpredictable actions of the San Francisco Police. With help from his new Hippie girlfriend and an old flagrantly gay East Indian assistant coroner he discovers why the case was so difficult to solve, confronts the perpetrator and stumbles upon a well-hidden and sinister web of criminal activity.

It's HELL or HIGH WATER for the gun slinging bounty hunter who always catches his man. This is the new action-packed Western sequel from award-winning author David Watts! In this startling new Western from an award-winning writer, Watts mixes together three of the truly classic forms of storytelling: Western, psychological drama and the Hero's Journey to form a new category of Wild West legend. In lyrical flowing words and images suitable for the silver screen, we experience the struggle that Luke the gunslinger goes through to leave behind his past as a savage bounty hunter and the haunting memory of the men he has killed for a more balanced life. In so doing, he risks his his own life over and over again to enter this dangerous quest. He is guided in his pursuit by a series of colorful characters who show him new ways of thinking and deliver to him ancient wisdom necessary to the understanding of the often troubled challenges we face as humans. Underneath it all, a haunting love story lies at risk. How will all this turn out? This action led Western features a ton of lead, a Bounty Hunter with a bad attitude and a lot of dead BAD GUYS!

This reference volume on the Caribbean contains historical and geographical information from 1492 to the present, and contains a bibliography and a set of maps and tables. Much of the book covers the history of sugar cultivation in the region.

Whether recounting the decline and death of a dear friend or poking holes in the faulty logic of an insurance company underling, this title lays bare the nobility and weakness, generosity and churlishness of human nature.