Bøger af Kevin McCarthy

The largest island in Florida's St. Johns River is Drayton Island. Located at the northern edge of Lake George about twenty miles south of Palatka, the island is about 1700 acres in size and is surrounded by the St. Johns River. With a history dating back to the Native Americans of central Florida, Drayton has seen its share of explorers, slaves, plantation owners, and ordinary residents who have moved there to grow crops, fish, and enjoy a truly idyllic life. This is an illustrated history of that island, written by a long-time resident of the island and by an author who has spent his career writing about Florida. The illustrations come from the authors' own collections, the state archives, private collections, and very old postcards.

The essays in this book are about the rivers, lakes, springs, Atlantic Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico, the latter two as they relate to South Florida. Among the subjects covered: Should the Everglades be considered a river of grass? How did French science-fiction writer Jules Verne use the Alafia River near Gibsonton as a launching site for his fictional rocket to the moon a hundred years before scientists launched rockets from Cape Kennedy? How does Lake Okeechobee link the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico? Where did Ponce de León first land in Florida? And what about his supposed search for a Fountain of Youth? How did famous writers (Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway), as well as professional baseball players (Babe Ruth, Dazzy Vance, and Ted Williams), promote fishing in Florida? What role do shipwrecks play in saltwater fishing? And finally how do alligators, crocodiles, turtles, and different species of fish thrive in Florida? The chapters will cover many aspects of the waterways in South Florida and should appeal to boaters, fishermen, bird watchers, and travelers: those who boat or drive through Florida or those who enjoy travel writing from the comfort of their home. The writer is the award-winning author of 58 published books and a retired professor of Linguistics and English at the University of Florida. Some of his published books are "Alligator Tales," "Apalachicola Bay," and guidebooks to four of our rivers: the St. Johns, Suwannee, Hillsborough, and Caloosahatchee.

Are you definitely going to heaven when you die? Are you sure? Becoming a Christian can be as simple as making a decision to follow Jesus Christ. And, often times that decision is made during an altar call at a church service that leads people through a simple prayer. But, how can we be sure the prayer worked? How can we be certain that we are a real Christian according to the Bible? How can we be sure that when we die we will go to heaven? There are several schools of thought about salvation. Some teach that once you are saved, you will always be saved. Others teach that we can lose our salvation. And, yet, others teach that though we can't lose our salvation, we might not have ever been saved. What are we to believe? Am I Really Saved gets to the heart of the matter and answers the most common questions asked by a vast majority of Christians at one time or another. The answers are presented in an easy-to-read format with an appendix that provides all of the research materials used in the conclusions. Am I Really Saved is a great resource for anyone who has ever wondered if, in fact, they are saved. It is also a great resource for everyone who has recently made that decision to follow Christ. This book will help lay a solid foundation upon which a strong faith can be built. It is also a great resource for pastors, counselors, evangelists and other ministry leaders to give to the people they are reaching and helping.

This collection of essays will offer vignettes of the waterways of North Florida: the rivers, lakes, springs, Atlantic Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico, the latter two as they relate to this part of the state. The chapters will cover many aspects of the waterways in North Florida and should appeal to boaters, fishermen, and bird watchers. The writer is the award-winning author of 56 published books and a retired professor of Linguistics and English at the University of Florida. Two of his recent books are entitled "Antioch on the Orontes: An Illustrated History" (2013) and "Castles of Turkey" (2013).

Melrose is a small, unincorporated town in north-central Florida on Melrose Bay between Gainesville and Palatka. Its history includes Native Americans, farmers and ranchers from elsewhere, and links to towns and markets elsewhere by way of a canal built in the late 19th century. After devastating freezes in the 1890s drove many citrus farmers away, the town saw slow growth, but has thrived in the last hundred years because of its idyllic setting, strategic location, and friendly atmosphere.

We know relatively little about St. Luke the Evangelist: that he was a Syrian of Antioch, a physician by profession, a disciple of the apostles of Jesus, and a follower of St. Paul on several of the latter's journeys. Looking closely at the third Gospel and at the Acts of the Apostles, as well as texts about ancient medicine, medical training, and the influence of Luke on subsequent writers and artists, we can begin to flesh out more details about his life. This book uses illustrations to better explain Luke's time and his later influence on many who followed him.

A respected business leader, faithful husband and loving father suddenly finds himself in a federal prison for a crime he didn't knowingly commit. As he struggles to understand the complexity of his bad decisions, an ever-widening web of conspiracy and corruption is revealed. But it's not the legal conspiracy of the largest stock fraud in the history of Washington state involving some of the biggest names in sports or the enigmatic FBI - it's a conspiracy of the mind. It's a battle with the most nefarious enemy of us all: our own blind spots.Blind spots are those unconscious biases, implicit associations, memory traps and thinking errors that affect our behavior and decision-making abilities. We all have them. Most of us think we don't. That's the conundrum.Kevin McCarthy is a thought-leader and sought-after keynote speaker. He is a professional member National Speakers Association, and currently President of the Oregon chapter. He resides in the Portland, Oregon area with his best friend and faithful wife of more than thirty years, Rachel, and is the proud father of two amazing young adults, Chris and Noelle. In his spare time he is a certified referee and an avid pool player for the largest billiards association in America, a valuable skill he learned in prison.Discover your blind spots with the complimentary Blind Spot Assessment at KevinMcCarthy.com/bsa

Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the savage winter are threatened by the arrival in their camp of two trappers, whose presence sets in motion a series of bloody events that will mark the trio as Outlaws, hunted by the Montana Vigilance Committee, their likenesses appearing on Wanted posters in settlements and mining camps along the trail. Enter any town, and they will have to shoot their way out. The rock and the river become their safe place, and when spring comes, their paradise. But the world seeks its way to them, and even in paradise human nature makes its own trouble. In this follow-up to his acclaimed novel, Wolves of Eden, Kevin McCarthy tells a story of three very human characters battling to survive in a vast, beautiful, and unforgiving landscape.

Focuses on the Irish and Irish diasporal involvement in the Olympic Games. This book discusses in detail the sporting involvement but, even more so, the political and national battles which accompanied the Irish Olympic journey prior to independence.

The Civil War may be over, but in this thrilling historical novel, the battle for the West is only just beginning.

This biography reveals the full significance of Robert Briscoe's influence within the contentious political culture of the early Irish state, as well as reinforcing his importance to the global Zionist rescue effort of the 1930s. Drawing on a wealth of previously unavailable archival material, the book charts Briscoe's evolution from a fringe Sinn Fein activist in 1917 to a member of Michael Collins's personal staff in 1921. It also analyses his agonizing decision to abandon Collins and support the anti-Treaty stance of his close friend and political hero, Eamon de Valera, before becoming a founding member of Fianna Fail in 1926. Most importantly of all, the book investigates Briscoe's evolving Jewish awareness, looking at his involvement in a traumatic immigration endeavour and also at his engagement with Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the New Zionist Organisation, under whose auspices he led political rescue missions to Poland, America and South Africa.

When the heroic robots that saved Japan during World War IV are outlawed, they turn against mankind, waging a campaign of terror across the last city on Earth. Their creator builds one more soldier, disguised as his teenaged granddaughter, and tasks her with dismantling the marauding mechanical militia.

The book focuses on the Irish and Irish diasporal involvement in the Olympic Games. It discusses in detail the sporting involvement but, even more so, the political and national battles which accompanied the Irish Olympic journey prior to independence.