Bøger af Kim a Smith

Life for 12-year-old Ashley Doherty and his two brothers is safe and unremarkable until their father dies on Memorial Day weekend in 1963. After that, their lives become tumultuous, as their mother struggles to raise three boys alone while coping with her grief and depression. Within a year, the Doherty family implodes, destroying their relationships. Based on true events, What will People Think? follows Ashley as he tries to rise above the chaos in his family and achieve his ambitions. Along the way, Ashley encounters weird people, a nasty priest, incompetent teachers, a sick psychiatrist, an obtuse judge, and seductive women. The animosity his mother and brothers aim at him is appalling. Yet, you will admire Ashley's humor and resiliency. This story will be familiar to anyone from a dysfunctional family. .

Rome university student Stefano De Luca was leading an ordinary life until his mother confesses on her deathbed that his biological father is a priest named Timothy Rocco, who is the chief Vatican archeologist. Stefano learns Father Rocco committed suicide by hanging himself. No one who knew him can explain why he would kill himself. Puzzled, Stefano and reporter Angelique Corcoran search for answers, inadvertently involving themselves in Vatican City politics. What they discover challenges the foundation of the Christian faith and puts their lives in danger.

In the fourth installment of The Voodoo Priestess of Cornick College series, the Gash House women-Hettie, Addie, Glinda, and Sandra--finish their final year at Cornick College. They'd devoted themselves to their studies but also found time for experiences that enriched their lives. Along the way, Gash House had become a commune of sorts. They cooperatively raised a child, mentored a troubled adolescent, spoke out for social justice, fell in and out of love, and ended up in hilarious jams. Throughout it all, voodoo priestess Hettie Ardoin worked her magic to solve her friends' problems and smooth their lives. Yes, they would've succeeded without each other. But when it was all said and done, the Gash House women agreed their lives were richer because they'd supported and cared about each other.

After a successful first year at Cornick College, voodoo priestess Hettie Ardoin and her good friends Addie, Sandra, and Glinda have rented a house together. They expect their sophomore year to be calmer. However, that is not to be. The Board of Governors has fired the popular former president because of declining enrollment, a shrinking endowment, and raucous student behavior. They hire the new president with a strong business background to fix the problems. His solution angers the Cornick College faculty, students, and alumni. Hettie and her housemates find themselves in the middle of the conflict, forcing Hettie to use her voodoo powers. Their year provides them with excitement, heartache, danger, some shocking surprises, some irresponsible fun, and plenty of laughs. The events in this book happened to someone at some university.

You've got an incredible rock star inside of you. Does your employer recognize this? Do you believe this about yourself? Know this, you are only as great as your perceived value. As your value increases, so does your influence. The Value Lens introduces a way of viewing people based on the incredible gifts, talents and experiences they create for those they serve. According to author Kim A. Smith, "The most powerful gift you can offer the world is the best version of yourself." In this book, Kim teaches purpose-driven leaders seven principles to magnify their value.

As chronicled in The CE-7 Revelation, the news media identified Emma Ulrich as the first Chanot-Human. The story of Emma's life since then is told in this sequel. A genius and an outstanding athlete, Emma graduated from high school at 15 and then attended Stanford University to play soccer. But along the way, Emma must deal with the prejudice directed at Chanot-Humans. She joins with a defrocked Episcopal priest to fight for the civil rights of Chanot-Humans. They succeed using Emma's amazing computer skills. But Emma's story is more complicated, as her life often takes startingly new directions.If you enjoy reading books about aliens, corrupt government officials, over-zealous police, transsexual universe jumpers, clueless fathers, defrocked Episcopal priests, and sex, this is the book for you:

The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of GIs to enter the U.S. as non-quota immigrants after World War II. After the war, 300,000 women married American servicemembers and immigrated to the United States. This novel is about the experiences of five war brides who followed their husbands to Bozeman, Montana. Adapting to the way of life in Montana was not easy in those days, but they persevered and built good lives there. While A British Wife is a novel, it is based on stories I heard from my British war bride mother and her friends. Most of the war brides have passed on now, but they contributed much to their adopted country in so many ways.

The Gash House women start their junior year at Cornick, another year older and maybe wiser. Their sophomore year was challenging but successful, all making the Dean's List for the fourth straight semester. They'd all become good and supportive friends throughout it all, despite their many differences. Their junior year proves to be no different. The Gash House women deal with a new baby, a Frenchman, a hurricane, an ICE raid, a murder, a death, mental illness, sex slaves, and relationship issues. Hettie's voodoo spells help here and there. Yet, they still find time for fun and laughs.

Peter Simon had decided he was an atheist in high school and rejected his Catholic faith to the sorrow of his devout mother. He'd never reconsidered his decision until his father gives him a DNA ancestry test for his birthday. Shortly before he receives the results, the Vatican notifies him that he is a direct descendant of the apostle Saint Peter. Even if true, that seems unimportant to Peter, merely an accident of birth and nothing more. But as he digs deeper, he discovers that DNA testing is being used to determine the identity of remains discovered by archeologists at sacred sites dating from 2,000 years ago. The results both contradict and confirm Biblical accounts of the creation of Christianity. Peter is challenged to think more deeply about his religious beliefs and who he is as a man.

Andy Wycliff was a highly regarded White House reporter when he received an anonymous email telling him that the U.S. military was cloning Neanderthal children in Alaska. In his spare time, Andy started investigating the claim, not expecting the conspiracy theory to be true. He talked to cloning reproductive experts at major universities. None of the experts knew of any human cloning programs anywhere in the U. S or abroad. Every military official he questioned claimed to know nothing about a Neanderthal cloning program. He teams up with an Alaskan environmental reporter named Rashah McArthur, who often visited the North Slope of Alaska. Innuits who lived and hunted in the area told Rashah military police from a base had accosted them, claiming they were trespassing on land their ancestors had lived for 10,000 years. Was this the military base where secret Neanderthal cloning experiments were being conducted? If so, to what end? Through dogged reporting, Andy and Rashah ferret out the truth. But what they uncover is only the beginning of the story. The rest will leave you astonished and concerned about the future.