Bøger af Mark Young

Virtual Horizons: A Panoramic Array of Natural & Emotionally Themed Poems: many of which are relative to natural Florida and its ever-changing environs. Others delve into introspective enlightenment on a multifarious plain regarding the plights of being part of the human genre: aging, loss, diversity, etc., oft times with an unexpected or offbeat comical twist. An ever-present sentience to "read between the lines," coalesced with a fine-tuned perception of undertones and overtones is essential to realizing the mood; and, understanding the implication(s) of this anti-prosaic anthology.

Grog is an eight year old who just got a new notebook for Christmas. Things start off okay, but his four year old brother Alex decides to mess things up. Add a big bully, a horrible party and lots of other problems, and soon Grog doesn't know how to deal with it.Want to know what happens next? Read Grog's next notebook: https: //www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XP9FM57

Before Travis Mayes, before Gerrit O'Rourke-there was Tom Kagan. Police gang detective Tom Kagan has been seeking justice for more than ten years, leaving him a broken man. His only reason for living-the woman he loves and the badge he swore to uphold. When a man is brutally killed in a vineyard on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, California, it sparks a series of events that test what's left of Kagan's resolve to protect and serve. Secrets from the past thwart Kagan's efforts to unravel a series of killings sanctioned from within the walls of California's highest security prison. From the lush vineyards of Sonoma County to the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe, the detective must outsmart a killer who is moving in for one epic killing spree. Leaders of the notorious Nuestra Family prison gang are fighting for power, a struggle that spills out onto the streets of California. Kagan joins forces with Special Agent Hector Garcia, a feisty supervisor of the Special Services Unit for the California Department of Corrections; Diane Phillips, a beautiful and hard-charging prosecutor; and Mikio Sanchez, a former gang member marked for death. Through the eyes of cops and gangsters, readers are able to glimpse the seldom seen workings of the gangster underworld. Broken Allegiance is about treacherous lies, broken promises, and shattered lives-about life, death and a man's honor.

Murders, bombings and a cryptic message force police detective Gerrit O'Rourke to live Off the Grid for his own survival-and that of the nation. Seven years ago, U.S. Marine Gerrit O'Rourke returned from Iraq after learning of a family tragedy. When a manhunt turns up empty, Gerrit joins that city's police department to find those responsible and bring them to justice-one way or another. Still searching for leads today, Gerrit travels undercover to a European city on what he believes to be a matter of national security. He soon learns, however, nothing is what it appears to be-including what happened seven years ago. Contacted by a mysterious woman, Alena Shapiro, Gerrit discovers his life is in danger because he continues to seek the truth. Confused by Alena's warning and strange events he encountered in Europe, Gerrit returns home where his own world is blown apart. People close to him end up dead. Gerrit and Alena must combine forces with others to live Off The Grid as they try to uncover an international conspiracy that reaches to the highest level of government in several countries. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, they must survive to expose a conspiracy to breach national security. Time is running out-for Gerrit, for Alena...for the world.

When a trained killer threatens ex-cop Travis Mays-and those Travis loves-he finds a skilled adversary and an unexpected fight. After a high stakes gamble ends in personal tragedy, Travis walks away from years of training and a highly successful law enforcement career. Determined never to look back, he starts a new life and a new career, teaching criminology at the university and building a cabin in the idyllic Idaho Mountains. He hires a beautiful river guide, Jessie White Eagle from the Nez Perce tribe, to guide him safely down the Lochsa. The turbulence of the whitewater, however, is just the beginning of his troubles. Travis finds himself in the crosshairs of a killer-calling himself Creasy-bent on revenge. This fast-paced thriller takes readers on a wild ride down Idaho's whitewater rivers, along the historic Lolo Trails once tread by the Nez Perce nation, and onto the city streets of California. Tighten your helmet. This ride never stops until the last shot is fired and the final body falls.

Grog's life is going great...until things really start to happen. His younger brother Alex starts posting weird, crazy posts about him on Instagram, and if Grog doesn't stop it soon enough, someone's really got to do something! He also joins in on his obsessed-with-soccer buddy Rip on soccer practice, where they have to endure a mean coach and daily practice, and with everything going on, Grog isn't sure how long he can handle it!Want to know the backstory of Grog's life? Check out Grog Book 2: Bad Birthdays: https: //www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XP9FM57Want to know what happened even BEFORE that? Read all about Grog Book 1: School Sucks here: https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B08W2YXHK9

Because January was a TOTAL nightmare, Grog thinks that February will be a change for the better. But he shouldn't have hoped, since things end up even worse: Grog's brother breaks his leg, major snowstorms hit the city, and worst of all his mom ruins his birthday. Will things really get back to normal? Well, Grog doesn't know what to say.Want to read the backstory of Grog's life? Check out his first notebook: https: //www.amazon.com/dp/B08W2YXHK9

Discover 60 games that use little or no equipment and that cover all of the essential basics of learning to swim, including breathing, floating, submerging, gliding, kicking and pulling. Explore games and activities that teach them all.Using games and play to teach your child how to swim will not only open their mind to imagination and engagement, but it will help to distract them from the fears and anxieties often associated with the new sensations of being in the water and the expectations that come with learning how to swim.'I'm Mark Young, a swimming teacher with 30 years experience, and let me tell you, teaching my own three children to swim was a nightmare! They did not want to listen to Dad and just wanted to play. So, I gave up trying to teach them and let them play. Then it hit me. By playing and doing their own thing, they discovered the water for themselves. So I began to weave in some basic swimming skills and elements of swimming lessons into their games and, because it was a game, they were willing participants. Without knowing, they were learning how to swim as part of their play. Use the games and tools in my book and you can do the same. Have fun!'

Mark Young's The Advantages of Cable focuses on unexpected losses of focus, sudden changes in focal length, and spontaneous cracks in the lens, cracks that fracture, negate or enhance our immediate experience. Our "habitat" is over-defined, and not hospitable, but these sudden tricks of light (or of mind) produce visions of flying ostriches, angry crows, and blood-drinking salamanders: moments when "everybody freezes" and starts speaking "the language of the gypsies," all the "small things" that open us up to losing "all track" of the fatal limitations of our "habitat."Reading Mark's poems is like getting stuck in the revolving door of Marshall Fields, Myer, Selfridge's, or any large department store. We suddenly realize we're stuck, recognize our situation very differently than we did ten seconds ago, and can hear each of Mark's poems as the tink of a ball peen hammer on the glass, trying to free us. - Scott MacLeod

Teaching swimming is one of the best jobs in the world. Giving adults and children one of the most important life skills is challenging, hugely rewarding and great fun all at the same time. How To Be A Swimming Teacher gives you everything you need. Discover:¿ the essential qualities that make an outstanding swimming teacher¿ the equipment needed to teach effective swimming lessons¿ how to teach the all-important basics such as floating, breathing and submerging¿ how to plan and prepare swimming lessons that get results¿ why teaching adults is different and how to approach it¿ a detailed breakdown of all four basic swimming strokes¿ over 80 fully illustrated swimming exercises containing diagrams, teaching points and common mistakesPlus many more tools to help you master your profession and deliver outstanding swimming lessons.

It takes a lot to stand out at school for mad scientists, but Newton Warp is unlike anyone (or anything) at Franken-Sci High in this wacky series created by The Jim Henson Company?the first six books are now together in a collectible boxed set!Franken-Sci High, located in the Bermuda Triangle, is the only school in the world for the sons, daughters, and experimental offspring of mad scientists. Students are encouraged to use their brainpower for good, but the teachers accept that some students will want to take over the world?or the school cafeteria. It's actually a lot like other schools with a few major exceptions: non-humans are welcome, there's a Brain Bank full of alumni gray matter in the library, and black holes pop up without warning in lockers and bathroom stalls. All of that seems normal compared to the day when a kid named Newton Warp wakes up in the Brain Bank with no idea of who he is or how he got there…and things only get stranger from there. Together with some new friends?including a robot?Newton tries to solve the mystery of where he came from, understand his strange abilities, and participate in mad science fairs, obstacle courses, monster-making club, and more along the way! This fun-filled boxed set includes: What's the Matter with Newton? Monsters Among Us The Robot Who Knew Too Much Beware of the Giant Brain! The Creature in Room #YTH-125 The Good, the Bad, and the Accidentally Evil! TM & © 2021 The Jim Henson Company

This masterful poetry extinguishes those artificial lines that distinguish a moment from a century. It is all here and available to us, Mark Young shows. "A late/afternoon/point of co-/incidence // this bench/in the/Botanical Gardens/shared/with Desnos/& Diogenes" reminds us nature crafts consciousness right back at us. "Black cockatoos . . .small white flowers." This against the beautiful political purity of stating the truth in "damp trumpets."Quote from final poem, DAMP TRUMPETS: "Where are thesubmarines? Ishouted out. Youpromised you'ddrain the swampso I'd be ableto see the submarinesthat were lyingon the bottom."Things come together from a distance above, revealing equally how far they are apart. Mark Young's keen eye disturbs predictability. He knows from many angles refutation and commingling. Pachelbel's Canon and mismatched feelings between a man and a woman.Sheila E. Murphy

When Hannah Cohen spots a fabulous golden jewelled pendant, taken from her when she was a child in Nazi occupied Poland, now adorning the daughter in law of one of New York's foremost families, she wants it back, even if that means trawling through the courtrooms of Manhattan in two sensational trials - one civil, to reclaim the pendant, that will take her on an unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness - the other, criminal; the murder trial of her own attorney. Two trials linked by murder. And two attorneys - Jonas Calver, facing the frame for a killing he had no part in, and rookie civil lawyer, Morganna Fedler, desperate to show the world what she can do in a courtroom. And then there's Courtney Pascal, the prickly and unpredictable investigator who Calver must reach out to from his jail cell on Rikers for a last chance at taking down the one-eyed man who put him there.