Bøger af Michael Parker

Kenneth E. Bailey was both a missionary and a New Testament scholar. As a missionary, first in Egypt and later in Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Cyprus, he experienced firsthand the life of traditional Middle Eastern villagers, which led him to the conclusion that the village culture he witnessed in the twentieth century had hardly changed since the first century. Consequently, he was able to reinterpret Jesus's parables and life experiences through this traditional culture. In a remarkable series of acclaimed books, which include The Cross and the Prodigal, Jacob and the Prodigal, and Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes, Bailey showed that Jesus was the first mind of the New Testament who used story and metaphor to challenge the leaders of his day in ways often unappreciated by contemporary readers. This biography explains the origins of Bailey's key ideas and recounts his often fraught missionary career--one that included the austere and the sometimes harsh life in the simple villages of Upper Egypt, the perils of life in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and being evacuated four times during the military conflicts in the region--that made possible his groundbreaking insights into the New Testament.

HELL'S GATE is a historical action adventure set in British East Africa in 1898. It is inspired by the true events in the British Protectorate when the British government constructed a railway line from Mombassa on the east coast of Africa to the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda. At the same time the German government was building a line from Zanzibar to Lake Victoria. History records that the 'race' was conceded to the British by the governor of the German Protectorate. Into these facts, Michel Parker has woven a tale of intrigue, violence and conspiracy against a backdrop of the splendour of the Rift Valley and the volcanic landscape that threatens the very existence of the railway line itself. But it isn't just the forces of nature that need to be fought, but the threat of 10,000 warring Masai led by the evil slave trader, Piet Snyder. Against this menace, Captain Kingsley Webb, commandant of the British East African Rifles is ordered to defend Nairobi railway camp and the two thousand souls who make up this teeming, tented city with just two hundred soldiers under his command. His love for the beautiful Hannah Bowers is also challenged by the widowed farmer, Reuben Cole who is forced to set out on a quest to find his son, David, kidnapped by Piet Snyder. The explosive mixture of love, conspiracy, treachery and political intrigue are brought together in a beautifully woven tapestry in this compelling tale. Will suit readers who like stories of colonial Africa, the British Empire, railway construction, slavery, action heroes, 19th. century military and romantic intrigue.

"The story of Earl, a 17-year-old boy who goes to prison for a crime he didn't commit"--

A tale of high adventure and elevated absurdity, Flabius Flaximus, mighty warrior of ancient times, traverses the known world, from snowy Egypt to the deserts of Jamaica, in search of windmills and a set of plastic utensils capable of destroying the universe, or at least powering Cobra's weather dominator. Aided by a daring and/or deranged spy, a testy fairy and a singing cowboy, Flabius battles mythological sirens, Nazis, Klingons and flower girls as he tries to thwart an evil wizard from achieving his goals of global conquest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World. And then there are footnotes.

For all who have fallen short of other people's expectations. This is for you. Be encouraged.

Marcus Blake's ramshackle security agency has no clients to speak of...But one day, Susan Ellis walks into his office and asks him to help find her brother who has gone missing in Afghanistan. In that moment, Marcus' world is turned upside down and he is plunged into a covert war where arms and drugs are traded by renegades within the CIA. Now, in his quest to find Susan's brother, Marcus faces terror and betrayal in a dangerous world where one cannot tell friend from foe.

Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen He controls an enormous industry that covers most aspects of everyday life. The key to controlling his organization is a week-old baby boy, and Franz Molke-leader of the People's Party in Germany-aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant. The kidnap fails, but the baby disappears in the process. Ex IRA terrorist and SAS soldier, Conor Lenihan fights double cross and cyber warfare in an attempt to find the infant.

Wholesaling is the best and fastest way to make money with real estate if you don't have the money to invest! This is not a novel! It is, however, a complete training for real estate wholesaling and investing. It is a mastery course loaded with valuable and rare content that teaches in a step-by-step system, exactly how to make money with real estate. This book includes the latest strategies and methods to start your own business with no start-up costs. You will learn how to sell real estate completely from home if you desire to start a home-based business. You will even be able to sell real estate in another city! The content in this book is so rare that learning these techniques will put you in the top 10% of today's investors. This book is a 147-page, easy-to-follow business plan. It comes complete with over 60 detailed color images to keep you on track, as well as contracts to protect you from liability and in-depth explanations of how to buy and sell real estate with no risk. There are templates ads to sell fast and find the right people to work with. We've also included over 25 pages of bonus material geared toward your wholesaling success!This book is designed in such a way that you can start your business as you are reading by following each step, day by day until you reach the end and make your first profits. The information included will teach you how to set up your business using free phone and online services, where to find buyers, sellers, other professionals to work with, and how to maximize your profits. There are also strategies to skyrocket your success with paid leads when you are ready to grow your business. These strategies will have the most impact on starting a new business or saving a wholesaling business that is struggling to close deals and make sufficient profits. Don't try to do it the hard way, learn from 20+ years of collective experience and wisdom and someone who is wholesaling real estate every day!

"Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure. This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accident-a broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling eccentrics. Redemption comes in the form of a young woman-the daughter of a poor farmer-and a couple of the town's most interesting outcasts. Parker is an amazing writer. His narrative style is both lyrical and economical, making this novel a true Southern gothic classic"--

Are you searching for new ways to reconnect with nature that allows you to eat healthy for the first time in years?Do you want to find a simple way to rest, relax and get satisfaction every single day?Growing your own herbs is something so simple and easy that it's a wonder why more people aren't doing it; especially given how big mindful living has grown in the last couple of years.We're all spending more and more time in our cars, at our desks and in front of our phones, which is why getting back to basics has never been more important. Here, You Will Learn About:The Modern GardeningReturning to BasicsYour Road For Self-SufficiencyToolsHelpful tips in gardeningBasic herbalismSetting up your garden This planting guide will have you swimming in fresh, sustainable ingredients. Learn how to build a grow light for your studio apartment or turn a tiny patio or balcony into a lush garden oasis, so you can have homegrown food anywhere.

Michael Parker's vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route to New York by ship to meet her father, Aaron Burr, disappears off the coast of North Carolina. It ends a hundred and fifty years later, when the last three inhabitants of a remote island?two elderly white women and the black man who takes care of them?are forced to leave their beloved spot of land. Parker tells an enduring story about what we'll sacrifice for love, and what we won't.

It is two years since the wife of best-selling author Max Reilly died in a car crash along with her lover. Max is still recovering from her death and deception, but when he meets Emma -- who is awaiting divorce from her violent husband -- he quickly becomes attracted to her. Emma is cautious and keen to hold back. Max is determined but needs to ...

The Lovers’ Landing Beach Hotel, a popular wedding destination, has acquired a certain mystique as the home of 'Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses’.  Recently  inheriting the hotel from her late father, Audrina Brown  quickly discovers that her Uncle Bubba, the hotel manager is running a variety of 'extra-curricular activities' (all illegal) on the property.  It’s a mystery - It’s a love story - It’s a new farce by the authors of Sex Please We’re Sixty.

Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory. By analysing a wide range of evocative and often arresting cases from practice, Michael Parker provides a compelling insight into the complex moral world of the contemporary genetics professional and the challenges they face in the care of patients and their families. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the ethical issues arising in everyday genetics practice. Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice is also a sustained engagement with the relationships between bioethics and social science. In proposing and exemplifying a new approach to bioethics, it makes a significant contribution to debates on methods and interdisciplinarity and will therefore also appeal to all those concerned with theoretical and methodological approaches to bioethics and social science.

The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills on a printing press he built in the basement of Monet Manor. After his death ten years ago, his faithful retainer George and his daughter Annie, continued the family business for Mr. Hammond's widow who recently passed away. Contrary to her promise to leave the manor and all her assets to George and Annie, she has bequeathed the manor to a stranger, Mr. Bud Davis, who is emphatic about turning it into a retirement home for ladies. Determ

When Harry Douglas, the new American Ambassador to England, tells his family he is going to Scotland to play golf, his wife and daughter announce plans of their own. Their Butler, Perkins, watches stoically as each leaves then secretly returns for a romantic rendezvous in the empty house.

These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we'll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we'll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it. And despite all of the above, the absolute necessity of it, no matter its consequences. Whether it's a college student undone by the boy who leaves her, or the boyfriend intent on leveling old scores from high school for his lover, or the husband who discovers-in the grocery store-the woman he should have been with all along, every character, no matter how off track, wants to believe in debt and credit and payback and making the messy world-and the messy world of love-turn out neatly.

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