Bøger af Mike Mitchell

When Sean O'Connor the CEO of a company called Resurrection is shot in the underground car park at his office. Chief Inspector Penney and Inspector Charlie Farthing have their investigation thrown into turmoil when they find Sean O'Connor had died thirty years earlier. His links to a known Mafia boss, his companies recent deals, and attempt to take over rival company J R Financial. All provide motives. Then pathologist Dr Lucy Stuart reveals that O'Connor had been shot before, that and the gun left at the scene soon provide clues which open up a dark past. Yet when the true Identity of the killer is exposed it sees Inspector Farthing sitting through the most traumatic interview of his life. Comforted throughout the investigation by his evolving love for Dr Stuart. He takes them both off to his parents farm where sat watching the sea splash below, will he finally propose.

Can a culture, shaped by its belief, its traditions and mentality, destroy the love between two people? Keff, a boy who comes from Africa, is different to the rest of the boys in his class. He writes love poems and poetic pieces for which he is constantly mocked by the others. But he finds hope in his belief that one day he will meet the love of his life and experience for the first time what love is. He comes to the bitter realisation that young people of the present have been corrupted and relationships and marriage are more and more losing their value. Despairing, in later years he drops down into the party and drugs scene. In his darkest moment, full of depression and anguish, he happens to meet Aaliyah, a young Muslim woman who wears a headscarf. This encounter is to change his life completely. But Aaliyah bears a terrible secret ...

Their Latin America honeymoon turned nightmare, a couple from the United States collide with the life and death struggles of a faltering revolution and a military junta with crumbling legitimacy. Also caught in the crossfire, is a family of campesinos comprised of a philosopher father with a secret, a mother who "... uses poets' words to explain awkward moments, or to create them," a daughter who is the romantic interest of the local Army commander, and two mysterious brothers who might be revolutionaries, all trying to simply survive. A rare and vulnerable butterfly, fabled to inhabit only this humble valley, may hold insights that could transform the lives of those who unknowingly seek to destroy it. As the world claims its victims, many of the inhabitants of the Mariposa Valley experience their own metamorphosis from prickly and self-centered caterpillars to winged butterflies, full of hope and brightness.

Harry Coulbeck is an angry young man, a maverick, a fighter and a dreamer struggling to come to terms with life in a decade of unprecedented change. This is Harry's saga, it is the story of his family and his close friends, it tells of their hopes and hardships, of their loves, their loyalties and their losses. It is a story played out on the trawlers, in the pubs, the cafes and the dancehalls of the world's greatest fishing port. It is 1964 and Britain stands on the threshold of a new technological era, but in the dockyards and on the distant water trawlers of Grimsby, life is still hard and the men and women who work there, harder still.

The Missouri Bootheel, a six-county region tucked away in the southeastern corner of the "Show-Me State," boasts a unique and intriguing history involving railroad strikes, mob lynchings, and earthquake scares, but what Mike Mitchell, who called the Bootheel home for eighteen years, remembers most is the basketball. Show-Me Kings is Mitchell's tribute to the local legends who made life in rural Missouri and the game of basketball a thrilling and memorable experience.

In the business of helping people make better decisions, their comfortable life explodes at home and in a jungle in Southern Mexico. It's like she doesn't know her name. Mamá to her children, Hija to her mother, Querida to her husband. Trying to overcome her fears and find herself...As the mother of two children and wife of an adventuresome and seemingly fearless husband she knows her world but struggles with her part in it. She believes in the family mission. Those close to her see what she cannot. She is brave beyond her fears, wise beyond her insecurities, and decisive beyond her doubts. How can she save her daughter who alone is facing odds in which a special forces squad would be tempted to call in back up support?Confronting her personal demons and the weight of her family's 600-year-old secret business, she must decide whether to share the family secrets with her children. "How can they be ready for this when I can hardly carry my part as a mature adult? Can't they just enjoy being children for a little while longer, maybe a lot longer?"In the end, family, purpose, identity, and chocolate bring calm to the turmoil that she has managed to keep buried all her life.

Lives are in danger. Would you jump into a dark pit to save them? What if your enemy becomes your only hope to get out of the pit, would you trust them?Adelita just turned twelve and her world is turning upside down. From discovering what her family really does, an attack on her home in Los Angeles, to facing rebels in the jungle, her courage and trust are tested. She might make a difference, if she survives. Doors, decisions, and destiny await.

In the history of the St. Louis Cardinals, one figure towers above all, despite never pitching an inning or taking an at-bat for the team. For decades, the club was defined by his presence - or his absence. From 1876 to 1925, three different National League teams in St. Louis never finished higher than second place. Then everything changed. The St. Louis Cardinals became the league's most dominant team. Over a twenty-one-season period, 1926 to 1946, the Cardinals won nine pennants and six World Series titles. Branch Rickey is the biggest reason why. Rickey's life, career, and impact are an often-told story, but the emphasis is largely on his time with the Brooklyn Dodgers and the story of Jackie Robinson. But even without Robinson, Rickey would still deserve a place in the Hall of Fame. That honor would be deserved because of his pioneering work with the Cardinals. No one casts a longer shadow on St. Louis baseball than Rickey. Mr. Rickey's Redbirds, though, is not just his story. It's the story of all the incredible players he scouted, signed, or traded and the talented executives he hired, fired, or deeply influenced over the years. It's the story of baseball told through a city and a franchise that proudly claims more World Series titles than any other National League team.

Have you ever had the brief fear of being left alone in the middle of nowhere? This young couple never did, until it happened to them. Discovering they are in two separate universes that intersect at a lonely gas station in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming is nearly impossible to comprehend. A bad cop, who thinks they are time traveling and is willing to do just about anything to force them to tell him how they do it, complicates their already impossible goal to get back together. Although this couple is supported by a few well-meaning people, one person comes out of nowhere, just like their dual reality split, to try to reunify them. His tool? A powerful fifth fundamental force, beyond the irreducible energies of gravity, electromagnetism, and strong and weak atomic interactions.

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