Michael Parker
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A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success....
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success....
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In Michael Parker's new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father's tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast, Joel and his little brother Tank thread their way back to their mother, fueled by potato chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the powerful soul music that their daddy taught them to love. Always keeping...
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Underwater oceanographer Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lights. This unexpected event draws Marsham unwittingly into a desperate battle to expose the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of the United States into a wasteland. Drawn into this violent world is Marsham's associate,...
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What would you do if you knew who killed a friend of yours, but you couldn't come forward with the truth? From the prize-winning author of Hello Down There and Towns Without Rivers comes a novel about brotherhood and betrayal, deceit and desire. In the autumn of 1975, a small town struggles with the mysterious murder of a gay teenager found dead in his parents' bed following a high-school keg party. As Thomas Edgecombe, the editor of the...
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The apparent suicide of a British Cabinet Minister is questioned by the former head of MI6, Sir Giles Cavendish. He asks private investigator, Marcus Blake to use his unusual talents in learning the truth. Marcus uncovers more than he believed possible as he comes up against a group of powerful Satanists who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims, including illegal, genetic engineering. As he gets closer, Marcus puts his life on the line to uncover...
6) North Slope
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In 1968, one oil company was left drilling for oil on the North Slope of Alaska. All the big guns had given up and left the icy waste of this frozen desert. When the drill penetrated the lake of oil beneath the ice, so began what was described as the 'second gold rush in Alaskan history'. Michael Parker has taken this historical fact and turned it into a brilliant thriller that penetrates the reader's mind as keenly as the drill cut through the ice....
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"A very funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found . . . I love this book."
-Antonya Nelson, author of Bound
Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want. And after knowing...
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Calling all Hamilton fans! Spend more time with the remarkable Theodosia Burr by reading this fascinating novel inspired by a little-known incident in her life. It's the stuff of song.
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 forgotten moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia...
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He's a black cop with a big problem: his racist murder suspect is the front-runner for president. Fighting for the truth is a way of life for Lieutenant Amos. So when a senator dies under suspicious circumstances, he refuses to ignore a single lead. But the experienced black detective gets pushback from his captain when he aims to question a powerful political candidate who just so happens to be a white supremacist. As the main suspect's star rises...
10) A Dangerous Game
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When Charlie Picket was sent to Mexico by his boss, he didn't expect to end up with a thirteen year old girl in tow and be hunted by the FBI, the CIA and the Mexican police. But the hunters wanted the girl who was key to the theft of ten billion dollars and the overthrow of the Mexican government.
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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...
12) Past Imperfect
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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 keep his secrets from her. This becomes increasingly difficult for Max when he finds himself facing his past...
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This précis is a light-hearted attempt to make the Old Testament into a readable document for people who are interested, but do not have the inclination to take the time to read it. It would be enjoyable as an introduction to the Bible. It is not aimed at serious students of the Bible or religion.
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It is 1943 and the battle of the Atlantic is being ferociously contested by the Allies and Hitler's Nazi Germany. In the storm-lashed waters off the north coast of Scotland a German commando group lands on the remote shores of North Cape Island. Bruno Schafer has personal orders from Admiral Dönitz to find a missing U boat captain who holds the secrets to Britain's new centimetric radar. The islanders, remnants of a once thriving whaling community,...
15) Hell's Gate
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A savage struggle between good and evil in Africa's great Rift Valley. Ten thousand, armed Masai tribesmen threaten to overwhelm the sprawling railway camp at Nairobi in the year 1898. Left to defend the camp and its inhabitants, Major Kingsley Webb faces defeat with just 250 soldiers under his command. The conflict touches the lives of the lovely Hannah Bowers and Reuben Cole as both Reuben and Major Webb struggle for survival and for Hannah's love....
16) Roselli's Gold
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Hidden, Vatican gold and three murdered soldiers is the secret Captain Miles Roselli thought he'd buried during the Second World War. Twenty years later the gold is uncovered, and Roselli finds himself in a life and death battle against those who would seek to destroy him and the credibility of the Roman Catholic Church.
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No matter what the speaking challenge is, this inspirational, cleverly illustrated book will help readers perform with passion, power and persuasion-at the top of their game. Whether chasing a job, planning a pitch, giving a speech at a wedding, presenting to one or one thousand people, listenrs of It's Not What You Say will discover how to: • Use the rule of three to win any audience over • Prepare so you can be yourself - but better • Embrace...
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"In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl—a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words—meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina’s disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin,...
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"Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between the Stewart sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. The two are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie but also on their deep emotional reliance on each other. That connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of Gus McQueen. When Gust arrives in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma,...
20) You are a star!
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A young girl takes a trip from her bedroom into the sky, past the moon, and through the universe, learning that she is made of stars.