Pat: 1737 books

I am a member of Pomona Writers Group which meet weekly. Our facilitator selects a topic for homework each week to write no more than 500 words. These topics are the stories I wrote during 2013. Hope you enjoy.

Each week in 2014 I attended the Pomona Writers Group. The facilitator asked us to write a story about a topic he chose. These stories less than 500 words are OMR (One Minute Read). I hope you enjoy reading each one.

Roscommon has a rich heritage of myths and legends which is uniquely captured in this collection of traditional tales from across the county. Here you will find tales of Queen Maeve, the famous warrior queen who had a home in Roscommon, and the legend of the Giant Leabaigh’s Rock, along with stories...

“Impressively researched . . . Sheds much new light on the prolonged and often angry debate between those who waged the war and those who opposed it” (George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War).   In the 1960s, the scare of communism provided the rationale for war in Vietnam. The...

Fishermen like holidays because they keep other folks off the water. The way they celebrate traditional holidays like Thanksgiving, obscure holidays like Arbor Day, and as yet-to-be-declared holidays like National Cabin Fever Day depends on whether one fishes or not. In WildLife: Volume Three:...

There is a common idea that the age of miracles is past. Perhaps it is, but if so, the change must have come about within the past few weeks—after I escaped into Holland. For if anything is certain in this life it is this: this book never would have been written but for the succession of miracles...

With its intense action and the unbelievable skills of its athletes, kickboxing has gained worldwide popularity in a way that few international sports ever do. It requires perfect timing, incredible speed, and relentless power, and this guide details the techniques and methods needed to win. Author...

ROCKHOUND (BOOK TWO) Australia’s past is littered with the broken dreams – and sometimes the bones – of fortune hunters digging for treasure, gambling everything on one big win. Young Australian journalist Annie Bryce is on the run from a killer who wants her dead before she can testify...

Are you a manager, do you have staff?Are you incompetent, are your skills inadequate, have you been successfully faking it?Is one of your employees smart enough to see through you?Does one of your employees get along with your colleagues better than you? Are they more well-liked than you?Are they...

When her brother, Tom, died suddenly of a heart attack, Pat Ferguson Hanson processed her grief by capturing the best of their times growing up together in this series of anecdotes that are both moving and entertaining. Her stories will resonate with anyone who grew up in the l950s and 60s, or knows...

A Criminological Imagination contains a selection of key articles from Pat Carlen's research studies of magistrates' courts and women's imprisonment together with a range of other articles on social control, discourse analysis, ideology, punishment, criminology and critique. They are all informed...

In Outsmarting the Riptide of Domestic Violence: Metaphor and Mindfulness for Change, Pat Pernicano translates issues central to domestic violence recovery into metaphorical stories and mindfulness narratives that will facilitate the change process. The stories are intended to be used in conjunction...

You are a woman by birth, a wife by choice, and a mother by blessing! The role of women in today's society seems to be ever changing and often downright confusing. Today's woman rushes frantically trying to keep up with the hectic demands of her life, often exhausted at the end of each day with little...

Author Pat Munsamy preaches the power of Gods seed in an enlightening book released through Xlibris. In Empowered, readers will know who they are in Christ and what they can do through the miracle of the seed. Empowered discusses the different forms of the seed, and how they affect ones daily life....