Only the brave can survive loneliness. This is the story of Margot who lives at the start of World War 2 in a village in Sudetenland. She faces devastating loss early in her life and has to find a way to cope. She travels alone through war-torn Europe and crosses many geographical borders, searching for a place to belong. She faces challenges that seem insurmountable, yet she is not overwhelmed. She finds friends in the most unlikely places to help her get through some very difficult times. As she builds inner strength, she is able to fulfil her dreams. This book is inspired by a true story. While her journey is true, the inner life of Margot is fictional. All the names of real characters have been changed.

Only the brave can survive loneliness. This is the story of Margot who lives at the start of World War 2 in a village in Sudetenland. She faces devastating loss early in her life and has to find a way to cope. She travels alone through war-torn Europe and crosses many geographical borders, searching for a place to belong. She faces challenges that seem insurmountable, yet she is not overwhelmed. She finds friends in the most unlikely places to help her get through some very difficult times. As she builds inner strength, she is able to fulfil her dreams. This book is inspired by a true story. While her journey is true, the inner life of Margot is fictional. All the names of real characters have been changed.

This is the remarkable story of one of our nation’s luckiest business leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries. Its topics include sports, military history, and, of course, business principles that are sure to entertain and add value to readers of business books and memoirs. All proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit nonprofits that support small business, entrepreneurial, and community-based ventures—so that like Jim Haslam, others also may be afforded the chance to be fortunate in their own unique endeavors. Meet James A. Haslam II—“Big Jim” as he is called by friends and family. The details of his life, his family, and Pilot Company comprise a truly remarkable American story that has yet to be widely told, mainly because Haslam has always refused to write about himself. However, after years of less-than-gentle prodding from his loving family and though under duress, he has finally relented and agreed to pen the incredible story of luck and leadership that has taken him all over the world, has enriched lives in countless communities and philanthropic endeavors, and has led to the growth of the beloved company he founded and still serves daily, even into his late eighties. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Haslam played on the famous 1951 National Championship football team led by coaching legend and mentor General Robert R. Neyland, whose renowned Game Maxims inspired Haslam’s own viewpoints of life and leadership in family, business, and in the art of giving back. From being promoted to Company Commander in Korea at the age of twenty-three to starting out at a small oil company with only one gas station, you will follow the unlikely, harrowing, and often hilarious story of luck and leadership that has led Jim Haslam and his family to serve an unbelievable number of industry, community, and philanthropic endeavors affecting countless people in numerous communities, not the least of all Knoxville—and of course, the beloved university Haslam truly believes has afforded him so much opportunity in life. Through great loss and great luck, unforeseen tragedy and unlikely triumph—the story of the Haslams and Pilot Company offers a unique, entertaining, and encouraging perspective to family, faith, and the discovery of what really matters the most in life. Friends and family also offer their unique stories and insights, including contributions from Peyton Manning, Phillip Fulmer, Rick Barnes, Senator Lamar Alexander, former Walmart CEO Lee Scott, former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, and many more.

This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol) Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy. "Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world... Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange" (Vladimir Nabokov)

Mother Goose Goes Broadway is a musical, educational, mystical play production with an intergraded story line meant to work along with some school curricula and reading programs, including math, English, Reading, and Science. An original musical play that uses an educational story line in order to bring an awareness of sex, drugs, abductions, and violence. Bulling would be an example. This awareness is brought to our Youths in our communities through the arts, we can reach into the hearts of our youths. Using their minds and talents in expressing themselves. Our youths come from all denominations and creeds. Music has a way of cancelling a person's origin. Teaching them to work and live together is our goal. Physical and Mental Stress Training thru the Arts. Parents and teachers are somewhat at a loss, leaving their children to take care of one another. Due to parents' work hours, teachers are left to pick up the pieces at school and try to fix situations. Back in the day, this might have been okay. Today, we have to unite for the welfare of all citizens. Community leaders must mentor our youths for the well-being of our children's survival. People must help, or all of us will lose sight of our youths. Antonia Gazetas Weese wants to pull youths and communities together. By writing this musical play, we as a community can start a successful pilot program for students to stay in school and make education their focus and continue to college. Teachers and students can bring any community together with fine arts programs intergraded through the colleges and high schools. This book is a good example of how to put on a musical, bring it together, and receive credit for participating.

Through a series of letters to God from a shy teenage girl, explores such questions as "How important is prayer?", "What do you expect from God?", and "What does God expect from you?"