Bøker av John Kincaid

When an old, mysterious vagabond with amnesia meets a twelve-year-old genius in rural West Virginia, their lives (and maybe even reality) are never the same.Have you ever experienced a series of events that you will always remember as if they happened yesterday - events that changed your life forever - events that touched your life in a significant way? Well, it happened to me one year when an old stranger suddenly came to our house in a most mysterious manner and interjected himself into my life. When I launched a quest to help cure the old man of his puzzling amnesia, Clarence reciprocated by telling me and my redneck sidekick true stories about the people of the mountains - stories that came from extremely unusual, almost paranormal, sources. The old man led us through a year of discovery that revealed that many times the important things in life are not what we imagine them to be. Spiced with a bit of dramatized West Virginia history and a dash of the paranormal, this story is set in the mountains of West Virginia in 1961 and is told with gentile humor and downhome

Ten original Christmas short stories. Bible and contemporary settings. We all know that turkey and ham and other culinary delights taste better with a little seasoning. This book contains stories that add just that touch of a little something that tops off all the best of Christmas. Each short story is not about elves or talking snowmen or romance but about people who found a little dash of the Christmas Spirit in the midst of their trials. These stories are made from the pure essence of Christmas, created by the imagination, but resting firmly on the true yuletide Spirit. The Spirit of peace and love and hope that will warm the heart, lift your spirit, and even enlighten your understanding. Adult, Teen and Juvenile. 127 pages.

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade is probably the best-known and most popular of the many memoirs written by the men who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign. The author, John Kincaid (1787-1862), served as an officer in what was then the 95th Foot, the most famous of Wellington's regiments, which was 'first in the field and last out'. Kincaid fought in most of the great campaigns in the Iberian peninsula between 1809 and 1814 and at Waterloo in 1815. Originally published in 1830, this book is history at its best: informative, enlightening and perceptive, hard fact mixed with humour, a vivid description of life on campaign with one of the most famous regiments in the British army. It is, furthermore, highly readable and engaging: a contemporary review noted that Kincaid's book 'has one fault, the rarest fault in books, it is too short'.