Bøker av Steve Miller

7-3-16#75 in Kindle Store > Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary Fiction > Short StoriesJennifer Mahoney meets Jeffrey, the love of her life, the winter of her senior year in high school. Jeffrey, her best friend's cousin, is visiting for the holidays. He is in town for the winter break staying with his aunt and uncle. Jennifer spends every waking moment with him and falls in love fast. She thought it was a lasting love and that they would be together forever. However, timing is way off for Jennifer and Jeffrey. Life is getting in the way. He suddenly leaves without a word.Ten years pass and Jennifer has to bury her best friend and become the mother to her child all at once. She runs into Jeffrey during this time and finds herself very angry with him. Her head and heart are flooded with emotions she thought she buried years ago.How will she handle everything happening in her life? Is there any hope left for her and Jeffrey?Follow Lizzy Stevens on Twitter @lizzystevens123

A historic tale of the Vietnam War, returning home, and starting over. This story follows Christopher Douglas from the war torn jungle to a hometown on the brink of extinction. He heals himself along with the town as everyone works to rebuild.

In this romantic comedy Jack and Jade, who have been best friends since childhood are both dating all the wrong people. After a date they meet up and discuss how horrible it was. Their dates generally go from bad to worse. Jack has been on dates where the girl is marrying them on the first date and Jade has been on dates where the guy asks her to help him rob a bank. They continue on down this long road to love leaning on each other through all the wrong turns.

Amazon Best Seller#36 in Kindle Store >Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Romance > Short Stories Alley wakes up in a strange bed. She has no idea who she is or where she is. Pain shoots through her head like a bolt of lightning every time she moves. As she drifts off to sleep images of a faraway land and a handsome man with sandy blonde hair and six pack abs fills her head. He keeps saying "Alley come back to me." Who is he and how does she know him?

Kelly wasn't like other women. She was locked in a castle. Ghost by day. Human by night. Day after day, the same thing. She was cursed. She could never leave the castle grounds. There was only one way to break the curse but it had to be done by somebody else and she couldn't tell them how to do it. They had to figure it out on their own and she had to find this person.Would she ever find them? Would they break the curse?

Mia had dreams of being successful and becoming a Best-Selling author but she wouldn't take shortcuts to get there. She worked hard in every aspect of her life.She didn't have much family to speak of but Nate and Mary were more family to her than her real family. She would do anything for them and they for her. They owned the diner that Mia worked at. Everything changed for Mia when Nate had to have a back surgery and be out of work for weeks. They called in their nephew, Mason, to help them during their time of need. Mia knew Mason when she was a child but hadn't seen him in years. She didn't know what to expect since the only thing she could remember was a boy that used to pick on her and pull her ponytail when they were young.Mia and Mason spent a lot of time together as the weeks passed. They grew closer and both gave everything they had to help Nate and Mary. Mia got a call from a film producer interested in one of her books but she needed to fly to L.A. to have a meeting with him. She didn't want to go alone because it would be nice to have a friend along for the trip. However, there was no way that Mary or Nate could come with her because of Nate's surgery. Mia was surprised when Mason offered to go along with her. Was Mason only spending time with Mia because he felt like he should? Or Were they beginning to become more than friends? ````````````````You can find Lizzy on Twitter @lizzystevens123

Karma And A BitchAnd other stories is a collection of stories including: "Karma Is A Bitch"Karmas are immortals that kept the not so good people in line. They lived by the motto "Do bad things bad things will happen." Tessa Waters was one of the best Karmas of the Karma realm. However, she wasn't the fastest. She would watch over the realms, Earth, being her main realm. When she saw somebody not behaving she would send down a Karma punishment on that person. They were always funny and made the other Karmas laugh but she wasn't fast enough. The head Karma thought it would help Tessa if instead of watching from a far she went down to Earth and passed out the punishments up close. Maybe that would make her faster. She could not return until she hit 100 Karmas. Tessa thought that would be no problem. Until the trickster of all tricksters, Loki, got in her way. How was she supposed to pass out Karmas if Loki was right in the way playing pranks on everyone? Now Tessa had to deal with the trouble makers and Loki. How was she supposed to hit her goal of 100 and make it back home? Quick Read Short Story"A Surprise For Christmas"Samantha wasn't expecting what she got for Christmas this year. Her doorbell rang and there sitting on her porch was a baby in a basket. This changes her life for the good. But then something happens. The baby's father comes for his child. How can Samantha convince him that she is the best thing for the child?"Cupid's Mistake"This 1800 word Quick Read by International Best Selling Author Lizzy Stevens is a fun and fast way to spend a few extra minutes that you have.Kylie Is a Cupid in training. She is one of the best at making love connections. She gets to work bright and early, is handed her assignments, and goes right to work. But one night she thinks what could the harm be in making a love connection all on her own? Why does she need to be told who to connect? She's good at her job. One of the best in fact. So why not just give it a shot? Well she soon learns there are many reasons why you don't just go out and do it on your own. Kylie makes a big mistake. How will she fix this problem?"An Unexpected Love"Olivia Vandergate's life is turned upside down when she finds out that she is pregnant. In love with her high school sweetheart she followed him to college. The problem was she grew up and he didn't. All he wanted to do was go from party to party and reminisce about the good old days of playing ball. She knew it wasn't what her child deserved.She had no choice. Enlisting the help of her father, a prominent man with many connections, he'd know what was best. He set his plan in motion. He arranged a marriage with a more suitable father and husband for her daughter.Avery Wentworth would be the man to marry Olivia, keeping the secret of the child's parentage forever hidden. Daddy's money ensured that. But how is she supposed to marry a man she doesn't even know? Much less love?

Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard, was killed November 22, 1718. Two months before, he purposely ran his ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, aground at what is now called Beaufort Inlet. He emptied the ship of all treasures into his other ship, The Tender, and fled to where nobody knows. Two months later, when he reappeared, he was killed in battle, and his body was tossed into the ocean. To this day, nobody knows where the treasure went.For years, people have searched high and low for his treasure. It has been said that Blackbeard said nobody but he and the devil knew where it was located.Cassie Andrews returns to Branson Missouri to clean out her grandfather's house, who recently passed away. While emptying the attic she comes across an old diary belonging to a woman who claims to have been married to Edward Teach. Cassie soon realizes that she holds the key to the famous Blackbeard's Treasure. Cassie turns to her friend Levi for help in finding the treasure. "In her zeal to uncover the clues to Blackbeard's Treasure Cassie lands herself in the hospital. Attraction explodes off the page as Levi nurses Cassie back to health and together they experience the adventure of a lifetime to uncover their true feelings for one another and Blackbeard's Treasure

Surfing the Cosmos is an original book of photographs and text that visually explores the high/low of energy in the slums of Rio de Janeiro as compared with the high-tech physics of CERN, where discovering the origins of the universe and the elementary particles from which it is made are examined. Within this visual story are the unplanned beautiful drawings that humans make in space with electrical wires, whether from the favela or CERN. These "drawings" inspired a series of artworks/photographs that are pictured in this book, often along with their photographic source or the spirit of the community from which they are derived (either favela or CERN). The human energy of the favela is also mirrored in CERN with one specific comparison of the graffiti from Rio and the chalkboards of CERN, both viewed as works of art and sources that motivated the author’s response as demonstrated in his previous works through examples including paintings, fashion scarves, handmade rugs from Nepal, bamboo cotton face masks along with surfboards (chalkboards) and skatedecks.

Improvement is not innovation...and innovation is essential if your aim is to survive in today's business environment. Stealing Genius lays the foundation for a dramatic, and long-overdue, shift in 21st-century strategic marketing and branding. Most executives and decision-makers are now focused on improving what they already have. They want better versions of the products and services they know about or understand. However, fixating on improvement in today's world is a dangerous path--one that ultimately leads to commoditization and irrelevance. Targeting your time, attention, and resources on innovation, by contrast, means identifying something that does not exist right now in any form--something that will create a powerful, uncopyable experience for your target customer. In order to be successful both today and in the future, you need to separate yourself from the competition by practicing the breakthrough principle of Adaptive Innovation--what Steve Miller calls Stealing Genius(TM). How? By delivering an experience that the competition either cannot or will not attempt to copy. This is literally impossible if you stick to what is already familiar to you, because whatever is familiar to you and your customers is likely to be familiar to your competition. You must create a new experience that is unique to you and that fosters a powerful emotional attachment with your target customer. Featuring dozens of real-life case studies from a wide range of industries, Stealing Genius outlines Miller's proven six-step process for creating an uncopyable experience. You'll learn how to: Do more than think outside the box--you'll build a new box completelyIdentify your "Moose," the distinctive customer/client profile for which you are huntingLeverage insight from daily experience, personal heroes, and organizations outside your industry to better serve your customersFlip the competition by doing the exact opposite of what those in your industry are currently doingMaximize your strategic innovation by bringing in a Stealing Genius(TM) facilitatorIf you are trying to anticipate the crowd's movement, you might as well be following the crowd. Create a truly original brand experience and start pioneering in your industry by implementing the game-changing process of Stealing Genius(TM).

"LOVE this book... it's brilliance on the page!" -- Ashley A."Ooooooh, Like it! -- Kristen B. THE WORLD YOU DESIRE CAN BE WON -- BREAK SOME RULES AND TAKE ON THE STATUS QUO.>Agents, lawyers, salespeople, and dealmakers in every industry benefit from this book. Cunning and enlightening, it exposes unsavory truths about life and business and how to use them to your advantage. You might get offended, but you're going to learn a lot. If you're thin-skinned, prudish, PC, pretentious, or threatened by brutal honesty or new ideas, you'll be triggered. Tapping into killer lessons learned from game theory, persuasion lab technologies, behavioral economics, psychology, metaphysics, physics, philosophy, and the arts, you create and harness the forces that make pivotal changes in your outcomes. Stop settling, gain insight, and your opposition moves to help you get what you want. Regardless if you're a genius already, or just on to a new adventure, this book can take you to a level you didn't even know existed. Unpack that raw, sovereign power inside of you and set it loose upon the world. In his iconic speech that has become known as, The Man in the Arena, Roosevelt said: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." This book was written for that person actually in the arena, the person that focuses on their own performance and leaves the haters in the dust. Buy this book and start winning today.

"Almost all industries today struggle with the increasing commoditization of their products and services, putting considerable pressure on prices and margins, leading to fiercer competition. The solution? You must create an Uncopyable Attachment with your customers. They must see you as not only delivering a superior product but also as a high-value relationship they simply cannot get anywhere else. In Uncopyable, Steve Miller ... argues that new advantage isn't found by going 'outside the box'--you must actually build your own box. Uncopyable will guide you to achieving an unfair and enduring competitive advantage"--Publisher marketing.

The S.S. Smith Thompson was a World War II armed cargo ship built on an emergency basis by the U.S. War Shipping Administration. The Smith Thompson was one of those "ordinary" Liberty ships that did her job during extraordinary times. This story chronicles one man's version of a typical voyage aboard a World War II Liberty ship. The man at the center of the story is Albert F. Miller, or "Al" as he was called by his friends and family. The story is told by Al's grandson, Steve Miller and is intended to provide enjoyment and some nostalgia for the reader, not to be a textbook or reference manual. The public then and now is ignorant about the Merchant Marine, in that merchant seamen in World War II suffered more deaths per capita than any branch of the U.S. military. In fact, the War Shipping Administration deliberately refused to reveal the casualty figures during the war in order to avoid creating a shortage of volunteers. My hope is that the reader will come to understand what it was like to serve aboard an armed merchant vessel, as it was for the vast majority of those that served. They served quietly, without distinction, and felt no particular grandeur; they thought they were "just doing their job." Contents: Foreword | Introduction | 1: Meet Albert F. Miller | 2: Al Gets His Opportunity | 3: The Smith Thompson Readies for Sea | 4: Time to Say Goodbye | 5: Issues and Comments to Consider as the Ship Puts to Sea | 6: The Smith Thompson's First Day at Sea | 7: The Smith Thompson Settles in for a Long Voyage | 8: The Crew Gets to Know Each Other | 9: Working Together as a Crew | 10: Scuttlebutt Says the Ship Will Port in New Zealand | 11: Continuing the Westward Journey | 12: The Smith Thompson Moves Into the Indian Ocean | 13: Arrival at Bombay, India | 14: Time to Depart from the Long Stay in Bombay | 15: Arrival in Madras | 16: The Doldrums of Calcutta | 17: The Beginning of the Homeward-Bound Voyage | 18: Putting India in the Rearview Mirror | 19: The S.S. Smith Thompson Heads for Home | 20: The Final Leg of the Journey | Appendix 1: Additional Sailing Information | Appendix 2: List of Non-Officer Merchant Personnel Aboard the Thompson on the First Sailing | Appendix 3: Crew Duties | Appendix 4: Status of the Liberty Ships and Victory Ships After the War | Appendix 5: Merchant Marine Radio School | Appendix 6: Port-to-Port Sailing Destinations of Al Miller's Ships. 22 photos. Merriam Press World War 2 Biography.

SIEZE THE LIADEN UNIVERSE®!On the run from interplanetary assassins, covert operative Val Con yos'Phelium and former mercenary sergeant Miri Robertson have wound up stranded on a distant planet with no rescue in sight. Until they figure out a way back to Liad, these two lost souls must find a way to trust each another—and let their love heal the dark wounds of their past. . . . Back on Liad, Shan yos'Galan, Val Con's cousin and foster brother, and his life-partner, Priscilla Mendoza, have initiated their own search for the missing member of Clan Korval. But what they don't know is that those who seek to destroy Val Con and Miri are just as determined to bring down Clan Korval. All the deadly enemy needs is someone to unwittingly lead them to their target. . . . About Dragon in Exile: “[S]prawling and satisfying. . . . Space opera mixes with social engineering, influenced by Regency-era manners and delicate notions of honor. . . . [I]t’s like spending time with old friends . . .”—Publishers Weekly About Necessity's Child: “Compelling and wondrous, as sharp and graceful as Damascus steel, Necessity's Child is a terrific addition to Lee & Miller's addictive series.”—Patricia Briggs About the Liaden Universe® series: “Every now and then you come across an author, or in this case, a pair, who write exactly what you want to read, the characters and personalities that make you enjoy meeting them. . . . I rarely rave on and on about stories, but I am devoted to Lee and Miller novels and stories.”—Anne McCaffrey “These authors consistently deliver stories with a rich, textured setting, intricate plotting, and vivid, interesting characters from fully-realized cultures, both human and alien, and each book gets better.”—Elizabeth Moon “[D]elightful stories of adventure and romance set in a far future . . . space opera milieu. It’s all a rather heady mix of Gordon R. Dickson, the Forsythe Saga, and Victoria Holt, with Lee and Miller’s own unique touches making it all sparkle and sizzle. Anyone whose taste runs toward SF in the true romantic tradition can’t help but like the Liaden Universe.”—Analog “[T]he many fans of the Liaden universe will welcome the latest . . . continuing young pilot Theo Waitley’s adventures.”—Booklist on Saltation “[A]ficionados of intelligent space opera will be thoroughly entertained. . .[T]he authors' craftsmanship is top-notch.”—Publishers Weekly on Lee and Miller’s popular Liaden Universe® thriller, I Dare

New in the nationally bestselling series Analog deemed "the premier place to find good, romantic SF adventure," this sequel to Neogenesis finds the Department of the Interior seeking a fully reckoned revenge against Clan Korval.

In the second edition to The Wisconsin State Constitution, Steve Miller adds to the original work by Jack Stark and adds commentary on significant Wisconsin Supreme Court cases and a few appellate court cases decided after 1995 through 2018, several resources to the bibliography and covers 23 years of additional history including several new constitutional amendments. This treatment, along with a table of cases, index, and bibliography provides anunsurpassed reference volume for students, scholars, and practitioners of Wisconsin's constitution.

Steve Miller's photographs, created using x-ray technology, are printed onto skate- and surfboards, creating a hip confluence of lifestyle and art.

A large part of photographer/artist/printmaker Steve Miller's work has been devoted to walking the line to the intersection of art and science. In Radiographic we get to see the first collision of these incredible experiments in book form.

Recounts the history of weathervanes, and shows more than a hundred weathervanes produced in nineteenth century America, both by individuals and manufacturers.

The definitive account of rock in the city that has produced louder, more important, in-your-face rock than anywhere else on the planet, told from the bands- the Stooges, MC5, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, the White Stripes, Kid Rock, and more- the fans, and everyone who was there to witness it.