Books with author David Joseph

The Dragon Kingdom has been overrun by shadowy monsters! In their desperation, the dragons send for the only hero brave and clever enough to help them: a young boy named Edgar. Armed with nothing but a couple of tennis balls, the odd vegetable, and a few tricks that he learned in Sunday School, Edgar sets off on a perilous quest to help his scaly friends. But the dark invaders grow more powerful by the minute. Can Edgar and his friends defeat an enemy that no weapon can touch?

"Last Ride of the Iron Horse" tells the tale of Lou Gehrig's final year in the Yankee lineup, as he dealt with early effects of the deadly disease ALS. For much of the 1938 season, Gehrig -- dubbed the Iron Horse for his strength and reliability -- struggled with slumps and a mystifying loss of power. Fans booed and sportswriters called for him to be benched. Then, as the Yankees battled for the pennant in August, Lou began pounding home runs like his old self -- a turnaround that in retrospect looks truly miraculous. It may have been a rare case of temporary ALS reversal.Using rare film footage, radio broadcasts, newspapers and interviews, author Dan Joseph chronicles Gehrig's roller coaster of a year. The story begins in Hollywood, where the handsome "Larrupin' Lou" films a Western that would be his only movie. As the year unfolds, he holds out for baseball’s highest salary, battles injuries that would sideline a lesser man, wins his sixth World Series ring, and enters the political arena for the first time, denouncing the rising threat of Nazism.Joseph also answers questions that have long intrigued Gehrig's admirers: When did he sense something was wrong with his body? What were the first signs? How did he adjust? And did he still help the Yankees win the championship, even as his skills declined?1938 would be Gehrig's last hurrah. With his strength fading, he ended his renowned consecutive games streak the following May. A few weeks later, doctors at the Mayo Clinic diagnosed him with ALS. On July 4th, the Yankees retired his number in a ceremony at Yankee Stadium. All along, Gehrig showed remarkable courage and grace, never more so than when he told the stadium crowd, "I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for."

Anger that is kept bottled up can affect your feelings and perception to various life challenges and realities. You may begin to feel unhappy and lose interest in things you used to take pleasure in, such as hobbies, school and, friends. Generally, negative emotions decrease our ability to reason. This happens because the brain is more focused on the emotional state of sadness or anger that is being felt instead of concentrating on making decisions or finding creative solutions.During the angry moment, you may do or say something you know is not right, things you know you will later regret. Amidst the tempest, you feel driven on and your inner man keeps telling you it is wrong, but you cannot just stop. Before you realize, the deed is done, you have hurt somebody you cherish, pushed them away, you need to fix the past, but you cannot.By making the effort to keep your anger in check, you and the people close to you will be happier in the long run. When expressing anger assertively, in a non-aggressive but constructive way, you are affirming your needs without hurting your family and friends. Learning to manage your anger will help you to reduce both your emotional feelings and the psychological arousal that anger causes.Here Is a Preview of What you’ll learn in this book...• What Causes Anger• Effects of Mismanaged Anger• How to Express Anger Positively• How to Control Anger• How to Deal With Angry People• How to Manage Relationship among Peers• Developing Emotional Intelligence• Honing Your Social Skills

Frank Boston, retired Air Force Pararescueman, experienced two separate incidents involving three back-to-back deaths early in his Air Force career. He concluded after the second incident that he has a strange power he calls nose-smell, a sort of mystic instinct of seeing who will die in a group of related deaths. He goes years without using his ability until a small girl drowns in a pond on the nearby Air Force Base. He knows two more water related deaths will soon follow. Frank’s mission: to identify the two future victims and prevent their death in the near future.

Four stories that leave readers feeling inspired and grateful for the opportunities life has given them: “The Man with One Leg,” set in Australia, is in equal parts horrific and comical—an all inspiring story of what it means to fight for life, survive, and live life to the fullest. “Bad Day for a Camel” is based on an actual event David Joseph encountered while crew resting in Egypt—two Japanese tourist trapped on a camel. “Swim up the Niagara” is David Joseph’s first-ever autobiographic account of how his mother inspired courage into him as a young boy by her words ‘Swim up the Niagara.’ In “Robins in Alaska”, Air Force veteran flyer David Joseph, a present day Jack London, fictionalizes four tragic events that occurred while he was in the Air Force.

Anger that is kept bottled up can affect your feelings and perception to various life challenges and realities. You may begin to feel unhappy and lose interest in things you used to take pleasure in, such as hobbies, school and, friends. Generally, negative emotions decrease our ability to reason. This happens because the brain is more focused on the emotional state of sadness or anger that is being felt instead of concentrating on making decisions or finding creative solutions.During the angry moment, you may do or say something you know is not right, things you know you will later regret. Amidst the tempest, you feel driven on and your inner man keeps telling you it is wrong, but you cannot just stop. Before you realize, the deed is done, you have hurt somebody you cherish, pushed them away, you need to fix the past, but you cannot.By making the effort to keep your anger in check, you and the people close to you will be happier in the long run. When expressing anger assertively, in a non-aggressive but constructive way, you are affirming your needs without hurting your family and friends. Learning to manage your anger will help you to reduce both your emotional feelings and the psychological arousal that anger causes.Here Is a Preview of What you’ll learn in this book...• What Causes Anger• Effects of Mismanaged Anger• How to Express Anger Positively• How to Control Anger• How to Deal With Angry People• How to Manage Relationship among Peers• Developing Emotional Intelligence• Honing Your Social Skills

Garrett Dumaine seems to have everything going for him. He has a beautiful girlfriend and is a starter on Crandall High’s basketball team. But deep down, Garrett holds a secret that he knows will change his life forever. The flame never seemed to go totally off, but would flicker and spit on low when it had been stymied or smothered. He was tired of being vigilant. Tired of always needing to watch. Tired of a flare-up that he needed to ignore. His neat and organized life starts to unravel when he meets Luis Velasquez, a new transfer student. Although awakened by his secret relationship with Luis, Garrett finds it increasingly difficult to maintain one foot in each world. And when tragedy strikes, nothing can prepare Garrett to confront the person that holds him back the most... With If Boys Could Hold Hands, David Lavallee weaves together beautiful prose, imagery, and dialogue into a coming of age story in which teens and adults alike can be entranced by the classic tale of how environment and fear influence self-discovery.

Kenny Blake is an adventurous Third Grader who likes to make his elementary school life more exciting with the typical pranks and mischief of boys his age.Billy Strong is Kenny’s friend. Along with their friends Judd, Jerry, and Carl, they cannot resist a chance for a good laugh.But the boys’ competition, a group of girls led by Sally Ann Garrett pull their own share of pranks, many of them on Kenny and Billy.But in the course of their pranks, the boys find themselves doing heroic things as well. Being the week of Valentine’s Day, Billy learns to make peace with Sally Ann, and Kenny becomes closer to a girl that he has long had eyes for, a Sixth Grade girl named Polly.

Garrett Dumaine seems to have everything going for him. He has a beautiful girlfriend and is a starter on Crandall High’s basketball team. But deep down, Garrett holds a secret that he knows will change his life forever. The flame never seemed to go totally off, but would flicker and spit on low when it had been stymied or smothered. He was tired of being vigilant. Tired of always needing to watch. Tired of a flare-up that he needed to ignore. His neat and organized life starts to unravel when he meets Luis Velasquez, a new transfer student. Although awakened by his secret relationship with Luis, Garrett finds it increasingly difficult to maintain one foot in each world. And when tragedy strikes, nothing can prepare Garrett to confront the person that holds him back the most... With If Boys Could Hold Hands, David Lavallee weaves together beautiful prose, imagery, and dialogue into a coming of age story in which teens and adults alike can be entranced by the classic tale of how environment and fear influence self-discovery.

Lost in a time that history forgot, the land of Lemuria. Plagued by war and strife, unabated tension builds throughout the peaceful island of Lemuria as a ruthless wizard searches for the remaining artifacts of power to complete his domination. With the Logan family struck by tragedy and a century old secret revealed, the family is forced to flee a life they loved to train in the art of warriors and magic so that they can acquire the remaining artifacts to defeat the evil mage, Johan. As each of the members of their fellowship embarks on their journey, the lessons and challenges that they encounter are within themselves as much as they are in the dangerous lands that they traverse. The alchemical transformations that occur because of their openness and willingness to understand the bigger picture of their multi-layered reality, cause changes on the island that creates ripples throughout time..