Böcker av Stephen Colegrove

A comical road trip across the U.S. with a cast of surreal characters including a failed motivational speaker, a Kamchatkan runaway bride, a sock-crazed mafia boss, and cross-dressing parents.Unsatisfied with the daily grind of a Silicon Valley "business coach and life consultant," Dean Cook weasels his way into a once-in-a-lifetime chance for fame and fortune: a speaking slot at the National Motivational Speaker's Conference in West Virginia. Three days before the conference, Dean's girlfriend breaks up with him and destroys his passport and identification cards. Dean's flight plans are now scrapped, and he's forced to steal a second hand ambulance. On the high-speed drive across the country he meets a Russian girl on the run from her fiancé, a brutal and eccentric collector of women's hosiery. Dean and the girl escape from a series of catastrophes including a shotgun wedding in Reno, Sea MonkeysTM in the Great Salt Lake, and parachuting from a B-25 bomber over Kentucky.Scrambling to catch up to Dean are his gender-bending parents, who see this as the last chance to throw their son a party that doesn't end in complete disaster. Because, after all, it's Dean's birthday.

Born in the midst of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Jennifer Colegrove grew up in a poor village in China, studied at Peking University in Beijing, and received her Ph.D. from Kent State University in Ohio. In her remarkable memoir, this storyteller shares her fifty-year journey from a student to working mother in Silicon Valley, and entrepreneur in Austin, Texas."Chinese girl in a village--foolishly brave", "Elementary school-adjust in the city", and "Middle and high school-- girls are not as good as boys?" Dr. Colegrove tells how she survived poverty and adversity, how she helped a friend to escape from bullies in China, and how she recovered from self-doubt."International and interracial marriage", Dr. Colegrove shares the cultural differences and some ancient Chinese stories."Motherhood and lawsuit", "When your father is NOT the chairman-working woman in Silicon Valley", "How to find your dream job-and story of two jade", and "Stand up for your name", Dr. Colegrove talks about Asian women suffering in business, how she sued her ex-employer after they laid her off when she was pregnant."Exodus-How I escaped my ex-employer's lawyers", Dr. Colegrove shares her fear, courage, and how she left her ex-employer and established her own company."How we bought a house in Austin, Texas during the COVID-19 Pandemic", Dr. Colegrove tells the story of why and how they moved from California to Texas, and how they bought a house in Austin."Say a prayer and get strength from a higher power" and "Miracles in China", Dr. Colegrove shares how she moved to USA, how she became a believer and God helped her in many ways."Love yourself plan" and "Love your people plan", Dr. Colegrove believes life can be full of joy if you choose to, and she shows us how. My mom once said I was foolishly brave, unconditionally blessed. I'm foolishly brave once again to write and share these stories, with genuine hope that what I went through can help you somewhere, sometime, and in some way. Here are the stories. ----Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. Jennifer Colegrove, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO of Touch Display Research Inc. (www.TouchDisplayResearch.com), a market research and consulting firm. She was born and grew up in China. She has a B.S. and M.S. from Peking University, Beijing, China, and Ph.D. from Kent State University in Ohio. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two children.

Amy and her friends explore the inside of the strange spacecraft given to them by the mysterious Lady. Discovering damage to the ship, Amy travels to Tau Ceti Epsilon, the center of cat civilization in the year 3317.

Three hundred years after a world-wide, deadly pandemic, a village in the remote mountains of Colorado confronts secrets from the past and a vicious, mutilated enemy dedicated to revenge.In the sequel to "A Girl Called Badger," the machinery beneath the mountain refuge begins to fail. The villagers face the rapid destruction of a centuries-old way of life as a hostile army approaches from the east.

Stranded in 1912 California without her friends or ship, Amy and her dimensional twin fight an army sent across time and space to destroy them.

A young man majoring in English returns home from college and struggles with his attraction to a high school girl. Torn between prudence and love, he spends his time on the family farm in the hills of southern Ohio chasing cattle, putting out brush fires, and creating a fantastical world that combines classical mythology, the supernatural, and the deepest of human emotions. When this world comes crashing down upon him, he finds himself having to choose between holding on, or letting go.

Amy Armstrong is having a perfectly normal life as a perfectly normal fourteen-year-old thief and proprietor of stolen goods in 1995 California, until a talking cat interrupts her latest break-in and transports her a thousand years into the future to a burglary operation that crosses space and time. She explores the inside of an asteroid belonging to a mysterious creature called The Lady, makes friends with the crew of intelligent cats and dogs, and meets a teenage boy from 1889. The search for a way home takes Amy through Victorian London, to an orbiting prison run by artificial lizards, and to the ultimate realization of who she really is.

With Pacific Grove High School a smoking pit of rubble and a trans-dimensional army in hot pursuit of Amy and Philip, the teenagers try to escape across the galaxy to the mysterious SpaceBook Prime, the center of all dimensional travel.