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Robert Penn Warren in his masterpiece All the King's Men said you never forget the friend of your youth. No matter how he changes, he is always the same to you. This is a story of two such friends. How their lives go down separate paths, but their friendship remains. Even though they change, they are always the same to each other.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita...In the middle of life's journey...Well not quite the middle for me. Unlike Dante, I was only twenty-five when I was taken on my journey through the netherworld. Taken by whom? I have to name God as the ultimate trip planner, but He assigned a distinguished guide the task of accompanying me on the many legs of the journey. Dante had a poet guide him through Hell, the poet Virgil, but I was given a different...

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita...In the middle of life's journey...Well not quite the middle for me. Unlike Dante, I was only twenty-five when I was taken on my journey through the netherworld. Taken by whom? I have to name God as the ultimate trip planner, but He assigned a distinguished guide the task of accompanying me on the many legs of the journey. Dante had a poet guide him through Hell, the poet Virgil, but I was given a different...

Rebecca, Ruth, Deborah, and me, Rachel: the Joyce girls. No, we are not Jewish, but rather Irish. Our Mom, yes, Sarah-what else?-was the oldest offspring of a stern fundamentalist Presbyterian preacher, our grandfather, Isaiah Cummings."So opens this wonderful family saga. Narrated by the youngest, Rachel, the writer, this is the story of the four daughters of Irish Catholic Judge Joyce, a very influential man in Brooklyn, set in the middle of...

Rebecca, Ruth, Deborah, and me, Rachel: the Joyce girls. No, we are not Jewish, but rather Irish. Our Mom, yes, Sarah-what else?-was the oldest offspring of a stern fundamentalist Presbyterian preacher, our grandfather, Isaiah Cummings."So opens this wonderful family saga. Narrated by the youngest, Rachel, the writer, this is the story of the four daughters of Irish Catholic Judge Joyce, a very influential man in Brooklyn, set in the middle of...

Herman Melville's version of Captain Ahab's great chase after Moby Dick is considered the "great American novel." However very few living Americans have read it. It is considered too difficult or too tedious to get through.Herein is Moby Dick's version of that chase. Besides giving readers a look at the adventure from a different perspective, Moby Dick has attempted to tell the story in a manner that is more enjoyable for the modern reader.Bes...

Herman Melville's version of Captain Ahab's great chase after Moby Dick is considered the "great American novel." However very few living Americans have read it. It is considered too difficult or too tedious to get through.Herein is Moby Dick's version of that chase. Besides giving readers a look at the adventure from a different perspective, Moby Dick has attempted to tell the story in a manner that is more enjoyable for the modern reader.Bes...

Realities: the fictional biography of Sam Turner, Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, Nobel Prize winner, Senior Faculty Member at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, Time Magazines Man of the Year 2018, co-developer of the Turner-Simcock Propulsion System (TSPS), which will enable mankind to travel to the stars, and lover of beauty, especially, but not limited to, the feminine kind. Dr. Turner lives in five realities, one real and f...

Realities: the fictional biography of Sam Turner, Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, Nobel Prize winner, Senior Faculty Member at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, Time Magazines Man of the Year 2018, co-developer of the Turner-Simcock Propulsion System (TSPS), which will enable mankind to travel to the stars, and lover of beauty, especially, but not limited to, the feminine kind. Dr. Turner lives in five realities, one real and f...

Phil and Muriel move into a homeowners' association-controlled community in Florida. Their one-eyed dog, Bennie, enables them to have the last laugh on an annoying committee. Widower George Wilson moves into an adult community in Florida where the widow-widower ratio is three to one. He also meets Adriana via his computer. Life is good for a widower at the Ocean Dunes, or is it? Captain Vince Sullivan takes R & R from Vietnam in Perth, Austral...

From meeting Charles Lindbergh at Pan Am back in the '60s up till the megamerger of United Airlines with Continental Airlines in the mid-2000s, Jim has seen the rapid growth of the airline industry firsthand. From the jet era inception with the Boeing 707, to the historic introduction of the 747, which he witnessed himself, right up to the 787 introduced by United, he has been on a wild roller coaster ride that took him from Pan Am to Eastern ...

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It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father's stomach in a second-floor bedroom of their summer house, his father suddenly loses his grip, sending Brian out through the screen window and onto the sand below. As the summer house, normally a place of peace and respite, disrupts into chaos, little Brian has no idea that this particular event is just o...

It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father's stomach in a second-floor bedroom of their summer house, his father suddenly loses his grip, sending Brian out through the screen window and onto the sand below. As the summer house, normally a place of peace and respite, disrupts into chaos, little Brian has no idea that this particular event is just o...

Phil discovers that Kate, the voice in his Garmin GPS, is a lot more than a disembodied voice. She's in trouble, and she needs his help!When a couple arrives from cold Rhode Island to their rented condo in Florida, all they can think about is warm temperatures and sunshine. But then the husband walks into a moral dilemma that almost ruins his week in the sun.Betsy decides to memorialize her deceased parents….in a most unusual way.Young, innoce...

The Extraordinary Banana Tree is not a war story. It is a love story in the time of war. It is the story of the developing love between Cheryl Flynn, Assistance Chief of Intelligence for the Defense Attache's Office in Saigon, and Billy Dobson, Manager of Flight Operations for Air America in Vietnam and Cambodia. The story opens on April 4, 1975, with Cheryl boarding the giant C5A sent by Gerry Ford to rescue orphans from South Vietnam. The pl...

The Extraordinary Banana Tree is not a war story. It is a love story in the time of war. It is the story of the developing love between Cheryl Flynn, Assistance Chief of Intelligence for the Defense Attache's Office in Saigon, and Billy Dobson, Manager of Flight Operations for Air America in Vietnam and Cambodia. The story opens on April 4, 1975, with Cheryl boarding the giant C5A sent by Gerry Ford to rescue orphans from South Vietnam. The pl...

When are these dupes and imbeciles going to wake up? Let me say again, and for the last time-there is no god-you fools." When Mikey O'Rourke, a precocious eighth-grader, reads a Facebook post by his Uncle Billy, he's shocked. After all, his family is Catholic. He's even more surprised when his father tells him all his uncles-Billy, Ray, and Al-are atheists. Mikey doesn't know how to handle this newfound information. In his novel Mike...

The Barge of Curiosity - ride it if you want to experience life and love. Share the lives, loves, and adventures of Sandy Roberts, Peggy Mayhew, and Mark Tuttle who are involved in a lifelong love triangle with Sandy as the focus. Meet Maddie Tuttle, described by her mother as, "My primogenita, the little girl who gave me an insight into the Trinity, the little girl who survived the rush of the riptide inside my womb, the little girl about w...