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AIRBALLS is delightfully entertaining. It is adventurous, outrageous, revealing, shocking, bold, audacious and yet, factful. For almost a quarter century the Bridgewater College Basketball program was acclaimed for their disciplined style of play. Unknown to their own coaches, the fans and those on the outside, their off-court campus life was quite different. There was a sometimes "wild" group of student athletes, that enjoyed their college ex...

Six-year old Molly Thompson and her brother are placed in an orphanage when their mother mysteriously disappears. Hurt and worried they go to live with their elderly grandmother for a while before being sent to an orphanage. During those years, she learns from her new friends how to endue hardships and struggles. Then, hearing she may find some answers to her past in her personal files there, she does some snooping and is shocked at what she d...

Six-year old Molly Thompson and her brother are placed in an orphanage when their mother mysteriously disappears. Hurt and worried they go to live with their elderly grandmother for a while before being sent to an orphanage. During those years, she learns from her new friends how to endure hardships and struggles. Then, hearing she may find some answers to her past in her personnel files there, she does some snooping and is shocked at what she...

Gary Hastings takes us inside North Carolina law enforcement. In this novel, Grant Peterson, returns to his hometown of Clancy after a distinguished career with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Soon after returning home, he is approached by the town manager about taking the job as chief of police.Grant accepts the job and soon finds himself running the Clancy Police Department. There are no detectives or investigators in the d...

In their desperate quest for power, the Wonders of the White Wilderness enter into deceptive alliance with more cities that are also very deceptive. One of the scoundrels lays his hands on an ancient scroll only to discover that evil cannot rule over good but the corruption in the city of Lars gives him no opportunity to give his counsels.The old wizard kindles the fire of battles: battles of the swords and battles for the corruption of the mi...

Yogi Berra commenting about the Dodgers great Sandy Koufax's 25-5 season, "I can see how he won 25 games, what I can't see is how he lost five." ~*~ Beans Reardon, the legendary MLB umpire, recalled how the Commissioner called him on the carpet for "cussin" at players. "They cuss me out, why shouldn't I cuss 'em back?" Hank Aaron's hitting style is so relaxed that the Phillies Robin Roberts once said, "Aaron sleeps between pitches." One drunke...

Two NightsSenior Luke Bradford never imagined a single night could alter his future, not until he blew out his knee in the fourth quarter of Easton High's Homecoming game. He and sophomore Abby Collins were voted King and Queen that year, but they missed the dance, and he lost his chance for a football scholarship.Two years later, Abby threatens to break up with Luke if he doesn't stop using heroin and oxycodone. She loves him, but how much lo...

Set in the foothills of North Carolina, this story follows the intertwined destinies of two families from the depression era until the end of World War II. Life was not easy in those days, especially for those in the rural south. But love doesn't take a hiatus, even in the worst of times. This novel tells the story of Kenny Ford and his unbridled love for his neighbor, Savannah Collice. This tale of economic hardship, alcoholism, single parent...

The Closure Committee is a literary thriller set in and around Greensboro, N.C., where no bad deed goes unpunished. These pages smolder with vigilante violence, but the prose is anything but barbaric, it is cinematically descriptive, and often eloquent. A dash of romance and a sprinkle of humor complete the recipe. You might feel a bit naughty for applauding the Committee's methods, but applaud you will.

Caught in a romantic triangle with her brother's best friend and a charming pastor, former call girl Carly Lawrence struggles to start a new life. To escape her past, she must learn to forgive herself and Alan Rutledge, her sometimes-boyfriend and owner of Rutledge Escort Services.Abandoned as a child, Joe Callahan, Carly's former neighbor and now a Buffalo police officer, must forgive his mother before he can fully forgive Carly her past and ...

A Cup of Coffee" is the baseball expression for those who have had a short career in the major leagues, oftentimes a very short career! It is an incredible achievement that of becoming a major league baseball player. "A Cup of Coffee & More" tells of the incredible test of character of 16 individuals and their pursuit of making it to "The Show." Most of the 16 are not household names, yet each has his own intriguing story of dealing with the t...

In her debut collection, Martha Golensky explores the many meanings we attach to the word place, from a rented house that becomes a weekend home to a church that offers its congregants more than just a stirring sermon to a city in a foreign land that allows a troubled soul to start anew. Place also refers to particular spots or parts of the body. Each poem features a tapestry of rich physical details, thus painting a vivid word picture, as tho...

Mr. Rushel Joins the Choir is a simple, sweetlesson in thoughtfulness and being kind to others.Miss Jeanne provides easy to follow instructionsand recipe for Laughing Cookies (SnickerDoodles).Ages Pre-K through 3rd grade.

Ellie Ralston, former CIA operative, is now in her 80's and recovering from a stroke suffered at her home in Majorca, Spain. Three of the physicians who treated her are studying her eidetic mind, amazing recall, to evaluate any affects from the stroke. She begins relaying the details of her adventurous life to them starting with her first of five aliases, Julie Stewart, which she used while she was on the run from those who meant her harm. Aft...

In this third book in the New York Chief of Detectives Series, Gary Hastings takes us inside a major NYPD homicide investigation. Chief of Detectives Pat O'Connor sends an investigative team of crack New York City Detectives to rural Stokes County, North Carolina, where a body of a teenage girl, reported missing from New York City, is found buried in Hanging Rock State Park. This investigation, being conducted by the Stokes County Sheriff and ...

Ticket to a Baseball Journey is more than just a story about baseball. The journey is an astonishing trip that details the incredible grip that baseball has on its players and fans. Follow one man's love of the game through several decades of travels visiting numerous major league stadiums, many of these cathedrals now long gone! Bill Leatherman has made visits to almost 50 major league stadiums and a like number of minor league parks. The jou...

George McBain continued his examination of the body and noticed a silver chain around the victim's neck. It was covered in a plastic tube for comfort. George had seen these chains before, and he could feel his heart pounding in his chest. He gently pulled out the chain, and his fears were instantly realized. The chain was attached to a square leather case. On the front was an all- too-familiar sunburst gold shield lettered, 'City of New York P...

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The gates of Remington Way guard more than the grand estate of aging philanthropist and former Academy-Award-winning movie queen, Carla Desmond Remington. After her beloved husband dies, Carla contacts a freelance writer, Kristi Kallen, to pen her memoirs from secret journals Carla has kept through the years. Kristi moves into one of the estate's guest cottages and soon realizes all is not as it seems among the staff, whom Carla treats more as...