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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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

At the age of six, Estie was kidnapped by her father, a diagnosed Paranoid Schizophrenic. He was a street-preacher and self proclaimed evangelist. They hitchhiked (with two younger siblings) across the US, in thirteen different states, from North Carolina to California. Her father's mission in life was to load ships with Bibles to be delivered to Communist China and distributed to all the "lost and dying souls". Journey with her, as they stick...

In Deadly Company, Diana Delaney narrowly escaped death at the hands of Ashley Marsh and, Rob, her accomplice. During her rescue, Rob was killed, and Ashley suffered a head injury that led to amnesia. She was confined to a mental hospital for treatment before standing trial for kidnapping and attempted murder. As Deadly Beauty begins, Ashley, who has kept the return of her memory a secret, has escaped from the institution with another patient ...

The Pierce brothers, Lucy and Jackellel bid their wolf manimal friends farewell and link arms at the entrance to the Portal to return to the land they call home. They leap forward and are swiftly carried through the Portal until a sudden shift in the current sends them off track and spews them into a strange, timeless land. A land with prodigious eyeball trees that swing in all directions preventing passage beyond their landing point. Suddenly...

Bruce Boyer is a sweet spirited man of God and this truth soaks through all of his devotional writings. His approach of taking the everyday event and seeing the way, the love, or the mission of God in the world today, will build up sensitivity in you to see God in your own life everyday as well! If you are an everyday man or woman of God looking for Him in your life you will love this devotional journey." Pastor Keith Speaks, Senior Pastor Hal...

When Josh Baker returns home unexpectedly from a secret mission with the Special Forces in Afghanistan, he finds his wife, Becky, with another man. The men struggle and Josh is knocked unconscious. The following day they are discovered, Josh, still unconscious, his wife dead. Now the prime suspect, Josh's defense is based on memory loss due to a concussion. Nevertheless, he is tried, found guilty and begins serving a life sentence at Butner Pr...

After Abigail Worthington suffers a stroke, the wealthy widow makes two critical decisions that will change her life and the lives of those around her. First, she hires nurse/companion Lydia Chandler, and second, she decides to spend the summer at her beloved beach home where she hopes to rest and continue her rehabilitation. Before leaving for the beach, Abigail informs her property manager of her plan. But in her eagerness to return, she dec...

I guess I hit him too hard, Missy. Well, I'm tired of waitin'. I'm gonna have me some of you. When he wakes up, I'll have me some more. I just hope you're as good as your momma was." ***** Welcome to the future. Imagine a society in which government is run by a tyrannical regime that controls all social and economic ac¬tivity. There are two classes of people: the haves (Party Members) and the have-nots (non-Party Members). This is the world in...

In the dark, clandestine heart of Washington D.C, a top-secret file containing a list of names has been hacked by the leader of a band of fanatical terrorists. The Killer's List is the exciting sequel to, Guilty Until Proven Innocent, and the escapades of a band of Special Forces soldiers who surreptitiously entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses. Abdul, one of the Taliban, is intent on seeking revenge against these soldi...

In this second book in the New York Chief of Detectives Series, Pat O'Connor leads a hand-picked team of detectives in the re-investigation of a cold case involving the death of a retired NYPD Detective. New evidence surfaces launching a major criminal investigation, which rocks the command staff of the NYPD and the entire New York Criminal Justice System. The investigation extends far beyond the confines of New York City. Pat O'Connor cuts th...