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Central Florida's Brown brothers took over their father's citrus processing plant long after the World War II hero built Florida Food Products, Inc. and helped lead Florida Citrus Mutual. At the time when Jerry and Tom Brown began working with the company, international competition had started to cut into profits. The once-successful company soon faced dim prospects. With revenues sagging and deals disappearing, the sibling team began a decade...

Central Florida's Brown brothers took over their father's citrus processing plant long after the World War II hero built Florida Food Products, Inc. and helped lead Florida Citrus Mutual. At the time when Jerry and Tom Brown began working with the company, international competition had started to cut into profits. The once-successful company soon faced dim prospects. With revenues sagging and deals disappearing, the sibling team began a decade...

Abusive childhoods span far beyond the stereotypes of uneducated families, drunken brawls and resounding neglect. In a kind, gentle voice, author Judith Villemain walks readers through her memories of a childhood that was darkened by degradation and harsh realities while sometimes also enlightened by love and support. Rudy's Doghouse is a must-read memoir about the emotional scars inflicted during an era when families commonly degraded childre...

Veteran reporter Jeff Kunerth culls four decades of award-winning journalism into a collection of stories that are inspiring, entertaining, enlightening, and, occasionally, astounding. As a writer for the Orlando Sentinel, Kunerth found the extraordinary stories inside the lives of ordinary people: from the black man raised to believe he was white to the custody battle over a baby switched at birth, from the tragic death of a drum major to the...

Long sidelined from any kind of athletic endeavors in order to manage the demands of motherhood, Tracy Draper was inspired in 2006 to quietly embark on her own personal "Teeny Tiny Triathlon, " as she called it. That day of "scampering" and "splashing" about was the beginning of what would ultimately lead to one of the most epic adventures most of us might imagine. For the next few years she trained, raced and became part of a universal group ...

Long sidelined from any kind of athletic endeavors in order to manage the demands of motherhood, Tracy Draper was inspired in 2006 to quietly embark on her own personal "Teeny Tiny Triathlon, " as she called it. That day of "scampering" and "splashing" about was the beginning of what would ultimately lead to one of the most epic adventures most of us might imagine. For the next few years she trained, raced and became part of a universal group ...

The limited shelf life of Olympic athletes collapsed in 1980 for Rowdy Gaines and about 280 other elite U.S. athletes when President Jimmy Carter announced America would boycott the Games in Moscow. Instead of distinguishing his country on an international stage, the world's fastest swimmer found himself instead languishing in the lifeguard chair at his hometown pool. Author Dainon Moody details a story of Gaines' resurrection during...