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In the spring of 1862, three green armies clashed in the Tennessee pine barrens near an obscure flatboat landing on the Tennessee River. Desperate to stop two Union armies from joining forces-and by so doing, to prove his worth to the Confederacy, Albert S. Johnston, with Pierre G. T. Beauregard, led the 40, 000 man Army of Mississippi north from Corinth, Mississippi. It didn't help that Johnston and Beauregard didn't trust each other, nor ...

In the frozen skies of World War Two Europe, two mighty air forces fought in a deadly ballet of sudden death. The Americans attacked with their bombers again and again, dropping their deadly cargoes on factories, cities, homes. The Germans defended with their fighters day after day, charging the deadly guns of the bombers, defending their factories, cities, homes... A Wisconsin farm boy with a flying father learned to pilot airplanes before ...

This Redhead consists only of external dialogues between two characters, Blondie and Red. There are no non-verbal narratives nor any internal dialogues. There are no quotation marks for what they say, just those in their dialogs, nor "he said" nor "she sighed" nor "they cried" tags. You will read of no facial expressions that they don't talk about, no un-noticed reactions or un-vocalized thoughts. Further, you won't see proper names, nothing b...

We make history every day. From one moment to the next, our decisions-small and large-shape our future and, as we travel along that path, shape our past. How do we want it to read? Should we care? Or should we just get on with our lives and hope for the best? The Past Not Taken is three novellas that show that not all "authorities" are authoritative. Two roads diverge in a yellow wood... Two young people, their lives stretching out ahead of ...

The Liberty Bell Files: J Edgar's Demons is a work of fiction...seriously. Neither the Liberty Bell Project nor "the Files, " nor The Special Projects Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever existed. Can you imagine the FBI investigating a guy who didn't want to pay sales tax on a cup of coffee? Or a guy who somebody thought wrote a story disrespectful to the Japanese? Or a prostitute calling herself Karla Marx, who advocated revo...

Four friends...two gun battles...two weddings...a fire...family lost and found...what more could you ask for? How about...what happened to Jimmy Hoffa? Join JJ and Ann, Mike and Leigh in the thrilling conclusion to the story that began with Stella's Game: A Story of Friendships, and continued with Tideline: Friendship Abides. From the creator of The Stella's Game Trilogy, The Safe Tree: Friendship Triumphs finishes the saga that started...

Short stories of heroism, sacrifice, Christmas, friendship, loss, tragedy, childbirth, ...something for everyone.These are about people in peril, in danger of their lives, their livelihoods.They save others, they save themselves.From pre-history to yesterday, these stories take you from the hunting fields of prehistoric man to Shiloh, from the Pacific to Pointe du Hoc, from Korea to the English Channel, from Bastogne to Appomattox and more.

Where Stella's Game ends, Tideline: Friendship Abides begins.Life has its limitations, natural and artificial. Natural limits are nature's doing, the others are ours.Natural limits are imposed by nature--like the ocean tides. The rest are imposed-often reluctantly, sometimes of necessity-by how we live our lives. We set limits on what we hope to achieve, the challenges we're willing to face, or what we're willing to tolerate, or to settle for....

Growing up in affluence in Detroit in the '60s didn't make anyone immune from the chaos...but Stella's Game did.Money couldn't save kids in the suburbs from the troubles of the '60s, especially in Detroit, but Stella's Game did.In the '60s, people lost respect for institutions, and then there was Stella's Game.Before there were cell phones, there was Stella's Game.Before there was the internet, there was Stella's Game.Before there was Google, ...

Beginning in the late 19th century, Imperial Japan embarked on a program of aggressive military overseas adventures in Asia and the Pacific. From 1904 to 1941, Japan's desire for resource independence had driven them to conquer Korea, Manchuria, large parts of China, and French Indochina, and to occupy large swaths of Pacific islands. These conquests provided tremendous resources, but still, they needed more.All these conquests were driven by ...