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BOOK #17: TONIGHT ON THE TITANIC: Jack and Annie are whisked away to the decks of the Titanic, where they must help two children find their way to a lifeboat - and are in danger of becoming victims of that tragic night themselves.BOOK #18: BUFFALO BEFORE BREAKFAST: Jack and Annie travel to the Old West, where they roam the Great Plains with a Lakota boy.BOOK #19: TIGERS AT TWILIGHT: While in India, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a ti...

Coaching, training, mentoring and development are all about helping staff to learn, whether it is new knowledge, skills or adapting to the cultural attitudes of the organization. This book critically analyzes the methods and instruments available for those who want to learn and those who want to encourage their employees to learn. It avoids jargon and aims to make the theory and practice of learning more easily understood and therefore accompl...

Vern is a colorful gumball machine that finds himself living in the corner of a Doctor's office. Like children he has no choice as to where he lives, and he draws conclusions from the surroundings he finds himself. Vern teaches TOLERANCE. Logically, reasonably, and obviously by the conclusions he sees

I ask you to join with me, to restore the "Honor" due God by copying parts and sending out to others "Gods" 7th. Day Sabbath time that God says over and over my Sabbaths. Time due "God" and your family is learning about him and our savior. Become priests of "God" which you rightly deserve by obeying "God", taking away from those who don't stand tall to restore "Gods" 7th. Day Sabbath to its right place in our worshipping time. Time which is mo...

Readers of this book will love witnessing the remarkable courage of Abell Owens, a young Caucasian male who seems to have always known he was being "lied to."  He knew the lewd intentions of the state were why his very best friend, Fivel Meir Jorino, cannot walk the streets of Seattle without the ever present fear of hecklers, anti-Semites, and enforcement men in uniform. It is the greatest hope of Abell's to speak out against this degrading p...

Ted Williams is perhaps the most fascinating, the most controversial - yes, and possibly the greatest - figure in American sports history.  Only Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan stand on a pedestal with him. It is sad that millions of young people know only what they have read of his death.  This book is not about his death.  It is about his life. Ted Williams was an enigma, who just wouldn't fit into a mold.  The Boston press once ...

Martin Iannelli was president of Cole Motors, one of the world's largest and grandest corporations. Above him, the top floor of the office tower, were the private quarters of the company's chairman, William Alistair Cole-known to many as King Cole. Martin had risen from the poverty of immigrant Italian parents. It was a career climb that would happen only in America. He had lived his entire life to fulfill the dreams of those uneducated parent...

New York City, 2004. Shortly after New York City rocker Tommy Peterson of The Winding Roads accepts an award at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gala at The Waldorf-Astoria, the guitar legend is found brutally murdered the next day inside his recording studio apartment in the West Village. Nothing is taken but the way in which Peterson was murdered raises questions as to what the killer's motives were. Veteran rock journalist Tony Russo is devas...

The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties-A Remembrance chronicles the life of Fairfield Goodale, a New Englander who left Harvard to become a World War II fighter pilot but later returned to school to become a physician. Goodale was propelled into a successful medical career after a brief but intensely emotional experience in 1945 at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was educated in pathology and research at Western Reserve, M...

He lived life with indefatigable zest, read widely and wrote with authenticity-without hypocrisy or cant. His particular fields of interest were English literature and political theory. While Shakespeare was almost a second language to him he had read in depth the works of almost every political philosopher from Plato to Fukyama. Shahzad was deeply disturbed with the poverty of the many. He saw the dominant powers in the world moving towards g...

S. Chrystine began writing as a self-therapeutic aid, which has guided her through her life and adapting to a 'normal" society. Living in a small town, growing up with a disability was hard and sometimes quite lonely. Her poetry has aided her by teaching her how to express her thoughts and emotions. It has also helped her battle through depression and tremendous feelings of loss and separation which comes with the feelings that you are 'differ...

Violence is growing. Terrorism is no longer something that just happens 'over there". America's cities and heartland are unrecognizable. Politicians seem unable to find any answer to resentment, road rage and hair-trigger wrath that seems to be enveloping cities and suburbs alike. What is the answer? The Consortium for World Peace is an independent gathering of multinational sponsors and social scientists led by suave Renaissance man, Helmut P...

There's always a story to tell about how we catch the serial killers. Thank God the Son of Sam happened to park by a fire hydrant and a random police officer was there to get his license plate number jotted down on a parking ticket on the same night that our crazed killer went and put a hole in someone's head. Thank God one of the Night Stalker's bullets deflected off a woman's keys so she could play dead long enough for the demonic man to rap...

Love only grows and deepens by knowing how to nurture it. To delve deeply into relationship and draw from it the greatest treasures, we have to live the core qualities that bring us into contact with vibrant intimacy. The dynamic created by feminine opening coupled with masculine presence is offered here as a means to deepening love, respect and trust. Through this dynamic couples come into possession of their innate and primal masculine and f...

This poetry represents word pictures 'taken' over a period of years. Many were written while observing nature, and describing not only what was seen but what deeper meaning or life parallel seemed portrayed there. Others were written in times of transition and life changes. They led to reflections on a life journey, and the spiritual story of: Discovering Nature Crossroads Discovering Self These poems have been read in a number of settings, cl...

The Hanukkah Gun and Other Secondhand Sol Old West Tales is a collection of short stories about a nontraditional, Jewish hero in the late 19th-century Arizona Territory. A seller of secondhand goods, Solomon Pliskin is closer to 5-feet-4 than the classic height of heroes, 6-feet-4. Slight and self-deprecating, balding and bearded, he wears a wool suit, not buckskins and chaps. He dons a bowler, not a Stetson. Faith and family, not firepower, a...

The Jack Tales derive from a Western European narrative cycle and are the oldest folktales to survive in the North American oral tradition. In the twenty-first century, the Jack Tales continue to retain their place at the forefront of Western Oral Tradition. Over the centuries the tales of Jack and his adventures have tended to absorb the interests and values of the culture in which they are operating. Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales: A Study of ...

Any year always has a lot of touching memories. Those who are old enough now can recall both good times and bad in the middle of the last century. In this book, from September of 1948 to August of 1949, a group of teenage girls and boys are on the brink of adolescence. Author David Chapman shares his most cherished memories of growing up in Bradford, Illinois, a prairie village in the years between the end of World War II and the dawn of telev...

There we were, Las Vegas in all it's glory. Gambling, liquor, women, women, food, women, Broadway style shows, women and more women. How could it possibly get much better than this? Did I mention all the women?. Endless Pursuits provides an intriguing look at two virile young men and the inevitable milestones they conquer while growing up. Eddie Hollis has been best friends with William Moore since the second grade. The two mischievous boys st...

It's a long time since I read a book that was so consistently enjoyable. The whole novel, while tough and disenchanted, increases your appetite for life." -Eastern Daily Press 'A strange and comic odyssey, too complicated to summarize, but a joy to read." -Daily Telegraph 'Pocock and Pitt is philosophical, witty and erudite, wise and exciting and one of the best novels I have read this year." -Irish Times 'Elliott Baker is one of the wittiest ...