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Rucker Remembers" is a non fiction autobiography that traces the author's life from early childhood into retirement. Covering nearly 80 years, - from 1926 until 2005 - the reader will have the opportunity to read how a boy grows up as part of what was later to be called "The Greatest Generation. Reliving school year experiences and the reality of Pearl Harbor and preparing to enter the service. The experiences while serving in the U.S. Army Ai...

Written in the anticipation of the 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of Slavery in Britain and British Ships, this book is the story of a courageous black girl kidnapped by slavers in1800. She dressed as a boy to avoid rape and, after a horrific ocean crossing and years of hard labour in the Demerara plantations, her cruel aristocratic owner sent her to his Bristol home to be educated as his wife and servant. About to be freed by her kindly mi...

James R. White, author of THE GOD WHO JUSTIFIES, and numerous other titles turns his attention to the Christian Pulpit in this hard-hitting book. It is the contention of the author that the pulpit in the average church is a place in which crimes are committed every week. White writes with a desire to expose false teaching but also seek to write in a way that will encourage those who are seeking to be faithful to God's Word each week. This is a...

The world of 18-year old Valairia Sullivan begins to fall apart when her troubled older brother, Charles, dies from a heroin overdose. Violent and traumatic events fill her days as she mourns his loss.Far away in the Wrightwood forest resides a mysterious group of women who want to help heal Valairia of the dangerous power that now resides within her.But the strange and beautiful man who has been sent to guide her to Wrightwood, fills Valairia...

The gray haired tramp was on the run. It took only seconds for the younger man to reach out, knowing his grasp would pull the ghost rider down, but just as his glove latched onto a bony shoulder, the phantom traveler twisted free. With incredible agility, he hit an open boxcar, and like some strange insect disappeared inside. Curly was right behind him, climbing into darkness. Suddenly, there was a scraping, banging sound as the cargo door ope...

This is a book with twenty-five gems. The meditations found within these pages provide fresh insight into God's Word. Take time to prayerfully read one gem from this book as you begin your day, or during a break, while waiting for something or someone, or when opening your Bible study class. You will find yourself refreshed, renewed, revived, delivered, set free, and transformed! These meditations from Rev. Wilson, a true visionary for our tim...

Rooted in God is not intended to be a literary masterpiece but as a remembrance of the late Father Kevin Wall, O.P.'s conferences. The conferences were taped and later compiled and transcribed into longhand. The hand written manuscript, having been in obscurity for many years have turned yellow and the ink faded which made it difficult to read. Instead of discarding the manuscript, I decided to retype it. While re-reading the conferences, chap...

It's autumn, 1971 in Flint, Michigan. Alexander is a student at a small, parochial high school. The senior is captain of the top-ranked football team and is an excellent student in the classroom. He is also a deeply troubled, young man, struggling with low self-esteem, a growing intellectual and emotional separation from family and friends, sexual frustration, and increasing doubts about his Catholic faith and his relationship to God. In the w...

About Little Dramas Little Dramas of Old Bakersfield may seem but a light and whimsical work. It is not. There is a great deal of true sentiment there, much original history, and a trove of keen observation. This may have been Rush Blodget's only published work, but it was not his only writing. He was our family historian and genealogist par excellence, and his interest and output was phenomenal. He collected information and printed exhaustive...

PURE TRASH" from cover to cover! A handsome young boy who is forced to become a man while searching through the women in his life explores his way through the alleyways of California's majestic neighborhoods searching for his many treasures, many he finds even have two gorgeous legs. With his morals at risk, he finds himself falling for every pretty girl that gives him the eye. While searching Hollywood and Beverly Hills alleyways for his mone...

. With the collapse of the government after the Second World War, Americans have learned to live without help or interference from police, lawyers and bureaucrats. It is a simple and happy time until rumors of a terrorist attack suddenly plunge the sleepy community of Vancouver Washington into a fight for survival. What do you do when there is no government to protect you? When the town rashly joins a hastily formed coalition to fight an enemy...

The gray haired tramp was on the run. It took only seconds for the younger man to reach out, knowing his grasp would pull the ghost rider down, but just as his glove latched onto a bony shoulder, the phantom traveler twisted free. With incredible agility, he hit an open boxcar, and like some strange insect disappeared inside. Curly was right behind him, climbing into darkness. Suddenly, there was a scraping, banging sound as the cargo door ope...

The world of 18-year old Valairia Sullivan begins to fall apart when her troubled older brother, Charles, dies from a heroin overdose. Violent and traumatic events fill her days as she mourns his loss.Far away in the Wrightwood forest resides a mysterious group of women who want to help heal Valairia of the dangerous power that now resides within her.But the strange and beautiful man who has been sent to guide her to Wrightwood, fills Valairia...

In Dennis' new book, The Magic of the Avelinos: the book moves beyond the general trend of localized studies, and looks at the whole region known as the Mantaro Valley, its Valley's people, its food, customs, and archeological sites. The author touches upon many important aspects of culture, and leaves open paths for future research and local character. The Mantaro Valley is presented as a region with a unique history that has allowed its inha...

COUNSELOR: Good and evil are two mutually hostile principles. Each is independent of the other, but eventually the good is supposed to be victorious and the evil has to be expelled from the world. The present material world is a world of mixed good and evil. BROADCASTER: Therefore it will be seen that evil is not a real entity. Is it relative? COUNSELOR: What is evil in some relations may be good in others. And probably there is no form of exi...

Many people might assume that growing up in a town with less than three hundred residents would be quite dull and uneventful. But for author Tina Rye Sloan, growing up in tiny Detroit, Alabama, was anything but boring. In her delightful memoir Southern Serendipity, Sloan shares some rather entertaining and almost unbelievable accounts of life in the Deep South. From discovering numerous mischievous uses for dish soap to miraculously surviving ...

As the third part of his trilogy on Shakespeare, Prospero's Powers extends the study of the late plays O'Meara offered in Othello's Sacrifice, to consider more closely how Shakespeare fulfills his personal artistic development in The Tempest. The play is seen as expressing in its structure the whole of Shakespeare's tragic development up to that time. Great powers of self-knowledge and of inner knowledge of the cosmos are shown to have emerged...

This is a book with twenty-five gems. The meditations found within these pages provide fresh insight into God's Word. Take time to prayerfully read one gem from this book as you begin your day, or during a break, while waiting for something or someone, or when opening your Bible study class. You will find yourself refreshed, renewed, revived, delivered, set free, and transformed! These meditations from Rev. Wilson, a true visionary for our tim...

In this book, we will walk you through the initial lessons we teach in Pirate School: the theory and rationale of pirating, first steps (Pirating 101), including getting to know yourself, your queen (or king), your crew, your ship, the waters in which you choose to sail, how to develop and manage a crew, sailing your ship, navigating political waters, maintaining safe port, and finding and enjoying your treasure. We open our personal treasure ...

Ben Marzan-Searching for meaning in his life, Marzan studies with The Imam and converts to a radical sect of Islam. He's the perfect candidate for a terrorist-American-born, assimilated, and eager to embrace jihad. Anatoly Shenko-A disaffected Russian scientist working in Siberia, Shenko is one of the world's top experts on biological warfare. But his wife and son are in ill health and he's in desperate need of money. Abdul Saidadov-A former C...