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Hank Rogers is delighted when his intelligent yet narcissistic friend, Sam Thompson, buys the huge, old mansion next door that's been vacant for fifteen years. Hank's wife, Bobbie, and the small North Carolina town's proud Preservation Society, are confident that Sam will restore the house to its original glory. But Sam has his own ideas-about home renovation and life in general-that prove to be humorous and bizarre all at the same time. Altho...

Written as an autobiography for the author's heirs, An Exploration of Conscience: On Becoming A Woman In The Twentieth Century And Beyond serves as a wake-up call for anyone of good conscience to confront the bigotry and discrimination that began in the European immigration in the early 20th Century, the integration of blacks in the Mid-Century, and the surge of Hispanics into the 21st Century.

Michael began to have the dreams again, those memories of times long gone by. This time something was different though he was also thinking endearingly about his friends and associates from times past. He'd made more friends over the last four Millennia than he could count and he could reminisce something about each one of them in exquisite detail. He realized while in his slumbered state he loved all of them. It was an emotional trap that he ...

Building wealth is about managing our careers and the money we make. It all starts with the understanding that we build wealth primarily for two reasons: 1) to build prosperity and 2) to afford a comfortable retirement. Saving and investing to build prosperity is what we do to improve the quality and independence in our lives. Each of us measures quality and independence in our own terms-to some it means being able to afford big-ticket expense...

This book covers the life story of Charles Clark Dugan, M.D., AA, AB, and MPH. He served in the USAF for nine years as the only available Pilot, Flight Surgeon, and Physician through those years. He was hospital commander at Barksdale AFB, LA and flew all the long flights with the same crew in B-29 and B-47 aircraft. He described the true basic path physiology of cerebral concussion correctly for the first time. In private practice as a physic...

This is a collection of poems from my life experiences to help you through troubled times. At one time or another we all felt some of these feelings. The key is to remember there are people in every walk of life who felt the same way you did at a certain point in your time. You are really never alone, although you may feel that way. You have to remember it will pass and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You just have to be patient.

At the height of the Cold War a young American teaches in provincial Iran, near the Russian border. His students reveal their inner selves, their struggles to be modern, while still caught in ancient Persian traditions. Hailed as a travel book in the great tradition, the Chicago Tribune called it "a delicious rarity that one is sorry to finish but happy to recommend, " and the London Sunday Telegraph: "Observant and often poignant, it is profo...

A must for those interested in a contemporary view of the world through the eyes of a poet, these poems offer a straightforward account about life, love and politics. The book succeeds to an unusual degree in revealing the world of ordinary people and common emotions. The author is a very thoughtful young man who grew up in many different countries and learned to see the world with an intense realism and tolerance, concepts that are reflected ...

Bagging the Phoenix explores the nature of human emotion and the freedom and chains of the non-denominational human soul. The title is a metaphor for the "hunting" and "trapping" associated with the failures and successes of personal evolution and growth. The collection-15 years in the making-gracefully marries bittersweet aspects of life and death, love and tragedy, as well as the higher self. The poetic verse in Bagging the Phoenix explores ...

It takes more than money to have a satisfying retirement. Retirement is a time of great expectations. After a lifetime spent making a living, how do we make a new life for ourselves? Ten Common Mistakes Retirees Make will show you how to find money, meaning and happiness to make your new life great. "A delightful read that's filled with practical advice for creating and saving both wealth and peace of mind, this book will make a difference in ...

The book A New Breed of Philosophers announces the beginning of the Age of Postmodern Minimalist Philosophy. The new breed of philosophers is self-educated for free at: http://philophysics.com, and http://freedelaware.com.

After her parents died, Julie Jacobs left her small hometown and the safety and security her sister provided to take a job as a nurse companion to an elderly woman at luxurious Bigelow Manor on the outskirts of Buffalo, New York. Julie soon found herself in a maze of mystery and intrigue. The young nurse couldn't help wondering why Brad, her patient's stern, terse son had insisted on seeing her photo before summoning her to Buffalo. It was as ...

Enjoy these unique lists, packed with TV trivia and tidbits on such topics as: TV Replacements All-Time Sitcom Episode Champs, Female Soap Suds: All My Children Daytime Soap Opera Home Towns The 100 Club (and Beyond) Longest-Running Shows And the Award for Most Regular Series Roles Goes To... Comic Superheroes: From Printed Page to Live-Action TV Stars Who've Played Superman and Lois Lane on TV Star Trek Memories: Where No Man Ever Went... Emm...

A single influence is cast like a giant shadow over the entire art of Japanese Sword. This is the influence of the Samurai Myamoto Musashi, a legendary warrior that pursued a single philosophy. Musashi put down his philosophy as a guide for the student to study in The Book of Five Rings. Along with techniques and strategy, Musashi challenged his reader to use two swords, saying only that it was difficult but practice would make it easier. This...

It's 1925, and the Harlem Renaissance has expanded to cities beyond New York. Black writers, musicians, and artists are in vogue and think they can do anything. Nora Johnson, a honey yellow-skinned Howard University instructor, is no exception. Desiring to become a professional painter, Nora travels to Paris, France, to study art for a year. While in Paris, she throws caution into the Seine River and heads towards self destruction. Rather than...

This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes: · Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics, apodictic, parturient, antistasis, latitudinarian, charybdis, pantagruelian, doxa, anoesis, zugzwang, morosoph, phenomenology, quondam, eldritch and stochastic. · Latin phrases like vae victis, margaritas ante porcos, and ...

Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy reveals the struggles of Asian American women at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder where hunger, illness, sweatshop labor, exposure to hazardous chemicals and even involuntary servitude are everyday realities. Asian American women of all socio-economic classes suffer from domestic violence whose root causes stem from the particular forms of patriarchy ...

THE SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN. The atmosphere is peaceful, quiet, friendly, and unchanged through the years. Little is required for a scandal, but past scandals are long buried and seldom referred to. THE GROUP. They are six friends who have known and loved each other since childhood. The friends, three boys and three girls, are so close they shut out everyone else. THE ROMANCE. One of the group suddenly finds herself the heroine of a fantastic Cind...

Eat, Drink & Be Merry is an entertaining and poignant memoir that begins with a curly-haired little girl whose life turned tragically upside down when she was five years old. Merry humorously and joyfully recounts stumbling into womanhood and taking on marriage, motherhood, and the classroom. An offspring of rural Iowa in the fifties, she learned to dance even when life didn't throw her a party. Readers can sense her innate passion for family ...

This book is an excursion inside the codes and schemes that mind uses in order to think. We know the efforts of making good guessing and the strain in solving complex problems. We also have experienced how difficult it could be thinking clearly when we are tired, anxious, hungry, or sleeping. Any second, in our life, our brain is literally flooded by a bulk of inputs, information, chemicals from lungs or blood, nutrients and vitamins from gut,...