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In a day when farm folks pitched in together to accomplish tasks too big for one person, when strangers shared car rides, and housewives lingered over cups of hot coffee, a small boy named Joe discovered the richness of life on his grandfather's farm. A gentle, adventurous, and proud boy enraptured by farm life, Joe learned at a tender age that he had a way with animals, both domestic and wild. On Grandpa's farm, he became fast friends with a ...

Josh Hellyer can look back and laugh at situations that would hurt and humiliate even the most stalwart among us, such as when he nervously wet his pants during a school play or the time he was told, "people would like you more if you didn't act like yourself." Hellyer's "glass half full" philosophy is contagious, and in reading his spirited true stories, you'll find yourself eager to take the risk to be genuine, dream big, and give life a squ...

The Dangled Illusion is the story of Raef Burnham, who works at WorldFoods, an American food company. When Raef is first hired, he's placed on the leadership track and becomes a team leader within two years. But after sixteen years of dutiful service, he finds himself suddenly demoted. Raef struggles with telling his wife about the shattering news and wonders whether he should look for another job. The prospect of moving, however, is too much ...

The Unspoken Truth about Privatization covers the length and breadth of this interesting topic in nine short essays. The author defines privatization as "the policy or process of converting, wholly or partially, public enterprises to private enterprises" The main characteristics of the public sector and of the private sector are then discussed in turn, as a prelude to an examination of the rationale behind privatization. Once the case for priv...

A collection of short stories spanning the best of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Included within are tales such as "Price of Survival", a story where a king must make a bargain with the darkness to save his people. "Last Contact" wherein an expedition looking for a new colony for the Earth's growing population finds the ideal world, except it is already inhabited. And "Vengeance, Inc." whose management specializes in helping the recent...

Megan Carlson is a young woman in mourning. She lost her brother, Michael, to suicide and both her parents to a tragic accident. She is now the lonely, sole heir to the Carlson fortune, and despite the official reports, she is still haunted by questions about her family and the strange ways those closest to her died. She does her own investigating and begins to believe her brother's death was no suicide-just as her parents' was no accident. So...

Virgin Spring is the story of Nic Nichols, a rebellious teenager from the Midwest who has long had dreams of becoming a rodeo cowboy. A year before he is eligible for military service in World War II, he gets a lucky break: his parents send him to Arizona in a last-ditch effort to encourage him to finish high school. There, his passion is broncos rather than books, and his penchant for trouble continues to plague him as he tangles with rustler...

Journeys, encounters, and observations of nature's ways. Eighty short stories in free verse, all drawn from the author's life experience.

A New Way of Healing "Tao of Surfing is an inspired book and a unique reflection that will have a lasting effect on anyone who reads it." -Bob Walch, The Monterey County Herald The roads I travel and the waves I search for and ride exemplify the flowing movement and continuous change of life itself. - From the book "Author Allen.in fine, thoughtful fashion.writes well, informally, and there is haiku in his observations.A delightful book, effor...

On Friday, October 13, 1307, Phillip the Fair of France betrayed and arrested the cream of the Knights of the Temple. However, before he could recover their vast amounts of wealth and Holy Relics, these items vanished into the mists of history. This is the story of what really happened to the treasure and how it was rescued from his unworthy clutches. The book relates how our heroes in time, Raza, Beauregard, Ramón, and Alice, managed to spiri...

A Liberated Woman from the Ghetto, a woman production, depicts the identity that many women of African descent struggle with due to the multitude of transitions in their lives. After inheriting a background of slavery, plantation life, segregated laws for over 285 laws and stages of Jim Crow, identity certainly had to be a gigantic concern. The author ably demonstrates the major points with the use of laughter to blunt the cruel paradoxes. She...

Following the loss of his lucrative oil-industry job, Ace Mulligan quickly learns that available work within the confines of the law doesn't readily meet his financial requirements. He decides to turn his many talents toward jobs beyond conventional legal parameters, beginning with the heist of a gold coin collection worth half a million dollars. In his new line of work, Ace is quite busy with arson, oilfield theft, international money launder...

The Dangled Illusion is the story of Raef Burnham, who works at WorldFoods, an American food company. When Raef is first hired, he's placed on the leadership track and becomes a team leader within two years. But after sixteen years of dutiful service, he finds himself suddenly demoted. Raef struggles with telling his wife about the shattering news and wonders whether he should look for another job. The prospect of moving, however, is too much ...

In 1964, Dan Reilly landed the dream job of every New York Mets fan. Pulled from his humble position in Shea Stadium's ticket office to become the Mets' mascot-and Major League Baseball's first official mascot-Reilly donned the baseball-shaped, papier-mâché head of Mr. Met and began a career rubbing elbows with some of the game's most illustrious players. The Original Mr. Met Remembers is packed with never-before-told anecdotes, detailed team ...

The poems in this book span a period of 47 years. However, most were written in the 1960s and since 1998. The subject matter ranges from celebration of the family to the wonders of nature, especially the ocean. However, many aspects of life from shopping malls and cell phones to war and social inequality inspired a verse or two. Readers will find much in common with what is an expression of the author's experiences.

Go Be Jesus is a moving collection of stories, quotes and insight intended to motivate and guide us towards using our unique gifts to serve others. God created us to serve and to have a ministry regardless of vocation, education or experience. While many churches expect their ministers and staff to be the only agents to leading people to Jesus, Go Be Jesus challenges us to examine our faith at its core and to act upon what Jesus desires from u...

In a day when farm folks pitched in together to accomplish tasks too big for one person, when strangers shared car rides, and housewives lingered over cups of hot coffee, a small boy named Joe discovered the richness of life on his grandfather's farm. A gentle, adventurous, and proud boy enraptured by farm life, Joe learned at a tender age that he had a way with animals, both domestic and wild. On Grandpa's farm, he became fast friends with a ...

Josh Hellyer can look back and laugh at situations that would hurt and humiliate even the most stalwart among us, such as when he nervously wet his pants during a school play or the time he was told, "people would like you more if you didn't act like yourself." Hellyer's "glass half full" philosophy is contagious, and in reading his spirited true stories, you'll find yourself eager to take the risk to be genuine, dream big, and give life a squ...

Detective Vince Bianco had no idea what he was getting himself into when he agreed to investigate the disappearance of a prominent Long Island bank vice president. He discovers that the missing bank officer had become part of an elaborate bank fraud perpetrated by one of the bank's own clients. But when the client turns up dead - the victim of a mob style hit, the investigation takes a new twist. The trail leads to the bosses of two notorious ...

Faron and his sister, Farrah, children of renowned Egyptologists, are excited to visit the Museum of Antiquities. But things take an unusual turn when they step through a sarcophagus and find themselves in NeoEgyptia, a world ruled by the gods of ancient Egypt. But just like in mythology, the gods in this world often clash. Ra, the Egyptian sun god, has forbidden Set, god of war, chaos, death, and destruction, from favoring one army over anoth...