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When Serling High School reporter Dennis Sommers is assigned to cover the speech of a local politician, he witnesses a sniper's bullet cutting the candidate's campaign short. In response, he pulls Matthew Livingston into the mix. Matthew is a prodigy of deduction-a Sherlock Holmes of the here and now, with a keen understanding of truth and lies ... often keener than his local police department. But does Matthew have a nose for politics? In boo...

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Author Patricia Salter was born into a lively and creative family. The second of five children, her father was a professor and her mother a published poet. Although she was born in Philadelphia, she has lived the greater part of her life in Madison, Wisconsin. Hers was a peripatetic family, giving her and her siblings the opportunity to live East, West, and South while growing up. Lean on the Wind reflects the passions and challenges of her yo...

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Walk in the footsteps of a small boy as he is passed from stranger to stranger. Aunts, uncles, friends, and neighbors all acted as parents to Bobbie at one time or another- but ultimately each time circumstances necessitate another move to a different family, leaving him feeling rejected. As Bobbie grew up, participating in youthful escapades during his brief period with his pseudo-grandparents, he continued searching for a feeling of family. ...

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Sister Lizzy Iweala presents a wonderful and timely book titled Pastors Also Cry. She candidly spells out some of the personal battles, fears and struggles that pastors must overcome on a regular basis. Some Pastors are sometimes either in denial of or lack the wherewithal for dealing with various struggles. She shows many challenges that can avert a person from his or her divinely ordained destiny to serve the Lord. The writer draws attention...

Just two weeks out of the loony bin, journalist Willow Finnegan finds herself at the center of a murder investigation. Bill and Angela Priest are dead, and Willow, still struggling to control the flashbacks from her last assignment in Iraq, has somehow landed in the middle of their living room holding an open cell phone dialing 911 and soaked in a lapful of Angela's blood. She leaves the Society Hill house with Angela's diamond ring, an old su...

Bertie Hall is a genuine believer in changing situations or conditions for the sole purpose of achieving quality of growth and success. He also believes real change requires action. He rejects bureaucracy, stagnation, greed, and mediocrity, which do not help to create a prosperous life for all people. Instead, he is totally convinced that new ideas combined with genuine tireless efforts can firmly unite the world for positive change in elimina...

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Aden Echo, a young boy who grows up during the 1940s, is befriended by an unlikely spiritual teacher and martial arts master. Aden's apprenticeship with Xian helps him develop, along with physical skill, mystical understanding and meditative silence. Years later, Aden has to draw upon his unusual experiences with Xian to survive unspeakable horror and violence during the Vietnam War. In the autumn of 1972, recently discharged from the Air Forc...

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She is a stunning, confident and successful Internet executive who has just inherited a boatload of money. But beneath her charming persona she's a chain-smoking, self-diagnosed sociopath who lives in a bizarre moral framework of her own creation - a deadly serial killer who has a taste for executives and anyone else she thinks is "unjust". Beginning just after the death of her ex-lover, this unrepentant killer explains how she copes with her ...

Kathleen Harper is a southern gal who can't quit saying what she really thinks, calls things as she sees 'em, and has the ability to find the humor in everyday life. In her second compilation of entertaining essays, Harper shares her twisted opinions on men, menopause, neighbors, and children from a unique Southern outlook. Harper, the author of Why, Shut My Mouth!: Southern, Sassy and Proud of It, offers a laugh-out-loud look at life from a S...

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Being a fugitive is hard work. Running from the law is taking its toll on James McRiley (Ridder of Vermin) and his best friend, Kevin Nichols. They've never been east of Las Vegas, and these native Southern Californians have no idea what's in store for them on their journey to keep James out of prison. James's justified punishments, as he calls his three murders-the fourth was an accident, he swears-have caught up with him, and now he faces an...

Volunteers for Israel, the Yemenite Aliyah of 1992, the disappearance of Yemenite babies during the Aliyah of 1949-1954.