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Patches is the story of a kitten that leaves her home in Arkansas for a vacation to Florida only to discover that it is not a vacation. The story is told from the perspective of the kitten, detailing the differences in the two environments, her challenges, and how she adapts to her new home.

When Fred Pugsley receives a dead rattlesnake in the mail, ex-Seattle cop Thomas Black and his friend, lawyer Kathy Birchfield, are called in to investigate. But when they get there, Fred is dead, and his stunned wife sits huddled in the kitchen, clutching a tool used on racing bicycles -- the murder...

This is a memoir my father wrote about his life growing up in Eastern Kentucky in the early 1900's. It's a story that traces his beginnings as a child in those mountain hills which are incredibly beautiful and at the same time fraught with harsh realities. His childhood is one of extraordinary exploration...

Pastor Tony Hook is everybody’s favorite preacher in the quiet Newark suburb of Belton, NJ. Well, almost everybody’s. Conflicts, tensions, and resolutions grace every turn of this clean and humorous black church caper. And it’s all from the witty mind and converted heart of a real seminary trained...

On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation,...

This is a story in line with what is known in the world as the creation story. This story has been adapted to put the story inside the human experience to see the tapestry of what each of us is made of. Experience what the first man and woman...of your mind....have experienced and their evolution...

MY DEAR FRIEND: Laziness of mind, or inattention, are as great enemies to knowledge as incapacity; for, in truth, what difference is there between a man who will not, and a man who cannot be informed? This difference only, that the former is justly to be blamed, the latter to be pitied. And yet how many...

Field Marshal Wavell was one of the most successful British Army commanders of the Second World War, often given the toughest assignments, usually greatly outnumbered and with few resources. In this short volume he shares the distilled wisdom on the qualities, mental, moral and political that are...

The Good Soldier contains the distilled wisdom of Field Marshal Wavell, collected from his numerous articles and speeches. “Practically all the articles collected here were written between the two Great Wars, between 1926 and 1938; a few were written during the late war. Nearly all have been...

Eyes Wide Open is the sequel to When I Close My Eyes. Eyes Wide Open puts the icing on the cake. It finds Jane Ford, the last sister of three, at the winter of her life. She has a secreta secret that she has kept close to the breast, one she wanted to take to her grave. However, somehow some information...

Chester, PA is a tortured city known only to her through whispered conversations. Surrounded by brick dwellings of historic value, there are cracks and crevices in the foundation of her life that threaten to tear it down. Born in West Philadelphia living on Delancey Street, life for Ruth Walters,...

OUTSIDE a gilt-lettered door on the seventeenth floor of a New York office building, a tall young man in a fur-lined coat stood shivering. Why did he shiver in that coat? He shivered because he was fussed, poor chap. Because he was rattled, from the soles of his custom-made boots to the apex...

This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and developed...