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Tangled Thoughts is an introduction, of sorts, to the life of Texas author David Hunnicutt. The book is a fun, easy read that challenges the reader to look deeply at life, and to closely examine their own hearts and minds. The “thoughts” and proses written within the work range from sweet to bittersweet...

With humble beginnings in a small, low income home in Pittsburgh to over 40 years of business experience including serving as a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and member of several corporate boards of directors, being a corporate officer and running a $20 billion global operation for Johnson Controls, Inc.,...

Renata Zerner's Dance on the Volcano is a memoir written for readers who are interested in what it was like living in Germany during the Third Reich and World War II. She writes about her life when she was a young woman in an anti-Nazi German family living in Berlin. Her story focuses on the last...

Lawrie Adam, son of a Scottish coal miner, born on the brink of WWII, showed the talent and drive to succeed professionally in the world of entertainment. He worked as a salesman in a drapery store until his ability with his accordion resulted in him winning an appearance on a national TV talent show,...

Healing Bodies, Healing Hearts with Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan examines how Master Lijun Cheng and her students use qigong and tai chi to promote the health of body, mind, and spirit. It also explores how practicing qigong and tai chi contributes to making life more meaningful. First, the book introduces...

D.O.R. deals with the two tumultuous and somewhat comedic years that Vince Daley spent as an enlisted man in the Marine Corps from 1968 to 1970. Although draft-deferred at the time, he enlists in the Marine Corps as an Aviation Officer Candidate only to find himself seriously injured six weeks into...

Love and Danger in the Old West is stories of legendary characters and the women who loved them. The stories begin with the confrontation between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt. These two men clashed over a watch taken from Hickok because of an unpaid debt. However, this deadly confrontation had...

MAKING THE ROUNDS shares the stories and insights of a compassionate doctor who practiced family medicine in the small working-class town of Markle, Indiana. This memoir develops the idea that, as a standard of health, communal wholeness is as important as individual wholeness, that health involves...

These accounts are the real life WWII experiences of RCAF Flying Officer Russell Hubley. From his enlistment to discharge this biography covers his training and details of the many operations which made up more than two full tours. Sixty trips in a war where only one in four aircrews survived even...

As much as a place for social encounter, the bar is a scrapbook of American history. It is where news of the day is beaten into something more easily understood, and where plots and schemes are laid out and put into motion. It is where you find the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Wyatt Earp, and Ernest...

Many dream of living abroad but Shelley and her husband, Mike, did it. They left the security of their careers, the comfort of their home, and the familiarity of their neighborhood and moved to France. For ten months, they made their home in the village of Cotignac in southern France. From their yellow-stucco...

In the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slavery in the South to freedom in the North.  Many Jacksonians participated in this network, risking their lives to feed, lodge and transport fugitives...

In 1922, Floyd Martin and Christine Mosley are young children, growing up in the quiet surroundings of Southern Mississippi. In 1929, the Great Depression begins and life gets a bit tougher. In 1936, Floyd and Christine meet, and, a few months later, are married. He is 22 and she is 16, and the challenges...

Regarding his stories entitled "Stuff," Joseph Galasso writes, "I have tried simply to be honest. I have no goal, save a selfish one. I write solely to provide a laugh or tear to my loved ones. When I'm gone, what I say may offer additional insight into my likes and dislikes, my shortcomings and,...