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Very late in the Civil War Confederate Colonel Thaddius Kingsley and the tattered remnants of his regiment board the steamboat West Wind in St. Joseph, Missouri. He tells Captain Zachary Cole that the war is lost and they are heading for the goldfields in Montana so they can return to their homes...

Gleaned from 450 essays written over nine years, this book covers stories close to the heart of the author. The title comes from a quote from the movie "Field of Dreams" (1989) where the character Terence Mann, speaking of the people that would come to watch the baseball game, said, "...

Bill Willis, known as Poppa to his grandchildren, had always been a National Football League trailblazer and was challenged during the period of segregated football. His family life outside of the game was rarely shared. Set in Columbus, Ohio during the month of July, Poppa’s Ring provides a quick...

An assassin is executing convicted Texas pedophiles as fast as they are released on technicalities by by their judges. Texas DPS Captain Sarai Collingsworth-Spenser, former lieutenant with the San Angelo, Texas, Police Department, discovers in her search that in fact, the killings aren't limited to...

Based on first-hand knowledge of many of the world’s leading corporate insights departments and insights suppliers, Into The River gives the reader a straight-forward perspective into an important and changing industry. More importantly, it provides ideas on how companies, suppliers, and individuals can deal with these industry shifting trends.

A look at how the concept of liberty as envisioned by the American founders is really quite radical by today's standards, and how that freedom has been slowly vanishing for the last century.  Sometimes humorous and sometimes rather acerbic with many disturbing and occasionally funny examples...

There are so many things we should know when we are 20 years old but don't. How many times do people think to themselves, "If only I knew then what I know now?" What if you never had to ask that question? As a quick, useful, and warm read, this book is designed to be a gift. The work is...

In President Obama’s first term he attempted to create an illusion of economic recovery at home and withdrawal from conflict abroad – Obama’s second term saw the disastrous results these policies produced: anemic recovery at home with low job prospects for most and decreased chances for reaching...

SHORT LINE is the accounting of life and death over five steamy summer days and nights on the streets of the southeast side of Chicago, as seen through the eyes of young journalist Nick Daniels, a lifer in the rough and tumble community. With a troubled past of his own, Nick experiences the mixed...

Dear Reader, Winning the Chemo Battle is a personal account of chemotherapy. If you have had chemotherapy, you will recognize the “truth” in the book, even though your own may be different. If you are about to have chemotherapy, or if a friend or relative or spouse is about to have chemo,...

Doodlebug is the nickname Alfred, an elderly rancher, gives Trevor - Dude, to his friends - when he informally adopts the seven-year-old, rescuing him from a squalid travel trailer where he’d been abandoned with his drug-addled grandmother and her abusive alcoholic partner. His unwed mother was...

ZetaZ is the gang tag Mac, an ER doctor, finds on his neighbor Alicia’s door when he discovers her missing. When her younger brother Alex shows up, relieved of the fifty-thousand-dollar ransom sent by her wealthy family in Mexico, Mac turns to his cousin and life-long best friend, Rod, with whom...

Being Special: A Mother and Son’s Journey with Speech Disorders and Learning Disabilities is an uplifting memoir of a family’s very personal experience with a special-needs child. This book details the authors’ emotional journey with learning disabilities and apraxia, a speech disorder, from...

In Jerry’s Riot: The True Story of Montana’s 1959 Prison Disturbance, author Kevin S. Giles captures the conflict that ensued between Warden Floyd Powell and career criminal Jerry Myles, who had done time at Alcatraz Island and other federal and state prisons. Both men were new to Montana State...