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Shanghai, 1941. Invasion fears grip the International Settlement. The Japanese Army, which controls all of Shanghai except for the International Settlement and the French Concession, is on the move. Jake Greenberg, an American expatiate, and his Chinese partner run a boutique casino in the Settlement...

Shanghai, 1929. War in Asia is on the horizon. Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, the biggest players in the city, are already fighting secret battles, each trying to gain the advantage and willing do anything to get it.  The British Secret Service has hatched a daring plan to steal the...

China, 1926. Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate and owner of a fashionable casino in Shanghai, arrives in Manchouli, a dusty little city straddling the Chinese-Russian border. Posing as a wine salesman and using a false passport supplied by British Intelligence, his mission is to smuggle two Russian...

Shanghai, 1932 The city is booming. It's the Paris of Asia—wealthy, sophisticated, and fun—the most international city in the Far East. But beneath the surface fear of war is mounting. With spies and counterspies on every side and their masters pressing hard for information, violence is...

The year is 1952. In the heat of a labor election one of the leading candidates is murdered. The next day a reporter for the local paper is also killed. With pressure mounting, the mayor and the police chief of Steel Town need a fall guy. The man they pick is Max Eisen, a young Jewish immigrant. To...

Many are born into this world to a life of comfort. Others are simply born into hardship. Could it be that, to those less fortunate, a compassionate God does not turn a blind eye? Forever by Your Side is a story about an adolescent lad long abandoned by his mother and an orphaned canine pup. Through...

In my continuing effort to promote, what I consider to be an underutilized visual resource of historical importance, I share with you this short volume (a primer if you will) about the motion pictures of twentieth century warfare held in the film vaults of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration....

My shadow has a name and her name is Lucille. She is my Poet, Priestess, Lover, and Muse. Her beauty surpasses the eyes of the beholder, then rips them out. Her intellect knows more than she doesn’t, then renders you ignorant. Her bravery is unflinching, her loyalty unwavering, and her undying love...

Tyler Love is the son of Molly Reeves's life of sex and drugs. He grows up on the wrong side of the tracks and has a hard life on Virginia's Eastern Shore, but as a small boy he acquires two mentors - a garage owner and the widow of a judge. One taught him to earn and save money. The other educated...

The Origin of Myth is like The Chariots of the Gods or Fingerprints of the Gods and uses the discovery of the tree of knowledge to understand ancient history in an all new way.  Noah’s ark becomes an important part of human history, but has very little to do with the nonexistent world...

In the voice of her eldest male Australian Shepherd, author and canine nutrition expert Tigger Montague tackles the many aspects of canine whole-food diets, along with the wonderful and sometimes complex relationships that dogs share with humans, with cats, and with other farm animals.  The...

Last Proud Gallop, a novel by Gerald F. Sweeney, explores how men and women love differently. The Lost Generation is emerging. It's 1919 and the Jazz Age is about to erupt. Six vibrant youths seek fulfillment in the postwar time-lapse between the demise of Victorian values and the rise of...

Jupiter Remembered is the memoir of a woman's journey toward understanding the very meaning and purpose of her life. Her spiritual nature becomes her most trusted companion, as she travels along the byways of her many faceted life. This is a story that can best be described as inspiring in nature,...

A letter from Judas Iscariot is found under Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and exposes the storyline of Christ, the crucifixion and resurrection as nothing more than a political ruse of a radical Jew.  The Vatican and a Zionist cabal both seek to secure the letter, as anthropologist Gabe Turpin,...