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This is a book of books or illustrated reviews spanning fiction, faction and non-fiction.It goes some way to substantiate the belief of Benedetto Croce that history is the history of liberty.I only wrote of books that I appreciated, so that I could pass on that appreciation to others. It must be admitted...

Diet Buddies: A Weight Loss Plan for the Whole Family—That Really Works Eat less, move more. We’ve heard that advice for decades. The reality? 1/3 of children and 2/3 of adults are overweight or obese. Weight loss in the 21st century requires a different approach. Diet Buddies offers...

The purpose of this book is to help parents understand more about common medical conditions that affect their children. This book explains in detail the background, signs and symptoms, and management of several common medical conditions that affect children. These conditions include fever, vomiting...

From time to time when I take a break from researching and writing my thrillers, I write short stories such as the ones collected for the first time in this new anthology, Trust and Other Nightmares. Each of these stories has its germination in nights when my sleep was suddenly savaged by ethereal...

The Mickey Stories is a collection of short stories about an affable young man making his way thru life and doing his best. The first two stories find Mickey, who has just broken up with another in a string of women who failed to recognize his strengths and value. His softball team turns into a ski...

Collection of poems that describe the good and bad of the mind and how we drift between it.

One boat. One Balinese, one Bali expat, one Australian, one American. Three heavy smokers, one pious teetotaler. Two sacks of rice, three boxes of noodles, coffee and salt, cooking oil and sauces. Ten cartons of cigarettes. More than enough for a week sail to Bali...but what happens when they lose their smokes?

PrefaceWelcome to the Second short work eBook in the Alice Zombie Series. This series is a short work series of eBooks based upon the novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. While not simply a rewrite, the overall tone of the book attempts to adhere to the spirit in which the original work was...

Trigger Man is the story of a thief on the cusp of the Apocalypse. After a disastrous childhood he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents and learns a mysterious curse of visions he's had since birth may have fostered a great talent. He comes to the notice and subsequent employ of the evil Aldo...

Unsatisfied? Worried? Sad? Angry? Frustrated? Enlightenment is a path for those seeking happiness and satisfaction with life.

This book is a joke book for social studies teachers to help add a little excitement to your classes and help students to have fun with history. It contains corny geography puns and wonderfully bad history jokes. The final chapter contains notable flubs that students have made in class. This book...

Single-stroke English or Single stroke English is the English alfabet simplified to single strokes. This may be shortened, for convenience of speech, to "Single English" given the abbreviation: SE.Single-stroke English (SE) is based on a rational system of one speech sound, one letter. This greatly...

The third volume in a set of eight that comprises an alphabetical listing of the over 166,000 post offices that have ever operated in the 50 United states from 1776 to date. The listing for each office contains a county location, dates of operation and a Scarcity Index (S/I) value that offers postmark collectors with a guide to the relative value of postmarks from that post office.

The second volume in a set of eight that comprises an alphabetical listing of the over 166,000 post offices that have ever operated in the 50 United states from 1776 to date. The listing for each office contains a county location, dates of operation and a Scarcity Index (S/I) value that offers postmark collectors with a guide to the relative value of postmarks from that post office.