by James B. Edwards Hitler was the stooge Stalin used to start World War II. Stalin was the "eminence gris" behind the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power. Stalin envisioned World War II as a replay of World War I, in which the Europeans would destroy each other and be ripe for conquest. [...]
by James B. Edwards Space Pioneer Rollin Gillespie: the man who conceived of NASA and ARPA. Gunfighter: the Navy's first supergun project. The March Hare: "Light as a feather; strong as a tank". "Ragged Dick": in the securities business. Patton's assault on the Rhine at St. Goar. Alpenstrasse/Tegerness; Mosel/Rhine.
by J. P. Rieger Roderick Misely wants desperately to pursue a career as a lawyer. He needs only to find an attorney mentor with whom to "read the law." But a scandal that unfairly sullied the family name has caused an absolute drought in apprenticeship opportunities. Instead, Misely is eking-out a living as a "consultant" [...]
by Michael P. Raff "The Door" - in 1963, two young, Catholic boys, Tommy Stockton and Roger Bartlett, discover an old, locked, metal door hidden beneath a stage in their school auditorium. Tommy suffers through two horrifying nightmares warning him that there is something evil behind it. Roger finds a key to open the door's padlock [...]
by Michael P. Raff In the summer of 1970 I met Jill, a shy, young girl from Utah, who was vacationing in California. I made a favorable impression on her but because she was so young and awkward, I kept her at a distance. Once she left, I never expected to see her again. Yet when [...]
by Diana R. Chambers An espionage thriller set in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. When a shipment of Stinger missiles disappears, a CIA officer becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a journalist and her former lover, now an elusive mujahideen chief. These characters lead us into a world of danger, a world of spy versus spy, where hidden [...]
by Alice Zogg Twenty four-year-old Elena Campione seemed to have vanished into thin air. She had apparently left her South Pasadena residence suddenly, without telling a soul. The police traced her to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she had boarded the shuttle bus to the Balloon Fiesta Park on the last day of the annual balloon festival, [...]
by Gina Greenlee This is the first in a series of inspirational/motivational gift books that use inanimate objects as metaphors for enhancing the way we live. In this lighthearted look at personal problem solving patterns, "Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Life's Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones" illustrates "The Lesson of the Paper Clips." Gina [...]
by Dawn M. Kravagna Lured out of early retirement, master detective Adam Steer partners with the cops of Precinct 13 1/2 to solve the kidnapping of newspaper publisher, ostrich Madam Griselda Portentsky. But the ransom demand may be impossible to meet by the Sunday deadline: deliver the fabled MooMoo Pearl or the bird gets plucked. [...]
by Lisa Petrocelli Have you ever wondered about the biker you see riding through town, the one suited up with black leather, or the one with the colorful patches on his vest? What drives these men to love life on two wheels? Why is riding a motorcycle so vital to their happiness and what lies [...]
