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Marine Corps Mustang

by Roy Morris This is a collection of true stories about the characters and personalities of the folks I met, worked with and fought with while in the Marine Corps from the mid-1960's to the early-1980's. There were good guys and villains, heroes and heels. The Best of the Best served right alongside the Worst of [...]

The Unqualified Widow

by Shirley Spires Baechtold It's Summer, 1954, in Louisville, Kentucky He's working in Louisville before going back to New York for his second season with the New York Knicks. She's back from Europe and playing the piano bar in the Forest Lounge at Iroquois Gardens Supper Club. It's been two years since they graduated from [...]

The Harvest

by Luben Walchef As a barefoot six-year old boy, Luben Walchef stomped mud into bricks that were used by his father and grandfather to build the humble house in rural Bulgaria where his family lived. For generations upon generations, the Walchefs had been farmers on the same plot of land. And then Luben came along. [...]

An Invitation to Heal

by Susan Spalding What if you had a dream that was so compelling, so real, that you were willing to turn your life upside down to follow it? That is what happened to Susan Spalding when she had a dream that was her call to the vocation of healing. All of the events that followed were [...]

Crystal Lake

by Roy Marshall with Janielle Kenworthy For Charley Willey, editor of the Lewis Standard, things were not going well. He was sick, he was going blind, and his paper was losing money. The Iowa Highway Commission made him a promise, broke it, and forever diminished his town. The state had some making up to do. [...]

Thicker Than Water

by Roy Morris This is a collection of stories about the Morris family, our loved ones, friends and neighbors. It covers six decades of our efforts to survive, from growing up dirt poor to going out into the world seeking fame and fortune, then returning to our roots. We didn't find what we sought but we [...]

Unfinished Miles

by Mark Manion Hallucinations, dreams, angels, and a miraculous recovery are all humorously but soberly woven into this heart-gripping autobiography. Mark and his cousin Mike were in a horrible crash while bicycling across the United States. Mark literally almost lost his head and was left paralyzed from the neck down. Sixteen years later, through a [...]

Brightest of Silver Linings

by Carol Masheter Few people have heard of Carstensz Pyramid, a sharp fin of limestone 16,000 feet above sea level, surrounded by mountainous jungle in Papua, a part of the world wracked by political and tribal violence, where kidnappings of climbers still occur. Why bother to climb such a troublesome, little-known peak? This book describes Carol [...]

The Medium who Baffled Houdini

by Elaine M. Kuzmeskus "Houdini the Magician Stumped," proclaimed the Boston Herald in 1924. Who was this medium who baffled Houdini? None other than Margery Crandon, the wife of a prominent Boston surgeon. "Margery the Medium" made headlines throughout the 1920s. She captivated not only Harvard professors, but the editors of Scientific American with her [...]

The Iron Men of Metz

by Tobias O. Vogt The Iron Men of Metz is a colorful collection of oral histories offered in their entirety. The book begins with the circumstances leading up to World War II and an overview of the African, European and Pacific Theaters of Operation. An outline of the division's actions carries the reader along the blazing [...]

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