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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 [...]

Seeking God for Daily Living and Destiny

by Gordon P. Magee Who are we? Why are we here? What is this life really all about? If God exists can I know Him? Is friendship with God possible? Does God indeed have a plan and destiny for me? Dive in as we explore the depths of these questions and put into practice the [...]

Breaking the Cycle of Slavery to Sin

by Gordon P. Magee Very few people in our world actually walk in peace with themselves and God. As the Bible teaches, this is because we not only sin, which hinders our relationship with God, but through our choices we establish patterns or cycles of recurring sin to which we become enslaved. Jesus said, whoever [...]

Walk in His Blessing

by Gordon P. Magee The Book of Revelation, is it too hard to understand or just too darn scary? Jesus said: 'No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I [...]

Vinyl Lives II

by James P. Goss Vinyl Lives II continues to turn up the volume for independent record stores in the digital age. Chronicling the histories of 16 independent record stores, Vinyl Lives II also includes the stories of 9 record collectors. "An absorbing view of independent record stores, enhanced by portraits of record collectors." -Harold Bronson, Co-Founder, [...]

Vinyl Lives

by James P. Goss Vinyl Lives is an intimate look inside the walls and hearts of 25 independently owned record stores. Examining and celebrating the important cultural role of record stores in the community, Vinyl Lives turns up the volume for independent record stores in the digital age. "Anybody who has an interest in record collecting [...]

A View from the Jury Box

by Carol W. Hazelwood A View From The Jury Box is a journalistic approach to the long and complicated trial of Ron Blaney Jr., a deaf mute, who was accused of murdering and torturing his deaf girlfriend and her mother. The author, Carol Hazelwood, was the foreperson. This is the story of compassion, pettiness, stupidity, [...]

Bread Salt & Plum Brandy

by Lisa Fisher Cazacu and Rosemary Colgrove Bread, Salt & Plum Brandy is an insightful and eye-opening account of Lisa Fisher Cazacu's odyssey as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-communist Romania. With humor and pathos, Lisa shares her experiences, and her relationship with a charming young lawyer from Bucharest, who experienced first-hand the horrors of [...]

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. [...]

Special

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 [...]

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