Bøger af Ron Brown

A travel guide which takes the reader beyond the lights and sounds of the urban spread around the Niagara Falls to venture into lesser-known but equally fascinating sites across the region.

INTRODUCTION TO THE WET PAGES SERIES SERVED and WET Kim Fox: Her story is a typical tale of personal growth and sexual evolution. Her dedication to her high-powered career in law and real estate in fast-paced Atlanta has demanded all her time and passion. Until it doesn't. She lived a young life oblivious to her own deep carnal cravings. Her snow-white upbringing has left her ill-equipped to understand her body's sudden carnal needs. A mixed light-skinned beauty, her curvaceous body yearns to be discovered then liberated. Kim's inner beast is awoken from a long passionless slumber by the unimaginable. She had never sought out the love of a Black man. Nobody could blame her for her lifelong ignorance of the powers of a big black dick. So, nobody could deny her the fulfillment she needed. In this telling of the Kim Fox story, you will learn of her ignorance, discovery, craving then conquering of her own inner beast.SWEET Dr. LaTonya Sweet: A tall dark-skinned original Georgia peach. Her mastery of the mind, and of human behavior, has propelled her to a prized career as a mental health expert. Rarely has she sought to use her perceptive gifts to her own benefit. However, there comes a time in a woman's life that she must exercise her powers over the lesser sex. Dr. Sweet is always at the center of bickering couples and their failing relationships. From this vantage point of raw human conflict, she's expected to use her rare talents to capture the core of the issue and help them to reconcile and move forward with their happily ever after. Fortunately for her, The Sweet Family Foundation becomes the place where LaTonya exorcises her own savage ghosts.BODY Tera Banks: Tera's Asian mother and Creole father moved from New Orleans to the Bronx with her and her younger sister when she was only four. She was an athletic phenom as a child. Tera went from high school basketball star to college standout. Her diminutive stature would eventually, prevent her from a pro career. Her passion for sports prevented her from ever pursuing a romantic connection as a teen and young adult. After college, she moved to Atlanta to start a career as a personal trainer to the rich and famous and to open her own gym. She met the father of her child and gave him her precious virginity and six drama packed years of her life. The Body Gym was her crowning achievement. Her Wedding Planner business kept a full calendar. If only her personal life could achieve the euphoric equivalent, she often thought. Years of mediocre sex from the one man she'd ever known, had run its' course. The adventure was about to begin.PLEDGESasha Adams: Old friends or new friends. Her Sorority and her cheating husband or her new man and her newly discovered insatiable need for love and affection. These are the dilemmas that worry Sasha throughout the day and keeps her up late at night. Staying up late used to be a thing she never had the luxury for as a third, year principal of one of Atlanta's highest achieving elementary schools. Now, her nights are filled with danger and the search for orgasmic fulfillment. Her best friend, and her other sorority sisters, have certain high expectations of her. Divorce isn't an acceptable option. Her political ambition is conflicted with her seemingly reckless pursuit of true happiness.

Love's First Love is a provocative discussion for anyone desiring to draw closer to God and discover His extravagant brand of Love. The text presents an uncommon perspective (i.e. giving) against a traditional understanding (i.e. feeling) of love. Included in the text (Appendix A) is a challenge assessment for readers to measure their State of Our Unconditional Love, or SOUL rate. I hope you enjoy this journey to First-Love!

★★★ Reader Feedback: Five Stars. Awesome book! - Alison Thompson ● Candles is Book 1 of The Non-Electric Lighting Series. The series is aimed at people who want to survive whatever it is that Mother Nature throws at us - blizzards, blackouts, or Carrington events. ● Candles shows how to make tea candles and jar candles and taper candles as simply as possible. The goal is to have useful light. Decorative value, aromatherapy, and ambiance are not considerations. ● This book is unique in that it shows several ways to improvise candles. Some designs work well (canning-wax candles, for example). Other designs work poorly and are - IMHO - a waste of time and resources (Crisco candles). And some designs, although touted on YouTube and similar, are outright dangerous (crayon candles, ChapStick candles, etc.). Stuff we should all really understand. ★★★ Reader Feedback: Not totally exhaustive on everything candles, but pretty darn close. Read it in one night easy. - Clem Morten ● Candles contains 13,000 words, 109 color illustrations, and is 81 pages long. It's available in Kindle eBook format as well as paper. ● This is an 8-book series. The quickest way to see the other titles is [1] to click on the Follow the Author link elsewhere on this page. Or [2] if you're not in Amazon as you read this, copy-and-paste "the non-electric lighting series" (including the quote marks) into the Google search bar. You'll be so glad you did.

The Hag of Halloween is a rhymed poem. In it, a young man steals candy from a trick-or-treat princess and her clown companion. He flees the scene but is abducted by The Hag and whisked off to her kingdom where (with some help from her strange daughters) she torments the young man relentlessly. He prays for forgiveness and wakens from his nightmare. But was it REALLY a dream? Maybe. Or maybe not. See if you can decide.

"The Amazing 2000-Hour Flashlight" shows how to add a 30-cent resistor to a $5 flashlight and create a light that produces useful illumination for 2000 hours on the same battery. Detailed instructions. 54 illustrations. A half-hour project. No soldering required! The standard for "useful light" is defined and various lights compared to it. Brand names and part numbers and where to buy them (Home Depot, Radio Shack, etc.) are all identified. Related topics include bypassing the resistor, rechargeable batteries, and how to substitute other battery sizes. "Don't be afraid of the dark," we chide our children. "Don't be a 'fraidy cat." Really? An underground parking garage in a blackout is intimidating. Getting the right prescription out of the medicine closet in the dark will make a 'fraidy cat out of anybody. Delivering a baby in the dark is life-and-death. But you can take control. For a very small sum you can have a flashlight that runs for weeks at a time on the same battery. What do they say? Do it now while it's fresh in your mind. Two free bonuses are included: (1) a chapter from "Lanterns, Lamps & Candles" (a different book on lighting by the same author) and (2) a chapter from "The Prepper's Guide to Food Storage" by Gaye Levy (proprietor of the Web site Backdoor Survival).

★★★ Reader Feedback: Best in the series. Rare and stellar information. - John Decatur ● Alcohol Mantle Lamps is Book 8 of our Non-Electric Lighting Series. Unfortunately, when we get to "alcohol lamps," the term conjures up a vision of a lab-type lamp with a small wick and almost invisible flame. Alcohol MANTLE lamps, the subject of this book, are a different animal altogether. Lanterns that use mantles produce light on par with electric light bulbs. ● In France, Tito-Landi (brand) alcohol-burning mantle lamps (producing 100+ watts-worth of light) were produced from before World War One until the 1970's. There was nothing comparable in the USA. We lived in the shadow of Standard Oil and General Motors. ● As a lamp fuel, alcohol has some advantages over petroleum-based fuels. ● For one thing, alcohol does not degrade in storage. For another, alcohol produces less carbon monoxide than ANY petroleum-based fuel making it a better choice for indoor use. Third, in an emergency situation, alcohol (as lamp fuel) can supply a solution that most people are not aware even exists. You can pick up some 91% rubbing alcohol while others are searching for propane cylinders. (Although you do need the appropriate lantern. You cannot just dump alcohol in your Coleman and burn it.) ● Lastly, alcohol is perhaps the ultimate survival fuel. In Europe, World War Two saw many restrictions on petroleum products. So farmers made what was essentially high-proof moonshine and burned it in their lanterns. Primus (a Swedish brand of lantern similar to Coleman) even introduced a lineup of alcohol-burning models. ● Unfortunately, Primus alcohol-burning lanterns are expensive collectibles today. On the upside, this book shows how to convert three relatively common gas-burning mantle lanterns to alcohol. ● This is hard info to come by in the USA. I was in contact with several European collectors while writing this book. It's info that, at the very least, you should have tucked away for future reference. Are you interested in prepping? This is prepping. ● Alcohol Mantle Lamps contains 11,000 words, 85 B&W illustrations, and is 87 pages long. It's available in Kindle eBook format as well as paper. ● This is an 8-book series. The quickest way to see the other titles is [1] to click on the Follow the Author link elsewhere on this page. Or [2] if you're not in Amazon as you read this, copy-and-paste "the non-electric lighting series" (including the quote marks) into the Google search bar.

★★★ Reader Feedback: I learned more about kerosene pressure lanterns in 30 minutes with this book than anyone ever told me and more than I'd learned in hours of watching YouTube . . . I highly recommend this book and the other books in the series. - totallyfrozen ● Kerosene Pressure Lanterns is Book 6 of our Non-Electric Lighting Series. Lanterns that use mantles produce light on par with electric lights. And KEROSENE mantle lanterns have an advantage over Coleman-fuel lamps in that kerosene is more generic, more widely available. ● The book has four main sections - (1) It describes six different Coleman models, old and new, made specifically for kerosene. Collector items (expensive) and orphans (no spare parts) are ignored. The emphasis is on practical, day-to-day lighting. (2) It gives the specifics on converting nine different Coleman gas lanterns to kerosene (what generator to use, etc.). (3) It explains Petromax lanterns, a pre-World War II German design. Today, world-wide, there are actually more Petromax lanterns (and Petromax clones) in existence than Coleman. (4) And it explains Aladdin lamps, kerosene lamps that use a mantle but are not pressurized. Aladdins are over a hundred years old and a new model was recently introduced - the first new model in 50 years! ● Kerosene Pressure Lanterns contains 25,000 words, 168 B7W illustrations, and is 155 pages long. It's available in Kindle eBook format as well as paper. ● AND - oh yes! - this book identifies eleven different lantern models that, given the right generator-mantle combo, will operate on diesel fuel. That alone is worth the price of admission! ● If you picture yourself being forced to live off-grid for an extended period of time, then THIS is the book you need. You don't have to cook supper or fix the car or deliver a baby by the light of a candle. You can have light equivalent to a 50 or 100 or 200 or 300-watt electric bulb. Pressurized kerosene lanterns come from another day and age but are known, established, reliable technology. This book is not artsy-fartsy. It's nitty-gritty. ★★★ Reader Feedback: I have owned several kerosene mantle lamps over the last 40 years . . . if you are interested [in kerosene mantle lamps], then I don't know of a better source of information. - PLM ● This is an 8-book series. The quickest way to see the other titles is [1] to click on the Follow the Author link elsewhere on this page. Or [2] if you're not in Amazon as you read this, copy-and-paste "the non-electric lighting series" (include the quote marks) into the Google search bar.

★★★ Reader Feedback: Outstanding article! One of the BEST, I've ever read or seen on any preparedness website. Well Done! (and thank you!!) - TPS ● Propane for Preppers is Book 7 of our Non-Electric Lighting Series. Much of the material in Book 7 came from a 5-part series of articles in the blog Backdoor Survival. Hence the reader's above-quoted mention of "article." ● Lanterns that use mantles produce light on par with electric light bulbs. And PROPANE mantle lanterns have advantages over liquid-fueled lanterns. ● For one thing, propane does not degrade in storage. You can store it for fifty years. It's still the same stuff. Hook it up and it works. What other petroleum-based fuel can you say that about? ● And propane is convenient compared to liquid fuels. No messy spills. No stinky rags. Certainly that's worth something. ● This book covers safety (from crystal meth to carbon monoxide); step-by-step refilling of one-pounders from 20-pound BBQ tanks (with the emphasis on SAFETY); long-term storage of one-pounders; and many real-life comments & words of advice from readers who saw the original article series. ● Propane for Preppers contains 23,000 words, 45 B&W illustrations, and is 116 pages long. It's available in Kindle eBook format as well as paper. ● This is an 8-book series. The quickest way to see the other titles is [1] to click on the Follow the Author link elsewhere on this page. Or [2] if you're not in Amazon as you read this, copy-and-paste "the non-electric lighting series" (including the quote marks) into the Google search bar.

★★★ Reader Feedback: Yabadabadoo! Read it from cover to cover upon receipt. Great info, perspective, and writing style. - Brian Swift ● Coleman Gas Lanterns is Book 5 of our Non-Electric Lighting Series. At this point, we've gone through candles and olive oil lamps and kerosene wick-type lamps and we've arrived at Book 5 - Coleman Gas Lanterns. Translation: It's time to hop off the porch and hitch up your big-boy pants. ★★★ Reader Feedback: If you collect or use semi-vintage Coleman lanterns you want this book. So much of the information was new to me even after 40 years of using them. The information on fuels other than Coleman-brand naphtha (white gas) is worth many times the price. - Reasonable Rascal ● Coleman Gas Lanterns contains 11,500 words, 67 B&W illustrations, and is 70 pages long. It's available in Kindle eBook format as well as paper. ★★★ Reader Feedback: A very good, informative book . . . I'm glad I bought it. - Todd Benson ● Pressure lanterns, though not as convenient as throwing a wall switch, will produce light on par with electric. ● Do you know the difference between Coleman Quick-Lite and Coleman Instant-Lite? You probably should if you're into prepping. It's nice to speak the language. It's nice to go to a flea market and know what you're looking at. ● Do the newer Coleman Dual Fuel lanterns really burn automobile gas like the ads say? This book has some first-hand test results. Plus recommendations about what to buy and what to avoid. ● And this book has an excellent section on carbon monoxide. YouTube has both good info and bad on carbon monoxide. But do you know which is which? Wouldn't it be nice to REALLY understand it? Well, the opportunity is at hand. ★★★ Reader Feedback: Best book I've read on gasoline pressure lanterns . . . I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by all the good information in it. - totallyfrozen ★★★ Reader Feedback: Great . . . Gave as gift and they loved it. - Amazon Customer ● This is an 8-book series. The quickest way to see the other titles is [1] to click on the Follow the Author link elsewhere on this page. Or [2] if you're not in Amazon as you read this, copy-and-paste "the non-electric lighting series" (include the quote marks) into the Google search bar.

The first edition of this book ("The AMAZING 2000-Hour Flashlight") contained 54 illustrations. This edition ("The NEW 2000-Hour Flashlight") contains 128 illustrations. The first edition showed how to modify one flashlight, a specific Eveready model, such that it ran 2000 hours on one battery. Unfortunately, Eveready has replaced that particular light with newer models. This edition shows how to obtain extended run times using other brands - one of which runs 2200 hours, better than the original. (Incidentally, 2200 hours equates to three months of continuous running, night and day.) In general, the modifications or "hacks" are accomplished by adding a resistor (30 cents) to a $5 flashlight. Simplicity is the watchword. Wire glue (a glue containing carbon that conducts electricity) can be used in place of solder. Wire glue eliminates soldering and reduces the task from a techie project to Junior High School level. What with floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, typhoons, earthquakes, blizzards, and downed power lines, there's always a blackout somewhere. If people in general knew the information in this book, life would be a lot easier for a lot of folks.

★★★ Reader Feedback: Absolutely a MUST-READ for anyone using non-electric lighting . . . I have a college degree in fire protection and worked for years in the petroleum industry . . . I still learned things from this book . . . I can testify that he's correct in the information he shares . . . Enough talk. Just GET THIS BOOK! - totallyfrozen ● Lamp Fuels is Book 3 of The Non-Electric Lighting Series. As soon as we graduate from candles and olive oil to kerosene, the door opens onto the crazy world of bad Internet information about lamp and lantern fuels. We really need to understand this stuff. And that's the purpose of Book 3. ● From the FOREWORD to Book 3: >"I want to assure the reader that the information presented in this book is accurate. The topics, written from a lamp-fuel and lantern-fuel point of view, have been simplified but with full confidence I can state that what is presented is correct. "Please don't burn your house down. Please don't place your family at risk. Please take the time to read these few pages. Please, please, please. READ THE BOOK." - Ester S. Adkisson ★★★ Reader Feedback: A must-have for your library. - shadow ★★★ Reader Feedback: Finally I know what kerosene and mineral spirits are . . . I am so pleased to actually get real honest answers . . . Mr. Brown thank you. - rock hound grandma ● Lamp Fuels contains 12,000 words, 23 B&W illustrations, and is 70 pages long. ● This is an 8-book series. The quickest way to see the other titles is [1] to click on the Follow the Author link elsewhere on this page. Or [2] if you're not in Amazon as you read this, copy-and-paste "the non-electric lighting series" (including the quote marks) into the Google search bar.

★★★ Reader Feedback: Five Stars. Everything I expected and more! - NE ● Kerosene Lamps is Book 4 of our Non-Electric Lighting Series. It covers wick-type kerosene lamps and lanterns and is intended for users, not antique dealers. How can we generate LIGHT? That is the question. ● Fuel substitutes, safety, operating procedures, maintenance, repair, and various lamp styles are the topics. Things to look for when buying used. Cost effectiveness. Homemade lamps. Candlepower. Those are the topics discussed. Collector value? Never mentioned. ★★★ Reader Feedback: Everyone should read this. - R.L. Ake ● This book covers the simple flat-wick lamps sold today in every Walmart and Family Dollar. But there's quite a bit more to it than that. ● As an adult, I happened to be at my parent's home one evening when a blackout occurred. My mother sent me to check on an elderly woman, a 90-year-old family friend, who lived alone. When she came to the door, I was stunned by the kerosene lamp she had burning in the living room. Whereas the kerosene lamp my parents kept tucked away for emergencies gave off light on par with a 71/2-watt nightlight, this woman's lamp was more like a 40-watt light bulb. It was not a Coleman lantern that hissed or needed pumping up. It was merely a wick-fed table lamp that ran on kerosene. The brand name was Rayo. Check 'em out on eBay. ● I later discovered that Rayos were on the market 20 years before Colemans. The Rayo wick, instead of being flat, was tubular, like a sock. The fire at the top of the wick formed a ring. Light output was striking. ● When I got home and told my mother about it, she smiled. "Oh yes. And in England they used to have Duplex lamps. They had two wicks instead of one. That's what they used during the War." Turns out Duplexes were introduced 30 years before Rayos. And gave off almost as much light as a Rayo. ● What?! How could I have grown up so ignorant? This is technology from Grandpa's day. Surely, I MUST be a step ahead of Grandpa, no? ● Then again, maybe not. Maybe it's time to just back up a step and see what we've forgotten. I think most folks will be surprised. ★★★ Reader Feedback: I used to collect kerosene lamps and lanterns and have used them for decades. I still learned a lot from this book that I'd never known. In my opinion, this whole series is a must-have for every prepper or off-grid dweller. - totallyfrozen ★★★ Reader Feedback: Great source of general information on kerosene lanterns, parts, fuel, and technical information. A welcome addition to my library. - Charles T. Eilenstein ● Kerosene Lamps contains 10,000 words, 85 B&W illustrations, and is 61 pages long. It's available in Kindle eBook format as well as paper. ● This is an 8-book series. The quickest way to see the other titles is [1] to click on the Follow the Author link elsewhere on this page. Or [2] if you're not in Amazon as you read this, copy-and-paste "the non-electric lighting series" (including quote marks) into the Google search bar.

Toronto's Lost Villages leads the reader and the day-tripper to the many historic sites and streetscapes that mark long lost stage stops, mill villages, and railway communities, now engulfed by a surging city.

Explore eastern Canada's railway heritage, including stations from the late 1850s, grand hotels, bridges, and roundhouses of this era.

Once the economic and social lifeblood of Canada, the country's railways and heritage stations are a fading part of the patrimony of communities across the nation.

Travel across Ontario and visit Ontarios heritage jails, ranging in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail.

Whether you hike, bike, ride the rails, or drive, the shore of Lake Ontario can yield a treasure trove of heritage sites and natural beauty - if you know where to look. Travel with Ron Brown as he probes the shoreline of the Canadian side of Lake Ontario to discover its hidden heritage. Explore "ghost ports," forgotten coves, historical lighthouses, rumrunning lore, and even the location of a top-secret spy camp. The area also contains some unusual natural features, including a mysterious mountain-top lake, sand dunes, and the rare albars of Prince Edward County. From small communities to the megacity of Toronto, history lives on in the buildings, bridges, canals, rail lines, and homes that have survived, and in the stories, both well-known and long-forgotten, of the people and places no longer here. In From Queenston to Kingston, Ron Brown provides today's explorer's with a window into Ontario's not so distant past and shares a hope that, in future, progress and historical preservation go hand in hand.

The Lake Erie shoreline has borne witness to some of Ontario's earliest history, yet remains largely unspoiled. Ron Brown has traversed this most southern coastline in Ontario, fleshing out forgotten stories of the past.

Pubs of Portsmouth From Old Photographs offers a captivating glimpse into the history of some of Portsmouth's most famous pubs. This charming collection of photographs provides the reader with a visual representation of Portsmouth's pubs. Drawing upon an eclectic collection of photographs, Ron Brown presents the reader with an insight into the history and life of the pubs in this area. Pubs of Portsmouth From Old Photographs provides something for everyone, whether they have lived in Portsmouth all their lives, or whether they are just visiting this vibrant town. It also shows how photography has continually evolved to keep up with an ever-changing society.

A classic work on beekeeping returns in paperback. Packed with expert advice for beekeepers of all levels, this charming and practical guide contains in-depth but simple instructions for all the techniques you need, from choosing your own hive to harvesting the tastiest honey.