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Clearing Vietnam': Anatomy of a U.S. Army Land Clearing Team, captures the sights, sounds, and unusual encounters of a young combat engineer who found himself operating a specialized bulldozer within the dense jungles of South Vietnam. It was a place where hard work, grueling conditions and enemy encounters forced this ninteen year old to grow up, while learning what it would ultimately take to help assure his survivability there. After all the many years removed from that distant land, and its seemingly endless inner turmoil, this detailed memoir serves to bring it all back into the light; to project the viewpoint and perspective of a common combat engineer, as he performed a not-so-common task, in operating a Rome Plow tractor, while somewhat reluctantly serving an elongated, but highly educational tour of duty in a place that seemed so desolately remote, at the time. Moreover, this detailed account also highlights the achievements and dedicated spirit of the members of a unique Engineer outfit, which evolved from a rag-tag platoon of Land Clearing pioneers, to eventually achieve Company status, within an unprecedented new battlion formation, comprised entirely of Land Clearing units. Essentially, this is a nuts and bolts and sweat and blood window view of a very different sort of wartime experience.

Owen imagined himself as the hero in his mother's stories. But when the fires of war that burned far from his village scorched his life, everything changed. Rising from the ashes of his destroyed village, Owen is chosen by an ancient power that he knows nothing about nor why it has chosen him. While other survivors find ways to cope with their new lives, Owen struggles with what has happened while the haunting words whispered to him swirl in his mind, "Death follows you... Druid."A Druid Rises is the first book in a Fantasy Adventure series. Readers have compared it to other titles such as The Lord Of The Rings, Dragonlance Saga, and Forgotten Realms Series. It is intended for young adult and older audiences and contains explicit language, graphic violence, and sexual innuendo.

The Myth Makers is a Greek tale inspired by the life story of Peter Charles Zaloumis. Its theme is based on the ancient Greek belief that everything in the universe is spiritually connected. The terms tale and Odyssey take on new meanings in this book. A tale is defined as a story based on reality, which eventually becomes crowned with grandeur by real experiences and on mythological interpretations of these experiences. Peter's Odyssey is a biography-the story of a long and dangerous journey with many stops and adventures in mythical settings. Poetry, as a mirror of life, is used throughout this book to reflect and illuminate the meaning of Peter's mystical encounters and adventures. While the story of Peter's life told herein is true, some of the characters he met on his journey, and the conversations with them, might best be considered mythology.

Sturgeon Fever is a fisherman`s tale where Mike Stone is a thirty-something year old union pipefitter and Sturgeon fishing guide who is just getting by. He is a rough around the edges kind of guy who rolls with the punches, a fighter and a lover who enjoys being single and playing the field. He loves working on his 1970 El Camino and his vintage 76 F.L.H., Harley Davidson motorcycle. Mike lives in a rented cabin on a vacant estate with his beloved dog, Apollo, in the foothills of Martinez, overlooking three oil refineries, the historical Mothball Fleet and the Glomar Explorer. He feels most at home on the water in his boat "The Sturgeon General". Times are a little slow and money is tight but life in general is going along just the way he wants it, when his high school sweetheart appears out of nowhere. That`s when the trouble begins, as Olivia West is running for her life from Stone`s lifetime rival, Eric Zachary, aka E.Z. Eric is a hardcore gangster who mysteriously inherited his family business, an industrial shop on the shore next to the Mothball Fleet. Mike manages to out fox Eric once again and now the hunted becomes the hunter. The thought returns, "What have I gotten myself into this time?"

Part Time Nomads: Traveling the World by Bicycle, is part memoir, part travelogue, and one hundred percent ode to taking on crazy challenges no matter your age or life situation. The book focuses on our evolution from weekend cyclists to fully loaded, self-contained cycle international bicycle travelers. Averaging eight miles an hour, we braved rain and snow and junk food, learning hard lessons about bad maps, road-hogging motor homes, and the unpredictable road ahead.Mile by mile, our endurance and ambition increased. Soon we ventured further afield. Being together 24/7, attempting things we'd never done before, wasn't always easy. Our friends thought we were crazy, but loved our tales of plunging into icy rivers, singing to ward off bears, and tossing salad in a grocery bag. The people we met, in campgrounds and dive bars, were as memorable as the places.Animating these stories is the incredible rush of getting places under my own steam, being self-reliant, and re-learning that Jim and I worked pretty damned well as a team, reigniting a passion not only for cycling, but for each other.

One Golden Spike is the multi-faceted memoir of J.J. Gearhart, a woman who earns one of the first athletic scholarships for women to Stanford University. There, she plans to study pre-medicine so she can cure her mother's mysterious autoimmune illness. She is 100% a mama's girl.Mama Jo's suffering fuels J.J.'s ambitions as she struggles to be seen as more than a "dumb jock" who took an admissions spot away from a "more deserving" intellectual. Balancing the demands of athletic competition with the rigors of the pre-medical workload challenges J.J.'s mental and physical limits. Then she learns women who try to break into the male-dominated worlds of intercollegiate athletics and pre-medical studies face dangerous and sometimes unintended consequences. After to be acknowledged in the classroom and on the court, she sinks into imposter syndrome and despair. Her heroine's journey is full of obstacles, some financial and class, some of her own making. Yet J.J.'s iron-will and sense of humor allow her to restart her career and help propel Stanford volleyball from the lower ranks of the AIAW to the NCAA national championships. With a flourish of feminism and a sprinkle of the strange and magical culture that was Stanford in the 1980s, J.J. learns to love the liberal arts and appreciate the unbreakable bonds of teammates.

Join Ronan O'Neill, a Coast Guard Viet Nam War hero and now a civil litigator, and the people around him who form the nucleus of his life, as he tells from his perspective about several of his paramount relationship changes and how his life course begins to shift in his middle years, including unexpected forays into the world of high fashion. Ronan's career in the Coast Guard Reserve nears its end. Yet, his legal work, anchored in California while spanning many U.S. jurisdictions, becomes more dramatic and complex in its scope and increasingly entangled with an intertwining of interests in some European Union financial markets and with world-renowned scientists in the United Kingdom and France.While deeply enmeshed in his primary workload, an old client from Upstate New York calls on Ronan to assist with a dreadful accident involving its signature product line in a small, difficult to access county in the California hills where much of the Gold Rush played out almost 150 years before. Ever loyal to this past client and despite his overwhelming workload and his evolving personal relationships, Ronan undertakes his old friend's request for his defense efforts in this area known as The Gold Country.This third novel provides Ronan's autobiographical view of what, on the reflection of his later years, may be part of the highest plateau of his career in law while he is undergoing massive personal changes that will reshape how he will face much of the remainder of his life.

"Memories of my Father," is a heartfelt biographical portrait of Elvin L. Burk, as told by his son, Ray Burk. Elvin Burk was born June 29, 1917 into a quintessential American farming family in rural Indiana, near Union City. Like so many of his generation, the story of Elvin's life is a portrait and an example of what is good and meaningful in life. Firmly guided throughout his life with rock-solid values, those who knew Elvin Burk knew him as an honest, hard-working, family-focused man who could always be depended upon. He lived his life with compassion, always believing that "Everyone has a heart," and that is the message, and lesson, that his son, Ray Burk, hopes to share with you, through this book.

The Long Distance Man is a story of travel and adventure; about how one can see the world by working their way to all the fabulous countries one might dream of visiting. I was born with an adventurous soul-one who enjoyed reading about the South Seas, Captain Cook, and other great sailors. When I read those stories, I thought, "I could do that!" And so, at age seventeen, I began my travels. Along the way, I met some interesting people, including Robert Mitchum, Bing Crosby, Governor Patrick Lucy and his wife, the Italian Ambassador to Egypt, actor Robert Conrad, James A. Michener, M.S. Faulkner, Johnny Cash, Jack Jones, and many other celebrities. I even met the Dalai Lama, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip (in 1953), and Chelsie Clinton at Stanford, California. Travel along with me and experience the sights

Lolo lost someone precious in her world. Lane also lost someone precious in her world. Little Max holds the key for both. However, dark forces in each world have their own interest.

This collection of essays from Eric Kallins takes the reader on a pleasurable ride down memory lane, as easygoing as an impromptu Sunday drive. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Eric Kallins was part of the wave of the county's young people migrating to coastal cities during the heyday of the 1960s. First landing in Santa Cruz, Kallins rubbed elbows with an infamous cult leader. He then went south to Los Angeles where he worked in the music industry playing with friends who would become industry giants. Traveling north, Kallins moved to Petaluma where he self-produced an album of original music, before landing in the "Hidden City," where he currently resides. You can find him performing stand up and playing music in distinguished San Francisco Bay Area clubs. This satisfying collection of succinct vignettes from Eric Kallins feels at once familiar and surprising, like speaking with a very dear old friend after a long absence.