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Joseph Halz returned to his Southern roots from the Vietnam War a broken, hollow soul. Unsure and aimless at first, but searching for meaning, he struggles to rekindle old relationships and a lost love only to have his dreams dashed and his expectations shattered.Always the seeker, he explores new possibilities and finally finds redemption and grace when he accepts the spiritual path he was destined to walk.

Tomorrow Won't Be Any Better is a collection of short stories in the noir fiction genre, where the protagonists are morally compromised, the settings are raw and gritty, and the bleakness of human nature is revealed. A fun-read for those attracted to the dark side of human existence.

A detective moves into a retirement community. He begins to think a resident's death may have been murder when he hears stories about what some of the more wacky residents say about the building. He believes they may be providing clues to solving the mysteries.With the help of two unlikely sets of helpers, twin little girls and feral cats, he puts the puzzle pieces together to solve the mysteries of both the building, the murder, and the people who are responsible.

It has been said that, as human beings, we are hardwired to believe that objects speak to us. Lucas Steiner, Luke to his friends, is a PhD candidate at one of the larger universities. On his last term extension and running out of time to complete his dissertation, Luke comes to believe that a five-hundred-year-old unknown, and undocumented drawing is talking to him. He is surprised that no one else can hear it. He believes that this drawing is the work of Pieter Brueghel, The Elder.In his effort to prove the existence, establish the provenance, and make known to the world Brueghel's lost drawing, Luke will experience loss, separation, and conflict. Amid the morass of structured bureaucratic lethargy and the extreme animosity of a department superior, Luke will confront the persistent presence of a pernicious evil stemming back to 16th Century Belgium and the blood-stained legacy of the Duke of Alba-the Iron Duke.

Good With Dogs and Cats: The Adventures of Healing Weintraub is a novel about a man who helps dogs and cats resolve their difficulties with humans, and vice-versa. Set in the small town of Mercy on the far north coast of California, Good With Dogs and Cats spans a decade in the life of Healing Weintraub and his friends and relations, both animal and human. Mystery and romance and comedy abound in this poignant tale brimming with fascinating insights into the minds and hearts of dogs and cats and people.

This was my private war. The streets were a battlefield. We were fighting over drugs and risking death. The syringes we used were filthy, we would get infected by diseases, but we didn't care. I was tired from running, hiding, hustling, and stealing.So I escaped and signed up for the Army. But, the Army gave me orders to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, which was close to Clarksville; I was back to the streets, back to my private hell.The junky, however, was excited, "We are going back to the crib; you are going to have a paycheck twice a month; that's enough money to go have fun in the hood all over again!" he screamed.I had come full circle; I desperately wanted to get cured but couldn't get the cure. I was so close to getting better, yet I was so far from the cure.

WALKING GONE WILD, How to lose your age on the trail, second edition, is a fact-filled book about how women can re-invigorate life as they age. Chapters guide women to outfit, train, and prepare to thrive walking the road ahead. Sprinkled with stories of real women who discover a new model of aging with vitality, grace, and a deep connection to life, the book provides the how-to of overcoming obstacles to developing a walking lifestyle.The book offers chapters on outfitting, training and preparing for hiking and backpacking for the older woman with the author's trail journal entries sprinkled throughout. Even though the book is directed at women50plus, any woman (and man) interested in developing a walking lifestyle can benefit from reading this book and learning about the road ahead.

Not all ghost towns are in the old west. At one time, Singapore, Michigan sat on the eastern edge of Lake Michigan, across the water from Chicago. Simone Fields lived there until 1873, when she and her husband were forced to leave the milling town.It is now 2023 and Simone cannot rest in peace. A grave injustice was done almost two centuries ago and she enlists the help of Annie Prescott to help her find answers. Annie is now living in Simone's Singapore-built home which was moved to Saugatuck, Michigan in 1873.Readers will enjoy Simone's life story in this engaging and charming tale of two women, living in different centuries, coming together to unravel a 180-year-old mystery.Some of the characters in this book really lived in Singapore during those years; others are fictional. When the settlement was inhabited, it was home to approximately 300 residents who lived through the worst blizzard imaginable. They saw a bank scandal and a sad and untimely end to their beloved community.Singapore was only on the map for 35 years but to the residents who lived there, it would always be home.

Manny thought he could forget everything that his military tenure in Echo Bay, Hawaii had thrown at him. An off-the-books quest into an exotic world inside of the television. The decade-long war that soon followed and the whispers of a mysterious "3-D Soldier" designed to turn the tide. Despite their heroism, an eleventh hour contingency was deployed seconds before annihilation and the mission was abandoned, leaving most of the soldiers trapped inside to face a horrible fate.Now, having escaped back into our world with only survivors remorse to his name, Manny could only find comfort in despair. But something sinister has crawled out of the television and is looking for Manny...and revenge. Now with his family in unimaginable danger and the skeletons of a harrowing past strewn out for the world to seem Manny must find the strength to confront the nightmare within...before its too late.

October Rain by J.W. Dunn is a historical novel relating the story of Thurston Knox and his family as they struggle to survive and prosper on his eighty-acre farm in North Louisiana in 1906. Beset by weather, a son's rebellion, sickness, and death of loved ones, Thurston worries about his own impending death-a condition he has hidden from his family and continues pushing himself to plant an additional ten acres of cotton, determined to make his farm provide for his family after he is gone. However, his stubborn resolution precipitates events that threaten to destroy his family.

Twelve-year-old computer hacker Nick Ryan thinks his popular, athletic, and disgustingly perfect teenage sister is the biggest pain in Portland, Oregon. But when Justine is kidnapped by a man intent on computer fraud, Nick figures he is the one to save her.Dodging the police, who suspect HIM, Nick finds clues and connections all the adults have missed. But who will believe him? Only his best friend, the humorous Herbie. Their adventures start with computer hacking but expand to include enough breaking and entering to enrage the police and other powerful adults. Finally, Nick and Herbie find the courage to confront a danger no one else has even imagined.And Nick and Herbie both learn that one need not be a star athlete, to indeed be a hero.

Heidi A. Jurka escorts us on a captivating adventure of blissful consciousness expansion mixed with dire real-life challenges. Her intuitive glimmerings as a child living in the Hudson Valley in New York evolved to her becoming a professional psychic by her early 20's living in California.Heidi awakened bolt upright one morning to an absolute certainty that she must return to NY. She arrived just in time to attend unprecedented classes offered by Dr. Andrija Puharich, renowned parapsychologist, physicist, author and inventor in Ossining, NY. Puharich was most well known for bringing intuitive/telekinesis expert Uri Geller to the USA, whose skilled were studied, tested and ultimately validated at Stanford Research Institute by the CIA in 1973.As the classes continued Puharich interviewed Heidi about her own extensive psychic experiences. In 1977 she was invited to participate in mind-travel Faraday Cage sessions facilitated by Puharich. Dubbed one of his "space kids," she was his assistant and study subject for over two years during important events including the Mind Link and the Pachita Project in Mexico City. She credits telepathy for her escape from the devastating fire at his home/lab in 1978.Heidi's lifelong journey of resiliency before and after these events along with amazingly positive and decisive synchronicities will keep her readers enthralled.

The character of the Montagutesi men and women was formed over centuries in the crucible of war, feudalism, religious strife, the black death, political corruption, and banditry. A strong Catholic faith and family honor were important aspects of that character; they provided glimmers of hope in a seemingly hopeless world and kept the Montagutesi from total despair.Follow the lives of members of real Montagutesi families (many of them related to the author) over the course of six centuries. Eventually, many of these family members saw only one hope for their future and that of their children; they made the difficult decision to emigrate to the USA.The tragic events that kept the Montagutesi in poverty and hopelessness for centuries were widespread throughout Southern Italy. Thus, this historical novel will resonate with any descendant of a Southern Italian or Sicilian ancestor, or anyone valuing the escape from bondage.

You've probably had some interest in tracking your family tree back several generations or more. With currently developed gene editing techniques, scientists are now able to trace human heritage, as well as all life, back to our ultimate common ancestor who lived several billion years ago! This book unveils the transformative journey leading from Earth's earliest living single cell to the remarkable multicellular creature you see looking back at you in the mirror each morning.Human's ultimate development that transformed us from just another ho-hum animal into the planet's supreme species is also examined, along with the effect this development had on other humans as well as other contemporary life forms. Our range of emotions and the ensuing motivation for action are analyzed with regard to our psychological self-interests. We discuss how, despite these strongly engrained self-interests, humans still regularly manage to produce what most would agree is unqualified altruistic behavior. We also see how our basic five senses provide us with a range of interest and pleasures beyond just their self-survival purposes.We also examine our insatiable adventuresome spirit, which led to the colonization of the entire world and now spurs us to dream of migrating to other planets, as well as to live in orbit in outer space. The mesmerizing idea of producing robots in our own image, with even superior mental faculties, is also reviewed. We discuss why some of these goals and ideas appear totally fanciful, but also recognize that reality has often sprouted from what was once considered whimsical imagination.

Richard Diamond is on vacation in Cancun Mexico, the beaches are white sand and the water is azure blue. Warm days and cool nights, life is great. Then Richard receives a distress call on his home phone back in Virginia. He is soon whisked away from Mexico and sent deep into the newly emerging conflict in the Ukraine. Two British spies have been captured and one of them has sent Richard a distress call. This plunges Richard into the bribery and corruption of the Secretary of State, Harriet Clifton and the sale of the United States support for its allies. Richard and the CIA are soon tracking down the evidence needed to show the collusion between the sitting president, Barry O'Brien and his Secretary of State, Harriet Clifton; with the Russians and other corrupt characters within the government.Richard CIA is the second in a series of spy novels that follow our reluctant hero from his time in the Marine Coupe in Richard Diamond USMC. The characters portrayed are based partly on personal experience and associations with the characters portrayed. The incidents, locations, and characters are based on real people that live their live out in the news every day. This is the story behind the news. Richard Diamond and the other protagonist portrayed in Richard Diamond CIA place their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the line every day to defend freedom and the United States in the far-reaching corners of the globe.

Lieutenant Richard Diamond is riding high. His career is solid in Quantico, Virginia, he can fish in the creek behind is cabin just outside DC, he's up for a promotion, and he's dating a beautiful woman. Little does he know a new assignment will plunge him body, mind, and spirit into the Iraqi desert. The assignment seems easy enough: deliver night vision goggles and laser targeting computers to SEAL Team One. More like a babysitting job, he thinks.Wrong. As the delivery gets underway, Richard and SEAL Team One come under heavy fire. Evading the enemy, they become deeply embroiled in shock and awe as the Iraq War of 2003 gets underway. Two days in, Richard and his team are called off the dangerous forward targeting mission and sent to track down the disposition of WMDs-Weapons of Mass Destruction. How they escape a column of advancing Iraqi Army Guard will have you turning pages as fast as you can read.Based on real incidences and real people, Richard Diamond, USMC drops you into the middle of the action, right alongside SEAL Team One and the rapid domination strategy the US launched to eventually bring down Saddam Hussein.Richard Diamond, USMC, is the first in a series of fast-paced adventure novels.Although based on actual events, the names, locations, and crises in this novel have been changed and partially fabricated. Any relationship to any persons, real or imagined, is completely coincidental.

Richard Diamond FBI is the third in a series of spy novels that follow our reluctant hero from his time in the Marine Coupe in Richard Diamond USMC thru Richard Diamond CIA. The characters portrayed are based partly on personal experience and associations with the characters portrayed. The incidents, locations, and characters are based on real people that live their lives out in the news every day. Richard Diamond and the other protagonist portrayed place their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the line every day to defend freedom and the United States in the far-reaching corners of the globe. Diamond investigates and chases down a suspected Pakistani terrorist from the DNC in Miami to Cuba and on to Libya. Can Diamond capture the fleeing terrorist before he escapes into the tribal areas of Pakistan? Can the US capture him and gain the information needed to recover a stash of Stinger Missiles given to the Muslim Brotherhood by Sec. of State Harriot Clifton?Espionage, terrorist, spies, money and sex; it's all in life of a reluctant protagonist, Richard Diamond.

Christmas with my brother Wolfgang written by Suzanne Pollock takes you on a fun trip back in time to spend the Christmas season in the beautiful country of Austria.Wolfgang Mozart still remains a world famous composer. Yet, we discovered after extensive research that Maria Anna Mozart who was five years older than her brother was indeed his earliest teacher. She loved her younger brother and saw his talent so she taught him technique then wrote down his music with her quill pen.Wolfgang became her partner because he would then sing her piano melodies over and over so she could write them down. As children they loved to play together outside on wintry days with the neighbor kids having snowball fights. We also learned that Wolfgang nicknamed Wolfi wrote daily letters to his sister Maria Anna, nicknamed Nannerl every single day of his life from everyplace in the world until his early death. Imagine no phones, no online communication , instead the letters were carried by horseback to him everywhere in the world that Wolfgang was preforming.Friendship and love for one another topped off by their love of music was the lifeline for this talented brother and sister.This book also delves into the Christmas traditions of the time including a visit from ChristKind.Thank you for reading Christmas with my brother Wolfgang. I hope you experience the fun of their Christmas season as the love of music filled the Mozart home at Nr9 Salzburg, Austria.

The Age of Sail wrought the greatest change to the world in the history of mankind; possibly until the Age of Space Exploration. From 1450 to 1850 the Western world experienced explosive and violent change, most of it brought about by the great sailing ships of the era, and driven by the personal ambition for power and riches in a handful of men and women, who in many cases didn't have a clue what they were getting into. Today, this exciting era receives just superficial coverage; names, dates and what was accomplished. But, behind these were real people, and digging into their lives can bring up startling facts:¿ Columbus spent much of his life as a pirate.¿ Magellan wasn't the first to circumvent the globe.¿ Horatio Nelson, England's greatest naval hero, suffered from violent seasickness.¿ America's most famous lightkeeper, recognized for saving as many as 32 drowning men over 52 years, was a woman.¿ Women served as crew in the British Navy, and fought alongside their husbands; a two-year-old boy served as a midshipman, and babies were born on Nelson's flagship during both the Battles of Trafalgar and the Nile.¿ The British monarchy financed and provided oversight for the largest slave transport company in history.History can be humorous, surprising, and even shocking, and, it is anything but dull.

So you thought you'd never read poetry.The author has taken from his library some of his best works and woven them into a narrative of snapshots in his life and to give you a 'coat of many colours'.This is modern day, topical, varied poetry, interlaced with thoughts and observations directed at you, the reader.This book will appeal to a range of ages. Poems that span time and subjects relevant to today's reader.This diverse book will stir the emotions, make you laugh, make you cry and make you want to read again and again.

Who am I? Why am I here? What is my life's purpose? This writer asked herself those questions after recognizing that her functioning roles left an emptiness and a feeling of profound loss.Cheryl Armstrong instinctively knew that changing jobs, attending a different spiritual center, reading another self-help book, and expanding her circle of influence still left her seeking more reflective meaning. Her path forward would be a concentrated and inward journey.In the year-long self-directed inquiry, she found her voice and powerfully reconnected to her Source while doing the inner work.This is a personal story of liberation, a celebration of knowing that being consciously aware is the foundational key to making intentional choices. In this awareness, the opportunity opens to help others do the same. She learned that consistently practicing self-love and self-care is the only way to provide authentic service from a place of overflow. Service is universal, but it begins with attending to one's needs and loving oneself with compassion, patience, and care.The seven growth practices she embodied on the self-awareness journey became a daily ritual and aligned her with her power and purpose. Dear Reader, join this writer, step into realization with power, and get into the feeling tone as you read My Revelation. Remain open and see what shows up as your revelation.One of the joys of authoring her book is demonstrating deep gratitude in honoring herself, her ancestors, and her family's living matriarch, thanking her family and friends, and recognizing that the master teachers on her path were prolific. The seeds planted while embracing their teachings will benefit others for this and future generations.The writer invites everyone to say a heartfelt Yes to oneself. What a dynamic way to live one's life: stepping into our authentic selves with self-love, power, joy, determination, and compassion. Everyone has the capacity, which begins with realizing and embracing the power within. Celebrate you!

ORANGE BRICK IN WARM SUN: JIM MORRISON IN DC examines the Washington, D.C. hangouts of Jim Morrison - the lead singer for the rock band "The Doors" - who attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia from 1959 to 1961. During that period Morrison spent much of his free time canvassing the District where he garnered creative inspiration from a variety of art galleries, book shops, libraries, movie theaters and night spots. ORANGE BRICK IN WARM SUN provides new details on the expeditions Jim Morrison embarked upon into the nation's capital.

Jobs is a history of the 16 different occupations the author held throughout his career. From developmental, to journeyman, professional, and then "post-career" positions. The lessons learned in each position. A rating on the training provided by each company that hired him.Are you looking for alternate career paths while employed? Where do you bring the most value to an employer? Education is something no one can take away from you - be it a graduate degree paid for by your employer, or the experience and knowledge gained while at that employer.If your company is sold to a Private Equity firm tomorrow, and the 20% of employees with the highest salaries are terminated Monday morning, do you still have a job? Do you still want to have a job at that company?The author's career took him from electrical connectors to medical parts, from contract manufacturing to military business. He's experienced in thermal electronics, from heat pipes to graphite, as well as the health, life, and disability insurance businesses. He traveled globally, visiting 34 different countries - for the most part all for business. From publicly held to private companies, commercial to government (USPS, US Military DoD) sales.The author made a bucket full of mistakes in his career - learn from them, don't do the same!

Follow Max the dog as he helps his mom and dad find a Christmas tree. After bringing the tree home and decorating it, a mouse appears the next morning. Max chases the mouse, and the mouse takes up residence in the Christmas tree.Max resolves to rid the house of the mouse without hurting the mouse.Author Bio: