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Displaying his usual gift of narrative, Tom Sheehan again embarks on a journey of storytelling excellence. Two dozen tales herein explore the destructive power of war, cops and robbers, fables, and family reminiscences. Sheehan won't mind telling readers that he's entered his 90th year, and still devotes time each day to create.

Ride along shotgun with prolific author Tom Sheehan as he blazes new western tales across the prairie. In this collection, his 7th with Pocol Press, Sheehan pens moralistic short stories brimming with frothy beverages imbibed at a local saloon, passionate revenge, romantic sequences, and plenty of gunplay.

New York City, 1905. A terrorist organization extorts money from local business owners and threatens bombings for non-compliance. Into this mess steps Detective Joseph Petrosino, NYPD. Uncovering a complicated plot, piece-by-piece, clues lead the detective to the New York Giants baseball team, led by the irascible John McGraw. Can the great detective solve the mystery of the tobacco tin and track down the elusive killer?

After a long day ridin', ropin', and sometimes rustlin', cowpokes love to stop by a local saloon to wet their whistles. Card playing, loose talking, and fighting always ensued, some in good fun and others deadly serious. In this collection of stories, author Tom Sheehan rides and relaxes with them all. You're in the right place for rollickingly good western yarns.

Baseball Magic is a short fiction collection of eleven original baseball stories by Jay Martin. Believing baseball to be an almost sacred event, author Jay Martin explores the game with a reverence for history, humor, wonder, joy, and occasionally with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Grab a beer and a hot dog with mustard and onions. Settle into your favorite armchair and open these pages for a provocative, entertaining read.

The Nations is a short fiction set containing twenty stories by master storyteller Thomas F. Sheehan. These tales celebrate the heroic deeds and legends of various Native American Indian tribes (Cherokee, Kiowa, Lakota) of the Old West in the United States.

Over a period of more than forty years, the author, an Army veteran, presented his wife Karen with a unique Christmas present. Under the family tree, neatly wrapped, lay a short story written especially for her. The result is this collection of the best of those tales. These stories contain equal parts romance and "ah shucks" derring-do in wartime. Kuzminski will stir readers by presenting his all-too-human tales of heartache and triumph.

God's Mountain is set in a poor Samurai-era village in ancient Japan. Severe food shortages often forced older people to go to God's Mountain to die so their children would not starve. By sacrificing themselves in this way, the aged ones showed their sincere love for their families and believed that the mountain was the gateway to a fertile and beautiful world.

The Battle for Snow Mountain is a comic novel which begins with a surreal picture of The Snow Mountains, during the German WWII breakthrough into the Ardennes in the winter of '44. Richard thinks their first days at the front make sense. Timmons believes their actions are ridiculous. Because their inept, absurd Captain takes them up the wrong road, the two GIs are captured and sent to a POW camp. During an American air raid, the soldiers escape from the camp to the Russian zone, and then end up in Paris. After their misadventures, Timmons still thinks their war effort made no sense, whereas Richard believes their actions were necessary and meaningful.

The Last of One is a tale of epic and intimate human conflicts. Covering a span of some ninety years, it's a story of relationships and love, growing up, and growing old. Two first-person narrators tell the tale: Tom, the young man, and the WWI veteran, Dan. Tom has known Dan all his life, as he grew up down the street from the mysterious Methuselah who worked at the city park. As an adult, Tom cares for Dan through a volunteer elder care program and he begins to discover that "the old walkin' man" has more secrets than he ever imagined. Thus begins the narrative journey of this centenarian, from falling in love with his teacher, running away to war, meeting Ernest Hemingway, to fighting horrific battles, and even "dying."

This short fiction collection by storytelling master Thomas Sheehan explores the human condition from soaring heights to depraved depths and everything else in between. If John Donne had not penned his line "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind", Thomas Sheehan certainly would have.

Despite a long and uneven history, Major League Baseball's Washington franchises have hardly been the stuff of legend. However, in 1969, when new owner Bob Short coaxed batting legend and rookie manager Ted Williams out of retirement, these annual no-names climbed out of the depths and straight into the hearts of Washington baseball fans starving for a winner. Led by The Capital Punisher Frank Howard, whose tape-measure home runs sometimes seemed like optical illusions, the Senators simply won ball games with a determination rarely seen in D.C. environs. A Whole New Ballgame showcases the 1969 Senators' magical season, complete with updated player bios, new photographs, stats, game action, and stories. Foreword by Dick Bosman.

Anna had a future in medicine only a few women could aspire to, but in the spring of 1940 as Hitler raced to Paris, her dreams disappeared. Despite her father's efforts to mask their past for 40 years, the reports from Poland and the Netherlands revealed even the Sorbonne was no longer a safe place. Departing in the night her journey home takes four years, blending into the underclass of France, hiding in plain sight. Anna finds security in the arms of the enemy and for a time, love. When this is lost she survives a cat and mouse existence deteriorating into destitution, prostitution and eventually murder for revenge.Joining the Resistance in desperation, she is recruited by British and American Special Operations, returning to France for an assassination mission of a key German commander on D-Day. Competing priorities have the Allies working against each other, one side trying to stop Anna, the other supporting her mission. Anna, the gray survivor, must thread the needle in one pass, with little hope for escape