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Four teens experience the adventures and misadventures, and ups and downs of life in the first year of high school. They contend with classes and tests, worry about going out on dates, struggle with not being able to drive, and dread being called on by teachers they do not like.

In TURN YOUR TOWN AROUND, the former mayor of the popular and award-winning town of Berlin, Maryland explains how to chart a course of rediscovery and renewal for your town. You will learn how your town can flourish and find new ways to build and share both a stronger economic and social foundation. You will discover your community's potential for cultural and artistic appeal and learn how to make visitors feel welcomed as guests, rather than...

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This book is the personal memoir of a daughter who discovers and tries to manage the onset of Lewy body dementia in her mother. Written in clear English by a layperson, it is not technical or scientific. Instead, it highlights the daughter's own experiences and lessons learned-as well as the mistakes-as she embarks on an unwelcome journey. The aim of the book is to help others who suddenly find themselves in the role of caregiver, especially t...

A dog's antics can make you laugh. Its cuddles can melt your heart. Its mischief can push your buttons. In short, a dog is rather like a well-written story. With little warning, it can sneak up on your emotions and take you to an unexpected place. In this volume, The Year's Best Dog Stories 2021, Secant Publishing of Salisbury, Maryland, and The Greyhound-An Indie Bookstore, of Berlin, Maryland, present slightly more than two dozen stories...

A dog's antics can make you laugh. Its cuddles can melt your heart. Its mischief can push your buttons. In short, a dog is rather like a well-written story. With little warning, it can sneak up on your emotions and take you to an unexpected place. In this volume, The Year's Best Dog Stories 2021, Secant Publishing of Salisbury, Maryland, and The Greyhound-An Indie Bookstore, of Berlin, Maryland, present slightly more than two dozen stories...

A lawman with bleak eyes stalks a ne'er-do-well with a rakish smile through a quiet waterfront town in Delaware, near the turn of the last century. Both have recently arrived by steamship from New Jersey, and as far as a Nanticoke Indian youth named Sonny is concerned, they can't leave Lewes the same way soon enough. Sonny is trying to stay out of trouble and explore the puzzling affections being showered on him by the daughter of the wealth...

The Henry Bagwell Story is a remarkable tale of survival and achievement against great odds. Henry Bagwell was an enterprising young man from a prosperous merchant family in Exeter, Devon, England. A passenger on the ill-fated "Third Supply" mission that shipwrecked on the reefs of Bermuda en route to Jamestown in 1609, Bagwell earned the unofficial title of "adventurer" and the official designation of "Ancient Planter."Bagwell was in the earl...

Former Nashville detective and Rhodes Scholar, Shane Hadley, hasn't been involved in a murder case since a stray bullet transected his spinal cord, ending his career and stranding him in a wheelchair. One Sunday morning, the familiar pop, pop, pop of gunshots draws Shane like a magnet. He wheels himself onto the balcony of his apartment overlooking Printers Alley, the once-beating heart of Music City USA. There, he sees Bonz Bagley, proprietor...

In her private memoir, Theresa Alston Crandall reflects on family secrets she has held for forty years. Her duplicity has created a life of uneven rewards as she begins to hear footsteps from the past sneaking up on her. Is it too late to start over? Revealing the truth of her missteps would shatter the present and demand answers to painful questions. She has betrayed her husband and sons, causing them to be unsuspecting players in her orchest...

When the aging Nashville artist Bechman Warren Fitzwallington is discovered dead in his own bed, the question for detective Hardy Seltzer is simple: natural causes, or murder? Clues are scant, and an autopsy finds no signs of homicide, but no one is grieving. The number of strangely-acting suspects seems to be multiplying as rapidly as the artist's florid late canvases. Galleries in Nashville and New York are quickly fighting for the rights t...

In Islander's War, his first work of fiction, popular Eastern Shore writer Don Parks uses a novelist's imagination and insider's knowledge to dramatize the struggles of traditional Chesapeake Bay island communities early in the twentieth century. Arthur Crockett, an unsophisticated but courageous young man from the fictional Caplan's Island, is swept up in a host of changes, beginning with service of a draft notice for duty in World War I. He ...

As they pass the halfway point in their high school journey, life begins to get more serious for the four classmates in Eleventh Grade Stress. Luke continues to wrestle with math and the standardized state tests. He takes refuge in his work on the yearbook and his solitary fishing trips. The hostility of his girlfriend's father abruptly ends the most rewarding relationship of his life. He tries to start over. Elly is getting along bett...

William A. Schiemann, PhD, is the CEO of Metrus Group. He is a thought leader and popular keynote speaker in the areas of human resources, employee engagement, and fulfillment, having authored or coauthored scores of articles and numerous previous books.

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Tenth Grade Angst continues the story [begun in Ninth Grade Blues] of four teens as they negotiate the roller-coaster ride of high school. Now sophomores, they grapple with growing independence and changing dreams and ambitions for their future. Cars and driving lessons reshape their lives, as they struggle to balance their needs for exploration and independence with the boundaries set by their parents. Luke: a shy, hard-working boy from the...

Saturday, November 10, 1984. Max and Charles are off on a "guys' getaway" with their stepfather, Fred. The trip takes them to Kent and Queen Anne's counties, located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.It's Veterans Day Weekend, and Fred has planned this trip around history to show the boys a few important sites from Colonial times and the Civil War era. Included in the "getaway package" is meeting old and new friends. And a very important reason...

Winter Rage is a novel of suspense, set in the 1950s and continuing to the present day. A bitter feud spirals out of control, bringing suspicion, accusations, and violent assault to members of two neighboring families in the Ozark Mountains. When a stand of oak trees is felled for their timber, questions of property lines come into play. A struggling family of hardscrabble farmers - consisting of an attractive young divorcée, Andy Millard, her...

A collection of short stories by award-winning writer Barbara Lockhart, a native of New York City who lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Lockhart is the recipient of two Individual Artist Awards in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council for her short stories and her first novel, Requiem for a Summer Cottage, as well as a silver medal from the Independent Book Publishers Awards for her historical novel, Elizabeth's Field. She has authored...