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Mom saved all of Dad's letters and pictures that she received from Dad while he was in the military service during WW II. She passed them down to her children before she died in 1999. The authors felt that this book would be a wonderful legacy for their family and for their future generations. For the general public this makes good reading because his letters represent a typical soldier's life and feelings during this difficult time. These are...

LouisE is a smarter than average Dungeness Crab from the Northern coast of California. As a young crab she realizes she really does not want to stay where " World Famous Dungeness Crab " is on every menu.... Thank goodness she could read ! This story follows LouisE from Half Moon Bay, California all the way to Easter Island on a search for a new home with lots of learning and adventure along the way. Children and adults will enjoy the colorful...

Patio Poetry" is a book of heartfelt expressions abound with cleverness that encompasses the essence of various life issues. While writing this book of personal poetry, the author's main objective was to convey to her readers the importance of listening to your heart and following your dreams. She is a firm believer that through having faith, strength and determination tempered with laughter, encouragement and finally yet importantly- LOVE, an...

Illustrated - (Total of 100 B & W pictures) - The Battle of Hong Kong took place between 8th December and 25th December 1941. This is the tale of the Stanford family and how they were affected by this battle. It tells of life in the Army, life in the colonies, the battle, the infamous Lisbon Maru, and how the family coped with the war, evacuation, repatriation, and post war - Will also be of particular interest to aircraft enthusiasts, with 16...

An original collection of poetry by M'lyssa Layne which journeys through struggles with divorce, single parenthood, death, reconnection with life and new love. Rediscover the joys of life and love through this modern poetry collection.

Ver 1.0 was a three-day workshop on public database verification for journalists and social scientists held in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA in April 2006. Ten journalists and 10 statisticians, social scientists, public administrators and computer scientists met to discuss mutual concerns and worked to find solutions. This book contains most of the papers presented and the workproduct of three breakout groups, each investigating a different aspect ...

The place is gaudy yet drab, lively yet death-like, dispassionate mother hen to a brood of dithered chicks. Discover its bizarre existence from the inside, through the muddled collective mind of the outcast in-group, a gay throng of third-sex bewildered ones who frantically seek a why--but must always settle for The Why Not! Borgo Press is pleased to represent a true classic of gay literature, now available again for the first time in four...

Eight stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine plus one from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Duxbury College tells the story of Daniel Tomlinson, a biology professor for thirty-three years at a small liberal arts college in central Vermont, who has experienced an eventful life: the tragic deaths of a colleague and his first wife in childbirth, the murder of one of his students, finally the result of a sordid affair he experienced while in graduate school is revealed by a surprise visitor as he enters retirement from his academic life....

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD NICK BARRETT was amazed to see a harbor seal swimming close to the Cape Cod shore. But when the seal suddenly vanished in a crashing wave and an oddly dressed boy washed up on the beach, Nick's summer vacation changed in an instant. Why did this boy seem so very different than Nick and his friends? Why did his speech sound so old-fashioned? And why did this boy, Ethan Kemp, have no memory of where he came from? Back in Nick's...

As the writer's wife fights advanced ovarian cancer, pancreatitis and possible liver cancer, they turn to friends, family and their very different religious beliefs for strength, support and insight. During a dramatic two-year period their lives intersect with others experiencing tragedy, and they draw strength, inspiration and even joy from all of them-every single one of them. Jean Marsicano's life was threatened by ovarian cancer-known to m...

What do you do when you are staring straight down at the abyss that your life has become? This is the question Anthony Albergo asked himself the night the New York Yankees lost game seven of the 2001 World Series and he had to come up with the $50, 000 that he owed local mob boss Frankie Feliciani. A New York Hold'em is the story of a young man who lets his gambling addiction ruin his life. He has lost everything-including his parents, who wer...

Who says it's easy to raise kids these days? Certainly not Nana and Papa, the proud grandparents―and definitely not the parents, other grandparents and great-grandparents, and aunts and uncles of 7-year old Deion and his younger cousins Joshua and Donovan. But "Life is for learning, " and that's just what takes place: whether it's while going to the park, playing on the computer, talking a walk, making music, playing football, eating fast food...

What's the matter, afraid he can't handle it?" Fabian glanced at him. He wasn't as restless as his friend. Leaning against the trunk of the tree, he folded his arms in front of him. Demetrius shook his head. "It isn't that, " he said, pulling his sword out of the dirt. "He's headstrong. Not to mention, overconfident." He swung the blade a few more times. "It's an unfavorable combination, " he added. "Does that remind you of anyone?" Fabian tea...

As the black sheep of a prominent family, author Michael Eliot Mehler endures a twisted, dysfunctional childhood. At the age of eleven he is molested, causing him to have thoughts of suicide. His overbearing mother's insistence on therapy leads him to a lifetime of analysis and does little to curb his tendency toward self-destruction. When he becomes an adult, Mehler embarks on a career of crime. His glitzy, gutsy world includes a tumultuous r...

Things to do over summer vacation: 1. Run the 5k-along the St. Croix River-to the water park. 2. Attend the archeological dig at the cliffs above the Minnesota River. 3. Compete in the milk carton boat races during the summer festival. 4. Take scuba lessons and go canoeing during the swim team camping trip. 5. Prevent my life from falling to pieces? What? Meet Hayden Chandler, a fifteen-year-old high school student from the Twin Cities, whose ...

A chance encounter with a stranger in a cemetery, and an agreement to assist in what seemed to be a simple genealogical query, soon turns into two questions: "Who Was Erin?" and "Who murdered Aaron?" over twelve years ago. Never one to let a good mystery pass her by, Shell, with the aid of husband, Joe, sets out to find answers. This cold case file eventually leads Shell and her newly acquired entourage to Ireland and back. They soon feel they...

Ronald Phillip Tanaka's Scenes from a Country Tea Room is an exploration of the Japanese tea ceremony as seen through the eyes of a Japanese-American high school student, Laura Toyoda. Her poems and drawings of various types of pottery often associated with the tea ceremony are an attempt to represent the basic principles of tea, e.g., sabi, wabi (which have no real English equivalents) and wa (harmony). However, in a manner typical of tea, th...

Robert, Cass, and Julia share a complex history going back to their college days in California-a triangle of lovers, a baby born in a marijuana field, a night of changing names and fleeing to Seattle. There are scars from ax blades and broken glass. Uneasy truces. Prying neighbors. The threat of war. And enough vegetables growing in the yard to feed a household through the winter. Now, on the morning of Robert Hamlin's 45th birthday, in the la...

Who says it's easy to raise kids these days? Certainly not Nana and Papa, the proud grandparents―and definitely not the parents, other grandparents and great-grandparents, and aunts and uncles of 7-year old Deion and his younger cousins Joshua and Donovan. But "Life is for learning, " and that's just what takes place: whether it's while going to the park, playing on the computer, talking a walk, making music, playing football, eating fast food...