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Die-hard baseball fans will really go for this book."-Chicago Tribune "Covers all the major people and events of Cal's professional and baseball life."-Publishers Weekly

The funniest and most original jokes you can find: A doctor checks a patient for a long time. Then he calls the wife aside and says, "I am sorry, but I don't like the looks of your husband." "Me neither, " sighs the wife, "but he is a very nice person and a good father." On a trip to the White House, a young boy asks their guide, "Excuse me! How many people work in congress?" "I think 5-10%." What do sperm and politicians have in common? Mi...

Jeffrey Paul Lee continues the magic first unleashed in "Genetic Incense" with a dynamic look at the nature of change and the ways in which particle physics and dreams drive the eternal transformation of reality. Drawing on personal experience, he crafts revolutionary insights that burst out of and yet remain faithful to the form of the traditional sonnet. Alternately probing, inspiring, opaque, and joyful, each sonnet stands as a multidimensi...

Holly's summer holiday before starting high school stinks. Her dad breaks a precious summer vacation promise and is stepping up plans to get remarried. Her mother has started dating again, her bizarre little brother is acting out, and she has no friends. Worst of all, Holly is fat. Or so she thinks. "Macaroni Monday" chronicles the frenzied journey of a fourteen-year-old girl's desperation to harness the one thing in her life she has control o...

A deluge of rain and a strange hitchhiker combine to transport martial arts champion Noah King on a bizarre course to an alternate world. Days whiz by in a fraction of a second when he enters a mysterious fog. His passenger, Sylv, is not what she seems. She admits to being a Tabizi, the instigator of his fog-encased journey to World 5. She has chosen him to intervene in the anarchy of a split world two hundred years in the future. Time reversa...

Plaids and Polka Dots" is the powerful story of love, the tale of hope, the struggle for peace and the celebration of victory. The many issues it contains of life, death, power, disappointment, guilt and faith keep the reader riveted to the story, always rooting for the main character to forge on. Taylor Michaels, the main character, begins her own crucifixion with the guilt over the loss of a childhood friend at the beach. She carries her fe...

Ben feels the dirt cellar floor rolling under his feet. A cloud of fine dust rises from the floor making him sneeze. He hears cannon shells shriek, howl, and whistle overhead somewhere not far from his Gettysburg home." Two of the largest armies the world has ever seen collide in the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg in July 1863. For three days, one hundred and seventy thousand combatants struggle to determine the future of the United Sta...

This is the life story of a German girl growing up in Germany during Hitler's regime. She spent the night of her fifteenth birthday huddled in the basement with her family as her home town of Augsburg suffered its largest air raid of the war, during the coldest night of that year. Life was very interesting for the teenager after the war ended and the American troops entered the city, bringing with them the Big Band Sound. Five years after the...

Still incensed over the politicians' failure to develop a winning strategy for Vietnam, veteran James Benton Stark retires from the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon to his quiet farm in central Virginia. But Stark's ire only increases when an immensely popular U.S. president escapes implication with a recently revealed scheme to accept campaign contributions from Chinese intelligence agents in exchange for foreign policy considerati...

Brimming with high stakes adventure, chilling mystery, and passionate romance, this collection of two novellas and eight short stories speaks to the emotions that make life fascinating. In the title story, "MacCloud's Secret, " Angus Duncun MacCloud feels that he's taken advantage of a bereaved widow, and asks for her hand in marriage. But when she turns up dead, suspicion falls on MacCloud, and he must explain how someone broke into his home ...

Tom Gatses was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1999. Instead of allowing the disease to take over his body, he chose to fight the disease like he has learned to do all his life through martial arts. He has also been diagnosed with renal failure, and is currently undergoing dialysis treatment. This guide and examples tell an easy to understand story through a personal reflection on staying ahead of Parkinson's Disease, as well as any othe...

If you're in sales and are struggling to succeed in a market dominated by mega-store discount-retailers, you probably wonder how you can rise above the competition. Drawing on his experience working with boutique stores, Joe Marcoux shows you how to embrace a new business model to help you draw customers to your store and increase your bottom line.Called boutique thinking, this theory focuses on different ideas to change the way you look at yo...

What do you simply like to do or what do you enjoy doing? Make a list! I give you permission. Ask yourself, even if you didn't get paid what would you spend your time doing? What are your natural inclinations and desires? Taking the time to ask and reflect on these simple questions can lead you on a path toward self-discovery and more importantly, "God Calling" in your life. Some of you may ask, "God Calling, what is that?" God has given us gi...

Retired house painter and old time biker, Aldo Chambers, is aggravated over his purchase of a used laptop computer. Aldo's old time biker buddies learn why he is po'd and this knowledge is enough for them to initiate a plan of revenge. Their plan becomes a rallying cry for other unrelated groups who have also been victimized by the seller. Aldo's elderly biker cohorts, the Hill Country Hellers, cry: "It's tit for tat time!" The Byway Wanderers...

SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL / GENERAL Womanhood is an embodiment of love, motherhood, blessings, better presidency and compassionate leadership. Femininity is indispensable. Women motivational abilities make them outstanding managers of human and economic resources. They represent the magic wand for progress and development, stability, peace and prosperity. They do better in education, health-care, socio-economics, politics and focus better wit...

Derrick Richardson showcases his life experiences in his second collection of favorite inspirational, humorous, and motivational quotes. Richardson has been writing and collecting quotes for several years. In this compilation, he shows you just how the seemingly simple events in life may often turn out to be more difficult than expected. By including his own quotes as well as quotes from others, he encourages you to reflect on both your past a...

Wildflowers, is a riveting tale that deftly portrays everyday life in a small American mill town and the abuse of child laborers at the end of the nineteenth century. Eleven-year-old Hillary Cook and her widowed mother, Laura, must both work to survive. Hillary works twelve hours a day, six days a week at the Alton Textile Mill. On Sunday afternoons, she and her two friends pick flowers, dream and play pretend in the nearby countryside. The gi...

A novel to reinvent novels, Drowning in Soho is an unforgettable romantic tragedy told in second person narrative. Centered around an adolescent writer struggling to find himself while attending college in New York City, it is at the invitation of his best friend, Noah Waters, to escape to Portland, Oregon that sends the writer's world into introspection. In the dreary and damp Northwest, a friendship fades where a romance begins, and at the c...

What was life like for Americans who lived, fought, and perhaps died in and around Maryland during the French and Indian War? The American Revolution? The War of 1812? What effect did those events have on the destiny of a young nation? Who was this man that wrote the song that brings all United States citizens to their feet, hats in hand, snapping off sharp salutes or standing with hands over hearts? This book provides some possible answers to...

Abuse, deceit, treachery, economic hardship, troubled or unsuccessful relationships, feeling overwhelmed by life's mishaps and the like all spell pain. Oftentimes we want to talk to someone. Pain leads to depression which can cause one to sink so low that they lose the will to go on. It would be a tremendous help to so many if only they could be validated, understood and given comfort, new insight and direction. May the comfort that the pages ...