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The serenity and majestic beauty of Lake Tahoe, in the early 1980’s, is shaken by the bombing of Harvey’s Casino, severely impacting the tourist driven economy. Pino, chef and owner of Giuseppe’s at the Lake, forms a close friendship with three powerful members of the regional crime family,...

In, Urban Pen Poetry Series, you will find the poetic writings of Linda J. Wolff. She offers an extensive selection of urban acrostic, cinquain, free verse, haiku, tanka, and much more inspiring pieces to enlighten the mind, body, and soul. Each piece she brings enlightenment through words, such as the...

Dr. Sara Alderson thought she was securing her and her family’s future when she moved them to a small town in New York and took a job as Chief of Pediatrics at the local hospital. Unfortunately, things aren’t going quite according to plan. For one thing, she has enemies at work who resent her...

Thanks to her unique ability to step into other people's dreams, Dr. Sara Alderson has solved murders, unraveled conspiracies and saved lives. But when a crisis hits close to home, even her supernatural gift might not be enough to avert disaster. On a family vacation to Paris, Sara's fifteen-year-old...

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...

New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. Indeed, scholars taking a holistic view of the war have contributed to our understanding of the social complexities of emancipation—of...

Lebanon, together with the province of Hatay in Turkey (containing Antakya) and the Golan Heights were all part of French mandate Syria, but are now all outside the boundaries of the modern Syrian state. The policies and reactions of Syria both to the loss of these territories and to the states that...

New Jersey and the Great War by Richard J. Connors, Ph.D.   With this insightful analysis, Richard J. Connors Ph.D. commemorates the contribution of the State of New Jersey and its citizens on the centennial anniversary of World War I. Because of its coastal location and...

From “Jurassic Park” to “Godzilla,” dinosaurs have a rich history of exploring the idea of the creatures of the past. We love dinosaurs because they are big, and we love them when they are terrifying, we love them because they are dangerous. Think Like A Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly Dinosaurs...

A Legacy of Preaching, Volume Two--Enlightenment to the Present Day explores the history and development of preaching through a biographical and theological examination of its most important preachers. Instead of teaching the history of preaching from the perspective of movements and eras, each contributor...

Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones,...

When an erratic president makes rash decisions in wartime, it's the troops on the front lines who suffer. The long-awaited follow-up to USS Krakowski! Nearly 40 years before Jace Modeen and the USS Krakowski saved the Earth, the Arctic Wars dragged the world’s nations into a conflict...

Former Pittsburgh narcotics detective Trevor Galloway has been hired to look into the year-old homicide of a prominent businessman who was gunned down on his estate in Central Pennsylvania. When Galloway arrives, he determines the murder could have only been committed by someone extremely skilled...

As a follow-up to the popular Advent Meditations With Fulton J. Sheen, this Lenten pamphlet is also drawn from Archbishop Sheen's best-selling books. These reflections will lead you daily through the Lenten and Easter seasons. Each quote is paired with a complementary Scripture verse focusing on the...