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Regards From Oscar: Confessions of a Spy - As a boy, Ray Walker is recruited by the Culper Spy Ring, the modern-day iteration of George Washington's personal spy network. Steered through early adulthood, Ray rinds himself leading two lives: one as an ordinary business man, the other as a spy for the Culper Spy Ring. Owning a travel agency provides the ideal cover for his other life as a spy. Ray is no James Bond, but in his own rugged, down-to-earth Brooklyn way, has a profound love of country, for which he is willing to risk everything. His missions take him to dangerous and exotic locations, where here faces life-threatening situations, and deals with adversaries in ways that will surprise the reader. He encounters beautiful women, enemy agents, and an assortment of characters that affect his missions and his life. Keeping secrets from his wife and friends keeps him constantly on guard, often resulting in situations that test his patience and decision making, with life-altering consequences.
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More Than A Man Can Stand: A Novel of Fact and Speculation - Paul Redfern was an aviator in 1927. Instead of the 33-hour solo flight that Lindbergh made from New York to Paris, he set out to fly 50 hours from Brunswick, GA, to Rio de Janiero. Three months after Lindbergh set foot in Paris, Redfern took off in a single-engine plane with no radio and no parachute. He went down. He ignored advice that his flight was "more than a man can stand.” Over the next 11 years, there were 13 expeditions to South America to find him. There were rumors of a white man who had "fallen from the sky," and who was living with a native tribe. This book weaves what little is actually known about the pilot after his crash with brilliant speculation as to his life among the Yonomami and other dangerous tribes of the Orinoco Basin of Venezuela.
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THE WAR NEVER ENDS - Amid the tumultous 1960s, two men of vastly different backgrounds, Howard Fishman from Brooklyn, and Lastun Wicker of Yazoo County, Mississippi, forge an unbreakable friendship in the battle-scarred jungles of Vietnam.
When they return home, they find a country wracked by the turmoil of anti-war sentiment and civil unrest that epitomized the late sixties. They soon find that, for them, The War Never Ends, as they face new dangers in the American South and in the seamy underbelly of the concrete jungles of New York City's Harlem. A compelling novel of life in the sixties. |
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP - Ray Walker is a retired spy for the secret Culper Spy Ring. One day, he suddenly learns that his daughter has been recruited as one of its operatives, and is on her way to the place where he survived his last and most dangerous mission. Undaunted, he decides to go to Washington DC to meet with his former handler to demand an explanation as to why he was never told about the effort to recruit his offspring. Along the way, he is involved in an other-worldly event, which launches him on a voyage of self-discovery. The trip is filled with new friends and lovers, but also replete with enemies determined to thwart his carefully drawn mission in a twilight world filled with many surprises . . . mostly along the two-lane blacktop.
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Monsters & Madmen: A Death Row Experiment - January 1995. The first prison ever condemned by the UN for “Active Practices of Torture” was shut down by a civil lawsuit. Huntingdon Prison in Pennsylvania had a dilemma following this ruling against its holding men on Death Row any longer: What to do with the worst men among 225 Death Row prisoners ordered out of their cells more than one hour a day?
The answer: Create a special unit where 48 of the most violent and dangerous men would be kept away from the rest of the Death Row inmates. From 1995 to 1998, Nick Yarris was one of those 48 men who were described as “Monsters & Madmen.” What he endured over the course of this one, three-year long segment of his 23 years spent on Death Row was so brutal that he has kept it hidden until now. Be prepared for a ride like no other as Nick takes you inside a special experiment that left four people dead, and left him scarredfrom it all forever . . . |
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The Laconia Incident - It’s mid-September 1942. A German U-boat, U-156, sinks a converted British ocean liner, HMT Laconia, with just two torpedoes. The captain of the sub is horrified to discover that the troop transport he has just sunk was carrying 1,800 Italian POWs, along with British and Polish passengers and crew.
Why the sub captain chooses to launch an operation to rescue his surviving Italian allies is perfectly understandable. But why he also chooses to rescue the British and Polish survivors is truly a mystery. How and why he pursues the rescue while convincing the German U-boat command and Adolph Hitler to go along with it is an even more illogical conundrum. This then is the basis for "The Laconia Incident," a story with complex ramifications that just go to show that truth, indeed, is stranger than fiction. Read this amazing account and learn the facts behind the apparent “fiction.” The answers will intrigue and amaze you! |
Twenty-Five Angels - The crew of the Reba Jean, a B-17 bomber in the U.S. Eighth Army Air Corps, takes to the skies above WWII Europe. Flying at an altitude of twenty-five thousand feet (twenty-five angels), the crew, including a pilot with an overly acute sense of responsibility for his men, a Jewish officer, and an anti-Semitic non-com, strive to achieve victory over the elite German Luftwaffe, and survive. The events that occur along the way make for a compelling story, culminating in a breathtaking ending sure to leave you on the edge of your seat.
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The Gifted Spawn - In a world where men worship either Li, the god of order, or Dar, the god of chaos, the peasant boy Justi wields a flame, a Justice Power, to drive Dar’s barbarians from the Zell. With age and peace, Justi’s power seems to fade. When he marries Queen Mercerio, who holds gifts of mercy and healing, their royal children appear normal. Prince Meru is more the scholar than a future king, and Princess Danilla is beautiful and ungifted. That is no problem until their half sibling Justik, the child of Justi alone, appears, demanding recognition and threatening to use his inherited killing fire to get his way. Rebuffed, Justik joins forces with the enemy and fuels the second invasion. Unless the prince and princess find some inherited gifts and learn how to use them, the Zellish face new conquest, enslavement, and death. Meru and Danilla must rely on their wits and a mysterious spirit guardian to discover the power to repel an army, overcome treachery, and survive a monster. Only then can new bonds of love emerge to create long-lasting peace.
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Biblical Mothers of Distinction is a collection of essays about outstanding mothers of the Bible. Each of the mothers cited had her own personal moments of sorrow and grief, as well as her moments of triumph and joy. Some of the mothers are well known, while others are somewhat obscure. However, each was used by God for a special purpose that He had providentially ordained. They performed their roles admirably, as they walked through the pages of history, leaving profiles of encouragement and faith. All scriptural references in the book are taken from the Authorized Version of 1611 Bible, more commonly known as the King James Version.
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Christmas Changes―How we celebrate Christmas has changed dramatically over the years―from simple foods and handmade gifts during The Depression to parades and public ceremonies, electronic gifts, elaborate parties and even Christmas cruises to foreign places. Christmas Changes is a nostalgic look back at the amazing transformation of one woman's remembrances, told with the varying perspectives of a child, a teenager, a young adult, and, finally through the eyes of a senior citizen. It is poignent, evocative, and very entertaining.
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