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Alexander Stephens was a diminutive and sickly man. A lawyer who attended Franklin College, the school eventually became the University of Georgia. Alexander served in the Georgia legislature and later in both houses of Congress. As a young man he was assigned to an orphan's home. An intriguing person,...

I was there. I remember when darkness came into the world, when it unleashed a plague of damnation upon the races to which the world was given. I remember when the unholy heir of darkness was born, and when her father fell. A second war begins. The cold grip of death stretches over the...

Many of us are creatures of routine. We establish an activity or series of activities in life that we love. The pleasure they give encourages us to pursue a like pattern over and over. Such was the life of Robert Coninghame. His love was immersing himself in the art of opera. The highlight of that...

Jottings From The Labyrinth is a compilation of short stories and adult humor written by Vietnam Veteran, William Kind Hamburg, Jr. After spending several years in Egypt and the middle east Hamburg became a journalist and writer for a local newspaper in Cairo. Learning to speak and write Arabic in...

Jamie is a story, primarily intended to be read to children 4 to 7, about a spunky little sparrow who, after learning to fly, embarks on an exciting, non-violent adventure. Written in a manner to delight young children, each chapter can be read as a separate bedtime story, revealing the basic...

Albert Anastasia is perhaps best known for having been murdered while he was sitting in a barber's chair. Many are unaware of his early years as a Mafia operative on the Brooklyn waterfront. In the early 1940s he established himself as an extortionist who seized $35,000-$40,000 at a time from...

Desperate and unlikely strangers become friends to fight against what they believe will be the corruption of their small Texas island community by casino gambling. What they discover is the real threat, one born ages ago and predestined for the End Time. The Cubit waits for them. Soon, no one knows who is real and who is dead.

Simultaneously touching and gritty, "You Ain't Hungry Until I'm Starving" promotes peace and equality by offering unique insight into some of the most complicated issues of our time. "The secret is - there really is no secret!" Growing up an African-American man with some Native American...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Estelle Carey was a photographer's model and dice girl in a Rush Street nightclub. Her boyfriend, Nick Circella, alias Nick Dean, owned the club. Carey was employed to entice customers who played low stakes legal gambling games to try the more expensive high stakes games offered on the club's...

Wiliiam J. "Wild Bill" Lovett was an Irish gangster whose pursuit of Al Capone led to Scarface exiting New York City for Chicago. A deal was worked out by Chicago mobster Johnny Torrio to move Capone after Wild Bill pursued him for killing an underling. Bill Lovett was chief of the White Hand Gang,...

A frigid morning on December 9, 1980. News reports indicate former Beatles figurehead John Lennon has been murdered in front of his Manhattan apartment the evening prior. Ten-year-old Darrin McKenzie attempts to make sense of his mother's and the world's grief while life as he knows it will be changed by another tragic event closer to home.

A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some of the best essays, short stories, and novel excerpts...

When an attack on her family forces her powers to emerge Angela finds herself loving her family from afar . . . but is her family safe? Does love survive beyond death? A short story that I am thinking about making into a novel.