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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...

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.

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.

When the half-vampire protector of the village of Shoel races to rescue a child stolen away by ghouls, she discovers their more dastardly intent. Can she overcome the odds stacked against her or will she succumb to her darker side? What is her vampiric father's stake in the outcome?

This play takes as through the lives of two men who both end up becoming magistrates alternately at different times. The saying that what goes around comes around is basically described through the process of the play. The play can be acted as a skit for middle level primary schools or high schools. It has a moral teaching.

Beginning with the arrests of two Washington, DC photographers for explicit photos of underage women my e-book looks at a variety of controversial photographs. Among these was a Victorian era image of a matronly woman of 50+ years. She permitted photographers to take a nude photo of her in her boudoir....

A wicked funny collection of short stories eminent of the best work of humorists like Jean Shepard and James Thurber.The stories are written  purely to amuse and entertain and it is fact that most people who read them laugh.They are by turns eccentric, erratic and ridiculous. There is parody and...

WARNING: Strong, crude language, ViolenceWhen a bear at the Middleton Zoo is seen snacking on the remains of a person in it's exhibit, Barrios and McCloud are given the task of discovering how a man ended up on the menu. It's possible that the man fell into the exhibit but chances...

We are all filled with fear, but we're still alive. There is a fear surrounding us and growing all around us. The tv, the radio, news, blogs. The fear of who we are and what we aren't. It can be overwhelming. And while we may never get rid of that fear that wants to stop us from being the next...