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A Vietnam veteran becomes a street person. Years later, he has found and brought home by the one person who truly loves him.

The dead don't only speak to channelers and mediums. Anyone can hear the dead, and most of us do, only we aren't able to tune into the full message. This brief, simple guide offers readers the tools they need to get in touch with the messages that already lie inside them, waiting to be understood.

Between birth and death resides the short glow of an ember known as life. For centuries artists have sought to convey depictions of life’s brief moments using various forms. Their efforts have produced splendid works that are still marveled at today, but to one degree or another they lacked a realism...

There are some days when you just don’t want to get out of bed. You lie there trying to feel inspired, but nothing seems to motivate you. Why this happens is not as important as acknowledging your feelings and doing something to change your life. We all want to live full, happy lives, but in order...

This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there? To move house by boat, to get a child with a broken leg to hospital or set off for school one morning...

The Campisi crime family of New Jersey was a quickly ascending organization in the early 1970s. There were eight different Campisis, all of them blood related. The murder of Samuel Carbone was one of a series of gangland murders involving the Bruno and Campisi family members. It is likely that Carbone's...

Frank Funzi Tieri became the Boss of Bosses among New York's five crime families following the death of Carlo Gambino in 1976. Tieri was involved in gambling and loan sharking to a large extent. He was saved from serving a prison term of nearly a decade when he died of colon cancer in 1981. Funzi...

Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the...

Candy Jones became a successful model and later owned her own modeling agency. She published books and articles on self improvement, beauty and other subjects. She also hosted a number of radio shows. From Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania she was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother, who was an...

Lynne Baggett's name is obscure to all but the most avid Hollywood trivia buffs. She is most well known for her marriage to "On The Waterfront" producer, Sam Spiegel. Yet her life is important because of the questions it raises. Baggett was about thirty-five years old when she committed suicide...

Marilyn's period in New York City from 1954-1957 is interesting because it was a time of change and growth for the actress. She formed her own company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, to produce television, photographs, and films, for herself and other talented performers. Monroe stayed at the Waldorf...

Mobster Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno ascended quickly in the world of organized crime. As a Genovese family member he was involved in the policy racket, gambling and bookmaking. Based in East Harlem he was a close associate of such mobsters as Joe Adonis, Frankie Carbo, "Charley Bullets" Albero and...

In March 2018 I discovered that a Facebook friend of mine was a call girl at an exclusive agency in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our talks began with a simple compliment that I made about one of her Facebook posts. She was wearing skinny jeans with holes that young women are very fond of. I sent her...

Charles Manson has been studied from many perspectives by authors, especially those that have looked closely at the mind control he has used to manipulate his followers. I have read with avid interest a number of these works over the years. My book begins with his birth certificate, which was difficult...