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For an old country boy from South Georgia, I never dreamed of all the adventures my journey through life would produce during my eighty-plus years on this earth. I began life with two loving Christian parents who taught me I could achieve any goal if I worked hard and followed my Christian upbringing....

Our lives are made up of stories. Just when we think one ends, another begins. My Memoirs are a series of stories, from childhood, through the business world, through a military career, as a Son, Husband, Father, Grandfather and now retirement. What A Great Ride It Has Been! Gary D. Cluck

This book describes experiences of Black people who lived throughout the Mississippi RiverBayou Lafourche Region of South Louisiana during the period 18751975. These writings cover four parishes (counties) including Saint James, Ascension, Assumption and Lafourche. This area of Louisiana is steeped...

This is the story about Roland John Beustring (1916-2005), a member of The Greatest Generation, was self taught and self relianta just man who lived with integrity. He was my father. Dad came from a poor, hard-working German family living on the banks of the Mississippi in St. Louis, Missouri. The...

I began this book not as a planned publication but as an in-depth chronicle of my recollections. It is a very raw and largely unedited and every word I personally wrote. Most of my life's experiences contained in the book cover the years from 1942 to 2001. I did not write it for profit or any notion...

Its a rags to riches story told from the heart. Youll laugh and then you will cry. Some parts might seem unbelievable but its all true. Its a story about life, women, unions, Masonic Lodge, government, big business, improbable jobs and an incredible career. But mostly its about survival of the fittest...

My Life: My Fault relates memories about the life and times of the author and includes experiences shared with others who helped shape his life over the years. His story traces an effort to enjoy life, improve his relations with others, and conquer numerous challenges encountered in his work as he...

The book is mostly a biography. It is written in three sections; my early years; my education and working years; World War II and memories. I also added two addendums which brings me up to my retirement and present life in an assister living facility in Florida.

"Brooklyn 593" reflects on the tumultuous life and times of an African-American youth who was born on a small farm in Georgia into a loving family that suffered immensely from the ravages of social and economic injustice and exploitation that permeated American Society during that era. After...

This book is about small business start-ups and management. The book provides those fundamental principles needed for identifying and developing business ideas before and during the process of business start-ups and management respectively. These are principles needed to translate business ideas into profitable and sustainable small business enterprise.

Handcuffed and arrested while TV cameras rolled and newspaper reporters scribbled notes this wasn't how Texas Lil's dream was supposed to end. She'd spent 27 years turning the Texas Lils Dude Ranch into a premier vacation spot. Now it was smoldering from a fire so huge that the glow was seen as far...

Airports were never built to make travel easier for the public. A psychologist named Brian Brain who was writing a paper on behavioural understanding phoned his mate Bob the Builder and asked him if he had any spare bricks and mortar. When Bob said yes Brian said lets build a place where people can...

The book is a story of an ex-pat and his experiences, along with his fellow ex-pat tales which includes helicopter evacuations from dangerous situations, working with ex-KGB and IRA members, insider trade dealings, encounters with mafia gangs, middle eastern conflicts, sex, funny tales including romance, marraige and friendships forged in adversity.