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I was born in Amherst Ohio in June of 1940 and raised on a farm in Henrietta Township. When I turned 18, I picked up milk in 10 gallon cans and hauled it to the dairies. In January of 1959 I joined the Army. I was in for three years, one month and 23 days. After I got out I went to work for Lorain...

In this book I am attempting to put into words my passion for my Lord, my family and my country. Here I am expressing my reflections of my life experiences. My thoughts and prayers have been cooking for years. This book is one part of the distillation of them. Through these poems I attempt to wrap my arms around everyone I love and shout out loud, I love you.

Veronica A. Odum, a.k.a. omblivnju1027, is a child of Yahweh (God). She is the daughter to a mother who was a domestic engineer and a nurses aide. Her father was a steel worker. Veronica was born and still resides in Baltimore, Maryland. She is of the Methodist faith, a Methodist lay speaker, and...

This book explores important life lessons through the lens of Mickey Rourke movies. Fifteen movies are discussed from all phases of his extraordinary career, from his teen heartthrob years of the early 1980s to his more recent work as a token bad guy. Despite never having taken a film class or paid...

We start with a brief ancestry of my parents, my fathers and my mothers histories the best as I can remember, and then my childhood during the Depression with an overstrict father, then high school, graduation, and work. I finally got to go to Wyoming and met my first wife, returned to California,...

Much of Europe and the Middle East have been governed by a king, Queen, Emperor, or Empress. These individuals in most cases began a dynasty which lasted many years, and are still reigning today. The Roman Empire grew so huge and vast that it needed two Emperors to rule both East and West, while the...

Curtis Mozie, known on the streets as C-Webb is without a doubt a leader in Washington DC. He spends every waking moment trying to prevent gangs and gun violence on the streets of DC. With the creation of Tale of the Tape Foundation, Curtis produces films that document the lives and death of 65 of...

In The Secret Life of an Anorexic, Kristen, the author of this memoir, shares her remarkably evocative, honest, and empowering story about her discovery and constant battle with Anorexia. She takes you through the early years of her life and the experiences that contributed to her illness. With...

This dynamic book will show how the author was able to triumph through oppositional forces of gender bias in the ministry. Phyllis Kennedy is an associate minister and minister of music at New Community Baptist Church Houston, Texas, where her father, Dr. L. A. Kennedy, is the pastor. She has been...

A tontine is an investment scheme named after Lorenzo di Tonti, a neapolitan banker, who invented it in France in 1653. The basic concept is simple. All funds are invested and each member receives dividends. As each investor dies, his shares are kept in the tontine until only one survivor is left...

Join the exhilarating adventure of Los Angeles in the 1970s as you enter an era where fast muscle cars, bright neon lights, and that urban street style ruled Steve was having the worst day of his life. He lost his job; he lost his family; and he found himself in the worst part of the city where he...

Killer in the Shadows is the story of a young man wrongly accused of murder. It is a travesty of justice when and innocent man is sent to prison. He had to endure the horrors of life on Death Row, while the real killer got away with murder. It all started the summer of 1984, in Miami Dade County,...

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The Hudson River waterfront gave birth to notorious baby gangsters, The River Gang. Steven Joseph Sinopli was amongst the chosen few, learning loyalty and respect at a tender age. His involvement with The River Gang would prove to be a precursory magnet for trouble, as his involvement tested Sinopolis...