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In over a decade of handling group ticket sales for professional sports teams, Matt Mastrangelo learned a lot about how to make a sale. He also learned a few things about how not to make a sale. Along the way, he worked with every type of group—non-profit organizations, youth baseball leagues, churches,...

Born in a farm house in West Sparta, NY, Vesta Greene went on to become a nurse and then joined the army during World War II and worked in an evac hospital following General George Patton as he raced through enemy lines. Married in a tent during WWII, the new bride, Vesta Hale, earned a discharge...

Known to his friends and family as Fred, Frederick Raymond Homer could have a stern exterior, but all who knew him loved him for his big heart and generous spirit. This is the story of his life as he wrote it. He was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho in May of 1926. He spent his childhood and adolescence...

It all started on July 30, 1983 when a twenty-two year old who had no idea what they were going to do with their life saw an add in the paper for a pizza delivery driver and at about 7:00 o'clock that same night I ran to my car with my first pizza delivery. Since that first night I have made in the...

We believe the story we tell ourselves. Often times, our beliefs about who we are and what we are capable of does not allow us to live our best life now. We have been lied to from birth and we must reclaim our identity in order to live a full life; a life of joy and peace and hope and empowerment...

One family member was a Jewish pioneer in gold rush San Francisco, selling dry goods down the block from fellow German immigrant Levi Strauss. Another family member was one of the wealthiest Jews in the 19th Century—a tobacco merchant, hotel owner, Wall Street banker and real estate investor who...

The Cornwall Air Ambulance project is a tale of the triumph of wishful thinking over an intransigent establishment. It is also a tale of the fortunate coming together of a small group of like-minded individuals who were persuaded by the author to agree to do something that no other part of the National...

“Replacing the Rainmaker” is a practical guide to business development for accountants. It offers an array of tools, techniques and strategies to help accountants win more work. It gives you everything you need to launch a successful firm-wide business development effort. Each topic in the book...

This is a personal story of a life lived in many places, from a childhood in Newfoundland to the bustling and increasingly modern metropolis of Beijing, China. It includes stops in London and Paris and Jakarta and Prague, and many years in Ottawa, where I was lucky to serve in a number of senior positions,...

David Mills first discovered the legendary Dakar Rally during a three-month motorcycle tour of South America. In 2012, he became an embedded member of a Chilean Dakar team with unprecedented access to the rally; now he shares the story of his experiences. This firsthand account describes the three...

I came up with this idea upon noticing the Scrabble dictionaries did not have the pronunciations so I thought of making it into a fun book and at the same time helping the reader/player recall certain words such as blagging, cwm, mux, offal, stonking, and woopie, including my attempt at using them...

Lawrence (Lonnie) Auer moved his family from rural Ohio to Las Vegas in 1961 so that he could legally pursue his trade as a casino pit boss. With a series of humorous tales of sin city from the 1960’s and 1970’s, Lonnie’s son Bob takes us on a ride through his childhood journey from the casino...

You may find my stories unbelievable, hilarious, frightening or amusing, but, hopefully, interesting, because these stories are true. I am writing this book hoping it will help people who are grieving for the loss of a loved one, a person or an animal, when they read my ghost stories, which I feel are proof of life after this life.

Once upon a time, children were allowed to play outside and explore the world. Family dinners were the rule, not the exception. Rock and roll was new, exciting, and a little dangerous. This may sound like the setting of an old movie, but for author Anthony N. Botta it formed the background of his...