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The O'Connell clan ran Albany, New York from the 1920s through the 1950s, financed in large part by brewing both illegal, and later, legal beer. The clan was headed by Dan O'Connell, nicknamed "The King of Albany," and he kept an iron fist on the brewing of beer in the local area. He kept...

Case 2, 1944, January. It's hard times in America, the world is that war. 'Stench' returns to search for a seventeen year old runaway Nebraska farm girl who has come to Hollywood to be a movie star. The young beauty arrived with a sackful of world class troubles. Someone wants her dead and will stop...

The orphaned Les Myers left his aunt and uncle’s house in Ohio to enlist in the Civil War and found his place in the Union army. Well respected amongst both his men and the enemy, Myers quickly rose through the ranks and served with distinction throughout the war. In this brilliant novel by Laszlo...

Lieutenant Jake King, a Yankee solider, was badly wounded during the war. Because the severity of his wounds rendered him unfit for battle, he was subsequently discharged from the U.S. Army. Jake then headed back to his family farm in Kentucky, only to find the farm days away from being sold in a...

This is a memoir my father wrote about his life growing up in Eastern Kentucky in the early 1900's. It's a story that traces his beginnings as a child in those mountain hills which are incredibly beautiful and at the same time fraught with harsh realities. His childhood is one of extraordinary exploration...

"Daniel and Job, Book III: The Vessel" completes the science-fiction, action-adventure, romantic-comedy trilogy begun with "Daniel and Job." This story picks up where "Daniel and Job, Book II: The Nograv" left off and carries Daniel Johnstone, his amazing dog Job, Daniel's wife Jessie, Captain Kandar...

The Tragedy of Hamlet is the consummate tale of an introspective melancholic struggling to come to terms with the world he lives in; it is no surprise, then, that artists like Goethe and Coleridge have identified with this tortured character over the centuries. As one of Japan’s most famous and troubled...

Mothers Forever is a verse novel that examines the lives of three characters beginning in 1887 and ending in 1980. The three are brought together by their sons' deaths due to military service in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. To help cope with their grief, the three characters...

Hong Kong wasn’t a place I thought I’d ever visit. Let alone call home. Initially, the plan was one year. It would be an experience. You know, like an extended family vacation in a far away land but with grocery and household lists added to the search for souvenirs. Oh. And a first marathon. There...

Raised in a God-fearing home, Dennis tries to balance the morals and values he was taught as a child to become successful. But based on the crime in his immediate environment, Dennis struggles with the peer pressures of bad friends and the day to day temptations of criminal activity, which will lead...

This is a little book with poems and art work, written and made by two Swedish sisters, inspired by their lives of growing up in one place, moving to another, and figuring out matters of being, longing and belonging, in the process.

With Keys for Kids devotions, you'll learn more about God's love every day! Read a fun story and keep God's Word in your heart with the Key Verse of the day.

Dennis Hambright has written a real insiders look at San José, Costa Rica with his 'Day by Day in San José'. Hambright isn't jut another wannabe who declared himself a local expert. He lives there, works there, speaks the language, and understands the culture and the people. He digs into all the nooks...

Dr. Mark Henry Kinn grew up both searching for and running from his parents' tragic past. How do you live through a trauma that isn't even your own? How does a child live with the poignancy and sadness of a generation, following him to school, to work, and out into a world that doesn't understand?...