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Who knew monsters live off of Halloween Candy? It’s true! But when the candy runs out, the monsters are in real trouble. Can the neighborhood kids help them in time? There’s only one way to find out. You gotta read this book! But be sure to leave the lights on…

Inspired by actual events, The Haunted Life of Lura is a portrait of Lura’s yearnings for love, permanency, and acceptance. Through unimaginable circumstances, brimming with escalating violence, Lura confronts the storms of her life.
For seventy years the townspeople of Raeford, North Carolina have been denied entry into the once stately but now deteriorating home of Lura Kennedy. Change is in the air. The local newspaper runs the headline, “Mystery House Opens Its Doors.” Now the home place will be sold at public auction, and eager and curious visitors flock to the house to seek out treasures.
The town gossip is overhead saying, “Is this the room where that man was cut up?” Lura’s elderly cousin joins the throngs of visitors. “Even though my grandmother lived directly across the street, I knew I could NEVER set one foot onto Lura’s property. Lura and her family were estranged from all of us, just like they were from everyone else.”

Stefan and the Celestial Sword is an historical fantasy set in 15th century eastern Europe chronicling the rise of Stefan the Great. After his father is assassinated, the young prince escapes and stumbles upon the sacred mountain of Dacia. There he finds Aparator, the broken celestial sword of the origin myth. Stefan must unravel the mysteries in the map of Zalmoxis to survive the many hazards on his journey to the Forges of Ezrok where only the cosmic blacksmith can restore the sword. While on this perilous quest, he encounters magical creatures, a mysterious Lady in White, Vlad Tepes, aka Dracula, and a telepathic land octopus.
To restore peace and prosperity to his beloved country, the fugitive prince must devise an ingenious strategy to slay the dragon Ismeju and evade the murderous mercenaries hunting him. Surrounded by treachery and danger, who can Stefan trust to help him rescue his family and save his country from a reign of terror? Can he defeat the assassin known as Bloody Scourge? Stefan will have to enter the Neck of Hell to find out.

“Baseball Is Life Is Baseball” was inspired by a magical high school baseball season culminating in a State Championship. The lessons learned along the way serve as a recipe for success both on and off the field. The author uses his vast experience as teacher, coach, and player to list the ingredients and proper blending of them necessary to guarantee success. This is not a book of baseball fundamentals. It is about the many qualities other than fundamentals needed to take your team or personal life to the next level. Interwoven with detailed practical information are stories and experiences bringing these qualities to life. You will find yourself laughing and perhaps crying at times as you take this journey designed to lift you up and bring out your best.

A Short Season with Ernie is a charming ‘coming of age’ true story in a straightforward, easy-going style as if author Joe Seme and the reader are sitting on a porch, maybe with a couple of cold ones, traveling back to the 1950s. This story revolves around Joe’s grandfather Ernie Padgett, who was a major league ballplayer. Pop Pop as he was called, was a wise and wonderful grandfather. You will meet family members and other characters all with a common thread of baseball. This book will make you smile, laugh out loud, and definitely cry. You will learn how baseball influences lives for a lifetime.

John Lutz invites you on a magical tour of zany, unique, and precious artifacts of history, nature, and technology. From Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Museum to the Pima Air and Space Museum, “Hidden Treasures” is not only a delight for the curious mind whetted by evocative descriptions, it is a feast for the eyes. Dozens of vibrant images spark the imagination, making it perfect for mostly guys and techno-nerds.

Using personal stories and realizations, Master Daniel Lee Bourelle weaves failure, success, anger, pride, death, passion, violence, and humor into lessons learned from martial arts. Although he has failed many times on his journey to success, Master Bourelle shares his message that failure should be seen as a welcome necessity in life. This book is filled with humorous and engaging stories that will resonate with readers of all ages.

Illustrated by Kate Scott Baker. Learn why Larry is always late and why it matters. This is a great resource for young kids and teaches valuable lessons. Kindness, empathy, curiosity, and other positive characteristics are where it’s at! You’ll chuckle as you read every page!

1950 – Korea – East versus West, Communism versus Capitalism, Tyranny versus Freedom. The world is on the precipice of nuclear war as Stalin and Mao face off against Truman and MacArthur. On the ground, a young United States Marine stands like David against the Goliath of the North Korean war machine led by Kim Il Sung. At stake is the ultimate prize which could lead to world domination. Who will prevail? Will the value of the prize outweigh the cost in blood and treasure?

Drawing from a thirty-eight year career in emergency medicine, “Life in the Balance” offers deep insight and understanding of the patients, the nurses, and the emergency physicians who find themselves in life and death crises. Most of the patients arriving at the ER are entering a scary world and are met by strangers. The ER doctor often has to make decisions in minutes to save lives, with scanty or no information for guidance, treating that stranger for the first time. The captivating cases in this book illustrate how the emergency staff struggles to meet the unending demands in our world of breathtaking medical advances and societal demands that are sometimes overwhelming, in caring for everyone coming to the ER. It also reveals some of the profound stresses emergency personnel must endure daily and nighty. This book is a page turner that will stay with you for a long time.

This nonfiction work fills a void in baseball literature. By compiling the outstanding contributions of German-Americans to the game of baseball in one work, Mr. Amoroso captures this enduring, but largely unseen, legacy. Through every era of professional baseball,the German-American community hasproduced prominent players who have madelegendary contributions to the game. Startingwith Honus Wagner, the great Pirate shortstopwho was arguably the best player of his era andcontinuing today with Mike Trout, the fantasticyoung outfielder for the Angels, there has beena continuous thread of greatness.Wagner passed the torch of greatness tonone other than Babe Ruth, the greatest andmost dominant player of all time. Ruth handedthe torch to his teammate Lou Gerhig, the IronHorse. Carl Hubbell of the Giants and FrankieFrisch of the Cardinals passed the torch toWarren Spahn of the Braves and Duke Sniderof the Dodgers, then it went to Sandy Koufax ofthe Dodgers and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies.

Orange Glow Stampers, a debut novel, tells a timeless tale of friendship, family, and fulfillment. Join Anna and Sarah and their new stamping friends as they share their lives while learning the art and business of paper crafting and rubber stamping. As a bonus, detailed instructions for many of the unique projects are included. Find your creativity today!

In the early 20th century there was an epic battle for control over the money of the United States. This struggle was, for the most part, clandestine and cleverly disguised so that the people would not know that their sovereign power over the monetary system was being stolen.
One man, C. A. Lindbergh, Sr., recognized the true nature of the Federal Reserve Bank and sacrificed everything a man holds dear, to oppose the brazen effort by the Money Trust.
Although the name Charles Lindbergh evokes images of the intrepid aviator who revolutionized flight, this book is about his father, Charles Lindbergh, Sr., a five-term Congressman from Minnesota. Dread the Fed chronicles his quest to save the dollar from the diabolical clutches of the Money Trust. Much like Don Quixote, Lindbergh fights the unbeatable foe with an indomitable spirit and similar results.
As the story unfolds, Lindbergh, the small town lawyer from rural Minnesota, confronts powerful men like J. Pierpont Morgan, President Theodore Roosevelt, Otto Hermann Kahn, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Paul Warburg, and a mysterious stranger nicknamed Nitro. Despite a tumultuous marriage and an enigmatic relationship with a New York socialite, Lindbergh battles treachery, deceit, and secret meetings with fearless courage. The excitement mounts as the plot races from Minnesota to Washington, D.C., to New York City to Jekyll Island, Georgia and Baden Baden, Germany.
Given a century of obfuscation and the dry nature of monetary policy, the best way to communicate the story of the birth of the Federal Reserve Bank is to novelize the actual events. C. A. Lindbergh was a real person who actually battled the Money Trust with courage and dire consequences. Dread the Fed attempts to lift the shroud using the drama of story-telling and the tools of historical fiction. The basic facts related in Dread the Fed are historically accurate. Some relationships, conversations and timing have been created or connected to enhance the impact of the story. None of these negate the essence of the drama surrounding the origins of the Federal Reserve Bank. The goal of any imagination, speculation, or conjecture in this novel is to entertain, titillate, and provoke the reader.

This book is a whimsical look at the author’s all-time teams by various categories; including animal names, ethnicity, crazy nicknames, decades, etc. The whimsy, however, is prelude to over 60 biographical sketches as well as the author’s opinions of the impact that steroids, the designated hitter, relief pitching, the explosion of salaries, and the introduction of African American and Latino players has had on the great game. The author realizes that many of his readers will disagree with his choice of players, but that goes to the essence of being a fan. Arguing about who was better, Willie, Mickey, or the Duke fuels the true baseball lover’s passions as much as seeing his team pull out a victory in the bottom of the ninth. So grab yourself a beer and enjoy this look at our national pastime from this zany perspective of a lifelong fan.

Secret afternoon trysts at a beach house in Wilmington, North Carolina lead to divorce and a lawsuit. Emily Chambers, a thirty-something stay-at-home-mom, thinks she is happily married until she meets handsome and charismatic Andy Bennett at a movie industry party in a historic mansion. Sparks fly and Emily embarks on an affair with Andy, who is from a wealthy, well-established local family. When Emily’s husband, Josh, learns of the affair, he insists they go to their Baptist minister for counseling, but it doesn’t work. Emily and Andy divorce their spouses and marry. Not long after the wedding, Josh seeks revenge by suing Andy under North Carolina’s “Alienation of Affection” law that allows a rejected spouse to sue the person responsible for breaking up a marriage in an affair. Despite Andy’s family wealth, his financial well-being is threatened.

“Behind Every Great Fortune®” fans can now join Otto Kahn and friends at the culinary table. In this companion cookbook, we bring you deliciously unique recipes from around the globe and share fascinating food history. Dig in and try making these scrumptious recipes from Europe, Russia, and America.

Victory at the track is defined differently in this book.In thoroughbred racing circles emphasis is placed on handicapping skills, the blue-ribbon pedigrees of the magnificent equestrian and the scores of its performances.Making a Portfolio to Achieve Success at the Races providesthe bettor with a revolutionary different path to success.Learn from a $2 plunger, how he survived through failures, disappointments and slowly rose to consistent, predictablewinning.

Every city has at least one Pigtown, a neighborhood where life is as squalid and deplorable as the name implies. Pigtown is the inspirational tale of George Herman “Babe” Ruth who grew up amid tragedy and trouble to become the greatest baseball player to ever wear a major league uniform.Death and tragedy devastate his family leaving him to survive the wreckage on his own. By the age of seven he is an incorrigible street urchin living a life of petty crime as the ringleader of the Bunny Hole Gang. His life changes dramatically when he becomes an inmate at St. Mary’s Industrial School where he learns discipline and the love of baseball. “If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.” Under the fatherly influence of Brother Matthias, Babe must face the demons that destroyed his family. With war hysteria raging and nativist Americans persecuting German-Americans, his saloonkeeper father tries to cope with heartbreaking tragedy. Pigtown chronicles how Babe prevails in a world gone mad and how he fights for his first love.

Every city has at least one Pigtown, a neighborhood where life is as squalid and deplorable as the name implies. Pigtown is the inspirational tale of George Herman “Babe” Ruth who grew up amid tragedy and trouble to become the greatest baseball player to ever wear a major league uniform.Death and tragedy devastate his family leaving him to survive the wreckage on his own. By the age of seven he is an incorrigible street urchin living a life of petty crime as the ringleader of the Bunny Hole Gang. His life changes dramatically when he becomes an inmate at St. Mary’s Industrial School where he learns discipline and the love of baseball. “If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.” Under the fatherly influence of Brother Matthias, Babe must face the demons that destroyed his family. Pigtown chronicles how he overcomes an abusive world and finds love, while his saloonkeeper father tries to cope with heartbreaking tragedy.

Signed off the sandlots of Baltimore, George Ruth blasts his way into the record books while earning the nickname Babe. Just weeks after his nineteenth birthday, he defeats the World Champion Philadelphia Athletics in a dramatic game. Unfortunately, he commits a grievous mistake that might cost him the love of his life. Follow the Babe’s exhilarating journey from the ballfields of North Carolina to Fenway Park and from Hot Springs, Arkansas and back to Fenway on an emotional roller coaster ride to superstardom and several World Series Championships with the Red Sox. Plagued by past mistakes, he struggles to re-kindle lost love and participates in one of the most bizarre perfect games in major league history. As World War I rages across Europe, tensions in the United States threaten to derail Babe’s professional success. The grandson of German immigrants sees his country divided between super-patriotic nativists and pro-Kaiser loyalists. Babe attempts to avoid the crossfire of opposing forces while friends and relatives succumb to war hysteria. The Show sets the stage for the explosive events of the 1918 World Series that will be revealed in the finale of Wopper – Volume 3, The Series.

The Series is the explosive culmination of Wopper -How Babe Ruth Lost His Father and Won the 1918 World Series Against the Cubs. The major themes of Wopper collide in this final installment. After the brutal death of his father just nine days before the 1918 World Series, how will Babe handle the grief, regret, and pressure of performing? Will Babe reconnect with the one true love of his life? In a nation teeming with pro- and anti-German zealots, anarchists, and evil, will Babe and the ones he cares about, survive imprisonment, bombs, and kidnapping? Who can he turn to in these dark times?Amid all this turmoil, Babe struggles to find himself on the baseball field. Is he a dominant pitcher, or, an everyday position player who wields a powerful bat, or, both? The 1918 World Series was one of the most fiercely-contested ever. The strategies employed by both teams revolved around one player – Babe Ruth. War tension, brawls, a labor strike, and hardnosed baseball mark each of the six games. Enjoy it all from the vantage point of the clubhouse, the dugout, and the diamond!

“So you see, Otto, behind every great fortune, lies a great crime,” boasted Princess Zina Yusopov, the richest woman in Tzarist Russia. * * *Set in the turbulent second decade of the 20th century, Behind Every Great Fortune® is the first in a trilogy of historical fiction that brings to life the story of Otto Kahn, the international financier whose fortune was so great that he was immortalized as the iconic Monopoly ® man. It captures the Gilded Era dramatized by the popular series, Downton Abbey.In a world spiraling toward global war, Otto Kahn plans the unthinkable. Two forces stand in his way – Naval intelligence officers led by Commander James “Strafe” Oliver and the legendary mad monk, Rasputin. Behind Every Great Fortune® bristles with espionage, sexual depravity, betrayal and ritual murder as it chronicles the first terror attack on New York City, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the murder of Rasputin, the Russian Revolution and the and the bloody devastation of WWI. Behind Every Great Fortune® adroitly weaves historical facts with colorful characters of the day such as Margaret Sanger, Vaslav Nijinsky, Prince Felix Yusopov and Mata Hari as the suspense builds to a bloody crescendo.At the end of the 20th century, Oheka Castle, Kahn’s Gold Coast monument to wealth and decadence, has been ravaged by vandals. As modern-day developers attempt to save Oheka from the wrecking ball, they discover hidden passages, a mysterious bunker, and encrypted messages. Will they halt the razing of Oheka Castle in time, or will the secrets of how Otto Kahn amassed his great fortune be buried forever?As the 100th anniversary of these events approaches, Behind Every Great Fortune® presents a fresh look at the seminal events that shaped the world. According to one reviewer it is an “. . . exciting, imaginative novel with many scenes of high dramatic intensity.”