Intent on finding his career path, a rookie reporter struggles to become a journalist at an Indiana newspaper in 1973.He climbs the ladder from writing obituaries to covering cops and teacher strikes and murder trials and community disasters. As he navigates the competitive politics of the newsroom, he gradually earns the trust of his curmudgeonly city editor. Along the way, he begins performing with a rock and roll band and falls in love.The choice...

It started innocently in Ireland in the mid 1800's between a young man Jim Callahan and the love of his life Molly O'Brien. However, there were tidal forces working against them both. The families didn't approve, the Church could be bought with emoluments and was by a wealthy Irish Lord. He destroyed Jim's family and stole the love of his life.After trying to enact vengeance, Jim finds himself a wanted fugitive of the redcoats and flees with his family to a distant land called Amer...

Mark Paul Smith graduated college on an Air Force scholarship with dreams of becoming a pilot. He had some downtime after graduation and before reporting for duty so he decided to hitchhike the world. A decision that would change his life forever.As he traveled, his approach to life and his future decisions changed. He hitchhiked through the Iron Curtain and worked on a collective farm in Hungary only to find that communism wasn't our real enemy. He met people from North Vietnam wh...

During the 1970s on a magic mushroom harvesting adventure in the Bayou, a young, aspiring rock and roll musician discovers the voice of Voodoo, which not only alters his life, but the life of his band, the Divebomberz.When the band is on the verge of making it big, tragedy strikes, and Jesse is confronted with the hard truth that life is often a spiritual obstacle course designed to see if you can get over yourself.A book for rock and rollers of all...

Honey and Leonard are in their seventies when they fall in love. Leonard is in the early stages of Alzheimer's and Honey thinks her love will cure him.When their heirs try to keep them apart, they flee to France in violation of court orders. Pursued by police, press, and private investigators, they become an international media sensation. In a time just before cell phones and the Internet, they become the Bonnie and Clyde of love.Their whirlwind romance enc...

In 1996 the sun went supernova and what fortunate humans discovered the hidden portals or some select military made it onto the alien Ahgundy world called "Ciera" a desert world in a dual binary star system where time moves much slower than on Earth.Sheriff Wyler Scott and his Department were the sole law in the remaining human colony. However, nothing stays the same forever, and the peace was about to explode under a tyrant General hooked up with ancient devilish aliens intent on ...

The first in the new Cahuilla Mini Series off-shoot of the original Sheriff Wyler Scott Series. Picks up after Under Sheriff Mohany Rodriguez and Sheriff Wyler Scott retired. The story shows us how both men and their wives went their separate directions, but a series of events will soon bring them together, and the former sheriff may one last time need a super charged aging Cahuilla Indian, Mohany Rodriguez as danger grows to an explosive ending. In the tradition of the high energy Sheriff...

On December 7, 1941, Keiko Tanaka finds her whole world affected by the Pearl Harbor bombings. Normally friendly neighbors are suddenly suspicious of her Japanese ancestry, and her engagement to James Armstrong—a Caucasian—becomes a crisis rather than a celebration. Despite their parents' protests, Keiko and James decide to marry before she is sent to the internment camps and he to the war. Nearly sixty years later, Keiko's daughter, Kazuko—born in the camps—attends to Keiko on her deathbe...

They went to Midian to barter their goods, when the old seer Nimit told them they would return. Moshe was the chosen one to face GOD, and when they returned to their village of Mitzpe Ramon in the southern Sinai plateaus, everything was dust.And so it was as had been predicted, they returned to Midian and Moshe climbed the holy mountain once climbed by Moses, and GOD instructed him to visit the city of those who kidnap humans and demand that the people be freed. That Moshe would kn...

" This is the book that throws down a forceful gauntlet on how, at last, to create an equitable America." —William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke UniversityFor some Americans, freedom means the provision of life's necessities, those basic conditions for the "pursuit of happiness." For others, freedom means the civil and political rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and unfettered access to the marketplace—nothing...

Bank foreclosures, Credit Stains, Repo's, Wild Parties, Financial Seizures and Legal Judgments. When a college business graduate Mike Smith comes to 'Weasle Mortgage and Loan, little did he realize the tasks that awaited him. A crooked diabolical female executive, a criminal, and plenty of action in the office, highlight the seamy side of the collections industry and what every consumer dreads is printed on the bottom of their bills..."AMOUNT DUE"'Amount Due' is the story of a Harv...

Republicans versus Democrats, Rifle Club versus Mountain Lion Club, Humans versus Nature. It's open season on Californians in this big cat tale as the action and arguments explode.The golden hills of California, million dollar estates, attacks on civilians and the laws protecting us. Welcome to a great state, great people and Felis Concolor, "STUPID COUGAR LAWS!"When 65 million dollar California lottery winner and former Rifle Club spokesman John Davidson, a right wing Repu...