Paul Harvey Collins was the son of an Island Boy who was raised on Sullivans Island South Carolina. When he was in High School he and a friend from the upper part of the State were on a Civics Class trip to the South Carolina legislature at the same time. They were not impressed by the workings of government and decided to enter politics as a career. They made their lifes work the improvement of government. After college and law school they were elected to the South Carolina legislature an...

The present government in the United States was established in the eighteenth century. Now, in the twenty-first century, it is time for reorganization of the federal government and improvements in the organization of our state, county, and local governments. The First Constitutional Congress established the Congress, the Office of the President, and the Supreme Court. Powers were granted to each of the three branches of the federal government. The organization of the state, county, and loc...

British Values and a Preparation to Visit Rome takes an original look at how Britain became a moral enterprise and a free society."British values" look at these, through the eyes of Athena, Trajan, St Paul and Mahatma Gandhi. These are the big four. You will say they are not British. True, but the values they symbolize have grown in Britain-transplanted, like seed potatoes from Greece, Spain, present day Turkey and India.Athena was the goddess of social wisdom; Tra...

This book came to me sitting on the couch wondering when this pandemic might be over. The thought of a helpful chuckle towards a very serious situation led me to put this in a format that I believe all ages can enjoy and get a little smile from. Every day find at least one thing that brings a smile and if you have trouble finding that one thing maybe this book will bring that smile, we all need. We are in this together.

Under a communist philosophy, China labeled religion as an opium and started to go about eliminating it. In the 70 years since then, the number of religious people in China, especially Christians, has increased year after year, contrary to government repression. The number of religious groups belonging to unofficial religious groups has increased significantly in recent years. Increasing religious practice under the Communist party system leads us to two questions. The first questi...

It’s C.T.’s first case. He wants an easy one.Instead, he gets Alice.C.T. Ferguson spent years as a hacker. He lived in Hong Kong, working against the Chinese government. Then they found him, threw him in jail, and eventually kicked him out. In Baltimore, C.T. sets himself up as a private investigator.Then Alice walks in.She’s sure her husband is cheating on her. C.T. looks into it but isn’t convinced. He soon discovers Alice...

**A murdered police officer. The thin blue line.One PI will take on the system to get justice.**For someone who never got along well with the cops, C.T. Ferguson finds himself in a good place.His relationship with the Baltimore police is as solid as it's been. He and his detective cousin Rich are almost friends.Then the news comes in: Officer down.The police quickly arrest a suspect. C.T. wants nothing to do with the case.You can't a...

Praise for the Sam Archer thriller series:‘This has been one of the all-time favourites. Right there with Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series and Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp’‘I read all of the books in the Sam Archer series and I cannot say enough good things about each one…I’ve never read a series where each book was just as good as the next’‘This is an incredible series...the action is non-stop from beginning to end’‘...

Do you want to deal with rejection and be more resilient?It's no use getting angry or frustrated when you get rejected, it's part of life and you need to get over it.Learn 18 ways to handle rejection.

Set in rural Iowa, this "breathtaking . . . remarkable achievement" of a debut novel by the author of Pacific is "at once funny, sad, and touching" ( New York Newsday).A New York Magazine and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearWith extensive excerpts appearing in the New Yorker before its release, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, The End of Vandalism, drew widespread acclaim and comparison to the wo...

McToad likes Thursdays. Why? Because on every other day of the week, McToad mows Big Island, but on Thursdays, McToad mows Tiny Island. To do so, he puts his mower on the back of a truck, which drives to a train, which goes to a helicopter, which flies to a boat, which uses a crane to put the lawn mower onto Tiny Island. There McToad mows and drinks some lemonade, and before you know it, it's time to turn around and go back home. But first, the mower has to get lifted by a crane, to get pu...

Psychiatrist Grant Garrick had it all: a thriving therapy practice, a bright, loving, and beautiful wife, a 15 year-old son filled with potential, and a gorgeous home on acreage overlooking the Puget Sound. Life couldn’t get much better.Then tragedy struck.Read the novella, Book 1, the prequel to the Psychiatrist Grant Garrick suspense-thriller series.Learn why he defies danger and adventures beyond the boundaries of his profession to help solve his patients’ problems....