Stories and photographs celebrating the city's history through its abandoned architectural landmarks.Lost Detroit tells the stories behind twelve of the city's most beautiful left-behind landmarks and of the people who occupied them, from the day they opened to the day they closed. While these buildings might stand as ghosts of the past today, their stories live on within these pages.This book brings you the memories of those who caught trains out o...

Common sense. We've all got it, but all forget about it. How to get off your frigging ass and make some money is all about refreshing your common sense to give you the opportunities to make that money! I'm really trying to motivate you here by showing you some of the essential areas you need to focus on if you want success like many other top people seem to enjoy. It's not difficult, but it will be tough. I've packed just enough in this book to make it entertaining for you and to the point...

Late in 1937 Hugh Alexander, a kid fresh out of small-town Oklahoma, had just finished his second year playing outfield for the Cleveland Indians when an oil rig accident ripped off his left hand. Within three months he was back with the Indians, but this time as a scout—the youngest ever in Major League history. In the next six decades he signed more players who made it to the Majors than any other scout.His story, Baseball’s Last Great Scout, reads like a backroom, bleac...

The mental and physical demands of powerlifting are unlike any other sport. Athletes must be committed and focused on success. In Powerlifting, Second Edition, powerlifting hall of famer Dan Austin, winner of 10 world powerlifting championships and 18 national championships, teams with strength and conditioning expert Dr. Bryan Mann to offer the most comprehensive powerlifting resource available.This no-nonsense approach to training and competing in the sport offers over 1...

A pictorial history of Detroit through postcards.Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcards of Detroit from the early 1900s to the 1950s, compiled and presented in full color by Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org. From familiar sights to long-lost landmarks, this book pairs vintage views with rich stories from the Motor City's yesteryear.In the era be...

Build-a-Bear Workshop meets Jurassic Park when a newly graduated genetic engineer goes to work for a company that aims to produce custom-made dragonsNoah Parker, a newly minted PhD, is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He's eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian's feature product: living, breathing dragons.Although highly specialized dragons ha...

A BIOTECH RACE AGAINST TIME TO DEVELOP MILITARY-GRADE DRAGONSBrilliant genetic engineer Noah Parker is pitted head-to-head against the founder of Build-a-Dragon to design custom dragons for the military.Genetic engineer Noah Parker has at last landed the job he's long coveted: director of dragon design for the Build-A-Dragon Company. With a combination of genetic engineering and a cryptic device known as the Redwood Codex, he and his team c...

Genetic engineer Noah Parker helped domesticate dragons for use as pets and deployed them for the United States military. Now his team is tasked with designing dragons to tackle invasive species and other ecological problems. It's no easy job, especially because government approval requires the dragons have built-in failsafes to prevent them from reproducing in the wild. To Noah's surprise, the approval also requires the presence of an onsite observer—who happens to be his former rival fro...

One baby. Two mothers. King Solomon’s choice was easy compared to this.Ready to pivot her legal practice away from the stress and moral ambiguity of criminal law, Casey Cort accepts lucrative referrals from the Hudson Adoption Agency. But when she’s ready to finalize a client’s first adoption, she learns the child’s origins aren’t all they seem.After escaping a brutal home life, Alile Rubadiri is denied asylum in Britain. To avoid being deported to...

Mystery, Mayhem, Madness, Margaritas and Mexico!Spring Break 1986, changed everything forever in the lives of 19 students, three chaperones and one bus driver. "It's all good until it turns bad." Was it the Tequila?Based on one man's epic journey across two continents and four countries with 50 years of adventure.Listed in "PUBLISHERS WEEKLY" as a recommended audiobook for listening in Fall 2014/Winter 2015.

One bullet. Two stories.Troy Duncan has just one thing on his mind: how he is going to give his two young children and fiancé a nice Christmas when it’s unclear whether his job at a struggling restaurant will last through the winter. When he leaves work early on another slow night, he steps into a confrontation that changes his life forever.Cleveland Police Officer Marc Baldwin has been on the job for more than two decades, risking his life every d...

Volume One of the Casey Cort Legal Thriller SeriesCleveland lawyer Casey Cort lost more than her job when she crossed the wrong political family, she lost her idealism. Casey’s scraped together a career as a solo practitioner which has offered her more than one opportunity for redemption…but its also threatened her life. In this thrilling, gritty, realistic series by former criminal lawyer Aime Austin, readers will experience stories ripped from the headlines with the heart and sou...