An 18th century sailor is cast away in a multi-ethnic New World in this long-neglected classic regarded as the first American novel every written.Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a Llewellin Penrose who flees an unhappy home life to seek his fortune on the high seas. Having learned the sailor's trade, Penrose survives a series of nautical mishaps, only to be cast adrift on the Mosquito Coast. When rescue finally comes, Penrose refuses to abandon the new home ...

Near the close of the Civil War, as General Sherman blazed his path to the sea, an unknown infantryman rifled through the North Carolina state house.The soldier was hunting for simple Confederate mementos—maps, flags, official correspondence—but he wound up discovering something far more valuable. He headed home to Ohio with one of the touchstones of our republic: one of the fourteen original copies of the Bill of Rights.Lost Rights follows that document's singular passage ...

The entire Middle East region has a long and arduous history of regional/religious conflicts, brutal inhumanity, wars, and instability all of which contributed to the October 7, 2023 mass massacre.

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first ce...

Joel Silverstein, after infinite and never-ending mistreatment, and a tumultuous, chaotic, and abusive marriage at the behest of his spouse, finally takes matters into his owns hands in order to escape the verbal abuse. The psychological illnesses, which he has suffered from for over fifty-five years, destroyed his family resulting in eventual dysfunction and estrangement from his two children. He resorts to the ultimate desperation measure, and seeks a new life thereafter.

The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation enter into a clandestine Alliance, the Sino-Russian Alliance, and create a conspiracy to purge the one enemy common to both, the United States of America. However, unforeseen difficulties ensue within their infallible plan.

Retired World Heavy Boxing Champion David Gold came out of retirement for one more fight. To fight current Champion Juan Fortuna; winner ‘take all’. After beating Fortuna, David Gold retired for the second and final time.It was time for a new ‘chapter’ in Gold’s life. He was going to re-connect again with his brother Albert and sister Esther. Tragically, Albert succumbed to cancer and passed away leaving Esther as his only birth relative.A trip to Toronto, from Boston, for ...

~~The Colombian-Canadian ConnectionSynopsisDuring a routine GST/HST Audit by the Canada Revenue Agency, the Auditor inadvertently ‘stumbles’ upon a major cocaine smuggling and trafficking operation, originating in the jungle of Colombia and terminating at the business location being audited in Canada.This discovery ignites into motion a series of events leading to deceit and murder within the ‘Network’, contract assassinations, and two governments’ military operation...

Jorge Ricci was a ‘born loser’. Yes, that phrase has been used multitudes of times, towards multitudes of people, and for a multitude of reasons. That said, Jorge Ricci was literally a ‘born loser’ from day one of his life.He did not have a chance in ‘life’ from the moment the delivering doctor slapped his bottom. He was born to a mother, who suffered life-long severe mental health issues, who required electric-shock treatments in the 1950s. A father that left his wife at the obste...

David Gold, as a young child, in a family of 2 parents and 3 children, was physically and emotionally abused by his father Leon Gold. The beatings would continue throughout his childhood years, without intervention by his mother Judith Gold.At the age of twelve, David finally ran away only to be returned home after a tragic incident in another city. Parents divorced, David was never the same person again even with his father’s absence.Leaving a second time, David Gold was d...

This book recounts the life of my mother, Julia Goldfarb, from her birth in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, as Julia Neskel, through her growing years during the 1920s and the depression years of the 1930s. Life with her parents and six siblings. Her marriage to Leo Goldfarb and the births of their three children Aaron, Howard, and Ellen. From her lifelong battle with depression to her love of the piano.The book chronicles her successes, hardships, and joys in life, from her career at Rel...

~~It’s All Pensionable ServiceA Canada Revenue Agency Auditor is drawn into an intricate fraud scheme, fuelled in part by greed and the prospect of a struggling life in retirement with his disabled spouse, in order to defraud the Canadian taxpayers of $39 million of Harmonized Sales Tax, in a one-time fraud with his two-taxpayer co-conspirators.