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...

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...

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...

" 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...

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 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam. Approximately 600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Center’s 10 years. Now, more than 35 Center graduates look back on their experience, ea...

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...

It's 1966, November, and Steve's just gotten a one month reprieve from the front lines of Viet Nam, through his father, an ex-Colonel from World War II. When Steve's girlfriend invites him on a month long cruise out of Tokyo, with two other couples, aboard a small sailing yacht, he accepts. Their vacation soon takes a change, when they are attacked by modern day pirates in the open sea, South of Guam. With their boat taking on water, they land on one of several uncharted islands. The follo...

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...

It's late 1965 as the Sabre's have moved to a new home. New times for this family during these great growing years, and life growing up in a very different and younger Southern California, the times the family shared, the places they visited and one small kid trying to get through The Growing Years culminating to that special mid summer vacation trip in 1970. The world was surely changing, and this meant changing with the times and growing from that change.

The Sabre's in the early 1960's Los Angeles. Baldwin Hills California, the dam break, the NuPike in Long Beach California, fishing barges, a new romance in school and a childhood bully straight from hell.The prequel to the novel "Schmattah's" at a younger time, bigger families, a very different era when things were about to explode in growth with life changes that the family grew from. The excitement, the innocence, and everything that would spring this family forward during its gr...

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 ...