Pats poetry presentation to our elderly audiencebrought back memories that had long been forgotten! His knowledge & experience of past events had our residents remembering fond thoughts of their younger days!

Composer Nakayama Shimpei (1887-1952) wrote more than 300 popular songs in his lifetime. Most are still well known and recorded regularly. An entrepreneur, he found ways to create popular songs that powered Japan’s nascent recording industry in the 1920s and 1930s. An artist, his combination of Japanese and Western musical styles and tropes appealed to Japanese sentiments in a way that not only reflected the historical and social context, but anticipated and explained those historical chan...

"I Love When Daddy Reads to Me" is a fun and engaging children's book that encourages Father/Child Bonding and Literacy! This book is unique in that it encourages Dads to read to their children and shares many of the funny and loving reasons why, from a child’s perspective!

"I Love When Daddy Reads to Me" is a fun and engaging children's book that encourages Father/Child Bonding and Literacy! This book is unique in that it encourages Dads to read to their children and shares many of the funny and loving reasons why, from a child’s perspective!

Uncle Bob, Robert E. Lee Leavitt, was a true pioneer of the Wild West. This is his story, and that of his family, friends and fellow pioneers.The story tells of Uncle Bobs forbearers as they ventured from Germany and Ireland to Americas shores, and traveled to what is now the city of Victoria, in southeast Texas.From there, Uncle Bob leads a historic cattle drive to Montana, participated in crucial battles with the Comanche Indians, ultimately settling in a small Montana to...

From James Patterson, the world’s #1 bestselling author, and Patrick Leddin, PhD—the New York Times bestselling guide to adapting to change for professional, personal, and practical advantage.Markets shift overnight. Reorganizations land without warning. AI rewrites the rules. What matters most is knowing when to protect what's working, and to how change what’s not.In Disrupt Everything, ...

From James Patterson, the world’s #1 bestselling author, and Patrick Leddin, PhD—the New York Times bestselling guide to adapting to change for professional, personal, and practical advantage.Markets shift overnight. Reorganizations land without warning. AI rewrites the rules. What matters most is knowing when to protect what's working, and to how change what’s not.In Disrupt Everything, ...

"Equal parts vintage crime novel and Southern Gothic, full of aching ambivalence and hard compromises, and rounded off by bad faith and bad choices, One Foot in Eden is a veritable garden of earthly disquiet." —Los Angeles TimesWill Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to t...

Church Planting Guidelines from the Teachings of George PattersonDiscipling others who disciple others who disciple others.Simple, yet confounding!Reproducible Pastoral Training clarifies specific, timeless guidelines toward the Lord's end that others are mobilized for outreach.It proceeds from the author's own grooming by George Patterson over many years, in which new movements of "chains of churches" were not simply theorized about, but stated.This book ...

New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit.Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. Shocked and shaken, he doesn't realize that he's accidentally captured a key pi...

One of America’s most iconic heroes recruits his lasting love, Margo Lane, and his great-great-granddaughter, Maddy Gomes, to join an international investigation in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.For over 150 years, Lamont Cranston and his alter ego, The Shadow, have possessed an array of mental and physical powers: scientific skills, shape-shifting abilities, and mind control. When a series of deadly natural disasters strike ...

COLD CASE PERILAn unsolved crime. A K-9 team on the case.Unexpected danger is closing in fast…When someone tries to run dog trainer Micah Landon off the road, Officer Lucy Lopez and her K-9 partner, Piper, show up just in time to make a rescue. Someone wants Micah dead—but why? Is this connected to Lucy’s weapon-smuggling case, in which she’s investigating Micah’s younger half brother? Or was Micah attacked because he started looking...