Sammy Page, a long time thief, stares into the institutional glow of death row when he takes a couple's prize possession, while they lay in their bloody bed after having been brutally murdered.Long Gone is a fast-paced thrilling tale of love, romance, corruption and murder as seen through the eyes of Sammy Page, who was turned out to make fast money by a desperate mother at the age of 10 years old, So, Sammy's childhood playground of stolen cars and hot rides takes the place of swi...

Outlaw Sammy Page made a solemn promise to his wife and daughter to change his ways after a jury found him innocent of double homicide having been at the scene while a husband-and-wife were being brutally murdered."What Has Happened to Women in Juárez?" The newspaper headline jumped off the page as Sammy paced the jail cell following his arrest on suspicion of foul play after his wife and daughter went missing in the West Texas border town of El Paso.Hell's Bells contains e...

Outlaw Sammy Page has no recollection of his life before waking in The Buckskin Canyon nudist camp, being nursed back to health by the voluptuously sexy camp founder, Dr. Alexandria Rose, after she found him unconscious on the property. He's unaware that he has a wife and daughter waiting at home. He doesn't know that authorities discovered a man and wife brutally murdered in a house with a lonely light burning after he drove off with their luxury liner. He doesn't yet know that there's be...

"The System: Book 1" by Bryant Thomas Coates is an exciting thriller about young men living in a tough neighborhood, dealing with crime, loyalty, and survival. The story follows Bee, a teenager stuck between ambition, family, and trying to survive. He and his friends are learning that in their world, respect and power are earned the hard way. Bee has to make life-changing decisions that will affect his future.The novel explores family struggles, the cost of power, and how a life of...

A closely held firm is not a smaller version of a large public firm, anymore than a child is a miniature adult. Recognizing that value comes from the ability to generate future cash flows, this book emphasizes the differences between the large and small firms when presenting the concepts to value the closely held firm.

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant kee...

The Henderson Writers Group challenges its members each year to submit works for blind judgement. Those with top scores are presented here.Enjoy this multitude of works written by Beverly J. Davis, Brandi Hoffman, Pat Kranish, David R. Long, Keiko Moriyama, Rick Newberry, Chike Nzerue, Wolf O'Rourc, Lori Piotrowski, Donna Pletzer-DeVargas, Joe Van Rhyn, Valerie J. Runyan, Laura Engel Sahr, Judy Salz, Willow Seymour, Arleen Sirois, Nancy Sanders Tar...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie candidate to his first eastern audience. There his masterful appeal to the conscience of the natio...

The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought the paper close to its greatest financial prosperity and to national political and cu...

The years just before and during the Civil War marked the high point of Bryant's influence on public affairs, which had grown steadily since the Evening Post had upheld the democratic Jacksonian revolution of the 1830s. A founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848 and the Republican Party in 1856, Bryant was lauded in 1857 by Virginia anti-slavery leader John Curtis Underwood, who wrote to Eli Thayer, "What a glory it would be to our country if it could elect this man to the Presidenc...

In January 1872, Bryant traveled to Mexico City, where he was greeted warmly by President Benito Juarez; on this and other occasions he was feted for the Evening Post's sturdy condemnation in 1863 of the abortive invasion of Mexico, which was freshly remembered there. AT the close of his visit a local newspaper remarked that the "honors and hospitality which were so lavishly and generously conferred upon him were the spontaneous outpouring of a grateful people, who had not forgott...