Putting the Pieces Together is a powerful autobiography that traces David E. Jacobson's extraordinary journey from a childhood marked by trauma, instability, and parental alcoholism to a life rebuilt on resilience, love, service, and personal achievement. With unflinching honesty and emotional clarity, David reflects on eight decades of triumphs and hardships from polio and juvenile institutions to the Air Force, marriage, fatherhood, a successful technology career, global adventu...

Capturing the essence of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Gonzo” style, short story Mescalito details his dark and miserably comic first mescaline drug trip. First published in Songs of the Doomed, Mescalito suggests the nascent ideas and energy of Thompson’s seminal work on the ‘60s experience, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."We live in a jungle of pending disasters," the author warns. Alone in a hotel room in Los Angeles in February, 1969, Thompso...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like:to be stuck in a tornado?“[It] is exactly the feel of a freight train approaching—that low, ever-louder howl and the shuddering ground.”to participate in an orgy?“And all the while, the thought that keeps going through your mind (and through the cab ride home, and into breakfast the next day): ‘I’m at an orgy! I’m at an orgy!’”to have a severe stutter?

Contains many ALIEN CONTACT stories by leading researchers and authors!Shoot Them Down By Nick PopeOn 18 September 1976, Parviz Jafari - who later retired as a general in the Iranian Air Force - attempted to shoot down a UFO with an air-to-air missile. The UFO had been seen over Tehran and an air force commander ordered a jet to be scrambled.Phoenix Lights - New InformationThe mystery of the 1997 “Phoenix lights” incident seems to continue. TV shows, films, re...

Celebrate the big 3-0 with this thrilling 30th edition of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader—and cheers to 30 more!2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in HumorWhat's even more trusty and awe-inspiring than Old Faithful, the Yellowstone geyser that erupts 17 times a day? Uncle John and the Bathroom Readers' Institute! Every year for the past three decades, Uncle John and his team of tireless researchers have delivered an epic tome packed ...

It's time for an antidote to all the negativity! You’ll find that in this collection of 101 inspiring stories about what makes America great. From apple pie and baseball to our military heroes and first responders, from our vast and varied country to our energy and spirit, these stories will make you proud to be an American!We live in a great country, but we can forget that sometimes amid all the negativity that surrounds us. Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spir...

There is a war that goes on inside each and every one of us who struggles with alcohol or drugs. The battlefield is our soul and minds; moreover, when it kicks into full gear, it destroys what ever it comes in contact with. It is not a respecter of persons, nor does it care what your stature in life is. That war will drag you down to the pits of hell, and the sad reality is that you may not know it until the very end. It will take your wife and children, your job and home; it will put you ...

Norman Coffey lives in Southwest Florida and works as a bartender at the Captiva Island Yacht Club during winter season. Off-season he spends time with his family on Long Island, New York. His many years of standing, twisting and turning behind the bar resulted in serious knee damage requiring surgery.This booklet explains how practical and disciplined efforts 'before and after' knee replacement surgery minimized the challenges and maximized the benefits of the overall experience. ...

From the moment I was born in the Psychiatric ward at the University of Minnesota Hospital in 1965, Minnesota would never be the same. With a little naivety on my mothers part back in the early 70s, a little boy had more leash to explore than a little boy should have had. Combined with a stepfathers influence that was geared more for inmates at Alcatraz, a wild pony was created and set loose into the world until being reigned in at the age of 24.In the book I chronicle many of the ...

From the author of Primary Colors, “a remarkably sensitive story of a generation” (The New York Times Book Review): The critically acclaimed true story of five Marines who fought together in a bloody battle during the Vietnam War, barely escaping with their lives, and of what happened when they came home.In 1981, while the country was celebrating the end of the Iran hostage crisis, an unemployed Vietnam veteran named Gary Cooper went berserk with ...

Claudine Burnett, author of popular Murderous Intent and Strange Sea Tales Along the Southern California Coast, has at last revised and updated the long out of print Haunted Long Beach. New stories and updates have come her way since the original Haunted Long Beach was published in 1996. Now readers can rediscover the "ghostly" side of one of America's finest cities----haunted houses, phantom airplanes, cemetery apparitions, and ghosts of the Queen Mary ...

In 1993, an Army National Guard Captain started a UFO Research organization in Colorado Springs on a quiet Tuesday night at the local library. It didn't take long before the organization was involved in a major event, known as "The NORAD Incident." This book tells how the group started and grew, outlines some of its major investigations, and also provides a history of UFO phenomena.