It was a beautiful late April day in 1968. She had decided to take her baby for a stroll. She sat on the park bench, checked her watch, and looked skyward, squinting into the sun, trying to make out the dark falling object that appeared, as if someone had dropped a sack of sand from the clouds. Oh, my GodIts a person! A person soon to be found dead in the courtyard of the 6-floor Kensington Towers and identified as 25-year old Jane Louise Ladd, a lifelong London resident and current fashio...

Behind the Scenes takes place during a time referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood, bookended by the end of silent films and the advent of television. Follow the meeting and subsequent lives of LA transients, the strikingly beautiful Dinah Nolan from Chicago and the high-ranking mobster David Abrams from New York; and the peripheral influences of the beginning and end of Prohibition, the Great Depression, and World War II, along with the growth of Las Vegas as the gambling capital of A...

Written in real time, this memoir provides a gripping, behind-the-scenes look at a high-stakes medical malpractice trial. The intense emotions and personal challenges faced during the trial are skillfully presented in this case about a patient who suffered a severe brain injury while in the hospital. Legal twists resulted in an unusual settlement, but the story doesn't end there. Beyond the courtroom drama, the book reveals the profound transformation and unexpected friendships that develo...

This lively narrative presents some provocative thinking about the role of religion in society. Looking back from nowadays, the minister, Robert Staten, tells the story of his own struggle with the question while he was working in a southern parish in the nineteen-fifties. His stance is that of a progressive, who nevertheless grew up in fundamentalist pietism. Pastor, like the Church-of-England based novels of Susan Howatch, is both sympathetic and realistic. The first-person narratives by...

The book begins during the late twenties and thirties. The book deals with two teenagers in a small village in Western North Carolina during the Jim Crow era. It is during the period when social contact between races is nonexistent, especially in rural America. Two individuals of different races find themselves drawn to each other. When one of them is murdered, the other is suspected. The mystery of the death and the resulting trial, fueled by hatred of the Klan, reaches the climax.

In Appalachia and Beyond:Yarns and Yearnings in Prose and Poetry, Stanley Barlow entertains us with some stories and sketches--many of them from Appalachia as he experienced it growing up. He engages us in some thinking about education, religion, and personal identity. Here too are some poems--new and selected.The yarns and sketches are for the most part true. Some come from my humorist years, writes the author. The play, Mostly Anecdotal, I hope reads like a short story: it center...

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalys.Contents:Studies on HysteriaThe Interpretation of DreamsDream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for BeginnersThe Psychopathology of Everyday LifeThree Essays on the Theory of SexualityJokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousDelusions and D...

The biography of Admiral James George Stavridis provides a look at the naval admiral, leader and commentator. From his accomplishments in the U.S. Navy and on to his time as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe for NATO, Stanley Carpenter presents the most detailed picture yet of the familiar Admiral James Stavridis. Continuing on to Stavridis’s post-Navy career, this book reveals the man who, in and out of uniform, has exemplified an ideal of service —both in command and as a retired expert o...

We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise – good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net,...

The Wonderful Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Great African Explorer and Other Travellers, Pioneers and Missionaries. First published in 1889.

In "Stanley in Africa," James P. Boyd embarks on a compelling narrative that chronicles the adventures of the renowned explorer Henry Morton Stanley during his expeditions across the African continent. The book is structured as a detailed historical account, interweaving vivid descriptions with personal anecdotes that capture the heart of African geography and culture in the late 19th century. Boyd's literary style is marked by meticulous research, employing a blend of storytelling and sch...

The Black Cat web site has been around for almost four years now, serving up a weekly buffet of new and classic mysteries—and more recently science fiction—to thousands of readers each week. Rather than continue to release all these novels and stories as individual ebooks, we have decided to bundle them up into a convenient weekly magazine…which is a lot more fun to work on!So here is Black Cat Weekly #1, the September 5, 2021 issue, for your enjoyment pleasure.To ...