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The Hidden Secrets of the Master's Mind: How You Can Live With God's Time (Book I: Why Are We Here? Volume I: Creation Season (F
by Dr. Apelu PoeMy book, The Hidden Secrets of the Master's Mind: How You Can Live with God's Time, is for leaders struggling to figure out why they are here and why God has put them in leadership or management positions at such a challenging time as this. The book serves as an introductory pathway into the spiritual teachings of the Torah. It analyzes weekly Torah portions using expert Biblical linguistics techniques while also using Hebrew to understand the hidden meanings behind Biblical teachings to help pe... more -
The Marseille Connection
by Kenneth Foard McCallionThe Marseille Connection [Bryant Park Press – May 2023] by renowned attorney and Yale-educated historical expert Kenneth Foard McCallion is a riveting work of historical nonfiction about Patricia Richardson, a gorgeous young woman who started life as a dirt-poor orphan in the French Caribbean island of St. Martin before rising through the ranks of an international Marseille-based drug cartel, Unione Corse, to become part of the inner circle of leadership in the organization. For several deca... more -
Cevere's Chronicles Volume 1
by Marquis WalkerI write music reviews to add additional substance to good artist. These projects make me think and reminisce and they even say music heals you. In my journey, music puts me in various moods and gives me some self therapy. -
rhythm for sale
by Grant Harper ReidRhythm For Sale is a Bona-Fide FIVE STAR book. This CLASSICAL/MASTER EDITION is the account of Harlem Renaissance producer Leonard Harper’s life story. Put Roots and The Godfather in a hot Black blender with soul and you got Rhythm For Sale. His grandson author Reid has documented Harper’s tale with decades of research and the careful chronological arrangement of the details and facts. The book is alive because or Reid’s entertaining and descriptive writing style. Reid begins with Leonard Harpe... more -
Lady of the Army: The Life of Mrs. George S. Patton
by Stefanie Van Steelandt2023 Silver Winner - Benjamin Franklin Awards (Biography & Autobiography)
"A masterpiece of seminal research, Lady of the Army is an extraordinary, detailed, and unique biography of a remarkable woman married to a now legendary American military leader in both World War I and World War II." —Midwest Book Review
If anyone considered an army wife to be merely the kite’s tail, Beatrice Ayer Patton had the perfect ret... more -
Neville Chamberlain's War
by Frederic SeagerNeville Chamberlain's war was phoney from the start. He did not seek the defeat of Germany, since the British establishment viewed that country as the prime bulwark against Bolshevism. After more than eight months of waiting, during which time the French army and the small British contingent lost much of their fighting spirit, Hitler launched a remarkably successful invasion of Norway, the Low Countries and France. In effect, Britain handed most of Western democratic Europe to Nazi Germany on a ... more -
A VETERAN SPEAkS
by Hartley BarnesBetween the covers are stories depicting the challenges of veterans during wartime. The mental transformation they return home with, and the agony to find their way to normalcy. We say to the veteran (s) thank you for your service and not understanding how their lives have changed. They cry in silence as the family watches. Spouses cry aloud as husbands and wives decay. Children ask questions and the answers are not satisfying, and they ask more questions. I, the author, a veteran, am... more -
The Shaolin Temple Story
by James R. MartinFull-Color Edition - 448 pages The Shaolin Temple Story is an in-depth, well-written tour of the Monastery by someone who has lived, worked, and studied there for forty years. For those interested in Shaolin Kung Fu, the book introduces the secrets of its beginnings. Explore the History, Culture, Kung Fu, and Chán Traditions of the original Shaolin Temple and Monastery in Dengfeng, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, as recalled by the current Abbot of the Monastery. Abbot Shi Yongxin documents in wo... more -
Twelve Rebels Hidden in Washington, DC
by Tony SpadaforaThis book tells tales of twelve reformers. Their memorials are off the beaten path, and their stories are not well known. But their struggles impact us every day. . . . There are four groups: Women, Labor and Civil Rights pioneers working towards America's more perfect union, and heros overseas. Whether visiting Washington, DC, or reading at home, you will be surprised -- and inspired. -
Great Zimbabwe Artifacts Volume 1
by Ahmed MhetaThe book touches on ancient objects that people in the past used. -
Operation Tailwind: Memoirs of a Secret Battle in a Secret War
by Barry PencekThe Studies and Observation Group (SOG) was a covert American military unit in Vietnam that specialized in clandestine cross-border operations into Laos and Cambodia. In September 1970, sixteen Green Berets and one-hundred-twenty Montagnard mercenaries, led by Captain Gene McCarley, departed on Operation Tailwind, the largest and deepest raid in SOG history. Tailwind’s mission was to disrupt and distract the enemy in support of a larger, ongoing CIA operation near Chavane, Laos, being d... more
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1895: A Novel of Love and War
by Jorge Casariego1895 A Novel of Love and War
CUBA 1895- David meets Goliath in the War for Cuba’s independence! Spain’s centuries’ old empire is agonizing. Cuba is in flames. A young and increasingly powerful America is ready to help the Cubans gain freedom.
Two young lovers, Paco and Maria Teresa, are caught in the devastation. Our heroes, a young Havana freedom fighter and a be... more
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The Lioness of Leiden
by Robert LoewenHow do you fight the Nazis right under their noses? With cunning and courage. When the Germans invade the Netherlands, Leiden University student Hetty’s boyfriend goes missing. But she has little time to grieve when she volunteers as a courier for the Dutch resistance, joined by her roommate, the beautiful Mimi, and seventeen-year-old Maria, the daughter of a slain resistance fighter. At great personal risk, the three women carry documents, secret messages, and cash to protect Jews, downed ... more -
Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond
by Heather AugustynThe ska revival in the UK and the 2 Tone label represented unity of black and white in both the content of the songs, and appearance of the bands. While race may have been central to this declaration, where did gender fit in? Many bands had few, if any, women in their lineup and so women had to do it for themselves. Empowered by punk and impassioned by Jamaican ska and reggae, they took up the microphone, the saxophone, drumsticks. Women demanded their space on the stage and in the studio. Throu... more -
When Love silenced the sirens
by M J S ParishWhen Alfred Jones turns 18 he is soon called up to fight in the second wold war, leaving his childhood sweetheart Edith Baxter behind, who herself is thrusted into the war when tragedy strikes and she takes a job as a volunteer spotlight operator at RAF Marham. At the base Edith meets Hotshot pilot squadron leader George Booth who himself has faced recent tragedy and the two form a romantic bond, confusing Edith's feelings for Alfred. But matters are further complicated when Alfred and Geo... more -
Poems from the Asylum
by Janelle MolonyBiography and complete anthology of harrowing and insightful poems written in 1932 by Martha Hedwig Nasch, patient-inmate #20864 at the St. Peter State Hospital for the Insane. After noticing something strange from a secret medical procedure in 1927, St. Paul, Minnesota, Martha Nasch’s doctor claimed she just had a “case of nerves.” With a signature from her adulterous husband, Martha was committed against her will to the asylum. She spent nearly seven years in the Minnesota hospital during t... more