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Cubbyhole Kid tells a harrowing survival story of a young four-year-old boy as he recounts his days being raised in a strict Irish Catholic family while expressing his gratitude and love for two incredible women that saved his life-his protective fourteen-year-old sister, his godmother, and his beautiful, religious mother. Together, along with his other siblings, his brothers, they painfully navigated their abusive, alcoholic, ex-military father through the mid-1960s, Los Angeles. While dealing with a severe childhood anxiety, suicidal depression, physical and learning disabilities at such a young age, the boy traveled inside the cubbyhole, a small, two-by-four middle section of the family station wagon, unexpectedly experiencing his World War II veteran father's life-threatening road rage. With the fear of death always looming, the boy witnessed his father's all too familiar, unpredictable violence, explosive temperament, and heavy drinking during our country's escalating involvement in the Vietnam War, the hippie cultural movement, riots in the streets, and arguably the heyday of rock-and-roll music. The story describes the boy's fond memories and relationship with his older sister, who bravely kept him shielded from their father's harsh punishments and became like a second mother to him. While he experienced the beauty of life outside the home during his sister's "coming-of-age" teenage years, along with her friends who were part of the youth cultural shift that seemingly took place overnight. The nightly demonstration of violence and abuse, coupled with his father's unwillingness to accept the generational changes taking place with society's youth, and his mother's unexpected illness, would seem too much and test the young boy's faith.86

Gavin Savage Matlock retired from the United States Army a highly decorated combat medic. He joined the military right after high school and an ugly breakup with his girlfriend. Gavin was now searching for peace on family land in Virginia. Little did he know he would meet the love of his life and start an Internet company that would help him survive the apocalypse. Gavin and his wife, Jeanie, would have to fight and survive a journey from Montana to Texas. The freedom anarchy provides is deadly. Gavin and Jeanie learn how precious every minute they have together is. No good deed goes unpunished was never truer than during a post-apocalyptic America.

Every little girl dreams about wearing beautiful dresses. One day, four little girls who are cousins play outside in their grandmother''s flower garden. They talk about their dream dresses including the styles, the colors, and the accessories. When a fairy godmother appears from the sky, the girls'' wishes for magnificent dresses come true. But what should the dresses look like? The fairy godmother has a unique way of deciding. This story is a vocabulary-builder, as the adjectives used are at the eighth-grade level. The end of the book also includes blank pages for creating the reader''s own illustrations!

The saboteur with a vendetta against River Creek Stables is still at large-only now the attacker has upped the ante. The attacks are malicious and happening more often, making racing for the farm more dangerous and riskier.Can the saboteur be stopped before serious harm is done and cannot be undone?After the track accident that takes the life of a horse and ruins a fellow jockey''s racing career, Natasha can''t get over the feeling of guilt. She feels that she was responsible for the accident, and the overwhelming feeling of anxiety every time she rides on the track only adds to her guilt.Her fear and anxiety begin to get the best of Natasha as she considers giving up racing for good.Will Natasha be able to conquer her fears, or is this the end of her once-prospective racing career?

Anton Pavlova once dreamed of becoming a great dancer, but life took him in a different direction. Now a hardened agent with the USIB, he cannot remember much about the young girl who was once been his wife, or the circumstances of her death. Nor could he understand his own self-degrading behavior, or the underlying anger that caused it. Only Paul Sanderson, his superior, and Leslie Fairchild, psychologist in the USIB, know.All of his career he has avoided relationships, both professional and romantic, managing to hide from the vulnerability of human emotions by losing himself in his work. But now, reassigned to a sleepy rural town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains he meets Hope, a young woman in an abusive relationship with Steven Wykes, best friend of Dan Philips, Anton''s new partner.Anton also meets Hope''s friends: the alarmingly affectionate Jeff; a deaf boxer named Noah, who can barely conceal his own love for Hope; and others with complications of their own. While family and relationship drama threaten to tear the group of friends apart, it is in the unweaving of their issues that Anton''s own complex story begins to unravel.The Pebble and the Man is the story of his emotional journey toward love.

China''s hegemonic actions in the South and East China Seas have alarmed Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. Together, they conceive of a strategy that will contain the PRC. But China''s leader has devised a different space weapon to coerce the allies. Further, a beautiful, extremely skilled spy/assassin has been placed in America. The outcomes for China and its antagonists depend on strategies, resourcefulness, and ruthlessness as events unfold in a troubled region.

Anyone who has been through a divorce can tell you that it is a sad, miserable experience. The cruelest part of divorce is that it is the death of a dream. Both parties feel angry and betrayed, and they want to lash out at the other person. This anger and animosity can be unbearably painful.The good news is that it does not have to be this way. Don''t pick up that hatchet just yet. Yes, you heard us right:DIVORCE CAN BE FUN!This witty and charming book offers a quick read guaranteed to put a smile on the face of anyone regardless of how depressed they may be. It offers hilarious and real-world advice for people facing this horrible tragedy.DON''T SURVIVE DIVORCE; HAVE FUN WITH IT.

This story is about a few things that happened during and after getting arrested for possession of cocaine and how friends and family disappear from your life as you do time in a state prison. What you can ask yourself is what your family and your life are worth to you. Those of you who point the finger at people and say they are guilty, hear the facts first before you say, "Put them in jail." Read this and know what prison life is like before you judge a person, and then think, how far would you go for your loved ones?

Mark M. Peyton is a naturalist with multiple advanced degrees; however, he would describe himself as more of a storyteller and teacher. He is an essayist who blends his personal experiences with information to both entertain and educate the reader.This collection of essays and trips down the rabbit holes of history is a collection of stories involving his experiences working his way through college as a bartender during the 1970s. The multiple trips down the rabbit holes of history help place this time and this bar in the wider context of the history of an amazing place and an amazing people: the Oglala Lakota. As you read this book, you'll laugh, you'll cry, and hopefully, you will learn as Peyton takes you on a history journey to the Favorite Bar of 1972 and the magic city of Chadron, Nebraska.

It started out to be what I would identify as a normal day. After work I was running an errand. I was in a parking lot when the car in front of me started to back up, so I extended my arm on the steering wheel to beep. I was hit anyway. There wasn't any damage, and I felt fine, so I didn't think it was necessary to exchange names, but luckily I remembered his license plate. Thirty to forty-five minutes later, my shoulder started to ache. Ten days later, my arm and hand were nonfunctional. It started out as a sprain, and it developed into reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), which is currently known as complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Unfortunately, when my insurance company contacted the man who had backed into me, he denied it. Nearly two years later, thirty-two hours before the statute of limitation was up, there was a twist of fate; I was blindsided with a phone call. And this is when I hired my attorney, Elliott Pelegrin. It's my hope after reading, If You Get Me Out of This One...,readers will realize one needs determination not only to recover from RSD/CRPS, but any conflict. I was in for the fight of my life, I made it through because I did exactly what my doctors, therapists, and attorney told me to do. It took a lot of time, work, patience, and mostly determination. I gave it my best shot. Several times I've heard Robin Roberts from Good Morning America say, "Make your mess your message." It took me twenty-nine years before I could openly discuss my mess.

Hellman Elementary has strange teachers and creatures that roam the halls. This is well known to the students, but in elementary school, making friends is what it's all about. Where else can you be friends with a kid who was attacked by a giant squid in the pool?Friends always help each other, but what happens when your friends begin to change? For instance, if your friend is allergic to tomatoes one day, why isn't she allergic to them the next day? Furthermore, why would fifth graders start acting like kindergarteners?Payton's birthday is just a couple of weeks away, and he is excited about having his cousin Gabe come to live with his family. However, when Gabe arrives, things take a bizarre turn. Payton doesn't recognize Gabe as the friend he was last year. Also, Payton's friends are hanging out with Gabe and now throwing temper tantrums. Is Payton going crazy? Is Gabe trying to steal his place in fifth grade? Or worse, steal his friends and family?Is something more sinister spreading through the hallways? Hellman Elementary has a dark and strange past. Payton will have to get to the root of the problem if he wants to make it to sixth grade, or he may be the next bizarre event at Hellman Elementary!

Grown-Up Stuff for Dummies covers some of the topics not thought suitable to have been mentioned at the same time as please and thank you, don't slurp the soup, and it is no longer funny or clever if you burp in public.Exams and interviews, being rich and poor, contracts, cars and kissing, flying, lying and lawyers, dating, drinking, dentists, and divorce, sports and games on fields and beds; these are just some of the things that confront everyone today-like it or not. So it is well to have at least thought about them.This is not a conventional yoga-and-yoghurt self-help volume. It may well not always be the popular view. It will likely raise the odd squawk from the politically correct. So be it, but if nothing else it addresses grown-up stuff all us dummies need for dealing with life in C21.

Seventeen short stories and novelettes compose Whispers and Screams. While these stories are from the realms of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, they are also stories about people, about loneliness, insanity, love, politics, philosophy, food, power, about human feelings and behavior in these dynamic times. A large number of the protagonists are minorities or women. Many of the stories owe their heritage to the black-and-white horror movies of the late thirties and forties and the B-grade science fiction of the fifties."Proteus Rex" is about a genetically engineered life-form that adapts the attributes of animals (a lion's strength, a bird's wings) or whatever his survival needs and infinite appetites dictate. Having consumed all the animal life in a small rural community, he begins to eat people. Much of the story is about the local authority's attempt to identify and apprehend this menace, a significant challenge as Proteus Rex is an extradimensional being that can change his size to as small as an amoeba to as large as a blue whale. "Proteus Rex" is populated by a deep cast of characters, only a few of whom manage not to get eaten.Imagine the actress Lucy Liu portraying Ian Fleming's most shrewd creation, James Bond, 007. Only she's working for TSA-the Teleportation Security Administration-three hundred years in the future. This is after World War VI, and the United States has been fractured into several independent nations. The two Koreas have united and is running the world. Executive Action Officer Sun Park's mission is to capture or neutralize the perpetrators that sent and detonated an atomic bomb in the TSA X-port Freight Hub in Buenos Aires. This is the premise of "The Price of a Dog," an action-driven novella, a political science fiction thriller.In the short story "Slaves of the Cat Goddess," Buster, the main character (and stooge of General Wanamaker), is charged to take the mysterious cat Bast to a secret research base. Bast's size and ferocity force a crash landing on an uncharted tropical island inhabited by cannibals. Knowing that it was Buster who was responsible for her mutation, Bast not only protects him in this hostile world, but she sees that he is elevated, serving as the ambassador between the goddess Bast and the humanity she would enslave.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE UNITED STATES MARINES WHO SERVED DURING THE TURBULENT ERA OF THE VIETNAM WAR.ALTHOUGH THIS BOOK IS FICTIONAL, SOME OF THE EVENTS PORTRAYED ARE BASED ON THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF THE AUTHOR.MY MOTTO IN LIFE IS "GOD, COUNTRY, CORPS."

War on the Beach With Wall Street is a look back to late 2007 through the end of 2009, at the time of the largest financial market crash since the 1929 Depression, " The Great Recession." This book is about a Florida Financial Adviser, Andrew Neff, who had recently acquired a new widowed client. This was not just any client, her deceased husband who was killed in a Ferrari car wreck in late 2003, which was not investigated for foul play, had recently sold two riverboat gambling casinos for 179 million dollars. He also owned and ran one the largest and most successful road construction companies in the Country at that time. Andrew Neff who identified and understood all the signs of a serious market implosion due to the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act , approved by US Congress and signed into law by then President Bill Clinton in late 1999, and with the Federal Reserve aggressively raising interest rates into this economic environment, surely spelled economic disaster for the US and World markets. This financial white collar crime thriller takes any reader through the complicated maze of helping a wealthy widow comprehend what was about to happen in our economy, but also enabled the client to avoid $20 million dollars of avoided market losses right before the crash but that's not the best part of this story. The client owned LLP's to the tune of $5 million that were invested in off shore accounts in the Cayman Islands with Morgan Stanley. Through Mr. Neff's investigation these investments could not be identified as to their asset class and 12 % per year annual fees charged to the client. These Assets were held as a Madoff Feeder Fund that would have disappeared from the client's Net Worth statement, were sold three months prior to Bernard Madoff being indicted, then arrested for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history. In 2011, Bernard Madoff's accountant Frank Avellino was in trial when his attorney Gary Woodfield Esq., stated under oath "My client lost $50 million in this deal. There was not one investor who was able to get out before the scam was uncovered." It was also posted on May 18, 2011 by the Inquirer and Mirror was reported by Jason Graziadei and quoted by Gary Woodfield esq. in trial "...you can't hold him to some higher standard, that he should have perceived or detected that there was some massive scam going on when no one else in the entire world detected that." Well Mr. Woodfield, you were not correct. Yours very truely Andrew Neff