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A Patriot's Dream
A Patriots Dream
Kent Thompson
What happened to our nation? The United States of America that the founding fathers created was driven by much different values than those that permeate the government and much of society today.
John Mogen, a conservative retiree and true patriot in every sense of the word, can no longer sit back and watch his beloved country slide further and further away from what it was intended to be. Determined to make a positive change, he decides to write a fictional book about restoring the Constitution. However, when he shares his idea with his brother-in-law, Carl, he sets into motion a much larger chain of events than he ever could have imagined.
Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms
Gerald Knutson
We started talking and became friends we told each other about our past in a guarded unsure way. He said he was writing his autobiography but was unsure what to do with it. I met Joe Joy 10 years ago he was the neighbor of a friend, and we met over their fence. Joe was an old Arizona cowboy who got drafted into the army and was sent to the south pacific. He was involved in several campaigns and was wounded several times. He told me there were a lot of guys named Joe in his platoon, and since his last name was a 3-letter word and easy to remember when the C.O. (Commanding Officer) seemed to always call Joy. At any rate these two guys went through hell this whole time, as have millions of other servicemen. At least these two men will have their fifteen minutes of immortality.
Criminal Opera
Criminal Opera
Doug McPheters
“Criminal Opera” also includes a Federal criminal child-trafficking trial. Because the mother of David Garvey’s granddaughter (age 7) wants to take her to California for “gender reassignment,” David and his son fight a fierce custody battle.
Doug is a licensed New York attorney and patented touchless, holographic, human-machine interface interface technology. He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy Atlantic Submarine Force during ‘Nam. In his final seagoing billet, he served as Chief Engineer in the U.S.S. Tigrone, where he was qualified as Officer of the Deck, both Surfaced and Submerged.
Stepping on Fingers
Stepping on Fingers
Doug McPheters
In the next exciting thriller by Doug McPheters, "Stepping on Fingers", Lea Holderness, a young teacher in far Northern New York, was sent to a penal colony on a remote island in the Chukchi Sea, north of Russia, by an American religious court for speaking out against intrusive new Federal laws.
The Movement, which fights attempts of the Federal government to infringe basic freedoms, helped her escape the prison colony.
Upon her return to America, Lea rescues her young daughter from Federal clutches. In return, she joined the Movement's drive to stifle the Federal government's unpopular plans to erase many Constitutional rights, often in dangerous ways.
Goshawk
Goshawk
Doug McPheters
After the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union disintegrated, David Garvey, a Manhattan international lawyer, built a hugely profitable loan-sharking operation in Russia and nearby countries in Eastern Europe. David's fund quickly amassed large pools of collateral for high-interest loans - home and apartment mortgages as well as business and personal collateral. Seeing all of these financial instruments as leverage for getting around biting international economic sanctions, the Iraqis looked for ways to steal them from David's Königsberg Fund - first by co-opting his syndicate of bank lenders and then by attacking David and his family. Sparked by innovative technology imagined and patented by the author, this fast-moving thriller plays out in the streets and courtrooms of Manhattan and Northern and Eastern Europe.
Grunt 0311
Grunt 0311
George P. Berg
GEORGE P. BERG served in the US Marine Corps as an infantry rifleman and fire team leader. As a lance corporal, he was deployed southwest of Da Nang and participated in Operation ALLEN BROOK out of Go Noi and in multiple unnamed operations. He completed many company-sized combat sweeps and led fire teams in small unit ambushes. He also acted as "shotgun" for rough-rider convoy escorts.
George was awarded two Purple Hearts, the Presidential Unit Citation, Navy-Marine Corps combat action ribbon, and the national defense service ribbon among other medals.
Hear about Vietnam as he experienced it in Grunt 0311.
Dog Tags
Dog Tags
Wayne Fredrick Treptow
Wayne tells a gripping story like a page torn from history of time travel back to the Civil War. I t makes us wonder if there really was a government cover up....
If I Could Turn Back Time
If I Could Turn Back Time
Wayne Fredrick Treptow
Imagine if you could go back in time and change history, erasing the deeds of the most- evil man on the face of the earth in 1936. I am talking about the (Fuhrer) Adolf Hitler. What would you do if you had a chance to change history? You could surmise that it would be a good thing, or a bad thing. This is the story of such an occurrence that could happen, and the lives of men whose decisions to change history may change their lives forever.
The Big Red One
The Big Red One
The Big Red One
Wayne Fredrick Treptow
In September of 1943 allied forces invaded he shores of Italy at Salerno. General Mark Clark commanding the fifth army and general Bernard Montgomery commanding the British Eight Army. Upon the light landing, the Italian units of the axis powers surrendered right away. Moving inland the allies took on heavy fire from well entrenched Germans, and encountered blown up bridges and minefields in their wake. By september the eight the surrender of southern italy was announced.
Historical Fiction
Route 66 DeJa Vu
Route 66 Sweetheart
Route 66 Déjà Vu
Michael Lund
Route 66 Déjà Vu explores the confirmations and revisions of individual and collective history for a generation that grew up in the '50s and '60s in a small town on The Mother Road. The occasions are a 50th high school class reunion and the 100th birthday of one classmate's mother, the matriarch of her family and a representative of the Greatest Generation. The stories of the class's male and female Vietnam veterans are integrated into the longer narrative and present a distinctive perspective on the American Dream.
Route 66 Sweetheart
Route 66 Sweetheart
Route 66 Sweetheart
Michael Lund
Route 66 Déjà Vu explores the confirmations and revisions of individual and collective history for a generation that grew up in the '50s and '60s in a small town on The Mother Road. The occasions are a 50th high school class reunion and the 100th birthday of one classmate's mother, the matriarch of her family and a representative of the Greatest Generation. The stories of the class's male and female Vietnam veterans are integrated into the longer narrative and present a distinctive perspective on the American Dream.
Route 66 Looking Glass
Route 66 Déjà Vu
Michael Lund
Route 66 Déjà Vu explores the confirmations and revisions of individual and collective history for a generation that grew up in the '50s and '60s in a small town on The Mother Road. The occasions are a 50th high school class reunion and the 100th birthday of one classmate's mother, the matriarch of her family and a representative of the Greatest Generation. The stories of the class's male and female Vietnam veterans are integrated into the longer narrative and present a distinctive perspective on the American Dream.
The Bulge
The Bulge
Wayne Fredrick Treptow
The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of The Bulge lasted from January 16th 1944 to December 25th 1945. It would become the largest, and bloodiest engagements of World War 2. The opposing armies had different names for the battle: the Germans named it- “UNTERNEHEIM WACHT AM RHEIM” meaning (operation watch on the Rhine)The Allied forces named it: (Ardennes counteroffensive). The French named it: “Bataille des Ardennes” (battle of the Ardennes).This would be the last German offensive on the western front with Hitler throwing everything he had at the Allies. The Allies combining the United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, The Free French, Free Belgium Forces, and Luxembourish Resistence
Tactics Teams Talk
Tactic Teams Talk: Police Managing Crises
Gerald Gregory Doane
In the Fall of 1973, Detective Harvey Schlossberg, PhD, and Lt. Frank Bolz, both New York Police Department (NYPD) visionaries, brought their magic to the San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) Police Academy, at my request, so that we mere mortals could learn the trade of dealing with terrorists, criminal hostage-takers, and your average human in some sort of mind-bending crisis.
It has taken me the bulk of fifty years to put together the teachings of Harvey, Frank, and many, many others (including my own teaching, writing and field experiences) into a three subject treatise called, TACTICS – TEAMS – TALK, Police Managing Crises. The first subject is TACTICS. Here, we outline some basic principles of police crises planning to include strategies; information gathering; establishing objectives, policies, protocols; and resources.
One Night In October
One Night in October
A stunning new profile of the California Zodiac Executioner, his motive revealed
Gerald Gregory Doane
In October 1969 I was one of twenty-five or more San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers who responded to the murder of a Yellow Cab driver in the Presidio Heights district of San Francisco. Investigators later attributed the murder to the so-called Zodiac killer.
Long after my police career, I began studying five Zodiac cases, his phone calls, and his written communications. I concluded that the motive in four of the murder and attempted murder cases consisting of Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, and the Presidio Heights district in San Francisco, involving a total of seven victims, were cases of displaced or redirected aggression. Follow my leads and come to your own conclusion.
Keeping it Lively
Keeping it Lively
The Hunt for Eddie Lama
Thomas J. Bragg
In 2015 Vietnam Army veteran Thomas Bragg wrote in his memoirs about the death of his friend and fellow platoon member, Eddie Lama, in South Vietnam. This was a project he’d always hoped to complete; but he had to wait for retirement to find the time. And the story didn’t stop there: two and a half years after he completed his memoir, his platoon leader from 50 years earlier sought him out, saying that he had visited the grave of their fallen comrade. That led to connections with the Lama family in Mundelein, Illinois, a moving unit reunion, and this revised edition of Keeping it Lively: The Hunt for Eddie Lama.
Bridge The Flow of History
Bridge the Flow of History
Taylor Curtis
The village of 2000 nestled on the inland bay of a North Carolina river, finds itself divided on how to repair or replace historic Short Bridge, a key connection within the community and to the larger world. The townspeople must make new bridges or abandon their identify.
Book 1 of the Persimmon River Novel Series.
Independence Dancing with Time
Independence Dancing with Time
Independence: Dancing With Time
Taylor Curtis
An effort to sustain the fifty-year tradition of a Staffordshire block party on July 4th faces the challenges of old cultural values, changing demographics, modern technology, and new national standards of conduct. The eccentric locals confound out-of-state newcomers as individuals and groups vie to define a community future.
Staffordshire, a village of 2000 nestled on an inland bay formed by a North Carolina river, is declining; yet, individuals are drawn together—instinctively? mysteriously? magically?—to rebuild a community and a tradition.
Book 2 of the Persimmon River Novel Series.