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25 Contributing Authors
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Rocking Chair and Afternoon Tales
Contributors include: Joyce Burns
Anne B. McKee
Grace Blackmart Lebo
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Magnolia
Blossoms and Afternoon Tales Stories and Poems from the American South GCWA's 2010 Anthology Contributors include: Gary R. Hoffman ▪ S. C. Jeffers ▪ L.L. Lee ▪ Judy Davies ▪ Sylvia Skrmetta ▪ Bob Strother Philip L. Levin ▪ Cynthia Lamb ▪ Merle McCann ▪ Jan Rider Newman Marlyn Allgood ▪ Cecilia Dominic ▪ Terry I. Miles ▪ Jim Wilson, DVM ▪ Frankie Germany ▪ Angie Quinn |
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More Stories from the South GCWA's 2009 Anthology Contributors include: Marlyn Allgood ▪ Shannon Rule Bardwell ▪ Betty Wilson Beamguard ▪ Lottie Boggan ▪ Susan Budavari Linda Chubbuck ▪ Ed Davis ▪ Lucy J. Dixon ▪ Fred Farris ▪ John M. Floyd ▪ Brenda Gable ▪ Nancy Gotter Gates ▪ Edward Hartman Deborah Ledford ▪ Philip L. Levin ▪ Denton Loving ▪ Sylvia Lynch ▪ Merle L. McCann ▪ Annie McKee ▪ Terry I. Miles ▪ Jan Rider Newman ▪ Richelle Putnam ▪ Bob Strothers ▪ Ovid Vickers ▪ Glanda Widger Read more...
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New Stories from Mississippi GCWA's 2008 Anthology Contributors include: Ruth White ▪ Darlin’ Neal ▪ M. L. McCann ▪ Richelle Putnam ▪ Diane Miller ▪ Gary Hoffman ▪ Gwendolyn-Joyce Mintz Wayne Scheer ▪ Rebecca Chaney ▪ Dixon Hearne ▪ Cheré Coen ▪ Betty Beamguard ▪ Carl Wayne Hardeman ▪ Philip L. Levin ▪ Elva Avara Bob Strother ▪ David J. Holcombe ▪ Brennan Harvey ▪ Dahris H. Clair ▪ Lottie Boggan ▪ Belle Rollins ▪ Shannon Rule Bardwell Anne McKee ▪ Victoria Hobbs Olsen ▪ Ross Gresham Read more...
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25th Anniversary Anthology of the Mississippi Poetry Society, South Branch Edited by Elva Avara ▪ Contributors include: Jim Atchley ▪ Elva Avara ▪ Nelda Broom ▪ Patty Butkovich ▪ Judy Davies ▪ Marian Eisensmith ▪ Brenda B. Finnegan ▪ Charles R. Gates ▪ Joseph E. Gould ▪ Helen J. Jarvis ▪Mary C. Osterman ▪ Rev. John Ralph ▪ Dorothy Rogers ▪ Voncile Ros ▪ Carol Tucker Read more...
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The Yellow Silk
Umbrella
Allgoods stories provide laughs and tears within the
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By Ellis Anderson Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, raking away lives, buildings, and livelihoods in a place known for its picturesque, coastal views; its laid-back, artsy downtown; and its deep-dyed southern cordiality. The tragedy also revealed the inner workings of a community with an indomitable heart and profound neighborly bonds. Read more...
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Alarm bells go off in Detective Lexi Granger’s head when a gun linked to a cold case disappears and a veteran officer sweeps it under the rug. Read more...
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A collection of poems, essays, short stories and lyrics By Elva Avara Elva Ware Avara is Mississippi’s Poetry Society’s Poet of the Year. A musician as well as a poet, Avara has composed hymns and anthems used in her church, Dantzler Memorial United Methodist, including a commemorative piece marking Dantzler’s 150th anniversary. Read more...
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By Andrew Badger
The Masters, retired professors, have a minor disagreement:
JoAnne wishes Ike, her husband of 42 years, to write an
autobiography. Ike balks and questions her motives for suggesting it.
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The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost Including a story by Shannon Rulé Bardwell "Original Sin- The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost" is a collection of short stories for each of the seven deadly sins. Each sin is depicted by an original work of art chosen for the book. The story "Henry and the Naked Ladies" was contributed by Shannon Rule', GCWA member. Read more...
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By Nancy Beeler
In this extraordinary memoir, Carolyn Connelly takes the reader on a
journey
into her own private hell allowing the reader to share some of the
experiences she lived while providing care to the elderly. She offers a rare look, as only she can, into the shocking truths BABY BOOMERS must now face. Read more...
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By David Berardelli No good deed goes unpunished, and twenty-three-year-old Lindsay Foreman becomes acutely aware of that after helping an old woman struck by a car and left for dead on a Central Florida highway. As the old woman slips closer to death, she tells Lindsay she must give her something. Lindsay has no idea what the woman is talking about and assumes she is delirious. Read more...
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The Legacy of Arthur C. Guyton By Jerusha Bosarge Arthur C. “Ott” Guyton was a home town hero and a great man of science. Known as the Father of Modern Cardiovascular Physiology, Dr. Guyton influenced countless medical students directly through his teaching at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and as sole author of the best-selling medical textbook of all time. Many of Dr. Guyton’s peers remember him saying, “If you need it, and it doesn’t exist, invent it.” Read more...
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Whole Cloth By Garry Breland In Whole Cloth, Garry Breland has collected some of his poems written on Biblical themes and some well-known and lesser-known stories and characters. There are also two thematic series in the book. One on the Nativity tells the story of the common figures of the Christmas Nativity scene. Read more...
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Life in the Pond: A Collection of Poetry
"We are ripples in the pond of life, steeped in passion and stirred with a fury. Sometimes we sparkle like white-hot diamonds and dance on the winds. Other times we cry at the sting of incomparable pain or muse at that which we do not understand, ever inching toward our shores. Come dance with me with as we celebrate life's possibilities and words, unbounded." Read more...
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By Melissa Carrigee If you’re a woman facing the prospect of building a home, you’re probably dealing with lots of questions and choices. It’s easy to be overwhelmed, but not necessary! Drawing on her experiences in home construction, author Melissa Carrigee helps you easily navigate through the process with Adventures in Home Building: Written From a Woman’s Point of View. Read more...
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By Ben Clabaugh
David Fuller is a bored twelve-year old tangled in feelings of isolation
and guilt over the death of his little sister. That summer, Shelton - a
pudgy weirdo kid who spends hours staring at anthills, and greets dogs
by sniffing their butts moves in next door.
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By Lauren Clark Single mom Grace Mason doesn't believe in miracles, magic, or love at first sight. She likes the quiet life, complete with her eight-year-old son, their tiny house, and her teaching job. For Grace, happiness means that nothing much ever changes in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Read more...
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Time to Learn: Time Will Reveal, Part 1 By Black Coffee Time to Learn: Time Will Reveal, Part 1 uses the relationship between Ebony and Anthony in the underworld of Cleveland, Ohio, to shine light and focus on the strength and survival of families drawn together through their migration north to escape racism and bigotry during the Civil Rights Movement. Read more...
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James Whitacker and Elizabeth Emerson are two outstanding writers. They find each other in the midst of experiencing the beginnings of life and love. They are tested by tragedy and the society that money creates to separate those that have from those that do not. Read more...
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Love of Jesus: The Heart of Christianity By Richard E. Creel If you would like to read many reasons for admiring and loving Jesus, then this is the book for you! If you admire and love Jesus but have difficulty identifying yourself as a Christian or have difficulty joining a church because of problems with this or that aspect of Christianity, then this is a book for you, too! Read more...
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Poems of Regret, Ruination, and Renewal By Douglas Crotty
Written with personal insight, Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret,
Ruination and Renewal, is a collection of poems in three parts,
thematically different in their thrust and emphasis, suggesting a
progression from pain to positivity on the bridge between near death of
self, and the resurrection of the soul.
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Poetic Images In this first collection of nearly 40 poems, Judy Davies invites you to relax and settle in as she tempts your palate with her varied poetic images. Sometimes controversial, often elegant and frequently touching; Davies' poetry shows her freedom of spirit as she expertly weaves a kaleidoscope of color into her poetry. Read more... |
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Restaurants POST Katrina By Lee and Linda Eschler This book is about many of our restaurants, along the coast, that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Each of theses restaurants share the history of how they came to be as well as their personal Hurricane Katrina story. Read more...
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| F | A Collection of Poetry By Brenda Brown Finnegan Published by the Mississippi Poetry Society, Inc., Jackson MS Sorry, Out of Print |
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A Collection of Poetry By John Freeman This is an outstanding work, beautifully crafted, unified, and powerful. In the first part, beginning with the plainest of Mississippi settings, the poet tests his memory to explore his roots and the relationships between past and present - not in the outworn confessional mode, focused on a solipsistic self, but as a means of discovery of what goes beyond, and was before, and will be after, the self, in order to move, gradually, toward a recognizable and whole inner being. Read more...
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How to Get Married in a Federal Disaster Area By William Fulks A True Mississippi Story: Have you ever tried to plan a wedding after a hurricane? Christy and I had a plan that went to chaos overnight. That night was August 29th, 2005, and the cause was named Katrina. Hurricane Katrina. Read more... |
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Hiding Places at Barrington Hall By Mary Ellen Gavin The day Pat Hannelly and I formed Hannelly & Hennessey Investigations was bittersweet. Being widows whose husbands had succumbed to illness and died young, we were left with sons in college and mortgages. After the fog of mourning lifted, we conspired over a bottle of wine and drew up a plan to be private detectives even though the idea scared the hell out of me. Read more...
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By Ken Hall Jr. To twelve-year-old Jacob Hunter, moving with his family to a small town in south Mississippi—a place he’d never even heard of—means little more than having to get used to a new house, a new school, and trying to find new friends. In less than a week, his world will be changed in ways he could never have imagined. Read more...
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A Time of Innocence, A Time of Confidences By Gary D. Harrington The 60’s: “This is the story of a time in American history when we as a people divided not only among ourselves but within ourselves. It is the story of a young man’s experience in that time and of the battles he fought on the streets of America and on the battlefields of Vietnam.” G. D. Harrington Read more...
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By Dixon Hearne
Dixon Hearne
has captured the sounds and smells of
Christmas past in this heartwarming collection of poems and
stories that reflect the true meaning of the holiday in the
South.
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God's Child Do you believe in heaven? Faith was a Christian, but was also confused about her post-life beliefs until her death angel took her to Paradise Pasture, a holding area, before entering heaven. Read more...
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By Jerri Lynn Ledford
When Homicide Special Investigator Jack Roe’s daughter is killed in an
auto accident and his wife dies from a drug overdose, he abandons a
career as a Military Police Officer. If only he’d been there when they
needed him, he could have saved them both.
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By L. L. Lee The seven women in the Bay St. Louis, MS, grief support group have been meeting for four years in an effort to comfort each other. Now, tired of grieving and feeling sorry for themselves, some are ready to get on with their lives and look for new love. Read more...
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By Gary Lett Bob Hayes grew up in a small Alabama town, the son of a prominent high school coach. Although there were a few shining moments as a player, he never really became a starter. Instead, he found his niche in the preparation and application of the strategy of player performance on the field. Read more....
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By Philip Levin Genesis: We are led to believe that of the twins, Esau was the evil one and Jacob was the good. Yet, in bible study it becomes clear the opposite is true. Jacob blackmailed his brother for the “birthright,” refusing to feed him until he relinquished. Later Jacob dressed up as Esau to fool their blind father into granting him those rights. Jacob’s history was full of evil, especially his murder of Hamor’s clan. By telling the story from Esau’s perspective, Jacob’s wickedness comes to light. Read more...
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By Teresa Lynn Eugenie Escousse is a thirty-nine year old married career woman and her biological clock is ticking. For the past year she has undergone monthly donor inseminations, fertility medications, lab tests, and surgery -- all with negative pregnancy results. Read more...
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The Longjohners' Mystery Series by M. L. McCann
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Corporate Greed, Tax Laws and the Exportation of America's Future
By Barr McClellan
Best selling author Barr
McClellan presents an extensively researched analysis of the
negative impact the exportation of manufacturing jobs overseas has had
on the U.S. economy, and how this has fueled the current economic
crisis.…
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A Collection of Poetry By Elaine McDermott
Elaine McDermott’s poetry has a universality that can take us from the log cabin
of a frontier woman to the cafes of Paris and then to small rural towns
in Mississippi.
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Historic Photos
of Mississippi
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Remembering Mississippi Imagine a ride with the Mississippi mockingbird as it soars through the Mississippi skies. Beginning in the land of Elvis at Tupelo, one moves down to the Piney Woods of East Central Mississippi where the ground is covered with fragrant pine straw and where Choctaw moccasins once walked the trails. Read more ...
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Hiding Places A Memoir of the Pirate Princess of Tybee Island By Deborah Elizabeth Merriman
As a little girl, Deborah Elizabeth Merriman retreated into her various
hiding places, shelters from abuse—secret hideouts where her budding
imagination lifted her into her own world of fantasy and delight.
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By Terry I. Miles Five thousand antique cars and trucks have descended upon Lafouchfeye County Township and the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast for The Cruisin' Recipe Jamboree. Read more...
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By Alexander Molnar, Jr. Noting certain irregularities, a US Congressional Committee investigates the oil industry for abusive business methods and price manipulation. But just hours before an oil company CEO could testify and reveal a seventy-year-old secret, he is brutally murdered along with his entire family. With this, “The Circle” thought their big secret -- the one they’ve been fiercely protecting all these years -- is safe. Or so they thought. Read more...
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A Marco Polo journey By Sue Monkress Join Will, his Father and crazy Uncle on their exciting journey, recreating the travels of Marco Polo six centuries earlier! Dangerous sea crossings and desert adventures keep Will and an awesome new friend constantly wondering: "What’s around the next corner?? …!!!!" Read more...
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Her Life, Her Art, Her Legacy By Tim Moseley, Mike Krawcheck and Dale St. Amant This beautiful book was designed to celebrate Alice Moseley, a creative, talented lady, whose paintings were not painted to glorify old days and ways, but to preserve the memory of the people who lived in hard times, persevered, and triumphed over their difficulties. Read more...
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Along the Highway I still live beside the same noisy and grimy highway me and my sister grew up next to. But I am about twenty-five miles further west in a whole 'nother parish. Read more...
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- Boxing to Beignets - By Victoria Hobbs Olsen and Dale Bellard Sr. The life story of an undefeated boxer, Dale Bellard, told in anecdotal short stories beginning in the cotton fields of Louisiana. Many simple tried-and-true Cajun recipes are sprinkled among the boxer's international tales of boxing. Read more...
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Carnival Stories
As we grow older, we often find
that experiences of our youth--experiences perhaps brushed aside as
inconsequential, or as singular events holding no bearing on our seemingly
limitless future--actually prove to be turning points in our
lives.
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The Twelve Outrageous Dancing Princesses or The Mystery of the Worn-Out Slippers By Lee Green Pope The Twelve Outrageous Dancing Princesses started out as a play and was produced at the Biloxi Little Theatre, Gulfport Little Theatre and the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. Over 200 young people performed in the separate casts. The audiences for all these performances amounted to several thousand young people, parents, relatives, and friends. Read more...
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Ruben Quero TEN TWISTS is a collection of short stories, all ending with the inevitable twist. Within the covers of this book you'll discover a variety of twists including the cliff hanger, the surprise, the poetic justice, and other twist endings. Read more...
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By Connie Rainey The author of ‘Keep Sake” gives us a second thrill a minute read with this action packed adventure in a race against the clock. Could this be our future? The civilized world is now facing starvation from over population. A new law is going in effect in thirty days. It will cut the population by euthanizing the elders. Read more...
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By Allen Russell
Eight years in the making, Cowboy
Christmas Tales
is a collection of twelve short stories celebrating Christmas the Cowboy
Way. Several of these stories are modern-day tales, dealing with
modern-day challenges. Others are more traditional western tales set on
the American frontier.
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Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled: By Ruth Sanders This is a must read book for government employees, former government employees, active duty personnel, retired military, and every tax-paying citizens. Read more...
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By Douglas A. Schmitt "Adaptation of the Chameleon" tells the tale of one man's journey through the modern time perils of love and relationships. Lucas "Luke" Cardellini's story begins when he transfers to Hattiesburg MS, to finish out his college degree, while at the same time- being forced to deal with ending a four year relationship with his first love. Read more...
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A Sentence of Death By Robert Shows Step back into time and history. The novel is a meld of historical fact and fiction surrounding the assassination, stimulating the reader to a thought provoking analysis of what could have happened before and after that fateful day in Dallas, Texas. Read more...
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By Sylvia Smith Skrmetta From the dungeons of a castle in Naples to the Italian Alps and the American occupation of Florence, "Giovanna: Angels in Hell" tells the remarkable true story of a Jewish-Italian girl who grows into a young woman during the tumultuous years of World War II. Read more...
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By Edward Lawrence Fassel Edited & with a forward by Elaine Stevens Ed reveals many colors of his chameleon-like nature in chapters introduced by his own poetry. It is a beautiful autobiography, overflowing with anecdotes and revelations. Read more...
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By Lewis Stockham A collection of poems dealing with Life, Pain, Travel, Chaos, Love, Loss, Fear, Joy, Inspiration and Madness. Short stories are written with a psychological perspective. Read more...
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Scattered, Smothered, and Covered ..........Forward by Anne M. Hicks: Bob Strother never ceases to amaze me with his provocative prose. In this short story collection, I traverse a literal and emotional menu to sample the often greasy, sometimes bitter, always entertaining sides of life. Read more...
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Up From the Ruins:
Based On a True Story
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Life Lines: A
Collection of Being Life Lines is the result of this author’s continuing drive and desire to provoke thought in his readers. He seeks to do so by providing works that are creative in presentation and also intellectually and emotionally stimulating. Read more...
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Searching for a Spiritual Path in a Material World By Chariss K Walker It is no coincidence that you have found this book. You may have read the bible from cover to cover many times, but there are always new verses to notice each time you read it. There are always new tidbits tucked here and there that speak to an open and receptive heart. Life, love, and living are about being open and receptive. Read more...
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By David W. Walker In that unforgettable 1940 summer known as the Battle of Britain, the date September 15th stands out as the day the tide of war turned. Two massive waves of German bombers and their fighter support set upon the defenses of London. Read more...
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By Frank J. Wilem When troubles mount, monotony metastasizes and relief
is nowhere in sight, have you ever considered just saying “screw it” and
fleeing life’s miseries? Most people have—few actually do. Quint not
only considers ditching his cheating wife and dead end job for a
tropical escape; he does and heads for the Keys.
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By Catherine Yee
A single act of violence causes a once loving marriage forged in the
furnace of WWII to be almost torn apart in the fiery hell of the Vietnam
era. Three-star General Leland Thornton, retired, suffers a severe
personality change from an old war wound that causes him to assault his
wife of 25 years, sending her to the hospital and landing him in jail.
Now they both must work to rebuild the love they once shared and face
ghosts from their past. Along the way one of their grown children fights
to survive the war-torn skies of ‘Nam.
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