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Uncertain Flight by Monica Knott ISBN 978-0-9729445-7-1 $17.95 A memoir of a young girl of wealth and privilege, growing up in an idyllic village in Silesia, during the rise of the Third Reich. When the Nazis were crushed and the Russians overwhelmed the town, her life changed to one of poverty, deprivation, and fear. Knott describes how her family was uprooted and forcefully relocated from town to town…enduring hunger, rape, and extreme hardship, before finally building a new life in America. A poignant, important historical experience; another view of the tragedies endured by civilians during WWII. |
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Korean Gakuhei: My Life in the Japanese Army by John Young Sohn ISBN 978-0-9729445-6-4 $17.95 John Sohn's KOREAN GAKUHEI is a heart-wrenching memoir of his youthful years, wholly surrendered by force to the shameless directives of Japan’s militarists in 1944-45. For Sohn, a young, righteous intellectual of Korea, to serve as a "Gakuhei" for the relentless Japanese warmongers occupying his country, was not merely a hellish expedition but also an exasperating experience. Assigned to a Japanese anti-aircraft artillery unit, Sohn describes the large-scale US Air Force bombings over Kyushu and Tokyo during the latter phase of the World War II in the Pacific. Witnessing the terrifying spectacles of B-29 bombings, the Korean youth-soldier makes pathetic lament over the stupidity of deranged Japanese rulers whose arrogance and insensitivity kept them from seeing the vastly superior military strength of their adversary. This book is a must for the readership of rising generations of Japan and Korea. |
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Black Tuesday's Child by Donald Mace Williams ISBN 978-0-9729445-5-7 $14.95 Born on the first day of the Great Depression, Randy Davies absorbs the values of small-town Texas life in a time and place when the willingness to do hard and unpleasant work is a measure of a man's worth. Later, those values fight for dominance when he is tempted to pursue a chancy life as an opera and concert singer and to marry a delightful but childlike girl whom he meets while studying voice in Bavaria. |
 | When White is Black by John A. Martin, Jr. ISBN 978-0-9729445-4-0 $14.95 This memoir describes the social aspects of a young boy and his family growing up in an America where the shade of your skin can determine your fate and where the one-drop rule of Black blood you may hold within your lineage has far-reaching ramifications. |
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Pick Up Stick City by Steve Semken ISBN 0-9729445-1-6 $14.95 When Harness Trenchold comes upon a ghost town, just out of spitting distance of Fargas Union, he knows he's finally found that place where he can settle his roots. But soon, hatching rocks and honking birdcalls at the local post office, bring more to Harness' new life than he'd bargained for. Was this a ghost town after all? |
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Eat Free or Die by Kevin Clemens ISBN 0-9729445-3-2 $14.95 Simon St. Scot, is an international automotive journalist known for his scrupulously honest new car reviews. His world is filled with luxury, largely provided by the world's car companies using exotic locales, the finest hotels, gourmet food and vintage wines to attract St. Scot and his colleagues to new car introductions. Writing about new cars, living with old ones... it's the perfect life for a car guy, until his world comes crashing down. Someone is claiming that St. Scot is dirty, that he has sold out to the "dark side" and his opinions are for sale. When a colleague is found dead, he soon finds himself at the center of a plot to counterfeit the world's greatest sports cars and a scheme to control a publishing empire. His only hope for salvation lies in setting aside his knife and fork long enough to negotiate international intrigue, corporate greed, carnal temptation, and ultimately murder and mayhem. |
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Motor Oil For a Car Guy's Soul
by Kevin Clemens ISBN 0-9729445-2-4 $12.00 Clearly, Kevin Clemens' heart has overhead valves; his straightforward, engaging writing style invites you to push open the screendoor,sit a spell in the porch swing and just talk cars, weaving memories, dreams, and thoughtful ruminations... Kevin makes the case for racing slow cars, for pilgrimages to junkyards before they disappear and for solo cross-country drives on two-lane asphalt...Kevin's book is for the car guy of all genders and all degrees of immersion, from drenched-to-the-skin to first-toe-in-the-water. |
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Irma: Memoirs of a Vampire Gone Dry by Laine Jacob ISBN 0-9729445-3-2 $12.00 Light fiction with romance, New York City and a drop of vampire in a short novel.The first true vampire in four generations, Irma finds the idea acceptable and the details disgraceful. She will 'go dry'! After Irma chips a tooth - unimaginable considering her family - she meets John Ling at the dentist's office. Irma loves John's open mind, his perfectly shaped ear and his dog George; she makes the necessary decisions. |