At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack he was a news correspondent in Tokyo. He was interned for a year by the Japanese before repatriation.

After the war he fell in love with Spain, where he tried his hand at everything from running a floating night-club to fighting bulls. He put down his gangplank for all sorts of people who wanted to sail, and his uncomplaining boat, the Jack London, carried a wonderful array of bizarre characters-smugglers and nudists, a crooked German professor, and movie stars.

While this book was being readied for publication, Tom was mysteriously killed in Chiangmai, Thailand where he lived.

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Critical Thinking: The Antidote for Faith

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The fact is we cannot escape purpose. Too often, however, we come by purpose through the wishes and will of others, living lives that others believe is the way. Long before we have a mental process that can work for itself, we have already been taught how things should be and because of that our purpose is the creation of others. Thus, we live lives as others want us to live. Do things the way others do, have the same reasons for doing them because of being taught that was the way to do. In other words we live the sad state of living others purpose and not our own.

Self-purpose takes us beyond what others want and into a new, and perhaps frightening realm of actually doing what you want to do.

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In The Hollywood Cafe, Richard Dokey again stakes his claim to that part of California he knows so well, the small town life along Highway 99, which runs the length of the Golden State. On the road, however, he finds deeper truths about a world we have lost and the world we have become.

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Critical Thinking: The Antidote For Faith

Wayne Bartz is a retired clinical psychologist and psychology professor. He is co-author of three self-help books: Surviving with Kids, The Better Way to Drink, and Teenagers & Alcohol.

He enjoys retirement in the Sierra foothills back-country with his wife Linda. A long-time animal rescue volunteer, the author is pictured with his newest family member, Bingo.

Living Through Self-Purpose

Ronald H. Skriloff (d. 2011)was born and raised in New York. He settled in Southern California and graduated from the University of Southern California.

After an athletic youth, he spent the rest of his life working, thinking and writing. He is the father of five and grandfather of six, and resided in Palm Springs, California, with his wife Jeane.

The Hollywood Cafe

Richard Dokey’s short stories have appeared in dozens of literary reviews around the country.

He is a winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review, University of Michigan; The Glick Prize, South Dakota Review, University of South Dakota; The Hoepfner Award, Southern Humanities Review, Auburn University; and runner-up for The McGinnis Award, Southwest Review, Southern Methodist University.

His stories have been cited in Best American Short Stories and Best of the West and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

His short fiction has been included in many general collections and texts. These include:Norton’s Introduction to Fiction, Norton’s Introduction to Literature, Norton’s New Worlds of Literature, D. C. Heath’s Introduction to Literature, Holt’s Four Elements, Harcourt’s Fiction’s Journey, Paragon House’sLate Harvest, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates’ The Work of Teachers in America, Mentor’s The Chicano, Penguin’s The Chicanos and Southwest Review’sSouthwest Review Reader.

He is featured in a number of unique California collections: California Childhood, Creative Arts Book Company; Valley Light, Writers of the San Joaquin, Poet & Printer Press; California Heartland, Capra Press; Highway 99, a Literary Journey Through California’sGreat Central Valley , Heyday Books; Proud Harvest, Seven Buffaloes Press.

Dokey has written two plays (Craps and Funeral), both of which have seen production, and for ten years he wrote a weekly human-interest column for the Stockton Record. He has five short story collections to his credit, all to outstanding reviews. His most recent collection, Pale Morning Dun, University of Missouri Press, was nominated for The American Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Dokey has published two previous novels, Two Beer Sun, Seven Buffaloes Press, and The Hollow Man, Delta West, and a novella, The Mountain, South Dakota Review.

Uncertain Flight

Born into a wealthy, Catholic family in 1935, in a small town near Glatz in Hummeslstadt in Silesia. Her father was a lawyer and an accomplished pianist. Her mother was an operetta singer. As a young girl, Monica witnessed the fall of Germany during the Second World War as well the horrific aftermath of the Russian occupation. Monica was deported to Broistedt, a small town in West Germany, around 1946 by cattle train with her identical twin sister, brother and mother.

Ms. Knott was educated at the Renata Hochschule in Hildesheim in 1953. From there, a four year college in Hanover. She also graduated from the prestigious “Erstes Mannequin (modeling school) in Duesseldorf in 1953. Five years later, she and her twin sister emigrated to America.

Ms. Knott taught German at an elementary school in Wentzville, MO, and also at the Berlitz school in St. Louis. In 1960 she became the first twin flight attendant hired in the world of aviation for Ozark Airlines (later TWA).

Recently, Ms. Knott owned businesses as a wedding hostess/coordinator and sold oil paintings.

She loves to work with people and has been very successful in whatever she has done. She has traveled extensively and strives to live a very interesting life. Ms. Knott has two grown children and lives in The Woodlands, TX. In her free time she enjoyes exercise, classical music, theater, watching true stories & war movies, entertaining, traveling, gardening and animals.

Korean Gakuhei: My Life in the Japanese Army

John Young Sohn lives with his wife in California. He was born in Yanggu (North) Korea in 1923, graduated from Wonsan Commercial School, followed by a Seoul Commercial College. Drafted into the Japanese Army in 1943. After the War, he emigrated to the United States and received his Ph.D from Indiana University. He worked for the Defense Language Institute for many years.