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Growing Up in the Shadow of Yankee Stadium : Lee Netzer
Growing Up in the Shadow of Yankee Stadium in the ’50s and ’60s
This book is a collaboration by two best friends of over 63 years about their experiences growing up in the neighborhood just one block east of Yankee Stadium.
The book describes what made the neighborhood so special to the people growing up there, recounts what it was like to grow up in a very stable, predominantly Jewish neighborhood that was literally in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, and gives a flavor of the neighborhood, including the shop and restaurant owners, the feeling of safety and security, and the level of autonomy that the children growing up there enjoyed that no longer exists in today’s world.
Some of the subjects covered in the book include the sports activities that were available to the neighborhood children, including the “street games” that were unique to the neighborhood; the benefits that the neighborhood’s proximity to the Stadium brought, namely frequent attendance at Yankees and Giants games, including “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” watching games from the roof tops, autograph seeking at the Stadium and getting to meet some of the players; the neighborhood synagogue, Congregation Hope of Israel; the exceptional Concourse Plaza Hotel; the Bronx County Courthouse; and neighborhood reunions of the baby boomers who grew up in the neighborhood more than 60 years later, and much more.
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The Deserving : Efren O’brien
The Deserving
In 1861 a young man, E’mile Deschampes enlists in the Union Army in New Mexico to defend his Territory against the invading Confederate Brigade commanded by General Henry Hopkins Sibley.
Deschampes fights in and is wounded at the Battle of Valverde Ford near Socorro. He is rescued by a young local villager, Carmen Reyes. Together their odyssey begins with a brutal Confederate Officer, Aubrey McGrath.
McGrath tries to kill E’mile and injures Carmen after the battle, but they escape his clutches.
Nearly twenty years later after Carmen and E’mile are married, they meet up with McGrath again in Santa Fe. Fate demands one final battle between the two former Civil War enemies..
Who prevails and what is the outcome of their final fight?
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The Stronghold : Sebastian Bendix
The Stronghold
18-year-old Bowie is the envy of his peers; the sharpest eye with a rifle, deadly as a viper in hand-to-hand combat, and set to marry the prettiest girl around.
Papa Byrne, leader of the Fort Thunder militia, has high hopes for this rising star, sees him as the heir apparent to their Pacific Northwest island stronghold.
That all changes when a plane crashes into the island. Its sole survivor is Alexis, an exotic young woman who looks nothing like the fair-skinned people back at the Fort.
Bowie brings her back to the stronghold, throwing the fearful community into chaos. Even his parents worry about what this will mean…
All fears are confirmed when an impromptu mission leaves a young cadet dead and Bowie wounded. Worse still, Bowie is being blamed for the death, framed by his former mentor and banished by a hung jury.
The once favored son of Fort Thunder is about to have his eyes opened to the larger world – if he can live long enough to see it.
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Vicious Season : Faheem
Vicious Season 1 Episode 1
It’s an edutaining, mind racing, eyebrow-raising, blood pressure increasing, page-turning revelation.
This story is loaded with suspense and drama. A sure guarantee to raise the conscious level of the reader way above sea level.
It’s like a modern-day rendition of the fall of Pompeii. Except, the gladiatorial cathedral is in Newark, New Jersey also known as The Brick City.
This city produces more gangsters than a swamp has mosquitoes. Nowhere is safe. Every step you take, every corner you turn, every bridge you cross, and every stop you make, there’s a chance that you take. The youth have become dissatisfied. Dying doesn’t mean much to them. It’s just another part of living.
This problem is not only confined to The Brick City it exists all over this country. The ground under our feet is sinking. This entire land seems to be stuck in quicksand. Look for yourself. You can’t help but notice the abused and wrongfully accused; misconduct of authority, broken homes, gang violence, recidivism, and indoctrination. This exists in every ghetto, low-income housing development, and bungalow.
These atrocities have changed our cities and so-called communities into chemical, biological, and physical war zones. FOR CHRIST SAKE! The people are walking zombies. The mortality rate is terribly higher than the carcinogenic effects of 4th stage cancer. Enough is enough. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.
The revolution begins inside the Essex County Jail. The inmates are sick and tired of standing by and watching those who suffer the same yoke, wear the same boots, and run the same streets get treated like shit.
VICIOUS exposes the real problems of the people all over America while telling an interesting fable.
The story is so close to being real that it makes the reader wonder.
Aqua Blue One Night Stand : Ed Caldwell
Aqua Blue One Night Stand
This first adventure for Aqua Blue takes place in Los Angeles, California at her two-bedroom Condo in Mission Hills.
It starts with Aqua Blue driving home from her favorite pick-up Bar in Hollywood. Her Prey is following behind her in his Shiny Black Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk.
He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s in for a night that he won’t soon forget.
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Naturopathic Reiki I : K. Akua Gray
Naturopathic Reiki I: Opening the Way
Positive energy in any form uplifts the spirit. Spirit is that unseen force of conscious energy that we refer to as life.
If life is to be lived in a state of wellness, human interaction is a necessity. Of all the human interactions, touch especially activates hormones, enzymes and nerve stimulation that promote longevity. To touch someone is to be a blessing on so many levels. Physically touch stimulates awareness in the body that prepares the mental, emotional and spiritual self to receive something from the outside world. When that something is powered by a positive force, the body, mind and spirit unconditionally opens up and draws in that which nourishes, soothes and heals.
Reiki is a timeless therapy that provides the human experience with a limitless supply of energy to stimulate regeneration in the physical body, enhances positive outcomes in the mental body, balances the emotional body and reconnects to the divine in the spiritual body.
To learn the techniques of a touch therapy healing art prepares the individual for an accelerated intake of global force consciousness. This is a realm of learning that few embark on. It is a system of change in one’s life that requires discipline, dedication and a reconnection to a way of living that separates you from the masses.
Reiki challenges the serious therapist to tap into an area of human ability that resides in the other 85% of the brain’s capacity. To know the full function of an energy medicine puts the Reiki therapist back in touch with the human ability to see thousands of miles away, to feel totally empowered by the cosmic realm, to know the infinite expanse of what is available in the universe and to open the way for a moment in time where the here and now prevails.
Reiki reintroduces seekers to a way of life that was lost with the ancients during a time when all they had was their energetic abilities for survival and protection. To reconnect with this flow of life renders one timeless and prepared to be a conduit for the power of the universal life force.
Learn the step by step process to enlightening self-care with Naturopathic Reiki I as your guide to Opening the Way for improved spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health.
The first degree of Naturopathic Reiki can be used for personal growth and for non-professional use with family and friends. Naturopathic Reiki I: Opening the Way can also be used by Reiki Teachers as a textbook training manual.
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Do It Now Anytime, Anywhere : Sylvia Stephens Grooms
Do It Now Anytime, Anywhere is an encouraging, inspirational, and motivational invitation to join the family of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, at anytime and anywhere. Are you sick and tired of feeling alone, lonely, depressed, not good enough, guilty, not having a purpose in life and searching, or seeking fulfillment in people, places or things? Or do you appear to have it all together, with lots of friends, family, and living life large, but there is a void or emptiness that haunts you?
Do It Now Anytime, Anywhere was written just for you. You will find inner peace, acceptance and true love that will not be a result of who you are, what you are, or what you have done, but simply because of whose you are. Rather than being enslaved by circumstances, you’ll be set free with God’s love. Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart. So, what are you waiting for? Open the door and let Him in. DO IT NOW.
Not Quite Imperfect : Irene Ayo Asuen
Not Quite Imperfect
Not Quite Imperfect is a character-driven, drama-filled story that explores human connection, tragedy, betrayal, survival and redemption.
At age 35, Ian Sharp, a tall, handsome, African-American man with lean athletic features, was well aware of his good looks and irresistible charisma because he usually counted on them to get him out of life’s sticky binds. More importantly, these attributes were his gifts to women. That is, until he met Kendra Mercury, and everything became, well, complicated. From the moment that Ian spotted Kendra as she was crossing the street on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, he had chased her relentlessly until she agreed to be his. But their relationship was not that simple. Kendra tested him. She challenged him, she drove him crazy, she loved him, she confused him, she tolerated him and damn, she was quite the stubborn woman. Ian Sharp was not used to this…
Kendra Mercury, 33, was a slender, beautiful, African-American woman of average height; slightly flared nose and a crooked smile that revealed a slight gap between her two top teeth. Kendra had the right outlook to life and an engaging personality. By anyone’s standards, she was the total package. Men constantly made passes at her but it was Ian that made her heart soar. After Kendra met Ian, the “smart, logical” Kendra that friends and family had always known, had morphed into, well, someone else. But the way Kendra saw it, “no one knew Ian like she did…”
Ian and Kendra were magical together but their relationship was more than a tad complicated. You see, Ian never pretended to want children, and because Kendra loved Ian, she pushed aside her own desire to be a mom for years…until Liana happened, and Kendra could no longer deny her own desires. Of course Ian was pissed and demanded that Kendra make a decision. Kendra did, and walked away from him.
Unfortunately, without Kendra, Ian’s world had not been not ‘normal’ since they broke up. So after seven years apart, and unable to get her out of his head, Ian bulldozed his way back to Kendra’s life in the worst possible way: blackmail. But by the time Ian resurfaced into Kendra’s life, Peter Rite had already become a huge part of her life because two years after breaking up with Ian, while minding her business in a midtown Manhattan café, Peter Rite happened …
Peter, a book cover designer from Brooklyn, was six years Kendra’s junior, five feet, ten inches tall, and handsome. Yep, Peter was definitely easy on the eyes. When he spotted Kendra in the café, he just knew she was the face of his heart…
There was no denying that Peter and Kendra had quite the effect on each other or that Kendra and Ian were each other’s drug of choice despite their years apart and complicated history. While Peter exuded quiet confidence and authority, Ian’s presence and charisma could almost be touched. It led to one big complicated mess. But of course there was still the matter of Liana…
Rejected by the man that gave her life but accepted by another that loved her like his flesh and blood, Liana was in the middle of the triangle that was Kendra, Ian and Peter for different reasons. However, all their issues took a turn one day when life threw everyone a curveball as Peter’s destiny is decided, Kendra looses the will to live, Liana’s ability to ever live a healthy, normal life again hangs in a balance, Ian finds himself in a unique position of having to make a life-changing decision that could finally connect him to the daughter that he once wished was never born, and everyone else in-between, is left reeling from the effect of the whole situation.
There is more to the story…
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A Handful of Might : Joel Green
1975
Blake Drysdale is an aviator, a smuggler and a crook.
A secret mission from British Intelligence sends Blake and his crew in pursuit of a fugitive Nazi war criminal during the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War. Hanging in the balance is the fate of the world, their lives and a fortune in gold.
Caught between an insane CIA agent’s obsession and relentless Soviet assassins, Blake must race across the globe to uncover a shocking conspiracy stretching back to the Second World War…
While making sure he gets paid.
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Angels of Vengeance: David Thompson
Angels of Vengeance: Furies Book 1
Angels of Vengeance is Book ONE of a three-part series.
The Furies are no myth: They are REAL.
The FURIES are Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera, sister goddesses who seek out those who’ve murdered family members and have escaped detection.
Dan Lanahan, a small-town detective, tracks a horrendous serial killer after his niece, Brianna, is found murdered, tied to a tree as a sacrifice to the demon Sorath: Her eyes are missing, her body and face have mysterious symbols carved into the flesh.
Suddenly immersed into the world of the Furies, Dan’s on a collision course with Sorath: a primordial and powerful demon, a demon now unleashed in the mortal world, a demon determined to bring about Armageddon.
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