Henry Shoemaker compiled these folk tales set in the Seven Mountains of central Pennsylvania. Shoemaker’s stories recall the decline of big game in the region and the exit of the native peoples as the European settlers advanced westward. This collection of tales has been modernized for 21st-century audiences but maintains the charm, wit, and suspense
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For a century or more, Abner Doubleday was credited with inventing the modern game of baseball in Cooperstown in 1839. His name is on historical markers, playing fields, and for a time, even a professional baseball team. The Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown on the hundredth anniversary of his invention. Grandson of Revolutionary War
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
It’s February 2023. An Alluring and determined CIA Case Officer, June Cohen, must flawlessly execute an unsanctioned plan of action or the U.S. will invade Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction. She coerces Robaire Assaly, a Los Angeles based DEA Confidential Informant, to take part in her elaborate scheme. Robaire agrees, however, in
Sons of Liberty charts the extraordinary life of Ulysses Brooke, a rising political star in Old Virginia, who’s not all he seems. When, in 1845, he’s arrested for theft and treason, the world learns the truth: Brooke is an abolitionist and secret revolutionary, with a trove of buried treasure. Listeners will uncover the tumult of
Set in 1950 in the rural Midwest, and inspired by real events, this gripping novel explores what happens when an African American railroad repair crew is dropped into a tiny, tight-knit farm community. Will frictions build to an all-too familiar American tragedy, or can tensions be overcome in that uniquely American way, with balls and
Winner of the 2023 U.P. Notable Book Award In 1842, every resident of Copper Harbor, MI disappeared without a trace. In 2019, Bill Hitze and his son Brandon make a gruesome discovery while fishing on Lake Superior that starts to shed light on the old mystery. According to Professor Stephanie Crowe, an Ojibwa legend predicts
As the new owner of the Coral Shores Veterinary Hospital, Dr. Emily Benton is in over her head. When she makes a house call at the home of her client, Mrs. Eliza Klein, she finds the woman’s terrier, Elvis, in a state of distress and Mrs. Klein face down on the floor-dead. Emily immediately contacts
“Fifty Years in a Foxhole” is an episodic account of the author’s seven months in combat in Vietnam. He and his platoon were in several major engagements including the Battle of the Hills and Operation Utah. The main focus of these operations are the lives of the marines and attrition through action and “friendly fire”
For six minutes Wisconsin husband, farmer, and writer Philip Hasheider was dead. He met all the requirements: heart not beating, lungs no longer breathing, skin an ashen-color turning blue. He was lifeless, flat on the floor. This extraordinary story of his Near Death Experience (NDE) is about the events on an early October morning leading
“What is shown to us each time is an idea, a little piece of speculative universe, and we peek into it …”–Russell Meredith, author of The Psychic Battery A mysterious church, a man’s humorous visit to a megastore, disappearing images from a photograph, missing chocolates, a search for a house from a grandfather’s memory, ghosts
1897. August Simms—explorer, soldier, world traveler—returns to Rhome, Texas to chase one last adventure. Hundreds of UFO sightings have been reported, seven years before the Wright brothers’ initial flight, and August intends to solve the airship mystery. Instead, the past comes calling. A murder, a lynching, and the death of his wife 15 years earlier
Ooh-la-la! This magical first-person novel poignantly captures the quest for love, truth, and meaning in a tumultuous world. Chances are you know someone like Camille—tenderhearted and ambitious, yet free-as-the-breeze. An American portrait artist in Paris, Camille Portraro leads an enchanting existence until her life forever changes when everything she loves crashes in a flash. Camille’s
Ishmael was the sole survivor of the ill-fated Pequod that Moby Dick attacked. We know that Captain Gardiner and the whaling ship’s crew, the Rachel, saved him. But whatever became of him once he was saved? Days after being rescued the Rachel was set upon by the pirate ship, the Flying Dragon. She was captained
Good men take the Hippocratic oath, and evil ones break it. Sweet Jane learned that firsthand. Young, beautiful, and brilliant, Jane Carter was on the verge of achieving her PhD in quantum physics when they first appeared, visitors from other universes that no one else could see. Desperate to hold on to her dreams, she
“The Last Dollar Princess is a skillfully-written and engaging historical novel about a unique young woman struggling against the constraints of society.” -Sublime Book Review It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time-after-time. Although her relatives are obsessed
Action Thriller of the Year (BestThrillers.com Book Awards) Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O’Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O’Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the linchpins in the guilty verdict. The two detectives thought it was over. Eiselmann planned for a quiet weekend
As seen in Moment Magazine. It’s been a week since the funeral, and Mali is at her mother’s Manhattan apartment, ready to pack it up. At least that’s what she thinks, until she discovers a manila envelope propped up against the back of her mother’s desk, and filled with a mass of unsent letters. Her
Take a bribe, meet your maker. Imagine if someone recorded politicians accepting bribes. Or, an execution squad murdered corrupt legislators on camera, then broadcast politicians’ wrongdoings. What if politicians actually feared retribution for accepting payola? Consider the seismic reverberations which would occur within the DC infrastructure if politicians feared dishonesty and graft. Could our current
In June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress political dissent. Facing imminent personal risks, a gutsy Kentucky newspaper editor ran the first editorial denouncing the law’s attempt to stifle the freedom of the press. Almost immediately, government lawyers recommended his arrest and prosecution. That editor was William
The Diary of Anne Frank is a seminal piece of 20th-century literature. It recounts the tragic and moving story of a young Jewish teenager faced with the horrors of Nazism. In it, Anne establishes a bond with her listeners that transcends both time and space, making them her friends and confidants. Listeners feel a connection
Countless reports from credible individuals suggest that something shocking may be stalking the woods of the southern United States—something massive, bipedal, and covered in hair. Tales of these Southern Sasquatch creatures—such as the one made famous by the 1972 horror movie The Legend of Boggy Creek—date back to the very origins of Deep South history
When Detective Maddy Reynolds escapes street violence by leaving her job to live in the Adirondacks, she builds a house on Berry Lake, across from The Glades. Avery Jordan, its founder, operates a sex trafficking operation out of the sprawling retreat. He and his minions are on a collision course with the renowned detective when
When the Democrat Party’s attempts failed to amend the Constitution at least eight times in two years solely to make US Senator Barack Obama a constitutionally “eligible” presidential candidate, DNC leaders realized that the thing that disqualified him from being eligible to be president was too difficult to overcome. If he was to become president
Can she tame the beast within? Resigned to a life of solitude, Jasper Rogue knows he is not meant to be king. His scars have left him shunned by his own people, and unloved by anyone left in his afterlife. Love had become a distant memory, an idea that he knows he will never be
Housewife and mother with a loving husband to take care of her—that’s all Liz, a ’50s gal, ever wanted. Over her father’s objections, she drops out of college to marry Rick, who dreams of living off the land. They buy a farm on a verdant hillside in the Hudson Valley, but can’t agree on what
With a tankful of gas and a passion for baseball history, Jason Love hits the road to discover some of the most and least famous baseball sites in America. On the way, he shares some stories of American baseball, along with the romantic connection between the sport and our everyday lives. As much as it’s
Learn how to overcome codependency with a holistic approach and reinvent yourself in a positive, powerful way. Learn how to overcome the toxic thinking and behaviors of codependency with this unique book’s meditations, affirmations, and inner child healing exercises for personalized healing. Each meditation has a YouTube recording for you to listen along with. By
An evil cult is abducting girls from a university campus. No one ever sees the girls again. In another case, someone is stealing the bids of an old Hokee client. This case has Hokee visiting Englad, Japan, and Egypt, where he nearly loses his life. When Hokee’s friend, Glory, returns to Pocatello, the two cases
“River Sisters, the Strangers” completes the “River Sisters” trilogy. Great-granddaughter of Nancy Hilderbrand, Eliza McNeal, with her husband and former river boat pilot, Josh, are settled in their city home, enjoying the blessings and challenges of rearing teenaged children-Nancy Jewel, namesake of her foremother Hilderbrand, and John Henry, better known as “Hank,” named in remembrance