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    Anxiously Freed

    In Anxiously Freed, Tammy Verge covers a vast number of her life events, including her premature birth, coming from a broken home of multiple divorces, sexual abuse, being raised by a teenage-mom without her father, and looking for her father in her...
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    Author Masterminds

    Author Masterminds, a refreshing eclectic collection of the musings and insights of a group of superb published authors, gives the reader a kaleidoscopic look into the thinking of very bright, insightful, and sometimes whacky writers. Within these covers...
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    I Fished My Way Through Life

    John's life story shows the reader that his life's experiences always revolved around fishing and the great outdoors. In his youth his family moved to many states with the military. With a fishing rod in his hand he would make friends with total...
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    The Matter of the Phantom Purloiners

    Captain Heinz Noonan, Master of the Impossible Crime, is in Wyoming to solve an odd murder. A transient is under arrest, accused of murdering himself with a weapon that cannot be found at a time no one could pinpoint for an unknown motive. And how is...
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    Beating Banks At Their Own Game

    As you are reading this, banks are giving away millions of your dollars in gift mortgages. The banks are borrowing money from the federal government for mortgages, claiming the loans have 'gone bad' and then giving the title of the property to 'deserving...
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    The Ketch Ketchum Story

    They seemed invincible. Fighter planes that became, in a few short months, the scourge of the Pacific. It was June 4,1942 when the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo, lying off the south coast of the Alaska Aleutian chain, launched three A6M Zero fighters...
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    The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car

    In The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car, Chief of Detectives Heinz Noonan is asked to solve the disappearance of an empty armored car and its two drivers from a tunnel with guards on both ends. Why would anyone want to steal an empty armored car...
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    The Matter of the Vanishing Greyhound

    How can a Greyhound Bus with four bank robbers, $10 million in cash, the contents of all of the safety deposit boxes and 12 hostages being followed by the San Francisco Police vanish off the Golden Gate Bridge? The police are stumped so a specialist in...
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    The Matter of the Deserted Airliner

    Unicorn Airlines Flight 739 with no pilot, no crew, and no passengers lands at Anchorage International Airport. As the authorities are wondering what happened, a ransom demand is made for the passengers: $25 million in diamonds. Chief of Detectives for...
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    Becoming a Published Author

    Becoming a published author is a daunting experience. Bringing and keeping a book before potential readers is a challenging and taxing undertaking. Almost everyone has dreamed about writing a book-but few there are that have what it takes to do it...
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    Should I Not Return

    Should I Not Return is the story of a young east coast climber, who joins his brother in Alaska to climb Mount McKinley. What set their climb apart from those before it, and even those afterward, was a disaster of such magnitude that it became know as...
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    Inside-out Legal

    Vellum LLC is a new kind of law firm dedicated to designing legal tools and providing legal services that help Alaska's small business owners fulfill their professional calling in life. Inside-out Legal Services is the way it accomplishes this goal.
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    Eighteen Wheels North to Alaska

    In spite of the obstacles the Alaska truckers were presented with they never weakened in their determination to get the job done. These pioneer drivers never conquered or tamed Alaska's roads and weather, but they learned to operate on the back trails...
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    DB Cooper Where Are You

    D.B. Cooper is wild and conservative, smart and stupid, careful and courageous. He has imagination, determination, and an adjustable conscience. You've got to like him and despise him. He is a pirate, a friend, a schemer, a drug dealer, a nurturer, a...
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    Udder Confusion

    Udder Confusion is an Alaska homesteader's true-life adventure. "Alaska!" You mean you're going to farm in Alaska? What are you going to harvest, ice and snow? You must be crazy." With these statements from friends and family ringing in our ears, we...
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    Report of an Expedition

    In the true story reflected in Lt. Allen's journal, you will learn of the generosity of Alaskan Natives. Lt. Allen's party would not have survived without adapting to the customs of the Alaskans and following their trails. They also would have starved...
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    Bush Pilot

    Harold Gillam Sr's story is presented with new clarity and balance. Bush Pilot describes a private, introspective man torn between family responsibilities and his unrelenting drive to pursue his goals in aviation. Early Alaska aviation did not rely on...
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    The Day Trees Bent to the Ground

    All author proceeds from the sale of The Day Trees Bent to the Ground go to support the Anchorage Senior Center. The Day Trees Bent to the Ground is 150 first person stories from people who survived The Great Alaska Earthquake. Quotes from the Book: My...
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    Above the Arctic Circle

    Above the Arctic Circle transports the reader back in time to the Alaska of 1911 into the Athabaskan Indian village of Fort Yukon and beyond. It was a time when travel was by trail or river on routes shared by man and wild beast, when communication...
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    Character Kings 2

    Character Kings 2 continues to examine the careers of the busiest men in Hollywood, featuring 15 all-new interviews with the industry's most recognizable actors. Filled with behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the making of movies and TV shows, tips on how...
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    I Am Mister Ed...Allan Rocky Lane Revealed

    Allan Lane has been a mystery almost as long as he's been seen on screen.Some know him as the never officially recognized voice of TV's famous talking horse, Mister Ed. Others remember him as Red Ryder, the comic book Western hero come-to-life at the...
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    A Kierkegaard Handbook

    Fredrick Sontag has created a remarkable work on Soren Kierkegaard. He combines a brief biography, an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings plus interpretations of the writings. This overview offers a framework in which the entire life and work of...
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    Where You Linger & Other Stories

    Bones of extinct species wander a campground, stalking a group of friends in love with the same woman. The object of their affection seeks solace with a couple in a world with rain that kills. In a world where men are almost extinct, a daughter struggles...
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    Rogue Traders

    Ever since the earliest days of commerce, businesspeople have organized themselves into partnerships. They formed groups with a common interest and worked together as a single unit, assuming both the risks and rewards of the business. It was a natural...
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    Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier

    This thoroughly researched and vivid account examines a murderous spree by one of the West's most notorious outlaw gangs and the consequences for a small Mormon community in Arizona's White Mountains.On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons...
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    The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

    Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of Honor and every other medal offered by the United States to the foot soldier for combat heroism.As a young...
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  • Oliver Stone
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    Oliver Stone

    Throughout his career Oliver Stone (b. 1946) has broken traditions and challenged audiences with a series of daring, angry, violent, and often confrontational films. Politically charged movies such as Nixon (1995), JFK (1991), and Wall Street (1987), and...
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  • Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
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    Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

    n 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston burst into American literature with the publication of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Since then her subsequent works--China Men (1980) and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)--have startled readers...
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  • Towards Emancipation Towards Emancipation
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    Towards Emancipation

    No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements...
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  • Trained in Divine Love Trained in Divine Love
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    Trained in Divine Love

    For fifty years, Nayaswami Anandi was a deeply devoted disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, and a student of his beloved disciple, Swami Kriyananda. To everyone she met, Anandi was a beautiful channel of divine love; her life's quest was to reciprocate and...
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  • Outlaws in the Big Thicket Outlaws in the Big Thicket
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    Outlaws in the Big Thicket

    For the lawless, the Big Thicket offered the best natural hiding place in Texas. Wanda Landrey tells the tales of various outlaws and their deeds from extensive research and first hand accounts. The Sapp murders, the Kaiser Burnout and the escapades of...
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  • What Was It Like? Memories of Youth, Family and Career What Was It Like? Memories of Youth, Family and Career
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    What Was It Like? Memories of Youth, Family and Career

    Was it Like?Memories of Youth, Family & Career What Was it Like? Farm life in Minnesota in the 1920Õs . . .going to school in a one-room schoolhouse . . . drifting duringthe Great Depression . . . new opportunities opened up by acollege education . . ...
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  • Falcons' Flight Falcons' Flight
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    Falcons' Flight

    Every family has its secrets, its stories. I discovered ours one beautiful July weekend when my family gathered at a hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda, ostensibly to celebrate my parents' 50th wedding anniversary.When the sun went down that first evening, my...
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  • The Moses' Way The Moses' Way
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    The Moses' Way

    Experience and research are clear: when pastors are criticized, attacked, and betrayed, they become confused, frustrated, and at times angry, and consequently, they experience acute pain—often causing deep wounds. Often not sure what to do, some...
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  • Fantasies Collide, Vol. 5 Fantasies Collide, Vol. 5
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    Fantasies Collide, Vol. 5

    The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series!Volume 5 ends the series with twenty dark fantasy stories. And Rusch and Smith do dark fantasy better than any two writers working today.For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers...
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  • Finding Max Finding Max
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    Finding Max

    Sometimes we don't know what we need until we find it. As a teen, Jennifer Wallig learned that her father was adopted, turning what she thought she knew about her family history-and identity-upside down. Her life had been turbulent as the child of...
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  • TAM KWONG TAM KWONG
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    TAM KWONG

    This biography is about the life's journey of the late TAM Kwong through the eyes of his children growing up in Hong Kong and Brisbane from the 1960s. It entailed the times and life of a seafarer's journey sailing the seven sea from 1940s during the...
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  • Random Ravings Random Ravings
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    Random Ravings

    Born of a middle-class family, the author rose to eminence as a public prosecutor, migrated to a short-lived private practice, suffered ignominy, regained some measure of lost reputation, and thereby changed perspectives of living with grace and...
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  • Satisfactory Ike Satisfactory Ike
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    Satisfactory Ike

    These are the memoirs of Ian Campbell. An adventurous and humourous account of a man from rural Western Australia and his working career in the international oil business, from exploration in the harsh wildernesses of the Australian outback, Saharan...
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  • First Flight Out! First Flight Out!
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    First Flight Out!

    Today, you enjoy the convenience of being able to fly to distant lands. But some time ago, this was not a possibility until the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Read about the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Understand how their shared...
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  • Jacksonian Democracy Jacksonian Democracy
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    Jacksonian Democracy

    What is the Jacksonian Democracy and how does it differ to the Democracy left by the Greeks? Let's talk about the life and times of US President Andrew Jackson in this biography book for children. This book discusses his early years, military career,...
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  • It's Not Easy to Be a Pioneer! It's Not Easy to Be a Pioneer!
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    It's Not Easy to Be a Pioneer!

    This book explores the lives of two women in the 19th century. One became the first woman doctor while the other was an American woman who was arrested for voting. Do you know who they are? Yes, they are Elizabeth Blackwell and Susan Anthony. They were...
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