On a bright June morning in 1904, more than a thousand mothers and children from New York’s Little Germany boarded the excursion steamer General Slocum for a church outing that promised music, picnic baskets, and relief from the city heat. Less than an hour later, the vessel was a floating furnace on the East River. By day’s end, over 1,000 people were dead, and an entire neighborhood had been shattered.The General Slocum Fire plunges readers into one of the deadliest and most forg...

As a new president takes office in 2021, America is deeply divided politically and socially, while the economy seems precariously balanced on increasingly shaky legs. Doom and gloom is the predominant sentiment in America. It has become widely accepted within the investment, political, and media sectors that America is on the decline and that China will drive the global agenda in the 21st century. To which I say, not so fast. This book carefully examines the trends and actual hard data fro...

The forerunner to this book, Fire Sail: The Miraculous Attainment of a Family's Dream– Part 1, described the seven years of trials, tribulations, and rewards involved in the Marin family's seemingly endless and impossible mission of building a 40-foot sailboat (Tribute) from an empty, bare hull in Maine. With very little money, the family struggled toward their goal, receiving help from many unexpected sources, including what would eventually have to be conceded as Divine Intervention beca...

Warren Bentley knows there's something special about Ariana Leighton from the moment the feisty little minx puts him in his place. Being the CEO of a multi-million-dollar company, he's used to women throwing themselves at him. Yet Ari seems immune to his charm.But Warren always gets what he wants... and he wants Ariana.Nothing will stand in his way. Not even the fact that she's one of his employees.Ariana Leighton had her life all planned out until some devastating n...

YOUR BODY IS A DEVER DREAM is A cosmic body horror anthology from trans and GNC voices, a companion volume to YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY, and a charity drive all rolled into one. Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming writers and artists come together in this energetic, fierce, and richly illustrated volume. Great unknowable forces, big concepts, space, dimensions, existential drama, good ol' body horror, cosmic dread, genre blending, weird formats, and creativity abound. Currently aim...

The very stout chap with the freckled, good-natured face was Tubby Hopkins. Sim Jeffords was of rather lean build, with a shrewd look in his keen eyes; Andy Bowles was the one whose cheeks every now and then expanded as though in imagination he might be practicing some new bugle call, for Andy had long been recognized as the official “reveille” and “taps” manipulator of the troop; and last, but far from least, was Rob Blake, the determined leader of the Eagle Patrol, who sometimes acted al...

Cyril had never passed through such a terrible minute in his whole life as that one during which his father remained silent, instead of replying to his fierce assailant's demand. A short while before the train-boy, passing down the outside passage of the comfortable American train, bearing his tray of chocolate, biscuits, fruit, etc., had waited on them and promised to return in a few minutes with illustrated papers wherewith to beguile the tedium of the journey.

Rishton Hall Farm was let at last. Lord Stannington had had it on his hands a long time, and had offered it at a lower and ever lower rent. It was an open secret that John Oldshaw, who had a long lease of Lower Rishton Farm at the other end of the village, had expected the Rishton Hall lease to drop into his hands at last for a very trifling rent indeed.

When Marietta newcomer Elena Puente is coerced into attending a speed-dating event at the popular Copper Mountain Chocolate shop, she’s blindsided by a serious attraction to local cowboy, Wesley Banks.Still recovering from a broken engagement, the first-grade teacher from Las Vegas isn’t looking for romance. She’s in Montana to get to know the great-grandfather she never knew existed until she found some hidden family letters. Judge Kingsley is a grouchy recluse and he’s far from w...

This is a true, almost unbelievable story, of how our Maine family, over a seven-year period and on a shoestring budget, with a lot of sweat and tenacity, and with what we eventually would have to concede as Divine Intervention, managed to build a beautiful and seaworthy 40-foot sailboat. Then, a couple of years later, sell most everything we owned, enroll our two sons in correspondence school, and sail away for a two-year adventure.This is not a step-by-step building documentation...

After being banned from celebrating the holidays with his stepfamily, San Diego businessman Lucas Kendrick arrives in Marietta, Montana, in time to attend the New Year’s Eve celebration at the Graff Hotel. The rodeo-theme party isn’t his style but he’s drawn to the pretty cowgirl running the dice table. When the clock strikes midnight and they ring in the New Year with a kiss, Lucas almost forgets he’s in Marietta on business and not pleasure. He believes he’s found the perfect property fo...

“CRACK! crack!” rung out the reports of two rifles over the calm bosom of the lake, and two canoes, about fifty rods apart, seemed to leap from the water as they sped forward.The course of both canoes was toward the western shores of the bay forming the north-western portion of Lake Erie. The one behind was manned by five Indian warriors, two of whom had just fired upon the boat ahead, which contained two persons—a white man and an Indian. The bullets, however, had no other effect t...