From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes an easy-to-understand yet thorough treatment of boat batteries and battery charging.Concise, compact, and illustrated for easy reference, Understanding Boat Batteries and Battery Charging: Second Edition has been fully revised throughout. This guide offers comprehensive coverage of the following major topics:Lithium, lead acid, AGM, and gel ba...

Cancer treatment is at hand. A San Francisco lawyer owns a falcon, a wealthy womanizer from Chicago owns a python and a gay man from Paris owns a bulldog. All three are in the terminal stage of melanoma and are warehoused waiting to die. But, their pets are in rare form, keeping them alive. They learn of a scientist who has developed a cure for their cancer. They fly to South Texas for treatment at a cost of a million each. After returning home fully cured, major problems begin. When certa...

Why the revisit in the title? There is another story to enlighten the reader about the former psych hospital where a C.I.A. female agent had been murdered. The Texas Coalition of Combat Veterans (TCCV), a non-profit organization from Houston, bought the hospital out of bankruptcy. The high-profile hospital is located near the famous San Antonio Riverwalk. TCCV's mission is to render acute psychiatric and long-term care to military veterans suffering from mental health disorders. This prese...

The biblical marriage pact has remained consistent in its interpretation since the beginning of mankind. That is to say "what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Mark 10-9. The separation component has often become commonplace, human nature being what it is.Lust, cupidity or even insatiability tend to be the foremost character traits in reaching outside of one's marital vows—consequences be damned!A redheaded Irene Finnerty is a nationally known and ...

Stage Three: Rod Richards Returns contains three books in the my fictional Three and Out Trilogy. The first book is The Saga of A San Francisco Apartment Manager which embodies humor on a true-life, fiction platform. The book highlights the interpersonal relationships of the diverse and interesting characters who reside there as they interface with the manager Rod Richards, the owner of the building and each other. The second book is Murder in a San Antonio Psych Hospital where an embedded...

Will the letter "S" carved in a rifle butt result in the owner's life or death decree?This blockbuster story traces the maturing of young Confederate Private Patch Schubert in larger-than-life Texas. It begins with the last skirmish of the Civil War. It occurred in South Texas at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, 33 days after Lee surrendered to Grant.The inexperienced Patch is stopped dead in his tracks, first by the carnally-wired and contentious Rosa, then by the more experienc...

From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes an easy-to-understand yet thorough treatment of boat wiring and the technical issues facing every boat owner, whether sail or power.Concise, compact, and fully illustrated for easy reference, Understanding Boat Wiring: 2nd Edition has been fully revised throughout. This guide offers a comprehensive coverage of the following major topics:Boat w...

From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes an easy-to-understand yet thorough treatment of marine diesel engines and the technical issues facing every boat owner.Concise, compact, and fully illustrated for easy reference, Understanding Marine Diesels: 2nd Edition has been fully revised throughout. This guide offers a comprehensive coverage of marine diesel engine parts and what they do, checklists f...

From John C. Payne, one of the foremost international authorities on marine electrical systems and electronics, comes an easy-to-understand yet thorough treatment of boat plumbing and water systems and the technical issues facing every boat owner, whether sail or power.Concise, compact, and fully illustrated for easy reference, Understanding Boat Plumbing and Water Systems: 2nd Edition has been fully revised throughout. This guide offers a comprehensive coverage of the fol...

In his first book, actor and musician John Lithgow introduces a memorable character, a fickle yet lovable child prodigy who brings the sounds and rhythms of an orchestra to sprawling visual life. With a double gatefold showing the entire orchestra, this is the ultimate book for the music lover in all of us.

The second issue of Further Light, a semiannual magazine featuring science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, magical realism, and light horror short fiction, creative scriptural retellings, poetry, and literary criticism in the Latter-day Saint tradition. The magazine seeks to explore the restored gospel through the medium of the human imagination. Our goal is to enjoy the fandoms we love, to experience new ones, and to expound on the eternal truths buried within them. We publish both f...

My name is Hedi Peacock and I have a secret. I'm not human, and I have the pointy Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to prove it. As fairy tales go, my childhood was damn near perfect, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my father and the Fae executed my mother. I've never forgiven either side. Especially Robson Trowbridge. He was a part-time werewolf, a full-time bastard, and the first and only boy I ever loved. That is, until he became the prime suspect in my father's death…Toda...