This book portrays 58 years in the life of Major Maurice Smith, son of black pioneer Salvation Army officers , as a single, married, and finally, as a single-parent officer in The Salvation Army. The book is divided into five sections: the first three sections deals with (1) living in Memphis during segregation (1948-1960); (2) Living in Washington, D. C. during the civil rights struggle (1960-1968); and (3) at the Salvation Army School for Officer Training in Atlanta (1966-1968). The next...

This book from the world-renowned mayo clinic offers an update on what experts know about Alzheimer's and related dementias, including the latest research into treatment and prevention, ways to live well with dementia, and recommendations for caregivers.While Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, many related types also affect adults worldwide, causing loss of memory, reason, judgment, and other cognitive functions.Although the diseases t...

Private investigator Mitch Watson makes a decent living in a small, Middle-American city. He mostly looks into fraud and insurance claims along with the occasional case of adultery. But the stakes rise when Henry, one of his poker buddies, calls him after a game to tell him that he just got home to find his wife with an axe imbedded in her throat. Now Mitch has a murder to solve.There aren’t many clues to start off with, but with dogged investigation, Mitch finds the list of suspec...

The country is rapidly changing and 10 year old Noah wants to be part of the change. Noah inspires others and himself as he marches with his Dad throughout Richmond, Virginia spearheading the protest for justice. Take a walk with Noah as he marches to greatness!

What is morality? How many times have we been challenged with the notion of morality? Each day we are faced with decisions that are based upon moral lines.Have our hearts turned from God so far that it has affected the love for people in general and in turn our communities? Can there be morality without God?

This book is dedicated to all the honest seekers who are searching for the truth. After fifty years of sharing my faith, I realized that most people who reject the Bible have common objections. Here are some of the usual arguments voiced by people:There are so many religions claiming to be the truth! So, why should we believe the Bible?The Bible must be flawed because it was written by man, and all men have flaws!It was written so lon...

This book gives practical steps to financial freedom with a spiritual emphasis of putting God first. It reveals the root cause of debt, the importance of saving, and the most effective way to build wealth.

This book seeks to bring attention to our growing preoccupation with technology. Our overwhelming dependence upon this mode of existence has created some negative results. For example; it has diminished our intellectual skills, consumed too much of our time, become dangerously distracting, and more importantly, has taken priority over the things of God.These things are very evident in everyday life. Consequently we must see the potential danger of these signs, if not, we run the ri...

This book was born out of the author’s passion to challenge the Church to rise above the rhetoric and politics and stand up for righteousness. This book is a reminder that Christians are ambassadors of Christ and everything we do and say should reflect him and not the culture.

Freshwater Heritage: A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918 represents the culmination of a lifelong passion for sailing and for the history of sail as it applies to Canada. Author/sailor/boat builder Don Bamford takes us deep into the psyche of sailing as it applies to historical events on the Great Lakes and to stories of the people and places there at the time.His extensive historical research takes us back to the time of European contact, through the fate of the luckle...

Maurice Renard's little known but delightfully bizarre tale of mad science run amok owes much to H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau while also forging its own path by taking Wells' plot as a starting point and pushing it to ridiculous extremes. When a young man named Nicholas goes to visit his beloved scientist uncle Dr. Lerne in a remote French chateau, he is immediately put on his guard by his uncle's strange behavior, the mysterious Germans who now work with his uncle in a secret lab...

Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in historyAnnapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers made a mad dash for its peak. They became the first men to accomplish ...