The Secrets of Hickory Hollow revolves around the history of the lives of rugged Scottish pioneers that settle in an isolated southern Appalachian Mountain valley. Over the years their little settlement grows and establishes itself as an independent community complete with a church, a school, and government policies and laws of its own. As generations go by, the residents of Hickory Hollow are caught up in the changing times that lead their lives and the community into an intricate web of ...

Horse Creek Chemical Company is struggling to remain solvent due to the arrogance and incompetence of a former president. Chemicals from kudzu including a new biofuel promises to ease the companies money problems, but an accident in their pilot plant may dash those hopes. When a former employee is brought back to investigate the accident he discovers drugs, terrorists and a moonshining operation that only adds to their problems. The unorthodox methods their new head of plant protection and...

Residents in the sleepy little village of Neubrucke, Germany and the military personnel stationed there with the recently deployed 98th General Hospital are blissfully unaware of the spy games going on around them. In this remote outpost in the French Zone of occupation in the southwest corner of Germany, the beer is good, the duty is mostly boring, and the only problem the GIs stationed there have is trying to decide which gasthaus they want to go to tonight. However, when the 7424th Supp...

The Massacre at Noe Creek is a collection of partly truth and partly fiction short stories and tales. Noe Creek, the story from which the book takes its name is the story of how an event near the end of the civil war affects the lives of two young people at the beginning of WW II. It is a delightful tale of romance and war. Colonial heights Road, the second story in the book, is part history and part biography as it tells the story of the author coming of age while growing up in this rural...

The residents of Buckaloo Ridge become interested spectators when a successful chemist and inventor's life falls apart after the tragic death of his wife and he takes the law in his own hands. As BJ descends into a world he never knew existed his life becomes a wild ride full of surprising twists and turns that will have the reader wondering what's coming next. A CIA agent is working a special OP the vice president has set up to learn how drugs are making their was from Mexico to the troop...

“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.” —Ken BurnsMore than six million people watch Bob Dotson’s Emmy award-winning segment, American Story, on NBC’s Today Show. For the last four decades, Dotson has traveled the country searching out inspiring individuals who quietly perform everyday miracles. In the process, he has become the treasured cartographer of America’s heart and soul.Today’s news is overwhelmingly grim; it’s al...

This a story about a simple man who lived a simple life and found out after sixty years that his life wasn't as simple as he thought it was. We spend too much time finding out what other people did or are doing with their lives. We look for guidance when all the time it is right inside us. The wise find it at an early stage in life, some of us have to wait a little longer, maybe a lifetime before we uncover it. We watch movies and read books about great people and great story's, but you an...

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV comes the first Clandestine Operations novel—featuring a new kind of threat and a different breed of warrior.In the first weeks after World War II, James D. Cronley, Jr., is recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. For a new war has already begun against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: the Sovi...

"This book is fast-paced and lively, reminiscent of a Tom Clancy thriller." - The US Review of BooksIn this edge-of-your-seat thriller, author Dave Edlund brings readers face to face with the promise of energy independence... and its true cost.As one by one the world's leading alternative energy researchers are assassinated, Peter Savage and his friend Jim Nicolaou race against the clock to preserve the secret that promises to change the landscape of...

Back from the Cold War, intelligence officer Keith Landry returns to his hometown of Spencerville, Ohio. Twenty-five years after their last encounter, Keith runs into his first love, Annie, now unhappily married to the town's chief of police--an abusive alcoholic. In his efforts to reclaim Annie, Keith will have to draw on all the skills of a violent lifetime.

Readers around the world have been enthralled by Killing England, Killing the Rising Sun, and Killing Reagan**—**riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history.In Killing Patton, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard recount the dramatic final months of World War II in Europe, and General George S. Patton Jr.'s invaluable contributions to the Allied victory.

The former Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis has been disbanded. Charley Castillo and his colleagues have retired, and the sudden death of the President has brought an adversarial Commander-in-Chief into the Oval Office...But just because Castillo is out of the government doesn’t mean he’s out of business. He still has the skills and the manpower to do what others can’t or won’t do. And his first job is a real killer. A barrel filled with some ...