A collection of short stories from 1936–2014. May you find a gold nugget in one of my father's writings.

Inspiration of having a first grandchild. May she feel loved.

Because You Wasnt There Daddy is the story of a little girl that should have had a Happily Ever After Ending. You will go through these chapters, seeing life through the eyes of a small child. You will find a frail little girl who turns into a strong young lady. Journey with Dora as she moves through her youth and searches for the person that God created her to be, while going through a dark, painful and ugly transition. Experience the scenery as she waits in agony for her father to return...

Some stories begin with joy. Ours began with silence.The day my wife and I learned we were having triplets was a moment of awe and disbelief. Three heartbeats. Three lives. But behind the excitement lay a shadow-a family history shaped by loss, grief, and resilience. As we prepared for their arrival, those echoes of the past collided with the fears of the present.The pregnancy was fraught with risk: one baby's chance of survival stood at only 30%. We had to grapple with que...

Unwanted and neglected as a child, abused by neighborhood perverts beginning at six years old, and then by loser boyfriends during her adolescence and beyond, Cathrine Ann became pregnant at fifteen, was pimped out by her rich uncle at seventeen, was jailed at eighteen, and lived as a prostitute in her thirties.But today she is the founder and president of a multi-million-dollar company. How did that happen? Beautiful Buttons is a rough, raw, candid, and surprisingly funny...

In this remarkable true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town's past.Growing up in Rockville Center, Long Island, Gary Jansen never believed in ghosts. His mother-a devoutly Catholic woman with a keen sense for the uncanny-claimed that their family house was haunted. But Jansen never found anythin...

*iPhone 5 Edition*A tale of tragedy, heartbreak and GOD's promise of unrelenting love.Christian fiction. (Oprah's Book Club 2.0).

Students and teachers will roar as Kenn Nesbitt pokes fun at silly school topics with dozens of wacky poems.Who knew school lunches and detention could be so funny? Kenn Nesbitt, that's who! Do you attend a school like the one Kenn Nesbitt describes in this hysterically funny collection of poems? There's a frenzied food fight in the cafeteria. For show-and-tell, kids burp the ABCs. Recently, "pet days" have been banned (and for good reason). And the funniest things...

Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab. How we've made such a mess of our money system is explained, from the earliest banks right through to "collateralized debt obligations." The author suggests the framework for a fairer financial world: the practical ideas, required regulations, and real-life examples.Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the New Internationalist who no...

The best of the best—stories, one-liners, and jokes from some of today's funniest Christian speakers and best-selling writers This new book, like its best-selling predecessors, is packed with the kind of smiles and smirks, chuckles and giggles that thousands of readers have come to love and expect. It includes some of the funniest stories from today's Christian writers like Barbara Johnson, John Ortberg, Mark Buchanan, Patsy Clairmont, Becky Freeman, Chonda Pierce, and more. Whether the to...