Biographies & Memoirs Archives

Rapids of Winter

by Sheila D. O'Drane An innocent conversation triggers a series of irreversible events, and one after another, lives topple like dominoes. Rapids of Winter is the true story of a professional woman, mother and wife, who becomes embroiled in plots of murder, suicide threats, car accidents, burglary, fire, and death, but through it all she [...]

Marine Corps Mustang

by Roy Morris This is a collection of true stories about the characters and personalities of the folks I met, worked with and fought with while in the Marine Corps from the mid-1960's to the early-1980's. There were good guys and villains, heroes and heels. The Best of the Best served right alongside the Worst of [...]

The Unqualified Widow

by Shirley Spires Baechtold It's Summer, 1954, in Louisville, Kentucky He's working in Louisville before going back to New York for his second season with the New York Knicks. She's back from Europe and playing the piano bar in the Forest Lounge at Iroquois Gardens Supper Club. It's been two years since they graduated from [...]

A View from the Jury Box

by Carol W. Hazelwood A View From The Jury Box is a journalistic approach to the long and complicated trial of Ron Blaney Jr., a deaf mute, who was accused of murdering and torturing his deaf girlfriend and her mother. The author, Carol Hazelwood, was the foreperson. This is the story of compassion, pettiness, stupidity, [...]

Bread Salt & Plum Brandy

by Lisa Fisher Cazacu and Rosemary Colgrove Bread, Salt & Plum Brandy is an insightful and eye-opening account of Lisa Fisher Cazacu's odyssey as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-communist Romania. With humor and pathos, Lisa shares her experiences, and her relationship with a charming young lawyer from Bucharest, who experienced first-hand the horrors of [...]

The Harvest

by Luben Walchef As a barefoot six-year old boy, Luben Walchef stomped mud into bricks that were used by his father and grandfather to build the humble house in rural Bulgaria where his family lived. For generations upon generations, the Walchefs had been farmers on the same plot of land. And then Luben came along. [...]

Cabbages and Kings

by James B. Edwards Space Pioneer Rollin Gillespie: the man who conceived of NASA and ARPA. Gunfighter: the Navy's first supergun project. The March Hare: "Light as a feather; strong as a tank". "Ragged Dick": in the securities business. Patton's assault on the Rhine at St. Goar. Alpenstrasse/Tegerness; Mosel/Rhine.

Special

by Michael P. Raff In the summer of 1970 I met Jill, a shy, young girl from Utah, who was vacationing in California. I made a favorable impression on her but because she was so young and awkward, I kept her at a distance. Once she left, I never expected to see her again. Yet when [...]

I Can See Clearly Now

by Ryne Dure with Tom Sabellico, Forward by Jim "Mudcat" Grant Ryne Duren terrified major league batters, pitching 100 mph while squinting through thick, dark sunglasses. For effect, a warm-up pitch would go sailing back to the screen. Meanwhile, it was Ryne who was in fear and his drinking that was out of control, turning [...]

An Invitation to Heal

by Susan Spalding What if you had a dream that was so compelling, so real, that you were willing to turn your life upside down to follow it? That is what happened to Susan Spalding when she had a dream that was her call to the vocation of healing. All of the events that followed were [...]

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