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Racoons are not the only bandits wearing masks in the wilderness. Growing up, author Kennie Prince spent most of his time in the woods and creeks near his home in Rankin County, Mississippi. A highly skilled outdoorsman, Prince began his career with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation in 1983 and dedicated his life to protecting Mississippi's fish and wildlife resources in dangerous undercover work. The Poacher's Nightmare: Stories...
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Fisherman's Apprentice tells the inspiring true story of how God trained one stubborn fisherman to think and act more like a fisher of men. When the ride gets bumpy, the fisherman's prayer life kicks into high gear, but this is just the beginning. Financial ruin, a death sentence, and breaking the fisherman's will are all yet to come. The story is told with unflinching transparency that dares you to free the skeletons from your closet. The God-given...
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Barbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the Great Migration, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia, the rejiggering of gender roles. It encompasses every region and demographic group. It is entwined with our politics and tangled up with our race...
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One of the most visited national parks in the country has a dark side.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the country, with 12.1 million recreational visits in 2020. Aside from crowds of hikers, campers, and general tourists, there's a dark side to the Smokies, the town of Gatlinburg and the surrounding foothills.
From strange disappearances, grisly murders and bone-chilling paranormal hauntings and ghost...
46) Cosmic Corsairs
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New fiction and classics of the genre collected by the editorial team behind Space Pioneers and Overruled!
Space pirates!
Words that conjure up rousing tales of adventure, derring-do, brave heroes battling the scurvy vermin of the galaxy. Those vermin have taken to pillaging cargo ships and, even worse, space liners, relieving the helpless passengers of their valuables, and worse with the comely women passengers, then spacing the lot-unless one...
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The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album one of the most important live rock albums in history.
Beatty chronicles how Allman rejected the traditional route of music business success and built a band that was at its best jamming live on stage, feeding off the crowd's energy, and...
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David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a media-savvy national celebrity. In his short-but-distinguished lifetime, this charismatic frontiersman won three terms as a US congressman and a presidential nomination. His 1834 memoir enjoyed frenzied sales and prompted the first-ever "official" book tour for its enormously popular author. Down-to-earth, heroic, and independent to a fault, the real Crockett became lost in his own hype, and he's...
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When the COVID-19 pandemic led to a global economic "shutdown" in March 2020, our supply chains began to fail, and out-of-stocks and delivery delays became the new norm. Contrary to public perception, the pandemic strain did not break the current system of supply chains; it merely exposed weaknesses and fault lines that were decades in the making, and which were already acutely felt in deindustrialized cities and depopulated rural towns throughout...
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In Flip-Flops and Fortunes, Brady Johns teaches you how to accumulate wealth in ways that energize rather than drain you.
The world has enough cutthroat, hypercompetitive, and exhausted millionaires. You can gain that fortune without all that toil-making money work for you on the way to finding security and happiness, wealth, and joy.
Brady Johns was tired of spending countless hours staring at the three walls of his cubicle at his job in the tech...
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From the bestselling author of Monday Morning Leadership, this "little book full of big learnings" provides wisdom and a practical framework to help you become your very best.
Imagine how it would feel to greet each day enthusiastic about your work and your life, with renewed energy and optimism, at peace with yourself and those around you. What would it take to get there, rather than just "getting by"?
In Quit Drifting, Lift the Fog, and Get Lucky,...
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George Anastasia in The Summer Wind delves into a tale of a missing woman, deceit, and murder as well as the criminal trial that follows. High off his own arrogance and unrelenting in his manipulations, Thomas Capano - a golden boy in his youth, a successful attorney, a loving father - murdered Anne Marie Fahey, a woman with whom he had a rocky affair, and left her body to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Anastasia's investigation follows...
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"Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become," Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.
Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston,...
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A fine group of simple rules that have the potential to greatly change your life. No kidding !
Ever wanted a compass for life? Herein is a very unique step by step guide; self-motivation broken down into defined everyday life issues; love, money, romance, karma, justice, your purpose of life and several more. Figuratively, a medical doctor's self-help dissection notepad. The rules are plain amazing, simple and down to earth. I would say trivial common...
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This memoir of growing up in the Old South during the Depression evokes a time gone by. While it is a loving memoir, it is populated by real people dealing with hard times, sometimes with cruelty, sometimes with violence - including a mysterious case of arson that changed John Snyder's life. Hill of Beans has been compared by publishing professionals to the seminal writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and even Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Search for the Hidden Treasure is Volume 2 in the "Chompy & the Munchy Bunch" Series, about a carrot with superpower eyesight! A secret treasure is hidden deep inside the mysterious Peppa Mansion. Chompy, Salty and Weiner set out to solve the mystery...but will Candybar shake up their plans?
Action-packed fun for kids ages 4 - 9!
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This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rare cold case murder conviction.
Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life. On August 16, 1996, Janet had an appointment to finally file for divorce. But she never arrived. On the...
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Four novellas, four amazing stories.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
The Amazing Conroy regales you with four unique stories specially selected for your pleasure. Join us, as we all get our tickets, take our seats, and listen with rapt attention!
BARRY'S TALE
He came for the barbecue, but he found a little girl in need of help. Can his hypnotic skill save her from an uncontrollable power that has her marked for death? A hypnotist, his alien companion animal, and...
59) Killer's Choice
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE FAST-PACED AVENGING ANGELS SERIES COMES THE THIRD BOOK IN A NEW HEART-POUNDING WESTERN ADVENTURE!
An ostensibly simple, but hazardous job of delivering some much-needed nitroglycerin components to a burgeoning railroad town in the Arizona Territory proves problematic for the trio of River Hicks, Connor Mack and his twin sister, Abby.
Along the way they rescue a Chinese man on the verge of being lynched by a pack of crooked...
60) Killer's Fuse
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HEART-POUNDING AVENGING ANGELS SERIES COMES BOOK TWO IN THE NEW FAST-MOVING WESTERN ADVENTURE, GUNSLINGER!
While waiting for his quarry to arrive in the mining town of Willimet, Hicks joins a pair of outlaws with a scheme to find a lost cache of gold.
With Hicks gone, Conner and Abby are welcomed into the home of a local widow-the richest lady in town with a deadly secret agenda. When the widow develops an unnatural attachment...