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In His Majesty's Secret Service is the memoir of a career agent with the United States Secret Service. Chris Murphy recounts a life nearly cut short by severe asthma. His parents were told to prepare to lose their son in childhood. God had other plans, and Chris never lost the sense of gratitude and enthusiasm that comes with second chances. It is to God's glory that he worked and succeeded. The Secret Service raised him to leadership, but he started public service in law enforcement as an Auburn, Alabama, policeman in 1978. Chris was involved in the full array of municipal police work, including having to shoot an escaped felon. As a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent, he worked major felony cases, including participation in the seizure of 1,200 pounds of 98 percent pure cocaine. By God's grace, he ended up arresting the kingpin and his accomplice without backup or adequate weaponry. Bad guys should never bring their daughters to work. In 1985, Chris joined the US Secret Service. He worked federal criminal investigations, including threats against the president and other protectees. He also guarded every president from Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush. He protected vice presidents, presidential candidates, visiting foreign leaders, and former presidents. Chris traveled to over twenty different countries and most of the United States performing his duties. Meeting President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul within a two-week period was exhilarating! Conversely, getting the second lady and her aging parent lost in France was demoralizing. A healthy sense of humor and humility are needed in such extremes. Fortunately, Chris has both. He taught terrorism, hostage negotiation, and protective intelligence in the Office of Training. Rising to retire as the special agent in charge of Alabama and Mississippi, Chris helped manage the events and consequences of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, Murphy's demonstrated leadership and innovation contributed to his postretirement appointment to Alabama governor Bob Riley's cabinet as director of public safety. After completing Riley's mission, Murphy was appointed to Mayor Todd Strange's cabinet bearing the same title over the police, fire, emergency communications, and emergency management agencies. He served seven years in Montgomery, bringing his total public service to forty remarkable years. His Secret Service encounters with history are unforgettable. Chris's passion for ethics, leadership, and his Christian faith provided courage to make tough, necessary decisions. It has been a truly fascinating career!

Ashley Evans is an independent, successful woman who owns her own photography business and her own home, has great friends and is loving the single life. When she least expects it, she experiences love-at-first sight. After sharing an unexpected, intimate moment, Ashley is determined to find her. Without even knowing the beautiful stranger's name, it seems impossible and hopeless. However, in a twist of fate, they come face-to-face in an unlikely situation. From that moment on, the sexual attraction between them will be like no other. They have such a strong connection that they are drawn to each other in a way they both have never experienced before. They find everything they ever wanted in each other, but it only takes one secret to cause it all to shatter. The obstacles they are about to face will shake up their lives and threaten to pull them apart, breaking their new, fragile love. Will they be strong enough together to face the challenges, or will they part ways, brokenhearted, devastated, and picking up the pieces to move on alone?

When Cramton Bowl was completed in 1922, no one had any idea of the unique place it would occupy in sports history. It was originally conceived as a multi-purpose facility that would focus on baseball and served as the spring training home for the Philadelphia A's for two seasons, with many professional teams stopping in for exhibition games, including a rematch of the 1926 World Series between the Yankees and the Cardinals in 1927. As the largest established stadium in the state during those early years, Alabama and Auburn played more than 70 football games in the facility, treating fans to the likes of Paul "e;Bear"e; Bryant and Don Hudson. It was home to the first HBCU Classic, the Turkey Day Classic between Alabama State and Tuskegee, and the site of the first night football game in the South (as well as the first night college football game and the second pro baseball game under the lights in the South). For more than 60 years it was home to the Blue-Gray All Star Football Classic where stars such as Y.A. Tittle, Len Dawson, Fran Tarkenton, Howie Long and Jerry Rice roamed the sidelines of Cramton Bowl, but there were plenty of other activities in the stadium during that time, including 'Lucky' Teter's traveling daredevil show in 1934, the Negro League World Series, games involving the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and Billy Graham's Greater Montgomery Crusade in 1965.

Kristoff, a gatekeeper from Atlantis, has lived among humans for a very long time without finding his destined mate. He needs her power in order to open the gate. He had felt the moment she was born into the world, and now that she has matured into an adult, her power has grown. She is starting to appear to him in his dreams, and now finally, she appeared to him in his study as flesh and blood. It's finally time for him to make her his, no matter what. Breanna is supposed to marry Zachary in a few weeks, but she's dreaming about another man whom she has never met. Time away from everyone should give her time to think before she ruins her life. The cabin came to mind, and Breanna headed there without thought. After getting settled in, Breanna takes a relaxing bath and immediately starts dreaming of the man again, but this time, she finally sees his face clearly, and he even says her name, causing her to wake up. This can't be a dream.

Two bloodlines. Forbidden marriages. Children's deaths. For the Conners and Clark families, it's one tragic disaster after another. Two lineages so intertwined by love and marriage and...the Curse!The demon who haunted their ancestors for several years has resurfaced to continue the tradition with this youngest generation. A young couple who didn't know about their past or their present circumstances have awakened the demon with their immoral relationship. As a result, they lost three infant children to the Curse, and now she's pregnant with a fourth, but the demon wants to possess the unborn child for its own. Who will finally win the battle for the unborn baby, a product of the Curse? Will it be the young couple who need this child to carry on their family name? Or will the darkest side of evil win and end this bloodline forever? Follow the Conners and Clark families through one hundred years of tragedy and desperate choices.

Oneonta is the only city in the large Central New York counties of Otsego, Delaware, and Schoharie. The earliest settlers in 1780 knew the place as a "e;dammed hemlock swamp."e; By 1930, it had become an established regional metropolis towering over all area localities. Oneonta is an exciting story, and this comprehensive book is a unique treasure. The big stories are all there, such as the turnpikes, Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, D&H, cigar rolling, normal school, Hartwick College, and more. Yet so are accounts of sidewalks, cemeteries, boardinghouses, Barn Hill, charity, piano manufacturer, and many others. Maybe more important still was the predominant thought about business affairs. There is much on that too. With rich detail and over 350 heavily annotated pictures, those 150 years to the Great Depression are described as never before and, most likely, never again.

There was a dilemma with writing this book. In order to understand the tip of the iceberg, it's necessary to understand the iceberg. Unfortunately, if you don't believe the tip of the iceberg, you're certainly not going to believe the iceberg. Jesus said, "e;If I tell you earthly things and you don't believe me, how can I tell you heavenly things?"e; It took me about ten years, but I finally made the iceberg believable and understandable to most people. The book involves government conspiracy, which is the very tip of the iceberg. The book explains the iceberg first and works its way up to conspiracy. To understand the iceberg, it was necessary to push the envelope of the conventional realm of perceived reality and go into metaphysics, galactic allies, and galactic enemies. The book explains how humanity is going to go through a transitional period and into a new paradigm of experience. Although this book often quotes from God (what we call God) and Jesus, it's unquestionably not a religious book.

Within a lifetime, it only takes one to change the course of events. One to make a choice. An object to influence destiny. A person to make things right. It only takes one to make tomorrow different. To make tomorrow an adventure into something wonderful. Or let it descend into a realm of chaos. A portal into destruction. That one presence, or lack thereof, helps to choose the path our life takes forever onward. Into the hand of God, we place our spirit as we choose to let that presence remain, or send it on its way forever. The presence stays and tomorrow is good. The guiding force leaves and tomorrow is bad. Sometimes life is just that simple. Such are the fates of Lazar, Jingles, and Bunson at this present hour. As well as another. A dream is dreamed below the stars as he enters the scene. A cousin named Sylvester Alexander Koala. A dream he dreams with one so special, and another so close. They walk into a night like none before. A night event taking place outside of December that will eventually mean much. Not only to the trio from Michigan, but to those who watch a yo-yo swing. Stars shine bright then blink. The darkness falls into the ground. The best of us is forced out into the cruelty of this world's night. For time and again in a world of yesterdays, nothing happened. The world walked on, and goodness was swallowed up in shadow's victory. Nothing given in return. However, this is not the world of yesterday. This is one crushing night the world is forced to give something back. For Sylvester is no ordinary Koala. Lazar, Jingles, Bunson, together with their friend Jack Thompson, each will learn what happens when right is wronged, when dreams are made real and then turned into nightmares. Their hopes will be doubled and dashed, only to be darkened into eternity's dawn. Lazar, Jingles, Bunson, their cousin Sylvester, and the entire planet Earth are about to learn what happens when stars cease to shine.

This story is a fiction horror tale about a young boy who becomes cursed and kills when the bedtime prayer is heard. "e;Now lay me down to sleep... I pray the Lord my soul to keep... If I shall die before I wake... I pray the Lord my soul to take."e;The loving Ford family falls in the center of Charlie's horror and find themselves fighting for their lives with the help of a detective by the name of Albert.Please give your imagination a treat by enjoying this fun-filled horror tale. Now You Can Lay Me Down to Sleep...If I Shall Die!

Paul Mitchell and Matthew Pierce used to work for the United Federation for Defense of America, a government agency based in Washington, DC. They happen to come across a government cover-up involving the attack on the Twin Towers back in 2001. When a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances happen across the country, they meet again in Lower Manhattan to launch their own investigation. During their quest to discover the truth, they receive an anonymous folder from another whistle-blower who wants to remain hidden in the shadows. Paul calls in Amanda Knox, a former intelligence officer to assist with their probe. They plan to send the information to the president of the United States, Michael Atlas, but he might not take them seriously as his own career is on the line. As their probe progresses, Paul and Amanda take a romantic interest in each other as the walls start to slowly close in around them. Will they expose what no one else could, or will they become the government's next victims?

Sunshine and Smiles is a book of rhymes that will take your children on a journey from sweets and treats to seashells and vessel bells, from teddy-bear hugs and gingerbread kisses to angel wings of gold. It is bright and colorful and caters to the delightful imagination of children everywhere. It is sure to be a favorite to any child and will, hopefully, add a little bit of sunshine and smiles to their lives as well.

Moon Sauce is the autobiographical journey of a girl who grew up on a farm in Minnesota. Stories of the author's childhood depict real events of an imaginative child in a cruelly realistic world of hard work, an abusive mother, and a loving but distant father. Through humor, horror, and hope, the girl grows to womanhood to fulfill the dreams she created amidst a world that offered her nothing, but which she took anyway. Moon Sauce is a metaphor for canned peaches. Instead of her stark reality, she viewed her world not of the ordinary and practical, but perceived as sliced and halved peaches transformed from the crescent and half spheres of the moon while she dusts off the heavy black loam soil and transforms it into stardust to reach for the moon.

Truly epic love comes but once in a lifetime, no, in a millennium, transcending cultures, space, even time. The ultimate modern romantic tragedy written here within explores an unusual relationship between a worldly Taiwanese exchange student and a simple, hardworking visually challenged preprimary educator, who is also an author. Journey vicariously along with these star-crossed lovers. Enjoy exhilarating courtship. Experience flaming hot desire. Feel the tingles of profound passion. Suffer through anger, pain, frustration, immeasurable sorrows. Shed sympathetic tears as two innocent souls are savagely ripped apart by unforeseeable circumstances. Witness desperate struggles as they vow to reunite someday. Endure dark, lonely emptiness, constant longings, enveloping depression. Not only is this uniquely structured novel a work of nonfiction, but its text has been adapted from and is comprised entirely of the author's personal journals, poems, love letters, and e-mails. Read her deepest and most private thoughts. Delve into the indescribable power of her affection. This honest, carefully written, poetic story is guaranteed to touch even the most emotionless hearts.

I began writing this book as a vehicle to memorialize some of the truly remarkable animals that I have raised and known over the years. But as a former elementary school teacher, this book became much more. I would very often use a storybook as a means to open a dialogue for important topics such as being bullied, being different, jealousy, etc. Aside from being just a sweet story about an orphan squirrel, it began to evolve into a modern topic of the blended family. Ratie the Squirrel begins his life as all squirrels. One day, by accident or a twist of fate, his life drastically changes. He grows up in a family that is completely different. He has to learn how to deal with being bullied, being different, and jealousy from others. He is raised with love, but still has to learn how to blend in. As a former elementary school teacher, I would find this book an excellent way to approach all these subjects. I have kept the format simple with only a paragraph or two on each page. I have also kept my illustrations simple. Each illustration is meant to reinforce the message of that particular page.

After the Vietnam War, Russell lived in Everett Washington, having spent the end of his enlistment in Bremerton shipyard across the water from Seattle in Puget Sound. After attending college and settling in civilian life after six years Navy time, it became necessary to return home. Social stigma after Vietnam and finances left a choice of leaning on friends or a return to home to start over at the age of twenty-seven. The return to Nashville helped keep the thread of music and writing alive. Finding adapting to civilian life and work lonely and difficult, he began retreating mentally and emotionally into himself and began writing down thoughts, beginning with a letter to a friend left behind. Typical of letters not mailed and thoughts unsaid, these were collected over the years reflecting on deeper meaning of life experiences, viewpoints of the past, searching identity, and meaning of the present, as each page was recorded anticipation and remembrance, highs and lows of life. Collected by his wife, Suzanne, for family, sister, and Indian friend and mentor, in a volume for the holidays one year. This book is the narrative of those collected thoughts.

Alice K. Lambert is the owner of Lambert House, an elegant totally ADA-compliant bed-and-breakfast on Maui. She recently promoted her assistant Kaleo to manage the inn. This allows Alice to travel extensively and to increase her advocacy for victims of domestic violence and people with disabilities. Before beginning an adventure in Colorado with her young nephew, Stefan, Alice rents a cabin for a week in Estes Park where she attends a mushroom identification workshop. Her friend, Trish, on the run from her abusive and stalking ex-husband, also attends the workshop with her two protective brothers. They learn how to ID the many mushrooms from the area. Two mushrooms that look alike to most people are the honey mushrooms and the deadly Galerina Autumnalis. The group learns subtle visual differences and learn how to do spore prints, which provides a more definitive identification. Alice soon suspects that Trish's ex-husband is staying in a cabin near her own. Trish's brothers verify this and so they go on the road once again to escape him and Alice leaves for Denver to join her nephew for their trip. Several days later, Noah Dennison, Trish's ex-husband was found dead in his cabin, where the bedroom was set up with chains and shackles to supposedly restrain Trish. Soon it is deemed to be murder. Trish becomes the prime suspect, and Alice is determined to prove her innocence.

Rosa goes through mixed emotions and falls in love with someone she never thought of. She is also determined to discover the truth about the family she thought was hers. Rosa, thinks she's a hybrid. She doesn't understand how she is so when her family is a vampire. How could this be? She knows a family is supposed to be about the truth, protecting each other, and being close. What would Rosa do if she knew she was actually living a lie? The only person who knows is her long-lost cousin Adrian, who helps her with her discoveries. This is Rosa's retribution. Would you help Rosa discover the truth?

At this writing, I am sixty years old, and the realization that I'm not getting any younger has prompted me to put some things from my life down on paper. I am writing this for my daughter Gina and son Todd, who one day, may want to know what their father did during his younger years in the military. All of my stories take place from late 1968 to mid-1970. From basic training to AIT, but mostly my lovely tour of Vietnam in Southeast Asia. Some of my stories, I hope you will find funny, and some I know you will find tragic, and others may get me in trouble. I hope there is a statute of limitations on some of the things I have done or seen. As I share my stories with you, I will also be using some slang terms that were used in Vietnam. I've created a glossary in the back of the book for these terms. Please refer to them if needed. I hope I touch the heart of my daughter and son and show you a small slice of my reality of what Vietnam was really like from a soldier's point of view.

This is a tale of two tiny black feral kittens which begins in a nest deep in the forest and ends with them being loved and pampered in the home of their adopted humans and two other cats. The story shares the dangers they faced living in the wild and the transformation of those two beautiful black kittens from being wild to being cuddly and loving members of a family. Their names are Jetta and Pedie, and this is their story.

The story of Mr. Book will transport you to the small world of Mr. Book and his two cats-all living in a tiny house surrounded by books, books of all kinds. One day, a knock on his door will lead him to change his life forever and open his mind up to the world that is outside his front door and down the road and off in the distance and with a mission-to give joy and happiness to others and to share his love of books with hundreds of kids. And still counting.

Turn the Lights On is based on fatherless urban youth trying to find their way through life. This includes being involved in the drug game and witnessing murder at an early age. The title Turn the Lights On is reference to the youth living life in the dark and having to find their own light. This book is based on a true story of Seve "e;Jamaal's"e; life from the age of thirteen to the present day. This book gives the readers an insight into street and gang life in the worst areas of Michigan. This journey is broken into two books, describing how Seve makes it into adulthood and with stands near death experiences. This book is used to inspire those who have lived through tragedy and made it through the darkness.

In 1962, Mother Earth sent fourteen-year-old Xander Gadeski to a small village in Upstate New York to uncover the truth behind the suspicious death of a Seneca girl, Pretty Flower. At least, that's what Pretty's girlfriend, Phaedra Cooper, comes to believe when she meets the minor seminarian at Pretty's grave. She notices an odd connection between Xander and Skagedi, an ancient Seneca legend, who used an array of unusual powers, including splitting himself in half, to defeat evildoers. The relationship between this naive boy, sheltered by a close Polish Catholic family, and a girl nurtured by her Seneca culture yet isolated on the fringe of white entitlement and intolerance forms the heart of the story in Paul Drisgula's debut coming-of-age mystery novel. Xander is an unlikely and unwilling recruit to Phaedra's cause. His father, Stary, just died. His immature brain still can't wrap itself around God letting the Dodgers slip out of Brooklyn. Before meeting Phaedra, he is bullied continually and suffers a vicious sexual assault at his new school. The supernatural and natural worlds flow together like hot and cold from a tap as Phaedra and Xander forge an uneasy alliance to disprove the findings of the village police that Pretty's death was a suicide. Phaedra suspects boys from Xander's school murdered the love of her life. Pretty Flower communicates with the two amateur detectives through dreams as they forge a dangerous plan climaxing in an outdoor trial on the bridge where death found Pretty Flower and where Xander must use his new powers if he's to avoid a similar fate. In Drisgula's novel, Xander tells his own story, often with a lighter touch, softening some of its harsher themes by unmasking the dark humor skulking in the shadows behind forbidden sex, bullying, death, rape, murder, and sin.

Crystal is the fight for her life. Every day is hell for this frightened young child. Crystal had escaped from the torture and her abusive childhood. She always kept her abusive childhood a secret as well as the abuser's secret. Crystal remained silent. Until now!Crystal conquered the demons of her childhood, which is filled with evil. One voice is all it would take to bring attention to the hidden secrets out of the darkness in an abyss. Faith in God and the encouragement from her guardian angel, Mikheal. Mikheal tells Crystal, her power is her own voice. Be the voice to other children in an abusive situation. Crystal paved a staircase leading from the depths of hell into a brighter life, a brighter future. Crystal's voice started out as whimper, and now it is a shout. Crystal's secrets about her childhood are no longer surrounded in silence, no longer keeping the secrets of her abusers. Crystal desires to encourage, comfort, and empower abused children, telling them their lives are worth it even with ounce of every tear shed. Every scar that remains sealed into their hearts will only give them strength to begin a wonderful future, a future that will define their self-worth, their faith and soul. Building a life with love, kindness, and joy, every child deserves a beautiful life. Abused children should honor their passion of dignity, pride, and integrity. Life is a challenge, yet it will be a triumph to slam the door and lock it from continuing the cycle of abuse or circle of abuse. As adults, we have the power and control to stop the cycle of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Crystal starts a new chapter in her life. She wants to represent and be a voice to the unspoken voice of abused children. It begins with one voice.

Working and Living Injury Free-The Battle to Eradicate Unsafe Behavior from the Workplace is the story of one safety professional, who stepped into the role with no such designation behind his name, nor with any education or experience in the health and safety field. However, with determination and common sense, and with a passion for the health and safety of the employees he served, he took a manufacturing plant from the bottom pit of safety performance, to number two in the organization both globally and in North America. His work became an organizational standard and a best in class safety strategy emulated by other manufacturing facilities in the company. He helped to achieve safety success and reduced human injuries on a stellar level and became a recognized safety leader in the organization. This book is his story, written in his own words, and documents how he helped bring a manufacturing facility to the top in their health and safety performance, and how he helped to reduce human injuries and saved lives.

Take a trip to the zoo with Betsy, Bailey, and Ben and see what surprises they encounter on their adventure.

Carl's Quest is a fairy tale adventure for children of all ages, five to one hundred five. Carl is a charismatic commoner who lives in the woods. With the assistance of his woodland friends, he ventures into a fantastic kingdom. There he sees the beautiful vision of his dreams, Princess Charlotte. She is kidnapped by an evil baron. Carl and three knights set off on a crusade to rescue her. Along the way, they encounter and overcome many almost impossible obstacles in innovative ways. These brave men cross paths with a dreaded wizard in a black forest where they are attacked by many things set up by the wizard to prevent their saving the princess. They managed to get through the black forest only to be faced with an impenetrable castle. Once they manage to gain entry into the castle, Carl and his fellow champions must first locate the princess. Before they can release her from her captives, they are challenged with an additional impossible quest by the wizard. Time is of the essence as they must fulfill the wizard's demand before the evil baron forces the princess to become his bride, and the wizard makes good on his promise to kill them all. They face unusual animals such as a fire-breathing dragon, a flying horse, and a unicorn. Through these ordeals, they are assisted by a young lad, his crippled brother, and many newfound friends. As this is a fairy tale, it has a very happy ending.

The year is 2068. The United States already has several colonies on the moon, Mars, and Jupiter's beautiful moon, Europa. A vast saltwater ocean has been discovered below the frozen surface of Europa. The president of the United States has approved a special mission to drill through the frozen surface of Europa and deploy a submarine to explore and search for life in Europa's vast subterranean ocean. A team of highly successful business leaders and entrepreneurs finance the adventure, hoping to capitalize on the treasures and resources for the benefit of mankind back on Earth. They encounter a truly amazing world, with many similarities to our own planet, not to mention a breath taking landscape.

Ashleigh loved her small town life working in the bar. But she never thought meeting one man would change how she sees the world. Or how she could have ever existed in it. Enter a world where there is more to it than than anyone could have ever imagined. And hopefully you realize that it's never easy to travel alone.

As a kid, David used to always look up to drug dealers, pimps, and players because he thought that they had everything-money, cars, and whores. Even though he wanted to be a lawyer, he wanted to live like them, but his mother was not having that kind of life for him and his big brother, Mike. She raised them like middle class even though they were poor. Growing up, David never saw drugs, pimps, or players. It was not until David turned eighteen that he started to see drugs and prostitution after some guy had left David for dead because they were jealous of him for going to school and working and even trying to get a scholarship to college to play basketball. But his so-called best friend put a stop to that, and David's whole life had changed. He became that person that he looked up to when he was a kid. He became one of the biggest drug dealers in Detroit and the state of Michigan. He kept the bad-ass killers, the biggest drug dealers and the most scandalous thieves around him. He felt that if they can't get past him, nobody could. David got married even though he was married to the game and lived that kind of lifestyle. His wife didn't really know David was in the game until after the wedding. They had the house he bought, the cars they drove, and the jewelry they wore. That's when David started noticing her stealing money and depositing it into her own private credit union. He thought that she was putting it away for a rainy day, so he never said anything. It seemed like everybody was trying to steal from him-his family, his best friend, everybody except for his mother and father. But this was David's way of keeping up with the game. It was David's way of practicing for the people that were not family or friends. The people that were close to David wanted to bring him down and take over his little cartel. And his cousin did bring him down, sending David to federal prison. This story details the life of David Dean.

Back in the late 1980s, I had the idea to write a poem about the Book of Revelation. After writing that poem, I thought to myself, "e;What if I could write the entire Bible in an easier-to-read-poem format?"e; That had never been done before, so I accepted the challenge. After about nine years of writing and rhyming, it finally came into being. I hope people will find this labor of love as an inspiration to read and learn from the Bible.