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Read An Excerpt From The Whisper Of A Distant God By David L. Gersh 0
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- July 9, 2021
The untold story of the Angel of Santa Fe and the Gettysburg of the West, The Whisper of a Distant God by David L. Gersh is a deeply-researched American civil war novel. Read an exclusive excerpt from the book. Chapter 1 Ezra Davis stood looking at the two graves, his weight resting on his right
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Read An Excerpt From If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic By Fred Leavitt 0
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- April 23, 2021
Nothing we think we know – NOTHING – is likely to be correct. If Ignorance is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt explores the limitations of knowledge and argues that neither reasoning nor direct observation can be trusted. Below is an exclusive excerpt from the book. Chapter 1 Introduction “An idea that
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Read An Excerpt From Postcards From The Borderlands By David H. Mould 0
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- April 12, 2021
What are borders? Are they simply political and geographical, marked by posts, walls and fences, or should we think of them more broadly? Consider the borders within countries, determined by race, ethnicity, or caste. Borders may be physical and economic, and even perceptual—the borders of our minds. In Postcards from the Borderlands, historian and journalist
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Read An Excerpt From Pot Luck By David L. Gersh 0
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- February 19, 2021
Things always seem to go wrong for Jimmy Harris. He stumbles. He bumbles. He’s arrested for murder. He needs to find a way through this maze. The alternatives are unthinkable. Below is an exclusive excerpt from the new comic mystery, Pot Luck by David L. Gersh. Chapter 1 My pants were stiff at the knees
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Read An Excerpt From Africa Memoir By Mark G. Wentling 0
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- January 11, 2021
Africa Memoir tells the incredible lifetime story of Mark G. Wentling, a boy from Kansas who grew up to travel, work, and visit all 54 African countries. Derived from over a half century spent working and living on the African continent, Wentling devotes a chapter to each country describing his firsthand experiences, eye-opening impressions, and
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Read An Excerpt: From Timbuktu To Duck And Cover By Lewis Lucke 0
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- November 23, 2020
From Timbuktu To Duck And Cover: Improbable Tales from a Career in Foreign Service documents US Ambassador Lewis Lucke’s thirty-year career abroad. Below is an exclusive excerpt from the memoir. Prologue While spending thirty years overseas in the US Foreign Service, and living in eleven countries and working in many more, I accumulated many stories
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