Thoughts on Fire: Life Lessons of a Volunteer Firefighter

" -Dr. Robert Schachat, author of The Seven Conditions of Trust "Thoughts on Fire" is a book that is at once entertaining and enlightening" -Dr. John Briggs, author of The Seven Life Lessons of Chaos

Frank McCluskey

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Writers Advantage Pr

Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion is a first of it's kind. Based on five years of research by feminist Krista Jacob, this anthology is a collection of essays, poems, and prose that takes on one of the most controversial issues of our time: a woman's right to choose abortion. Revealing, with honesty and courage, the diversity of individuals behind the political hype, this powerful collection of writings takes the issue of reproductive freedom to a deeper, richer level. Comprised of abortion testimonies, insights from abortion clinic workers, and political essays, this important anthology reveals the liberating and sometimes poignant reality of the abortion experience. From the women who survived the days of illegal abortion to the women who have come of age during the backlash against abortion rights, the writers in Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion demand that people on all sides rethink this varied, complex and personal issue.

Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

A vivid eyewitness account of the investigation into the murder of Faith Hathaway by Robert Lee Willie and Joe Vaccaro.

Loss of Faith: The Dead Man Walking's Forgotten Victims

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, D. P.

Varnado, Michael L.

True Crime

Eddie Frye and Herbie Bierly take the reader along for their outlandish and often dangerous adventures in their small town. Set in the mid-1950s, Fools and Children chronicles the escapades of two young lads hell-bent on action and adventure. They and their rogue's gallery of friends create havoc and consternation for the town residents when they flood a section of town, loose a horse on the streets, and plan a bank robbery. They survive some perilous undertakings in caves and streams about town, becoming both heroes and victims in this coming of age memoir. Life's lessons come from poignant experiences with death, guns, horses, and girls.Fools and Children is an unblinking and touching reflection of the Eisenhower years, taking Baby Boomers back to a lifestyle now lost to us. The book is a collection of leisurely-told tales, filled with colorful characters and events of a simpler time.

Fools and Children

Frye, Edward T.

Memoirs

LINEAGES and LIESMURDER HAS A FAMILY TREE . . . especially in New Orleans!Nick Herald, professional genealogist and amateur sleuth, delves into the murder of a fellow genealogist, a curmudgeonly old friend with many enemies and perhaps too much knowledge. Who killed Woodrow Bluemantle in his posh French Quarter hotel room?Someone is willing to risk everything to hide damaging factsthe killer strikes again and again! What is the mystery at the heart of the lineage society based on the passenger list of a ship that sailed into French colonial New Orleans? Nicks research acumen, unerring intuition, and affinity for danger and romance lead to deadly secrets buried deep within the history of New Orleans and Louisiana. Nick and his disabled assistant, Hawty Latimer, must discover if and how modern-day murders relate to the legendary ship. They put their lives on the line for genealogical truth as they fight to bring the culprits to justice!Also by Jimmy FoxDeadly PedigreeTHE FIRST AWARD-WINNING NICK HERALD GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY

Lineages and Lies: A Nick Herald Genealogical Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Fox, Jimmy

Contemporary

Cars and People: Pissing at 60 Miles an Hour

Car guys scratch and sniff at their posts. They turn around throughout the month and try to get that last up out the door and down the street. They burn out and burn up and die trying to get someone to burn gas. It's the way it's happened for years and the way it will always be. One day it's the middle of the month and everybody is working to make their paycheck and the next day it's over.On the last day your pulse shakes while you look at the chalkboard counting units sold. Eyes comparing worth and worthiness and wide eyed wondering when they'll get some rest. The night fucks you like you're standing against a streetlamp. One minute you're off and the next you're all lit up and shining on the hood of a strangers' car with a thong around your ears. One minute it's the last day of the month and you need to sell one more car and the next minute it's midnight, December fucking first, and that's all. It's over. It rolls around on the ground like a cat masturbating. It rolls around on the ground looking inviting until it scratches you. It rolls around in the sunlight of morning, licking its end.

Ziegler, Anthony D.

United States

Americans born between 1946 and 1955 are ready to shatter traditional assumptions about early retirement. Their journey into the Golden Years will be groundbreaking. 
Called Leading-Edge Baby Boomers, this forceful segment has over $500 billion in spending power and today controls a significant percentage of the nation's assets. Even more staggering is an unfolding demographic truth: more than 30 percent of Americans will be over 50 by 2010. 
Brent Green, an experienced counseling therapist and award-winning creative director and copywriter, has published a book focused on this lucrative pre- and early-retirement segment. Entitled Marketing to Leading-edge Baby Boomers, Green's analysis reveals the psychological, sociological and interpersonal dimensions of a generation quickly reaching the life stage associated with quiescence. 
As the author declares: "They will not be quiet, calm, or disengaged. They will collectively redefine the connotations of aging and the purpose of life's closing years. They will set the stage for a long-term reorientation of American business to the value of its previously most undervalued population segment. They will bring to aging culture what they bequest to youth culture when they were boisterously becoming young adults four decades ago." 
Today, opportunity and reality are at odds. Somewhere between Woodstock Nation and Over-The-Hill, the most sought after market in America became passé. The fiftysomething-to-sixty crowd has not been attracting its fair share of commercial attention from advertisers and ad agencies. As Green challenges, this is a problem larger than benign neglect. 
Baby Boomers have often been the source of contempt and ridicule, a byproduct of disdain for the group's alleged self-absorbed, unpatriotic character, historically rooted in the Vietnam War era. Green provides troubling evidence for an emerging ageism directed at those in their mid-forties to mid-fifties. A side effect of historical distaste and today's growing ageism is often dreadful marketing: hackneyed pitches, rife with stereotypes and generational invectives. 
In thirty-six fast-paced chapters, Green analyzes such topical issues as Boomer spirituality, an emerging creativity, political agendas, age-defying strategies, corporate malfeasance, lifestyle downsizing, adventure travel, and communal instincts. The book also provides well-developed case studies of marketing programs that have worked powerfully with Boomers. 
A long-term social observer and critic, Brent Green understands the positive marketing implications of his feisty generation: "They will not tolerate typecasting, stereotypes, pandering or ageism. They will expect stylish products to instill value beyond mere utility. They will invest in products and services that resonate, and they will reward those who crack the idiosyncratic marketing code." 
An unusual aspect of this traditional business book is Green's inclusion of two convincing short stories about Leading-edge Baby Boomers. The first story explores the Internet's impact on a dormant relationship from the sixties, raising larger questions about unresolved generational agendas and the coming struggle for relevance and meaning. 
The second story presents an Orwellian view of an ageist society in 2028. The protagonist, a successful trial attorney who has dedicated her life to women's issues, is awakening to the new reality of generational condemnation, discrimination, and violence. This story makes a solid case for heightened awareness of Green's descriptive term: Genism.

Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers

Business & Money

Green, Brent

Marketing & Sales

This book was written to help Latinos develop their own cultural style of eating and healthy behaviors. Find out how your favorite foods "fit" into different food guides and why it is important to include carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in your diet, even when trying to lose weight. Become a savvy consumer by identifying all the different types of products that are available in the market and by developing a plan for comparing foods and evaluating supplements. Throughout your life, honor your culture in your own unique style by combining traditional and modern foods and managing other special dietary needs and eating situations. The book's chapters provide introductory information, consumer tips and ideas for developing healthy diet behaviors, and a discussion of food and nutrition issues in this millennium.

Contemporary Nutrition for Latinos: Latino Lifestyle Guide to Nutrition and Health

Rodriguez, Judith C.

Diets & Weight Loss

Murder has a family tree . . . especially in New Orleans!

Genre Fiction

Education of a Native Son begins where the novel, Native Son, by Richard Wright ends. Thomas, a black young man who grew up in Harlem is accepted to a prestigious Ivy League university in New England. While in college Little, as he his known, will be confronted with the pressures of the everyday college student and the pressures of being Black at an all white university. In addition to adjusting to college life, he will soon learn the secret of his parentÂ’s past, a past that could lead to the destruction of his family, friendships and ultimately his life.

Education of a Native Son

Dozier, H. Richard

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Thoughts on Fire: Life Lessons of a Volunteer Firefighter

Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion

Loss of Faith: The Dead Man Walking's Forgotten Victims

Fools and Children

Lineages and Lies: A Nick Herald Genealogical Mystery

Cars and People: Pissing at 60 Miles an Hour

Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers

Contemporary Nutrition for Latinos: Latino Lifestyle Guide to Nutrition and Health

Lineages and Lies: A Nick Herald Genealogical Mystery

Education of a Native Son