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Have you always wanted to start your own religion or political party? Publish a book? Star in a television series? Roll cigars from tobacco you’ve grown yourself? Wear the sexiest dress at the party? Build a bicycle from scrap? Juggle? Sing an original song while playing a guitar you’ve just made? Gamble at poker and never lose? Make mozzarella? Beat the stock market? Slice a banana without pealing it first? Now you can. LIVE FREE AND DIY leads you to 88 life successes that you can attain starting today.

You’ll meet a deranged chicken, a killer duck who demands butter, a fifteen-year-old boy who loses his virginity and spends the rest of his life looking for it, an itinerant dental floss salesman, a vampire having his first sex in over a thousand years, a beautiful babysitter who stalks a serial killer, a family that uses a stalk of broccoli for its Christmas tree, Bob Dylan without an original thought in his head, and an old lady who keeps digging up her husband’s grave and moving it around so that her daughter can’t locate it. As well as some eccentric characters. These are Jim’s ...

Jay Tasti and Albert Niklozak grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in a tough little section of Long island called Duck Alley. The sounds of garbage cans clattering and railroad cars rumbling by were usually drowned out by their teary-eyed laughter. The friendship held steady into adulthood. But when the decomposed body of a teenage girl is found half-washed out of the earth in upstate New York, their friendship begins to unravel. Set into motion is a series of events that will test the two friends’ commitment to each other, to themselves, and most of all to their sense of honor.

BUSTING STONES by Jim DeFilippi Martha Gellhorn was the greatest war correspondent in American history, but she was/is unknown, unappreciated, undervalued because of her sex. BUSTING STONES tracks her life against the backdrop of the 20th Century Women’s Movement. The book breaks the ten decades of her life (1908-1998) into ten chapters, each chapter containing a short segment on: The mood of the country during that time; The progress or the stagnancy of the decade’s Women’s Movement; An enemy of the country or of women (anyone from Adolph Hitler to Hugh Hefner); Gellhorn’s life; ...