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When I used to ask my father how he was doing he would always say, “Getting old, but it beats the alternative.” But he never talked about what it is like to get old. Now that I’m doing it, I know, and it ain’t pretty. This is a fictional story about a seventy year old man who lost his wife to cancer, contact with his children due to misinformation, is feeling all the ills of being older, and is left alone in the world without a support system other than his dog. But mostly it is a story about what it’s like to be an old man. It’s about all the things my father didn’t talk ...

Just as we can write and install apps in our electronic devices, we can construct “mindapps” and install them in our brain-mind complex, and as just as digital apps add capabilities to our devices, mindapps can expand our mental powers and creative abilities, allowing us to intentionally redesign our minds. Using psychedelics as the prime example, Thomas B. Roberts explores the many different kinds of mindapps, including meditation, other psychoactive plants and chemicals, sensory overload and deprivation, biofeedback and neurofeedback, hypnosis and suggestion, and more.

If you like to solve mysteries, then Bill's situation is a mystery you may enjoy trying to solve. If you read for detail and look for the nuances that create the story, then Bill's story is for you. Bill, once a top one percenter, extremely smart, highly decorated Marine Corps Major, is now a highly damaged disabled vet suffering severe PTSD. He was advised by his doctors and his mentor to get away from the noise of people, like taking a quiet walk in the woods. Bill took their advice, but what he found in the woods was, well, a perfect hallucination... or?

The finest voices reading a wonderful selection of poetry accompanied by selected classical music.

Friendship, loyalty, compassion, greed, rape, and, murder: the makings of Dillon. This is a twenty-year history of a small town, Dillon, Colorado, a large corporation, Dillon Inc., and the man who owns them both, Mr. William Dillon. A prospering town, a thriving corporation, and a man who leaves nothing to chance, the three all but inseparable from one another. And this is the story of Mr. Dillon's four grandchildren. Twin grandsons, William and Walter James, who appear willing to do whatever it takes to be the one to inherit all of Dillon. Mr. Dillon's only granddaughter, Miss Ann, who, ...

The Bettacor Life Preservation Association of Sonora, New Mexico, the suppository of many famous frozen bodies, has gone defunct. Among the numerous bodies turned over to the UCLA Medical Center for study is one unknown that had not died before being frozen. This body was accompanied by a false medical record, a simple gold ring, and instructions on how to revive him. The world wants to know who he is and how it was done. Once revived, the Ice Man just wants to find out what happened to his family; a family that turns out to be quite extraordinary, making him famous.

You know one man died and another one disappeared on the same stretch of river. You also know you need to work, but teaching is tough, substituting is worse, and if it's in a youth prison, it can be a real killer. Especially if the prison's superintendent was the only person on the river those two days and your father was the man who died and you're involved in the investigation of the disappearance. But, who knows, with a little luck you may find love along the way, if you don't get killed first.

It is the heart of a man, and even many men that can inspire others to look at life more closely, especially in their own relationships. Relationships are what help us grow as people. It is our relationships especially with family and friends that influence us the most. These individuals function as role models of sorts that help to craft our personalities and characteristics that make us unique for the good or the bad. The focus of this book is to focus on the true stories and poems from men of all different ages. Many of the stories discuss stories and poems about relationships that are ...

Unemployment and Murder. The economy is tough, layoffs are in the works, and some people are willing to do absolutely anything to stay employed. Other people have more personal motives for their actions-getting even, or better yet, getting ahead. In a fast paced production plant were schedule, quality, and passing government inspections are everything, some people don't take the time to watch their backs, though they probably should. Then there are always those who spent their energy looking for love. The question is, can Jack do it all?

The world is up in arms over a rumor that a major criminal cartel has the fix on for the upcoming World Cup. Those involved can only agree on one man to find the truth: a former FBI agent who is well-qualified to conduct the investigation, has no national or personal interest in World Cup Football, and has absolutely no intention in becoming involved. Only after his family is violence drawn in does he throw his near-ruthless abilities, knowledge, and world-wide contacts into finding the truth, and his enemies. He even use his daughter, and appears willing to sacrifice the world famous, but ...

James Claiborne was an individual who had two beliefs that defined his life, and that which came after. First off, your memories are what define who you are. Both the good and the bad. Without your memories you can not learn from your triumphs, or your failures. And secondly, he always could imagine a better world. Despite having experienced violence as a youth, he could imagine a world without violence. With peace in mind, he left New York City, and a tour in Afghanistan, to teach in the most peaceful place he could think of, Iowa. It didn’t work out so well in Iowa, yet he held to those...

A Dying Red Moon is the third and final book in the Moon series that chronicles the life of a very average guy in some extraordinary situations. Full Mood on White recounted the formerly dead David Steel’s reintroduction into the world of the living after being cryogenically frozen against his will. Black of the Moon follows David's life as he is once again thrust into the spotlight of the world press when he becomes involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a sixteen-year-old girl during the London Olympics. In the final Moon book, David is again thrust into the spotlight because of the ...