Memories of an Eastern Sky is an intriguing original fiction based on a true story that chronicles the extraordinary and disturbing life experiences of the main character. Born into a loving family in the freezing, lawless, and foreboding part of the Communist China, the main character quickly learns of the crushing power the government wielded. His father is suspected of being counterrevolutionary, and the family makes the courageous decision not to succumb to the nefarious will of the ten-year Cultural Revolution that will eventually claim over thirty million innocent lives.

Memories of an Eastern Sky

Literature & Fiction

Zhang, Andy

Genre Fiction

Aberdeen Bay

It's all about the power of a dream. Driven by his Olympian goal of achieving world class recognition, Ike Cherny blocks out the world. Except for an occasional pretty woman or two, he tries to turn a blind eye to the evil swirling around him. Ike is a full-fledged horse-profiler whose innate talent to "read a horse" has never been proven. In spite of the lack of a track record, in spite of the absence of a mentor to turn to for advice, Ike believes in his ability to pluck a wild filly from the back woods of Maine and bring Aristooke Annie along so she has the polish to become the next World Champion. Someone is secretly dumping toxic waste. Has Ike's boss, Agosto Benalli cooked up a scheme to profit by burying toxic waste at Crowne Stable with Ike's girl friend, Eugenia Jordan, (CT's Commissioner of the Dept. of Environmental Protection) as Benalli's cohort? Someone is secretly killing Connecticut clergymen. Who is terrorizing Connecticut's clergymen? Is Eugenia is carrying out a sick vendetta because she believes her sister was raped and murdered at the hands of their minister? Or what about Harriet Stilton with an embedded hatred of clergymen for what one did to her son? Ike's Stable of Conniving Women Ike moves from the arms of cuddly Lisa Danzig after she is caught poisoning Ike's horses, to sexually abused Eugenia Jordan, but backs away from the relationship when she confesses to bribery. Ike discovers Eugenia's body, two month's pregnant floating in the river. Did Ike's boss order her death because of the hazardous waste scheme? Or was Eugenia overly distraught because he dumped her and decided to take her own life? Ike's attraction to Veronica Rouseau ends when he discovers she brokered the sale of Aristooke Annie. Set in New England's horse world, Fame & Deceit is is a tangle of sex, murder and blue blooded horses.

Fame & Deceit 2nd Edition

Patti Brooks

One hears over and again that we are living in modern times. Since the day the first man walked the earth through this day, man has always lived in modern times. From the dawn of the ages when Eve was deceived by the serpent and ate the forbidden fruit to be like God, through today when men and women are eager to strike a deal with the devil to gain power and wealth, human nature has not changed. The setting for Southern Kingdom is the nineteenth century; however, its theme is as ageless as the rising and setting of the sun. Ambition, anger, bravery, cowardice, greed, hate, love, lust, selfishness, and the struggle to survive are timeless. This novel chronicles the life - and the lives of the people his life affects - of a man who allows those forces to blacken his heart and empty his soul. Adam Blythington relocates to America with the ambition of buying cheap land in the defeated south and living the life of a country squire. In only a few years, with the aid of a corrupt land speculator, he finds himself the owner of two vast plantations. When he acquires his first plantation, Hannah LeBlanc, the beautiful and sensuous housekeeper, offers herself as his mistress. Although he marries the beautiful daughter of a wealthy landowner for convention's sake, and has an affair with his brother-in-law's wife, Hannah remains steadfastly loyal to him. Together they forge the future of his empire, Southern Kingdom. They ruthlessly battle anyone, even resorting to murder, who threatens their dream of wealth and power. Although he amasses land, riches, and power, the gratification he desired remains elusive.

Southern Kingdom

Don Stanford

Balkan Caesar is the compelling, previously untold story of a small band of American soldiers of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) who fought the Nazis behind enemy lines in World War II Albania. The story is based on fact. At the outbreak of the war, the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, scours the United States for young men willing to return secretly to the countries of their European ancestors to help resistance fighters sabotage the Nazi war machine.  In Boston they find a group of first generation Americans of Albanian descent who volunteer to join the OSS and help liberate Albania from the Nazi Occupation. The story centers around one of the men, Tom Stevens, a rugged, idealistic young Boston high school football star who is fluent in Albanian. Stevens tends bar at the Arch Street Tavern, a newspaperman's hangout, while he attends college at night.  Stevens recruits fellow Bostonians - some of Albanian descent, others not - to join the OSS with him. One unlikely volunteer is handsome actor Sterling Hayden, who worked as a seaman on the Boston waterfront before he was discovered by Hollywood.  Their assignment: gather intelligence useful to the OSS for its wartime - and post-war - needs, and to bond with Enver Hoxha, the handsome, charismatic, ruthless, Paris-educated Albanian Communist Partisan leader. This they do.  Together, Stevens, Hayden, and their men make the dangerous nighttime crossing of Adriatic Sea from Allied-occupied Italy to join Hoxha's Partisans and help them fight the Nazis in the rugged mountains and seaside caves of southern Albania.   Once on Albanian soil, Stevens learns that the Nazis are only part of the problem:  Albania is in the midst of a complicated civil war in which the Communists are fighting with Albanian nationalists and royalists to determine who will control postwar Albania.  Albanian alliances are murky and shifting: sometimes it is difficult to divine who is on whose side, and whom to trust.  Hoxha and his lover, Tueta?  Mehmet Shehu, Hoxha's brilliant military chief and potential rival?  Lulu, the beautiful Albanian-American woman with whom Stevens falls in love? On top of all this, Stevens and his men find themselves thrust by their OSS masters into an even greater struggle that is emerging out of the rubble and chaos of the war and is soon to become known as the Cold War.  Stevens is trained to follow orders, even lethal ones. But is he equipped to carry out an assignment that requires him to betray the trust of his new Albanian friends? The outcome of this extraordinary saga is to influence Albanian and Balkan history, and the lives of its protagonists, for decades to come.

Balkan Caesar

Peter Lucas

At 18 years of age, Clint Pearson was a rock climber and local track star, and despite his long hair and carefree dress, he was maniacally driven. Even after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), he continued to climb mountains and take risks, unmindful of the dangers. He shunned commitment and saw women as trophies, that is, until he met Ursula. A South African of East Indian descent, Ursula had grown up under the shroud of apartheid and had nurtured a healthy supply of caution in the process. At first she sought to maintain her distance from the brash and disheveled American, but after Clint and Ursula found themselves in a car, at night, inside a redwood forest, nuptials were soon to follow. Their differences were extreme but so too were their feelings for each other, and as Clint plodded through medical school, becoming emotionally entangled in the poignant dramas of his patients, the marriage remained strong. Then during residency training, financial pressures intensified, leisure time vanished, and Clint's MS progressed despite several medicines. On one occasion, MS medication even precipitated a high fever, and Clint's body had to be packed in ice. The marriage ultimately survived both Clint's declining health and his residency, but the MS continued to progress, making Clint's mountain-climbing ambitions increasingly unrealistic. Yet he remained an adventurer, a climber at heart. Would he push ahead only to stumble and fall or could Ursula and his patients somehow teach him to climb mountains of a different kind?

Falling

Sports & Outdoors

Ursula Pearson

Clint Pearson

Hiking & Camping

Standing in Two Places is a moving memoir that tells the story of a journey through the controversial practice of surrogacy. Ashley Dyson is the intended mother who, after enthusiastically entering a surrogacy arrangement with Norah, suddenly finds herself stuck in a sort of motherhood purgatory: she is a mother of a three-year-old daughter and an unpregnant mother-to-be of a baby growing inside the womb of another woman four states away; she and Norah have formed a close friendship, but they are also business partners, the 'business' being carrying Ashley's baby; there is the traditional role of 'mother' and there is this new, ambiguous role of 'intended mother,' which for Ashley feels more like the father's role, the man who goes about his business for nine months then-Voila! a baby appears in his arms. Ashley finds herself in the middle of what she calls "an actual transition in human evolution," where she's in the passenger seat of a car, driven by a friend who also happens to be five months pregnant with her baby. This is motherhood with a twist, and it is complicated. With honesty, humor, and heartbreaking insight Ashley shares her experience of navigating through this new landscape with no guidebook, no map. "My generation and our children are the subjects of this reproductive revolution, how we live through it must be figured out on a trial and error basis," Ashley writes. And like motherhood, which demands responsibility and love, Ashley is determined to figure it out, thereby shedding light and possibility on an uncharted place. In the end, Standing in Two Places is a memoir about love. If not for love, what other reason is there to willingly throw oneself headlong into the unknown?

Standing in Two Places: A New Landscape of Motherhood

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ashley Dyson

Women's Health

Old Memories and Me is an autobiography by legendary songwriter Charlie Craig that takes you from his humble beginnings on a small cotton mill village in South Carolina to the streets of music row in Nashville, Tennessee where his life and music career come in daily contact with some of the biggest names in the history of country music. In this nothing held back story of failures, success, tears, laughter, romance, heartbreak and sometimes humorous candor, Charlie Craig takes you on a personal journey with him that leads down pathways he walked with such stars as Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, Aaron Tippin, Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith and many others. Charlie's life and career are filled with stories you have never heard or read before. You will learn what it was like writing songs with Alan Jackson and watching him go from a mailroom clerk in 1987 to the mega star he is today. Charlie talks about writing for Dolly Parton's publishing company and spending memorable moments with her and Porter Wagoner. This well known songwriter's personal life and career is written in great detail as Charlie shares his experiences with the world, both the highlights and the low points, the awards won and the dreams lost. This book isn't just about a songwriter and his music; it is about love and life as well. From beginning to end you feel as though you are sitting in your living room or den listening to this man tell you stories you could listen to all day long. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, but every line will make you feel you are there. From a Carolina cotton field to a little cemetery in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, you can't help but become a part of Old Memories and Me....

Old Memories and Me

Charlie Craig

Danny Byrne is a toddler when he immigrates to America with his single-parent father soon after the conclusion of World War II. He grows up in Alexandria, Virginia where he develops a surprising interest in the sport of boxing. You will follow Danny's career from its humble beginning until Danny attains his goal of super-stardom. Along the way you will meet Daniel: Danny's country philosopher father, Mary Worth: Danny's friend and mentor, Kathy Wiley: Danny's true love and Sol Rosenberg: Danny's bitter, belligerent, profane manager/trainer. Danny seems blessed by life. He seems to have everything: fame, wealth, wonderful friends and a lovely family. He is America's 'golden boy' until fate tragically strikes his life a mortal blow and tests his faith and his sanity to their limits.

You Will Never Dance Alone

Ross Murphy

In the small Oklahoma community of Flint, Dr. Bill Spence pursues a ruthless serial killer. The murderer is determined to make these crimes appear as though the Cheyenne are responsible. Diamond Oil Company refinery workers have gone out on strike and the tension is mounting. The evidence at the crime scene is a graphic replication of Native American battlefield mutilations. Bill Spence's area of expertise leads him to uncover the killer's intended scenario replicating the Greasy Grass battlefield. Bill receives assistance from his good friend and Cheyenne insider, Ben Freeman, as he navigates each terrifying crime collecting clues to help the local police solve these grizzly murders. Ben is implicated even though he appears to be above such a crime spree, because he keeps showing up at the scene at the wrong time. The Cheyenne decide it is time to step outside the law and perform the Sun Dance to purify their people. Bill relies on his friend Kristine to keep him focused on the terrible discoveries he makes as the killer seems to be focusing on Bill and intending to clue him in on the next move. Bill Spence starts to put the elements of the crimes together when he runs into an old high school sweetheart who has mysteriously moved back to Flint to date a man that suddenly becomes a person of interest in Bill's mind. Bill swings by Kristine's place to see her and discovers that she is missing. The police chase that ensues takes them to Tommy Nash and the Diamond Oil museum housed in the old family mansion. Can Bill make it to the serial killer before he ends Kristine's life or will she be his latest victim?

Flint

Bob Maninger

Los Angeles County is burning! A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fire. Plunge into the infernos, and face the heat, smoke and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Arson Unit struggles to find the fire setter and stop the devastation. Follow Fire Captain Jim Kendall as he tries to find NiteHeat before the City of Malibu burns down.

Red Flag Warning

Kurt Kamm

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