When she was 17, there wasn’t a man alive she would let get near her, and when she was 18, there wasn’t a man she would keep away. She stood five feet seven inches tall, weighed one hundred twenty pounds, her green eyes sparkled like brilliant cut emeralds, her inviting full lips always ruby red and moist.  Women universally hated her, men continued to hold doors for her long after she passed by - just to watch her walk away. To imply that Jessie exuded sex would be an understatement, akin to inferring that water was wet.  Ninety-nine point nine percent of the men in Steam Corners wanted her, but she only wanted one man, Spencer Deacon. He was everything that she was not, even-tempered, amicable, well respected and kind. The one thing that Spencer didn’t want was Jessie, and his firm and undeniable rejections infuriated her. What followed was a series of sordid events involving murder, deceit, betrayal and the conviction of an innocent man.

Summer Heat

Literature & Fiction

Fields, Scott

Contemporary

Outer Banks Publishing Group

NOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER GET A FIRST-HAND STORY OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE UNDER A REPRESSIVE, DICTATOR A true story about the power of love and what one man did to save his girlfriend and her mother from certain death in the hands of one of the most brutal dictatorships of modern times.IT'S 1971. As a former anti-war activist against the war in Vietnam, Doug Roberts now a draftee in the U.S. Army is assigned to the classified message center in Tehran, Iran, where he uncovers evidence that the regime is corrupt and propped up by one of the most brutal secret police forces in modern times

The Man Who Fooled SAVAK

Roberts, Douglas

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE It was the worst two-week killing spree in Ohio’s history. On the night of July 21, 1948, Robert Daniels and John West entered John and Nolena Niebel’s house with loaded guns. They forced the family including the Niebel’s 21-year-old daughter, Phyllis, into their car and drove them to a cornfield just off Fleming Falls Road in Mansfield. The two men instructed the Niebels to remove all of their clothing, and then Robert Daniels shot each of them in the head. The brutal murders caught national attention in the media, but the killing spree didn’t stop there. Three more innocent people would lose their lives at the hands of Daniels and West in the coming week. Scott Fields tirelessly researched the killings, the capture and trial of Daniels and even interviewed a surviving member of the Niebel family to weave this tragic story into a must-read novel bringing the reader back to those dark days in the summer of 1948. What led to these brutal killings, and why was the Niebel family singled-out to be savagely murdered? It has been more than sixty years since the tragedy, and, yet, this question still remains unanswered. The killing spree is not only remembered to this day, but is an important and dark part of Mansfield lore.

The Mansfield Killings: A Novel Based on True Events

Fiction. WHO BY FIRE breaks new literary ground: A complex tale of love, betrayal, and the search for self. A male narrator tells the story he does not actually know but discovers through memory, through piecing the puzzles of his marriage, through his wife's goodness and her betrayal. He confronts paradox with music, science and a conflagration he witness in his native Iowa. Underlying his search is the quest for heroism and for his own father. WHO BY FIRE has earned its places among books that matter. "The beauty of the prose, the nuances of the characters, the ever-building plot—everything is in place for a novel that will touch you in all the right ways."—Lee Martin "Mary L. Tabor's WHO BY FIRE is a lovely, innovative, deeply engaging novel about how it is that human beings make their way through the mysteries of existence."—Robert Olen Butler

Who by Fire

Tabor, Mary L.

“It’s neither a Republican nor a Democratic party view point, it’s an old-time medical practitioner telling it the way it was and the way it is.” – Gunther Hirsch, MD, MPH Gunther Hirsch, MD, has followed the delivery of the health system for fifty-seven years and more so since the Obama Bill on health care was passed by the US Congress and became the law of the country. Already, insurance companies are balking - increasing premiums, reducing coverage and just plain bailing out. The medical community invents the wheel; it goes by different labels: “Functional Medicine”, “Urban Medicine” and “Boutique Medicine”. The imagination is boundless. Medicine has become a supermarket commodity. Target advertises, “We specialize in booboos, owies and whoopsies - routine health care for life’s little uh-ohs.” Wal-Mart gives flu shots and expands and advertises at the store entrances that they will bill the insurers. As this book will tell the reader, general practice was the correct term for all of this and they weren’t called booboos, whoopsies and owies. Looks like going to medical school for seven years and then internship and residency is a waste of time. It’s so simple; after all, one just suffers from OWIES. SICK! is a refreshing dose of the right medicine for an ailing medical system.

Sick!: "Patients First!"

Biographies & Memoirs

Hirsch, M.D., MPH, Gunther

Professionals & Academics

A prominent widow is found dead at the foot of the cellar stairs in the family home on a farm in the lush Bluegrass section of Kentucky. Her head has been bashed in by an old flatiron found near the body and her mouth stuffed full of ashes. The county is shocked – horrified at the brutality of the murder and mystified at the use of the ashes. Theo Clark, a young Marine veteran of the Korean War, working part time at the local newspaper while finishing up his interrupted college career, is assigned to cover the story because no experienced reporters are around when the tip comes in. A band of wandering Gypsies are suspected, as is another young Marine veteran of Korea with drug and alcohol problems. Even the victim’s married daughter, her only child, is a suspect. Theo has never covered a murder but if he can unravel this mystery it can be his ticket to the start of an exceptional career. On the surface a mystery tale, Theo &amp; The Mouthful of Ashes is also an exploration of the social and political dynamics at play in an important small town in the mid-1950s and of the draw home-place has on individuals. It is the prequel to Theo’s Story and carries Theo from his return from the war to the beginning of his career.

THEO & The Mouthful of Ashes

Business & Money

Rhody, Ron

Management & Leadership

When Mary L. Tabor’s husband of 21 years announced, “I need to live alone,” she cratered and turned to the only comfort she had left: her writing. What resulted was (Re)MAKING LOVE: a sex after sixty story, a fresh, witty, funny and brutally honest memoir of everything she felt and did during her long journey back to happiness. This deeply personal account of her saga takes the reader from Washington, DC to Missouri to Australia through the good, the bad and the foolish from Internet dating to outlandish flirting and eventually to Paris where an unexpected visitor changed the author’s life forever. Her story offers hope and joy told with passion and brilliance that is highly refreshing with the single and most prominent message—it is never too late to find love—and oneself even after age sixty and beyond.

(Re)MAKING LOVE: a sex after sixty story

Community & Culture

Social Media for Business is an insider’s guide to online marketing for the small business owner, manager or entrepreneur who wants to build the right multidimensional Web presence. Guaranteed to boost your social networking IQ, this book invests in your future with tips for sustainable tactics and savvy communications that are proven to deliver the real social media ROI - higher levels of customer engagement. Co-authors Martin Brossman and Anora McGaha speak from experience in educating small businesses and solo-professionals in the everyday strategies that drive social media results. In all, more than twenty experts contribute their perspectives on Web marketing and social media management. Social Media for Business: • Explains the competitive advantage for small and micro-business owners • Clarifies how businesses attract, engage and retain new customers • Demystifies social media strategy, implementation and content creation • Helps you define and evaluate your social media management program • Alerts you to the risks of not monitoring the online conversation • Discusses the value of fully integrating social media into your business • Guides you through the exciting cultural changes and paradigm shifts

Social Media for Business: The Small Business Guide to Online Marketing

Brossman, Martin

McGaha, Anora

Industries

Not Another Business Book!

The true story of a cutting-edge medical device company told in a parable that reveals a simple truth - many early phase businesses are no more than one innovative deal away from solid ground.

William Meloche

Harlan Steelman owned most of the town of Bear Creek and found his way in and out of every backroom, barroom, and bedroom. When his rival from high school, John Watson, returns to Bear Creek with his wife and son to start anew, Harlan vows to ruin John's life and take Kara, his wife, away from him.When Harlan is found murdered, John Watson is the likely suspect and is taken into custody. What happens next is the trial of the century for the little town of Bear Creek, but it takes a horrible twist at the end.

A Killing in a Small Town

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