A light-hearted look at the many cultural, social and linguistic contrasts between the author's native United Kingdom and his adoptive home, the United States. Using personal anecdotes, and even attempting to enlighten with some facts and figures along the way, the author finds humor in many of the everyday differences between these two sibling societies. Covering everything from house-building to a visit to the doctor, and commenting on subjects from America's gun culture to the UK's drink culture, the book touches on numerous aspects of life on either side of the pond

Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road

Humor & Entertainment

Michael Britton

Humor

Rio Norte Press

<p>A layman's guide to understanding the Universe! For a concise, down-to-earth summary of the infinite scheme of the universe and a possible explanation of the meaning of life, you may wish to consult your local preacher. But if you are somewhat skeptical of his answers, you may be interested in what Sackett has figured out. Please keep in mind that nobody has the ultimate answers. However, there are many clues that we can work with...</p>

Searching for Infinity

Science & Math

Dale Sackett

Physics

Imagine that Raymond Chandler wrote The Winds of War and you can begin to understand why House Of Ghosts is such different and compelling detective story. Detective Joe Henderson is the modern incarnation of Philip Marlowe--hard boiled, hard drinking, hard loving, delightfully cynical, offering wry observations of life in the age of Starbucks.  The tale begins in the sweltering summer of 2000 when Preston Swedge, an alcoholic recluse and World War II veteran, has died in Westfield, New Jersey. At his estate sale, retired local police detective Joe Henderson discovers a 1944 diary describing a rogue attempt by a Jewish-American pilot named Paul Rothstein to drop his bombs on Auschwitz's killing complex where nearly 300,000 captives were about to be murdered.  With the fortitude of a Maccabean zealot and the patriotism of an American freedom fighter Rothstein had set out to defy his commanders who had prohibited any attempt to save Jewish lives. Joe Henderson's curiosity launches him on a crusade for the truth and a shocking revelation when he tracks down the last living witness who can solve the mystery of why the raid never happened. Epic in its breadth, House Of Ghosts sweeps effortlessly from contemporary Westfield, New Jersey to the Princeton University of 1939, and on to the aerial battle above Italy and Poland in 1944. Along the way you'll meet up with notables such as Charles Lindbergh, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., General Fulgencio Batista, and Alina Gilbert, the exotic dancer who helps to make this the hottest summer on record.

House of Ghosts

Literature & Fiction

Lawrence Kaplan

Genre Fiction

An American Life: Autobiography of Robert Swain

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Swain

Memoirs

This is the untold story about the mini-war waged by the Allies in WWII, to prevent the Axis from acquiring platinum. Colombian platium, with its high-percentage of iridium was the most sought after metal in the German war effort.  Allied powers created the Bureau of Economic Warfare (BEW) to thwart the Axis. This book is not about any one man or one agency, but the combined efforts to interdict the flow of platinum from Colombia.

Declassified: The Colombian Platinum Intrigues of WWII

History

Tom Morris Allen

Military

Orpahaned when only six months old, Betty Jones, in her early twenties, is recruited by an English Lord to be his wife's personal secretary. Soon after arriving in England, she is accused of murdering the Lady. She finds ways to overcome her difficulties, gets the better of her tormenter, and finally discovers a set of grandparents and family in Arizona and California. She also finds love along the way

Betty Jones' Revenge

George, Simon

The raptures of a Christian minister and a pretty, young wife occur within a month of each other in a small southern Illinois town. The minister's congregation is stunned, and none more so than George Brinnon, whose wife Emily was one of the taken. Suspecting foul play, the sheriff investigates, while George, confident that his deity will reveal all, sets off on a quest to discover why he is not in heaven with his Emily. His quest leads him to a battle between good and evil that uncovers whatever revelation is available to us. The novel Sent Back is a comic/satiric treatment of Fundamentalist theology, especially the ideas of the rapture and the Antichrist. But the reader soon discovers that the whole complex of theological assumptions associated with Fundamentalism is under satiric scrutiny. In the last two chapters the theme broadens out to satirize theological thinking in all its guises. Paralleling the satiric plot is a contrasting one representing an alternative humanistic vision of how life can be lived fully in a physical universe we respect and work to sustain.

Sent Back

Jack Wilson

Jimmy Spencer, a floorman at a major Las Vegas casino, receives a phone call from an old friend about a sure-fire gambling system he's developed called Free Money After a quick visit and tutoring from his friend, Jimmy returns to Vegas and begins dabbling in the Free Money System. And he wins. Hundreds of dollars at first, then thousands, then tens of thousands. The potential for vast amounts of Free Moneyseems palpable. But nothing is ever free. As he wins more and more money, Jimmy feels himself being stalked by various underworld thugs and terrorists. His old friend ends up dead. Surrounded by FBI agents and ultimately pressured to go into the Witness Protection Program, Jimmy realizes that he has to find a way out of the system. And the chase is on...

Free Money

Barry Vass

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