The 11-day prison riot in Lucasville, OH, from April 11-April 21, 1993, was the longest and third deadliest prison riot in American history. Nine inmates and one prison guard were killed during the standoff. Nearly $40 million worth of damage was done to the prison. As told to Gary Williams, Siege in Lucasville is the gripping story of Larry Dotson, a prison guard held hostage during the riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville. With a meticulous day-by-day account of the standoff, Siege offers a first-hand account of the torture and terror that Dotson experienced in the midst of rival prison gangs struggling to negotiate with authorities and co-exist with each other. Dotson's beatings resulted in two weeks of hospitalization, months of physical therapy, and years of emotional healing. Like several of his fellow hostages, Dotson has continued to bear the effects of Lucasville, as he has endured 17 post-riot trials, two strokes, and a layoff. Siege also features a special section with post-riot investigation reports and a critical analysis, conducted by Williams, of the administrative failure of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. While legislative changes were implemented in the aftermath of the Lucasville riot, the Ohio prison system has sunk back to pre-Lucasville conditions. On December 6, 2005, at the same Lucasville prison, correction officer Marda Abrams was beaten with her own side-handled baton so severely that she has not returned to work. This incident capped off a year where assaults against prison staff increased 162% at Lucasville. To all those who advocate budget cutbacks, staff reductions, and a moderation of security for the Ohio prison system, Siege is a haunting reminder that those legislators and administrators who are accountable are never required to pay the real consequences for their decisions.

Siege in Lucasville

Biographies & Memoirs

Gary Williams

Reference & Collections

Rooftop Publishing

Prisoners of Technology: Time to Get Unplugged! Book Description Is the only thing keeping you warm at night the heat generated from your laptop? Do you commonly forget your anniversary or loved one’s birthday because a server went down? Did you receive this book as a gift from concerned colleagues? Lisa Whaley wants to you let in you on a not-so-well-kept secret: You are a PRISONER OF TECHNOLOGY! Whaley, a former IBM executive and ex-prisoner of technology, knows the all-too-familiar feeling of being trapped in the clutches of chords and cables.. During one sunny summer afternoon, Whaley found herself completely entangled in the grasp of a fury of devices designed to simplify her life. Listening to a teleconference on a cordless speakerphone, she cranked out emails on a wireless Internet connection on her laptop while instant-messaging a friend and navigating a voice menu prompt on her cell phone in search of a live person, and she realized that she had a problem. “I couldn’t help but wonder if I was the stud muffin of multitasking or just the jack of stupidity.” Prisoners of Technology offers a humorous, yet sobering look at the challenges we face with having the means to abuse the privilege of technology. We are all familiar with the trials of achieving balance as employees, spouses, parents, and friends. Technology is meant to simplify, yet often complicates this process. With outrageous anecdotes and sound advice from a team of experts, Prisoners explains the psychology behind the constant need to be connected and offers eight simple strategies to unplug and put the correct balance back in your life and work.

Prisoners of Technology

Self-Help

Lisa

J. Whaley

Motivational

When you subtract the amount of hours you sleep, work, and commute, you probably don't have more than one or two hours a day to do what you would like to do and that's if you have the money to do it. Don Failla has been teaching his simple network marketing method which allows anyone to learn how to own his or her life by building a home-based business. It doesn't require selling, and the best part is, it won't take much of your time. The 45-Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life is a virtual training manual on network marketing, designed to teach you a step-by-step plan for building a profitable, sustainable network marketing business. Network marketing is a system for distributing goods and services through networks of independent distributors. This guide not only unlocks the secrets of successful network marketing, but it provides the method to sponsor people in your organization using Failla's "45-Second Presentation." With nearly four decades' worth of instructions and insights from Failla, The 45-Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life provides you with the essentials for building and maintaining your lucrative home business.

The 45 Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life: The World's Best-Selling Network Marketing Guide

Don Failla

Legacy of a Governor: The Life of Indiana's Frank O'Bannon

Legacy of a Governor: The Life of Indiana’s Frank O’Bannon Book Description Legacy of a Governor carries Frank O’Bannon’s story from a far corner of Indiana, in tiny Corydon, to the governor’s mansion in Indianapolis. Years before securing his own legacy, O’Bannon was challenged to fulfill his family legacy. O’Bannon’s grandfather, Lewis M. O’Bannon, an active Indiana Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1924. O’Bannon’s father, Robert P. O’Bannon, perpetuated the family legacy, serving in the Indiana State Senate from 1950 to 1970. Growing up in Corydon, O’Bannon developed qualities of the quintessential Hoosier— honest, hardworking, amicable. The skill of listening, of “taking everything in,” would serve him well in politics.When Robert O’Bannon retired from politics in 1970, Frank O’Bannon would not deny his heritage or his love for public service and won his father’s vacant seat in the Indiana Senate. In 1979, he rose to minority leader, a position he held through the rest of his tenure as a state senator. Legacy takes us inside the governor’s race of 1988, when O’Bannon put aside personal ambition to join 32-year-old Evan Bayh’s ticket as lieutenant governor, which cemented the first gubernatorial Democratic victory in 20 years. Fighting an uphill battle during the 1996 election, the 66-year-old O’Bannon overcame an early deficit in the polls and the perception of being too old by skillfully delivering political ads where he spoke one on one with voters, a “devastatingly good” performance that won him the state’s highest office. A fierce Democrat, but interested in progress, he skillfully guided a divided Indiana legislature to achieving a $2 billion surplus while cutting taxes, enacted several reforms in the state’s education system, and pushed through important security measures after 9/11. Legacy offers an analysis of the failure of O’Bannon to win legislation of the full-day kindergarten program and his administration’s handling of the massing 1999-2000 fish kill in the White River in central Indiana. Finally, Legacy provides an inside view of September 8, 2003, the day O’Bannon suffered a massive stroke, as stunned officials in Indianapolis made arrangements to transfer power to Lt. Governor Joe Kernan while mourning a friend. Through his years of leadership and ability to work with others, O’Bannon embodied the adage that nice guys do finish first.

Andrew E. Stoner

It's no secret that in this age of high-speed Internet and readily accessible information, the tools are available for anyone to start their own company. At least, not to a growing number of teens who are utilizing these tools every day. From computers and retail to sports and entertainment, these teens are making an impact in a myriad of occupations. With chapter-length profiles on 15 amazing teens who are leading a new generation of young entrepreneurs, Young Wealth reveals the secrets to their stunning success. Far from being motivated by money, these young business men and women possess common traits necessary to attain their entrepreneurial triumphs: an insatiable curiosity, intense passion, creativity, and the love of helping people. Coupled with hard work and a few lucky breaks, these teens have gained immense respect in the very adult world of business. Among this eclectic group featured are: -Ben Casnocha, a 17-year-old business wiz who started his San Francisco-based software company when he was 12; he regularly meets with venture capitalists and high-tech executives in between serving as captain of his high-school basketball team and editor of his school newspaper. -Rachael Piltch-Loeb, a 16-year-old jewelry maker who has raised thousands of dollars for cancer research by selling her handmade jewelry online. -Graham Bensinger, a 19-year-old Syracuse University student who is already a cottage industry in sports broadcasting; he hosts a weekly sports radio talk show, contributes to ESPN.com, and has conducted major interviews of sports legends Muhammad Ali, O.J. Simpson, Pete Rose, and Jim Brown. Offering a glimpse into 15 unique teen worlds, Young Wealth delves into the motives, methods, and uncommon maturity of these young entrepreneurs and illustrates the blueprint for those who want to follow in their lead.

Young Wealth: Trade Secrets from Teens Who Are Changing American Business

Jon Swartz

Teen & Young Adult

Leaders & Notable People

Lead or Be Led: A Guide for Intentional Living

Bill Munn

Police work is one of the most important developments of civilization. The detection and prevention of crime is not an exact science. It is an art. It is important that constant training and education continue. A policeman is only a citizen who has chosen to be the servant of the public, one having no more and no less rights than any other citizen. We maintain that the more intelligent he is, and the more he knows of police work, the less well he be an autocrat. He will realize his limitations, will know that a democracy is only as strong as its majority, and that in our country government is with and by the consent of the governed. He will realize that he must work along prescribed lines, that he cannot be used by any persons or organizations to coerce a citizen, or to settle personal grievances, or to enforce private ideas of morality, but should give the maximum of protection with the minimum interference with the lawful rights of a citizen. Autocrat - one who rules without restriction. - George Fletcher Chandler - 1922

The Troopers Are Coming II: New York State Troopers 1943-1985

History

Albert S. Kurek

Americas

The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a plethora of legendary Americans from the recent and distant past. For over a decade, Chuck D'Imperio traveled to research the beautiful and historic region in search of some of the most famous (and infamous) figures in American history. The product of this labor of love is Great Graves of Upstate New York: Final Resting Places of 70 True American Legends. Many of the names are familiar to any American William Rockefeller, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known as Mark Twain), Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, and Harriet Tubman, and four U.S. presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, and Chester Arthur. An equally colorful host of local characters who shaped the culture of Upstate New York are also featured, including: Kate Smith, "The God Bless America Girl"; mafia figure Joe "Joe the Barber" Barbara; Dr. Mary Walker, America's only female Congressional Medal of Honor winner; Jennie Grossinger, "The Catskill's Innkeeper"; and Ernie Davis, "The Pride of the Syracuse Orangemen." From Syracuse to West Point to Binghamton, and on to Cooperstown, Niagara Falls, and Lake Placid, Great Graves of Upstate New York is not only a fact-filled volume on the region's cemeteries, museums, and historical sites, but a peek into the lives of 70 distinguished individuals who have shaped American history.

Great Graves of Upstate New York: Final Resting Places of 70 True American Legends

Travel

Chuck

D'Imperio

United States

The American Civil Rights Movement is often defined and remembered by its leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X. And while contributions by these and other leaders can hardly be overstated, it was the courage of private citizens that proved to be the backbone of the civil rights movement. Worcy Crawford, Sr. is one of those citizens. In The Wheels of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, Crawford, now 89 years old, shares his amazing story and contributions to racial equality as Alabama's firstknown black bus owner. With a $50 down payment, Crawford purchased a single bus in 1951 to supplement his income, transporting an all-black traveling baseball team known as the Ensley All-Stars. Crawford soon built a small but important fleet of buses, which provided transportation for Birmingham's church groups and social clubs, as well as to black schools that white-owned bus companies would not serve. In 1959, Crawford started transporting students from Miles College to Montgomery for civil rights' demonstrations. For the next decade, Crawford's company bused thousands of protesters to marches throughout the country, including a special trip to Washington D.C. for King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. In 1975, 24 years after purchasing his first bus, the Alabama Public Service Commission officially recognized Crawford's bus company. (Until the 1970s, African Americans in Birmingham who owned their own bus companies had to legally register their buses under a church's name.) In 1999, Crawford was honored by the cities of Birmingham and Fairfield, AL for his civic contributions and received a letter of appreciation from President Bill Clinton. The Wheels of Birmingham is the story of one shining example of ordinary people contributing to an extraordinary movement.

The Wheels of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

Sr Crawford

Donald M.

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