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	80 Years on the Putting Greens $11.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 40 pages Author: Kenneth Torbett ISBN: 978-1-60179-031-6 Read and study this booklet and watch your handicap drop; a putting manual. Become a good putter and you can play against anyone. The purpose of this small booklet is to serve as a quick reminder of the important steps in good putting. It is not intended to be a thesis on putting or a history about talents of past great putters. It is to aid people who are having trouble with their putting, because something has gone off track. To this end, extensive research has been done with particular attention to the great golfers of yesterday and today and particularly to the outstanding putters of their time. To name a few, Billy Casper; Bobby Jones; Bobby Locke; and Sam Snead, not known as a great putter, but you don't win over 150 tournaments without being able to putt, and Sam probably did more experimenting putting than any other golfer. You too can become a good putter if you just practice and develop sound fundamentals. You may not be able to play the game like the pros, but you can become just as good a putter.

	As It Lies $15.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 290 pages Author: R. Wesley Clement ISBN: 978-1-880941-49-X Why is second-year PGA tour player Jack O'Shea in Orlando? The tour has moved well north by now. When Orlando detective and former college teammate Michael Grason sees Jack outside a restaurant window he means to find out why. His investigation turns into a magical ride and read. Using a lively cast of characters, "As It Lies" will have you celebrating small triumphs in your own family.

	Bed-Stuy: The Way it Was $20.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 276 pages Author: Al Yevoli ISBN: 978-1-60179-045-3 This is a documentary of an officer, someone unprepared and untrained to achieve his ambition of being a police officer in the New York City Police Department (NYPD). I am that officer, Alfonso (Al) Yevoli, an American of Italian descent, a Brooklyn born boy (East New York) who benefited from being raised in the City that was called the "Melting Pot". When I entered the Police Academy, I had great expectations! I thought that with the training I would receive, I would be ready to face the world. Not so, as shortly after reporting to the 79th Precinct and after being assigned to patrol, I found that there was little acceptance and a lot of mistrust. I would learn patrol by trial and error and a process I refer to as learning the ABCs.

	Companion Guide to The Only Planet of Choice $18.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 112 pages Authors: Lois Bader and The Bader Ladies ISBN: 978-1-60179-010-1 Have you ever wondered about the world? Where did we come from? When? Is history more than what is written in history books? Are we missing something? Are we missing many things? Are we missing everything? Who knows? What if you were able to turn to a book … a source that would give you answers to these questions? You can – if you read “The Only Planet of Choice”. You’ve heard about “choice.” That’s what makes you special. You have the gift to ‘choose.’ Have you ever chosen wrongly? Do you know why? Yet you would not want to give up that gift of free will. Would you? This is a challenge … a challenge to your beliefs, a challenge to your judgment, an opportunity to widen your horizon. But it will require a willingness to listen – maybe not accept – but to listen. It will be a challenge to everything you’ve learned, even a challenge to your gut reactions. Open the door – even a crack. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid of other ideas, other answers, to think what others have not thought. Where would our world be if Leonardo had only painted as others had painted before, if Einstein had never thought outside the box, if Plato had let others opinions restrict his own thinking, if John Muir had not opened his eyes to see what others did not, if Martin Luther King had accepted what society said he should. But Leonardo da Vinci had visions, Einstein knocked down the box, Plato threw off the chains of others beliefs, John Muir did open his eyes, Martin Luther King did dream. What are you thinking? Seeing? Envisioning? Dreaming? Time for you to proceed.

	Crayon Tails $13.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 44 pages Author: Joan Dupray McReynolds ISBN: 978-1-60179-029-3 The many "stars" of this book cannot know how happy we are to read about them. Family members and friends got facts in line to make the stories correct. Illustrations are drawn by great grandchild Evelyn Fynn Sheipe. Photographs are from family albums.

	*I am Grey Eyes, A Story of Old Florida* $20.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 282 pages Author: William Ryan ISBN: 978-1-60585-645-2 20 May 1767 Grey Eyes, a Seminole Indian, and some 25 Indian boys drive a herd of Spanish cattle from Colerain, Georgia to New Smyrna, a distance of about 106 miles. Thus begins the story of Old Kings Road and the dramatic series of events affecting the history of Florida, as viewed thru the eyes of Grey Eyes, a most unusual Indian. Historic events are intertwined into a readable story that is partly historic fiction, but mostly fact. The great cattle drive, the Minorcan settlers, a terrible Florida war, and a black slave uprising all mix into a little known part of Florida’s early history. The little known story of the Black Seminoles is told here along with the events that shaped Florida along Old Kings Road. Author and historian William Ryan is webmaster for the Flagler County Public Library’s Flagler Memories group, and is active in Flagler County Florida historical societies. He also wrote “The Search for Old Kings Road” from which much of this novel is taken. Grey Eyes will lead you thru a violent part of Florida History that brought many of the Florida Seminoles into Mexico. This is a little known part of Florida’s rich, and often violent past.

	*Ionosphere Blues* $19.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 208 pages Author: Robin McClary ISBN: 978-1-60179-021-7 A collection of short stories and poetry written about my twenty-three years as a pilot with Eastern Airlines. To understand airline life at that time, you must visualize two separate and completely different worlds. One world is the normal home life with a wife and two kiddies, the lawn to be mowed and PTA duty. The other world is one of long days in a cramped cockpit, sometimes with someone you detest, and short nights in some cheap motel where the only friends you have are bartenders and members of your own kind, stranded far from home.

	La Ciento Siete $15.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 122 pages Author: Luis Torrado ISBN: 978-1-60179-040-8 This is an East-of- West Side Story that was never told. It's about a time of goodness, of rendering assistance to neighbors and strangers alike, and of helping people in general without expecting or accepting anything in return. It's about random acts of kindness long before they were called that. It's about the innocence of immigrants to a new country, and what people now call, "the good old days." I'd always heard people talk about "the good old days". They'd say things like,"Those were the good old days. Things were so much better and easier than they are now." Me, I never thought there was any such thing as "the good old days." But now that I've lived as long as I have and have seen what I've seen, I realize I was wrong. For the young people of El Barrio in the 1950's, those were the Good Old Days.

	Latin Blues A Tale of Police Omerta $19.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 288 pages Authors: Joe Sanchez and Mo Dhania ISBN: 978-1-60179-000-7 “We don’t talk about it.” That’s what the veteran policeman from Brooklyn’s 92nd Precinct, a good and honest cop, told his rookie partner one day. We don’t get mixed up in it–not the graft, not the shakedowns, not the abuse, not the endless turf battles among higher-ups. We deal with these things however we can. But we don’t talk about it. One day, a good cop dies And, talk about it or not, his comrades know they have to do something about it. A tale of what went on behind the New York’s Blue Wall in the roaring 70’s... “Let the fks kill each other.” That was the credo of Captain Maximilian Leopold, of Brooklyn’s 92nd precinct. But even Joe Picon, the rookie cop, knew the fks didn’t always kill other fcks. When “the fks” began to converge–the Jimenez Gang, the Brass Knuckle Rapist, Skinhead Ramos, turf-hungry bureaucrats, bean-counting number crunchers, and the lust-crazed Captain himself–the victim who died wasn’t a fk at all. He was a good cop from another precinct, and he had been blind sided by another credo even good cops follow: “We don’t talk about it.”**

	Ludi: The Loggerhead Turtle $9.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 24 pages Author: Rick Cannizzaro ISBN: 978-1-60179-051-4 Join Ludi as she is born, swims the sea, meets friends, and grows up! The story of Ludi is beautifully illustrated by noted artist Rick Cannizzaro, and reminds us that God provides for our every need.

	Maintain Me I'm Yours! $21.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 272 pages Author: Gerry Aubrey ISBN: 978-0-578-07386-6 There are many people out there who are experts on homes. There are others who have a writing background and are capable of writing in a humorous, and yet informative style. It is extremely rare when a person combines those two talents. Gerry Aubrey is that person. He has been writing his whole life. In 1995 he began writing a column on home repairs that appeared in 16 newspapers. Those articles are the foundation for this book. Gerry is gifted with a great sense of humor. He performed stand-up comedy for two years. He combines these talents to create a unique writing style not found in home maintenance or repair books. You will be laughing and learning at the same time. The other nice thing is the articles are short. You don't have to wade through technical jargon to get the information you need.

	Musings From the Shallow End of The Bar $10.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 102 pages Author: Robin McClary ISBN: 978-1-60179-048-8 Poetry by Robin McClary

	On The Job $20.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 226 pages Author: Barry H. Horney ISBN: 978-1-880941-23-6 On The Job Author Barry H. Horney was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. He is a 1959 alumnus of James Monroe High School and also attended Bronx Community College and Pace University. After a hitch in the US Army, he became a New York City Transit Police Officer in 1967. He served 18 years on the force. In On The Job Barry shares his experiences as a New York City Transit Police Officer and suggests that after reading it "maybe life will seem a little less stressful to you." The book is dedicated to the brave Transit Police Officers who made the ultimate sacrifice.

	Osceola $20.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 266 pages Author: William Ryan ISBN: 978-1-60179-034-7 The White Flag and the Second Seminole War In 1837 the Seminole leader Osceola was captured by General Hernandez near Florida's Old Kings Road. The white flag of truce was flying over his camp, south of Moultrie Creek near St. Augustine Florida. Osceola's small group was taken to the great fort at St. Augustine and later sent to Charleston where he died. The white flag of truce was debated in Congress, the Court of England and European capitols throughout the world. This spot on Old Kings road was written of in the press and in a multitude of books. The location was not again visited by the Seminoles for many years. Here is the story as told by the great Seminole. Discover much that will be new in this historical fiction account strongly based on fact. This little known war lasted over seven years, brutal and costly to the new American army as they discovered a new type of conflict in a place they were not prepared to be.

	Ozark Boy: From Cotton Patch to London Clubs $20.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 266 pages Author: Dale Hendrix ISBN: 978-1-60179-046-0 How many people will have the knowledge to survive after an electromagnetic device is exploded above the United States, making useless everything that depends on electricity? In an instant the country will be set back one hundred fifty years. Ozark Boy is not intended as a survival guide but anyone reading it will have knowledge of the skills needed to grow and preserve food, butcher a hog, hunt squirrels and rabbits, split rails, make shingles, grow cotton, corn and black-eyed peas, catch fish and know which wild berries and fruits to eat. This story of a boy growing up during the great depression, on a one horse farm, deep in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas, in a log house with no utilities, is meant to be historical, entertaining and informative. The pictures, dating back to the Nineteen Twenties, provide a glimpse into a world most people living today cannot imagine. The story continues as he goes through school, spends twenty years in the Air Force, travels through Europe and North Africa, becomes involved in business in England and eventually comes back to Richland Valley.

	Paradise Lost $17.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 262 pages Author: Patrick Lennon ISBN: 978-1-880941-45-7 Fidel Castro's 26 July Movement responds to Batista's cruel dictatorship in Cuba with student protests and guerilla attacks against the Cuban army. Castro is in Key West, Florida raising money for his exile army training in Mexico. An assassin sent to Key West by Batista to kill Castro mistakenly murders a young man who resembles Castro. Ramón, the oldest brother of the murdered man, tracks the assassin to Cuba to avenge his brother's death. After seeing conditions in Cuba, Ramón decides to help overthrow Batista and he smuggles guns to Castro's army in Mexico and later in Cuba. When relations between the United States and Cuba sour after Castro's takeover, the CIA blackmails Ramón to run guns to anti-Castro forces. Ramón travels to Cuba for the CIA to see what support Castro has from the people. He learns that many Cubans support Castro and he advises the CIA that it is doubtful there would be support for an invasion of Cuba. After the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, Ramón's life returns to normal until the CIA once again recruits him to take agents into Cuba to document the installation of missiles. When he attempts to bring the agents back to Florida, the Cuban military nearly sink his boat. The information he brings back from Cuba is vital to the Kennedy Administration and their confrontation with the Soviet Union to remove the missiles.

	Tale Spinning $14.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 156 pages Author: Patrick Lennon ISBN: 978-1-880941-46-5 A collection of short stories by an author who has a unique way of looking at life and finding the right words to express a vivid image of the scene and unforgettable characters. 'Fat Albert' is an award-winning story about a fisherman who catches a ride he will never forget. 'The Great Train Robbery', also an award-winning story, looks at two hobos who admire Jesse James and plan to rob a train in Key West. 'A Fish Tail' is the story of a teenage boy battling a blue marlin during a fishing tournament. The collection includes fourteen stories.

	Tales of Florida Crackers – *History, Hunting, and Humor* $18.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 292 pages Author: Ann Taylor ISBN: 978-0-9800059-1-2 . . . According to Thomas, that is when they moved into Hell. “My poor old mother had to cook on an open fire out in the yard. When it rained, or the sun was too hot, I used to hold a bunch of palmetto fans over her head. We very nearly all died. I lost two sisters. There was no water; we dug a hole in the ground. We lived one Hell of a life.”. . . Thomas Wetherell Stan Taylor, Tom Wetherell, Lislie Tucker, Ed Dunn, Murray McDonald, Ollie and Olive Hull relate their stories on the ‘way it was’ in the Volusia, Flagler area. Some of the families arrived in the mid 1850’s, so they are able to impart a personal touch to the lifestyle many years ago

	The Breaking of a Cop $19.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 208 pages Author: Barry H. Horney ISBN: 978-1-60179-011-8 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther King The day the criminal justice system failed. This is a true story of a veteran New York City Transit Police Officer who was charged with Police Brutality even though he followed his department's guidelines for the "use of force." Follow him as he goes through the criminal justice system …get an insider's view of how the courts, the DA's, the jails and the politicians really work. "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest" Elie Wiesel

	The Nine: Briefing From Deep Space $27.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 336 pages Author: Stuart Holroyd ISBN: 978-1-880941-98-8 For those of you who have been awaiting the day that you could purchase the popular Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth - that day is here. It is finally available again, newly published as The Nine: Briefing From Deep Space. Finally you can own the story of the three people behind The Only Planet of Choice - brought to life by Stuart Holroyd, the skeptical, yet open-minded observer who wrote the book of their encounters. Preface: Dear Reader: This story began in the late sixties and continues to this day. It could have happened to any one of you. It is the story of three people coming together to follow some apparently cosmic guidance on faith, while they repeatedly asked themselves the question: "What if?" I am one of those people. I am a Deep Trance Medium who has no recall of what is received. I call myself a Transceiver. My partners in this experience were Andrija Puharich, M.D. from Ossining, New York, and Sir John Whitmore from England. Many of you have perhaps heard of Dr. Puharich. It was he who discovered the well-known Israeli psychic Uri Geller and brought him to the United States. Sir John Whitmore, after retiring from professional sports, and following a near death experience, then began his own quest for understanding life. The cosmic guides call themselves The Nine Principles of the Universe. I simply call them The Management or The Nine. They became our friends. It was a miracle that three strong willed people from such diverse backgrounds managed to let go of self and enormous egos to pull together as one - or at least made heroic efforts to do so! Because it was never published in the U.S., "Briefing" soon became a collector's item that was photocopied and passed around covertly. Meanwhile, Dr. Puharich arranged for Uri Geller to be tested in Government Labs around the U.S. and was somewhat vocal in his findings, which prompted negative reactions from certain quarters. It was a time of denial in the U.S. about all possible E.T. connections. The mood is different today. I feel now is the right time for this book to be republished, and made available in the United States. Our beloved Dr. Andrija Puharich passed on to explore other Universes in 1995. John and I continue to meet and he communicates with The Nine; at times others sit in. This work still goes on and hopefully will do so for a very long time. Sincerely Phyllis V. Schlemmer

	The Only Planet of Choice $36.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 352 pages Transceiver: Phyllis V. Schlemmer ISBN: 978-1-85860-023-5 Since its spectacular launch in 1993, The Only Planet of Choice has been widely acknowledged as one of the most significant books for our time. of the thousands who have already read it have spoken of the profound effect it has had upon them. This book represents the outcome of over 20 years of work with a distinguished international research group who have communicated with an enlightened circle of universal beings known at times as "The Council of Nine" and more often as "The Nine." The Source have stated that, while other planets do have choice, the consciousness is collective. Only on Earth can a being experience individual choice. I do hope that you find the ongoing dialogues as helpful in your journey through life as I have found them in mine. Phyllis V. Schlemmer

	The Pleasure Craft $17.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 170 pages Authors: Mac McCombs ISBN: 978-1-60179-027-9 As a Naval Boat Captain on day and night patrols up Viet Nam rivers, “Mac” McCombs undertakes two missions: combatting enemy forces while keeping his crew alive. Exposed to attack along every bank, around every bend of jungle rivers, Mac has to make hair-trigger decisions to survive, at times defying direct orders. As Mac tells it: “I look out for my men, and will not obey an order that puts my men in harm’s way if the order is dumb.”Mac tells, too, of lighter moments of mischievous camaraderie on deck and back in camp. In spite of bad food, little sleep, and conflicts with both Viet Cong and incompetent officers, he lives to return home a decorated Viet Nam veteran. Mac and Marion, his second, supportive wife of 35 years, live in Palm Coast, Florida. Recently Mac retired from nine years of service with Palm Coast’s Fire Police.

	*The Search for Old Kings Road* $20.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 212 pages Author: William Ryan ISBN: 978-1-615-18937-6 Old Kings Road was a remarkable highway built by British Engineers prior to the American Revolution. It once ran from Colerain Georgia south to Jacksonville (then called Cow Ford), to St. Augustine, thru what is now Flagler County Florida, and finally to New Smyrna on Florida's Atlantic Coast. This was the main route into Florida continuing up to the 20th century. Many older Florida residents still recall using this now vanished ancient route. Here were the battles, famous soldiers, refugees, a rich plantation economy, land hungry settlers and a history going back over 240 years. It has known one of our country's worst wars, one that lasted over seven years and deeply scarred the American memory. It carried a little known slave rebellion long before the much later battles of the Civil War. Florida's early history was linked to Old Kings Road. While it has been covered by construction, blocked or abandoned over these many years, Old Kings refuses to die or vanish. This is Bill Ryan's research about this little known piece of American History, once named as "An American Engineering Treasure." Author and historian Bill Ryan is webmaster of the Flagler Public Library's Flagler Memories group, and is active in the Flagler County Florida Historical Societies. This is the story of his search for Old Kings Road, the ancient highway that refused to vanish. Bill Ryan is also the author of "I am Grey Eyes" the story of a remarkable colonial era cattle drive down Old Kings Road, and Florida's early story as viewed by Grey Eyes, a most unusual Seminole Indian.

	This Old House $15.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 312 pages Author: R. Wesley Clement ISBN: 978-1-60179-053-8 This Old House is a celebration of life, laughter, family, and lasting memories; come along, re-kindle your own childhood adventures. Fill This Old House with seventeen good eggs, slightly scrambled. Bind the batch with the strength and wisdom of Mama. Stir in a body of cold water inhabited by large eels and who knows what else. Add a measure of humor and curiosity fueled by a family well read. Include a dash of secrets and watchfulness. Combine the batter with a dedicated teacher and a touch of military might. Bake the whole concoction on a slab of black slate. The end result served an entire community.

	It Came to Pass ~ Vista $19.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 146 pages Authors: Joan Dupray McReynolds ISBN: 978-1-60179-029-3 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? When asked that question I often say, “Listen to my accent. We had a cow. And a small herd of goats. I had a horse. We usually had two pigs, three dogs, numerous cats, bantams, often chickens and seasonal turkeys. For a short while we had Guineas and a flock of Persian sheep. All six miles from the ocean. Where am I from?” Nobody in the south or east thinks of such a life in southern California. But, that’s what’s true. I’m a southern California girl. What a bucolic world that was! It seems if you enjoy the first two chapters of this book you’ll want to read all of it. It was a special time, entwined around World War II, in a special place ~ Vista. True Blue - A Tale of the Enemy Within $19.95 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 366 pages Authors: Joe Sanchez and Mo Dhania ISBN: 978-1-60179-012-5 Joe has been trying to tell this story for some time. It’s his story, but not his alone. It’s also the story of those who lived and died alongside him, in Viet Nam and in that other battle, for justice and safety under the shield of the law, that is fought daily in the streets of every big city by every honest cop. In his case, the city was the Naked City and the cop was a Latino. And the battle was neither for the civilians alone, nor just against the bad guys in the street. Sometimes the bad guys were in the Department. And sometimes the people who needed protection were the honest cops.

	Word Soup $20.00 Available: Usually ships within 24 hours. Softcover: 208 pages Author: Willa Stewart ISBN: 978-1-60179-054-5 A collection of short stories, memoirs & poems.
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