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|  | | An April Trail in Kentucky
We moved to Kentucky from metropolitan New Jersey. Culture Shock! This book details the story of how we came to love rural life.
We had riding horses but there were no trails and the land was rugged and unforgiving. Long years of neglect had wreaked its confusion upon the wooded paths. So in April of my fifty-eighth year, my wife and I went up into the woodlands to fashion a jagged trail. We hope it would bind us again. But it became an April Trail that meandered, not only through the woods surrounding our land but through the woodlands of our lives. It was there we found each other. It is our Kentucky story.
Ride along with me and meet a man who lived his ending days | |  | | Deep is the Dark
This is a psychic thriller based on two real people who never met. Basis of the book -- what if they did meet?
As a child Simon Trent discoverd that he possessed a unique power of medical diagnosis. Although Simon is shunned by family and friends, his family doctor recognizes Simon's paranormal ability as a force for good and recruits Simon to aid his patients. Then on a trip to a Caribbean island, a chance encournter leads Simon into the mysteries of voodoo which escalates his paranormal influence to an unbelievable level. But Simon is fixated on his love of Sudi and his hopes for a normal life. When Simon is enlisted to help a young demented girl of mysterious circumstances | |  | | Heart of an Animal
A collection of eleven short stories about real animals, especially the author's cat, Boots.
Here is a summary of some of the stories in Heart of an Animal.
Git is a young dog abandoned by her former owners and searching for the puppies they drowned. Leaving the man who rescued her, Git treks into the woods, battles raging flood waters and is captured by her former owners who see the potential to profit by trading the dog. (The Return of Git)
Boots is a trilogy of stories about a rescued cat and his supposed cat-hating owner. It's a rivalry that will provoke both mirth and irony when they trade insults. Laugh along when Boots talks his | |  | | Mafia Diary
Continuing saga of my grandfather who was a Mafia Don in Newark, New Jersey.
As I sat across from Gaetano Badalamenti, staring into soulless eyes, he hardly looked like an international drug dealer who had murdered much of his competition. On the contrary, he was placid, soft-spoken, dressed in a sedate grey suit with a dark blue tie. It was an odd feeling to be sitting across from the man who could have me murdered with a single phone call. And yet, if you knew the Mafia Dons from my area, they were low-key men who were hardly noticeable. They drove old vehicles and lived in modest houses. They wore no flashy jewelry, and most of | |  | | Mafia Honor
The story of how and why my grandfather got into the Mafia and his rise to power in New Orleans.
He felt the river wind turn cold as it did at the first light of day. It was then he realized that he laid alongside the dirt road leading through audubon Park and very near the Mississippi so why should he not feel its breeze. And the autumnal wind made a shrieking sound as if someone was pushing a child upon a swing or a passing ship was sounding from its creaking boards. But the echo drew neither nearer nor furthet away and thus he knew it could not be a ship or even a child on a swing. No. It was there, just rasping to and fro like the solemn strokes | |  | | Memoirs of the Streets
Memoirs is a collection of short stories about real people who influenced the author's life.
Growing up in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, Russell A. Vassallo knew a diverse group of people. Streetwise: Mafia Memoirs recounts his memories of his family's Mafia connections. In Memoirs of the Streets Russ tells the stories of people who would be forgotten if not for his memories of them.
In Johnny Blood Russ returns to his old neighborhood. While there he sees visions from his past including Marie, his first love, who encourages him to face a troubling memory of abuse.
Ethel is a young girl living in an abusive foster home, tr | |  | | Streetwise: Mafia Memoirs
Russell grew up in a Mafia family in Newark, New Jersey. These are some of his memories.
An intricate tale of the streets, the memoirs of a kid reared on the edge of the feared Mafia, by award-winning author, Russell A. Vassallo. A startling departure from his animal-related stories, Streetwise is the ultimate memoir.
Before he was forty, the author had risked his own life to save a friend from hit men. His was a divided code of loyalty and silence to his family and friends who skirted the treacherous borders of gangsterism. Serious at times, hilarious at others, he paints the underworld with glowing strokes of his early life. A can't-pt-it-down book. | |  | | Tears and Tales: Stories of Animal and Human Rescue
This is a collection of eleven short stories about rescued animals and how they helped to 'rescue' the author. This book can be purchased as a print copy or an ebook.
Tears and Tales is a collection of eleven short stories about real animals that the author rescued. Here are some of the stories:
"Git" - On a summer evening, the mystery of missing cat food is solved when a ragges little dog begs a lonely man for food. This animal, abandoned on a country road, suffers endless hardship until she finds a home.
"The Talking Horse" - Will the author's Morgan horse, in a humorous dialogue, convince him that he should not be sold?
"The Cardinal" - Those who believe in reincarnation will revel when | |  | | The Horse with the Golden Mane
This book is a collection of three long stories, two of which are about horses that are on the author's farm today. The third story is a true story about a holocaust survivor the author knew.
The Horse with the Golden Mane is a collection of three long stories.
"Eric" - Sol Goodkin was freed from a Nazi death camp and came to America to escape violence. Mysteriously a Doberman pinscher appears in this rear yard, hungry and blood stained. Sol finds himself befriending the very breed of dog used by the Germans to hunt and attack Jewish prisoners.
"Taj" - The bond between man and animal comes to full fruition when Grant Larsen purses his horse, Taj, to prevent him from being destroyed. In the process he learns about the mi | |  | | The Other Side of Heaven: An After-Death Experience
I reached the outskirts of Heaven as I lay dying from a widow-maker heart attack.
i would have asked God to strike me sooner if only I had known the profit of dying from a widow-maker heart attack. The doctors gave me little chance of survival and yet a gift from God kept me alive. But I was to learn much, much more: patience; love; forgiveness; insight.
i saw the outline of Heaven not far off in the distance. No light in the tunnel. No Angels singing or playing harps. Just an exquisite aura of harmony and peace.
My death and resurrection awoke in me all the knowledge I had denied myself over the years. I saw myse |
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Killer With A Heart
by James Hill
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 A raw in your face story of teenage love, lust, murder, and revenge set in the Bronx in the early seventies, where the cold business world of organize crime melds with the brutality of street gang warlords that ignites a winner takes all battle for u |
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