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|  | | A TIME OF BLOOD AND DYING
A TIME OF BLOOD AND DYING is a collection of all new dark fantasy and horror stories by author Paul Lonardo.
span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A TIME OF BLOOD AND DYING is a collection of all new dark fantasy and horror stories by author Paul Lonardo./span> | |  | | Boy in a Box
This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I was five years-old, my father abandoned my mother and three sisters, beginning a whole new life when he started another family. I never saw him again. This presented me with many challenges growing up, but even this heartache was overshadowed by debilitating injuries I sustained as an 18 year-old call firefighter. On January 13, 1980, while performing a training exercise at a vacant mill, my left hand passed through an induction field of a live 35,000 volt transmission line. Approximately 14,000 volts of electricity surged through my body as I ascended a fire department aerial ladder. While I was fortunate that the current did not instantly kill me, or fall to my death, the injuries to both my hands and right leg were catastrophic, altering the path of my life and shaping me in many ways. At times the pain and severity of my injuries were too much to bear and made me pray to God to take me. With the love and support of many people, however, I found an inner strength that exists in all of us, and I made it out of the hospital after a harrowing five month journey. - John Cagno
| |  | | Caught in the Act
"We walked in on a surreal scene. There are few words, if any, to accurately describe the abject horror..."
What Jeannie and Kevin McDonough saw was a wanted, multi-state serial killer about to take his next victim - their own daughter. What happened next was a thrilling true-crime story of a fight for justice and the harrowing struggle with the unexpected nightmare of survivor guilt.
July 29, 2007, is a day that will live forever in the minds of the McDonough family, for it was on this night that a serial killer stealthily entered their home and would have murdered 15-year-old Shea if not for the swift action and amazing bravery of her parents, Kevin and Jeannie. | |  | | Enchanted Desire
Enchanted Desire, published by The Wild Rose Press, tells the story of a beautiful young college student, Shanna, who is looking for a fresh start and a way out of a bad relationship. She meets and falls in love with Kenny, a sexy 6 foot 8 Native American university professor, who himself is embarking upon a spiritual journey and must leave for a while. Kenny gives Shanna the incentive to rely upon her inner strength to leave her neglectful boyfriend, which she does. He also gives her a special gift that allows them to be together even while they are apart. Their spirits and their sexual desire for one another are satisfied with the help of a little imagination…and a magical object.
| |  | | From the Ashes
On February 20, 2003, pyrotechnics at a rock club in West Warwick, RI set off a devastating fire that roared through the crowded club, killing 100 people and injuring hundreds more. Gina Russo was one of the survivors, and she retells her harrowing experience candidly in this chilling but inspiring memoir.
On the night of Feb. 20, 2003, Gina Russo made a last-minute decision to see Great White at The Station, a nightclub in the aging mill town of West Warwick, Rhode Island. At 11:07 p.m., shortly after the ’80s hard-rock band hit the stage, her life would change forever. Inside the 4,500-square-foot, ingle-story, wood-frame club on sleepy Cowesett Avenue, a fire caused by pyrotechnics broke out. It would take 100 lives and severely injure 200 people in what was the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in United States history.
| |  | | Homegrown: The Making of the 1972-73 Providence College Friars
"HOMEGROWN: The Making of the 1972-73 Providence College Friars" is a retrospective of that remarkable season as well as a history of the school's basketball program, which was responsible for drawing the local talent that propelled that team to success that it enjoys to this day.
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">. Incredibly, the 50-year anniversary of the 1972-73 Providence College Friars basketball team will be observed soon, and this book is a tribute to Coach Dave Gavitt, the players, and all their fans.o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">PC has a long history of great basketball teams and beloved players, but there has been anything like the talent and allure of Coach Dave Gavitt’s 1972-73 Friars.o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">The collective skill of the thirteen young players who made u | |  | | I, Father
Is Assisted Reproduction Technology pushing modern biological science to the legal and ethical limit?
This case examines the story of one man caught in the middle of custody battle that became a landmark surrogacy case involving one child and five adults, including a divorced couple, a paid surrogate, an anonymous sperm donor and an anonymous egg donor.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The controversial topic of Assisted Reproduction Technology is an example of modern biological science being pushed to the ethical limit. This book is being written from the point of view of the father (at least in the eyes of the court) who contested his obligation to pay child support and disavowed the child that had been legally recognized as his daughter./span>br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />
| |  | | Life, With Cancer
Through interviews with Lauren's doctors, along with those of other physicians, researchers, and clinicians who specialize in lung cancer, readers will have a better understanding of the disease.
With the same passion and honesty Lauren exhibited throughout her career as a journalist, "Life, with Cancer" chronicles her story and the legacy of her writing that continues to live on to enlighten and inspire.
em>Newsday/em> columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning social journalist Lauren Terrazzano championed the causes of abused children, the elderly, and the homeless, truly becoming a voice for the voiceless through her writing by taking global issues and personalizing them to dramatize how they affected individual families and people. Not infrequently, her stories would force change in people's thinking and in governmental policies. Lauren infused every journalistic story she crafted with passion. That included her own story: at the age of thirty-six, Lauren--a non-smoker--was diagnosed | |  | | Monstrosity
MONSTROSITY n. 1. That which deviates greatly from the norm in appearance or structure. 2. The quality or character of being abnormal; hideous; frightful; shocking.
div id="postBodyPS">This novel is set on the campus of an old New England university. It’s Fall and getting dreary. Jack McRae, the story’s protagonist, is a local but an outcast in this college town because he felt obligated to drop out of high school and work to support his family after his father left home. While he had been deprived of realizing his dream of becoming a journalist, his sacrifice enabled both his siblings to attend local Bister University. His girlfriend, Katie, is enrolled there as well. However, their relationship, already strained by her recent diagnos | |  | | Neapolitan Nights
Like neapolitan ice cream - three flavors blended together
| |  | | One Lucky Guy
(Richard M. Feldman) Ever since I was a young boy, the only thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. I wanted to own and work on a real ranch, with cattle and horses. Especially horses.
While I never became a cowboy, considering everything I have done in my life, and the many incredible and wonderful experiences I have had, I can say with complete sincerity that I have lived a charmed life. From getting a job on Wall Street with Lehman Brothers despite having absolutely no knowledge of the stock market, to riding in the Queen’s day coach through the streets of London, to attending the Academy Awards and meeting my idol and the greatest entertainer the world has ever known - Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra - I am one lucky guy.
| |  | | Reunion of Souls
Jodi and Nick’s chance for romance was never realized while they were in high school. Now, five years later, they meet again. Will a class reunion be their first—and last—chance at love?
Reunion of Souls is a sweet, contemporary romance about risking it all for love in Reunion of Souls.
| |  | | Soul Awakening
After losing her boyfriend in a accident, Alecia believe she's been seeing him. But that can't possibly be? When Brayden reveals himself, or his soul, he asks her of a favor. But when that favor leads to her revealing feelings for her dead boyfriends best friend, she can't help but think there's more to what Brayden asks of her
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Something otherworldly is happening in a small Texas town./span>br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />
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span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As a small Texas town mourns the tragic death of its high school footb | |  | | Strike IX
This book tells the story of the 1999 Providence College Friars baseball team, the last season that the sport was played at the institution. Baseball was set to be eliminated after that season in order for the school to comply with Title IX regulations. Strike IX reflects on the ordeal that the athletes went through on and off the field, and how they came together as a team, setting aside their emotions and going out and achieving the best season in the 80-year history of the school’s baseball program. This is a sports story, but it is also an inspirational story about team work and achieving something when everyone else writes you off.
In October 1998, as fall practice was getting underway for the Providence College baseball team, the players and coaches learned that their sport was going to be eliminated after the 1999 season in order to comply with Title IX provisions, a federal law enacted to ensure that schools did not discriminate against female athletes. Knowing that this was going to be the last year that baseball would be played at PC, the team decided to put their emotions and anger aside and make it a season to remember. The Friars went out and had what was arguably the best season in the 80-year history o | |  | | TED BUNDY - THE ANGEL OF DECAY
Serial killer Ted Bundy's murders recounted from the perspective of thirty years after his execution in a Florida prison.
Brutal, compelling, with new updated facts about the case, his victims and the compulsions that drove Ted Bundy to mass murder.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It has been thirty years since Ted Bundy, arguably this country’s most notorious serial killer, was put to death in the electric chair by the state of Florida in 1989, but there continues to exist in our society a morbid interest in him and the ghastly way he murdered and disposed of the women he abducted in the 1970s.Many people want to know how a person could do the things that Ted Bundy did. It’s truly frightening to think that there are fellow human beings w | |  | | The Apostate
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of his mother is a picture of her when she somehow communicates with him when he is troubled; her advice is always accurate. When he reaches Caldera, New Mexico, she no longer transmits to him.
Caldera is a strange and frightening city that has an alarming growth rate. Julian, an environmentalist for Project Earth, has scientific proof that alarms him.
At the same time, psychiatrist Saney finds evidence that frightens her as she sees many people suffering from bad dreams and psychoses.
These two individuals, along with Chris, connect with one another to find the cause of the problems at Caldera and attempt to stop them if they can even if they are supernatural in nature.
An invasive evil is spreading through Caldera, a burgeoning desert metropolis that has been heralded as the gateway of the new millennium. However, as the malevolent shadow spreads across the land, the prospects for the 21st century begin to look bleak.Then three seemingly ordinary people are brought together: Julian, an environmentalist, is sent to Caldera to investigate bizarre ecological occurrences. Saney, a relocated psychiatrist, is trying to understand why the city's inhabitants are experiencing an unusually high frequency of mental disorders. Finally, Chris, a runaway teenage | |  | | The Dog Man of Denny-Blaine
Sandi Diaz has a problem with his wife taking in a stray dog. The animal disrupts his life and when he seeks the help of a low-level underworld figure, he invites even more trouble than he bargained for. And when he learns the truth about a disturbing myth involving a race of dog-men seeking to continue their bloodline with a human female, his family will never be the same again.
span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 0.3in;">Sandoval Diaz is a successful lawyer living in the Seattle suburbs with his wife, Doreen. The middle-aged couple have given up hope of having a family after many years of fruitless attempts to get pregnant. Trouble begins when Doreen lets a stray dog into the house. Sandi is uncomfortable from the start, as the animal acts aggressively toward him. Wanting to rid himself of the four-legged houseguest, while not dirtying his own hands, he seeks the help of an old schoolmate who he knows is involved in the crimin | |  | | The Goblin Pitcher
The outcome of a battle between good and evil goblins comes down to one game and one special boy.
b style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The one thing eleven-year-old Jake Lupo loves more than anything else is baseball. However, despite his father being a professional pitcher, Jake’s fear of failing has kept him from competing against children his own age. When his father, who has recovered from a serious arm injury, is invited to pitch for an independent team, Jake and his parents move to Pine Barrows, a forested mountain outpost. Jake is excited about his father’s chance at a comeback, but he soon learns that he is not the only on | |  | | The Legend Of Lake Incunabula - And Other Fantastic Tales
This short story collection features 11 tales of the bizarre and unusual.
span style="text-align: justify;">THE LEGEND OF LAKE INCUNABULA – And Other Fantastic Stories is a short story collection featuring 11 dark fantasy tales, available in paperback and ebook./span>
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The selections featured in this anthology are diverse, with stories encompassing several subgenres, ranging from urban fantasy to children’s stories, Lovecraftian to body horror, and even a ghostly romance. “Blood Sport,”span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"> a story about baseball and superstition taken to a ter | |  | | The Luckiest Girl in the World
Jamie was a healthy, active 12-year old who loved to skate and played hockey as well as any boy. Then one afternoon during a game, she suffered a stroke that changed her world. Her memoir takes the reader through her ordeal and her journey out of the dark tunnel she found herself in. With a foreword by former New England Patriot, Tedi Bruschi.
| |  | | The New Debtors' Prison
While Debtors prisons no longer exist, many people continue to be persecuted for crimes related to poverty or inability to repay money owed to municipalities. This practice remains in an injustice that needs to be rectified.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Debtors’ prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons such as failing to pay a fine. This alarming trend not only affects the poor, who are hit particularly hard, but also ensnares the millions of self-identified middle-class people who are struggling to make ends mee | |  | | Thrill Killers - MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE
In June, 2000, two college students — Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson — were approached by a group of men. Forced into the backseat and driven to a remote location, they were murdered in cold blood.
Following this brutal double homicide, Johnston, RI Detective Raymond Pingitore and the families of both victims embarked on a crusade to ensure that all five murder defendants were brought to justice.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The true story of the night innocence and evil crossed paths. On a summer night in 2000, Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson were set upon by five predatory youths outside a Providence, Rhode Island, club. It began as a twisted joyride for the young kidnappers. It ended in cold-blooded murder-and a town's relentless fight for justice./span>
| |  | | WEIRD RHODY
WEIRD RHODY is a short story collection featuring five strange tales all set in Rhode Island and written by five Rhode Island authors. The anthology is a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, the Ocean State's famed author of pulp horror.
My own contribution to the anthology, THE WINNING STREAK, tells the story of an aging former player who cannot let go of the game and the glory days of his youth. It's a cautionary tale about the superstitious nature of the game taken to the extreme
a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GP7LTL5?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420">Weird Rhody: Five Tales From The Ocean State That Aren't Quite Right - Kindle edition by Borkowski, Rob, Lonardo, Paul, Kafalas, Dennis, Miller, G.A., Sherman, Bob, Carlos, Mary . Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks . Amazon.com./a>
| |  | | When the Last Bell Rang
How do you attempt to rebuild your life when you suddenly lose your husband and the father of your three young daughters?
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In an instant, without warning, without reason, the life my children and I knew was ripped from us and we were left alone. My children were without their father, and I did not have my husband. My incredibly whole and happy family was gone. I didn’t know who I was anymore. I went from being someone who was happily married, just beginning the middle of a life with three young daughters, to a single mother and a widow. I was becoming an empty shell of the person I used t |
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