|
|
|  | | A Cabin on Great North Mountain
Forced out of tent camping by motorized campers and attendant noises, the Mercer family bought some land, built a remote cabin on it. This is their story.
The Mercer family built a cabin on a remote mountain top in the Shenandoah Mountain range. During the next 40 years, they lived part time close to the indigenous flora and fauna. They had encounters with a variety of animals, including black bears, mountain lions, foxes, timber rattlers, deer, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and many more, but their most interesting encounters were with the forest Gremlins, also known as Waldgeists that found many ways to cause mischief in around the remote cabin; way to far from Home Depot or Lowes to seek immediate assistance. This humorous recounting the Merc | |  | | Old Yellow Hand
The tyranical Baron Goran von Goranovich of Transylvaia so abused his vassals, they rebelled, assinated him. Then they cut off his hand bearing his signet ring to convince village people of their deed. Two centuries later the baron's withered and yellow hand is accidently freed from its urn of formaldahyde,where it has been captive for 200 years. It begins wreaking vengeance on human beings for its master's death. It even found its way to Virginia where it haunts Great North Mountain, terrorizes co-eds attending Briarwood College and finally returns to its origins leaving a tale of death and horror behind.
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-align: center; mso-outline-level: 1" align="center">span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">font face="Arial">span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>“Old Yellow Hand”o:p>/o:p>/font>/span>br />
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-align: center; mso-outline-level: 1" align="center">span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">font face="Arial">A Novel byo:p>/o:p>/font>/span>br />
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; | |  | | Skivvy Girl: The Love of a Post WWII Japanese Pleasure Girl
Young Japanese girl forced into prostitution during U.S. military occupation, her initiation into the sordid life, and the consequences.
div style="margin-left: 0.5in">span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">Earnest Mercer served in a branch of Naval Intelligence and was stationed in Japan when the military occupation ended in 1951. He studied the Japanese culture and language, and continues those interests today. He wrote a MBA thesis on Japan during his quest for an MBA. /span>/b>/div>
div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 0.5in" align="center">span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">–––––––––––––&n | |  | | The Misadventures of a Country Boy
This book is about the misadventures the author fell into and escaped from starting on a tenant farm in Alabma, growing up in Florida, serving an enlistment in the U. S. Navy, a 30-year career with IBM, consulting in Asia and Africa, teaching in graduate school and writing.
P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 13.5pt 0pt 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -1in; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-outline-level: 1" align=center>FONT size=2>FONT face="Century Schoolbook">SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /SPAN>U>SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /SPAN>Author’s Biography?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />o:p>/o:p>/U>/FONT>/FONT>BR>
P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 13.5pt 0pt 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -1in; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-ou | |  | | The Old Yellow House Anthology: 1935-1945
Anecdotes of a pre-teen boy growing up during the Great Depression and WWII. The reader will experience the nostalgia and humor of a distressing time in history.
div dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0.3in 0pt 0in; direction: rtl; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="right">span dir="ltr">The years leading up to World War II were difficult. The Great Depression enveloped the entire country driving men to desperate measures to provide for their families. When World War II began, many essentials for living, already scarce or unaffordable were rationed for the war effort. The author spent these years living in an old ramshackle house in the small Florida town of Auburndale. This book is a collect |
|
|
|
