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|  | | 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.
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Young Japanese girl forced into prostitution during U.S. military occupation, her initiation into the sordid life, and the consequences.
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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.
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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 |
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Operation Oboe
by Miller Caldwell
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 A delightfully rare Historical Novel. 85% a biography of a spy, musician, mother and her neice trapped behind German lines in World War I. This background led to a diplomatic post in World War II. Aged 92, Vera disclosed her past life one year before |
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