About the Author Elliott Light grew up outside Washington, D.C. in McLean, Virginia before the beltway encircled the capital city, before farms were turned into housing developments, and before open fields became mega-malls. He claims Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, as a cousin; John Marshall, Chief… Continue reading The Gene Police
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Shocked by the Bible 2
About the Author Joe Kovacs is a Bible-believing Christian, unaffiliated with any church or denomination, and author of the #1 best-seller, Shocked by the Bible: The Most Astonishing Facts You’ve Never Been Told, which is the prequel to this book, and The Divine Secret, which also hit #1 on Amazon.com. He’s an award-winning journalist and… Continue reading Shocked by the Bible 2
The Half-Life of Everything
About the Author The short fiction of Deborah Carol Gang has been published in Literarymama Bluestem Journal and The Driftless Review. Her poetry has appeared in J Journal/CUNY, New Verse News, The Michigan Poet, Literarymama, Arsenic Lobster, and The Liberal Media Made Me Do It. Her research as a clinical psychologist has been published in… Continue reading The Half-Life of Everything
Bountiful Calling
About the Author Fred Burton grew up in Queens, New York. He wrote fiction in his early 20s and returned to it again after his children reached their teen years. His first novel, The Old Songs, takes place in Queens during the 1950s and early 1960s. Although he grew up after the years covered in… Continue reading Bountiful Calling
The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania
The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania Steve Wiegand The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania tells the story of the Maryhill Museum in Klickitat, Washington and the wildly different individuals―Samuel Hill, Louie Fuller, Alma Spreckels, and Queen Marie of Romania―whose lives and dreams came together to create it against difficult… Continue reading The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania
Outpedaling “the Big C”
About the Author Elizabeth McGowan was born in Philadelphia in1961. She spent most of her childhood there, running around with her four sisters and tip-toeing past her often angry father, Ron McGowan, who was a gifted teacher. At such a young age, she could never have imagined where she would be years later―living with the… Continue reading Outpedaling “the Big C”
The Five People You’ll Meet in Prison
About the Author Brandon M. Stickney is a biographer, documentarian, and journalist. A native of Lockport, New York, with a B.A. from the University at Buffalo, he has appeared in Time, the Associated Press, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, on A&E, the History Channel, NPR, and every major news network. He is the author… Continue reading The Five People You’ll Meet in Prison
The Captain’s Boy
About the Author Don Callaway has been writing for as long as he can remember. The world of books was a very important part of his childhood and he continues to be a bookaholic to this day. He wrote while attaining both his undergraduate and master’s degree from LSU and was a founding member of… Continue reading The Captain’s Boy
Mademoiselle de Malepeire
About the Translator Books have always been part of the life of Barbara Basbanes Richter, who’s both a bibliophile and a Francophile, and there was no way she could have grown up without an appreciation for the power of the printed word. After receiving both a BA and an MA in French Literature (Smith… Continue reading Mademoiselle de Malepeire