Thomas Edison didn’t invent baseball any more than Abner Doubleday did. But his interest in the game might hold the key to unlocking a surprising secret. The Deadball Era was a time when pitchers threw hundreds of innings, home runs were rare, and the game was played spikes up, a time marked by the consolidation
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Unresolved psychological trauma is the cause of much suffering and pain—from anxiety and depression to addictions and PTSD. “Psychedelics, Dreams, and Rituals: A Guidebook for Explorers, Therapists, and Facilitators”, is a practical, step-by-step book on using psychedelics, dreams, and rituals to help you heal the root cause of trauma. This book will show you how to
Fate plays the long game. In our world of instant gratification, there seems to be little time for mysteries or wonder. We question our beliefs and close our minds to that which appears mystical. But the sands in the hourglass are still falling. Fate has not yet revealed its hand. TRVL’s own Brian J. Cano
Armed-encounters expert and police trainer Brian McKenna shares his expertise in a series of gripping stories involving real-life police shootouts. Step into the shoes of police officers who have run toward the sound of gunfire, who have faced attacks by deadly assailants, and who have lived to share the tale. But this book is more
A heartless psychopath with size-16 shoes, nursing home hookers, and an irreverent Las Vegas homicide detective with a gambling habit set the tone for this offbeat tale of revenge and retribution. Blackjack addict Frank Savic is deeply in debt and facing family problems when he’s asked to delay his retirement to catch a vigilante killer
Alexa Williams is a successful lawyer, volunteers weekly at a women’s clinic, and has a sexy weekend boyfriend – not to mention an endearing best friend in her giant English mastiff, Scout. But one autumn day, when Scout takes off into the Pennsylvania woods, Alexa discovers a nightmare she’d never imagined. From that fateful day,
Do dead people write to Genevieve? When a teenaged cancer patient relapses, she starts journaling to cope. But she’s not the only one. Musicians, scientists, athletes, politicians, activists – even a saint – give her courage based on their life and death experiences. Full of whimsy and hope: Magic Diary is a one-of-a-kind 21st century
A cold-blooded murder. The victim: a 14-year-old boy. The shooter waits patiently for the cops and calmly explains his right to kill the boy. “I was defending my property.†Can Deputy Andi Pelton find the evidence to break through the killer’s stand-your-ground defense? Suddenly, Sheriff Ben Stewart almost dies and cannot campaign for re-election. Andi
Beacon Audiobooks has just released “Warrior Princess,†written by author Erin Ondersma, narrated by Liz Terry and illustrated by Rebecca Symonds. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Warrior Princess and experience the compelling world of Jaelyn, a girl born with spina bifida. “Warrior Princess†is told in first person by 4-year-old Jaelyn.
If you believe in God, heaven, guardian angels, spirit guides, spiritual visitations, the afterlife, the spiritual world, the out of body phenomena, positive energy, destiny, the paranormal, psychic phenomena, UFO’s, ESP, telepathy then we believe that you will find Heaven Sent to be a revealing true story as it vividly describes all of the psychic
Sylvia Sumner is meeting her lover Jim Hart. From an alleyway, she dashes across the road and hurries down a pathway crossing a field. Tucker Stewart, who has loved Sylvia since one, brief encounter in the woods back in high school, sees her from his office window and follows her. He fails to acknowledge that
Blake Thompson is the top reporter for a major television network. When up to one-fourth of the world’s population suddenly disappears, it appears an alien invasion has finally taken place. As the world deals with the devastating loss, Blake sets out to discover and report the truth and also help prepare humanity for possible future
When Helen Chapman, the beautiful 16-year-old daughter of army chief-of-staff for the European Command in Germany, had gone missing, her father Brigadier General Earl Chapman assumed she sped off on yet another one of her adventures with her boyfriend. However, hours later the body of Helen Chapman’s boyfriend was discovered by German police on the
If genetic engineering could guarantee you and your family perfect health and unparalleled beauty, would you pay top dollar for it? Would you kill for it? Residents of the Colony would. And do. Only the Insurgents can stop them. Seventeen-year-old Asher Solomon is a premier operative with the Insurgents. He and his team have rescued
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Teddy Greenwald and Ray Starck have known one another since the Truman Administration. They, along with two other boys, formed the core of a group of kids who did everything together. As teenagers, they discovered that restaurants gave free coffee refills even if you didn’t order anything else, leading to a lifetime’s worth of bottomless
Let’s pretend that I was killed on that day, when I wasn’t. The day when my guardian angel managed to throw my F-86F half a second from becoming a fireball in the desert, up into a clear sky, way above what would have been the impact point. If she hadn’t done this, if she hadn’t
Upon hitting the ripe old age of 49, in the midst of perimenopause, Laurie Condon started reflecting on where she had been and where she was going. Laurie was trying to grasp what was happening to her body and how quickly time was flying. Laurie Condon was hangry and moody, which did not help. After
Approved by the CIA Publication Review Board. PenCraft Award Winner 2018 – Thriller When a stolen CIA file is released to the public, America learns that their President is not the man he claims to be. Three years after being chased from office, the former president discovers the identity of the man who released his
A Hero’s Heart is compelling, but difficult listening, narrating a life of abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, serious illness, and loss. But it also offers a course in survival, even from the severest of tragedies.” (IndieReader) A Hero’s Heart is a true story of victory, captivatingly told for the first time, from the survivor herself.
IndieReader Best Books – June 2018 and featured in the New York Review of Books. Aspiring engineer Hank Galloway wants two things in life: to snag a coveted position working for NASA and to get an accurate diagnosis of his mental illness. Hank doesn’t realize how serious his disorder is until he’s hospitalized following a
El Buscador has long been legendary for revealing, to select visitors, New York’s secrets. Now he confronts his greatest challenge: The real estate mogul Timothy Terrance Tolland has been erecting skyscrapers at an alarming rate. Tolland’s mysterious construction at Canal Street threatens to tear the city’s fabric. Aided by a group of investigative reporters, El
A top-notch American researcher, stumbling on a hidden agenda, survives a deadly plunge off the New England coast while keeping one step ahead of a government contract killer. Not far behind is a feisty female CIA operative hell bent on cutting him off from passing classified US material to a foreign power. With dying no
When Steven Dobrowski and his family move into their new home, strange things happen. At first, the hauntings perpetuated by the angry spirit are innocuous, but soon turn malicious and dangerous. Keishaâ€â€Steven’s wifeâ€â€insists the family move for the sake of the family’s safety, but Steven’s obsession with the spirit overshadows his judgement, and he refuses
A top-notch American researcher, stumbling on a hidden agenda, survives a deadly plunge off the New England coast while keeping one step ahead of a government contract killer. Not far behind is a feisty female CIA operative hell bent on cutting him off from passing classified US material to a foreign power. With dying no
Russian meddling: These are two words that just about everyone has come to know very well in the last few years. Only a fool – or someone with an agenda of a sinister kind – would deny that such meddling occurred. But how many know that, for decades, the Russians secretly used the UFO phenomenon
Part American Gangster, part Real Housewives of New Jersey, Hair Club Burning takes the most dangerous creature on Earth – a woman scorned – and throws her into an improbable comradery with two young highly active gangbangers, all in search of the same thing. Justice. Just how far will the housewife go to find the gangsta within? And how