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  Front Porch Tales - Warm Hearted...

  Philip Gulley

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  “Part Mark Twain, part Garrison Keillor, Philip Gulley is a breath of fresh air in an over-sophisticated and often jaded world.” —Gloria Gaither, singer and songwriter 
   
  Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life. 
   
  When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to twenty-four million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch. 
   
  “Perhaps more things were resolved on America’s front porches than in any other place, and yet so few are being used today. With this delightful collection of stories, told in a warm and easy style, Philip Gulley invites us to sit again on the front porch—a place of hearth, home, and folks we’ve known.” —Gary Smalley, bestselling author and family relationship expert 
   
  “The tales Philip Gulley unveils are tender and humorous . . . filled with sudden, unexpected, lump-in-the-throat poignancy.” —Paul Harvey, Jr., American radio broadcaster

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  Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn...

  Fred Lawrence Guiles

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  What you may have known about Marilyn Monroe before was only the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness. Instead, rumors ballooned.
  
  This book finally sets the record straight.
  
  Fred Lawrence Guiles―whom Norman Mailer acknowledges as the chief source of facts about Marilyn Monroe―has written about the life behind the legend. He reveals what really happened in the careening career of the pretty waif named Norma Jean Mortensen, who married the boy next door, became a model, an actress, and a movie star, married an incompatible legend named Joe DiMaggio, sought to improve the mind that came with her near-perfect body, married playwright Arthur Miller, lent herself to the Svengali-like ministrations of Paula and Lee Strasberg, became the mistress of John and then Robert Kennedy when they ran the country, and kept camera crews and studios waiting―but couldn’t keep death waiting, for it took her under the most unusual circumstances at the age of thirty-six. A legend, by definition, is unaltered by fact, but enthralled listeners will find the revelations in this book— coming to understand at last what happened to the Queen of Need—no deterrent to loving Marilyn Monroe.  A supplemental PDF that includes artistic depictions of nudity is included with this audiobook.

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  Quench the Lamp

  Alice Taylor

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  A classic memoir from Ireland's favourite storyteller. Here Taylor follows To School Through The Fields with these equally captivating recollections of family life in pastorial County Cork. Infused with wit and lyricism, the story centres on the 1950's when the author and her friends were teenagers. She describes the past vividly and without complaint as the years of hard labour for herself, parents and siblings, were also filled with fun in the close knit community.

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  365 to Dallas

  John C. Gold

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  The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy is still as relevant today as it was on November 22, 1963. Over the years, novices and experts have poured over evidence, witness testimonies, pictures and film of the covert cover-up and controversial killing of JFK. To date, nobody has been able to penetrate the elusive plot and classified plan that was established 365 days prior to November 22. 1963 Until now.The training, planning, and actions leading up to the most infamous crime of the twentieth century are as controversial as the assassination itself. 365 to Dallas is the never before heard confession of one of the ten team members that carried out the execution of President John F. Kennedy that fateful November day in Dallas, TX over half a century ago.Mark, only eighteen at the time, was one out of ten soldiers selected to be highly trained for this forbidden and deeply covert mission. Six shooters and four distractors under the umbrella of the United States Intelligence agencies were trained for one mission only: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Author John Gold has over a decade of military and civilian law enforcement investigative training. In 2000, John Gold was called to ministry. In the summer of 2013, John’s mentor Mark, while watching the 2007 Movie Shooter, broke down and, over the course of the next year, confessed to being one of a team of ten that assassinated President Kennedy. For five years, John Gold investigated Mark’s claims, trying to disprove the confession. John was unsuccessful.365 to Dallas is the true tale of Mark’s participation in the murder that occurred in Dallas, TX over half a century ago. You will discover the new proof, evidence and the never before told tale of the 365 days of training, planning, and execution leading up to that fateful November day.

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  Which Way Is Up? - Finding Heart...

  Susan Gillis Chapman

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  A heartfelt guide for meeting difficult times with mindfulness, compassion, and courage—from a psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner who learned from her own crisis.Using personal examples from her own recent bardo crisis—undergoing cancer treatment during the pandemic—and offering contemplative prompts for inner-reflection and a meditation practice in each chapter, psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Susan Chapman demystifies the three main types of fear people experience (frozen, awake, and core), and how to meet each with love. This heartfelt guide from someone who's been there and done the work will help us get through life's challenges and restore our equilibrium, while also inviting a valuable opportunity for personal growth.Which Way Is Up? draws from traditional Buddhist teachings on the bardo, a Tibetan word most often associated with the period between death and rebirth. Chapman likens the bardo to abrupt episodes in our lives when things seem to turn upside down and we can't find our footing. In such times of not-knowing, our fearful mind tends to panic trying to make sense out of our experience. Instead, Chapman meets the listener in their groundlessness to show how these turning points can force us to let go of our assumptions about the future and allow something new to be reborn.

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  Bottom of the 33rd - Hope and...

  Dan Barry

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  In “a worthy companion to . . . Boys of Summer,” a Pulitzer prize winning journalist “exploits the power of memory and nostalgia with literary grace” (New York Times). 
   
  From award-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. 
   
  On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. For eight hours, the night seemed to suspend a town and two teams between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys—the shivering fans; their wives at home; the umpires; the batboys approaching manhood; the ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; and the players themselves—two destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), the few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal forever to the game. 
   
  With Bottom of the 33rd, Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America’s pastime—and America’s past. 
   
  “Destined to take its place among the classics of baseball literature.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
   
  “Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax 

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