A fast-moving adult biography based on the life of a professional military sniper and Thai White drug addict. A young man who because of a debilitating drug habit that he adopted while serving in the Special Task Forces, brought tumultuous disadvantages into his life. With his gradual slide into the oblivion of the Twilight World he succumbed to his lust for power and financial gain, by turning his renowned reputation as a fearless professional killer,...

A revised and expanded edition of the popular Pacific Northwest foraging cookbook from Deerholme Farm on Vancouver Island. The Deerholme Foraging Cookbook is an exploration of the wild foods found in the Pacific Northwest. Award-winning chef and author Bill Jones's recipes feature local mushrooms, edible plants, sea vegetables, and shellfish. The product of over twenty years of research and professional cooking with foraged foods, the book serves...

The incredible, inspiring, and heartbreaking story of a phenomenal long-distance runner's race against insurmountable odds and his own demons. The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as "The Ghost Runner," John Tarrant, the extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid 17 pounds in...

THE BODY ON THE BEACH a fast moving adult drama set in a war ravaged Latino country on the Pacific coastline. Two childhood friends and later professional mercenaries have become 'blood money' bank robbers, resulting in one of them being court marshalled for rape and murder a crime he did not commit. Bizarre circumstances spare him from 'death by firing squad' and he is forced to walk 300 km through uninhabited torturous mountains to find his freedom....

Bert Coombes settled in south Wales in 1909, where he worked as a miner for more than forty years. He was motivated to write after witnessing the death of two work mates underground, and he determined to tell his truth about the lives of miners and their families. His first book “These Poor Hands” was acclaimed by critics such as J. B. Priestley and Cyril Connolly and is considered to be among the most authentically vivid accounts ever written...

Called today's most daring choreographer by Newsweek, dancer/artist Bill T. Jones is transforming the world of art as we know it. He says, "I believe an act of creation is a spiritual activity." Here he discusses what led him into dance, the formation of his world-renowned dance company, dealing with the loss of his partner (in dance as well as in life) and how he transformed his grief, confusion and alienation into expressions of beauty and joy.

Introduces basic concepts of dance through poetic text and photographs.

"It's modern day in the New South city of Charlotte, North Carolina, when three retirees at the Independence Retirement Community, a/k/a the Indie, team up to investigate two mysteries related to the death of a 96-year-old resident. Why was his manuscript about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence missing when they found his body? And why did his handwritten will dated the day he died disinherit his beloved granddaughter (his only heir), and...

In book 2 of the Christmas Courtroom Trilogy, attorney Thad Raker, having lost his wife, is struggling to believe again while raising a young daughter on his own. His life begins to change when he meets and takes the case of Twirly Masters, an eccentric client living in a house with a Christmas secret. When the government seeks to take Twirly's property, Raker must battle conspiring adversaries, a cantankerous judge and his own personal doubts. If...