This book is a series of stories and anecdotes about my father, Thomas (Tommy Ryan) Eboli and me, Xavier Eboli. I have crossed paths with many interesting characters throughout my life, most of them an extension of Dad's numerous relationships. I have met celebrities, crime bosses, and professional athletes. It was quite an interesting ride. There is no firsthand knowledge of violence or bloodshed that one may be accustomed to reading in other books about organized crime. This book is about a boss who kept his family and his Mafia family separate. He did not often take his work home with him. Although I may have overheard things over the years or picked up on subtle hints, he never discussed his daily routine. His children were naive as to who he was until we became adults and read about our dad in the newspaper. I think you'll find this book interesting, entertaining, and informative. Please enjoy our story.

Ryan Andrews's life was on the American road to success. A successful marriage to his college sweetheart and the thought of moving the family forward by having a child is on the horizon. When a night of fun and celebration turns into chaos, Ryan's life seems to take a major stall. His actions put a strain on the marriage, and when you include a sporadic haunting, that continues to get worse. His life is seemingly spiraling out of control.

As time progresses, it becomes apparent that the answers to Ryan's issues might be found within the hauntings. Or are the hauntings causing Ryan's problems?

This is The Ghost Beside Me.

Scott Fairlamb was and still is an American patriot. There was a time when he became a political prisoner, but that he no longer is. This is a story about his capture and imprisonment and how it affected him as a human being during and after his time away. His journey to returning home is a fascinating one, involving overcoming, hope, and survival. In the end, for Scott, taking this path was all for the better, and here you'll read how and why. Scott Fairlamb would often go on to say that he had entered the furnace and exited as someone new, reforged in the armor of God.

My Skin Is Me teaches an important lesson of acceptance of self and others while capturing the positive innocence of youth.

The line between bravery and stupidity is so thin often people don't realize they have crossed the line until it is too late, and they are dead.

Dan Lee, A master scuba diver, twice decorated with the distinguished medal of valor for those who have engaged in specific acts of bravery.

Takes you on a journey. Beyond the gates of life and death where you begin to realize why it is so important to live a good life. Full of adventure in the service of your people.

A treasure trove of knowledge awaits in every action filled chapter. Adventures have paid the ultimate price to bring you this map to avoid catastrophe on the journey to your own Hero's Treasure.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, NYPD Detective Danny Marco has it all. He is engaged to be married, has a loving family, and is well respected in his childhood neighborhood of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. His world takes an unexpected turn when he has a run-in with a known mobster, Nicky Ginetti, and soon things will get worse for them both.

Danny has a fascination with horror movies, and his favorite character is the werewolf. He soon starts to have nightmares in which he is the hunter, hunting his prey during a full moon. During a getaway weekend with his friends, he meets Lisa Jacobson, a beautiful and mysterious seductress who has her eyes fixed on Danny. One dark night during a full moon, Danny is attacked by an unknown animal. He returns to Brooklyn after his recovery, only to find out that the mob has crossed the line in his neighborhood and has now made it personal.

As he sets out to stop the men, he notices that he is different and cannot explain why. Then one night, all hell breaks loose when the moon is full, and Danny Marco transforms into something he never thought existed--a werewolf.

With his life turned into a nightmare, Danny Marco has a decision to make. Turn himself in to the authorities, or go after the mob?

This book is nonstop action and suspense. You will not want to put it down until the very end. It's Danny Marco versus the mob versus the werewolf. It's a howling in Brooklyn! Turn off the lights and lock your doors. Brooklyn is about to get on the wild side.

Kay loves to learn about the ocean. When she gets to take her first trip to the aquarium, she is jumping with joy to see a real shark. But when it's her turn to visit the touch tank, Kay gets splashed and becomes upset. With the help of her friend Ben, Kay looks for a solution to overcome her challenge.

The Healing Journey of Grief: A Roadmap to Hope is a poignant exploration of resilience and renewal in the face of unimaginable loss. Drawing from personal experience, the author invites readers on a transformative journey spanning almost a decade marked by the sudden passing of their beloved son at age twenty-eight. Through raw and heartfelt storytelling, the book navigates the tumultuous terrain of grief, offering solace, insight, and practical guidance for those grappling with their own losses. From the depths of despair to the glimmer of healing hope, this moving narrative illuminates the power of perseverance, community, and love to light the way forward on the path to healing.

What makes The Healing Journey of Grief: A Road Map To Hope especially valuable to its readers is its focus on hope. We all have, or will, encounter extreme loss in our lives, feeling unsure how we move forward. Bren does not shy away from the pain of loss, whilst continually pointing her readers toward the possibility of healing and renewal. Her message is one of gentle encouragement, that grief is a natural part of life, and whilst painful, it can also be a source of profound growth and transformation. This book is a guide for all of us encountering loss, and a great gift to share, lifting us up in our darkest hour.

--Phyllis Hanson Ansusinha

Author of GlowingUP and Your Daily Glow

Knowing Bren in our professional writing and fitness teaching world capacities for several decades, I can say that in a world that often pressures people to move on from their losses, this book is a gentle reminder that healing is a process, a journey with a welcome promise of finding hope along the way. We all search for that assurance that hope and light are possible even in the darkest moments. You will find that assurance as you read The Healing Journey Of Grief: A Roadmap to Hope.

--Lawrence Biscontini, MA, Award winning author, spa consultant, and wellness speaker

Anyone who has experienced LOSS in life, be it a child, a spouse, anyone, or perhaps suffers from the dread of expectations unmet it wasn't supposed to be this way will benefit from reading this book. Written with compassion and empathy, perhaps you will finally find a writer who mirrors much of what you feel and validates all of it. Grief is not just tears after an event. It has a PURPOSE, and is integral in the healing process. Grief and loss is the other side of love and attachment, but they all are part of the same coin, the unified whole of who we are.

Grief doesn't have a time table and it certainly can't be defined by other's expectations of us. We grieve when we grieve and we mend when we mend--on our timetable and on our terms. Written from the heart of a mom who lost her beloved only son, she will guide those who are new to the journey AND the rest of us who sometimes struggle finding the words of what to say (or even what NOT to say) and will help or things to do that are actually meaningful for someone else going thru grief.

There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.--Leonard Cohen

--Liz Gray

Chris Crowson's Aunt/Teacher Assistant Wake Co. Public Schools

They will bear much fruit in their old age; they stay fresh and green.

--Psalm 92:14

My testimony was originally intended for my immediate family, but as I started writing, I realized that the scriptures and prayer truths mentioned in my testimony would bless others.

Prayers for the unsaved have always been my greatest desire. I have always had a burden in my heart for the lost. The Lord put in my mind the picture that you see on the cover of Undeserved Favor. All the fruit on the tree looks beautiful, but the fruit on the tree is all different. Just like we are different from each other--we all have two eyes, two ears, one nose, and one mouth. We each have different shapes and skin colors, and this fruit is found all over the world. God created this fruit, and He has a purpose and a plan for each one.

You might look at your life and desperately desire to have a new direction. You want so much to start over with a clean slate and not have to carry around the burden of sin, shame, and the headache that this world brings to all of us.

Why not take a bite of the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control! (Galatians 5:22).

Ask Jesus today to open your eyes and heart to his voice, and you will never be hungry again!

32 Medicinal Plants of Montana: A Materia Medica contains pertinent information on the practical use of plants that grow in Montana and how to use them. Each plant listed gives the Latin name, common names the plant goes by, actions and constituents of the plant, medicinal uses, contraindications, folklore, history, and up-to-date peer-reviewed scientific studies, along with photos for identification purposes. Formatted for those interested in wild foraging, expanding their knowledge of medicinal uses, or for anyone who'd like to learn more about the use of herbs and their practical application.

This book highlights the careers of two investigators from different law enforcement agencies and their search for violent wanted suspects. It's about their friendship, brotherhood, and the oath they had taken to protect the citizens of the State of Maryland. Above all, these are true criminal investigations conducted by two investigators who were always there for one another through life and death situations.

You will be taken behind the scenes of hotel drug interdiction investigations and will experience the risk taken by undercover detectives. You will experience life and death situations during their pursuit of armed suspects and, above all, you will be taken on a journey in the life of two aggressive investigators. You will walk the streets of Baltimore, executing no-knock search warrants and entering row homes for armed suspects wanted for sawed-off shotgun robberies and witness their fight for survival while making the arrest. You will travel with them as they investigate and search for a violent rapist wanted for multiple kidnappings and sexual assaults, including that of an eight-year-old girl. You will follow them during their pursuit of an auto theft organization that was terrorizing the streets of Baltimore County and Baltimore City and accompany them during a two-and-a-half-year undercover narcotic investigation dealing with violent Puerto Rican and Jamaican drug traffickers.

This book will take you to neighborhoods throughout the state of Maryland as they track violent suspects with the US Marshal's Violent Crimes Task Force. Above all, you will travel from Baltimore County to the City and all the roads between in the streets they roamed in the pursuit of wanted suspects. These are true stories about real crimes and their hunt for suspects.

Ernest Hemingway once said, There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never care for anything else thereafter.

One thing is certain, crime cannot be solved by law enforcement alone. It's the citizens working with the police who can solve and deter crime. One thing we learned along the way, citizens are our eyes and ears. They see what is occurring in their communities. They hear and have knowledge of criminal activity. It was those citizens and informants that led to our success.

Both my grandfathers died before I was born. When I was a young man, my father couldn't have given me counsel. We had a difficult relationship, and he didn't know how. Consequently, I learned far too much the hard way. I fumbled, I hurt others, and I was often bewildered.

Over the decades, I've come to realize that while my particular situation was unique, a great many men, perhaps the majority, didn't have an older man who could have provided advice. This is my motive in writing this book. If a few men make a few less consequential mistakes than I did, my efforts will be rewarded.

Delia Delgado can't let go of what she views as a moral dilemma in this epistemic saga. Her job as a reporter conflates with the belief that gentrification by fire and arson has caused the deaths of sixty-seven residents during this period, most of whom were children. What she observed and reported narrates the true story. No one was arrested or convicted of these horrendous fatal fires and the hundreds of fires that also took place.

The trendy town we know has an unspoken history ready to be told in Befallen.

The Memoirs of Sam and Chasity is about young love set in Arkansas.

As time passes by, these two young lovers discover that they have more in common than what they thought. The way that they were raised, their interest, and their future plans were some of the things they had in common.

Sam and Chasity have different ways of attaining their career goals. Sam joins the US Navy and becomes a naval hospital corpsman. While Chasity went to college to become a registered nurse. They get married and have a baby together. Sounds like the perfect couple in an ideal world, but that is far from the truth.

Beware of the twists and turns throughout the story. Be prepared for the emotional charge that this story will ignite within you.

A man meets three people at low points in each of their lives. He gives each of them a gift, then returns fifty years later to see what they have done with their lives. To one, he gives a Bible; to another, a scholarship to a four-year college; and to the last, he provides a job as a bellhop in the most elegant hotel in Detroit.

This is the charming tale of a timid tomte's journey to find a new farm home in a big modern world. Finley and his traveling buddies, Cluck-Cluck and Marmalade, race early spring storms, as they travel only by night. The three finally happen upon a beautiful and unique farmstead, only to be discovered by a local boy. Finley must face his fear of people and learn to trust them as the two become friends and allies while they carry out a daring new mission with adorable results.

Bourbon is special. So special, in fact, that on May 4, 1964, the United States Congress issued a resolution naming bourbon as America's Native Spirit - the only beverage celebrated in such a fashion. Bourbon is so popular that some rare bottles of bourbon sell for tens of thousands of dollars - and single shots of some highly prized bourbons can be sipped by those willing to pay hundreds of dollars for the experience. Bourbon originated in frontier America and grew with America's expansion west. It survived a national effort to prohibit the sale of all alcohol-based beverages and thrives now as thousands of visitors tour Kentucky's many distilleries every day. Almost as special as sipping a good bourbon are the light-hearted and compelling stories this book provides about bourbon and many of the colorful characters in bourbon's past. The book describes what makes bourbon different from other alcohol-based beverages, explaining how (and why) bourbon spends years (sometimes decades) maturing in charred oak barrels before it is bottled, sold and sipped. The book starts with a section telling the story of the production of bourbon from the ground up - where and how bourbon is made, its remarkably few ingredients, the secrets of what takes place during bourbon's fermentation, distillation and aging processes as well as sharing what the label on a bourbon bottle can tell us about that particular bourbon's birthplace, contents, background and age. The second section of the book is a glossary of bourbon terms - set out alphabetically for ease of access and provided with humor and without technical jargon. Then comes the history section. It deals with how the early growth of the United States affected the early growth of bourbon and how bourbon contributed to America's expansion west, industrial growth, war efforts and bourbon's tremendous impact on the U.S. Treasury. Next are some recommended rules for bourbon buying, gifting, drinking and socializing. Finally, the book arrives at a top shelf discussion of ways to enjoy bourbon - with recipes.

Cheers! It is time to for a drink of bourbon - as we sit back, open the book and get to know bourbon.

Cindy, who has a crooked toe, gets lost in a forest after her family ventured out toward the lake to get some food. On her journey to find her way back home to her family, Cindy encounters various animals that also have physical limitations, just like her. Will Cindy find her way back home with the help of her new friends in time for dinner? This is an enjoyable book to give children an opportunity to learn lessons on acceptance and people's differences in a diverse world. Cindy The Crooked-Toed Rabbit is a delightful book for any occasion, including bedtime reading and for beginner readers.

This narrative was made from the east side of Cleveland murders and my lifestyle, of coming up without a father. The streets became my family, leading me into a life of crime. I also murdered people and sold drugs. It also talks about crackheads and how the neighborhoods are closing down. Additionally, it explains how I took the money from drugs and the hits for murder and started a good life.

This book that I created and wrote is based on my past. About 80 percent of it is true, and the other 20 percent consists of stories from my friends who also did dirt with me and are no longer with us. I changed the names to protect their identities.

We lived all over the city of Cleveland: Woodland, the Projects, Beaver, Sixty-First St. Clair, East Cleveland, Ansel Road, Sixty-First and Superior, W. Twenty-Fifth, Riverside projects, and the prisons that we shared together: Lancaster, Mansfield, Belmont, Marion, Madison Camp. We started off as Baby BCOs and became GDs.

The story of Opal and Ruby is about two Siberian Huskies, who are sisters and best friends. Follow Opal, who is our wise and lovable Husky, and Ruby, who is our outgoing and loving life Husky, on their fun adventure with Nadia while walking to their local park. They meet up with Pepper and Kate, who join them in their walk and make their day so amazing. The story is written for anyone who is a dog lover or a fan of Siberian Huskies.