Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed...

Battle of Surigao Strait

For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine. Mining there, as everywhere, was not an easy life, but regardless of the risk, there was something about being underground, the lure of hitting a deep vei...

The Deep Dark

Following the myths and legends about Nazis recruited by the French Foreign Legion to fight in Indochina, Eric Meyer's new book is based on the real story of one such former Waffen-SS man who lived to tell the tale. The legion recruited widely from s...

Devil's Guard: The Real Story

The Gender Knot, Allan Johnson's response to the pain and confusion that men and women experience by living with gender inequality, explains what patriarchy is and isn't, how it works, and what gets in the way of understanding and doing something abo...

The Gender Knot

Kevin Derocher was thirty-two when he walked into Tom's office, newly married, a baby on the way, and the collar of his red flannel shirt pulled up to hide the bruises around his throat from when he hanged himself in his garage. After his initial con...

Billy's Bones

The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water...

Water 4.0

Do you have a person in your life that is just a little off and by a little off, I mean that they're full blown strange?  Are they living like an emperor in their world and using everyone around them like pawns? Are they quite possibly the smartest p...

The Mind of a Sociopath

Curtis J. Austin chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another - Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Ham...

Up Against the Wall

Are aliens among us? Take a trip straight into the heart of one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: the alien presence on Earth!  Here are more than 40 true eyewitness accounts, many never-before published, that describe in detail personal encounters wi...

The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness

Claim Your Share of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Profits From Around the World  NOTE: the Table of Contents is fully linked.  Ever since so many private real estate companies converted themselves into Real Estate Investment Trusts and held IPO...

REITs Around the World

Nicholas Hamilton was not in the market for a wife and family until his parents made him an offer he couldn't refuse. If he married Moira, the girl who his philandering twin brother had gotten pregnant, they would give him the money for his software ...

A Family for Nicholas

This serves as an entry level approach to popular topics such as amnesia, artificial intelligence, and language use. The audiobook is created in simple language. It uses examples from the media and pop culture that the listener can easily relate and understand the concepts and topics.

Psycho-Linguistics, Cognition, and Issues

A single secret begets a layer of lies.  Anna Nesmith believes she has it all: a great marriage, a dream job, and a home of her own. But when a State Department investigator begins asking questions, Anna's ordered world implodes.  Frank Caburn is man...

No Perfect Secret

Self-centered narcissistic personality exposed! Think you might be dealing with a narcissist? You may be right! Learn the five things to avoid when dealing with a narcissist.  Do you have someone in your life that knows more and knows better? Do the ...

Personality Disorders: Narcissism

Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, and Okinawa). The commanders on the ground had to integrate...

Pacific Blitzkrieg

Life with a narcissist is daunting, harrowing, and unpredictable. He is self-absorbed, self-sufficient, and self-serving. He is haughty, arrogant, and oblivious to your wishes, desires, dreams, and goals. He is rude and envious toward others. He has ...

Sneaky, Brilliant, and Diabolical Revenge Tactics: To Unhinge and Disarm the Malignant Narcissist

Stan stood there, frozen in time, looking down at this woman who was so familiar, yet so much a stranger. He didn't even know her name, yet he was the last person that she had seen as she took her last breath on this earth.  This woman was washed up ...

Best Beaches in the World

Would you like a way to awaken your innate talents?  Would you like to widen your comfort zones?  Would you like to develop skills you didn't even know you had?  Hiking and backpacking are ways to help you do just that...and more!  Hiking and backpac...

Get Out There and Hike!

Travel opens the door to the unknown.  When you pack your bags for travel and adventure, you might get more than you expected - a side trip into a phantom world where mysterious things happen.  This collection of original true stories tells of travel...

The Road to Strange

More than 50 years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country's leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidde...

Rich Thanks to Racism

UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of Peru. The amazing alignment of the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is alive and well in the American cultural landscape....

UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens

When virgin warrior Braga learns from a cross-cult sorcerer that Fate has chosen her to steal the sword of a rogue angel, she lights out on a dangerous quest from mystical Hag Mountain to other worlds, and even into the bowels of hell. With her soul ...

Angel Steel

The sequel to the acclaimed Devil's Guard - The Real Story, the former soldiers of the Waffen-SS find themselves embroiled in a new war. Out of the death and destruction of the French war in Indochina, a new country is born, and a new war begins. Vie...

Devil's Guard Vietnam

Tennesseans at War, 1812 - 1815 by Tom Kanon tells the often-forgotten story of the central role citizens and soldiers from Tennessee played in the Creek War in Alabama and War of 1812.  Although frequently discussed as separate military conflicts, t...

Tennesseans at War, 1812 - 1815

Wilber Winkle was called a "national treasure" by no less than TV's Larry King, and his book was dubbed the funniest in decades by American Bookseller. What does Mr. Winkle do? Without fear, he writes letters to the massive corporations responsible f...

Wilber Winkle Has a Complaint

After the US is ravaged by ecological disasters, Maya Roberts, a young herbalist, must travel in the hazardous high desert to find healing plants for her community, which has been stricken by some new, fatal illness. There, she encounters a remarkabl...

Question Woman & Howling Sky

What makes a business great? An international trade. Why should we provoke businesses to trade internationally? International business means more exposure to customers. More exposure of a business to customers means more sales, and best of all, more profit. Stock holders become pleased and more jobs are created.  How do we make the conducting of foreign business easier? Dive into this best-selling scholarly research paper to find out. 

Doing Business in Foreign Countries: Quickly Learn the Key Concepts Behind the Foundations of International Business

The war in Vietnam is over. Yet the descendants of those who fought there are pulled into a new war - a war in a country whose name has come to mean unending conflict, unending brutality, and unending killing: Afghanistan. Into this tortured land fli...

Devil's Guard Afghanistan

This is the third book in Eric Meyer's series about the exploits of a group of former Waffen-SS officers who engage the enemy in the never-ending slaughter in Vietnam. It's 1968, the fighting escalates, the body count mounts, and the fighter-bombers ...

Devil's Guard Counterattack

Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the “why” of his fishing identity before, more recently, becoming focused on the “how” of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman, in large part, because public lands and public waterways ...

Wilderness of Hope

By now it's a safe bet that you have at least heard of Scientology. Nine times out of ten what you have heard is negative. Very rarely do you ever hear something positive about the Church of Scientology or Scientologists. This often leads to a greate...

What is Scientology?

A Reluctant Warrior  Giele has spent 20 years fighting wars for the King of Aelfland, but when he makes the mistake of falling in love with the Princess of the Realm, he is stripped of his rank, his citizenship, and his name. His face is marked with ...

Pariah's Moon

A funny exploration of the twin mysteries that are Bob and Billy, masterfully presented by Alex Goodwin, the non-Pulitzer Prize winner and non-New York Times–bestselling author of the Bob and Billy Funny Stories series. In his previous book, Problem ...

Lost in Lithuania and Other Funny Stories (Bob and Billy Funny Stories Book 3)

Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data marketers, predator drones, "stop and frisk" tactics, Facebook algorithms, hidden spyware, and even old-fashioned nosy neighbors - surveillance has...

Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America

I am the narcissist. I have tactics to make you talk when I want you to talk. To make you shut up when I want you to shut up. To make you sit on reserve and wait around for me to come back. To make you stay faithful and loyal to me. To punish you whe...

My Tactics

With an economy and population that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is emerging as a 21st century global superpower. Even though China is an international leader in modern business and technology, its ancient history exerts a powerful force ...

The Mind of Empire

In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre--the murder o...

After My Lai

At least one out of four people prefers to avoid the limelight, tends to listen more than they speak, feels alone in large groups, and requires lots of private time to restore their energy. These people are introverts. Whether they realize it not, th...

How to Be a Successful Introvert

There were, Peter Thompson notes, some 150 synonyms for inebriation in common use in colonial Philadelphia and, on the eve of the Revolution, just as many licensed drinking establishments. Clearly, 18th-century Philadelphians were drawn to the tavern...

Rum Punch & Revolution

I am the narcissist. I am chock full of wickedness. You think that you can have realistic expectations of me, but I will do whatever I can do to throw you off your game. I love devouring empaths. Those who are lonely. Those who have been abused and d...

My Wickedness

I am the narcissist. I have many secrets. Some you will find out about. Some you will not find out about. I will only let you in on the ones that I think will help me to control you and make you obey me unquestioningly. To be in this union, I must co...

My Secrets

The United States healthcare system is sick and patients are suffering. We spend more money on our medical care than any other developed country, but our average life spans are shorter.  We take more drugs than other nations and pay far more for them...

If Only My Doctor Had Told Me....

Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many reli...

Uncovering History

I am the narcissist. I do everything that I can to gather fuel. I have different types of fuel, and I only allow people into my life who I can get fuel from. If I don’t think something or someone can continue to supply me with the types of fuel that ...

My Fuel

Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate, and an icon for progressive Democrats in the US. But back in the 1980s, this “democratic socialist” - though some folks would prefer the term “social democrat” - was ...

Bernie Sanders and the Boundaries of Reform

Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late 19th century until well into the 20th. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's be...

Days of Darkness

The journey of self-discovery is a lifetime trip; and just like the fingerprints you possess, yours will be uniquely different than anyone else's. There are things that are common in each-such as good and bad times, emotional highs and lows, and choi...

Life Is A Balance

Anti Aging Secrets: Feeling like you’re aging faster than you thought? Discover the techniques and methods to reverse the aging process so you can look and feel younger. In this book, you’ll find out how to prevent aging! You'll also learn:   How agi...

Life Strategies + Anti Aging Secrets

I am the narcissist. My love is conditional. My love is passive-aggressive. My love is jealous. My love hurts. My love is like the thorns on a rose. You pick me up, thinking I am beautiful, then you drop me to the ground realizing that I’ve just cut ...

My Love

Life is always changing, flowing like sand through the fingers.  A peaceful summer morning in Moscow is invaded by a column of tanks rumbling down a quiet tree-lined street. People are protesting in the streets, independent news outlets are being sil...

Moscow Dreams

Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers sent back to the front again and again under duress. Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third or fourth time, more than one in four show signs of anxiety, depressio...

The Human War

I am the narcissist. I suffer through my moods and my emotions. But they are not the same moods that you suffer through as an empath. I don’t suffer the same range of emotions that you suffer through. I don’t feel the depth of the love, the joy, the ...

My Moods

Global climate change and global refugee crises will soon become inextricably interlinked. A new tsunami of climate refugees flows across the Earth. We are now at the moment of truth. Climate change is with us, and we need to think about the next big...

Rising Tides

The leader of a gang of high end thieves is trying to outwit the Russian mob, the FBI and stay ahead of his new girlfriend in this fast paced crime thriller. The trail leads from New York, to London, Dubai and Luxembourg as the Thief in Law evades his enemies and pulls off some daring heists. 

Thief in Law

When Edwin Black dreams of a pair of scissors that can cut into the fabric of worlds, four lost souls find themselves stuck in unlikely places: a young entrepreneur, a swimming pool salesman, a collector, and a mad scientist. Their lives intertwine i...

Checkered Scissors

Bob and Billy, two not-too-bright characters, are working peacefully in the bomb testing field in the Death Valley. Everything is going according to plan until their cousin Billy-Bob accidentally pushes a nuclear bomb launch button. After that, all kinds of mayhem erupts. The plus side? Bob and Billy get super-powers that turn them into... you guessed it... super-heroes. And that's just the beginning! 

Attack of the Meatloaf

If you had the chance to travel to a different time period, would you do the same things?  How does indecisive grad student Roland Hughes find himself cheating on his longtime girlfriend Liz, with a rich, Ferrari-driving, Lila Thurston, who involves ...

Alchemist Gift

Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithe...

Native Southerners

I am the narcissist. I have propaganda. I have an agenda. Everything I do is executed with precision and purpose. If you don’t go along with my propaganda, I will do everything I can do to crush you. I will use whatever means necessary to defend my h...

My Propaganda

I am the narcissist. You and I made a covenant, a binding agreement, when we first met. I didn’t tell you about it, but you wanted to enter into a relationship with me, thus you unknowingly opted in. Didn’t you collect intel on me to try to determine...

My Covenant

A malicious alien race as old as the universe itself has invaded Earth. Standing between them and the annihilation of the human race: an aging sheriff, the hippie who stole his daughter, a prissy bureaucrat, and a booze-addled reporter.  We could be ...

Invasion at Bald Eagle

Travel Tales Collection, Toilet Stories, No. 8, March 2015, is part of Michael Brein's Collections travel tales series. It contains some of the best travel stories from Michael's huge collection of travel tales. These are stories that he has gathered...

Travel Tales Collections: Toilet Stories

Tired of normal life? Bored of offices with nice scenery and no carcasses strewn around scorched by the killer sun?  Then join Bob and Billy, two relatively normal guys, whose lives have been irrevocably changed by an accidental push of a button.  "W...

Problem Cousin and Other Funny Stories

Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster", a "rebel", or a "buffoon". Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he". In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Que...

Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity

In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author's family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of i...

Journeys to the Edge

25 Secrets to Emotional Self-Healing give you 25 powerful steps to erase a stress-producing lifestyle. Here is your menu for slowing down the pace of life, and feeling not just okay, not just good, but great! Short, practical guidelines are for worri...

25 Secrets to Emotional Self-Healing

As of writing this book, the number one selling prescribed medication is Synthroid according to WebMD and other reputable medical online sources. So that tells you something about the widespread of thyroid diseases in the US.  Thyroid disorder could ...

Thyroid Diseases

Donald C. Jackson guides us on a journey into the cathedrals of wild and lonely places, those sacred spaces where hunters and fishers connect with the rhythms of the Earth and the spirit that resonates within us.  Hunting squirrels on an autumn morni...

Deeper Currents

A young couple becomes stranded in an industrial complex after riding a tour bus to the end of the line. The thrill of urban exploration proves too powerful and they find themselves even more lost and off of the grid. 

Reliable

As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and de...

Foreign Policy at the Periphery

Travel Tales Collections: Morocco & North Africa, No. 10, May 2015, is part of Michael Brein's Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael's huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interview...

Travel Tales Collections: Morocco & North Africa

Overcoming Anxiety It’s a little know fact that 40 million adults suffer from some form of anxiety. That is 18% of the adult population of the United States. If you or someone you know is part of that statistic then Overcoming Anxiety is a must read....

Overcoming Anxiety: How to Overcome Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorders, Separation Anxiety, & More!

From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman's attempt to levitate the Pentagon - pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profi...

Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World

Travel Tales Collections: Airplane Stories is part of Michael Brein's Collections travel tales series and contains some of the best travel stories from Michael's huge collection of travel tales, which he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 w...

Travel Tales Collections: Airplane Stories - Terror in the Skies

"The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions", said the existentialist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered: "How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" The e...

Movies and the Meaning of Life

Ever heard of a 'travel psychologist?' Michael Brein is the world's first and perhaps only travel psychologist who has created a unique travel book series on the psychology of travel as revealed through the fantastic travel stories of more than 1,600...

Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Best 100

For the international student determined to intern or work in the U.S. and would prefer to listen to the book in the car or while relaxing with their headphones in the evening. The #1 job search book for international students, recommended by many Un...

3 Steps to Your Job in the USA: Go from F-1 to H-1B

Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the US/Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles, from Boca Chica to Tijuana.  "We needed to go to the place where countless innocent people had been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked...

Border Odyssey

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection: The USSR 1 features three wild travel tales of unbelievable things that could have happened to you during the old Cold War Soviet Union communist era.  Of course, there are always the usual, typical, expected ...

Travel Tales Collections: The USSR `

While working on his doctorate degree, Sam Abbott invents two serums: one to prevent contagious diseases; the other to block the harmful effects of air pollution to lungs and bronchial tubes. He tries to get US drug companies to take an interest in h...

Fatal Serum

"Child maltreatment can lead to a number of psychological issues, including: depression, substance abuse, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, and even in cases that were not sexually based, a higher risk of sexually-transmitted disease."  Culled from resea...

Literature Review of the Effects of Child Maltreatment

In Searching for Freedom After the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman, G. Ward Hubbs uses a stark and iconic political cartoon to illuminate postwar conflicts over the meaning of freedom in the American South.  The cartoon firs...

Searching for Freedom After the Civil War

Effects of Bad Parenting is an emergency first-aid kit for parents and professionals utterly baffled by today's unmotivated, disobedient, complacent, and free-spirited children. The audiobook responds to the accelerated epidemic of school apathy, col...

Effects of Bad Parenting and What to Do About It

What happens when a beautiful young woman asks an aging old fighter, which Martial Art he recommends? The result is this letter. It is not only to her, but to any young person, woman or not, who might want to know more about the fighting arts. And wh...

Jump Through the WIndow

The line between reality and illusion becomes more and more blurred as Adam Andrews is carried away into a fantasy world of his own making. In this horrific tales of self-deception and murder, Thomas Weston traces the downward spiral of a man descending into total insanity. 

Hallucinations (Descent into Madness)

This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor's 20-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. At once advent...

Joining Africa

Kevin Cowherd was a humor columnist and feature writer for the Baltimore Sun. His columns, which have varied from three times a week to once a week to occasional, began in 1987, and were a featured attraction for the LA Times-Washington Post news ser...

Last Call at the 7-Eleven

A book that actually teaches you to handle your anger?  Yes - you really can end your destructive behaviors!  Heal anger, stress and frustration naturally!  Are you angry? Frustrated? Stressed? Easily Annoyed? Do you feel like you'd like to scream so...

Anger

The Gateauxs' and the Wileys' feud didn't match the ferocity of the Hatfields' and the McCoys' but they didn't like each other. The other members of the warring families could not stop the marriage of Jacque and Mellissa Jane. Boo was the product of ...

Good, Bad, and Oh My God

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection: Turkey 1 includes Michael's own personal travel tales of the sorts of things that can happen to you in your travels in Turkey. Of course, Michael's Turkey stories are fairly unique to him, but somewhat similar...

Travel Tales Collections: Turkey 1

Drawing on cutting edge research from the Institute of HeartMath, California, as well as Shelley Davidow's extensive experience in working with children and teens, Raising Stress-Proof Kids explores the powerful and potentially long-term effects of s...

Raising Stress-Proof Kids: Parenting Today's Children for Tomorrow's World

About the author: Will Bevis is a prolific writer of short, sometimes controversial "slice of life" stories, articles, essays, and memoirs that make you feel you are right there, experiencing the story as it it happens. His best-known story, "The Kil...

My Beauty Pageant Days Are Over.

This is about the spirit world - going there and coming back - and some of the dangers that can be encountered along the way. 

The Spirit World

Kelly Killjoy is a gun-slinging mercenary and skin flick scream queen on an endless quest for adventure, cash, and a good hard fight in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.  Fallout Girl (episode 1)  After a gang of cannibal marauders raid the local video...

Fallout Girl: Omnibus Edition

My new "Travel Tales Collection", issue No. 12 for July 2015, "England, Ireland & British Isles Stories", a monthly book-of-the-month bookazine, is now available. It is part of Michael Brein's Collections travel tales series and contains among the be...

Travel Tales Collections: England, Ireland, & British Isles Travel Stories

Comfort Falls

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features a bunch of bizarre and strange tales of the paranormal that can happen to you in your travels. Strange things do happen, and mostly they are the usual, typical, expected sorts of norma...

Travel Tales Collections: Spooky Tales 1

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collections: African Safaris 1 features three select African wildlife travel stories, including Cape buffaloes, errant hippos, and even a wayward hyena named "Spot".  African Safaris 1 is the very first of the Collections...

Travel Tales Collections: African Safaris 1

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Mexico Horrors 1, features three wild and scary travel tales of unbelievable things that can happen to you in Mexico. Bad things do happen, and mostly there are the usual, typical, expected sorts of wonderful ...

Travel Tales Collections: No 3 OCT 2014 - Mexico Horrors 1

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Monthly is a bookazine series, containing the best travel stories from Michael's huge collection of nearly 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during hi...

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