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This is a recipe book with recipes dating back to The Great Depression. It is two complete book in one, and shares ways to cook simply when times are hard. These simple ways are something learned during tough times, and passed on today.

This is a book of sharing. I wanted to share some of the things as I learned how to create anything as a writer, poems, songs, small short stories, news stories, and later fiction and nonfiction. Many years later, I have seen over ninety books published, and because of this, I hope people can find something inspiration and helpful in my own story of how I started writing so long ago.

She was caught in the middle of many things, changing times, a lawless life, a group of gangsters, and a belief she could do better. It was the end of many things, The Roaring Twenties, her childhood, and the dreams of her childhood. The only thing which mattered to her now was saving her father and running the bathtub gin and bootleg whiskey through his enemies. She was a gravedigger's daughter, and she had seen a lot, but now she had to challenge the dangerous life head on!

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, has been the subject of many writings through the ages. And why not? She was beautiful, powerful, tragic, and men could not help but love her. This is a romantic novel about the queen and her triumph over everything.

This is a science fiction adventure all about werewolves and witches in a fight over their territory.It is an adventure into magic and the supernatural in a fantasy story.

This is a little book which will help teach children ages Kindergarten through sixth grade to hand sew. It explains some of the basic items needed and gives lessons in simple tasks.

Two nurses, also siblings have been challenging each other to silly games for years, but one day they met and jokingly challenged a love challenge. And then they shared a strange dream, and felt something was beginning a little bit scary, even complicated. Then the monster entered her dreams.

This book contains two complete novels in one. In the first, a young girl meets a Vampire in to say the least, very difficult times for her planet. In the second feature, a girl finds herself going back into time, into the old West. She finds a new life, but someone who as a lover, seems familiar.

The Earl of Meinstein had been a life-long friend of the King. And his young wife had been a part of the royal court. Now how could they endure the crumbling of their life and find a way to survive the brutal end of the Reign of King Charles I.

This is a Steampunk adventure in a steampunk world, adventure, action space quest. “Pa” Captain Simmons Captain and owner of the finest Ship hauling “Junk” to various parts of the known galaxies Mollie is a girl who is a fine master of all space engines, especially the old antique steam harnessed ones. John Cavanaugh, a man who came out of nowhere and is suddenly an important part of the crew. Doug Sapling, a man who is so in love with Mollie, he will fall her through the universe if need be. Maude, a warrior from another time perhaps, but insists John so adds to the list. Various ...

ABOUT THIS BOOKThis is a little book about family relationships and generation gaps. This fiction novel is meant to be a family comedy about superficial “wants” pitted against family “needs”, challenging an average family to face choices between self-fulfillment and ties to a family running deep and in their face.It centers around a character called “Grandma” by all the family members and others who have found an interesting time with the lady. There is a serious dilemma for the entire family, because you see, Grandma gets thrown out of the nursing home, and moves to reclaim her...

A Family Murder, action drama, The Pastry Shop Murders, A story of shock, intrigue, and betrayal Tom Douglas is a small-town cop, fired after arresting a local gangster’s kid, and angry and disillusioned. His momma has already rescued her beloved son from a life of crime as a teenager, and she has paid a heavy price to do this. .Momma, in this effort, to rescue her troubled son’s life, opens a pastry shop with the last money left of her husband’s small life insurance policy. The family, Tom, his momma Sally, and his sister, Ellen, all struggle to make the small shop thrive, but Tom is...

This is a story for readers who like an old-fashioned horror story. It is the strange story of two friends and former lovers, fighting for the truth behind a long-standing Vampire local story. They seek the truth behind a long standing fued between an ex-law officer, his friend, a reporter, as they had sought for years to delve into the mystery of a secret witch coven. As for Calvin Girard, his memories of past times the two had shared was mired by negative memories, this included those of a strange experience they shared, These were so tied up with this woman in front of him. His hopes to ...

This is a Vampire story about a girl who meets a Vampire and at first mocks him. His attitude is kind of mocking to. What it leads to is a horror story.

This is a Steampunk adventure and is a horror book about an old Gypsy carnival group and their grown up children who inherit the land and old carnival wagons. It is a book of magic and horror.

Toby Benson came into the town, lost and tormented by witnessing his parents murder. He found a life though, but before he could get too settled he faced ruthless villains, a girl who needed rescuing and a no way out request that he accept the badge of sheriff.

ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is an action packed love story spanning different worlds and is set in a rural land of the modern day Earth. There are many rugged places like this in this land and it is a beautiful, breathtaking but totally dangerous place to be. There are battles fought every day for supremacy on these little bits of land, and Copper is a charismatic hero who fights a cruel and terrifying foe. Larissa finds Copper down through the ages, a person impossible to resist. Read about the mysterious Copper and his larger than life adventures with Larissa, his past lover, now in league with...

Caught up in the struggle of living during the period of the 1930, the huge changes involving the lifting of the Prohibition Laws came to matter to a woman whose life is shaken up by this one event. This is also a romance of her step-daughter and the man she came to love in these turbulent times.

He could not believe his eyes. The woman of his dreams was here at last. To Alice, coming back after all these years, it was just wonderful. She hugged to herself everything which meant something back then, when they were young and happy. He was comfortable about the situation, but strangely, she found she was not. And there were problems a plenty for them to solve if they ever could find the happiness which they had once found as children there on the old place.

This is a book about cooking in a simple way to help the current family budgets. I learned to cook in ways which helped people survive during The Great Depression. It is my hopes to pass on this knowledge for hard times today.