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The Devil Walks Beside Her

By: Gus Leodas

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Deanna, vote for the legislation or die.' So begins Deanna Layne's nightmare. Pregnant with twins, she needs to survive a killer in an environment sated with unusual alliances, lethal relationships, and solutions. Police and Mitchell Pappas come together again to try to save Deanna in a devious and perplexing revenge thriller filled with love and hate that also turns Mitchell into a primary target to force him to search for answers among twins and shadows to save Deanna...and himself.

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1481897802

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9781481897808

The Almost Forgotten Wife

By: Gus Leodas

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The Almost Forgotten Wife

By: Gus Leodas

Madge's husband and daughter share secrets that exclude her. Exempt from the family mystery she is an outcast, ignored, and treated as nothing more than a household item, a part of the furniture, and a houseplant thirsty for water. Madge's Kiley's daughter is on trial for killing her rapist in self-defense. Madge's husband is a United States senator. The daughter's truth will destroy the senator's career and send the daughter to prison. Her lawyer abandons her trial. The daughter's new attorney asks Mitchell Pappas to help with a case filled with obsessive love and hate that surge the plot to its unexpected conclusion.

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Gus Leodas/CreateSpace

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1494935945

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9781494935948

Where Forgotten Things Belong

By: Gus Leodas

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Where Forgotten Things Belong

By: Gus Leodas

A Romance Mystery - Harry Stone begs his investigator friend Mitchell Pappas to help him solve a personal crisis because he does not want the police involved. Harry needs to protect his family dilemma from public exposure. After Harry explains the problem, Mitchell needs to help, but has no idea where to begin to find a solution to the baffling mystery. He searches for answers that hide in the Cayman Islands, Florida, England, Switzerland, Egypt, and Greece. Mitchell and Harry are in constant life-threatening danger as they travel in a world of lies and deception from unexpected sources to lead to the solution and dramatic conclusion. Along the way, and surprisingly, they find that the answers lie within classical Plato's writings.

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AmazonCreateSpace/Gus Leodas

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1499664451

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9781499664454

Unsafe Harbor

By: Gus Leodas

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Unsafe Harbor

By: Gus Leodas

At an exclusive Long Island yacht club, a police lieutenant and his investigator are trapped in a web of disappearances and deaths that link club members to Washington, the Coast Guard, and the underworld. An excerpt from Unsafe Harbor-- Cautious, he headed for shore and shallow water dragging the line. The magnet and object moved without encountering rock. Having no desire to share his treasure, Luke searched the shore, the bluffs and tree line to assure no one watched. This will be a secret for now. Seeing no one, he smiled from greed and scolded himself. At 6-feet depth, he saw the magnet attached to a long, dark object. What was it? The object did not look like a treasure chest. Images distorted underwater. Was it British cannon from the Revolutionary War? A British base was in Huntington Harbor. The cannon had to be valuable to a collector. History made it treasure. Wild with curiosity, Luke stared at the catch seeking identification as it moved towards shallow water until the depth was 3-feet. Then Luke's eyes widened and his breath stuck. The magnet attached to a chain wrapped around a man with his hands tied behind his back.

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iUniverse

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0595336310

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9780595336319

Fault Lines

The Sixties, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine

By: Gus diZerega

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Fault Lines

The Sixties, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine

By: Gus diZerega

The United States is suffering its greatest upheaval since the Civil War—politically, economically, socially, religiously. With elegant, sweeping vision, Gus diZerega explores the complex causes leading us to this point, comparing them to giant fault lines that, when they erupt, create enormous disturbance and in time new landscapes. He traces the disruption, first, to America's first countercultural movement originating in the antebellum South and coming into later conflict with the "counterculture" of the 60s that continues now in phenomena like Burning Man; and second, to the crumbling of the moral foundation birthed by the Enlightenment, leading to today’s nihilism. But within the loss resides hope: diZerega sees promise of a new society based more in equality, sacred feminine values, and spiritual immanence. Whether the prevailing oligarchy will abort this transformation is the question of our time. This book enables those of us now living through it to understand the powerful forces shaping our lives and calling on us for a response.

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322

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Quest Books

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0835609189

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9780835609180

The Letter from Magda

By: Gus Leodas

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The Letter from Magda

By: Gus Leodas

My dearest Johanna, I pray you never have to read this letter while your father and I are alive.' So begins Magda's letter to her daughter urging her to change identity, and to run and hide. Unable to decipher her mother's warning letter after surviving an assault in Switzerland, a wounded Johanna Wagner returns home to uncover the family mystery. Johanna and Michael Warner, the doomed and surviving children of the condemned families, find each other and unite against pursuing killers as they run and hide to unravel the deadly mystery.

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1478266899

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9781478266891

With Schwarzkopf

Life Lessons of The Bear

By: Gus Lee

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With Schwarzkopf

Life Lessons of The Bear

By: Gus Lee

With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom of his class due to his penchant for playing poker and reading recreationally instead of studying engineering, he was assigned a new professor: then-Major Norman Schwarzkopf. Schwarzkopf's deeply principled nature and fierce personality took hold of the wayward cadet, and the two began meeting regularly and discussing what it meant to be a scholar, a soldier, and a man. Lee's vibrant, witty narrative brings his more than forty-year relationship with Schwarzkopf to life. Readers get an inside look at West Point culture; they see Schwarzkopf's bristling anger with his rebellious pupil as well as his tenacity, intellect, and moments of surprising emotional warmth; and they watch as Lee starts to absorb his teachings. As he left West Point and took on more professional and personal roles, Lee approached every crisis or difficult decision by channeling his mentor. Over the years, Schwarzkopf's instilled values, wise counsel, and warm conversations shaped Lee and brought the two together in an unlikely friendship. In With Schwarzkopf, Lee passes along the lessons he learned so future generations can hear Schwarzkopf's important teachings.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588345300

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9781588345301

MY PET PUPPY, PÉPE PAPINO

By: Kevin "Gus" Hall

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MY PET PUPPY, PÉPE PAPINO

By: Kevin "Gus" Hall

When sixty-year-old Mr. Papino moved in next door to twelve-year-old Kyle's home in a small town in Illinois, everything changed for the better! Mr. P had an old house with one of those wrap-around front porches, and here is where the magic begins and happens! In this story, the nostalgia of the good old days is almost supernatural, as each day brings excitement to a little world that centers around Mr. P's famous front porch and the garage where he works. Here, all the kids from the neighborhood would congregate--even if he wasn't with them! It was a time of fun and adventure that every boy yearns for. While with them, Jose Papino would share stories about his life as a real cowboy in Spain! There, Kyle and his friends would learn all about life, earning money, and being an entrepreneur while contributing to the community and the church and making their neighborhood something right out of the dreams of yesteryear! Each day brings excitement, adventure, life lessons, and, of course, Mr. Papino's puppy dog named Pepe, or Peppy, is along for the ride! This book is for all ages, and in twenty-seven chapters, it chronicles the last year of Kyle's youth, as he goes from being a twelve-year-old to a real teenager! In parallel, Peppy the puppy goes from being a puppy to an adult dog! Be prepared to be enveloped in this front porch world of wonder, fun, nostalgic magic, and page-turning excitement!

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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ISBN 13

9798886168440

The Six Bronxmen

By: Gus Constantine

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The Six Bronxmen

By: Gus Constantine

Nikos moved from the small town of Glastonbury, Connecticut, to the Bronx to start his senior year of high school. On his very first day, three thugs in homeroom class challenged him. However, the six-foot-three-inch and 210-pound Nikos didn’t back down. Nevertheless, as it turned out, the three thugs were extremely connected. After making friends with Irving Feldman and four of Nikos’s Glastonbury friends, who relocated from Glastonbury to the Bronx, they formed their own group called the Six Bronxmen. Even so, it wasn’t enough. Nikos flew to Greece to recruit his friend Tommy, and along with Tommy’s cousin Ronnie from Maryland, they formed a coalition to take on the most powerful organized crime families in America.

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Xlibris Corporation

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179603505X

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9781796035056

Forerunners - a Prelude to the Second Coming

By: Gus Leodas

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Forerunners - a Prelude to the Second Coming

By: Gus Leodas

If you don't believe in miracles, you will after you read this modern day novel." Forerunners is timely in today's world events with the increased focus on religion and terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere, and is based on the Second Coming prophesies in the Bible, referencing Matthew, Mark, and The Revelation to John. All the major religions expect a messiah, or a son, or a messenger, or an avatar, or some bodily manifestation of God. Included are a United States ambassador, a priest, a psychic, an Olympic champion, and the temptress Pandora. By a series of mysterious Biblical events, the ambassador and priest learn of the arrival of the Anti-Christ forerunner. Bible prophesies say that disruption in natural disasters, international economic recessions, terrorism of religious men and women who serve God, and destruction of religious institutions are preludes to the coming of the Anti-Christ. All are happening today. The ambassador and priest's search to find that forerunner and the forerunner for Christ takes them to Turkey, Greece, India, Japan, Washington, Los Angeles and to the United Nations where the ambassador gives a stirring speech on peace after they expose the Anti-Christ forerunner in New Delhi, India at a meeting of all the world's religions.

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Gus Leodas

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1514671840

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9781514671849

Kalahari Cheetahs

Adaptations to an arid region

By: Gus Mills,Margaret Mills

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Kalahari Cheetahs

Adaptations to an arid region

By: Gus Mills,Margaret Mills

The cheetah, the fastest terrestrial animal, has widespread appeal amongst wildlife biologists and enthusiasts alike. However, like all all large carnivores, it is increasingly threatened by habitat loss and its status is now classified as 'Vulnerable' by the IUCN. This is the first comprehensive study of cheetah biology in an arid environment, a major component of its current distribution range. The book brings together results from an intensive six year study of the cheetah by the authors in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa and Botswana. It documents a wealth of detailed and direct observations of cheetah population biology and behavioural ecology, adopting an evolutionary approach and providing a conceptual framework for future research and applied management in the context of global environmental change. Kalahari Cheetahs covers topics such as optimal foraging theory, hunting strategies and predator prey relations, mating systems and reproductive strategies and success, inter-specific competition, demography, social organisation, and population limitation. Comparisons with previous cheetah studies reveal the variability of ecological determinants on behaviour, and the behavioural flexibility and ability of these carnivores to adapt to different environments. This advanced textbook is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in felid behavioural ecology and conservation biology. It will also be of relevance and use to conservationists, wildlife managers, and African wildlife enthusiasts.

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Oxford University Press

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0191020117

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9780191020117

Seeing Through the System

The Invisible Class Struggle in America

By: Gus Bagakis

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Seeing Through the System

The Invisible Class Struggle in America

By: Gus Bagakis

Most people think of class as a ranking system the more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, selling its labor power to the capitalist class that owns the factories, businesses, and corporations. While capitalism claims to promote efficiency, wealth, and freedom, it is also a system where the rich are getting richer, the earth and climate are being destroyed, and the poor get more and more desperate with each passing day. All of this is happening because we live in a system that stunts personality and corrupts human relations by pitting people against one another for economic gain. Through class analysis, Bagakis explains that we must take off the filters that we've been indoctrinated with, so that we can see how personal, social, and international problems develop. Primary among these false filters is the idea that we are all middle class and so there are no class conflicts in our society. Seeing through the System seeks to help students, workers, social activists, and those interested in understanding the reasons behind many of the problems in the world today. You can come to understand how our society was put together, how it works, and how it can be transformed.

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1475991355

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9781475991352

A Sorority of Angels

By: Gus Leodas

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A Sorority of Angels

By: Gus Leodas

Several determined and concerned women in influential positions at the United Nations unite to help solve hunger and poverty in their countries. What they encounter, what happens to each in the service of their country when they return home was unplanned. A Book of the Year Award - Finalist.

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1468143271

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9781468143270

The Forgotten Mission

By: Gus Leodas

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The Forgotten Mission

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...he (Leodas) promises action, drama and mystery. It is there." - New York Daily News. What was the deadly secret of Shuller's Land? The last crop on the Long Island farm was planted in 1942, the year the land died from the horror of that one long night. Decades later, the abandoned weathered barn that leaned precariously from old age still waited for a strong wind to complete the collapse before someone discovered its horrible secret. Investigator Mitchell Pappas found artifacts at the farm belonging to World War II German spies. So began his mission to unravel the mystery of the forgotten farm and the disappearance of the spies and the farmer's teenage daughter, Melissa.

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0738838187

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The Devil Walks Beside Her

The Devil Walks Beside Her

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Where Forgotten Things Belong

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The Letter from Magda

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With Schwarzkopf

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MY PET PUPPY, PÉPE PAPINO

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Forerunners - a Prelude to the Second Coming

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Kalahari Cheetahs

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Seeing Through the System

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A Sorority of Angels

A Sorority of Angels

The Forgotten Mission

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