Sam Yeager is not only a great bowler but he is also, selfish and a womanizer. When Sam is unexpectantly struck by a jealous boyfriend's speeding pick-up truck, Sam finds himself not in Heaven or Hell but in Paradise Lanes, a celestial bowling alley for people whose lives are cut short.
Walter Sommers views himself as an ordinary man who simply did what he had to do to get by in life. His life, however, has been anything but ordinary . . . Growing up in Nazi Germany, Walter realized there wasn't any future under Hitler. After surviving Kristallnacht and learning that his father had been taken to a concentration camp, Walter orchestrated his family's escape to America . . . During Walter Sommers's hundred years,he has been called a loyal German, a dirty Jew, a refugee, an immigrant, GI Joe, a liberator, an entrepreneur, a bossiness man, a husband, a family man, a civil rights activist, a philanthropist, and - last but not least - a hero." -- Back cover.
Maggie O'Hara, who has been unexpectedly has been named County Sheriff after returning to rural Illinois to help catch a cop killer, is on the hunt for a serial killer known as the "King of Evil" and must deal with a tyrannical county boss with a nefarious agenda, Nazis, tree huggers, devil worshipers, the KKK, and a buried treasure that could lead to disaster.
When Samuel Farmer answered Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to fight the Southern Rebellion, he promised his family he would return home in a few months. Farmer, like most soldiers on both sides of the conflict, thought that the war would be over in ninety days. It soon became clear that the bloodshed wasn't going to end anytime soon. As the months turned to years, Copperheads and Confederate guerillas bring a war of terror to the Wabash Valley. Friends and neighbors suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the conflct. At ten years of age, Will Farmer finds himself caught up in a local war where the enemy doesn't differentiate between men and boys. He is forced to become a man in a world that still views him as a child.
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