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Mission Into Light

By: Steve Hammons

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What starts out as a phone call and job offer to Arizonan Mike Green quickly evolves into a mystifying adventure into the unknown. Mike is recruited into a San Deigo-based Defense Department research team called the "Joint Reconnaissance Study Group." The group includes ten women and men, all well-trained and dedicated. The "JRSG" and its friends gather intelligence information on unusual phenomena: UFOs, crop circles, dolphin intelligence, deep-memory DNA theories, near-death experiences, "Earth changes" involving "pole shifts," and Native American culture and legends. Connections among these areas are discovered, as well as links to the past and future of Earth and the human race. The group explores ancient questions and modern discoveries crucial to the evolution of humanity. They conduct investigations in San Diego, Sedona, Arizona, the "Four Corners" region, and Hawaii. They face experiences that are scientific, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The group faces deadly threats from opponents who want to stop them. In the midst of dangers, there is romantic and erotic heat betweeen Mike and Amy Mella, one of the group's dolphin researchers. Even with the support and fellowship from his friends, Mike faces extreme circumstances alone. This is a story of relationships between women and men, military and civilian, the intelligence community and the average American, the known and the unknown. It is an exploration of strange phenomena and mysteries that now hold the interest and attention of millions of people worldwide. The characters follow paths of discovery to find a new understanding of their nation, the human species, and a hoped-for breakthrough that will change the world.

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iUniverse

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1469734761

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Light's Hand

By: Steve Hammons

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Light's Hand

By: Steve Hammons

In this sequel to his first novel, Mission Into Light, Arizona writer Steve Hammons takes readers on a thought-provoking metaphysical adventure with the top secret "Joint Reconnaissance Study Group."This small Defense Department research group of ten women and men continue their intelligence investigation of unusual phenomena: UFOs, near-death experiences, ESP, dolphin intelligence, modern physics, Earth changes theories, deep DNA memory concepts, and Native American culture and legends. Other strange phenomena emerge and challenge the researchers, who travel from their San Diego base to the Four Corners area. Durango, Colorado and Flagstaff, Arizona, as well as the Arizona Sonoran Desert.The main characters, Mike Green and Air Force Captain Amy Mella, are deployed to the Navajo Nation in northeast Arizona after the National Security Agency reports a strange signal coming from deep space. The message is in Morse code, and in World War II Navajo CodeTalker.The dedicated researchers put together pieces of a cosmic puzzle just in the nick of time. Because strange and mysterious developments are underway. A sudden increase in crop circles, requests for safehouses on higher ground, and an ancient Cherokee legend are parts of this puzzle.A breakthrough occurs when a strange event and process kicks the researchers into high gear, and they act as a rapid response team to the site of a possible miracle. Or maybe these events and processes are just natural. Maybe Nature, Earth, and the Great Spirit are revealing phenomena the human race is finally ready to understand.

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iUniverse

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0595206018

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9780595206018

Northern California Drag Racing

By: Steve Reyes

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Northern California Drag Racing

By: Steve Reyes

Organized drag racing began in Northern California in 1949 thanks to World War II veterans with a need for speed. Towns like Redding, Lodi, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Fremont would host their own drag events featuring homebuilt jalopies. Anyone with a driver's license and a paid entry fee could participate, and as the cars got more sophisticated and faster, more and more spectators came to watch the local speed demons. By the 1960s, a metamorphosis began with the introduction of the slingshot-style dragsters. For the next 12 years, the slingshot dragster was the king of the quarter mile, and it made stars of Gary Ormsby, Frank Bradley, Dennis Baca, and James Warren. Meanwhile, in 1965, a funny new race car challenged The King as it gained popularity in Northern California. Leading this funny car charge was a Pennsylvania transplant named Russell James Liberman. However, the golden years of Northern California drag racing came to an end in the mid-1970s. Today, only 5 out of 17 drag strips are still open. Photographer Steve Reyes journeyed into the world of Northern California drag racing in 1963 as a 15-year-old kid. Upon seeing an advertisement from the Oakland Tribune that read, Come see the nitro powered 200mph slingshot dragsters, Reyes and his father made the 23-mile trek to the Fremont drag strip. With the noise of high-powered engines filling the air, Reyes was hooked and made it his duty to capture this one-of-a-kind world on film.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467108170

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9781467108171

The Bard's Banjo: English Country Clawhammer Banjo Solos

By: Steve Harvey

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The Bard's Banjo: English Country Clawhammer Banjo Solos

By: Steve Harvey

Here is a book of tunes from the Elizabethan era—the great period of English song—set in tablature for the clawhammer banjo. At first glance, it is true, the songs of Shakespeare's day and the mountain banjo seem to be worlds apart. But the musical traditions are, in fact, related, as Elizabethan songs are the old world cousins of mountain tunes. As a result, Elizabethan tunes are a natural way to extend the mountain banjo repertoire for intermediate and advanced players. Their pedigree, their modal feel, the lilting rhythms, and the ease with which they can be adapted to the banjo argue the case. At the same time, they open the possibility for new sounds—in particular new rhythms—for the old instrument, pushing the banjo beyond unnatural limitations and giving it a new voice. Each section of the book is organized around a traditional mountain tuning, with a mountain song serving as a model of that tuning, illuminating the relationship between the two musical worlds. "The Bard's Banjo" is the first banjo instruction book devoted to the repertoire of Elizabethan song. Free audio downloads are available for use with this title.

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Mel Bay Publications

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1619110407

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Santana Meets Santa

By: Steve Hammons

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Santana Meets Santa

By: Steve Hammons

Santana, the gray and cream colored Chihuahua mix will experience many exciting adventures in his lifetime, but this one is his most magical. He and Auntie Jennie and Uncle Curtis will share a very special and loving Christmas with their family and included in this wonderful holiday book, Santana will share a secret moment with Santa. Join Santana as he meets Santa and discovers what a loving family really is, and the true meaning of Christmas.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483606597

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9781483606590

How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars

By: Steve Magnante

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How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars

By: Steve Magnante

In How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars, renowned writer Steve Magnante first walks readers through the colorful history of the altered wheelbase period and then shows them how to perform these radical modifications themselves. Magnante's fun and colorful style makes for entertaining reading, and the coverage of floorpan mods, chassis alterations, and both front and rear suspension upgrades are covered in great detail on three different chassis types. After reading this book, the basic technical tenets of altering vehicle wheelbase will be understood and the almost mythical legend surrounding such cars will be fully realized. What were once considered "race only" modifications can now be civilized for street use, and Magnante carefully reviews all of the relevant points for optimal appearance, performance, and safety.

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CarTech Inc

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1934709263

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9781934709269

The Lakes of Southern Hollow

By: Steve Yates

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The Lakes of Southern Hollow

By: Steve Yates

Casey, Tyndall, and Devon—kids from Southern Hollow subdivision—have been falling in and out of love with each other, and always at the wrong time. It’s a Thursday night in September 2019, their senior year. Anything seems possible. And Casey’s band, New Wave Vultures, packs them in on teen night at the Cedar Shake, a club on the square in downtown Springfield, Missouri. While all three feel trapped in the Ozarks, the coming pandemic is about to show them the grinding limits of true confinement and the power of music, love, friendship, and courage.

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Madville Publishing

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1956440925

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9781956440928

Lost at Khe Sanh (Ghosts of War #2)

By: Steve Watkins

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Lost at Khe Sanh (Ghosts of War #2)

By: Steve Watkins

History comes alive -- with ghosts! Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk of military relics in the basement of his family's junk shop again. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson discovers an old grenade with a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous . . . especially when the ghost of a soldier appears, claiming that it's his lucky grenade from during his service in the Vietnam War. What does this ghost want from Anderson, Greg, and Julie? Is he here for their help - or for something more sinister? It's a race against time as the friends work to solve the mystery!

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545665884

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9780545665889

The Dark Tree

Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles

By: Steve Isoardi

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The Dark Tree

Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles

By: Steve Isoardi

Isoardi has done a wonderful job collecting oral histories and integrating them into an engaging, sophisticated, and highly readable book. He provides great insight into the artistic goals, political aspirations, internal conflicts, and social terrain that shaped the experiences of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He shows us quite clearly that jazz musicians continued to work within and gain sustenance from working class black communities long after the moment when some observers deemed the music irrelevant to them."—Eric Porter, author of What Is This Thing Called Jazz? "In these pages, Horace Tapscott says to the audience, 'This is one more you wrote through us.' And this is what Steve Isoardi has done here: given voice to the nearly lost history of a revolutionary community movement through its key players. Epic in scope, dazzling in detail and sensual as any Coltrane solo, this rare book—informative, intimate, lyrical, scholarly, nuanced, and essential—reads like no history book you've read before."—Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Becoming Abigail "The Dark Tree is just wonderful. One cannot understand the history of black arts on the West Coast without a thorough assessment of this movement; Isoardi knows this history so well, and tells a much bigger story. The book does a fantastic job of capturing the nitty gritty nature of the music scene, and of resurrecting local figures in the Arkestra who have never gotten any press for their astounding musicianship. This is a remarkable book."—Robin Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "This is a revelatory document, virtuosically combining scholarship and oral history to connect the dots of African American music on the west coast. Far more than a mere historical 'overdub' of an underdocumented scene, this book disrupts the mythic notions of jazz history, showing instead how music and community unfold as one. Both a celebratory and a cautionary tale, it also delivers some of the most frank and eye-opening musicians' accounts since Arthur Taylor's Notes and Tones."—Vijay Iyer, musician/composer, New York City

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Univ of California Press

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0520245911

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When Growth Stalls

How It Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do About It

By: Steve McKee

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When Growth Stalls

How It Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to Do About It

By: Steve McKee

One of the toughest lessons every business leader learns is how hard it is to generate sustained growth. Stalled growth is the rule, not the exception--even for the best-managed companies. That's especially true in unpredictable economic environments such as the one we're experiencing today. McKee has a unique understanding of what happens when growth stalls. His firm commissioned a study of 700 companies that had at one time been among the nation's fastest-growing businesses. Developed in concert with Decision Analyst, a leading national research and consulting firm, the study probed areas as diverse as corporate structure, competition, branding, finance, and strategy. The target respondent profile were CEOs, owners, principals, presidents, managing directors or chairmen of the board. In-depth follow-up interviews yielded fascinating stories and personal comments from executives who had been living on the front lines of real-life growth crises. McKee presents compelling knowledge about how and why companies lose their way, and offers practical advice about how they can rekindle growth. When Growth Stalls demonstrates that sluggish growth is generally produced not by mismanagement or strategic blundering but by natural market forces and management dynamics that are often unrecognized--and widespread. The book presents seven characteristics that commonly correlate with stalled growth and what to do about them. Some are external forces to which countless companies have fallen victim: economic upheavals, changing industry dynamics, and increased competition. What McKee points out, however, is how often they catch companies off-guard. More surprising are four subtle and highly destructive internal factors that conspire to keep companies down: lack of consensus among the management team, loss of nerve, loss of focus, and marketing inconsistency. McKee makes the case that, regardless of what's going on outside of an enterprise, it's what's inside that counts.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470395702

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9780470395707

Who Needs It?

Tax-Exempt Organizations in Your Neighborhood That Need What You Have to Donate

By: Nancy E. Friedman,Steve C. Posner

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Tax-Exempt Organizations in Your Neighborhood That Need What You Have to Donate

By: Nancy E. Friedman,Steve C. Posner

A unique compilation that helps non-cash (and cash) charitable donors find tax-exempt organizations that need the goods the donors have to give. It helps donors advance their favorite causes while increasing tax-deductions more easily than ever before, and helps tax-exempt organizations get more of what they need.

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0974126144

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Mission Into Light

Mission Into Light

Light's Hand

Light's Hand

Northern California Drag Racing

Northern California Drag Racing

The Bard's Banjo: English Country Clawhammer Banjo Solos

The Bard's Banjo: English Country Clawhammer Banjo Solos

Santana Meets Santa

Santana Meets Santa

How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars

How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars

The Lakes of Southern Hollow

The Lakes of Southern Hollow

Lost at Khe Sanh (Ghosts of War #2)

Lost at Khe Sanh (Ghosts of War #2)

The Dark Tree

The Dark Tree

When Growth Stalls

When Growth Stalls

Who Needs It?

Who Needs It?

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