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Judge Xenophon and the Foxworthy Cabal is a literary snapshot of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown in August of 1900. The boomtown, Ophir, is on the edge of either going civilized or ghost. To become civilized, it needs to legally squeeze out the crooked judge before he absconds on the last steamship of the season - in 30 days - with the gold he has been legally seizing since June. Told in 50 first-person vignettes, the novel is the epitome of small-town America where there are no secrets, and everyone knows everything about everybody.

What do you do when your best friend puts a corpse in your garage and hands you a suitcase with $100,000 worth of diamonds? Then, five minutes later, the FBI shows up. How are you going to explain the corpse? And if the FBI doesn't ask about the diamonds, do you tell them? If they don't ask, are the diamonds yours?

This is the right audiobook at the right time in American history. It is a novel in the form of a collection of present day, interwoven, short stories of a nuts-and-bolts drama that is being played out everywhere in America: a powerful, rich, conservative Republican state senator wants to replace a low-income, ethnic neighborhood with a public building which he intends to name after himself.

A gang of diamond bandits holds an entire city hostage for 25,000,000-dollars-worth in gems.

In Red Right Hand, Charlie Tristan Moore became the unwilling acolyte of the Man in Black, a treacherous elder god also known as Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. In Black Goat Blues, Charlie fought her way past bloodthirsty gods and demons to rescue her lover’s stolen soul. Now she must stop the Man in Black from achieving his ultimate goal: freeing his dread father, Azathoth, from endless confinement to feast upon humanity for all eternity. But before she can confront her inhuman mentor for the final time, Charlie must make her way to the heart of a hellish prison.

A broke, out-of-work Alaska bush pilot becomes entangled in a CIA/Red Chinese plot to steal 16 tons of gold from a plane wreck on a remote mountain top in Alaska.

A retired female Alaska state trooper is forced to help drug smugglers in Alaska recover a shipment of cocaine. She is able to escape with the cocaine and being chased by the drug smugglers. She turns the tables and goes from the hunted to the hunter.

On Borrowed Time is a literary, historical snapshot of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown going ghost because of corruption - not the gold running out. It is allegorical of what is happening today when the "bad guys" are “too big to jail.” A novel of interlocking, first-person vignettes, it is a three-year look at the nail-biting, day-to-day drama focused on how the rich legally squeeze out the middle and working class.

Faux history of North Carolina's outer banks.

Santa Zanni, is a work of narrative nonfiction. It is a collection of interlocking short stories offering a snapshot of California history from 1916 to 1920. It is also humor disguised as social commentary disguised as literature. It falls into the category of creative nonfiction.

A young adult Alaska Gold Rush adventure.

The lessons of history are real life lessons. That is because history is real life. History is the study of the future. This book gives the high school students a dozen real life lessons and how to use history to see the future.

The book begins with the murder of the narrator. The bandits believe him to be dead so the largest mining company on the planet uses his apparent death as a cover to turn him into a secret agent. The planet, Cerberus, makes it money mining gold, and there is an unusual amount of high quality gold that is just appearing on the planetary market. That is driving the price of gold down, which is bad news for a planet.

The Best Boots I Ever Ate is a 70,000 word, literary, historically accurate saga of the Alaska Gold Rush novel of three years in the life of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown, from formation to demise, 1903 to 1906. The drama is told via 31 interconnected short stories focusing on the unique characters and events of the Alaska Gold Rush.

Captain Heinz Noonan, master of the impossible crime, is in Wyoming to solve an odd murder. A transient is under arrest, accused of murdering himself with a weapon that cannot be found at a time no one could pinpoint for an unknown motive. And how is this murder linked with three odd robberies in three different Wyoming towns in adjacent counties and what does all of this have to do with $25 million in missing Russian money from Philadelphia? See if you can solve the impossible crime faster than Detective Heinz Noonan.

No one knew where Old Man Peterson got his gold, but there was a lot of it. Everyone wanted a share and was willing to kill to get it.

Two historians discover 1,000 pounds of double eagle $20 gold pieces that were hidden in a San Francisco basement for 150 years. But to get the gold they have to outsmart a street gang and beat a fleet of bulldozers to the vault site.

Unicorn Airlines Flight 739 with no pilot, no crew, and no passengers lands at Anchorage International Airport. As the authorities are wondering what happened, a ransom demand is made for the passengers: $25 million in diamonds. Chief of detectives for the Sandersonville, North Carolina, police department Captain Heinz Noonan is visiting his in-laws in Anchorage when he is called onto the case.

In The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car, chief of detectives Heinz Noonan is asked to solve the disappearance of an empty armored car and its two drivers from a tunnel with guards on both ends. Why would anyone want to steal an empty armored car and is it linked the 12 million dollars in cash in the armored car vault under the control of the United States department of treasury which vanishes without a trace - legally? A suspenseful thriller of breathtaking action where the detective must solve an impossible crime before the heist can become an unsolved crime!

Find a Remedy is a street level look at Henry Ford's $5 Day from 17 different viewpoints including anarchists, socialists, union organizers, dynamiters, workers, worker's wifes, fellow magnates, historians, and economists. It is designed to show how the $5 Day was revolutionary in 1914 and a failure in 1919. It is snapshot of industrial history and perfect as a supplemental audiobook in an American history II class.