Authorized biography of Jeraldine Saunders, author of the book Love Boats and creator of The Love Boat television series.

LIFE-LIFE IS THE ADVENTURE The physical world-the magnificent illusion-that's the game. The Shell is where the dice are rolled. Where the wheel is spun. Where the cards are shuffled and dealt. Life is where the hand is played. You can see why it's so important that we forget it's all an illusion. If we remembered, every time we held a hand that didn't suit our fancy, we'd fold and request a new deal. What would that do to the game, to the other players? Every hand can't be a winner, right? Sometimes we draw garbage, sometimes we get a pair. Maybe some-one else has a higher pair. Somebody gets three-of-a-kind. A straight. A full house. Once in a while someone draws a royal flush. Get it? Once in a while. Not every player. Not every hand. That's how the game works. Life is about playing the hand you're dealt, to the best of your ability. If you're a really good player, maybe you can win the pot without holding so much as a pair. Sometimes starting out with that royal flush can be a disadvantage. Think of the royals throughout history who inherited their kingdoms. Never had to work for them. Never had to learn, develop muscles, grow strong. One day they discover they're not up to the new challenges, and they wind up leaving their heads on the block. And the guy sharpening the guillotine is the one who began life with low numbers and no face cards.

The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial is a quarterly publication of the international Carl Barks Fan Club, featuring pictorial articles regarding the amazing worldwide influence of Carl's stories and artwork on literature, the arts, education and literacy. For seven decades the work of Carl Barks has been translated into every major language, published by the millions, and enjoyed by billions of adults and children of all cultures. The characters he created have become household names, his stories treasured works of literature. Yet it was not until his retirement in the 1960s that Carl's name was made known to the public, for during the twenty-three years of his comic book cartooning career, his work was presented to the public as that of Walt Disney-specifically, that of The Walt Disney Company. An American of humble beginnings from rural Oregon, Carl Barks became the single most prolific, most published, most read author and most viewed artist in history. This series of pictorial books explores every aspect of his work and its ongoing global impact. Today Carl's oil paintings of scenes featuring the characters he created and wrote about are eminently collectible, selling at auction for very high prices."

IN MORE THAN seventeen years of investigative reporting for magazines and newspapers, Anthony Pignataro has written numerous essays about life in the underbellies of seemingly upscale communities: Orange County and Sacramento in California, and on the tropical island paradise of Maui, Hawaii, where he has made his home since 2003 and is editor of the alternative weekly newspaper MauiTime. Pignataro's steamy Charley Ridgway novels of hardboiled action and noir intrigue, Small Island and The Dead Season (published in 2011 and 2012 by Event Horizon Press), have made their mark with lovers of dark adventures. Stealing Cars With The Pros collects thirty-three true stories that helped inspire his suspenseful fiction writing.

Deep in trance during a hypnotherapy session, Edward Peterson spontaneously regresses to an alternate life experience memory and begins speaking an unknown language. This leads Dr. Alan Arthur Winston to help his patient uncover a hidden realm where past, present and future exist as one, and each new life potentiality is chosen from one incarnation to another. In the most stunning revelation of all, Peterson enters and describes in detail a life experience which takes place several centuries in our future, when tens of thousands of families live in huge geosynchronous satellites, estranged from the Worlders below, and Earth's decimated population suffers from a war-ravaged environment polluted with radioactive toxins. Be prepared to have your convictions shaken to their core by the iconoclastic revelations to be glimpsed in L5.

HAVING RECEIVED disturbing news from his physician, seventy-year-old Frank Hessel agonizes over how best to tell Sarah, his long-term girlfriend. Not wanting to be a burden, he finally decides to break up with her, to set her free, just when they are finally able to be a true couple after years of limited time together. Before he can act, Frank runs into his childhood friend and rival, Carl, who has moved back to Happy Valley following the death of his wife. Frank is a devout Catholic while Carl was raised Lutheran, and they always enjoyed a friendly rivalry. Carl tells Frank that someone else from their childhood has also returned, Jonathan Green-part of the last Jewish family in the valley. Old friendships, ancient rivalries, and human greed and prejudice threaten to tear apart the idyllic peace of Happy Valley.

A Cahuilla woman firmly rooted in her Native American heritage, Snowbird Jones is a UCLA graduate with majors in forensics and criminology. On the staff of the Santa Barbara Police Department, Sgt. Jones investigates the disappearance of a young college girl and learns there are 130 unsolved missing persons cases in California which have occurred within two miles of the Pacific Coast Highway between Mexico and the Oregon border. Jones becomes lead officer in a statewide police task force to learn the details of these mysterious disappearances. Yet there are no details-no sightings, no phone calls, no credit card or bank transaction records, or any other trails to show where this otherwise unconnected group may have gone . . . or been taken. As cleanly as if they had never existed, each individual has simply and mysteriousl-VANISHED.

The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial is a quarterly publication of the international Carl Barks Fan Club, featuring pictorial articles regarding the amazing worldwide influence of Carl's stories and artwork on literature, the arts, education and literacy. For seven decades the work of Carl Barks has been translated into every major language, published by the millions, and enjoyed by billions of adults and children of all cultures. The characters he created have become household names, his stories treasured works of literature. Yet it was not until his retirement in the 1960s that Carl's name was made known to the public, for during the twenty-three years of his career, his work was presented to the public as that of Walt Disney-specifically, that of The Walt Disney Company. An American of humble beginnings from rural Oregon, Carl Barks became the single most prolific, most published, most read author in history. This series of pictorial books explores every aspect of his work and its ongoing global impact.

Originally published over one hundred years ago by young newspaper editor William Elbridge Cowles of Minnesota's Saint Peter Journal, THE STORY OF REDMANSHIP and the Sons of Liberty offers today's readers amazing glimpses into the Revolutionary history of America's British Colonies while describing "The Patriotic Origin and Beautiful Teachings of the Improved Order of Red Men." Who were these Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty who secretly met in Boston's Green Dragon tavern? "Bound together in defense of Equality before the law," they disguised themselves as Mohawks to carry out the destruction of tea at Boston Harbor, and to ultimately overthrow tyrannical British rule, singing: Rally Mohawks Bring out your axes, And tell King George we'll pay no taxes On his foreign tea; His threats are vain and vain to think To force our girls and wives to drink His vile Bohea Then rally boys and hasten on To meet our chiefs at the Green Dragon. Our Warren's there, and bold Revere, With hands to do and words to cheer, For Liberty and Laws; Our country's "braves" and firm defenders Shall ne'er be left by true North-Enders Fighting Freedom's cause Then rally boys and hasten on To meet our chiefs at the Green Dragon Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, with historic images of people and events of the period.