Deceiving Elvera

An ornery old woman, Miss E, lives full time on cruise ships, making life miserable for the crew and ignoring everyone else. Two girls, Elvera and Cathy, meet on Michigan's Mackinac Island in 1965. The friendship that grows over four summers will last a lifetime as they support each other through joy and tragedy, love and loss. As Miss E's story emerges, cabin steward Michael realizes the old woman isn't what she seems. That leaves him with a question. What is he going to do about it?

Milton Hershey is well known for his chocolate. You can find Hershey's chocolate throughout America and many other countries. Moreover, many have written about him likening M.S. Hershey to royalty, such as an Emperor or King of chocolate. However, this is not the Hersheys' greatest achievement. The far more unique, extraordinary and unparalleled achievement of Milton and Catherine Hershey is The Hershey Industrial School. As part of The Hershey Industrial School, the Hersheys created the community, businesses and education system of Hershey, PA. HIS was established in perpetuity for the benefit of American orphans. Hershey Ideal Community for Orphans is about the Hersheys' intelligent philanthropy. A philanthropy that not only benefited all who were a part of it, its beneficiaries are American children who are orphans, and therefore, through no fault of their own, are at risk of suffering a range of undesirable outcomes. The Hersheys were driven by philanthropic effectiveness, measured by the degree to which each individual was able to reach their full potential according to their own characteristics. HIS fully develops each orphan as a whole person according to such child's unique potential through its state-of-the-art program tailored around each individual by transforming him into an adult of exceptional character, prepared to make a living as an adult.

Presents an alphabetical listing of over ten thousand first names for boys and girls, each with information on the name's origin, meaning, and usage.

Knowlton experiences a flood of repressed childhood memories, and realizes that her father was L.A.'s notorious Black Dahlia Killer. Carefully documenting her claims, she exposes George Knowlton's 30-year rampage of rape and murder. Even more shocking is the evidence she provides revealing that the police always knew the killer's identity.

"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.

T his novel delves not only into the private life of the main character, but into his confused mind as he seeks to understand this thing called living. Will he succeed? Will he find answers? As he seeks answers, he discovers that his family and friends are also seeking, to which he has no response. This author believes people are decent/loving/caring and are looking to understand this thing we call living. Answers that do not come easily in one’s life time while others seem to appear to succeed. Join me by reading the story of Carter Shelton and I hope you will not only enjoy this story but perhaps it will give you much food for thought.

In the first age of mankind, a magnificent sword made to protect becomes a mighty weapon of war. Fallen angels leave their heavenly abode for the natural world to corrupt the seed of men and lead them into wicked ways. The lineage of Seth struggle to remain pure and faithful to God as the growing menace seeks their end.