You’ve heard the uplifting stories: Passersby dropping scads of cash into charity collection buckets or anonymous donors paying off hospital bills for strangers. People helping victims during storms and natural disasters. Or the simple act of someone bringing food to an elderly, sick neighbor or taking care of their garden while they recuperate. These acts […]
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Love Letters from the Marine Wolf: A US Hospital and Transport Ship, an Army Medic Afloat, and a War Bride in World War II by Michele Makros
A timepiece World War II biography of the US hospital and transport ship SS Marine Wolf told through the lens of love between Ship’s Complement Surgical Technician Michael Makros Jr. and his homefront warbride Maria. “Love Letters from the Marine Wolf” has been described as a Titanic love story, only better: the lovers are real people (the […]
MICHAEL’S PLACE by Gerald Myers
Michael’s Place is a coming-of-age tale where innocence meets corruption, safety confronts peril, and friendship copes with betrayal. It is the story of two adolescents from different worlds who meet and bond, only to have their connection severed by jealousy, deceit, and perfidy. It is only while reconnecting during adulthood that they have an opportunity […]
THE SURPRISE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS AT THANKSGIVING by Theresa Span
This is a modern-day story told from the wolf’s perspective who tries to borrow a cup of sugar from three pigs. He tries to convince them he’s not a pig eater because he’s not the same wolf they had read about in other books.It wasn’t until he smelled the aroma of Thanksgiving cooking coming from […]
A PLACE LIKE THIS: FINDING MYSELF IN A CAPE COD COTTAGE by Sally W. Buffington
Summers on The Cape in A Place Like This When newly engaged Sally Buffington is introduced to Craigville, she meets an expansive Cape Cod cottage that is virtually a family member itself. She quickly finds herself competing for airtime among the talkative, assured band of brothers and her new mother-in-law-the cottage’s lively and confounding matriarch.Sally, […]