“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” -- Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

It's a memory shared, never forgotten: the last page; the end of a book. It might have taken you a day, or perhaps a month, but you did it--and you'll never forget the feeling. For many of us, it was Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, or To Kill a Mockingbird. For others, it's The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, or Twilight. While they vary in plots, twists and characters, they share a common theme: they've captured our hearts and our imagination.

Tau Kappa Epsilon believes in the power of reading, and we are pleased to share literary brilliance written by our favorite people in the world, Tekes. 

To have your published work shared, please email our communications department at tkeogc@tke.org. Be sure to include your name, chapter and short description of your work. 

 


Pride Leadership: Strategies for the LGBTQ+ Leader to be the King or Queen of Their Jungl

By Dr. Steve R. Yacovelli
Rho-Psi, Millersville University
As a member of the LGBTQ+ Community, did you know that you naturally have some amazing leadership skills inside you, based upon your experience, that you may not be capitalizing on? Now, it’s not to say that our straight brothers and sisters don’t have the potential to be rock star leaders, but—through many of our shared experiences being LGBTQ+ folks—we’ve had the opportunity to truly develop such skills as leveraging empathy, shaping our culture, being courageous, and being authentic. These skills are some of the most sought-after leadership competencies in the workplace today ... and they’re already inside you, dear LGBTQ+ professional! Based upon over twenty-five years’ experience in the leadership development, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting space, Dr. Steve Yacovelli identifies the six leadership traits—being authentic, leading with courage, having empathy, effective communication, building relationships, and influencing organizational culture—that can greatly increase any LGBTQ+ Leader’s effectiveness, and ways in which you as an LGBTQ+ Leader can increase your own leadership potential through cultivating these six leadership competencies. Whether you’re a seasoned senior executive or a just-starting-out shiny new leader, Pride Leadership is your stop to hone your natural LGBTQ+ leadership awesomeness, gather a few kernels of wisdom to immediately apply in your workplace, and amp up your leadership-self to be just that much better-er. In short: you’ll be a more effective, impactful, and inclusive leader after reading this book. Oh, and you’ll have a good time learning along the way, too!
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Anonymous X (The Shari Harper Series Book 1)

By John R. Kerry
Mu-Zeta, Nicholls State University
Agent Harper of the Central Intelligence Agency is caught in the middle of a case file that connects terrorism, the White House, political figure heads, and even her own co-workers. As she prepares to research and expose corruption, things take on a new path as those involved with the case start to become targets of an anonymous assassin who seems to always be a few steps ahead of Agent Harper. No one can be trusted. No one is safe.
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Here’s the Score

By Dr. Ronald J. Newton
Delta-Delta, University of Northern Colorado
In 1939, a family of twelve siblings coming out of the depths of Great Depression poverty finds itself living in an abandoned town hall that once served as a basketball gymnasium in the small Colorado town of Mead. There, with basketball hoops hanging over their heads, an all-male set of triplets is born, marking the beginning of their destined journey toward leading Mead High School to basketball prominence. Growing up in the ’40s and ’50s, the triplets’ obsession with basketball is inspired and nurtured by their older siblings, schoolmates, teammates, and community members. Throughout their elementary, middle school, and early high school years, the triplets and two other brothers learn from teammates and coaches. They experience adulation and newspaper notoriety, causing their mother to constantly remind them to refrain from self-absorption and to work together. In 1956, the brothers participate in a historic event in the nation’s basketball history when they form and play as the starting five for Mead High. This story, told through the eyes of sixteenth-born and triplet Ronald James Newton, recounts his struggles in the classroom and on the basketball court and portrays his striving toward development of meaningful and satisfying relationships with classmates, family, and friends. The story’s threads of spirituality and facing and rising above adversity are enveloped in the bonding relationships that small-town and small-school athletics provide and are crowned by Mead’s ’57 state basketball championship victory.
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That others may live

By Jason S. Carr
Xi-Theta, University of West Georgia
That Others May Live is a motto for the brave and bold that serve our country. It's also a lifestyle for those in the trenches of reaching the next generation for Him. ? I've taken the last 20+ years of doing that and created more than a book. This is a field guide to help challenge, encourage, and resource those leading the next generation. ? This book is for student pastors, small group leaders, and those engaged in relational ministry. ? To help you get copies for leaders, we've made some bundles available at the buy now link so that you can help others live.
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Weight Of The World : A Glimpse Into The Mind Of Anxiety And Depression

By Dean L. Spivey Jr.
Omicron-Iota, Rowan University
Living with Depression and Anxiety is hard. It crushes you at times. For many it may seem like the weight of the world is on their shoulders. For many it seems like the end of the world. These words, these poems, my thoughts are just a glimpse into the mind of someone living with an illness such as these. These words are for awareness and also for comfort. You are not alone this book speaks. We are not alone, and our struggle is one shared by many. Read, feel, and be inspired to fight against your demons and prevail. Read and know I feel and know your pain. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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Huckabee: The Authorized Biography

By Michael D. Huckabee
Beta-Psi Emerging Chapter, Arkansas State University
For the first time, the former governor of Arkansas opens up the vault to friend and biographer W. Scott Lamb (Pujols: More Than the Game, 2011) to tell his life story. In this thoroughly unique biography of one of the most likeable, influential leaders in America, Lamb covers the entire scope of Mike Huckabee’s life and career. With full, unfettered access to Governor Huckabee’s personal library, files, and family records, fans will finally get the definitive account of one humble man’s rise to political prominence. Readers are introduced to young Michael Dale Huckabee, son of a local fireman in Hope, Arkansas. Huckabee would soon share the same grade school teacher as Bill Clinton, who is nine years his senior. Huckabee’s collegiate aspirations took him to Ouachita Baptist University, where he graduated in two and a half years and met his future wife, Janet. Huckabee also honed his musical talents, becoming a bass player and forming the band Capitol Offense. Later he would also serve at the side of television personality James Robison during the early years of his television ministry. He hit his ministerial stride in the early 1980s, when he took the helm of Immanuel Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, from 1980 to 1986. Most people, however, know Mike Huckabee as a politician. In 1994, he became lieutenant governor and faced the now infamous Whitewater scandal that sent then-governor Jim Guy Tucker into court to face felony charges of corruption and fraud. In the interim Huckabee decided to run for governor, but not before Tucker would change his mind at the eleventh hour and cause a statewide constitutional crisis that challenged Huckabee to the core. Huckabee’s courageous handling of the debacle endeared him to the hearts of many citizens, causing him to serve as the forty-fourth governor of Arkansas from 1996 until 2007. Huckabee also takes a good look at other difficult decisions he faced. In 2000 he granted clemency to prisoner Maurice Clemmons, who, while on parole, moved to Washington State and murdered four policemen in 2009. Huckabee was forced to field question after question about this case during his 2008 presidential bid—a race in which he finished second to John McCain. Today, Mike Huckabee is known for his television program on the Fox News channel and as a potential contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. His many fans will now have the opportunity to get to know the man behind the famous, reassuring smile.
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The Sawdust War

By Jim W. Barnes
Epsilon-Theta, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Few poets in America today can write as solemnly and truthfully as Jim Barnes about the heritage of America, a heritage as wide as the continent itself. Jim Barnes's aesthetic is vivid throughout these poems. A high sense of loss pervades the book, but Barnes's strong-willed persona never regrets what has passed. Instead, the persona gains strength from it. What has come to be his signature in four earlier books of poetry and remains his mark in The Sawdust War is essentially where his art lies, a strong sense of loss, of redemption coming out of loss, of place both geographical and spiritual.
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Nimrod's Peril

By LD Sledge
Beta-Phi, Louisiana State University
Nymphae, the debauched Queen of the Island Kingdom of Eros, has kept her irresistible beauty over hundreds of years by drawing life from men. She thinks the essence of the young Wanderer Nimrod Woodbine's spiritual purity will give her the immortality she craves. He must go to her of his free will. She kidnaps Musette, Nimrod's beautiful human-size mouse traveling companion, knowing Nimrod will try to rescue her. Nymphae's goal is to consume the essence of his very being, leaving him as a living husk in a tortured spiritual eternity as her helpless slave, joining the hundreds of other used-up lovers she keeps in standing coffins in her dungeon. His quest is filled with many dangers, but Nymphae is the most perilous of all.
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Write Well Right Now

By William H. Koenecke
Zeta-Chi, Murray State University
A Guidebook of English Grammar, Punctuation, and Writing by William H. Koenecke, a retired university professor from the Department of Adolescent, Career and Special Education at Murray State, Murray, KY, understands the need for improving the writing skills of tomorrow’s teachers. He has over 40 years’ experience in the field of education. Over his career, Professor Koenecke has held positions ranging from a chemistry teacher to high school and grade school principal, a school superintendent and has taught at three universities. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and earned a second M.S. Degree in Industrial Technology and Training Development from Illinois State University at Normal. He received his B.S. Degree at Murray State in 1967.
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Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional about the Legacy You Leave

By Michael D. Huckabee
Beta-Psi Emerging Chapter, Arkansas State University
We all plant seeds of our legacy and those seeds will produce something. The quality of the legacy is determined by the nature of the seed. The quality of the seed is determined by the quality of the character, but the legacy is the fruit that springs forth. Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee expands on the “character is the issue” theme, by exploring the legacy of character.Whether in politics, marriage, education, or even business, what matters most is what lasts beyond the immediate to the ultimate. The challenge for all who wish not only to have character but to live a life of integrity is to live for those things which will build a legacy that increases in value over time.The culture of our society today is concerned only with the next election, the sequel potential, the next big media hype instead of being concerned with the next generation, the enduring quality of a story, or contributing to a worldview that lasts beyond one's lifetime. What matters most is what lasts beyond the immediate to the future.
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Dawn's Revenge

By LD Sledge
Beta-Phi, Louisiana State University
Dawn's Revenge is a thriller set in the New Orleans French Quarter. Jack Chandler, a struggling young lawyer who takes every case that comes in the door, learns that his housekeeper's beautiful teenage daughter has been brutally raped and murdered by a ring of child molesters. The powerful sheriff of Orleans Parish condones the crime and attempts to silence Jack, who seeks to get justice in spite of attempts on his life. In Dawn’s Revenge you will be immersed in the color, sensuality and feel the pulse of the Quarter’s dark mysteries; the most dangerous hurricane to ever hit New Orleans; and a terrifying trek through the marsh and swamps of the French and Indian back country. You will see the intrigues of Louisiana politicians, thrill to a biracial romance and smile at Nookie Naquin, the carefree Cajun. Danger, mystery and voodoo will keep you turning pages until the shocking, unexpected twist at the end. The author lived in the mysterious New Orleans French Quarter for a number of years, where he learned its ways, its secrets and its dark corners unknown to the outsider.
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The Cruelest Cut (A Jack Murphy Thriller)

By Richard E. Reed
Nu-Lambda, University of Southern Indiana
The first victim is attacked in her home. The second murder is even more twisted. Signed, sealed, and delivered with a message for the police, stuffed in the victim’s throat. A fractured nursery rhyme that ends with a warning: “There will be more.” For detective Jack Murphy, it’s more than a threat. It’s a personal invitation to play. And no one plays rougher than Jack. Especially when the killer’s pawns are the people he loves…
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We Have a lot to talk about... It's cancer

By Jordan Spencer
Mu-Zeta, Nicholls State University
What is it like to be in your 20's and diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer? What is it like to fight this chronic illness while holding down a full-time job and raising 2 kids ages 4 & 2? What is it like to be married to someone with this diagnosis? This book is written from a husband's perspective who wants to honor his wife by telling a story of hope and perseverance. This book will honor our great God, doctors, friends, family, and random strangers that went out of their way to support our family. God reached his hand down and healed my wife at a time when the outlook wasn't so great. My wife chose to fight like hell for her life and our family. This book will give you insights of the actual physical fight, the mental fight, and the spiritual fight. Jordan grew up in Zachary, Louisiana and after graduation he went to Nicholls State to receive his bachelor's degree. At Nicholls he was the President of his Fraternity, a committee chair of the Student Programming Association, and most importantly he met his wife Megan. Megan followed Jordan to South Florida where he received his master's degree from FIU. Jordan and Megan are now married with 2 kids, Kinley and Cohen, and Jordan helped support Megan in a fight against breast cancer. They now live in Door County, Wisconsin where they focus on their Christian faith and living life to the fullest, as a family.
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Elementals: The Seven Spheres

By Jared Files
Alpha-Gamma, Washington State University
Discovering a sphere was only the beginning. Living with one is something else entirely… In the near future, much of the globe wages war against the virtaiyu: a high-tech alien race – and humanity’s greatest threat.
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The Kingdom of Liars: A Novel

By Nicholas Macdonald-Martell
Iota-Beta, Susquehanna University
In this brilliant debut fantasy, a story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom’s despised traitor holds the truth. Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king’s nine-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back at the world that rejects him and his family. In a world where memory is the coin that pays for magic, Michael knows something is there in the hot white emptiness of his mind. So when the opportunity arrives to get folded back into court, via the most politically dangerous member of the kingdom’s royal council, Michael takes it, desperate to find a way back to his past. He discovers a royal family that is spiraling into a self-serving dictatorship as gun-wielding rebels clash against magically trained militia. What the truth holds is a set of shocking revelations that will completely change the Hollows, if Michael and his friends and family can survive long enough to see it.
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Little Whale: A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe

By Roy A. Peratrovich, Jr.
Chi, University of Washington
Keet, a ten-year-old Tlingit Indian boy, stows away for a voyage on his father’s canoe . . . and soon finds himself caught in the middle of a wild seastorm. The story carries him far from his home village, and when he makes land, he winds up right in the middle of a dangerous dispute between two Indian clans. The story of how he copes with these surprises and extricates himself from danger is dramatic and unforgettable. And it’s mostly true. Roy Peratrovich here builds a wonderful children’s tale on the bones of a story his own grandfather passed down. His accompanying illustrations bring the people and landscapes of Alaska—to say nothing of the adventures!—to stunning life, drawing young readers into a long-gone time when the whims of nature and man could suddenly test a boy’s courage.
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The Business of Brotherhood: Thinking Strategically About Founding and Running Social Fraternities

By Michael A. Smith Ph.D.
Beta-Pi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Most educational material for fraternities addresses day to day operational problems such as how to make a budget or how to set goals and divide up the work or how to plan a recruiting event. However, many chapters face issues deeper than not having a good budgeting process or a checklist for recruiting. They face fundamental, reason-to-exist problems. Those deep problems are the result of failing to address what businesses call strategic issues--questions about the role the organization will play in the lives of its members and in its environment and how it will compete in the long run. This book addresses that educational gap. It is written for volunteers who work with social fraternities and for undergraduates who want to take their chapters to the next level by questioning some long-held common attitudes and practices concerning founding and running social fraternities.
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The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom

By Ronald W. Reagan
Iota, Eureka College
Ronald Reagan left behind a legacy that America willnever forget. Now, in this one-of-a-kind collection of his most intimatethoughts, his favorite quotations by others, and his own most collectiblejokes, all culled from a newly disclosed set of personal notecards he keptthroughout his life and career, fans and admirers of the fortieth presidentwill find a unique window of insight into the soul of an American icon. Editedby Douglas Brinkley, editor of #1 NewYork Times bestseller The ReaganDiaries, this indispensible Reagan retrospective is perfect for fathers,graduates, and anyone looking to find inspiration in the thoughts and musingsof a great American leader.
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The Heroic Dead

By Jason A. Mangano
Rho, West Virginia University
After repeated terrorist attacks, the US and its allies are drawn into a worldwide conflict against a united Islamic army. Fighting against superior numbers on foreign soil, the US begins to experience considerable casualties which lead the military to develop an extreme new weapon. Job Tillman, a pastor's son and newly enlisted Marine, must test his Christian faith when exposed to the military's newest advancement, an injection which has the ability to temporarily resurrect dead soldiers on the battlefield. These soldiers awaken as a fearless and merciless fighting force with a hunger for killing. Their purpose is to "recycle" dead soldiers so that other Marines don't have to die, but can their bloodlust be contained?
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Bruce & Jeanne's Great Loop Adventure

By Bruce B. Melchert
Beta-Theta, University of Missouri-Columbia
The story of a husband and wife’s (Bruce and Jeanne Melchert) continous waterway travels on a 40-foot motor yacht, cruising more than 5,000 nautical miles around the eastern part of North America know as America’s Greap Loop.
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Tales from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Fighting Irish Stories Ever Told (Tales from the Team)

By Digger F. Phelps
Epsilon-Zeta, Rider University
Former ESPN basketball commentator Digger Phelps is regarded as one of the most charismatic and opinionated analysts in the profession. And he was the same personality during his twenty years as the head coach at the University of Notre Dame. In this book, first published in 2004, Phelps teams up with Tim Bourret and recalls the most successful period in Notre Dame basketball history. In his twenty seasons, seventeen of Phelps’s teams advanced to postseason play, including fourteen NCAA Tournament teams. In the book, Phelps recalls his initial expression of interest in Notre Dame through a 1965 letter he wrote to football coach Ara Parseghian. It recounts the scenes of his seven wins over number one-ranked teams, including the landmark game in 1974 when the Irish ended UCLA’s eighty-eight-game winning streak. Two chapters concentrate on the coach’s former Notre Dame players, concluding with the selection of his All-Digger teams. He also recalls the twenty Hall of Fame coaches he competed against, including Bobby Knight, Al McGuire, Ray Meyer, and John Wooden. Tales from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Locker Room also contains a chapter entitled “Domers,” which documents Phelps’s relationships with Notre Dame coaches, administrators, and student-athletes, including Father Theodore Hesburgh, the man who made Notre Dame what it is today.
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We Are Not So Different

By Omar Ashour
Tau-Delta, New Jersey City University
It isn't easy going to a new school. Three students that are different from one another are able to learn that being different is awesome. They started off alone in a new school, but now they are close friends.
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The Highest Stakes (A Jack Murphy Thriller)

By Richard E. Reed
Nu-Lambda, University of Southern Indiana
In Jack Murphy’s experience, the killers who blend in are the hardest to catch. But none are as elusive—or efficient—as Mr. Smith. A man of average height, weight and build, Mr. Smith is as ordinary as his name. Which makes it easy for him to get close to his targets. Mr. Smith is no ordinary killer. But Jack Murphy is no ordinary cop . . .
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Living on New Orleans Time

By Richard A. Caire
Pi-Epsilon, Christian Brothers University
A collection of moments captured during a lifetime spent growing up and living in New Orleans. These are the fleeting minutes and seconds that make up the 'Bright Shinies' of our life, those moments that happen once and are forgotten never. All of us have them, but not all of us notice them when they're taking place. I happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right equipment to capture the ones displayed in this book. They represent times and places that will always be in memory for me, and now that they're in print, you can enjoy them, too. Life, it's said, is either too short or too long. That, I imagine, depends on where we are at any given time. Some times are better - or worse - than others. We tend to remember only the better ones. If we're clever, tho', we can examine the ones that were the least enjoyable and find something worth learning from those experiences.
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Such Outlaws

By Adam N. Rann
Iota-Beta, Susquehanna University
Twenty-five years after a corrupt government program left the city of Fort Dearborn divided, police brutality and social injustice run rampant in the city's Inner District. Robin, an outsider whose sad past has driven him to the Inner District, finds an unlikely set of companions in an elderly pastor and two young locals who quickly acquaint him with his new surroundings. But one night, an encounter with a twisted policeman leaves Robin brutally beaten. Surging with defiance, Robin's recovery propels him and his young companions on a radical journey to bring justice to the people of the Inner District and precipitate changes never before seen in Fort Dearborn. In intertwining narratives of hope and loss, oppression and rebellion, love and betrayal, one outlaw's attempt to forge an identity for his marginalized community and unite a severed city may provoke a tragedy so great that the very revolution and its supporters could face extinction. The only certainty is that the landscape of Fort Dearborn will be changed forever. A modern reimagining of the legend of Robin Hood, Such Outlaws is a gripping debut novel for teenage and adult readers alike.
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Elimination (The Shari Harper Series Book 3)

By John R. Kerry
Mu-Zeta, Nicholls State University
Agent Harper of the Central Intelligence Agency is caught in the middle of a case file that connects terrorism, the White House, political figure heads, and even her own co-workers. As she prepares to research and expose corruption, things take on a new path as those involved with the case start to become targets of an anonymous assassin who seems to always be a few steps ahead of Agent Harper. No one can be trusted. No one is safe.
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Fraudulent Representation: 1865 (Volume 2)

By John R. Kerry
Mu-Zeta, Nicholls State University
Fraudulent Representation: 1865 takes America into the minds of the Black Community, correlating behaviors and their mindset directly to the weakening of America's economy. Promoting Conservative Values, Author - Business and Campaign Consultant John Kerry presents an analytical breakdown of controversial issues using in depth research and personal experience while discussing the importance of applying Conservative Principles throughout our community.
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Here’s the Score: The Story of a Rural Colorado School’s Rise to Basketball Fame

By Dr. Ronald J. Newton
Delta-Delta, University of Northern Colorado
Here’S the Score: The Story of a Rural Colorado School’S Rise to Basketball Fame
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We Are... MD!: A History of Mater Dei Wrestling

By John S. Johnson
Nu-Lambda, University of Southern Indiana
We Are..MD! A History of Mater Dei Wrestling is a comprehensive look at the Mater Dei High School (Evansville, IN) wrestling program that has gained state recognition year after year in this competitive high school sport.
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Thirty Days

By B. Taylor Urruela
Rho, West Virginia University
Gavin Mazzarelli is a struggling writer with a complicated past, who is reeling from the loss of the only woman he’s ever loved. More than a year after the breakup, he’s still suffering major heartbreak and a serious case of writer’s block. In an attempt to help him out of his funk, Gavin’s best friend and fellow writer, Bobby, sets up an account for him on the new dating app SwipeDate. After a few unsuccessful dates, Bobby challenges him to thirty more dates in thirty days. If Gavin can complete the challenge, Bobby will give him a check for twenty-five thousand dollars. Does Gavin have what it takes to complete the challenge? Or will the trials and tribulations of modern dating prove to be too much?
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Guide to Successful Salary Negotiation

By Michael Miller
Kappa-Iota, University of Hartford
Discover the Best Tactics and Techniques to Negotiate Your Salary with Confidence – Start Getting What You Want. We know that the compensation package is an essential part of your decision to accept a new position. Learn how to negotiate salary with companies in a non-confrontational and effective way. Negotiation is a skill that anyone could learn, practice, and improve on.
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The Seventh Muse

By Dr. Bill V. Muse
Epsilon-Upsilon, Northwestern State University
This is a memoir of William V. Muse who grew up in rural Mississippi and Louisiana as the seventh son of a Pentacostal minister. By winning academic scholarships, he was able to earn bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees and advance thru an academic career from assistant professor to president. It is an uplifting story of achievement over great challenges.
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My Life With the Stars: Extraordinary Behind-the-Scenes Memoir of a Movie-TV Producer

By Maxim Simcovitch
Zeta-Lambda, Bowling Green State University
My entire life has been an exuberant roller-coaster ride with the most fantastic stars, professionally and socially. This memoir shares with you numerous exhilarating events, humorous scenes, jubilant situations, and spontaneous wild happenings that you only wish or dream about. The stars come down to earth and freely express their unrestrained feelings, natural emotions, and unaffected sensibilities, demonstrating that they can be just as human as you and I, especially, behind the scenes.
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Unwanted Spy

By Jeffrey Sterling
Beta, Millikin University
"In 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to prison, convicted of violating the Espionage Act. Sterling, it is now clear, was another victim of our government’s draconian crackdown on alleged leakers and whistleblowers. Sterling grew up in a small, segregated town in Missouri and jumped at the chance to broaden his world and serve his country, first in law school and later in the CIA. After an impressive career, Sterling’s progress came to a sudden halt: he was denied opportunities because of his race and was pushed out of the Agency. Later, Sterling courageously blew the whistle on the CIA’s botched covert operation in Iran to Senate investigators. After a few quiet years in Missouri with his wife, he was arrested suddenly and charged with espionage. Unwanted Spy is an inspiring account of one man’s uncompromising commitment to the truth and a reminder of the principles of justice and integrity that should define America."
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Internet Management for Nonprofits: Strategies, Tools and Trade Secrets

By Steven R. MacLaughlin
Gamma-Kappa, Indiana University
The rapid onset of increasingly advanced and complex technologies has challenged nonprofits to invest with their sparse resources in attempting, and failing, to keep pace with for-profit companies, with the result that most now cannot compete with new commercial products and commercial applications. Nonprofit Internet Management reveals how current technologies can be utilized in full measure most effectively by nonprofits and addresses how to manage various applications for maximum benefit to internal operations and community service.
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When Halloween Was Green

By Barry K. Finnigan
Alpha-Delta, University of Idaho
The scare in Halloween is gone from Middle America. With its celebrity-obsessed culture preferring glitter, pirates, and princesses, Keith and Benny MacCool's frightening haunted house attraction isn't what it used to be. When the few remaining Halloween enthusiasts in town start turning up dead, the MacCools unearth the source of the problem: something has awakened from Halloween's distant past. The Celtic monsters and legends of old Ireland have discovered modern man has dumbed-down every tradition that once protected mortals on the scariest night of the year. And they have plans this Halloween.But Keith and Benny have survived a lifetime of personal demons and possess insider knowledge of every Halloween fright ever devised. When the sun sets on October 31st, the MacCools are the only ones who can confront the Celtic horrors not witnessed in 2000 years. Things are about to get scary—fast.
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Lessons Learned on the Way Down: A Perspective on Christian Leadership in a Secular World

By Bernard L. Brown, Jr.
Zeta-Nu, Valdosta State University
Telling stories from his long career as a distinguished health care executive and educator, Bernie Brown shows how he put Christian leadership to work in the secular world.
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Where Winners Live: Sell More, Earn More, Achieve More Through Personal Accountability

By Dave C. Porter
Mu-Alpha, West Chester University
Be accountable and achieve success Personal accountability is the secret weapon of every successful sales professional. It is the secret weapon of Where Winners Live co-author Dave Porter, who became the owner and CEO of Baystate Financial Services at age 35 and grew it into a $100 million-a-year business over the next 15 years. It is the secret weapon of Where Winners Live co-author Linda Galindo, who transformed herself from the self-proclaimed Queen of Victims into an entrepreneur, business coach, consultant and speaker whose typical audience numbers 500 or more. Like all highly accountable professionals, these authors live Where Winners Live, an achievement they say is available to everyone. Written in a no-excuses tone and filled with personal stories and practical exercises, their book offers readers the non-negotiable, high-performance behaviors of the sales trade and tried-and-true best practices for success. Exposes the key difference between top-earning sales professionals and those who struggle to make their numbers every quarter Outlines the three critical characteristics of personal accountability: responsibility, self-empowerment, and ownership of results after the fact Explores personal accountability from the perspective of both leaders and rank-and-file sales professionals Where Winners Live shows readers the most effective way to hold themselves and others accountable.
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Stuck

By Matt S. Gosselin
Tau-Psi, University of West Florida
Robert and his sister walked home from school when, suddenly, Robert's foot got stuck. It seems the whole town is trying to help and they all tell him the same thing. "Don't get scared!" Will his sister, the Big Kid or Mac be able to get his foot unstuck? For decades, STUCK was an oral story told by the teacher and author, Jim DeFilippi. More than 25 years after high school, Gosselin and DeFilippi collaborated to bring to life a story that has been told in countless classrooms. The story teaches an important lesson. While the world may tell you otherwise, it is alright to feel scared. In fact, courage is not the absence of fear. STUCK is humorous, wonderfully repetitive, and a page-turner designed for children aged 3-7 but adored by adults of all ages. The illustrations of Maheen Sana are brilliantly vibrant and engaging. Sana is setting a new high standard for children's book illustrators.
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By Bernard L. Brown, Jr.
Zeta-Nu, Valdosta State University
We are recording our adventures in this little book with heavy hearts. Due to the many issues that accompany the aging process, we may be closing a very important chapter in our lives. But this will not keep us from continuing to share our experiences, our tales. It all started like a Mark Twain novel, but the Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finns in our stories have never grown up. Though we all have now passed the seventy-year marker, we are still just boys at heart. Our enthusiasm and passion for adventure have not waned one iota.
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By Marc R. Benioff
Beta-Sigma, University of Southern California
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By Roy P. Taylor
Mu-Upsilon, Illinois State University
When George S. Halas was asked to rebuild the Staley Company's football club in Decatur, Illinois in 1920, nobody could have imagined that his efforts would forever change Sunday afternoons in America. Halas helped found the National Football League, and with it the Chicago Bears, the most storied franchise in the league's history. From the Galloping Ghost, to the Monsters of the Midway, to that indomitable "46" defense-the "Grabowskis" as their coach named them-Bears teams and players have made such an impact on the city of big shoulders that Chicago will be forever known as a "Bears town."
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By Bernard L. Brown, Jr.
Zeta-Nu, Valdosta State University
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By Jake Handler
Pi-Upsilon, Towson University
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By Miles G. Watson, Jr.
Omicron-Upsilon, York College of Pennsylvania
It's the punch you don't see coming that drops you. Any fighter can tell you that. And Mickey Watts isn't just any fighter; he's one of the best in mixed martial arts, a top contender who seems to have it all: looks, brains and rich girlfriend who's crazy about him. The fact his family is mobbed-up to its Irish-Italian eyebrows has never been a problem...until Mick throws one punch too many and finds that some debts can only be paid in blood.
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By Phil M. Simms
Mu-Sigma Emerging Chapter, Morehead State University
The former Giants quarterback presents theories and drills, developed with Raiders quarterback coach Jim Fassell, that break passing down to its simplest components, demonstrate fundamental steps and movements, and reinforce mechanics, strength, and flexibility. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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By Charles A. Gillis, P.E.
Zeta-Mu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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By Bruce S. Maccabee
Zeta-Mu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
He thought UFOs were nonsense. Still, he agreed to do some research on the subject for an old friend. When he did, he got more than he bargained for. He discovered that someone in his own family had their own lifetime experiences with strange beings. This novel contains a story within a story, an inner book of facts based on decades of historical documents, findings, and reports by the U.S. government, many of which were classified until the author secured their release. Abduction In My Family is entertaining, educational, and opens a door to the amazing intrigue and mystery of the UFO phenomenon. Particularly so in how that phenomenon affects people, their relationships with each other, and their understanding of the world around them. The late Dr. Roger K. Leir, author of The Aliens and the Scalpel, wrote that "Bruce Maccabee's novel ingeniously weaves a fine line that twists tightly between fact and fiction, which holds the reader spellbound. This book is a MUST READ for all who want to explore the abduction phenomenon."
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By Dr. William R. Ragan PhD
Delta-Epsilon, Cleveland State University
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By Shane H. Finkelstein
Beta-Delta, University of Maryland
Ira Silver is a creature of routine. He swipes his morning coffee from nearby hotel lobbies, survives on bartering rather than spending cash, crashes funerals and conventions for free food, and lives on St. Charles Avenue alone in the home of his dying mother. But Ira’s life begins to change when a mysterious stripper named Charlie follows him home and never leaves. As the final parades of Mardi Gras fade down the streets of the Crescent City, they leave chaos strewn about the historic Garden District. But an even wilder ride is about to descend upon Ira’s otherwise monotonous existence. A Spring Break visit from his three young sons by his failed marriage triggers a hilariously hectic procession of disorder and discomfort in Ira’s life, culminating in criminal charges and a beatdown from a pissed-off pimp. When Charlie turns up missing, Ira enlists the help of two unlikely allies—his oldest son Howie and his lesbian divorce lawyer Shelly—in an absurd pursuit of justice. With Ira stumbling from one dubious mishap to the next, they’re running out of time to find the one person that can clear Ira’s name.
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By John R. Kerry
Mu-Zeta, Nicholls State University
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The Business of Changing the World

By Marc R. Benioff
Beta-Sigma, University of Southern California
Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy. All across the globe, companies large and small are making a tremendous difference in the lives of others and, in turn, are enhancing employee performance, boosting morale, lowering turnover, and heightening brand recognition. In The Business of Changing the World, Marc Benioff and 19 other leaders share their corporate philanthropy secrets for the first time, revealing how any company can start their own program and reap enormous benefits. This inspiring collection of testimonies brings to light the need for community giving, the challenges of implementing a philanthropic initiative, and the qualities CEOs must possess in order to make their programs a success. Most important, it highlights the tremendous rewards society and businesses stand to earn. These are just a few of the extraordinary leaders you'll hear from: Michael Dell explains how making a commitment to environmentally sustainable products isn't just the right thing to do-it makes good business sense Alan Hassenfeld, the chairman of Hasbro-a pioneer of the integrated corporation-shares why he believes he owes a “debt” to the children of the world and how Hasbro expanded its reach beyond the playroom UPS CEO Mike Eskew demonstrates how his company delivers on its legacy by adhering to a set of core values Timberland president and CEO Jeffrey Swartz tells how, by integrating social justice into its business model, the company represents the apex in innovation in CSR Michael Milken reveals how applying best business approaches to healthcare and education can have a positive impact on the U.S. economy In The Business of Changing the World, these trailblazers reveal why your company can-and should-start making the world a better place.
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By Arthur Nadler
Xi-Kappa, Baker University
Las Vegas 21 dealer Michele Hinsley witnessed the murder of fellow casino dealer Jimmy Danks in the parking lot of the Aztec Hotel and Casino late one night when she got off work. Hard-ass homicide detective Joe Lomax was assigned the case, while at the same time juggling his fight to clear his name in an Internal Affairs police investigation on racism accusations stemming from the shooting of an unarmed black small-time criminal. Ironically, Lomax found himself teamed up with black detective Spencer Radon to solve the murder, which led them to the doorsteps of luxury hotel owner Brandon Tyler and mafia boss Anthony D’Lucca.
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On a Wing of the Sun: Three volumes of poetry

By Jim W. Barnes
Epsilon-Theta, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
A native of Oklahoma, Jim Barnes worked as a lumberjack in western Oregon for a decade before entering college at Southeastern Oklahoma State University where he was granted a B.A. in English and French. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Arkansas. Author of a dozen books of poetry and translation--including Paris, The Sawdust War, and Visiting Picasso--he has received fellowships from the Rockefeller (Bellagio) Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, and Schloss Solitude. He has also received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Switzerland, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. For his translation of Dagmar Nick's Summons and Sign, he was awarded the Columbia University Translation Center's Translation Prize. His most recent volume is Sundown Explains Nothing: New and Selected Poems, published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. He now calls home the Flying M Ranch (Atoka, OK) and Hacienda McKown (Santa Fe, NM).
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By Dr. Richard Halgin
Epsilon-Delta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® includes current controversial issues in a debate-style forma designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an "Exploring the Issue" section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, Additional Resources, and Internet References. Go to the Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/takingsides and click on "Explore this Collection" to browse the entire Collection. Select individual Taking Sides issues to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Halgin: Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Abnormal Psychology, 9/e book here http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html#qlink=search%2Ftext%3Disbn:1259903907 for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Visit http://create.mheducation.com for more information on other McGraw-Hill titles and special collections.
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By Greg L. Hatcher
Zeta-Delta, Alma College
It's all Between the Ears Expert coach explains How to Think Like a Champion Greg Hatcher is the coach that you always wish you had. He is honest, sincere, straight to the point, a no pulled punches sort of a coach, who tells it like it is and leaves you knowing in no uncertain terms what you have to do to achieve greatness. Greg Hatcher has been coaching sports since the day he graduated from college in 1983. In his new book Between the Ears: How to Think Like a Champion, Greg shares 110 hard earned lessons learned from nearly 25 years of coaching. Between the Ears is designed to teach coaches, parents and children (and even adults) to think like champions. His book focuses on the crucial mental elements of sports and competition that can help kids and their parents have a more successful sporting experience. Hatcher explains simply in a heart to heart best friend and ally style that makes it easy for people of all ages young and old to understand the issue, see the right thing and want to do the right thing. He combines the best of what he learned from his decades of coaching experience in soccer, football, basketball, baseball, cross country, track and wrestling. Hatcher has a gift for storytelling, gives his all and packs everything he's learned from working with kids in all these sports so that they can help themselves become the best that they can be. It's no wonder that his kids are champions and have coaches from all over the country competing for them and offering them scholarships and full four year rides. They learned from a master. Happily, he has created this incredible book and shared his knowledge with the rest of us.
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TOKAMAK

By LtCol Darrell E. Stinger USAF
Lambda-Alpha, University of South Florida
The world is overpopulated and will reach a critical breaking point by the middle of the twenty-first century. By 2050, the world’s population will be ten billion people. How do you feed ten billion people?
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By Richard E. Reed
Nu-Lambda, University of Southern Indiana
The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the town landfill and homicide detective Jack Murphy is on the case. But when the victim's identity is revealed, the horrific crime takes an even darker and far more personal turn.
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By Bernard L. Brown, Jr.
Zeta-Nu, Valdosta State University
An intergenerational book: This is a great reference for grandparents, parents, and also grandchildren who are currently preparing for or have recently entered adulthood. It is an impassioned and inspiring account of experiences and lessons that an eighty year old grandfather shares with his grandchildren. Their ages range from early teens to early thirties. It focuses on living that is abundant and eternal. It explores the rapid changes that are occurring in our culture and offers answers for many of life’s questions facing today’s youth and young adults.
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By Matt S. Gosselin
Tau-Psi, University of West Florida
A wild-haired curious boy discovers who created him and for what purpose.
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By Dean Jacobs
Lambda-Chi, Wayne State College
Wondrous Creatures is an engaging and exciting book for young people to learn about animals and the habitats from around the world. The book is filled with beautiful photos taken by the author Dean Jacobs as he traveled the world exploring wild places. Included with these photos are journal entries that bring a fun and authentic personal voice to the reading experience. Additionally co-author Amy Tharp has done a masterful job of taking complex scientific information and making it accessible to the elementary reader. Maps show where the wild animals live in the world. A real plus for those visual learners. Included in the back of the book is a glossary and a map of the world that shows exactly where Dean Jacobs found these wondrous creatures. Filled with enough interesting information, this is a book that will engage everyone who picks it up to read.
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The Ghettobirds

By Bryant K. O'Hara
Zeta-Mu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Ghettobirds presents thirty works of speculative poetry that celebrate the ability of humanity to adapt to, surpass, and possibly transcend its environment and its origins. Sprinkled throughout this Afrofuturist collection are a series of recurring characters called the Ghettobirds, cybernetic beings created out of a technological singularity event that occurs in a slum. These beings exist to help humanity change itself so that, in time, it will have the capacity to leave its home world. O’Hara works with a love of both the natural and the artificial world, and uses rhythm and cadence to compress thought into images of just how strange our experiences can become as we learn to shape—and be shaped by—both worlds.
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Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

By Roy A. Peratrovich, Jr.
Chi, University of Washington
“No Natives or Dogs Allowed,” blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after becoming a seasoned fighter for equality, she would deliver her own powerful message: one that helped change Alaska and the nation forever. In 1945, Peratrovich stood before the Alaska Territorial Legislative Session and gave a powerful speech about her childhood and her experiences being treated as a second-class citizen. Her heartfelt testimony led to the passing of the landmark Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act, America’s first civil rights legislation. Today, Alaska celebrates Elizabeth Peratrovich Day every February 16, and she will be honored on the gold one-dollar coin in 2020. Annie Boochever worked with Elizabeth’s eldest son, Roy Peratrovich Jr., to bring Elizabeth’s story to life in the first book written for young teens on this remarkable Alaska Native woman.
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Wondrous Journey: The World is Waiting for You

By Dean Jacobs
Lambda-Chi, Wayne State College
The Power of a Dream (Fremont, Neb.)- After 13 years of success in the business world, Dean Jacobs asked himself a couple of questions: How much does one need to be happy? What is my dream? The answer to the latter was easy: to take a journey around the world! From May 2001 to April 2003, Jacobs traversed the globe on a low-budget adventure to better understand and know the world we all share. This journey is now captured in his book: "Wondrous Journey- The World is Waiting for You." Living on $10-$15 a day, Jacobs wandered from Australia and Southeast Asia to the Middle East and Africa as he explored 28 countries. He crossed the equator four times, ate exotic foods and encountered fascinating animals. But more importantly in a world that we are told to be afraid of, Jacobs found something different. The kindness of the ordinary people in the world was the rule, not the exception. Near the beginning of Jacob’s journey, the event known as "9-11" occurred. Instead of stopping, he continued out of a realization that more then ever he needed to learn about the world. This is a story of a man who would stop at nothing to follow his dream and the magic that happens when one follows his heart. Jacob’s book captures the essence of the 22 1/2 month journey with 190 pages of stories and 70 pages containing 140 wonderful color photographs. Wondrous Journey is a book for all ages: • Young children will enjoy the photos of animals from around the world. • Middle school students will read about areas they currently study in school. • High school and college students learn about the value of following a dream. • Adults realize it’s never too late. Few things are as powerful as fulfilling a dream or traveling the world; here’s a book that captures both. Come take this Wondrous Journey with Dean.
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The Last Reincarnation of Steven Kinder

By Barry K. Finnigan
Alpha-Delta, University of Idaho
Steven Kinder's life seems to be one bad day after another. His apartment burns down…one day after moving in. A job is lost due to a computer glitch. College records are mysteriously frozen and he’s accused of cheating his way through his degree. When paramilitary thugs bust down his door at two in the morning, suddenly he’s having the worst bad day ever. Hauled away in chains, he’s accused of being an illegal alien and thrown into a subzero coffin to linger in suspended animation forever. But life turns from bad to bizarre when his rescue becomes even more bewildering than the kidnapping. Steven is about to discover that there are aliens everywhere—real intergalactic aliens hidden just out of human perception. And that the accidents destroying Steven’s life may not have been so accidental after all... Now he’s on the run and really learning what being human is all about. Because the only thing more traumatic than learning alien souls are reincarnating on Earth would be learning he's one of them.
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Hannaford Murder

By Jake L. Jamelli
Zeta-Tau, Shippensburg University
Johanthan Hannaford wants his twin brother murdered and he finds a hit man in an old steel mill bar. They come to an agreement, but there are complications after the hit. The hired hit man is shot at the scene of the crime and his identity and DNA cause more problems. As the detectives look closer into the murder, they find more intrigues that revolve around the Hannafords and the hit man...
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On-The-Job Speech Training

By Ray Franklin
Lambda-Alpha, University of South Florida
Public speaking tools to build on your professional success. Effective communication is critical to building a successful career, and this book is a must read for anyone aspiring to improve their speaking skills.
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The Poohman

By Walter S. Zalewski, Jr.
Iota-Rho, Seton Hall University
Four college friends meet at a class reunion and discuss their life stories up to that point. Walter S. Zalewski Jr.’s tale allows the reader to share in an intimate conversation with four college friends and the story of how they have grown apart and have come back together again through the years.
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The Immortality Recipe

By Christopher Rosin
TKE Colony 812 - Wisconsin Parkside, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
When Teal suspects her grandma's secret recipe book might be a book of spells, she discovers her family protects the secrets of living forever.
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By Sherwood L. Weingarten
Epsilon-Pi, Colgate University
Grandpa Graybeard is a sorcerer who frequently has to get his granddaughter Lily and her best friend Penny out of trouble when the two 8-year-old fairies mess up their magic spells. Their misadventures - as told by a real grandfather-grandchild team - become great fun for all three and for young readers who love to let their imaginations run wild.
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Light of Her Children

By Dr. Ronald J. Newton
Delta-Delta, University of Northern Colorado
This is the remarkable story of the Newton family of twenty siblings and the early life of Ronald James Newton and his journey to adulthood in rural Northeastern Colorado. In this stimulating narrative, Ronald James Newton tells the story of the Newton family growing up during the Great Depression, World War II, and the 50s in a small town lodged within a rich agricultural landscape lying along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
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It's All Real to Me: The True Story of an Imaginary Parent

By Travis S. Ridgel
Theta-Nu, Southeastern Louisiana University
Travis had always dreams about having children. Tired of waiting, he imagined two of his own. Join him on his journey as an imaginary parent.
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On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series)

By Jim W. Barnes
Epsilon-Theta, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
On Native Ground, Jim Barnes's splendid memoir in poetry and prose, takes us from his boyhood in rural southeastern Oklahoma during the Depression and World War II through his mature years as an internationally recognized poet. In the first part of the memoir, Barnes recalls places, people, and events from his childhood. He singles out forgotten landmarks that have been damaged or destroyed through the passage of time. While lamenting their loss, Barnes celebrates the capacity of art to keep in memory what is otherwise forgotten. To that end, Barnes's exquisitely crafted poems memorialize moments, scenes, or emotions from a past that is at once personal and collective. In the memoir's second part, Barnes chronicles more recent experiences in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, evoking vividly the sights, sounds, and moods of the places from which he draws new inspiration for his art. Throughout, Barnes comments incisively on writing, the universality of art, and contemporary literary issues. Above all, by his own example, he shows how a writer can be firmly rooted in the land while transcending any limitations implied by ethnic or regional labels.
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The Heiress and the Sex Tape

By Jake L. Jamelli
Zeta-Tau, Shippensburg University
Liz Sunnery, one of the heiresses to the Sun-Sun Bakery Company, is a freshman in college. Her older sister, her guardian, warns her of the pitfalls that you can fall into and how they can impact business. Liz and her friends are talked into doing a sex tape. The next day, Liz calls her sister and tells her about the video. Diane Sunnery, the older sister, is upset but tells Liz she will think of something. R. Blaise Conte is hired to stop the tape from being uploaded to the Internet. Using his contacts Conte comes up with a plan that almost backfires on him. Before he arrives, Liz and the one young man she made the tape with are attacked in a drive by shooting. Questions arise about the shooting. In addition, the girl who shot the video is a retired adult film star and is being hunted by her former producer. And, to add to the confusion, Diane Sunnery is missing. Conte is embroiled in both the shooting and the missing sister. The story weaves between Pittsburgh and New York City...
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Road Signs on the Journey Home: Fifty-Two Modern-Day Proverbs

By Bernard L. Brown, Jr.
Zeta-Nu, Valdosta State University
This is an intriguing and inspiring collection of devotionals based on messages gleaned from signs along the roads we travel. It can be meaningful to adults, fascinating to children, and even helpful to youth learning to drive. Each message is supported by words of wisdom from the ancient Book of Proverbs.
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Father Ted Hesburgh: He Coached Me

By Digger F. Phelps
Epsilon-Zeta, Rider University
The University of Notre Dame is a special place, regarded by many as the world’s top Catholic institution of higher learning. Yet its modern reputation for excellence and service is only part of the legacy of Father Theodore Hesburgh, the university’s president from 1952 to 1987. Father Ted’s influence extended beyond Notre Dame’s campus in Northern Indiana. He worked with presidents, Popes, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and his guidance resulted in nuclear nonproliferation, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation. One of the many Domers influenced by Father Ted was Richard “Digger” Phelps, Notre Dame’s men’s basketball coach from 1971 to 1991. Phelps gives readers a seat at the table with Father Ted, from the basketball locker room in the 1970s to Father Ted’s final Mass before he passed away in 2015. This account is an intimate portrait of an unlikely friendship and a rare look at the private moments of a man Digger often describes as “a living saint.”
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The Ultimate Guide to Successful Job Interviewing

By Michael Miller
Kappa-Iota, University of Hartford
The strategies in this book were compiled by the author, successful Headhunter, M.L. Miller, from his series of experiences working for hundreds of client companies from Fortune 100 large companies to startups, conducting over twenty thousand job interviews, receiving hiring manager feedback from thousands more, training interviewers, and designing interviewing processes. Preparing for your interviews with this book will allow you to gain confidence as you gain knowledge. Whether you’re early in your career or a seasoned veteran, most people don’t interview often enough to develop or maintain strong interview techniques.
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An American Life

By Ronald W. Reagan
Iota, Eureka College
Don’t miss one of our greatest presidents’ bestselling autobiographies in his own words. Ronald Reagan’s story is a work of major historical importance, a narrative that The Washington Times calls “one of our classic American success stories.” Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in ways that are both fundamental and lasting, than Ronald Reagan. Certainly no president has more dramatically raised the American spirit, or done so much to restore national strength and self-confidence. Here, then, is a truly American success story—a great and inspiring one. From modest beginnings as the son of a shoe salesman in Tampico, Illinois, Ronald Reagan achieved first a distinguished career in Hollywood and then, as governor of California and as president of the most powerful nation in the world, a career of public service unique in our history. Ronald Reagan’s account of that rise is told here with all the uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit that made him perhaps the most able communicator ever to occupy the White House, and also with the sense of drama of a gifted natural storyteller. He tells us, with warmth and pride, of his early years and of the elements that made him, in later life, a leader of such stubborn integrity, courage, and clear-minded optimism. Reading the account of this childhood, we understand how his parents, struggling to make ends meet despite family problems and the rigors of the Depression, shaped his belief in the virtues of American life—the need to help others, the desire to get ahead and to get things done, the deep trust in the basic goodness, values, and sense of justice of the American people—virtues that few presidents have expressed more eloquently than Ronald Reagan. With absolute authority and a keen eye for the details and the anecdotes that humanize history, Ronald Reagan takes the reader behind the scenes of his extraordinary career, from his first political experiences as president of the Screen Actors Guild (including his first meeting with a beautiful young actress who was later to become Nancy Reagan) to such high points of his presidency as the November 1985 Geneva meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, during which Reagan invited the Soviet leader outside for a breath of fresh air and then took him off for a walk and a man-to-man chat, without aides, that set the course for arms reduction and charted the end of the Cold War. Here he reveals what went on behind his decision to enter politics and run for the governorship of California, the speech nominating Barry Goldwater that first made Reagan a national political figure, his race for the presidency, his relations with the members of his own cabinet, and his frustrations with Congress. He gives us the details of the great themes and dramatic crises of his eight years in office, from Lebanon to Grenada, from the struggle to achieve arms control to tax reform, from Iran-Contra to the visits abroad that did so much to reestablish the United States in the eyes of the world as a friendly and peaceful power. His narrative is full of insights, from the unseen dangers of Gorbachev’s first visit to the United States to Reagan’s own personal correspondence with major foreign leaders, as well as his innermost feelings about life in the White House, the assassination attempt, his family—and the enduring love between himself and Mrs. Reagan. An American Life is a warm, richly detailed, and deeply human book, a brilliant self-portrait, a significant work of history.
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The FBI-CIA-UFO Connection

By Bruce S. Maccabee
Zeta-Mu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
his book goes inside the real X-Files. Not only have the FBI and CIA investigated UFOs, but both agencies have actively tried to conceal that fact from the public. This book proves it. These agencies collected information which, when combined with evidence collected by Air Force Intelligence, proves that at least some UFOs are interplanetary craft. Furthermore, top Air Force officials knew this over sixty years ago and withheld (covered up?) this information from the American people. Written by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, one of the most respected voices in UFO research, this is a riveting page-turner, packed with information. It tells the real story of why America’s leading intelligence agencies have been genuinely concerned about UFOs, and why the “problem of UFOs” is unlikely to go away any time soon.
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From the Ground Up

By Howard D. Schultz
Theta-Iota, Northern Michigan University
From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today—as viewed through the intimate lens of one man’s life and work. What do we owe one another? How do we channel our drive, ingenuity, even our pain, into something more meaningful than individual success? And what is our duty in the places where we live, work, and play? These questions are at the heart of the American journey. They are also ones that Howard Schultz has grappled with personally since growing up in the Brooklyn housing projects and while building Starbucks from eleven stores into one of the world’s most iconic brands. In From the Ground Up, Schultz looks for answers in two interwoven narratives. One story shows how his conflicted boyhood—including experiences he has never before revealed—motivated Schultz to become the first in his family to graduate from college, then to build the kind of company his father, a working-class laborer, never had a chance to work for: a business that tries to balance profit and human dignity. A parallel story offers a behind-the-scenes look at Schultz’s unconventional efforts to challenge old notions about the role of business in society. From health insurance and free college tuition for part-time baristas to controversial initiatives about race and refugees, Schultz and his team tackled societal issues with the same creativity and rigor they applied to changing how the world consumes coffee. Throughout the book, Schultz introduces a cross-section of Americans transforming common struggles into shared successes. In these pages, lost youth find first jobs, aspiring college students overcome the yoke of debt, post-9/11 warriors replace lost limbs with indomitable spirit, former coal miners and opioid addicts pave fresh paths, entrepreneurs jump-start dreams, and better angels emerge from all corners of the country. From the Ground Up is part candid memoir, part uplifting blueprint of mutual responsibility, and part proof that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. At its heart, it’s an optimistic, inspiring account of what happens when we stand up, speak out, and come together for purposes bigger than ourselves. Here is a new vision of what can be when we try our best to lead lives through the lens of humanity. “Howard Schultz’s story is a clear reminder that success is not achieved through individual determination alone, but through partnership and community. Howard’s commitment to both have helped him build one of the world’s most recognized brands. It will be exciting to see what he accomplishes next.”—Bill Gates
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Compassionate Capitalism

By Marc R. Benioff
Beta-Sigma, University of Southern California
How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well. The coauthors are uniquely suited to bring this important issue to light. Marc Benioff is CEO and chairman of Salesforce.com foundation. Salesforce.com has received the Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service by the Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network and the first ever U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Stewardship Award. A former sales and marketing executive at Oracle Corporation, Benioff is now devoting his considerable talent and energy to building an integrated technological business and philanthropic models.
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Blue Ribbon Story: An Entrepreneur's Success in Education

By Robert L. Kravitz
Theta-Zeta, Rutgers University, Newark
This book is about an entrepreneur who turns an underperforming school into a nationally recognized school. Using business models, he increases test scores, increases morale among staff, children and parents, and lowers his budget.
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Frog's Guide to College Success

By Michael A. Walker
Zeta-Theta, Western Illinois University
College is supposed to be the best four years of one’s life. But with the transition of leaving home, so many majors to choose among, pressure to get involved, choosing where to study abroad, trying to finish all those credits in four years, then landing the dream job in an unsteady job market, college is also one big pressure cooker! It doesn’t have to be. The author has been on college campuses since 1985, and provides some very straight-forward tips on how to help students have a great time in college while preparing to enter the job market with confidence.
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Riches to Rags, Why Celebrities and Pro-Athletes Go Broke and How They Can Avoid It

By LD Sledge
Beta-Phi, Louisiana State University
The constant stream of news about celebrities and pro-athletes going bankrupt inspired Dr. Pecoraro to help them "survive" their sudden wealth by writing Riches to Rags. While designed for celebrities and pro-athletes, this book will help anyone who wants to know how to prosper financially. It is an easy-to-read-and apply handbook on the basics of money management, written by an expert who shares how he made it happen for himself. Riches to Rags should be on the curriculum of every high school and college. This is the book to read if you want to understand the rock-bottom basics of how to manage your finances so you don't go from "Riches to Rags," but instead will be able to keep your money and make it grow.
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Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today . . . and the Lessons You Can Learn

By Steve Forbes
Grand Chapter, Grand Chapter
Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory provides intriguing comparisons between six great leaders of the ancient world and contemporary business leaders. • Great leaders not only have vision but know how to build structures to effect it. Cyrus the Great did so in creating an empire based on tolerance and inclusion, an approach highly unusual for his or any age. Jack Welch and John Chambers built their business empires using a similar approach, and like Cyrus, they remain the exceptions rather than the rule. • Great leaders know how to build consensus and motivate by doing what is right rather than what is in their self-interest. Xenophon put personal gain aside to lead his fellow Greeks out of a perilous situation in Persia–something very similar to what Lou Gerstner and Anne Mulcahy did in rescuing IBM and Xerox. • Character matters in leadership. Alexander the Great had exceptional leadership skills that enabled him to conquer the eastern half of the ancient world, but he was ultimately destroyed by his inability to manage his phenomenal success. The corporate world is full of similar examples, such as the now incarcerated Dennis Kozlowski, who, flush with success at the head of his empire, was driven down the highway of self-destruction by an out-of-control ego. • A great leader is one who challenges the conventional wisdom of the day and is able to think out of the box to pull off amazing feats. Hannibal did something no one in the ancient world thought possible; he crossed the Alps in winter to challenge Rome for control of the ancient world. That same innovative way of thinking enabled Serge Brin and Larry Page of Google to challenge and best two formidable competitors, Microsoft and Yahoo! • A leader must have ambition to succeed, and Julius Caesar had plenty of it. He set Rome on the path to empire, but his success made him believe he was a living god and blinded him to the dangers that eventually did him in. The parallels with corporate leaders and Wall Street master-of-the-universe types are numerous, but none more salient than Hank Greenberg, who built the AIG insurance empire only to be struck down at the height of his success by the corporate daggers of his directors. • And finally, leadership is about keeping a sane and modest perspective in the face of success and remaining focused on the fundamentals–the nuts and bolts of making an organization work day in and day out. Augustus saved Rome from dissolution after the assassination of Julius Caesar and ruled it for more than forty years, bringing the empire to the height of its power. What made him successful were personal humility, attention to the mundane details of building and maintaining an infrastructure, and the understanding of limits. Augustus set Rome on a course of prosperity and stability that lasted for centuries, just as Alfred Sloan, using many of the same approaches, built GM into the leviathan that until recently dominated the automotive business.
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Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders with DSM-5 Update

By Dr. Richard Halgin
Epsilon-Delta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Presenting the human side of Psychological Disorders. Now updated to reflect the DSM-5, Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Richard Halgin’s Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders, show students the human side of Abnormal Psychology. Through the widespread use of current and relevant clinical case studies, and the biographies and first-person quotations in the Real Stories feature, students are presented with real-life portrayals of psychological disorders. The program maintains the integrated approach to treatment using the biopsychosocial model, and acknowledges the evolution of psychological disorders over the lifespan. New to this edition is Connect for Abnormal Psychology, McGraw-Hill Education’s digital learning platform, which includes the groundbreaking adaptive reading experience, SmartBook, as well as Faces: Interactive and the new Interactive Case Studies for Abnormal Psychology.
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M-DJ

By Timothy R. Woods
Sigma-Nu, State University of New York at New Paltz
By day, Med Cherish is a promising intern at SocialView, a start-up social media company. By night, he is an aspiring media deejay. A streetwise young man, Med learned as a child to survive and thrive in foster care after the deaths of his parents. When Entiz Corporation announces that it is buying SocialView, Med is surprised to be invited to meet with the new owner, Max Entiz. Max learned of Med's DJ skills and invites him to work as a media deejay at the new Club Shakti. But when Med accidently films a shocking scene on the streets of New York and then mistakenly unveils his footage at the club, he has to enlist his best friend Pete Fanchulli's help to escape alive from Max's unbridled fury.
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Shafer City Stories-Tales of the NYPD in East Harlem

By Jesse A. Guralnick
Rho-Eta, SUNY-Stony Brook
New York City, East Harlem, 1998. The city was still dirty and dark, a place of horror and wonder all at the same time. Shafer City Stories goes inside the minds and hearts of the cops on patrol in East Harlem’s 25th precinct. These men and women are sometimes brutal, sometimes kind, and always human. These cops are not John Wayne in a uniform; they are real people who feel the streets inside their souls. Shafer City Stories will make you sad, it will make you angry, it will make you reflective, and most of all it will leave you with a story that you will never forget.
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The Coldest Fear (A Jack Murphy Thriller)

By Richard E. Reed
Nu-Lambda, University of Southern Indiana
From the moment he sees the young woman's body in her hotel bathtub, homicide detective Jack Murphy knows he's looking at a truly demented but brilliantly designed puzzle. The newspaper has the gruesome details. The FBI has a theory. But only Murphy knows how hard he'll have to push--and how much he'll have to risk--to thwart the killer's twisted game.
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A 365 Day Journey of Discovery, Growth, and Personal Power

By Dr. Melvin L. Campbell
Sigma-Omega, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Be ready for a transformation over the next 365 days! Each morning, read your affirmation and be prepared for the changes that will happen in your life. After a year, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the changes in your life.
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Beautiful Name

By Matt S. Gosselin
Tau-Psi, University of West Florida
"But what is your name?" Mo asked God. From the author of Tinko, Matt Gosselin, comes a beautiful book about a spunky girl named Mo whose curiosity and imagination fill the pages and the minds of its readers. After an argument with Mama, Mo asks God about His name. "Is it Marvin, Mike or Morgan?" she asks as any six-year-old might. The lesson of the meaning of God's name is one which teaches us who God is. Love. Over 30 illustrations fill the pages of this hardcover and digitally available book.
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The Sandwich that Changed My Life

By Stephen R. Jenne
Delta-Lambda, University of Central Missouri
Who knew one meal could last so long? It was the sandwich that passed through the lips of a future U.S. President, and ended up in the hands of the King of Late-Night TV. On Sept. 22, 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon visited the small town of Sullivan, Illinois. A 14 year old Boy Scout, Steve Jenne was assigned to help provide security for the Vice President. After Nixon took a few bites of a buffalo barbecue sandwich, Steve Jenne took the left overs and put them in his family freezer...where the half-eaten sandwich has stayed for the past 60 years! Steve Jenne went on to serve in Vietnam, and lived an average life, until 1988, when TV legend Johnny Carson invited him and his Nixon sandwich to appear on his Tonight Show. Carson then gave Jenne his own half-eaten sandwich. That led to food contributions from Steve Martin, Tiny Tim and others. "The Sandwich That Changed My Life" is the unbelievable, wacky, but totally true story of how one silly sandwich changed one man's life forever!
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Halt! Dismount and Be Recognized

By Jason S. Carr
Xi-Theta, University of West Georgia
HALT! DISMOUNT AND BE RECOGNIZED "Exploring the collision of everyday life and an incredible God." Daily life can seem so...well.daily. Ordinary. Mundane. Yet the Bible tells us that God is always with us. Somehow, in our ordinary, everyday stuff, there is a collision with the divine. But how can we see God in our everyday, ordinary and sometimes boring life? How can we learn about Him as we walk through this journey? Sometimes it helps to have a tour guide. That's where I come in. This book is a peek into my life. My ordinary, daily life. And as I share with you how I've seen God on the journey, maybe it'll help you see Him a little better in your daily life too. Jason Carr currently serves on the student ministry staff at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Ga. (www.northpoint.org.) Jason's hobbies include reading, writing, spending time with friends, a great cup of coffee, movies, pounce, sports and music. He spends his free time investing in students, leaders, and community ministries while single handedly keeping Starbucks open. Jason currently lives in his hometown of Alpharetta, GA. He's is the proud owner of Murphy, a hyperactive golden retriever. For more information about Jason, please visit his web site at www.jasoncarr.org.
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The Great Mystery

By LtCol Jon G. Tankersley
Epsilon-Sigma, University of Central Oklahoma
Over the years, I have had questions about God and His realm. This caused me to question things learned in Catechism classes and churches I have attended. To learn as much as possible, I studied everything I could get my hands on about different religions. With this information, I tried to explain what I think may be the truth about God and the universe. The purpose is to ask questions, to attempt to answer some of those questions, and hopefully to encourage the reader to further explore his own beliefs as well as to re-enforce his own belief in God and His universe.
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The Good Island

By Hawkeye S. Wilson
Delta-Nu, Northwest Missouri State University
The discovery of the mysterious Good Island befriends Aaron Dailey to Barry and Ulysses. To reach it, they forge a lasting bond that empowers them to complete the quest. The secrets of the island are revealed, changing Aaron's life forever.
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Command Influence

By LD Sledge
Beta-Phi, Louisiana State University
Lt. Riggs McCall, a maverick young lawyer who is in bad favor with his command. H doesn't fit in because he does what he thinks is right and refuses to plead a young private guilty who is innocent. He is then a pariah, not aligned with the command, and is passed over for Captain. Another pass over and he will be kicked out of the army. He is then appointed to defend a sergeant accused of molesting his teen age daughter, and though Riggs knows the man is guilty, he rigorously defends him, taking aim against the U. S. Army to protect himself while doing his duty as a lawyer to protect his client. Riggs doesn't know that the accused holds the career of high ranking officers in his hands because of something he knows about them. The command does everything possible to convict, even resorting to murder. Riggs uncovers secrets that reach even to the White House and the highest of military command, and becomes a target. Told in first person by John Madison, the scion of a banking family, groomed for the highest office, who finds himself trapped in the web of intrigue and has to choose to follow his conscience or the ambition of his wealthy father. A story partially based on fact, involving romance in the military, sex, homosexuality, a giant cover-up, and a thrilling court martial trial with a totally surprising ending..
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Heirloom, A New Orleans Thriller

By LD Sledge
Beta-Phi, Louisiana State University
This is a gripping tale stretching over the week before and after Mardi Gras in New Orleans, involving murder, blackmail, the mob, romance and voodoo. In researching how to preserve fabric and leather, Colton Wellington, a chemist, accidentally stumbles on a means of embalming a human body so that it will remain indefinitely as it appeared, in perfect condition, at the time of death. He creates a business, named Heirloom, of preserving priceless wedding dresses of Royalty and the wealthy, which business becomes international. Secretly, his lawyer business partner, Tryon Ireland, begins using the process to preserve victims of serial killers, murderers, and then blackmails the “clients”. Wellington has a serious accident and is paralyzed and in a nursing home leaving his grandson, Max, as his only heir. Ireland assumes the role of surrogate father for Max. Ireland encourages Max to join the military, and after six years, Max returns as highly trained officer and begins working in Heirloom. Ireland thinks of him as a nerd and doesn’t realize Max has a high IQ and is very competent. Ireland conspires to get rid of Max so he can take over the company. Caroline Reynolds wants to wear her mother’s wedding gown at her upcoming marriage, and learns it is stored at Heirloom. She meets Max and they are smitten with each other. Max is in danger, but is he competent to cope with unexpected attacks on his life? What happens to Caroline and Colton, who lies helplessly paralyzed and speechless in the nursing home? How does Voodoo play in the dark corners of this story? The world of evil that Ireland has created and that thing that he has become illustrate the depth of depravity into which a man can descend. Get a taste of the mysterious beauty of New Orleans and the exotic French Quarter, the excitement of Mardi Gras, and the inexplicable power of the dark side. Find the hidden symbols and clues sown throughout Heirloom.
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Three Minutes in June

By Bruce S. Maccabee
Zeta-Mu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC UFO SIGHTING—DEFINITIVELY EXPLAINED. On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, an experienced private pilot, saw nine unusual objects flying at an extraordinary speed near Mt. Rainier in Washington. The incident was the origin of the phrase "flying saucers," and started a worldwide fascination with UFOs. Over the years, skeptics have offered no less than 14 prosaic explanations for what Arnold saw. Now, world-renowned UFO researcher and optical physicist Bruce Maccabee provides the most complete analysis ever attempted on this case. Not only is his telling of the story the most detailed ever given, but he meticulously breaks down each of the conventional explanations. One by one, they fall apart upon careful scrutiny. After seven decades, the most famous UFO sighting of the 20th century has received a final judgment. Unknown, unconventional, and out of this world. This book has received outstanding praise from some of the world's leading UFO researchers, including Stanton T. Friedman and Jerome Clark. "Seventy years on, Kenneth Arnold’s sighting remains a mystery with the profoundest implications. Everything followed from it, and the answers remain as intriguingly out of reach today as they did on that memorable Tuesday afternoon in June 1947. The case deserves a full-length treatment, and nobody is more qualified to deliver it than Dr. Maccabee, whose searching, deeply informed treatment will be an essential contribution to serious UFO study." —Jerome Clark, author of The UFO Encyclopedia. "Having had a serious interest in flying saucers since 1958, I can safely say that almost everybody with such an interest has been aware of pilot Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of 9 unusual high speed flying objects on June 24, 1947, near Mt. Rainier in the state of Washington. Thus it seems strange indeed that not until optical physicist Dr. Bruce Maccabee wrote this book have we even come close to learning the entire story. This book tops them all. He has gathered and carefully evaluated every scrap of solid information about the Arnold case from books, interviews, Arnold’s statements, newspapers and broadcasts and concluded that the Arnold case clearly established that Earth is being visited by aliens and that we are not alone." —Stanton T. Friedman, Nuclear physicist, lecturer, ufologist
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Bloody Marsh

By Brandon Whitaker
Xi-Theta, University of West Georgia
Travel back in time to Colonial America! The day was supposed to be about some easy college credit for Mitch Gaines, his girlfriend Desi Hopkins and best friend Robbie Cole. While working at the annual Battle of Bloody Marsh victory celebration held at Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island, GA, they and many others recreate the life experienced in Colonial Georgia. Yet none of them had any idea what the night would bring. A surprise discovery will lead to an adventure of a lifetime!
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Engaging the Head, Heart and Hands of a Volunteer

By Barry E. Altland
Xi-Iota, University of Central Florida
Engaging the Head, Heart and Hands of a Volunteer
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Sunday Morning Quarterback

By Phil M. Simms
Mu-Sigma Emerging Chapter, Morehead State University
An in-depth and surprising look at the game, Sunday Morning Quarterback will dramatically change the way you watch football. You've heard all the football clichés: "Their offense is too predictable," or "They've got to win the turnover battle," or "They didn't make any halftime adjustments." Perhaps you've heard them so often that you've come to see them as obvious truths. Phil Simms, after an illustrious career as a Super Bowl–winning quarterback and a broadcaster, is here to tell you that these -- and many other blanket statements taken as gospel -- are all myths, and whoever says them has no idea of what they're talking about. Drilling deep into the core of football, Simms also shows the hidden signs that players look for that can determine the outcome of a game. Whether it's discovering how a linebacker positions his feet before he blitzes or how to react if the safety is eight or nine yards from the line of scrimmage, knowing these "dirty little secrets" gives players and their coaches a tremendous advantage. In addition, Simms shares his insights into the enormous challenges coaches face in today's game, evaluating the top coaches and what makes them successful. He takes a look at some of the greatest players he's played with and against, and what he misses most about the game -- waking up Monday mornings feeling beat up and sore. He looks at the next generation of football players -- his son, Tampa Bay's Chris Simms, among them. Through it all, Simms shares stories from his playing days with Bill Parcells and the New York Giants, and the inside access he's had as an announcer for one of the top NFL broadcasting teams in football. Fun and lively, Sunday Morning Quarterback should be required reading for anyone who loves football.
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Apple Ancestry: The Rise of a Fall Phenomenon

By Zachary Walls
Xi-Theta, University of West Georgia
Included you will find the first-ever history of Georgia's thriving apple business. A multi-million dollar industry, Ellijay has benefited greatly from the rise of agritourism. This book explores the reasons for this shift, as well as answering many of your questions about your visit to Highway 52 AKA "Apple Alley." Using archival material, newspapers, and interviews with each and every apple house in Gilmer County, you will find each orchard's individual story and how they fit into this "fall phenomenon." Also included are the histories of Georgia's major apple founders, such as professor-turned-farmer Charles Mercer Snelling. "Apple Ancestry: The Rise of a Fall Phenomenon" is your go-to guide for understanding North Georgia's apples, agritourism, and local history.
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Purpose in the Fourth Quarter: Finishing the Game of Life Victoriously

By Bernard L. Brown, Jr.
Zeta-Nu, Valdosta State University
Life can be perceived as a game very much like football, with four quarters and a break in the middle. In Purpose in the Fourth Quarter, author Bernie Brown describes how life is often difficult and challenging but can still be the most rewarding, satisfying, and wonderful game played on the face of the earth.
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My Many Miracles: A Spiritual Journey

By Dr. Eugene F. Elander
Zeta-Lambda, Bowling Green State University
My Many Miracles: A Spiritual Journey describes a dozen actual miraculous events which occurred to the author of the book over many decades of his life. Each of these events helped to shape a life and are unexplainable by any ordinary means. These events began in the 1940s and have continued to the present decade; they cover a very wide range of situations and behaviors - and they are all described accurately, thoroughly, and convincingly. The major contention of this book is that each of us experiences his or her own miracles and miraculous events, but that often we do not recognize them as such. The major purpose of this audiobook is to help each of us to find our own miracles, to document them, and most importantly, to understand our own miraculous events.
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