Total Recall Press - Angels For All

The Mc's - Life Stories Of Early Idaho Pioneers

When we set out to record family histories, we often anticipate hearing the highlights of a person's lifetime-the births, marriages, accomplishments, and all the wise, funny and quirky experiences that makes it unique to them and their time in history. But the human condition is one that includes suffering, tragedy, injustice and misfortune.

To deny that important part of the story is not only living a fairy tale, but it is denying the reader the opportunity to learn from experience.

A family is a community of caring, sharing and support. By passing along the knowledge borne of surviving adversity and triumphing, we accumulate a collective wisdom. As family members and others read these stories they begin to recognize a shared set of values, strengths and traditions that make this tribe and clan unique.

Frequently it is the stories of life's traumas that have the greatest impact-both positive and negative, not only on the story teller, but on the reader. When we are able to share and transform those stories into lessons learned, tragedies overcome and adversity conquered, then as a group, we are able to reaffirm our place in the scheme of things. The experiences of one generation may strengthen the courage of convictions in future generations.

Preserving family heritage through written memories is one of the most beautiful and meaningful gifts a person can bestow upon those who come after us. I am so grateful to have had the privilege of working closely with Auntie Ruth Turman Smith and others who were willing to share their photos and remembrances of a time in history that changed the world.

Title: The Mc's - Life Stories Of Early Idaho Pioneers
Publishing House: TotalRecall Publications
Publication Date: 2/2/2009
ISBN: 9781590957806

Judy Wright

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War and Destiny
When the young New Yorker Markos Androlakis visited the island of Crete in the summer of 1940 for a sabbatical he unwittingly put himself on a trajectory to test the fates of destiny. War soon engulfs the tiny peaceful nation of Greece and she does her best to hold off the Fascist hordes. Markos soon finds himself on the Greek and allied side and fights for survival and for the liberation of his ancestral homeland. War and destiny is an epic tale of war, adventure, intrigue and love. On 20 May 1941, Germany launched Operation Merkur (Mercury) the largest airborne invasion in history to capture the strategic island of Crete from the allies. Markos is tasked by the allied commander to help evacuate the Hellenic King to the island’s south coast to be transported by the Royal Navy. Unbeknownst to Markos the German Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler has dispatched a ruthless SS officer Georg Mueller to capture the King and return him to Germany. Markos manages to evacuate the king and journeys to Cairo where he is recruited into the US army and the COI which would soon become the OSS, Office of strategic services under the leadership of “Wild Bill Donovan.” Markos returns to America to help organize a cadre of Greek American agents to help the Greek resistance fight the ruthless and bloody Nazi occupation.
George Mavro
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The 1980 Gray Murders
It was a black December night in 1980. Trooper Earl Nicholson sped to the scene of a reported automobile accident. Arriving at the scene, Nicholson expected to see mangled steel and broken glass. Instead, he was met with the sight of a young woman dressed in pajamas – and a small, shirtless, boy – laying under a tree in the front yard of the house facing the street. Scanning the bodies with his flashlight beam, it was evident to the state trooper that the victims had died from multiple stab wounds. Leading away from the stiffening corpses were two frozen trails of blood – one in the direction of the front door, the other in the direction of the railroad crossing down the road. Nicholson radioed for back-up and cautiously made his way toward the house. I took a few breaths and looked out over the front hood of the vehicle, down the ravine and up the other side. No indication of movement anywhere. The SUV looked okay from what I could see. I turned away from the vehicle, maybe to head back, maybe to look around. I did neither immediately. I gasped. There just fifteen feet from where I was standing sat Rick Jimenez, the other reporter, as he had described himself that morning, for the town's newspaper. His face was contorted and covered with dried blood. His white shirt completely soaked in blood now drying in the hot sun. He was dead.
Steve Reeves
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Angels For All

"Angels for All" is the story of a determined young woman who begins married life on a sharecrop farm. When the Great Depression hits, her husband, goes away to work, leaving Ollie on the farm with two babies. She wears a pistol every day and sleeps with a shotgun by the bed to guard against predators, both human and animal.

Ollie believes in premonitions sent by guardian angels, but has no warning of hardships to come with drought and The Great Depression.
Roy and Ollie start married life striving for a better future and a place of their own. Each chapter is an episode that illustrates different difficulties imposed by farm life.

Almost every year, Roy goes away to other states working to earn money to pay the mortgage on a home they buy. Ollie stays on the farm to harvest crops and care for the children. She struggles against wild animals, foraging pigs, sickness, storms, hunger, and neighbors that prowl night and day stealing everything they can including diapers, garden vegetables, harness, and cottonseed.

Ollie offers thanks for blessings she receives, giving credit to guardian angels for helping, but berates herself when she discounts premonitions of impending danger.

Nancy Powell

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Vendetta

Did the notorious Godfather, Charles 'Lucky' Luciano die of natural causes at Rome's airport on January 26 1962, or was he the victim of a mob vendetta? Real and fictional underworld figures mingle and clash as this saga unfolds during the most notorious decades in the formation and flourishing of the Mafia in the 20th Century.

D Eric Sturdy captures the gritty details of Italian, Sicilian and American life in the shadows that inspires the dark motives in the players populating this historically-detailed and gripping tale. Not for the faint of heart.

Title: Vendetta
Author: D Eric Sturdy
Publishing House: TotalRecall Publications
Publication Date: 4/14/2009
ISBN: 9780954444914

D Eric Sturdy

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Dark Secrets

DARK SECRETS is the first book in a series based on the life of a farm girl, OLLIE MCNEW, born in 1908 when the United States was becoming a world leader, and farm families made up over half of the population. Conditions for the Negro had worsened, women rallied for the right to vote, and social change in music, dance, and fashion filtered into rural areas. This book shows prejudice faced by Negroes, Gypsies, Jews, Indians, and women of that era.

Ollie, born of Irish and Cherokee ancestry, is a middle child struggling to compete with an older sister and brother, yet showing unusual compassion for younger siblings. Accepting premonitions as guidance given by guardian angels, she displays wit and insight, yet sometimes incurs trouble when a stubborn nature overrules intuition.

The book begins with Ollie trying to get home after receiving a head injury in an attack by two boys'the same boys that she thinks raped her friend and murdered a girl in a nearby community. She remains in a coma for five days. While comatose, she recalls dramatic events of her first fifteen years'occasions that reflect the life of a gutsy girl. They include the death of a young friend, strangers that steal a gun, drunks chasing a man of black Indian descent, a strange lizard, a starving family, infection in a girl's foot, robbers at the wagon yard, stray dogs that save Ollie from panthers, Gypsies, a fight, remembering the Great War, an ungrateful tramp, a dying aunt, a rabbit hunt in the snow, a pie supper, a trip to a carnival, a promissory note, rape and murder of a young girl, and secrets shared with her best friend.

Ollie meets a young man and wavers between love and pursuing her dream of nursing. She chooses Roy and they begin repairing a two room sharecropper house where they will live and farm surrounding acres. Ollie has her first encounter with neighboring thieves when they attempt to steal her engagement ring, cook stove, and horse. Capable with the pistol she is wearing, Ollie reclaims her property and forces them to leave.

Nancy Powell

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Angels for All
In Angels For All Ollie believes in premonitions sent by guardian angels, but has no warning of hardships to come with drought and The Great Depression. Roy and Ollie start married life striving for a better future and a place of their own. Each chapter is an episode that illustrates different difficulties imposed by farm life. Almost every year, Roy goes away to other states working to earn money to pay the mortgage on a home they buy. Ollie stays on the farm to harvest crops and care for the children. She struggles against wild animals, foraging pigs, sickness, storms, hunger, and neighbors that prowl night and day stealing everything they can including diapers, garden vegetables, harness, and cottonseed. Ollie offers thanks for blessings she receives, giving credit to guardian angels for helping, but berates herself when she discounts premonitions of im danger.
Nancy Powell
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Listen for the Angels
Listen for the Angels, the third book in the Ollie's Angel Series, begins on the road to California where Ollie and Roy move with three little girls in search of a prosperous life following struggles on an Arkansas farm during the Great Depression. Roy works at farm labor. Ollie joins him in the fields during cotton-picking season and becomes infected with a disease the newspapers call Sleeping Sickness. Several people die from the illness, but doctors do not know the origin. Ollie's intuition tells her that mosquitoes cause it-she takes a quinine tonic and recovers. They return to Arkansas, buy a small farm and continue to struggle. Almost every year, Roy goes away to work in other states to earn money for the mortgage, to buy seed and fertilizer for crops, and to pay doctor bills.
Nancy Powell
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Coven of the Spring
An ancient secret emerges to terrify and destroy. Three people join together to destroy the cult that possesses the secret. Grace DeRosa, a gifted research chemist finds a hidden spring in the woods near Salem, Massachusetts. She discovers that the consumed water imparts unique and fearful powers that lead to the ability to read minds, create terrifying mental pictures and force the user's will on others. Grace, her husband and their seventeen year old daughter, Crissy find they have frightening new powers that allow them to hear people's thoughts, give them visions and change behaviors. The powers affect each differently. Crissy's father turns against his wife and daughter and tries to kill Crissy to protect the secret. Clay Foster, a former Navy Seal saves Crissy from drowning in Lake Michigan's icy waters where her father has pushed her. Clay and his friend, Sharon take Crissy into protection. After several fights with the Coven, they escape to Bermuda, where the Coven again attacks them. Along with Crissy’s mother, they return to Salem for the final confrontation with the The Coven Of The Spring.
Jeff Lovell
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The Jacket
Tidge Mackiewicz, new patriarch of his family, received several orders from his dying father, Kid Scream. One order stated that Tidge should quit believing in Santa Claus and stop acting like every day was Christmas. Tidge should also abandon his belief that the Luftwaffe shot down Santa Claus on Christmas Eve in 1944 and Santa survived. Approaching fifty, Tidge still wears a scuffed and stained Army Air Corps flight jacket given to him as young boy by his late uncle, a Navy aviator and Korean War hero, who claimed it belonged to Santa Claus. His uncle also believed that the jacket possessed a special magic. It is “The Jacket” and the spirit of Christmas that brings eighteen family members to Tidge and his wife’s magnificent log chalet located in Wisconsin’s Northwoods on Lake Namakagon for the Christmas holidays. Tidge can now carry out his father’s final order of unscrewing his screwed up family and much more.
Richard Barran
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Team Player
After his parents' marriage and finances collapse, high school junior Kyle Donovan must move in with his no nonsense grandfather in the city, and discover whether football can help him overcome ethnic, and socioeconomic obstacles. Kyle Donovan, a seventeen year old star running back from the privileged suburb of Fairview, Massachusetts, is devastated when his seemingly idyllic world falls apart. The collapse of his father's computer company and the divorce of his parents force Kyle to live with his blue collar curmudgeon of a grandfather in the gritty and ethnically diverse Boston suburb of Crandall. Can his love for football, the loyalty of a new group of multicultural friends, and most importantly, the special bond between grandfather and grandson, help Kyle rise above his circumstances and understand that the ultimate value of a person is not measured by wealth and social status?
Richard Barran
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ADDICTIVE
Set in Savannah, Ga., Addictive™ follows 28-year-old Emma Weiss, PhD and her move to the historic city where she meets handsome, charming Jake Stanton and blindly falls in love with him. Emma is convinced Jake is her soul mate until she discovers he has been a struggling addict and she becomes caught up in his life of deceit, alcohol, drugs, and the law. Does beautiful, brilliant Emma find the strength to cope with Jake's addictions and overcome her addiction to him? Stern hopes readers will take from her book that if this can happen to Emma, it could happen to anyone. Reviews and Blurbs "It is said (mainly by publishers in New York) that literary lightning never strikes the same place twice, and the little town of Savannah, Georgia has already fostered the bestselling non-fiction novel of all time with John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Fortunately for the reader, the garden yields another wonderful harvest with Leslie Stern's musings of life and love in the Lowcountry…" --Murray Silver, Author of the international bestseller Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis, Behind the Moss Curtain and Other Great Savannah Stories and When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama. "Get ready to have your heartstrings wrung by Emma, an otherwise worldly and fortunate woman who’s nevertheless done wrong time after time by the man she naively believes will bring her happiness. Leslie Stern’s novel Addiction is a story that will stir women’s hearts. Indeed, it will resonate for many, many readers, especially those whose lives have been – whether wittingly or unwittingly – touched by addiction and/or a love affair gone wrong.” -- Rosemary Daniell, award-winning author of Secrets of the Zona Rose: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives and other books. She is also the founder and leader of Zona Rosa Writing-and-Living Workshops. “Addicitive is a must read and when you read the last page it will continue to haunt your thoughts!!! This book was added to my read again shelf. It is UnPutDownAble!!! --Kathy LeJeune, book reviewer “Leslie truly captured the emotional rollercoaster ride that Emma rode while being used and betrayed by those she felt were friends. And in essence, that is a lesson many in life can take with them. If one desires a good read with drama and powerful emotions, this would be the book to pick up.” -- Ann Hauer, Ann’s Book Nook "I have to confess, when I started reading, I feared it was of a genre that I seldom read, and do not find very interesting. But I read it all in a very short time, given the limited times I have with my busy personal schedule. And after I finished it, I have only one word to say which says it all: WOW!!" -- Cedric Stratton, PhD, Mensa proctor "Nice job! I enjoyed it! In fact, I finished it in one weekend. I was motivated by a ghoulish sense of curiosity about just what would happen next." --Julia Franks, English teacher and writer "This book was very well written. From the time I started this book, I wanted to read further. Just one more chapter then I will call it a night. That did not happen! I can't wait for this author to write another book!" -- Virginia Hickey, avid reader and Book Reviewer “I was very impressed with Leslie’s writing style, and I am an extremely picky reader. There are only a few fiction authors that I enjoy reading. Leslie's book kept me riveted till the very end. I lost a lot of sleep because of her." -- Susan Brenner, Book Reviewer "I'm very angry with Leslie. I picked up Addictive when I woke up...and never got out of my nightgown or took a shower! I couldn't put it down. A great read!" -- Karen Farber, Book Reviewer
Leslie E. Stern
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Dreams Surpassed
*Dreams Surpassed* is an epic novel about the lives of two men. Graham Bennington begins his life in Philadelphia and dreams of creating the perfect sailboat. He takes his concepts to the busy Port of Los Angeles to fulfil his dream. When his wife dies, he becomes a single parent to his daughter, Katia. Edward Oxford lives in Southampton, England and his dream is to create the highest quality and most prosperous marine hardware conglomerate. He has three sons who, despite the divorce of their parents, remain more important to Edward than even his business. His oldest son, Thomas, is a boring and staid English professor. His middle son, Kevin, is an international sailboat racer who will never settle down. His youngest son, Bryan, is Edward’s true pride. Bryan attains his PhD from Cambridge and takes Oxford Rigging to new heights, surpassing Edwards dreams. Katia and Bryan met briefly in junior high school and then briefly just before entering college; she to U.C.L.A., he to Cambridge. The both prosper and grow, working with their fathers, but always dream of the other; ships passing in the night, never in one port long enough to form a relationship. Dreams Surpassed is an emotional roller-coaster. From the heart-wrenching beauty of the sea, to the torment the sea can impart, to finding and losing love, to solving the issues that threaten the marine industry and overcoming those issues. You will learn how to sail, why to sail, and how to build sailboats, as well as the marketing behind the marine industry. All the while touching your heart.
Leslie E. Stern
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