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Where do the spies, diplomats, soldiers, and FBI agents go when their formal service ends? For most of us, full retirement is not an immediate reality. The decision to leave or retire from government is hard! Deciding what to do next is even harder.
Author and Career Coach Alison P. Bouwmeester served for 28 years as a senior leader in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations. After retiring from the CIA, she spent nearly a decade...
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Poetically Unapologetic Sophia King is on an enlightening journey to regain her freedom. After retiring with over 15 years of corporate experience, she loves her transition to authorship and its power. As a respected writer on often taboo topics such as religion, social issues, and injustices. King has been able to craft herself a lane of her own. And, she has more in store for her audience. Her book "Poetically Unapologetic" is a collection of spoken...
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Now a private investigator, Blissberg scours locker rooms and back alleys for two missing basketball stars. After retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg hung out a shingle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a private detective with a taste for the less savory side of sports. When key players from the Boston Celtics and the Washington Bullets go AWOL, Blissberg quickly becomes the two teams' number-one draft choice to find them. What can a born-again...
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This book consists of eight short stories, three memoirs, and eleven essays written over a period of several years by the author. Some are excerpts from his other books, Hillbilly in the Real Estate Jungle, My Border Patrol Days, Forged in a Country Crucible, NRA, the Inside Story, and Amor in Appalachia. The oldest of seven children, Joe White grew up on a dirt-poor farm in Tennessee during the depression of the 1930s. He was an Army Air Corps pilot...
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Judy, at age 13 is working on an island as a mother's helper during the summer. Her mind body and spirit is widened and deepened experiencing the divine natural beauty surrounding this island located on Long Island Sound. She meets Ray, her future husband at age 15. Ray shares the island he roamed all his life. Judy develops a natural kinship for the island as she experiences what makes it so special to her. Judy and Ray fall in love and marry after...
86) Sunday's Child
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Hattie Steele feels like the world is passing her by. Her entire life revolves around the guest house she runs in Headley Cross with her overbearing twin brother. He even attempts to undermine her friendship with a handsome guest. Not that famous ex-footballer, Callum Trant would ever give her a second glance. Hoping to regain control of her life, Hattie takes a well-earned holiday with her aunt on Penry Island. After retiring from football, Callum...
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Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe's Jewish population. She also witnessed firsthand the dysfunctions that plagued many of those who had made it out alive.
In Prisoners of Memory, Haahr realizes her lifelong ambition to uncover the stories behind the statistics in the Nazi records and learn as much as possible about the pre-war...
88) Nebraska Close
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After retiring from his career in construction and trying to cope with the death of his wife, Isaac York experiences an infatuation for a lifelong male friend and discovers his world fills with sunflowers and a risqué transition. Isaac moves to Lake Samoy in search of a new life, to abandon his past, and to start a fresh relationship with a famous and sexy man named Nebraska Close, whom he falls head over heals for. Nebraska Close, a professional...
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James McKinley Gibson wrote this novel after retirement, but, passed away before he was able to publish his work. His daughter and her husband were inspired to bring his unique work to fruition to honor his legacy and to bring attention to this possible scenario.
Twenty-Eight Days in August is a fictional novel of war over Europe. It is about the Soviet Union attacking NATO forces without the use of nuclear weapons. This war is, portrayed through...
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Eugeena Patterson is not happy about her next-door neighbor, Louise Hopkins, being sent to live in a nursing home. Without her fellow neighborhood watch buddy, Sugar Creek isn't the same anymore. In fact, life after retirement has become a whole new adventure of exploring social media and blogging. While she tries not to meddle into her adult children's lives, Eugeena can't help but dish out relationship advice.
Eugeena's own budding romance with...
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Pride and prejudice, war and peace, crime and punishment all feature in this autobiography of an ordinary person in China. The account spans eight turbulent decades, with love struggling through a torrent of change.
The author's boyhood name was Red. He grew up in a Dong-minority village in remote southwestern mountains, where most people were rice farmers.
Red supported the 1949 transition to communist rule, accompanied research expeditions into...
92) Still Climbing
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"Still Climbing" is a biography covering the long, fulfilling, life of Betty Phipps Roberts. The book is unique as it is non-fictional but contains thirteen short stories, which are fiction, written over a span of forty-plus years. From early childhood, Betty wanted to be a writer but financial necessity and a large family required her to spend a lifetime as a Registered Nurse. After graduation from the University of Virginia School of Nursing, she...
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MORT'S FIRST GOAL ON RETURNING HOME TO BRISBANE AFTER RETIRING FROM THE ARMED FORCES IS TO INVESTIGATE HIS WIFE'S DEATH...
With a post-mortem trail that presents him with scandalous industrial espionage and both police and political corruption within Queensland, Mort finds his colleague Pig is the only one he can trust as he delves into the depths of putrid filth in his home state. Together, they must combat this insidious situation, battle not only...
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Like its predecessors in the ‘Durvile True Cases’ series, After the Force features true cases and investigations, this time by police officers who have served in municipal, provincial, and federal police services. Stories in this anthology are by people who have been passionate about their work in law enforcement and who generously explain what it was about their work that led them to choose a career or specific way of life "after the force."...
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The human condition is one riddled with complexities about the path we yearn for, who we are, and what we believe.
We have become so dogmatic in our own beliefs that when they don't come to fruition or we find them to be a hoax, our journey can come crashing down with doubt, fear, and uncertainty. Many individuals think they know why they are doing what they do, where they will end up, or who they wish to be in three to seven years until a catastrophic...
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Colonel David H. Hackworth-one of America's most decorated soldiers-served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After retiring from the military in 1971, he completed a second tour of battlefield duty as a war correspondent. Accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea, and Haiti, what he learned was shocking: high-level military incompetence, futility, and corruption.
Hazardous Duty is a necessary...
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This intimate biography of the NFL icon by a veteran sports reporter sheds light on his singular life and the controversy surrounding his tragic death.
Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau is widely considered to be among the best linebackers in NFL history, a ten-time All-Pro, a twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, and a first-ballot entrant into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But in 2012, just two years after retiring from football, Junior Seau committed suicide....
98) Dead Ball
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Blissberg returns to baseball to protect a player who's on the verge of making history Fifteen years after retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg is suffering a bad case of what his girlfriend, Mickey Slavin, calls "sad man-ism" when the owner of his former team, the Providence Jewels, tracks him down. The team's star, Moss Cooley, is on the verge of shattering Joe DiMaggio's "unbreakable" fifty-six-game hitting streak. But Cooley has been receiving...
99) Safely Abiding
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Rosemary J. Fisher lives in Columbia, Missouri, with her husband John and their two collies Regina Rose and Brynn. After retiring from a forty-five year career in education and childcare, Rosemary now spends her time writing novels, training dogs and doing community service projects. She enjoys reading, gardening, singing in the church choir and with the Columbia Mothersingers.
"Safely Abiding" is Rosemary's second novel, following the lives of the...
100) Milford Elementary
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Everything Gwendolyn Strong learned about solving mysteries, she learned in kindergartenOne deceased groom-to-be. One dead-end clue. One last chance at redemption. Gwendolyn Strong feels lost outside the classroom. And at loose ends after retiring, the ex-kindergarten teacher longs for the excitement her stable marriage and yoga sessions can't provide. So the spirited fifty-something leaps into action when a former student takes his life on the eve...
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