Pops Sickles is history, mystery, and an adventurous romantic comedy set in the early 1950s. Pop, a gentle giant of a man, befriends Ted, a small boy who has lost his own father in WWII and takes him under his wing into his Harley Davidson repair shop. Not only does Ted learn mechanics but he obtains one of his own motorcycles in his senior year of high school. All goes well until romantic miscommunication between Pop and Teds mother, Thelma, results in a crazy chase by mule- back high into Georgias Cohutta mountains, a mad bus ride to a VA Army post, followed by a life threatening journey across the hurricane-washed bayous of Louisiana. You will read about encounters with people along the way that will leave you wondering what is going to happen next.

Designed to keep you laughing for hours on end as you sit back, listen, and enjoy over four hours of non-stop laughter, satire, and humor. Twelve Funny Stories!

Welcome to the Ark. In a place known as the Six Civilizations all is not as it seems, the six leaders though living in peace for the last decade soon find themselves struck by tragedy again! When the grandson of Chaos P. Karafuta, the world’s infamous scientist and inventor, King and his best friend Shabu accidently unlock the secrets to a weapon known simply as ‘Project Aryoku’. In his greed for power King will sacrifice everyone he loves to obtain its power. However, it falls into the hands of his nephew, Shobu Samurai. At the sight of losing his parents, his unbound power obliterates his hometown with no recollection of doing so. Now ten years later, Shobu Samurai returns to seek revenge on his uncle but instead will face a choice to save his home from shadow creatures, blood beast and organization once thought dead.

The Union Generals Speak is the first annotated edition of the 1864 congressional investigation into Major General George Gordon Meade's conduct during the Gettysburg campaign. The transcripts alone, which present eyewitness accounts from sixteen participant officers at Gettysburg, offer a wealth of information about the what and the why of one of the most pivotal battles in American history; but it is the addition of contextual comments and background material by Bill Hyde that unleashes this virtually untapped resource for readers. Laden with ulterior motives, prejudices, faulty recollection, and outright lies, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War's report is a minefield of inaccuracies. Hyde's comprehensive analysis, informed by recent scholarship, transforms it into an accessible, rewarding aid for students of the Gettysburg chapter in the Civil War. In the course of the volume, Hyde gives thorough examination to the origins and purpose of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, the political climate and military thinking in Washington at the time of the Meade hearings, and the hidden agendas of the witnesses and seven committee members. He maintains that the JCCW's dissatisfaction with Meade went much deeper than disapproval of the general's hesitancy to pursue and cripple Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on July 4, 1863—a failure that disappointed every northern citizen from Lincoln to the ordinary soldier. The bipartisan body of mostly radical Republicans who favored a ruthless defeat of the South aimed, Hyde shows, to restore power to the committee's favorite, Major General Joseph Hooker, whom Meade had succeeded as commander of the Army of the Potomac only three days before Gettysburg. The unfolding of the Gettysburg campaign, the career of General Meade, and the North's highly politicized method of warmaking all receive new illumination in The Union General's Speak. Hyde's balanced critique of this important primary source reminds us that though Meade is remembered now mainly for his role in defeating the Confederates at Gettysburg, the JCCW hearings confirmed that he was not the leader to win the war.

Are you a salesperson? Ill bet you never had anything go wrong in a presentation or had a mishap with a disgruntled customer. You probably have never been embarrassed by you or someone else saying or doing the wrong thing at precisely the wrong moment. Nawstuff like that doesnt happen. Oh, really. This book may help comfort you, that youre not alone. Ive composed 19 short stories based on my professional sales and personal lives that might just ease your pain. Most of the stories are embarrassingly humorous; some are heart-warming, while others are down-right scary. Dont worry; Ive changed the names of the people and places to protect the innocent, and hopefully to keep me from getting punched in the nose. I think you will find this a quick read you can enjoy more than once and want to pass on to others.