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The Guptas

by Gary Presley

Immigration can bring out the best and worst in people, a fact fully illustrated in "The Guptas". The saga begins in the late 1800s in India when Gani Gupta loses his father. Not yet a teenager and counted on to support his family, Gani... Read More

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Leaving the Military

by Gary Presley

Packed with a regimen of facts, recommendations, and practice exercises, "Leaving the Military" seeks to provide separating service members with the “rules of engagement” necessary to secure a civilian corporate career. With nine... Read More

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The Wayward Son and Other Tales

by Gary Presley

Imagine yourself a Jew in Auschwitz. Such is the horror facing Shmuel Myritz, who turns away from family and culture to become Karol Marik in pre-war Warsaw. “The war ended but not the memories,” writes Benjamin Ordover in “The... Read More

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The Ruin

by Gary Presley

Kenneth Fenter’s "The Ruin" is part coming-of-age novel, part Robinson Crusoe, part history lesson, and wholly deserving of an audience of both adults and teenagers. The novel follows Clifton Kelly, as an eighth-grade farm boy living... Read More

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Backazimuth

by Gary Presley

Mike Smith’s first novel, "Backazimuth", is a tidy thriller set in the Arabian Desert. Bill Slade, West Point graduate and combat engineer, is a reformed drunk, with bottle-fueled misadventures scattered along the tracks of a nearly... Read More

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It's All Trouble

by Gary Presley

Buying a lemon—a car plagued by mechanical problems from the day it’s driven off the dealer’s lot—is an all-too-common experience. Samson Kamara, a science teacher-turned-writer, has imagined that situation into a short novel,... Read More

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The Concept of Labor in Islam

by Gary Presley

Muslims make up the second-largest religious group in the world, yet while many in the Western world have a passing familiarity with the Bible, it is a rare person who knows the basic tenets of Islam or how the Qur’an delineates life... Read More

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Was I Betrayed by Man?

by Gary Presley

"Was I Betrayed by Man?" is an evangelical book with an Apocryphal theme in which the author moves beyond accepted Christian theology to reexamine end-time prophecy. Simply put, Cook believes that a majority of Christians are misreading... Read More

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