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In 1957, jobs are scarce in rural Ashland, Alabama. Bobby Higgins is facing life decisions; his family’s farm struggles, and threat of the draft hangs over the 18-year-old male as the Cold War rumbles in the distance. Bobby heads off to boot camp, vowing to provide for his family from his pay. Between shore and sea duty, Bobby leaves broken hearts in every port.

Baby Boomers are shocked that the future keeps showing up faster and faster! Time doesn’t just fly by; it seems rocket propelled. Just the day before yesterday, we were young, and today we are incomprehensibly called “seniors” moving quickly into the fourth quarter of our lives. It is incredible and amazing to us. What you will find in these sections is an engaging and informative look about the fourth quarter of life. It is a glimpse of what is coming up around the corner, filled with insights, humor, reality, truth, wisdom, and the occasional profundity.

Why did two veteran FBI agents die in a bizarre car fire while investigating a serial murder case in Massachusetts? According to the official report, the agents died in a murder-suicide. Quinn Westerly doesn't believe her father was capable of such a horrendous act. Quinn launches her own investigation. Drawn into the dangerous realm of the supernatural, she must rely on Evan Cordell, a disgraced psychiatrist. Cordell is a paranormalist who possesses abilities that allow him to interact with the creatures from our worst nightmares.

Stephanie: One of God’s Wonder Kids is the story of a young girl suddenly afflicted by that most pernicious and arbitrary ailment: cancer. It is the story of her family, who hold on to her, hold on to each other, and hold on to God throughout the most painful ordeal that any parent has faced. It is the story of her friends and community who love and support her as she struggles to understand what is happening to her and why.

Cate is a runner. She prefers to help her fiancé run his New York senate race, but she finds herself running instead to fix what’s broken between her grandparents before he finds out - her grandmother has moved out of the family home, and her grandfather is accused of a pre-WWII relationship with a woman in Germany. Dietrich is a German journalist with a spotless reputation. He prefers facts, but he finds himself lost in a world of fiction instead to prove his novelist grandmother couldn’t possibly have been the lover of a US runner in Berlin’s 1936 Olympics.