La France n’aime pas le libre-échange. A gauche comme à droite, tous les sondages le montrent, les Français préfèrent le protectionnisme. L’ouverture au commerce international est source de malaise politique....

Contrairement à ce que les historiens ont longtemps laissé entendre, la France ne s'est pas recroquevillée sur elle-même après la perte de ses colonies nord-américaines et caribéennes au tournant du XIXe...

Are they tourists, or are they smugglers and spies?Roger and Sandra Brownwell, American expatriates on an around-the-world vacation with their two preschool children, are scheduled for two weeks across...

Luke, the beloved physician, returns to Israel to write a massive biography of Jesus. He hires a Jewish assistant, Augustus, from a family that had embraced Roman ways, to help him as a researcher, secretary,...

Ronny Thompson was injured in the 7th game of the World Series. Having just concluded a spectacular season that earned him such nicknames as "Robo Ron" and the "Pitcher of a Century," he faced an off-season...

A routine traffic stop in Providence, Rhode Island results in a high speed chase, and the suspect fleeing on foot in neighboring Cranston. The investigation determines that Sharon Williams Fonseca, by...

Ronny Thompson just want to play baseball. He's good at it, and can pitch the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in over a century. So why are all these Mafia-type event swirling around...

Denise Benfield is dealing with her mother's imminent death from cancer, when Mike Pelton shows up at the door, saying he was an old friend of her mother's, hasn't seen her in forty years, and wondered...

After his mother died, with his dad still working nights, Danny Tompkins missed a lot of normal teenage activities. He survived those years, but decades later he realizes many of his adult habits of responsibility...

Norman D Gutter graduates with his civil engineering degree, and takes a job with I.C.E. Engineering in far away Appleville. Full of great hopes to make a difference in the world, he quickly encounters...

Daniel Tompkins has a vision—a sudden memory of his mom when she was a very sick woman. That brings back a flood of memories. It also gets him to thinking what it was that kept her alive, for many years...

"Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"As president Lincoln...

Norman D Gutter, now in his second year of his career as a civil engineer, seems to go from one difficult situation to another—except most of it is humorous. Norman tries to find the humor as the company...

Thirteen year old Danny Tompkins must deal with his mother's death, but on the day of the funeral people keep coming to his house, and seem to be partying. As he retreated to his bedroom—the closest thing...

The development of the U.S, Constitution, in response to the failing Articles of Confederation, happened in a few years following the Revolution. This book looks at a number of key documents from those...

Daniel Tompkins visits the neighborhood he grew up in, then walks to his old junior high school. As he did many years ago, he finds a stone on the sidewalk and kicks it down the road. What was the fascination...

[Short Story; 1850 words]Thirteen year old Danny Tompkins is at the end his first week of scout camp, waiting for his family to arrive to pick him up. They are very late. He wins a special award, but...

The United States is rich in documents, many which remain in obscurity, but which contain valuable information about the formation of this nation, while at the same time contain lessons for where we are...

The Bible gives many examples of people who acted on faith and accomplished something great for God. This Bible study looks at some of those, as well as at people who, in the centuries since the Bible...

The United States is rich in documents, many which remain in obscurity, but which contain valuable information about the formation of this nation, while at the same time contain lessons for where we are...

Daniel Tompkins tackles an assignment for his writing group, to write a short memoir about a critical event in his life. He decides to again write about the death of his mother, but to focus on what his...

The book of the Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, has fascinated readers for two millennia—and confused them. Is it prophecy, or allegory? A man's creation, or the inspired word of God?...

In the professions, career advancement should not be left to random occurrences in the workplace. Purposeful steps can be taken to make sure that a person doesn't stagnate in the same position. With planning...

The six Danny Tompkins short stories explored teenage grief at the death of a parent. They are collected here in one volume. The stories follow 13-year-old Danny as he comes to grips with the death that...

Warren Derrill is a young CIA agent, puzzled by his new, temporary assignment: Follow fellow agent Sharon Williams Fonseca while she tours Athens, Greece with her family, and report on her movements....