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The history of the Long Beach Police Department documents the ten City Marshall's and twenty five persons who served as Chief of Police. The stories of the early members of the department who played a vital part in the history, include: Fanny Bixby, Thomas C Borden, Theo Cervantes, Earl Daugherty, Fred Kutz, Robert O'Rourke, Grace Reinhardt and the Resuch brothers. The modern history began with Chief Dovey in 1949 and Chief Mooney in 1960. In 1969 the "1st Annual Police Awards Luncheon" was held and Wayne Clarke & James Fontaine received the departments 1st "Medal of Valor" (39 officers have now received the award in 43 Award Ceremonies). Twenty seven officers have also given their life for the department and received the Medal of Honor from Thomas C. Borden in 1912 through Earl Davenport who died in 2003. Heavily illustrated with rare photographs, Historic Police Department, Long Beach, California covers the department from the beginning up to and including 2012 and includes the names of over 4,000 police and civilian employees that worked for the department.

Welcome to Church ...It's Not What You Think! Nobody truly falls in love in high school. Besides, all James really cares about is surfing, sand and fires on the beach with his friends. God is nowhere in the picture, and with a drunk of a dad and a worn out homecoming queen of a mom, his life changes in a thousand mile way, as he and his mother leave home and disappear into the gray Seattle mist. From San Clemente to Queen Anne, James will soon realize that much of what he thinks about love, God and relationships is about to change as he discovers a world behind the velvet passage.

Take A Leap Of Faith... Angelica Engl is a quiet, beautiful and well-loved teenage girl, who with her parents and her adopted brothers, move around a lot. Their latest move brings them to the wild foothills of the Colorado Rockies where she must once again learn to cope with a new school and no friends. While other girls her age are shopping and dating, Angelica trains in the martial arts using real weapons as she works to be accepted as one of the family in their real work, as demon hunters. She strives to find balance between the family's public life and their unique challenges. The newest challenge for her is the awareness of all things male that she had never experienced before, and streaming these new hormones is the boy next door, Seth, the cutest boy she has ever seen. At their first meeting they experience a charged energy flowing between them, and soon it is obvious that the feelings won't go away. As Angelica and Seth grow closer, the family finds that they are being kept very busy as more demons than ever are coming into their dimension, and they find one that even goes to school with Angelica. Angelica must learn the terms of self-awareness and gain confidence in her instincts to find her own life-path as she tries to hide her nature from Seth, who watches everything she does. Angelica must trust in her faith, in her family, and in her soul-mate to save loved ones and become who she was meant to be.

Whatever happens to a dream destroyed? In this authors opinion, you write about it. Aspiring Hip Hop artist and founder of the group Dahavknotz (the have nots) turned author, Michael Barclift writes a heart wrenching tale of growing up with a dream that dies a slow and painful death due to a combination of factors. After having such a promising start to his career and being crowned as one of the most talented and profound artist by industry peers and competitors, lifestyle choices and decisions eventually wore him down until he began to question the value of life itself. At a crossroads between living, dying or just existing, Barclift started to write journals instead of rhymes. After 2 years outside of the music scene, those journals became classic American literature. "Voiceless" is a brutally honest and pure self reflection of one mans life that reaches epic emotional depth and speaks to anyone who has ever had a dream.

Aminata Sow Fall marks a transition from the autobiography to the novel in African feminine literature. Her first novel Le Revenant (1976), is the first work of fiction written by a sub-Saharan female writer. Her second novel, La Grève des bàttu (1979), gave rise to an era of subversive writing which constitutes the point of separation between masculine and feminine discourse in francophone sub-Saharan literature. Indeed, the female characters in the microcosm of La Grève des bàttu have great courage and dignity. Lolli, Sine, Salla Niang, Sagar Diouf, Dibor and Dieng emerge to find their path and proclaim their voice in the midst of social conflicts. La Grève des bàttu is a towering achievement that set the tone for a new era of African feminine literature.

Strange People...Weird Creatures...Hair Raising Journey... Gary lay in bed slowly dying. He needed medicine fast. The only problem was that the ingredients needed to make the cure were found on the other side. His friends had no choice; they must go through the mysterious door back to where it all began. But they needed the courage to do it. In order to help their friend, they first had to survive themselves. Quest for the Cure is a fast moving story about how true friends bond and support each other through adversity. It is a story about encouragement, cooperation, and having the tenacity to see things through. These are all vital to the success of anything worth achieving.

In 1891, Joe Strong moved with his wife and child to Samoa to live with Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima, a plantation that Stevenson was carving out of the wilderness. Joe's wife was Stevenson's step-daughter. Joe and Louis had been friends for years and were close in age and temperament. Joe was a painter who had studied in Germany and was also an early photographer. Joe had been there before, and upon returning immediately resumed an affair with a native girl, a Sava dancer, whom he loved. He and all of the Stevenson clan became intimately involved with the power struggle between a rebel leader and the king who was appointed by the Germans there. And war was eminent.

Are you hurting inside and feel that there is no end to the pain? You are not alone. Emotional pain is a condition that so many men struggle with daily. Life is filled with experiences that often leave men' hearts broken. Different types of abuse, along with rejection, disappointments, and loss are a few of the life-altering experiences that can leave hearts wounded and torn. Although many of the experiences that cause pain begin during childhood and adolescence, the devastating affects transfer right into adulthood. Often, young men are trained to think that they are not to express their feelings because that shows vulnerability and weakness. They are taught that men are to be strong, tough and invincible. Any expression of hurt, guilt, pain or disappointment equates to being less than a "real man". Thus young men find themselves hiding their feelings and camouflaging them with sports, sex, money, work, or something else that will keep them from acknowledging the truth within. Healing the Hearts of Broken Men uncovers the root of the pain men conceal. It unveils not only the symptoms, but also the causes and effects of emotional pain. Moreover, this book offers practical biblically-based solutions for the havoc that inner hurts can reek in an individual's life. Healing the Hearts of Broken Men is medicine that frees the captured mind, mollifies the deepest wounds, and instills the determination necessary to live in joy again. This book includes real life testimonies of persons who have overcome emotional trauma and are now living a better life fill with peace and joy. So if you want joy, peace, and healthy emotions? Get your own personal copy of healing the Hearts of Broken Men and let's begin the journey to emotional happiness today!

What is killing everyone? In 1853 a family died horribly and mysteriously while transporting coal down the D&H Canal. 160 years later people in three states begin dying in the same manner; and the problem is spreading. If the scientists, local police and museum directors cannot solve this puzzle in a few days, the government will be forced to decimate the area. But to solve the mystery of the present they must uncover the secrets of the past.

Danger, Terror, and Hardships: The Price of Yearning For the Golden West... The Beale Trail was named after the surveyor who accepted the federal government's request for a safe and speedy route across much of the Southwest for wagon trains and the pony express. California was beginning to entice Easterners and Midwesterners to seek their fortunes in the new lands. Up until Beale undertook the task of surveying and mapping such a route, travelers were at a disadvantage. Passage was extremely difficult due to mountains, deserts, and uninhabited regions without access to needed supplies, and the threat of Indian attacks was always imminent. This tale, although purely and entirely fiction, resonates with the truth of the first few "pilgrimages" that were made across country on the Trail. The characters in the story are fictional and have no connection to those of the unfortunate travelers who lost their lives in the first early attempt to reach California. Readers of this narrative might enjoy reading about the Beale Trail, the massacre that occurred, and the history that followed the wagon trains that ventured to take this route to the gold fields, etc., of California.

This book is about a young lady sitting in an ordination service for her father to become a bishop. As the compliments are being given to him, her mind thinks about the sexual and physical abuse she suffered at his hands. This little girl keeps her secret for her safety for her pastor and an elder of the church by using scriptures to allow the sexual, physical and mental abuse to continue until she runs away. Her unsuccessful life leads to suicidal attempts, mental anguish, depression, then a nervous breakdown. She tries to make up for this great wrong by becoming a pastor and a spiritual counselor. By doing this it keeps her in close contact with her attackers. The fear, anxiety attacks and nightmares cause behavior disorders while she tries to raise her own children.

Bianca seems to have it all: She marries Jeff, the American soldier she met and fell in love with in postwar Germany, moves to the U.S. and builds an ideal family. Once the kids are grown, Bianca enters the business world and soon finds herself caught up in a torrid, May-December romance with Frederick, a younger man at the office. The three are pitched headlong into The Love Trap ¿ all the anguish, upheaval, hope and heartbreak three people can endure in the shadow of an affair. Will Bianca come to a realization about who, truly, is the love of her life? Or will she reach her epiphany too late to find happiness with anyone?The Love Trap is a thought-provoking novel for anyone considering leaving a marriage for a more exciting life with someone else. Packed with deep, emotionally resonant characters and brought to life in breezy, compelling style, the novel is a gut-wrenching story ¿ that also serves as a cautionary tale to the tempted to weigh the pros and cons before making the leap into infidelity.