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  • 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

    A Collection of Fascinating Historical, Scientific and Cultural Trivia about People, Places and Things

    by Mark Jacob, Stephan Benzkofer, Chicago Tribune ...
    A compendium of outrageous, hilarious or just plain shocking trivia about everything from history and politics to arts, religion, technology and much more.For years, the Chicago Tribune's "10 Things You Might Not Know" column has been informing and entertaining readers on a diverse range of subjects. This volume collects the best of these columns, offering readers obscure, fascinating facts on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incident at Walter's Creek

    by Mark Jacobs ...
    What really happened on that remote Tennessee farmstead on a chilly fall night in 1828? Sixteen years later, Zacharias Neil, Andrew Jackson Thomkins, and Zack's little brother, Aaron, are determined to find out. An eerie tale of paranormal terror. Warning for mild language and strong dialect. ... Read more

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  • The Genesis Project

    by Mark Jacobs ...
    The book beckons acompelling blend of high-concept science fiction married toprofound human narratives that invigorate a contemporaryaudience's thirst for introspection ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Watchers from within moments, Revealed

    by Mark Jacobs ...
    Jim Vedder, chief engineer at California's FastTech Corporation, has developed the world's fastest camera. But exploring the bizarre universe of the super fast, soon uncovers horrific entities that captivate the world's consciousness. And FastTech is quickly, and somewhat unwillingly drawn into a quagmire of politics, fate, and the unforgiving press. ... Read more

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  • What the Great Ate

    A Curious History of Food and Fame

    by Matthew Jacob, Mark Jacob ...
    What was eating them? And vice versa.In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food• As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase “we’re making spaghetti” to inform his wife if he’d be (illegally) dueling later that day.• As ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Globetrotter

    How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports

    by Mark Jacob, Matthew Jacob ...
    *Booklist starred review*The captivating biography of Abe Saperstein, creator of the Harlem GlobetrottersThe original Harlem Globetrotters weren't from Harlem, and they didn't start out as globetrotters. The talented all-Black team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, was from Chicago's South Side and initially toured the Midwest in Saperstein's model-T. But with Saperstein's savvy and the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Behold, the Warrior's Pride

    by Mark Jacobs ...
    The king's most loyal warrior has mercifully survived thirty-six years of brutal service. To reward him for his unyielding dedication, the grateful monarch grants him permanent leave, a parcel of farmland and prized livestock. Freed from his duties, he struggles within his own troubled soul to allow himself final peace. A Flash fiction (1000 word) short story. ... Read more

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  • Treacherous Beauty

    Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America

    by Stephen Case, Mark Jacob ...
    Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war’s most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging between England and its rebellious colonists, Peggy befriended a suave British officer and then ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Handful of Kings

    A Novel

    by Mark Jacobs ...
    With explosive tension and masterful suspense, A Handful of Kings is a page-turning thriller about what really happens in the world of espionage, by an insider who has lived it.American diplomat Vicky Sorrell learns the hard way that all is fair in love -- and espionage. A Handful of Kings, the latest novel by prolific author and former foreign service officer Mark Jacobs, follows Vicky's fast ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Day God Winked

    by Mark Jacobs ...
    Every human on earth would remember exactly where they were on the day everything changed. Like Pearl Harbor or JFK's assassination or September 11th, 2001, the event was firmly anchored in everyone's conscience— sometimes clear, sometimes hazy, confusing, and ultimately unfathomable. The Day, so labeled by the billions who bore witness— the Day that swept away any other single episode in the ... Read more

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  • ANNA

    A Story of Faith, Trust, and Purpose

    by Mark Jacobs ...
    This faith-based story tells of a young man, Matthew Larsen, struggling to understand the purpose and meaning of his life and what faith is all about. He's not even sure he believes in God. He has been dealt some tragic events in the recent past, including helping his ailing father live his final days. Because of those events, he has become cynical toward humanity. He holds down a meaningless job. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Theoretically Straight

    Theoretically Straight, Book 1

    by Amy Bailey, Alexander C. Eberhart ...
    Narrated by Mark Sanderlin, Jacob Bell ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Theoretically Straight

    Unabridged

    11 hours 37 min

    Theo Briggs is a rule follower.He's a decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed… and maybe create a viral video in the process.Caleb Raynard is a romantic. One of the few out-and-proud kids at Specter High School, Caleb's dating life has been hellish, to say the least—fraught with misread social cues and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus