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Making a Small Fortune: Surviving publishing, parenting, and porphyria

This is my story. Once upon a time, at the start of the 21st century, I remarried, became a stepparent to three boys, and started a weekly newspaper–all at the same time.  This despite having never owned a business, worked on a newspaper, taken a journalism class, sold advertising, or been a parent. Almost overnight, …

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American Wasteland: Stories by Alexander Shalom Joseph

Alexander Shalom Joseph’s American Wasteland is a collection of stories about the contemporary day-to-day in America. It is said in the Talmud that one job of certain Jews is to justify the existence of humanity to God; in this collection, Joseph attempts to do just this with his stories, which speak to the everyday mundane …

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The Cost

The Cost, a business novel to help companies increase revenues and profits. The Cost is for those in the cost engineering field and everyone who is in a manufacturing business: engineers, buyers, sales reps, accountants, operations folks, and business consultants. The Cost is a story of a cost engineering consultant named Doug Benson who does …

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