Author Archives: vellum

Gerard’s Arboral

Gerard’s Herbal, or The Generall Historie of Plantes, is the fourth gathering in 400 years, in a line of descent from the original folio, the 1633 edition enlarged & amended by Thomas Johnson, and the 1927 Marcus Woodward version. The … Continue reading

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Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath

As well-researched as a scholarly work, yet written with the immediacy and accessibility of a layman, Puzzling People is a first-person account of the cheats, the charlatans, the liars, neglectful parents, abusive teachers, two-faced politicians and their Psychopathic Control Grid, … Continue reading

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Standing Under Freedom: A Foundation For Personal Empowerment

Dealing with the police. Disaster preparedness basics. The business of marriage and the absurdity of licensing what should be private. How and why the government can claim your children and what you can do to avoid this. The carrot-and-stick aspect … Continue reading

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Handcrafted Ebooks: Portable Formatting for ePub and Kindle with Free, Multi-platform Tools

Written for the more technically-minded reader, Handcrafted Ebooks explains how to lay out ePub and Kindle ebooks using text editors, XHTML, CSS, and other free multi-platform tools. Packed with code snippets and sample output, the book documents many quirks and … Continue reading

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Traveling Clothes

On a bitter January night twenty years ago, Beverly Moon disappeared from the home she shared with her husband and daughter in the idyllic river town of Fairmont, Pennsylvania. When present-day writer/bartender Will Jameson gets wind of the story he … Continue reading

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