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CULLOTTA By DENNIS N. GRIFFIN AND FRANK CULLOTTA Read By Michael Taylor	THE BATTLE FOR LAS VEGAS (The Law VS. The Mob) By DENNIS N. GRIFFIN Read By Michael Taylor	THE BLACKENED CANTEEN BY JERRY YELLIN READ BY JOHN HOUGH

From burglary to armed robbery and murder, infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all, in Cullotta he admits to it � and in graphic detail.	In the 1970s and thru the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit was the dominant organized crime family in Las Vegas, with business interests in several casinos. During those years the Outfit and its colleagues in Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Cleveland were using Sin City as a cash cow.	"On June 20, 1945, just before the end of the war, 123 American bombers took off from the island of Guam for an attack on Shizuoka, a Japanese city at the foot of Mount Fuji. The raid destroyed two-thirds of the city, taking the lives of two thousand of its citizens.


OF WAR AND WEDDINGS By JERRY YELLIN Read By JOHN HOUGH	FATHER AND I WERE RANCHERS By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 1) Read By Cameron Beierle	MAN OF THE FAMILY By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 2) Read By Cameron Beierle

Of War and Weddings is a moving and compelling true story of bitter wartime enemies who find peace through their children's marriage.	The Moody family moves from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Experience the pleasures and perils of ranching in 20th Century America, through the eyes of a youngster.	At age eleven, Ralph becomes man of the family and an entrepreneur. He continues his horse riding, cattle driving, and the Moodys start a cooking business.


THE HOME RANCH By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 3) Read By Cameron Beierle	MARY EMMA AND COMPANY By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 4) Read By Cameron Beierle	THE FIELDS OF HOME By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 5) Read By Cameron Beierle

Ralph "Little Britches" Moody must take on responsibilities as the man of the family after his father's death.	At age thirteen Ralph "Little Britches" Moody moves with his mother, Mary Emma, and five siblings to Massachusetts.	The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Massachusetts in 1912 as Ralph enters his teen years.


SHAKING THE NICKEL BUSH By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 6) Read By Cameron Beierle	THE DRY DIVIDE By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 7) Read By Cameron Beierle	HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR By Ralph Moody (Little Britches Book 8) Read By Cameron Beierle

Now 19 years old, skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by his Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate out West.	Ralph has just turned twenty, and lands in Western Nebraska with only one dime in his pocket.	In the early 1920s, cowboy and dry-range farmer Ralph Moody finds himself with mountainous debts through the collapse of the livestock market, and the dealings of a crooked partner.


COME ON, SEABISCUIT! By Ralph Moody Read By Cameron Beierle	WHY WAIT FOR HEAVEN By Dolores Cline Brown Read By Kris Faulkner	GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS By Win Blevins Read By Michael Taylor

During the Great Depression, Seabiscuit captured American hearts from the soup kitchens to the White House. In this classic story, Ralph Moody recounts the true story of a plucky horse that refused to quit, a down-on-his-luck jockey determined to help his horse win, and the trainer who brought out the best in both.	The time is the late 1800's, the setting, a small town in Eastern Washington: the story, an undeniably fascinating and unforgettable saga of life on the newly civilized western frontier.	This is the true story of America's mountain men including Jed Smith, John Fitzpatrick, Bill Williams and Jim Bridger, actual people and their actual doings. Every substantial event is verified by journals, newspapers, books and diaries recording the events at the time.


CENTRAL ASIA WAR JOURNAL By Colonel "Bo" Bottomly Read By Colenel "Bo" Bottomly	MIDDLE EAST SPY ASSIGNMENT By Colonel "Bo" Bottomly Read By Colonel "Bo" Bottomly	VIETNAM WAR JOURNAL By Colonel "Bo" Bottomly Read By Colonel "Bo" Bottomly

Col. Bo's adventure leads him across the Kush mountains and into the desert to aid in a guerilla war against Tunga Khan and his army. In this wild and unfriendly terrain, Bo has to call on all his skills as a horseman, pilot and soldier.	Col. Bo accepts an assignment to be dropped in Iraq to provide intelligence on the north Iraqi airfields. At the same time, the Revolutionary Guard of Iraq has assumed power, and the king has been overthrown.	Col. "Bo" is assigned as Task Force Commander of the Dragon One Combat Task Force, and hand picks twenty five veterans for the group. Their assignment is to combat test the A-37 in all combat roles.


BIG SKY FRONTIER STORIES By Colonel "Bo" Bottomly Read By Colonel "Bo" Bottomly	AMERICAN HEROES: AMELIA EARHART By Lori Van Pelt Read By Kris Faulkner	AMERICAN HEROES: CHIEF JOSEPH By Candy Moulton Read By Jerry Sciarrio

This audiobook details the youthful adventures of Colonel Heath "Bo" Bottomly. 1. MY LAST BUFFALO 2&3. KID CURRY'S LAST RIDE PART I & II 4. THE EAGLE CATCHER 5. A GRIZZLY ENCOUNTER 6. GRANDPA BUFFALO	As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she took her first airplane ride.	Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce tribe, lived from 1840 to 1904. He became a legend through his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in Oregon�s Wallowa Valley. For years he tried to accommodate encroaching white men on his tribal lands, but finally gave up and attempted, in the fall of 1877, to lead his people safely to Canada.


AMERICAN HEROES: DAVID CROCKETT By William Groneman III Read By Rusy Nelson	AMERICAN HEROES: GEORGE WASHINGTON By James A. Crutchfield Read By Rusty Nelson	AMERICAN HEROES: JOHN MUIR By Rod Miller Read By Rusty Nelson

Perhaps no other figure in American history is more shrouded in myth and legend than David ("Davy") Crockett, the Tennessee frontiersman whose death at the Alamo in 1836 ensured his place in the Valhalla of American heroes.	Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America�s first national hero.	In 1849, 11-year-old John Muir emigrated from Scotland to America. Here, he rose from farmer and sawmill worker to become a noted authority on the botany, glaciers, and forestry of the nation's wilderness.


AMERICAN HEROES: MARY EDWARDS WALKER By Dale L. Walker Read By Kris Faulkner	THE REASONABLE ART OF FLY FISHING By Terry Mort Read By Michael Taylor	THE ENEMY WITHIN By Michael Savage Read By Cameron Beierle

Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of women.	"One of the best acid tests of an introductory book...is that the text allow the reader to learn an important skill independent of the illustrations. This book contains the best, the most interesting, and the most effective introduction to fly casting I have ever read." --Tom Rosenbauer	Michael Savage's powerful, unmatched mix of razor-sharp wit and explosive socio-political commentary has made him into a cultural phenomenon, becoming not only one of America's most popular radio talk show hosts, but also a best selling author.


THE CASE AGAINST LAWYERS By Catherine Crier Read By Cameron Beierle	WITHOUT A BADGE By Jerry Speziale and Mark Seal Read By Heath Kizzier	BOLD SPIRIT By LINDA LAWRENCE HUNT Read By Pat Stien

The Case Against Lawyers is both an angry indictment and eloquent plea for a return to common sense. It decries a system of laws so complex that even their enforcers cannot understand them. It unmasks a litigation crazed society where billion-dollar judgements mostly line the pockets of personal injury lawyers.	Jerry Speziale was a loose cannon whose antics got him into the crack dens and shooting galleries of New York's meanest streets--and onto an elite DEA narcotics task force charged with taking down South America's powerful Cali drug cartel.	In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of the American continent to win a $10,000 wager. On foot. A mother of eight living children, she attempts to save her family's homestead in Eastern Washington after the 1893 depression had ravaged the American economy.