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- I'm the Latrobe, Pa., based author of "The Last Baby Boomer: The Story of the Ultimate Ghoul Pool," "Use All The Crayons! The Colorful Guide to Simple Human Happiness," and popular books about two Latrobe neighbors (Fred Rogers & Arnold Palmer). I'll write for anybody who'll pay me. I am a PROSEtitute
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(Almost) Every Book I've Read Since February '13
- "Tortilla Flats," by John Steinbeck
- "The Lost Men: The Harrowing Story of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party," by Kelly Tyler Lewis
- "The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World," by Simon Winchester
- "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era," by James K. McPherson
- "The Catcher in the Rye," by J.D. Salinger
- "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family & a Culture in Crisis," by J.D. Vance
- "The Grifter's Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago & the Selling of the Presidency," by Sarah Blaskey (others)
- "The Chicken Runs at Midnight: The Rich and Amy Donnelly Story," by Tom Friend
- "Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing," By Robert A. Caro
- "One More Time," by Mike Royko
- "Into The Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before," by Tony Horwitz
- "The Wizard," by Jeff Wallach
- "The Splendid & The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family & Defiance During the Blitz," by Erik Larson
- "Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball's Longest Game," by Dan Barry
- "Skinny Dip," by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Pioneers," by David McCollough
- "War, Memory & the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion," by Thomas R. Flagel
- "The Millionaire & The Mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of The Kings," by John M. Adams
- "The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record," by Jonathan Scott
- "Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold & The Fate of the American Revolution," by Nathaniel Philbrick
- "When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph and Its Aftermath," by Stuart Isacoff
- "Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II," by Ian Sayer & Jeremy Dronfield
- "Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing," by Matt Stroud
- "Coyotes in the Pasture & Wolves at the Door: Stories from Our Farm to your Table," by John & Sukey Jamison
- "Churchill: Walking With Destiny," by Andrew Roberts
- "Hungover: The Morning After & One Man's Quest for The Cure," by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stalll
- "A Curious Man: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert (Believe It Or Not) Ripley," by Neil Thompson
- "Yeager," by Gen. Chuck Yeager
- "To a God Unknown," by John Steinbeck
- "The Paris of Appalachia," by Brian O'Neill
- "Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull & Buffalo Bill," by Deanne Stillman
- "Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom," by Thomas E. Ricks
- "War & Peace," by Leo Tolstoy
- "Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon," by Larry Tye
- "Night," by Elie Wiesel
- "True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy," by Kati Marton
- "The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup," by John Feinstein
- "Blood & Thunder: An Epic of the American West," by Hampton Sides
- "Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick & The Bitter Partnership that Transformed America," by Les Standiford
- "Into The Wild," by Jon Krakauer
- "Born to Run," by Bruce Springsteen
- "Americana: The Kinks, The Riff, The Road," by Ray Davies
- "Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela," by Nelson Mandela
- "Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History," by Bill Schutt
- "Cheesesteak," by Bob Levin
- "Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight," by Jay Barbree
- "The Sun Also Rises," by Ernest Hemingway
- "The Coldest Winter: America and The Korean War," by David Halberstam
- "Shakespeare: The World As Stage," by Bill Bryson
- "The Duel: 10 May - 31 July 1940: The Eighty Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler," by John Lukacs
- "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck
- "The Paper: The Life & Death of the New York Herald Tribune," by Richard Kluger
- "The Moon is Down," by John Steinbeck
- "The North Water," by Ian McGuire
- "Endangered," by Eliot Schrefer
- "War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr & the Duel that Stunned the Nation," by John Sedgwick
- "The Racketeer," by John Grisham
- "Life on the Mississippi," by Mark Twain
- "Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service," by Devin Leonard
- "The General vs. The President: MacArthur & Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War," by H.W. Brands
- "Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens," by Steve Olson
- "HIstory of the English-Speaking Peoples," by Winston Churchill
- "The Fifties," by David Halberstam
- "The Bonfire of the Vanities," by Tom Wolfe
- "Seinfeldia," by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- "Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, & the Legacy of American Courage," by Tom McMillan
- "Tender is the Night," by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann & America in Vietnam," by Neil Sheehan
- "The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin," by Adam Hochschild
- "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad
- "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa," by Adam Hochschild
- "Lucky Boy," by Cameron Morfit
- "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers," by Simon Winchester
- "Deadeye Dick," by Kurt Vonnegut
- "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm; 1940-1965," by William Manchester & Paul Reid
- "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer
- "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha," by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- "20th Century Journey, Vol II; The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940," by William Shirer
- "The Sound of Music Story," by Tom Santopietro
- "The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity," by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
- "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone, 1932-1940," by William Manchester
- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," by Mark Twain
- "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932," by William Manchester
- "Thunderstruck," by Erik Larson
- "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck
- "Kent State: What Happened & Why," by James Michener
- "In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette," by Hampton Sides
- "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert A. Caro
- "Walden," by Henry David Thoreau
- "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption," by Laura Hillenbrand
- "Catch 22," by Joseph Heller
- "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee
- "Travels with Charley," by John Steinbeck
- "Chronicles: Vol. 1," by Bob Dylan
- "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert A. Caro
- "October 1964," by David Halberstam
- "The Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys, The True Story," by Dean King
- "Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert A. Caro
- "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo & The Sacrifice That Forged a Nation," by James Donovan
- "Baghdad Without a Map (and other misadventures in Arabia)" by Tony Horwitz
- "Stars In Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign," by Shelby Foote
- "The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert A. Caro
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