Best Selling Books by Mike Miller

A lively story about dying, a mind-bending thriller and a pitch-black comedy. "The message is why you keep the gun under your pillow. Everyday you become more accustomed to the lump. You are glad when you survive your sneezes. But one time, a cough destroys the lamp on the nightstand." You are a nobody, just another somebody. So why does an odd stranger approach you one day with a peculiar and ominous message? Is it a misunderstanding? A warning? A dire threat? The world seems as normal as ever, so why can you not shake the feeling that you are now locked in a dark countdown to your own horrific doom?

"Having stolen billions of dollars and been responsible for the unnecessary slaughter of thousands, I must still confess on the record that even my worst actions were never born of ill will." An infamous supervillain tells her side of the story in this epic story of her long and notorious life. From her infant genius through her would-be world-conquering, this notorious antagonist looks to explain her personal motivations and unique perspective on the various exploits for which society has falsely judged as wrong and evil. This memoir also recounts the many confrontations with her superpowered nemesis in moments both heartbreaking and thrilling. The legendary saga offers rare insight into the misunderstood mentality of a much-maligned outcast.

A man becomes infected by a hand puppet... An assassin must protect her infant son... A boxer fights for a second chance... A boy runs afoul of the law... Action, thriller, comedy, sci-fi, romance, horror - All genres of fiction are on full display in this anthology of short stories from Mike Miller. No two tales are alike in this wildly eclectic and entertaining collection.

"I know, you''re the Shaman, therefore everything is possibly mystical and probably dangerous. But if anything, I dunno, I just thought..." The Chief trailed off pensively, cautious of his next words. "I thought it might be fun." When a pair of boys find a mysterious stranger washed ashore of their beach, this humble island community is not sure what to do next. But the visitor''s arrival will change everyone''s lives forever - from the young friends, to the new outsider, and on through the entire village. Worlds collide in this tropical paradise, through a comedic adventure of self-discovery, friendship and growing up.

Acrostics - many think of the puzzle, clues, answered in numbers spaces, transferred to a grid, resulting in a message. Well, Acrostic Poems are different. Read the first letter of each line down, there''s a message, and the body of the acrostics says more about the message. Or read the first letter of each word in the following sentence: Any Challenge Requires Outside Study To Inform Completely. Famous authors who wrote acrostics include Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass), Edgar Allen Poe (ELIZABETH). Here is a collection of fun and functional acrostics, most original by the author. Also included is a guide to creating your own acrostics

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home''s property value. Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions. "Month-by-Month Gardening in Missouri" is written by the highly popular gardening expert Mike Miller. Contains monthly advice on what to do and when to do it in the garden. The book contains 12 plant categories ranging from annuals to vines.

FLORIDA EVERGLADES is a short book designed to be read in an hour or less. The mission of the book is to help interested people learn the basics of the problems facing the Florida Everglades. Many years of development, agricultural activity and neglect have created a situation that endangers the viability of this valuable natural resource. The book explores the history of the natural ecosystem and shows what happened to upset the natural order of things. It also presents a hopeful look at what is being done to reverse the damage done over the past 130 or more years FLORIDA EVERGLADES is written by Mike Miller, a Florida resident since 1960. Mike is a graduate civil engineer from the University of Florida and has traveled all over the state on both business and pleasure. He writes for and publishes his own website, Florida-Backroads-Travel.com. Much of the material in this book is from the website.

Gardening requires time and planning. My Missouri Garden: A Gardener''s Journal is the perfect planning tool for anyone who enjoys and wants to improve their garden. It is arranged by week and is not dated so you can start journaling at any time of the year. There are weekly tips on each page, as well as space to record notes, such as "Garden Observations," "What''s the Weather Like?" and "What Have I Planted/Transplanted?" Each week also features a page to record any notes you want to add in order to personalize your journal. My Missouri Garden: A Gardener''s Journal is a perfect gift for anyone who enjoys America''s favorite leisure pastime.

This book provides a brief introduction to what is variously called "faith-based," "congregation-based," and "institution-based" community organizing. Grounded in a composite case study of an actual organizing effort, it shows how local communities can be organized for power. Key organizing concepts and strategies are illustrated with stories of real encounters with leaders, communities, and powerful opposition figures. In the approach described here, civic and religious institutions come together to give the community a collective voice. Organizers help a community build a powerful organization rooted in core values of democracy and the social justice teachings of the world''s great religious traditions. Saul Alinsky developed the foundations of the tradition of organizing described here, an approach that remains dominant in the U.S. today. Alinsky rooted power deeply in the lives, relationships and institutions of marginalized and oppressed people. In his early organizing days, his organizations brought together a wide range of institutions: religious congregations and labor unions, as well as mutual aid, self-help, athletic, sororal and fraternal, neighborhood and other voluntary associations. By the late 1970s, as non-congregational neighborhood associations fell into decline, organizers in the Alinsky tradition started looking more carefully at how to sustain the vibrancy of the religious institutions that remained. Organizers sought to help congregation members become co-creators, rather than consumers, of the life of their churches, and worked to help members connect their faith more directly to action in the world. In this way, they helped make both faith and the action more meaningful. This little book tells the story of one congregation that was a member of a "broadly-based community organization," and how a community organizer assisted its development as a true community.

A Classic Tale of Adventure and Terror“You have entered a world of death, but do not want to die. No treasure on earth is worth facing the Yeti.”In the year 1850, a British caravan crossing the Himalayan Mountains from India into China has vanished, along with its priceless treasure. Now the race is on to reclaim the lost fortune as a pair of intrepid soldiers - a virtuous African private and a daring British corporal - spearhead their own mission to seize the prize by betraying their fellow troops. On this epic adventure, each man''s will, character and fortitude will be challenged to survive the perilous quest as they battle the wrath of the vengeful English army, the fury of the native bandits, the greed of their cutthroat accomplices, and the harsh, frozen hell of the alpine peaks. And the only other obstacle to their success is a savage beast of mythical power.

Never garden alone! The Month-By-Month series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you’ll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year. Written by authors in your state, the information is tailored to the issues that affect your garden the most.

Monsters and ghosts, madness and murder, fear and suspense - this third volume in the 3VIL series features an all-new trilogy of original, spine-tingling horror stories which cover the entire spectrum of darkest evil: 1. A bickering couple drives together through a dark desert at night. When they enter the domain of a vicious monster, can they survive its carnage until morning? 2. An old man buys a dream. When the product is defective, is there a warranty to cover the nightmare? 3. A pair of defenseless children are trapped alone in the worst part of town. Can a young boy lead his baby sister to safety? Each story is crafted with punishing intensity and merciless brutality, and few readers will survive the experience unscathed.

What Would Walt Do? is a question asked by designers and builders during the construction of Walt Disney World. The answer was always that Walt would have done the right thing, keeping guest experience, quality, and safety uppermost in mind. Walt died two years before construction began, but his spirit was there guiding the project along the right path. This book is a collection of short passages describing some examples of decisions made on the project that impacted quality. The stories are from the first hand experience of Mike Miller, an engineer who worked on the construction.

Never garden alone! The Month-By-Month series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you’ll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year. Written by authors in your state, the information is tailored to the issues that affect your garden the most.

Living Aboard A Boat helps potential liveaboards decide if it''s the right lifestyle for them. The book covers a wide range of information including the pros and cons of living aboard; types of liveaboard boats and where to live; liveaboard expenses; advice for outfitting a galley; sleeping quarters; boat systems; boat propulsion; dining and living space; bathroom advice; and a glossary of boating terms. It also includes a list of useful books and web links and has 44 photographs.

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL takes you off the Interstate Highways and onto the quieter roads that defined this region in earlier years. Millions of people visit Southwest Florida every year and never really see it. Everything looks pretty much the same from from Interstate 75. The same old billboards, gas stations, chain restaurants and tacky tourist traps call out to you as you speed along. This guide will rescue you from interstate monotony and take you off the beaten path to what is called Old Florida. This part of our fast growing state is still a place of serenity, natural wonders and historic places. The guide is organized into several different sections so you can browse what you''d like at your convenience. Several historic Southwest Florida towns are profiled including Alva, Boca Grande, Captiva Island, Chokoloskee, Fort Myers, LaBelle, Naples, Palmdale and Punta Gorda. The history of each town is discussed and photos are shown along with an antique postcard now and then. If a town has a good restaurant, the guide will mention it along with some favorite lodging choices. Although Southwest Florida is noted for its beautiful beaches and golf courses, the area is also famous for its vast agricultural lands, the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and older quieter tourist attractions. This guide will show you where the best ones are. You will also learn about several Florida State Parks. These parks are quiet treasures that will make your visit even more interesting. Florida heritage and history are important parts of the culture of Southwest Florida. The guide tells you about festivals, including art shows, and gives you times and places so you can enjoy them during your visit. You will also find a list of all Southwest Florida heritage sites, and will learn about the interesting history of this part of Florida. Last but not least, SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL has a section on day trips. You will be given recommended driving routes along with maps to help you enjoy your wanderings around this interesting region of Florida. The guide is written by Mike Miller, a 50 plus year resident of Florida. Mike is a graduate civil engineer from the University of Florida and has traveled all over the state on both business and pleasure. He writes for and publishes his own website, Florida-Backroads-Travel.com. Much of the material from this guide is from the website.

In the book of Colossians, Paul mentions a fellow worker named Epaphras as one who is "always wrestling in prayer for you." Our Epaphras, born in 1975, shares that quality, but will he be able to "walk the walk" even through today''s darkest valleys? Epaphras hates his "weird" name! Wouldn''t you? But only until his dream girl, Teddy, comes back into his life again, and everything changes for the better! Epps organizes and leads a small men''s group (MG) at his church and finds that the only problem with serving people is... the people. But despite some, and with the help of others, a terrible thirteen-year-old mystery and a deeply spiritual challenge are both finally successfully resolved.

CENTRAL FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL takes you off the Interstate Highways and onto the quieter roads that defined this region in earlier years. Millions of people visit Central Florida every year and never really see it. Everything looks pretty much the same from Interstate 4, Interstate 75 or the Florida Turnpike. The same old billboards, gas stations, chain restaurants and tacky tourist traps call out to you as you speed along. This guide will rescue you from interstate monotony and take you off the beaten path to what is called Old Florida. This part of our fast growing state is still a place of serenity, natural wonders and historic places. The guide is organized into several different sections so you can browse what you''d like at your convenience. Several historic Central Florida towns are profiled including Babson Park, Cassadaga, Clermont, Doctor Phillips, Eustis, Fort Meade, Frostproof, Fruitland Park, Haines City, Highland Park, Howey In The Hills, Lakeland, Lake Placid, Lake Wales, Mount Dora, Ocala, Okeechobee, Orlando, Sebring, St Cloud, Tavares, The Villages, Wauchula, Windermere, Winter Garden, Winter Haven and Winter Park. The history of each town is discussed and photos are shown along with an antique postcard now and then. If a town has a good restaurant, the guide will mention it along with some favorite lodging choices. Although Central Florida is noted for its major Orlando theme parks, the area is also famous for its vast agricultural lands, its Ocala National Forest and older quieter tourist attractions. This guide will show you where the best ones are. You will also learn about several Florida State Parks. These parks are quiet treasures that will make your visit even more interesting. The guide does not focus on the major theme parks, but does give you brief introductions to Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and Seaworld. Florida heritage and history are important parts of the culture of Central Florida. The guide tells you about festivals, including art shows, and gives you times and places so you can enjoy them during your visit. You will also find a list of all Central East Florida heritage sites, and will learn about the interesting history of this part of Florida. Last but not least, CENTRAL FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL has a section on Florida day trips. You will be given recommended driving routes along with maps to help you enjoy your wanderings around this interesting region of Florida. The guide is written by Mike Miller, a 50 plus year resident of Florida. Mike is a graduate civil engineer from the University of Florida and has traveled all over the state on both business and pleasure. He writes for and publishes his own website, Florida-Backroads-Travel.com. Much of the material from this guide is from the website.

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home''s property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.

Hundred of books have been published about Florida writers. This small book focuses only on writers that I have enjoyed and who are no longer alive at the time of publication in January 2017. The volume includes both fiction and non-fiction authors. All of them have some things in common: they all wrote books and stories with Florida story lines and settings, and they are all dead. Many of them lived in Florida, but not all of them. Each article about an author includes a photograph, birth date, and date of death. This book is my effort to keep their memories alive through introducing them and their writing to a new audience whom I hope will enjoy their work as much as I have.

FLORIDA CARPENTER GOTHIC CHURCHES is a book of photographs of the exteriors and brief histories of the 39 such churches believed to still exist in Florida. The churches were built between 1870 and 1910 and are a link to Florida''s heritage and history.

SOUTHEAST FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL takes you off the Interstate Highways and onto the quieter roads that defined this region in earlier years. Millions of people visit Southeast Florida every year and never really see it. Everything looks pretty much the same from Interstate 95, Interstate 75 or the Florida Turnpike. The same old billboards, gas stations, chain restaurants and tacky tourist traps call out to you as you speed along. This guide will rescue you from interstate monotony and take you off the beaten path to what is called Old Florida. This part of our fast growing state is still a place of serenity, natural wonders and historic places. The guide is organized into several different sections so you can browse what you''d like at your convenience. Several Southeast Florida towns are profiled including Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Delray Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Homestead, Key Biscayne, Key West, Miami and Palm Beach. The history of each town is discussed and photos are shown along with an antique postcard now and then. If a town has a good restaurant, the guide will mention it along with some favorite lodging choices. Although Southeast Florida is noted for its sprawling urban population, the area is also famous for the Florida Keys, the Everglades, its beaches and older quieter tourist attractions. This guide will show you where the best ones are. You will also learn about several Florida State Parks. These parks are quiet treasures that will make your visit even more interesting. Florida heritage and history are important parts of the culture of Southeast Florida. The guide tells you about festivals, including art shows, and gives you times and places so you can enjoy them during your visit. You will also find a list of all Southeast Florida heritage sites, and will learn about the interesting history of this part of Florida. Last but not least, SOUTHEAST FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL has a section on Florida day trips. You will be given recommended driving routes along with maps to help you enjoy your wanderings around this interesting region of Florida. The book is written by Mike Miller, a 50 plus year resident of Florida. Mike is a graduate civil engineer from the University of Florida and has traveled all over the state on both business and pleasure. He writes for and publishes his own website, Florida-Backroads-Travel.com. Much of the material from this guide is from the website.

"The rise and fall of the multi-issue Mission Coalition Organization is recounted in [this book], a richly detailed story of people power set in San Francisco''s predominantly Latino Mission District. ... [T]he organization defeated urban renewal, negotiated jobs for the unemployed, and protected low-income tenants from exorbitant rents until it was ultimately weakened by federal "Model Cities" funding. Embodying the concept ... that "change comes from below" and combining colorful stories, lessons on organizaing for social and economic justice, public policy analysis, a keen eye for American politics, and reflection on democratic theory, this is a thoughtful and hopeful antidote to cynicism, apathy, and powerlessness."--Back cover.

Herb Mills, 1931 - 2018Herb Mills was on his way to a PhD and career at a major university as a brilliant political theorist when he dropped out of the University of California and became a longshoreman, and a member of the independent International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), long known for its militancy and radical program, and its President Harry Bridges who on four separate occasions the United States government sought (unsuccessfully) to deport because of his alleged membership in the Communist Party.At Berkeley, Herb was an important early 1960s leader in the emerging northern student movement, whose birthplace was in many ways there. Representing the student movement, he travelled nationally to speak against the House Un-American Activities Committee''s campaign to make the student movement a Communist plot. In ILWU, Herb rose from the rank-and-file to become a shop steward, chair of the steward''s council, business agent and secretary-treasurer of Local 10. He was a delegate to the coast-wide contract negotiating committee, strategist of ILWU''s successful effort to stop U.S. arms shipments to the dictatorship in El Salvador, and similarly conceived the plan that saved South Korean leader and later elected president Kim Dae Jung from the military dictatorship''s plan to execute him. (Kim invited Herb as his guest to the inauguration.) Within the union, Herb became a major Bridges'' and Mechanization & Modernization (M&M) Agreement critic because it undermined the solidarity of the union. Herb wrote extensively about his longshore work and the union. He engaged in four-days of interviews with Harvey Schwartz, ILWU oral historian. He was the key consultant to The Smithsonian''s longshoring exhibit in its permanent Transportation Section. He took a break for a year and completed his PhD on Deuel Vocational Institute, a prison near the Bay Area. Herb was the engaged father of two daughters and a son, an actor, and my best friend for 60 years. This book is a tribute to him. While I''m the editor, it expresses the collective effort of many.--Mike Miller, Editor

NORTHWEST FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL takes you off the Interstate Highways and onto the quieter roads that defined this region in earlier years. Millions of people visit Northwest Florida every year and never really see it. Everything looks pretty much the same from Interstate 10. The same old billboards, gas stations, chain restaurants and tacky tourist traps call out to you as you speed along. This guide will rescue you from interstate monotony and take you off the beaten path to what is called Old Florida. This part of our fast growing state is still a place of serenity, natural wonders and historic places. The guide is organized into several different sections so you can browse what you''d like at your convenience. Several historic Northwest Florida towns are profiled including Apalachicola, Bristol, DeFuniak Springs, Milton, Marianna, Panama City and Pensacola. Newer communities and quaint smaller places are also visited such as Seaside, Sopchoppy, Two Egg and Vernon. The history of each town is discussed and photos are shown along with an antique postcard now and then. If a town has a good restaurant, the guide will mention it along with some favorite lodging choices. Northwest Florida is famous for its beautiful beaches. This guide will show you where the best ones are. You will also learn about several Florida State Parks. These parks are quiet treasures that will make your visit even more interesting. The guide doesn''t focus on popular tourist attractions. The towns and places are the best attractions. It does take you, however, to the outstanding Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola.

Florida One Tank Trips Volume 1 features 50 destinations that can be reached by car on one tank of gas from cities in Florida''s 8 geograpchical regions. Some of the destinations are free parks and other attractions; others charge modest admission fees. The book tells you about the fees, operating hours, address, phone number, website, and also includes a location map for each destination.

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