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The Man Behind The Brand - At School    by Doug Gelbert
Price: $0.99 USD. 6300 words. Published on November 29, 2010. .

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Kellogg. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind America's famous colleges...
Famous Names; Forgotten People - 250 Stories of Forgotten People Behind Our Brand Names    by Doug Gelbert
Price: $5.00 USD. 132530 words. Published on April 26, 2012. .

Howard Johnson, Milton Bradley, Oscar Mayer, Russell Stover, John Deere. Real people all. Here are the stories of 250 men and women whose products became household names. Many are inspiring, some are dispiriting (David Buick, raise your hand) but may none be forgotten.
2000 Deciduous Trees: Memories of a Zine    by Nath Jones
Price: $1.99 USD. 40400 words. Published on June 28, 2012. .

2000 Deciduous Trees is an exploration of individual experience selected from Nath Jones’s ‘90s zine, The Skirt. The writing resists losing its balance during a time when gas was cheap and no one drove slowly on the cusp of a new millennium. The voice yearns for change. But nothing can be done in a twenty-something world where one-night stands get forgotten with execution-style murders.
The Mafia, Football Gambling and Len Dawson    by Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Price: $2.99 USD. 7520 words. Published on March 7, 2013. .

Former NFL Quarterback Len Dawson is a controversial sports figure. A member of the National Football League Hall of Fame, he led the Kansas City Chiefs to victory in Super Bowl IV, in 1970. However, there are legitimate doubts about his complicity in "fixing" games between 1966-1970. He associated with gamblers. A Detroit grand jury named Dawson as part of a nationwide gambling scandal in 1970
A Change of Heart    by Larry Hammersley
Price: $6.00 USD. 74350 words. Published by marilynkapp on April 12, 2013. .

Leroy Doyle and Jody Stinson suffer unhappy relationships while in school and plan to avoid that when they get to college. Leroy scraps that resolve when he meets Jody, but she won’t let him into her life. It takes her six years to wake up, but is it in time?