“The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty first Century,” describes what makes the city unique, loveable and occasionally frustrating. Newsweek columnist Howard Fineman calls it, “a great conversation on a Pittsburgh tavern barstool.” Actor and Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton says, "This guy gets it."

Andy has always been attracted to athletic challenge, adventure and possibly even danger. In this book Andy tries to understand what it was that drove him as a young child, and to recall who were his mentors and especially ask himself why he was so driven to pursue what many would consider dangerous sporting activities for example: professional football, mountain climbing, wilderness canoeing, cave exploring, and scuba diving.

James Harrison has overcome daunting odds and a tortured path to stardom in a miraculous rise from an undrafted free agent to the 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year who set the Super Bowl record for the longest play ever. Cut four times by NFL teams, Harrison could have thrown in the towel many times on his rocky road to stardom and self acceptance. If he wasn’t a man of such raw power, fiery emotion and sheer will, he could not have risen above personal setbacks and repeated snubs to become the best defensive player in the NFL. Or he could have gotten there faster.

Pittsburgh has been called Hell with the Lid On and Hell with the Lid Off. It was a city rich in contrasts and rich in its history. And amid the swirling currents that made up the vibrant flow of the city's life, navigated the Jews, an immigrant group that began settling in the region in the 1840s.

Man’s Quest to Solve a Mystery Results in a Manuscript Published Seventeen Years after His Death, But Not an End to the Mystery Itself… Conclusions point to a deception intended for the greater good in the true story of the B-25 that crash-landed and then disappeared in the Monongahela River on January 31, 1956