The answer to your prayers - a simple, effective convention for competing over the opponents' 1NT opening bid! Originally self-published in 1996, the first edition sold out quickly, so that this much sought-after treatise has been unavailable for several years. The book describes how the convention works, and how to use it against various ranges of 1NT opening bids, as well as over strong 1 Club openings. Jerry Helms (Charlotte, NC) is both a top-level professional player, with numerous tournament successes to his credit, and one of America's leading bridge teachers.

A collection of essays, written in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry, that provides portraits of the personal lives and careers of nineteen country music stars, with a chapter devoted to early pioneers such as Fiddlin' John Carson, and Carl T. Sprague.

If you’re given this chance, you need to grab it. No matter what the cost. When the director Helms gets the opportunity to make the movie of his dreams, and step out from his Father’s long shadow, he snaps it up. But what he doesn’t know is that Debra Spencer, the studio boss, has commissioned it for her own dastardly needs. Can he wrangle his over-inflated Hollywood star, a fresh-faced co-star, a legendary movie icon, and deal with a hedonistic movie-mogul, a money-grabbing tyrant, a pregnant mob boss, and an army of latex pig men? And will he get it in the can before it all hits the fan?

Gregg Tuskins works for the Smithsonian Institute for the National Museum of America when he discovers this very old artifact from the late 1800s—a very old book with detailed information about some strange and weird doorway inside an old abandoned mine shaft—but the map is so old that they have to figure where the location of this place is. One of the places it mentions about is the Muddy Mountains up in the state of Wyoming nearby Rawlins, Wyoming, but Pete Ashcraft hires Vincent Doreance as he is trying to stop Gregg Tuskins from discovering this old doorway as Vincent Doreance has murdered people that have been getting too close in trying to find this old abandoned mine shaft. Some of the weird and strange things started back when the mine shaft was discovered back in the late 1800s. This also probably caused the death of a miner that caused the shaft to become abandoned until now. The Slaughter House Gulch Ghost has been haunting the trail that the miners once used to travel back and forth from their camp to the mine shaft, and they end up discovering this doorway deep inside this old abandoned mine shaft that was closed down around one hundred years ago as this doorway is strange and weird looking as it doesn’t look like it was created by earthlings as it has green tint in different areas on this doorway as the dark transparent is too dark to see through. The mysterious doorway has held secrets of an ancient alien race for over one hundred years as they expedition is about to discover what lies behind the green door.