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In present-day San Diego, a drug war rages on both sides of the border. Detective Reginald Downing has infiltrated a notorious transnational cartel. Unknown to him, the cartel is made aware of his true identity, and has marked him for death.
So enters THE VAMPIRE, a brooding, enigmatic being who savagely rips through the drug soldiers and saves Reggie from a brutal death. He then protects the young officer as they dismantle the cartel one bloody piece at a time, and ferret out the dirty cop who sold Reggie out.
As events hurtle down the rails towards an explosive, blood-soaked climax, the Vampire tells Reggie his story: the story of his life, his death, and his rebirth to Darkness. The Vampire explains why he saved Reggie’s life and reveals a secret rooted over a century in the past that binds their two fates together forever.
NOCTURNAL is a story of honor and shame, loyalty and betrayal, crime and punishment, seething hatred, and an unshakable love that transcends the boundaries of Life and Death.
Ditches to Riches offers up some real life lessons, from the author Will Smith who had it all, lost it all, and got it all back again. Will was dealt a bad hand and sentenced to prison for more than two years, for a crime he did not commit. Once free, he moved to a new state with no money and a felony conviction still marring his otherwise perfect record. The only thing he had was a friend who let him sleep on a couch and a job digging ditches in the Florida heat. Will did have one other thing, a desperate desire to climb out of that ditch.
An Old House With Secrets…
Charlie Love is terrified. Something is taking over her mind and body at night while she sleeps. There is a presence in her newly renovated home, and she’s facing it alone. Soon, she discovers that she’s up against insurmountable evil, and has no idea how to fight against it.
A Team Ready To Take On The Unknown…
Doug and Scott McQueen are experienced paranormal investigators, but they aren’t prepared for what haunts Charlie. Sheila Mathers wants to help, using her psychic abilities, but it’s an evil unlike any of them have ever encountered.
A Blood Feud From The Past…
Charlie and the team are stunned by the rancid evil. The hauntings are too incredible for them to ignore. Their tail leads them to a blood feud, long buried in the old, haunted house. Why did the spiritual battle begin? Why is Charlie the target? How will the small team fight the deep darkness that they face? Follow the team’s investigation as they strive to solve the most dangerous case of their lives.
BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIETNAM VET WAR HERO, KNOWN AS THE “AMERICAN GANGSTER” WHO RAN A COVERT CIA OPERATION AND EMERGED AS VIETNAM’S ‘OSKAR SCHINDLER’
A great historical fictional work on ‘Vietnam’s mobbed-up late 1960s – 1970s Saigon, Pearl of the Orient, Vietnam, “American Gangster – Operation Beaucoup Dinky Dau”
In the best-selling tradition of the world’s master historical fiction storytellers, Mario Puzo’s, “The Godfather”; Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”; Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump; Victor Hugo’s, “Les Misérables”; Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”; Norman Mailer’s, The Naked and The Dead; Gore Vidal’s Lincoln: A Novel; and Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”
Steve Murphy, Network TV and Documentary Film Producer, Writer, and Combat Vietnam Veteran, tells the extraordinary story of a never before told, top secret covert CIA operation, known only as “OPERATION BEAUCOUP DINKY DAU”, that served as the unofficial covert Logistics operation to the CIA’s Phoenix Montagnard fighters, fighting the North Vietnamese forces during 1968-1973.
“This I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-fiction” tale has it all: a Marlboro- Man handsome Vietnam War Hero, a parade of impossibly gorgeous women, sex, spies, copious quantities of booze, drugs, and enough violence to take Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Terminator scriptwriters through several more sequels. It’s both a rip-roaring expose and harrowing.
It’s the story of the underbelly of the Saigon metropolis like few others. Corrupt Generals, shady Politicians, gangsters, prostitutes, bootleggers, opium addicts, jazz musicians, deserters, black marketeers, and your run of the mill criminals, murderers, thieves, and con artists….
Casting light on the Federal Government’s links with organized crime and how a highly decorated American MAT Team Advisor Vietnam Veteran, Johnnie Walker, known in Saigon, as “The America Gangster”, became Saigon’s most successful Criminal Mastermind, as well as the most influential “unofficial” Defense Attaché Office (DAO) “Contractor” to the CIA’s Phoenix Program, and the owner of the famous supper club and casino, “Beaucoup Dinky Dau”, and who had unparalleled connections leading all the way up to Vietnam’s Presidential palace and the CIA.
It’s a story most Americans have never heard of and shines a new and disturbing light on the role of the United States in the creation of communist Vietnam, and their treatment of the indigenous tribes that fought for the CIA’s Phoenix Program.
Johnnie Walker dominated Saigon’s War profiteering, Black Market, Money Laundering, and Drug Trafficking for all the major Vietnamese Crime Lords Generals in Saigon, as well as for South Vietnam’s President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and Air Marshall /South Vietnam’s VP, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
His astounding metamorphosis from criminal mastermind to Vietnam’s ‘Oskar Schindler’ began in 1968 when he discovers that Washington intends to abandon his friends and former MAT Team CIA Phoenix program Montagnards, “The Yards”, fighters that he’d fought side by side with as a MAT Team Advisor in Pleiku. He loved “The Yards” and the War Orphans the Yards took care of, and he was going to make sure he did the “Right Thing” for them.
It was an amazing turnabout for the once money-hungry Walker, because even though he did not begin his journey as a hero, by the time the war was winding down, he became one. He used his cunning to bend the system to help him and his over 600 Yards and 100 Orphans escape Vietnam. He was strong in the face of constant danger and double-cross, and he placed the well-being of The Yards and Orphans above his own well-being.
Based on real historical events, the suspense and intrigue of the story carries larger-than-life qualities and heightened reality. It’s about 90% historical basis and 10% creative license, but it adds up to 100% spellbinding story. It has more political intrigues, more suspense, more intense psychological analysis, and more technological know-how than anything Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum could fantasize about.
And it has something else besides: It’s based on a true story, depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity, and the pragmatic triumph of good over evil, a triumph in eminently measurable, statistical, unsubtle terms.
Set in his adopted hometown, Saigon, Vietnam, where he spent over six years, American Gangster – Operation Beaucoup Dinky Dau, is the book that Steve Murphy has been building up to for his whole career. From its opening fusillade to its astonishing conclusion, it’s that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the Monsoons and Tsunamis bringing torrential rains to the Pearl of the Orient.
They were here before us.
They are here now.
They will be here when we are gone.
This is a story of love, laughter, hopes and shattered dreams. Happiness, passion, humor and self-discovery are interwoven in a candid, provocative, and romantic way. It captures the life of Aurelia, taking you thru WWII and ending in the U.S. where her parents’ values conflict with the culture of modern America…. http://amazon.com/Desire-Red-Wine-Lifes…/dp/1600478271 … … … … Trailer: http://youtu.be/R8hmF58s8Vk
The Autobiography of Jimmy Lee.
Jimmy Lee has led some sort of life!
He had a start in life few would have survived; he was taken into care at three years old and by the time he was eleven he had moved home ten times and attended nine different schools.
His early adolescence was hard by any standards. At fourteen, he ran away to join the Royal Navy and was sent, along with 2000 other boys, to the notorious HMS Ganges at Shotley, in Suffolk, a training establishment where a harsh regime held sway.
He had the misfortune to be placed under the care of two particularly brutal instructors, prone to drunkenness, whose continual bullying and abuse proved too much for his emerging free spirit.
Jim fought back and deserted on numerous occasions. Among his many punishments, he suffered ‘cuts’, a particularly brutal form of naval punishment. The next six years passed with regular naval detentions in the Royal Naval Detention Quarters, Portsmouth, involving exhausting routines and solitary confinements, which ended with a twelve month sentence in the infamous HM Military Prison Corradina, Malta, after which he was dismissed from the Service and returned to civilian life.
Then his troubles really began!
Winner of 20 book awards, SHOT DOWN is set within the framework of World War II in Europe and recounts the dramatic experiences of each member of a ten man B-17 bomber crew after their plane, piloted by the author’s father, was knocked out of the sky by German fighters over the French/Belgium border on February 8,1944.
Some men died. Some were captured and became prisoners of war. Some men evaded capture and were missing in action for months before making it back to England. Their individual stories and those of the courageous Belgian people who risked their lives to help them are all different and are all remarkable.
Even before the dramatic battle in the air and the subsequent harrowing events on the ground, the story is informative, insightful, and captivating. Prior to the fateful event, the book covers the crew’s training, their journey to England, what life was like on base as well as in London and the English countryside, and the perils of flying combat missions over occupied Europe and Germany.
Through personal letters, oral and written accounts, declassified military documents, and interviews – all from people who took part in the events that happened over 70 years ago (even the German Luftwaffe pilot who shot down the Susan Ruth) – the stories come alive. Adding to the feeling of “being there”, are more than 200 time period photographs interspersed throughout the book.
To add background and context, many historical facts and anecdotes about and surrounding World War II are entwined throughout the book so that the reader has a feel for and understanding of what was occurring on a broader scale. SHOT DOWN is an account about brave individuals, featuring pilot Howard Snyder, set within the compelling events of the greatest conflict in world history.
An American family in crisis and how they deal with it. An aging WWII veteran with dementia, a pregnant daughter bein stalked by her meth using boyfriend, and a preteen becoming a teenager are what we see. Behind the scenes, a greater crisis is gathering as an old enemy of one of the family gets ready to take revenge from his post as manager of a security firm contracted to the NSA. By the end of the story you will be wondering who has your information and what are they going to do with it. Available in both Kindle and paperback.
The Warramunga’s War is a sweeping narrative of the friendship that forms between a young Australian army officer, Jamie Munro, and an educated half-caste Warramunga aboriginal NCO, Jack ‘Jacko’ O’Brien, during the Syrian campaign against the Vichy French in World War II. Jacko rescues a wounded Jamie after which they are conscripted in Cairo by MI6. Here, Jamie and Jacko learn about the seamy side of war in counterespionage as they track down German spies. The principal fictional characters interact with actual historical figures and events throughout the story.
As the desert war escalates to the west of Cairo, the MI6 team confuses the enemy with misleading radio messages using German codes and using local entertainers as undercover agents. On one of his day leaves, Jacko meets a beautiful young Syrian-French girl and a strong romantic bond forms between the two during his time in Cairo.
Following the end of the desert war, Jamie and Jacko are assigned to wartime intelligence work in Southeast Asia. After the end of the Pacific war, they initiate the Darwin operations of the CIS, the Commonwealth Investigation Service. On the trail of two suspected wartime German agents, they discover the agents have formed a dangerous criminal gang with an individual they had known during their time in Cairo. The tracking skills of the Warramunga are needed to finally catch up with the murderous gang in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.
Are you one of the elect?
Dr. Helen Hope is a lecturer in eschatology – the study of death, judgement, and the destiny of humankind. She is also a Calvinist nun, her life devoted to atoning for a secret crime.
When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, she forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity. Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who they believe holds the key – not just to the murder, but to something much darker.
Also on the trail is cynical Scouse detective Darren Swift. In his first murder case, he must confront his own lack of faith as a series of horrific crimes drag the city of two cathedrals to the gates of hell.
Science meets religious belief in this gripping murder mystery.
After being left at the altar, Jade Roberts seeks solace at her best friend’s ranch on the Colorado western slope. Her humiliation still ripe, she doesn’t expect to be attracted to her friend’s reticent brother, but when the gorgeous cowboy kisses her, all bets are off.
Talon Steel is broken. Having never fully healed from a horrific childhood trauma, he simply exists, taking from women what is offered and giving nothing in return…until Jade Roberts catapults into his life. She is beautiful, sweet, and giving, and his desire for her becomes a craving he fears he’ll never be able to satisfy.
Passion sizzles between the two lovers…but long-buried secrets haunt them both and may eventually tear them apart.
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As a veteran of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, Talmon Bonnett usually holds his PTSD at bay. When a wealthy couple hires him to spy on Rusty Wing, the man responsible for building the Mourning Island’s new resort, Talmon injects himself into Rusty’s inner circle. Lying about his intentions, Talmon gets to know Rusty’s troubled fiancée Claire, his sinister Cuban first mate Santos, and Marlene, Rusty’s alluring sister.
Talmon and Marlene begin a torrid affair; then someone is murdered, and Talmon learns that two Cuban mobster brothers are the money behind the resort. Talmon forces the couple to divulge the real reason they hired him. Everything is connected to the murder, Rusty’s circle, the mobster brothers, and Claire’s vanished father, who might know something vital.
Talmon’s lie threatens the life he envisions with Marlene. Violence erupts because of a dispute between the brothers, with Rusty’s circle as targets caught in the middle. Talmon desperately seeks Claire’s father, while the two brothers maintain their collision course.
The Mourning Islands is an electrifying story that fuses mystery, passion, and tragedy against the serene beauty of Florida’s coast.
A surreal science fiction novella with unique concepts. A ship crashlands on a faraway planet, but the natives are a million years ahead of Earth, so they ignore the humans. How does the four-man (two of each) crew attract attention, survive the strange environment and discover the real purpose of their secret mission payload? Possibly the first novella with a vegan main character, written by a long-time vegan and set on a vegan planet. Plenty of room for arguments among the mixed-diet crew though!
An American Story: My Family and Yours, is not only an American story, but a worldwide story—a story that shares the emotions, fears, experiences and challenges every family in the human race can relate to. It underlines the idea, that a human problem is a world problem because the world suffers from it in some way—sometimes visible and sometimes invisible.
Humanity shares the same emotions, hardships and successes because it lives in a human vacuum—a vacuum that loves, hates, forgives, suffers and dies. Families work together and families work against each other, but when faith and love conquer thought, they forgive each other and move on.
My family, is only a representation of your family, and collectively, we are a microcosm of the world family. This is why you can and will relate to this book. The author’s pain becomes your pain, and her joy makes your heart overflow. You will see faith, courage and inner peace lived because it identifies with your faith and courage. As you read, her family will be replaced by your own personal experiences with your family.
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Eliza Malkins, printer at the Kingston British Whig newspaper, is secretly in love with reporter Alex O’Shea. Although they are best friends with a shared passion for many things, including the mystery novel Alex is writing, Eliza would never dare to voice her feelings for fear of being rejected due to her unique anatomical makeup.
Their relationship takes an unexpected turn when, while on assignment in Ottawa, Alex encounters a vulnerable young woman who has escaped from confinement in her own house. The further he is drawn into the mysterious young woman’s world, the more compelled he feels to protect her from the dark forces that seem to be draining her life right before his eyes. Before he can enact his plan to rescue her, however, he finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery that seems like it came right out of one of the novels he enjoys, with one significant twist: he’s the primary suspect. Desperate to help her friend, Eliza sheds her identity as a woman and takes on the persona of Timothy Fairlight, detective. Her investigative skills are put to the ultimate test as she seeks to save her beloved from the hangman’s noose. Not only that, for the first time in her life, her identity as intersex becomes an asset rather than a liability.
Aubrey is a beautiful, intelligent, young woman who operates a thriving fruit stand at a local Farmer’s Market while also running the family farm that was left to her after her parents were killed in an accident. She also knows how to handle a man—any man.
Jack is a ruggedly handsome intriguing man who talks in riddles when he is not being brutally honest about how he thinks and feels. He is also a successful writer who doesn’t care about his fame.
They are textbook opposites of each other. They meet while discussing the price of blueberries. Can these opposites attract and find love before the next sunrise?
This collection of stories includes “Anticipating Sunrise” and eleven more stories of love and romance that take you from the aisles of your local supermarket to the merciless shifting sands of time.
Go find your passion.
When Abby Harris takes her faithful German shepherd out for a hike in Oregon’s beautiful mountains, getting abducted by aliens isn’t even a blip on her radar. Her trusty can of bear spray and pocket knife aren’t much help against the seven-foot monsters who swoop in out of nowhere to transport her to a ship in space.
Nicolai Nekbet is Crown Prince for the House of Nekbet on the planet Raiden. Unable to bear healthy children with females of their own species, Raiden warriors must hunt for a bride outside their own world. Nicolai has his heart set on a human even though their planet is protected by an ancient species called Laizahlian. When he sees the tall blonde-haired beauty out in the mountains with only a dog by her side, he knows he must have her.
With Abby safely on his ship, Nicolai injects her with his shaprata, his essence. His shaprata will change her on a cellular level, making them compatible for procreation, but he must still work hard to win her heart. If she rejects their union, it could easily mean his death.
Have you ever contemplated Suicide? Author JohnEgreek encounters a synchronistic chance encourter with a woman he did not know, during an airplane ride from Honolulu Hawaii to Los Angeles International Airport. They discover she has multitude of Wounded Children residing within her psyche. As a result, she learns that suicide is a temporary solution to an overriding problem. By reading this book, you will learn what went through the mind of Eleni at very moment she was about to pull the trigger. The thoughts she had, most likely are similar to the thoughts that go through the minds of the millions of people on earth who think suicide is the solution to their problems. With so many people in the world committing suicide these days, learning about the Wounded Child is a significate step towards begue sean similares a los pensamientos que pasan por la mente de millones de personas en la tierra que piensan que el suicidio es la solución a sus problemas. Con tantas personas en el mundo que se suicidan en estos días, aprender sobre el Niño Herido es un paso significativo hacia el inicio del proceso de curación. Por lo general, existen razones externas por las que alguien se suicidaría y, ¿quién sabe lo que están pensando en el momento en que lo hacen? Escuche el diálogo que el autor tiene con Eleni, quien aprenderá que curar a varios niños heridos también curará al herido suicida Niño. ¿Qué dirá y qué debería hacer si decide curarse? Este es el Libro Dos de La serie de Heridas Mortales ™”El Cambio siempre es posible”.inning the healing process. There are usually outlying reasons why anyone would commit suicide and who knows what they are thinking at the moment when they do?Listen to the dialog that the Author has with Eleni, who will learn that healing her various Wounded Children will also heal The Suicidal Wounded Child. What will she say and what should she do, if she chooses to heal?This is Book Two of The Mortal Wounds Series ™
¿Alguna vez has contemplado el suicidio? El autor JuanEgreek encuentra un alentador sincrónico de oportunidades con una mujer que no conocía, durante un viaje en avión desde Honolulu Hawaii al Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles. Descubren que tiene multitud de niños heridos que residen dentro de su psique. Como resultado, aprende que el suicidio es una solución temporal a un problema primordial. Al leer este libro, aprenderá lo que pasó por la mente de Eleni en el momento en que estaba a punto de apretar el gatillo. Los pensamientos que ella tuvo, lo más probable es q
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Have you ever wondered if each of us has an identifiable “Life Purpose”? Award-Winning and Best-Selling Author JohnEgreek has been asking that question since he was nine years old. Now 68 years old, he never would have dreamed that it would be revealed to him as he was writing the climax to his first book, “Grandma’s Secret Blessing, A Memoir with a Twist.”
Everyone who touches you transforms you, if only a little. But if you enter their minds and think what they have thought, in effect do what they have done…how complete will that transformation be? If Peniff had been born an ordinary man, his family would be safe—safe as anyone can be in a land torn apart by war. It is his singular gift, however, that causes his wife and children to be imprisoned and held hostage and him to be used as a tool. Caught up in a struggle between opposing warlords and refusing to play the game, Peniff elects to take the moral high road. This is the story of a man, in all other ways ordinary, rising above his fears to do what he must. Can he free his family before his betrayal comes to light? Moreover, what will he become before his journey is over? Thought Gazer, the second volume of The Ydron Saga, the first book of the prequel trilogy to Awakening, can be read as a standalone.
“Thoroughly imaginative, with an eloquent writing style and characters that live and breathe on the page. Thought Gazer will definitely make you think.” ~ Paul Kane – bestselling and award-winning author of Before, Arcana, & Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell
“Bolton weaves a marvelous mix of characters into a thoughtful, complex fantasy… become a Bolton fan.”
~ Jean Rabe, USATODAY Bestselling author
It’s been over eight years since Karen suffered the tragic loss of her brother, a death for which she still blames herself. Since then, she’s managed to shove away the pain and guilt, somehow slowly building a new life far from Easley.
But she always knew the time would come when she’d be forced to leave Southern California and go back to her hometown, staring truth in the face again.
Could Karen have prevented James’ death? Was it truly her fault, and could she ever forgive herself, all the while living in the shadow of her mother’s and father’s own mistakes?
Finding James is a heart-wrenching story about love, loss, addiction, faith and hope with a twist that will touch every reader.
Another miserable day in an ordinary life…until now
Dylan is miserable, mourning his mom’s death, and drowning in debts. He has a mysterious key from his mother—supposed to reveal hidden secrets—but he has no idea what or where they are. Until an attorney shows up and turns his life upside down.
He’s invited to meet his grandparent—one he grew up believing dead. Soon after he arrives at the Mirror Estate, he begins hearing voices, seeing visions and feeling watched. As he begins to unravel secrets, his visit turns deadly.
Unlock “The Secrets” now. The suspense novelette is a prequel to the upcoming Mirror Estate series by S.L. Fon.
What makes women become merciless serial killers? Is it love, hate or jelousy? Or is it all three?
“Dragons in the Clouds” is filled with action, danger, loyalty, and hope. The ruling king of Albion orders the total annihilation of all living dragons. A wizard who has befriended a family of Dragons grants them the spell of weightlessness. The wizards then tells his Dragon friends to hide up within the cover of the clouds. An evil apprentice who also has dragons hidden. Also gives them the magic spell. Now enters a widowed mother and her young son whom has also befriended a young dragon. All three finds themselves in danger as a battle between the two groups of Dragons begins for control of the skies. All this and more happens in the most exciting Dragon story ever told
The love of a mother, whether you’ve never had it, have it, or miss it, affects us all in a million different ways.
Nine talented authors: Best-sellers and Award-winners, bring you BRAND NEW, suspenseful and romantic, short stories in this awe-inspiring novel, The HEART of The Matter: A Mother’s Love. These nine stories are sure to make you smile, laugh, cry, and fall in love. They’ve stirred in a diverse collection into this anthology! There is sci-fi, contemporary, paranormal, fantasy, and many more… Something for everyone!
Ride along on a life-changing adventure with Marnie Bennett. Losing her mother at the age of 16, and left all alone in foster care, she sets out to look for the father she never knew. Knowing it is a long shot, she meets and rides along with two Bikers who assist her in her quest to find her father. There’s excitement and wonder as she travels the road searching for the father she never knew.
Missing in rural Georgia for three days, travel blogger Brian Keane is found with no memory of his lost time. What he does have, though, is a digital recorder containing interviews with eleven people whom he does not remember talking to.
Each person tells the story behind their reason for singing their chosen song at Karaoke Night, with each tale a little more twisted than the one before. What becomes clear through these interviews is that the people of Redfield, Georgia are connected in ways they could never have imagined.
Brian Keane may have zero recollection of those lost three days, but through his transcripts, he stumbles upon the true story of one creepy little Georgia town and the Karaoke Night where the songs always remain the same.
Will Ian and Cassie get their second chance at love, or will her secret destroy them both?
When Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Ian Chase returned home disillusioned after a brutal tour in Afghanistan, he assumed the helm of the private security company he co-founded with his brother. A brief encounter with the unavailable art historian Cassiopeia Ellis left him smitten, and now, six years later, an unexpected second meeting proves his feelings for her still linger.
Six years was a lifetime of hell for Cassiopeia. Now an FBI Agent, Cassie is plagued by nightmares and fear. Seeing Ian again only serves to confuse her further. Her heart tells her one thing, but her brain overrides her feelings. Can she afford to trust a man again? Is she damaged beyond repair?
When tragedy strikes, it’s up to Ian to uncover what Cassie is hiding before her secret takes her life. Will her desire to protect him destroy them both? And can they get their second chance at love?
Wattys Award Winner – nearly two million readings in portuguese version across the trilogy on Wattpad.
What mysteries are hidden beyond the stars?
While most of the youngsters are concerned with faculty, friendships and even girlfriends, Nìcholas spends his hours with his head out of orbit; literally. Nicholas never had a father and he is sad because of this. His dream is to know the space. the course of Astronomy, he feels better among gaseous bodies, supernova stars and black holes, dreaming in one day to unravel the great enigmas of the Universe. Until a mysterious girl enters the classroom …
And Nícolas discovers, excited, that he finds his own star.
Zara is her name, the one whose hair looks like rays of sun, the only one capable of wringing the air – and the voice – of the young protagonist of this story. And, against all possibilities, something arises between then. But do not think that this is a teenage romance like so many that you have read, because Zara, contrary to what Nícolas thinks, is not what it seems. Coming from an unknown galaxy, she has a mission: To attract Nicholas and take him to her planet, alive. At any cost.
The success of her mission depends not only on her future, but on everything she believes in … including the future of humanity.
When the truth appears, Nícolas is wrapped in a web of lies and intrigue that goes beyond everything he dreamed of. Between telekinetic powers, time gaps, and scientific data, space folds, revealing that the aliens we know are closer – and more like us – than we imagine.
Dive with Chaiene Santos in this dizzying story, in which the author was able to unite, with perfection, incredible theories about the future of humanity. You will be surprised with this series, which is the most read in Wattpad in the science fiction category (Portuguese). Check and get ready to change your concepts.
In 2093, small-town North Wales, Destry Warwick discovers that being different finally has its advantages. As the techno-bubble world ends, she is yanked off the sofa and propelled across the country, on a quest to Megacity London against diabolical adversity to discover why and to save the world.
In a future where everyone is permanently connected to the Importal™ network by devices embedded in their heads, Destry, a young, movie-watching layabout and her best (and only) friend Weasel, an aged, paranoid Rastafarian, are dragged out of their mundane schedule of debauchery by the end of all things. Being un-Importaled™ they are the only ones in Spamlington that survive the breakdown unscathed. They are accompanied by Derek, her father’s solicitor when Weasel saves him by rebooting his brain, which is not entirely successful. They take off in Destry’s deceased father’s taxi cab, following his enigmatic instructions and using items that he left for them in his will. Over-protected by her father, Destry is thrust into an ecologically damaged, technologically twisted world she never knew existed.
Alsed has known nothing beyond the enchanted walls of Sakaret. None of the citizens of the ancient hidden city have seen the outside world since their home was sealed over two millennia ago. But an outsider named Jeresa, on a mission to save her people, shatters Sakaret’s isolated bliss as Alsed and his friends become entangled in a sinister plot set into motion by a psychotic demigod bent on vengeance.
Few of the citizens of Sakaret will rise to the challenge of trying to save a people they’ve never known. Those that do will face unimaginable terrors that most will not survive. Guided by a mysterious stranger, hunted by a sadistic predator, and besieged by an army of assassins and swarms of the undying, Alsed and Jeresa must survive the bloody path that will lead them and their companions to the ultimate confrontation. The only small hope of success requires that Alsed be reborn, becoming something the world has never seen, and changing the fate of nations forever.
This is a story about a brave woman who Time travels to the 16th century. She had suffered a great loss in her own time, and goes on a journey to find her grandfather with the help of his friend, to bring him home to her grandmother. In her search, she experiences many different events, some traumatically and some in triumph. She also finds love unexpectedly and has a hard decision to make.
When superheroes fall in love, anything can happen.
Daniel Hecht doesn’t belong in this century. Catapulted into the present from 1943, he’s out of place and out of touch. Still, he was the American war hero called “Lionheart” and his heroism has followed him into the modern world. He now leads an underground group of superpowered misfits, but the misfit he keeps turning to is Nina Asher.
Nina has a vast knowledge of history, yet no idea who she is or where she’s from. She has become the target of dangerous creatures that have appeared all over the world. As she and Daniel work to decipher an ancient, cryptic myth, they experience flashbacks to things that never could have happened. They are falling in love, but there’s something they’re sure they need to remember, and it’s keeping them apart.
The key to saving the world may begin with the act of remembering.
“Janowsky has the ability to create a gripping narrative which is rich in details and shines with romantic intrigue.” –Prairies Book Review
What happened when Angela lost her birth certificate? Why did it take Hans 54 years to tell the truth to his son? How did Farzad end up being stateless? Why did Charlie decide to walk from Denmark to Tanzania? What was life like for an American soldier in Germany? How did Murat avoid being deported? What were the things that surprised Michael in Belgium? How did Rasa meet her boyfriend?
Ridvan Cinar has spent the last 10 years living in 5 different countries and travelling frequently. He has met great people, of a kind that he would characterise as global citizens. These people have taken a step forward, out of their comfort zone and have moved abroad. Their reasons have been manifold: to look for better opportunities, to seek refuge, to search for happiness, to reunite with their loved ones, to improve their career, to experience another culture and to volunteer. He has been delighted to listen their stories and could not keep his amazement at their experiences to himself. It was time to share these fascinating stories with you.
Stories of Global Citizens presents a collection of 32 interviews carried out between 2016 and 2018 with people living abroad. From Americans living in Germany and Poland, to Mexicans living in Austria and Brazil. From Colombians living in USA and Turkey to Canadians living in Thailand and Germany, and many more. The interviews reflect on their stories with insights into culture shocks, their motivations to move abroad, funny experiences they have had and thoughts on what is going on back at “home”. While reading these interviews, you will be surprised, amazed, at a loss for words, saddened, sympathetic, and you will find a little bit of yourself.
Rise the Phoenix is a story of when everything seems lost and that seems left is despair and helplessness a new bright glory can come when people start to come together and believe.
When a group of complete strangers find themselves at the doorstep of a retired ministers house after a series of devstating earthquakes strike thier hometown, he and his wife welcome all into thier home, as if they were expecting them. After all the people have gatherd in his home the minster warns them that they must leave Charolette and go further inland because the ocean will soon flood.
The minister and a young boy named Dylan become close as the days pass on the long and sometimes difficult journey. Dylan is slowly and reluctantly becoming the leader of the group. As his role grows more important his growing love for Sarah a girl in the group his own age becomes more challenging.
When they arrive in a new community and join with other survivors the scope of the damage to the earth is realized and the people find themselves as center of the the final war, the war between heaven and hell.
This new community must do everything they can to defend themselves from the onsaulght of satan’s army. In-between battles Dylan struggles with is unrealized love of Sarah and the battles he faces with his own inner demons as well as the demons that visit him at his weakest moments tempeing him to turn on those he sworn to protect.
It is often the lowest road that leads us home!
Cattle rustler and gunslinger Benjamin Hunter lived for only one reason: to thwart Deputy Marshal David Miller. Leader of an outlaw gang, he set out on a few daring escapades which soon dragged him and his men down an unexpected road. Before he knew it, the lawman’s daughter and granddaughter were involved, and bloodthirsty bounty hunters were on their trail.
Set in the early 1870s in the Colorado territory, this is a story of surrender and hope, where unconditional love leads the way home.
Chasing the Orchid is a story of a man, Chris, who had a traumatic accident as a child that caused him to be a little less than a man’s man. His inner conflict with his father caused much emotional trauma. He is a successful business man in rural Mississippi married to Black Southern woman. He is an atheist and she is a southern Baptist. But things are about to change for Chris, when he suddenly finds out that his wife, Tory, is profoundly unhappy with her life and is often the subject of bigotry and racism. They move to LA to find acceptance and fulfill Tory’s dreams, but the traumatic memories of his childhood accident suddenly resurface, setting in motion a chain of events that he is powerless to explain or to halt and he finds that he has traded Tory’s nightmare for one of his own which is much worse.
Their relationship falls apart and Chris heads to the Everglades to confront his nightmare!
This story has many aspects that set it apart including interracial relationship, differing religious beliefs, the south vs. LA nightlife, and the deep swamps of the Everglades. Chasing the Orchid will leave you guessing what is real and what is an illusion. Witness a man reach his breaking point and find out if love will see him through his nightmare.
Can he find a way to deal with his past before it is too late, or will the events escalate and culminate in a shocking conclusion?
For the record, this is not a “John Parker hates white people” book. Anybody who knows me at all knows that to be the farthest thing from the truth. This book is meant to spark (if you so desire) an open, honest and painfully true conversation about the most polarizing subject in American society; Race and Racism. My hope is that after reading it (both white people and black people alike) will seek to find common ground and understand that we do have two different cultures and that we can “disagree without being disagreeable.”
If we are to succeed as a country in the future, it is time that everybody “got comfortable being uncomfortable”
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He wanted to be my secret and so did she. They wanted me quiet, wanted me pinned, wanted my insides, wanted me to bleed. The secret is out! Only this time it is not just mine. If I’m going to tell it, I’m telling it all. I just hope they are ready for what is to come!
This book is about Mastering self-doubt and understanding the process of developing an intentional conscious harmony of the mind. The benefits of this publication are as follows:
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It will allow you to start learning how to uncover the deeply rooted thought patterns and limiting beliefs that have prevented you from getting ahead with your goals in life.
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You will obtain effective techniques about rewiring your mind in order to pursue your life more courageously.
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You will have opportunities to apply your personal knowledge to your own circumstances so you to can manifest better thoughts patterns about yourself and achieve clarity daily moving forward.
5-stars from READERS’ FAVORITE Book Reviews
“An emotional and page-turning story of passion, ambition, and desire.”–MEGAN CHANCE, bestselling author of Bone River and Inamorata
A striking and deeply human portrait of racial and gender inequality in ragtime-era New York City from the author of The Beauty Doctor, Finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award, 2017 AZ Literary Awards, and a Medallion Honoree of the Book Readers Appreciation Group
Seventeen-year-old May Convery, unhappy with her privileged life in turn-of-the-century New York City, dreams of becoming a poet. When she meets the talented young Mike Bernard, an aspiring concert pianist, she immediately falls in love. But after their secret liaison is discovered, neither is prepared for the far-reaching consequences that will haunt them for decades. As Mike abandons serious music to ruthlessly defend his hard-won title, Ragtime King of the World, May struggles to find her voice as an artist and a woman. It is not until years after their youthful romance, when they cross paths again, that they must finally confront the truth about themselves and each other. But is it too late?
The book follows the events in DeadSpace 3.
Isaac Clarke is awakened on a unitology space ship and discovers that the Earth has been infected by the Necromorph mutation and the Church is engaged in an orbital war against EarthGov.
the book has 80.000 words, 250 pages and it’s free. My email address is in the book purchase link, if anyone is interested, drop me a line, and i will send the pdf to you.
Charlie MacLeod, a young and beautiful girl, was gifted at birth with the power to set the world alight; a power she neither wants nor can easily control. A victim of tragedy, Charlie is adopted by David and Catherine McAuliffe, a young couple with similar god-like powers who only wish to live a quiet, normal life. Events quickly spiral out of control as Charlie is marked for death by the NSA, and later pursued by another, far more dangerous entity that seeks to exploit her power for its own dark ends
Steve’s days are numbered.
The illness has consumed him.
Would this stranger’s offer give him a second chance?
It looks like a game. Looks can be deceiving. Paul Nelson, the CEO of Tempest Inc, has developed another world and he’s ready to send in another consciousness. This time, though, things are different. Those that came before have caused some troubles and his world is in peril.
For Steve, it’s a last chance. He’s got nothing to lose. And who knows, it might be fun?
As a warrior named Abalonious, his body gone, Steve must adapt, learn, and grow to survive. But this world isn’t exactly as advertised. There’s a darkness coming. It looks like fun will have to wait.
And there’s a secret nobody wants to talk about.
Will Steve piece together enough to live?
If you like unforgettable fantasy heroes, pop culture references, epic battles, and immersive gaming worlds, then you’ll love this LitRPG adventure.
“To sum it up, Jeremy took a Fantasy, SciFi, and a gaming idea, and mashed them together skillfully, pushing Legend of the Sword Bearer to the same quality of Ready Player One.
We at NeoLeaf Press give this book our Gold Recommendation and rate it 5 out of 5 stars.” -NeoLeaf Press
On the morning of October 08 2015, Alpha Intercontinental Flight AHA 113 was approaching Cape Town International Airport at 09:15 in the morning. It had originally departed New York the previous night on schedule. From New York it traveled to Dubai and after its regular stop for refueling and fresh catering etc, it departed Dubai and fourteen hours later, approaching Cape Town and due to touchdown in the next ten minutes, simply vanished from both visual sight and radar. It was not the only disappearance of aircraft in the surrounding space.
But, it is the one I know about.
Flight AHA 113 was never seen or heard from again, despite extensive rescue efforts mounted. No wreckage was ever found, no traces of luggage were ever seen. It was as if Flight AHA 113 had simply never existed.
But … Flight AHA 113 had existed. It did in fact crash into the sea, close enough to land that while 237 passengers perished either as a result of the crash itself or trying to make it to shore, 28 survivors eventually made it to safety.
This is their story told through the ‘When the Sun Blinked’ 3 book series.
When the Sun Blinked : Search for the Truth
When the Sun Blinked : The Soldiers
When the Sun Blinked : The Lions
Follow Jesus, Mary, and Joseph on a riveting adventure as they narrowly escape the clutches of King Herod and proceed on the harrowing journey to Egypt. While based on biblical facts, this fictional account of Jesus’ early years on this earth allows readers to join the holy family through some of their most difficult journeys. The descriptive text will make you feel as if you were an eye witness to history as our world transitioned from before Christ (BC) to the year of our lord, Anno Domini (AD).
–WisePath Books
In 1930, the rag-tag riffraff of a railway stop called Las Vegas need a fighting man to shepherd their tiny church after their pastor is murdered. Might David Gold, a washed-up boxer and Bible-school dropout who fights as the Pummelin’ Preacher, be the answer to their prayers?
At the same time, Luke, a native Alaskan boy, is on a quest to find his father, who has abandoned his family for a beautiful woman his mother vows to kill. Little do mother or son imagine that their journey will take them to a small town in Nevada where demons and angels walk among men.
In 2011, Science Cable T.V. producer Tim Faber is determined to prove that mankind has no need of God, while his lover, Joan Reed, strives to regain the faith of her youth. They’re bound for Las Vegas to meet with a 99-year-old man who holds the key to a mystery they must solve–and answers that will forever change their lives.
Hearts Set Free is a coming-of-age story and love story, with strong female characters and historical figures (including Jack Johnson, Georges Lemaitre, and Bugsy Siegel) who interact with an unforgettable fictional cast.
“…a riveting ride…Christian fiction fans will enjoy this book.”
—BlueInk Review
“…uplifting and compelling…a powerful and inspiring novel.”
—Foreword Clarion Reviews
The God Process is a Memoir where the reader gets to discover again why faith matters. In the mystery of our soul we find our hope, our miracles and the why we pray.
The God Process spans four generations and Ethereal messages… Angels, premonitions, near death, the answers to prayer and in this Whisper that speaks. When we stop, look back, look in and look up, the Whisper comes. The desires of our heart become grounded in our prayers and it is here that we see this movement of God in all our lives. In the depths of our soul comes the why we are here and what it is that God is trying to do.
Although I am Christian and I see my life lessons from my faith, The God Process is inspiring to all readers.
https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/the-god-process
Read the real stories of real people who survived the Santa Rosa Fire Storm. These accounts are not interviews, These are accounts written by the people themselves: In Their Own Words. Grab a box of tissues before you begin reading. You will need it!
Called a book for all ages, Green Kitty was written for children ages 8 to 12 to help explain Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and is both entertaining and educational. It was a finalist for both USA Book News “Best Books 2011” and “International Book of the Year 2012” in children’s fiction, and is filled with true, laugh-out-loud animal antics. Green Kitty will please any child who loves their pets and parents will enjoy reading it out loud to younger children.
It is a series of stories within a story with a grandmother that recalls old anecdotes, mostly about family pets, for a visiting grandchild. The grandmother has recently been placed into assisted living due to her dementia and their bond grows stronger through the visits despite the illness. Helpful information about Alzheimer’s disease is deftly woven into the work.
Green Kitty will capture the imagination of both boys and girls. Overall the books shows what true family love is all about.
From the moment Alana met him, she knew her life would never be the same. For the universe never allows a dream to go unanswered, but remember be careful what you wish for. You might just get more than you expect.
This is my second book called “All those Tears we can’t see” which addresses a lot of topics – immigration, opportunity, spirituality, myth, wisdom, class, customs, poverty, corruption and physical assault in India. It is a story of India and USA. The book displays these two countries under microscope so that we can see clearly the differences between beliefs and way of life in each country and began to understand the challenges immigrants face. It was difficult and traumatic for Samantha (The immigrant in my book) to leave everything behind and start a new life where the language, culture, traditions, morals, beliefs and everyday way of life are totally foreign. To assimilate into a new country while still retaining one’s culture and beliefs, as Samantha puts it that it is her destiny to come to this wonderful country to serve her even though it is not her country.
“All Those Tears We Can’t See” is also a story of a first generation Indian-American girl and how she figures out her life and finds out that she has love for both sides of her cultures. We follow Monica, who believes that she is all American at heart, even though both her parents are Indian. Although she loves both her parents and respects their beliefs and their customs wholeheartedly, there is a cultural gap that seems to never fill. Samantha and Monica both like the Spirituality, wisdom, music, dance, cousin and ancient culture in India but do not like many customs like dowry system, corruption in all level, poverty and marriage system. When English left India many families still followed the English culture in their household. Now the modern India brought many technologies to enhance middle classes wealthy life. The fragile and loving relationship between daughter and mother broken over interracial relationship with an American boy named Brandon because her mother feared that her Bengali culture will be lost. To understand her mother better Monica now a journalist undertook a remarkable journey to India from her job assignment in finding out about her mother’s root that resists all American value and culture. In India, Monica, thought she had found her own identity as an American, as she describes it “she is all American in heart” but she was partially wrong. She fell in love and felt attachment, and was fascinated by Indian people and their spirituality. Later when she faced physical assault (based on 2012 gang physical assaults in Delhi, India) everything went upside down for the whole family and Samantha chooses the ultimate justice for her daughter. What will happen now? Can Monica go back to America and share her new found love with her mother and Brandon? Will she even get the chance?
With all those tragedies there was a silver lining in this book when Samantha realizes that love between two people had no boundaries. She made a big mistake by pushing her daughter to think like her eastern belief but Monica has grown up with western belief and morals. Would Samantha embraces and accepts Brandon who was Christian as her own family by breaking her predefined set of value about race and religion?
It’s a helluva job, but someone has to do it. And for Rhune it’s a small price to pay for his past sins. He’s taken a new name and a somewhat normal life, except at night when he transforms into a hellhound to take souls to the City of the Dead for purgatories legions to deliver them to Hell. For fifteen centuries he’s lived in happy solitude until Hanna, a paralegal with the most amazing eyes, rear ends him in the small town of Rio Morden. He’s seen those eyes before, but it’s been years since the last time. Now she’s all grown up and involved in a murder trial that has its sights set on her becoming its next victim. What’s a hellhound to do? Surely not fall in love—and certainly not with a Dreamwalker. And is that all she is?
Mix in a diabolical lawyer and his lover, some Voodoo magic, and it’s a recipe for mayhem and murder.
Can Rhune keep Hanna safe, or is she destined to be Hellhound Bound?
Hellhound Bound is a Supernatural Thriller.
Detective Barry Marshall hunts for a hardened serial killer with the ultimate endgame, one intended to strip Marshall of everything he holds dear—his career, his wife Erin, and his reputation. Unbeknownst to Marshall, the killer had dated Erin years ago, and seeing Marshall with her pushes him over the edge. Determined to punish Marshall for stealing his beloved, the killer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game of murder. As the body count rises, Marshall is forced to face his worst nightmare.
Three Novellas in One Book. Check out the review at the Online Book Club.
A stolen artifact. A lethal banshee. A murderous demon. A giant fairy hunter who hears voices in his head. And a mysterious redhead with an otherworldly agenda. Then it gets complicated. Doesn’t every love story? Screamer is an international sci-fi thriller!
The King of the otherworld, Manannán, witnessing changes to how the love between those who chose differently was being accepted, intervened. Wanting the world to have love and hope eternally, ensuring that soulmates connected without restrictions regardless of the person they chose to love, he created the Manx Cat Guardians.
Maximillian, born in the eleventh century, King of his kind, he struggled to always follow the rules King Manannán had laid down. Given no choice about his destiny like his fellow guardians, he’d been granted a Wiccan guide to aid him.
Never having had any problems with his past charges, Maximillian finds himself struggling to get his current charge, King Óláfr the Black, to accept his soulmate Magnus, a lowly servant. The connection is strong between them, but the changing times that Manannán witnessed and the introduction of Christianity had Óláfr struggling to accept his soulmate.
Ignoring the dire warning from Christina, his Wiccan guide, about interfering, Maximillian finds himself creating ripples from his actions with untold consequences that cause devastation. As he is left to wander this earth, his role irrevocably changed by his actions. He must now ensure promises that were made are honoured, no matter the length of time that passes.
Can he help fulfil those promises made by another without breaking the rules again? Or will the souls searching for love be destined to never find each other?
Only time will tell.
“The Vampyre Blogs – Coming Home” introduced a new cast of characters to the Para-Earth Series. This anthology answers and raises questions about their backstories and relationships.
What otherworldly threats has the Professor dealt with? How did Nathan’s altered self affect his service in the Civil War? What other mysteries linger on Nathan’s estate? What did a German like the Professor do during WWII? Who are some of the other people Nathan has met over his unnaturally long life? Are Nathan and the Professor the only ones who’ve had close encounters with Para-Earth beings?
These and more, including the return of certain characters from “The Bridge” and “The Ship” will be explored within these pages.
In 1861 sixteen year old Nathaniel Steward joined the 7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment to help end slavery and preserve the Union. Before he left, Nathaniel promised his little sister Isabella that he would not let the war change him… he was wrong.
While serving the Union Army, Nathaniel found himself fighting on many battlefields. But his toughest fight took place on a parallel version of Earth (a Para-Earth) where evolution took a very different turn. Although he managed to get back to his own world, this particular battle leaves him so altered there was no going home. For now he needed to drink blood, sleep in the ground, and avoid sunlight.
Today, after 150 years of wandering and touching the lives of others, he is finally coming back to claim his family mansion which has stood empty for decades. But unknown to Nathaniel, his homecoming will not be as lonely as he anticipates. For someone has been waiting all this time to welcome him back.
But, there is another who wishes to meet up with Nathaniel again as well. A creature he faced in that Para-Earth, back in 1862, has found its way into this world and has caught his scent. Now it is drawing closer to his hometown, bent on his destruction. For this foe knows he is the only force that can stop it from enveloping this world and its dead.
Infinite Possibilities – A Spiritual Awakening is Bill Geringswald’s attempt to put our beautiful world back on track. Bill Geringswald’s chief role in life has been to identify issues in companies and put them right. With this book, he puts that experience, knowledge and skills to work for the world.
We all know that this world needs fixing. However, there’s a distinct lack of blueprints for us to follow. But, when you put Bill Geringswald’s business experience to work on the world’s issues, Infinite Possibilities – A Spiritual Awakening is what you get.
He poses that well-known theory, that we have the tendency to do the same things over and over again, but expect different results and realises how insane this notion is. In Infinite Possibilities – A Spiritual Awakening Bill Geringswald’s covers four areas:
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Foundations – Life Passages: In human terms, we need to understand the world we experience has been created by man’s free will. Today’s events serve as a ‘push-back’ to our collective consciousness. We can reverse it anytime we choose.
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Inner Workings – Generational Slide: Every day our perceptions and decisions based upon them bring about the lifestyle we experience. What we empower in the world, we become.
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Infrastructure – A Kaleidoscope: Everything we experience acts as a guiding message from God. When following God’s guidance, all is possible. Here, I’ll provide a plan of action for our nation’s future.
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Choices—Empowering Prosperity: Each one of us can choose to focus on specific events to happen in our lives. Our choices draw people and situations into our lives. When in God’s will the extraordinary becomes ordinary.
Buy this book if you want humanity to get back on track.
Love at first sight. It’s every girl’s dream. But Tara Simpkins is finding out it’s not as easy as it seems. Is this truly the man God sent to be her husband, or is she just desperate to escape her loneliness? The recent loss of both parents has left her reeling, and close friends don’t think she’s in any position to make major life decisions. She and her new-found love are convinced they can live happily ever after in the home of their dreams. His family thinks he’s moving way too fast and might disappoint the kind-hearted woman he’s fallen head over heels for. And then there’s Leah. Leah is supposed to be part of his past, but what if she decides she’s his future? Tara’s match made in Heaven may be over before it truly begins.
EDITORIAL REVIEW-
Which line stood out from all the others in the book?
“He once confided in me that he would prefer to die standing up.” The reason for this, he was told, was “So the world would know that I managed to stay busy on my last day… or that I died trying.” In the end, Percy Miller got his wish.
The book The Plainview Lottery by Markas Dvaras is an interesting read. I found this book very reminiscent of a young adult novel I read many years ago called The Wish Giver by Bill Britain. In both stories, the authors are trying to teach the reader a lesson on human behavior. Each time the easiest route turns out to be the one of most peril. The book starts off with the introduction of mysterious strangers to a nearly perfect town. The strangers introduce a new concept, the lottery. The lottery slowly wheedles its way into everyone’s lives and brings the town to its knees creating litter, layoffs, and laziness. The town never discovers the origin of the strangers or how they were able to do what they did in the time period given. As predicted with any lottery, no one wins the enormous pile of gold and overnight the men and gold disappear. The town slowly returns to normal with a greater appreciation of what they had. The connections between the last two chapters or short stories mostly point out and reinforce those lessons that were learned and that the reader may have missed. I did find that Dvaras’ overuse of the verb ‘was’ weakened his prose just a bit. This story took a hard look at society as a whole and how “we are the generation that would rather just sit there.”
-International Review of Books
How Could a Lottery be a Mistake?
Welcome to Plainview– a town with everything going for it, and with none of the problems one would expect to see in a typical American town. No poverty, no homelessness, no unemployment– not even a litter problem.
But all that changes when five mysterious strangers show up in the town square one day, pulling a wagon-load of gold bars behind them. They’re going to run a lottery for Plainview, with the gold as the grand prize. With little discussion, Plainview readily agrees– and that’s the first in a series of hilarious mistakes.
Is the Lottery a Scam?
Now meet James Henderson– he’s an award-winning journalist for Plainview’s local paper, The Plainview Review. He suspects they are being swindled after he notices there are no winning numbers being drawn. Yet the residents of Plainview are becoming obsessed, and soon start losing their jobs while focusing on the gold bars.
Can James prove anything for his article? Can he stop his hometown from succumbing to “Lottery Fever?” Does it even matter?
A satire on economics and the human condition, The Plainview Lottery will have you rethinking how money is supposed to work.
ROCK IS DEAD THEY SAY. . . VOL. I explores rock ‘n’ roll’s history, with a focus on rock’s early ’90’s “last wave” as the National Soundtrack, before becoming the B-side to Hip Hop. Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Joey Kramer (Aerosmith), Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), and Kosmo Vinyl (the Clash’s major-domo and occasional manager) bare their rockin’ souls in never-before-published COMPLETE interviews, spurred on by the probing questions of writer Mark Barsotti, ex-music critic for Denver’s Westword, whose work also appeared in Musician, D.J. Times, Request, Livewire, Syracuse New Times, Bad News and New Times (Miami).
Highlights from the original stories intro the long form interviews, which are followed by a “Re-Listenability Index” and the writer’s current take, two decades into the 21st Century.
Barsotti’s passionate, sometimes outrageous opinions also crackle through features on AC/DC, censorship, the ’60’s vs. the ’80’s, loads of album reviews, rock’s greatest movies, and his unique take on the past and future of rock ‘n’ roll. . . if – facing the coming Great Die-Off of the ’20’s – it still has one.
But hey. . . What can a poor boy do but TURN IT UP!
“Every party plate of cocaine strapped to a midget’s head cost 10,000 days of dogged, road warrior work, as bands schlepped to gigs in overcrowded vans with no ac but plenty of beer farts and insane drummers explaining that Jackie killed JFK (or maybe it was the Masons). Rockers worked their asses of, wooing their muse and chasing the dream, even if precious few ever rose to penthouse cocaine-midget status. So who better to tell the story than the musicians themselves?”
– from ROCK IS DEAD THEY SAY. . . VOL. 1
Set in the rural south in the 30’s, Mulberry Creek washes away and reveals the true story of one mans family secret and exposes his own worse fears thru a series of brutal actions.
From starting his career as U.S. Border Patrol agent patrolling the mountains near the San Diego and Mexico Border to going on to become a U.S. Customs Service/ICE special agent disrupting major narcotics-smuggling organizations to landing an assignment to the prestigious White House Security Council’s Human Smuggling Cell. Piccolo’s homeland security career ended abruptly in 2015 when he uncovered thousands of alien children were released to criminals, including sex offenders, by members of the very government he served, and blew the whistle, putting a target on his back.
Follow Piccolo from the front lines of the southwest border to Iraq and back again. Piccolo details the never ending border war as someone who witnessed it for decades.
Abandoned by his part-Cherokee Ma, Charlie Kincaid escapes servitude with his uncle. He jumps a boxcar, accompanied by his schoolmate Roxy, who is escaping troubles of her own. Charlie becomes a US Navy Diver.
Mattie Blanc is from a genteel New Zealand family. But when her brother’s friend persuades her to take a ride, it all goes horribly wrong. Desperate, she flees her family’s stifling expectations for a new life in Auckland.
After the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, Charlie sets sail for Auckland aboard the USS Rigel. And there she is, the girl of his dreams. Mattie is everything that Roxy isn’t—sophisticated, tender, and patient. But the war intervenes… Rigel embarks for the Pacific war zones.
Charlie’s letters are sporadic. Mattie is tormented by doubts; did he truly love her, or was it only a dream?
The Rigel Affair produces a rip-roaring wartime romance and chilling danger unknown to most.
Author Website: https://lmhedrick.com/
Love, War, and Glory 3 things that we all have seen, experienced or been a part of. As with life, in general, all 3 of these concepts have their ups and downs. This book explores those themes via poetry and spoken words and examines what these themes mean for everyday life. Explore what it means to go beneath the surface and find out what you are truly capable of and how to rationalize life events, both good and bad. This book also explores how to keep your perspective when you achieve your life ambitions and aims. From dealing with heartbreak and finding your true love, to tales of warriors fighting never-ending battles, making dreams become a reality, overcoming the odds to finally reach your goal, to tales of supreme champions and reviews of global figures of interest and understanding the changes and the journey we all go through in life you will find it in this book. We believe there is something in here that everyone can relate to.
A German spy in Atlanta? It is 1917. The US has just entered the Great War. Two young women, bored with their place in Southern society, play a deadly game of cat and mouse to unearth a dark secret. From the well-known neighborhoods of genteel Atlanta to the seedy warehouse district they try to uncover a spy in their midst. Actual key figures, locations, and events of Atlanta 1917, documents and memoirs from that critical time in Atlanta history, intermingle with mystery, suspense, and ultimate horror of the Great Atlanta Fire in this gripping romantic suspense page-turner.
Brion never meant to start a war. But when they murdered his parents and enslaved his sister and his sweetheart, they left him no choice.
Brion of Wexford is the son of a crippled trapper living a quiet life on the edge of the vast and unruly heathland. But when Salassani raiders destroy his world, he must venture into the heathland to attempt the impossible task of finding the girls, rescuing them, and conveying them safely home across hundreds of miles of enemy territory.
Now Brion finds himself pursued by men bent on his destruction, deprived of his protectors, and haunted by the knowledge that his murdered father has hidden a dark secret that could reshape Brion’s entire identity. Brion must find a way to stay alive long enough to get the girls safely home.
“Is life itself merely a dream? Are we the pawns within that dream?”
In the year 1979, Reinah is only focused on her future. She is moving across the country in pursuit of the path towards her dream job with the F.B.I. in Washington, D.C. Leaving her roots at home may be a little hard, but she knows they run deep within her. Her whole life she has felt a deep connection to her ancestors and those that came before her. As many things are about to change, she knows the main thing she can count on is her spirituality and strong familial roots. Now in D.C., she is facing more challenges than just settling into a new city and a new job. Strange things around her are beginning to happen and unaware to her, this move may test Reinah’s faith in more ways than she thought, and may reveal a greater future than what she could have prepared for.
Meanwhile in the spiritual realm, a battle bigger then good versus evil is about to begin. The Council of Innocent Souls is forced to make difficult decisions while they continue to search for the Written One, the only soul who has the power to save not only their realm, but all of humankind. At the forefront of this battle are two brothers; one who is fed by his greed and thirst for want, and will stop at nothing to destroy the Written One, while the other brother must do everything in his power to push his brother back as he and his defenders search and prepare for the Written One. What happened on 13 Cornfield Road?
In this first novel of the Fourteenth Floor Book Series, join award-winning, genre-bending Autor R.A. Monday as she confronts us with questions about our own mortality, death, and our souls.
Popular Books
In present-day San Diego, a drug war rages on both sides of the border. Detective Reginald Downing has infiltrated a notorious transnational cartel. Unknown to him, the cartel is made aware of his true identity, and has marked him for death.
So enters THE VAMPIRE, a brooding, enigmatic being who savagely rips through the drug soldiers and saves Reggie from a brutal death. He then protects the young officer as they dismantle the cartel one bloody piece at a time, and ferret out the dirty cop who sold Reggie out.
As events hurtle down the rails towards an explosive, blood-soaked climax, the Vampire tells Reggie his story: the story of his life, his death, and his rebirth to Darkness. The Vampire explains why he saved Reggie’s life and reveals a secret rooted over a century in the past that binds their two fates together forever.
NOCTURNAL is a story of honor and shame, loyalty and betrayal, crime and punishment, seething hatred, and an unshakable love that transcends the boundaries of Life and Death.
Ditches to Riches offers up some real life lessons, from the author Will Smith who had it all, lost it all, and got it all back again. Will was dealt a bad hand and sentenced to prison for more than two years, for a crime he did not commit. Once free, he moved to a new state with no money and a felony conviction still marring his otherwise perfect record. The only thing he had was a friend who let him sleep on a couch and a job digging ditches in the Florida heat. Will did have one other thing, a desperate desire to climb out of that ditch.
An Old House With Secrets…
Charlie Love is terrified. Something is taking over her mind and body at night while she sleeps. There is a presence in her newly renovated home, and she’s facing it alone. Soon, she discovers that she’s up against insurmountable evil, and has no idea how to fight against it.
A Team Ready To Take On The Unknown…
Doug and Scott McQueen are experienced paranormal investigators, but they aren’t prepared for what haunts Charlie. Sheila Mathers wants to help, using her psychic abilities, but it’s an evil unlike any of them have ever encountered.
A Blood Feud From The Past…
Charlie and the team are stunned by the rancid evil. The hauntings are too incredible for them to ignore. Their tail leads them to a blood feud, long buried in the old, haunted house. Why did the spiritual battle begin? Why is Charlie the target? How will the small team fight the deep darkness that they face? Follow the team’s investigation as they strive to solve the most dangerous case of their lives.
BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIETNAM VET WAR HERO, KNOWN AS THE “AMERICAN GANGSTER” WHO RAN A COVERT CIA OPERATION AND EMERGED AS VIETNAM’S ‘OSKAR SCHINDLER’
A great historical fictional work on ‘Vietnam’s mobbed-up late 1960s – 1970s Saigon, Pearl of the Orient, Vietnam, “American Gangster – Operation Beaucoup Dinky Dau”
In the best-selling tradition of the world’s master historical fiction storytellers, Mario Puzo’s, “The Godfather”; Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”; Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump; Victor Hugo’s, “Les Misérables”; Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”; Norman Mailer’s, The Naked and The Dead; Gore Vidal’s Lincoln: A Novel; and Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”
Steve Murphy, Network TV and Documentary Film Producer, Writer, and Combat Vietnam Veteran, tells the extraordinary story of a never before told, top secret covert CIA operation, known only as “OPERATION BEAUCOUP DINKY DAU”, that served as the unofficial covert Logistics operation to the CIA’s Phoenix Montagnard fighters, fighting the North Vietnamese forces during 1968-1973.
“This I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-fiction” tale has it all: a Marlboro- Man handsome Vietnam War Hero, a parade of impossibly gorgeous women, sex, spies, copious quantities of booze, drugs, and enough violence to take Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Terminator scriptwriters through several more sequels. It’s both a rip-roaring expose and harrowing.
It’s the story of the underbelly of the Saigon metropolis like few others. Corrupt Generals, shady Politicians, gangsters, prostitutes, bootleggers, opium addicts, jazz musicians, deserters, black marketeers, and your run of the mill criminals, murderers, thieves, and con artists….
Casting light on the Federal Government’s links with organized crime and how a highly decorated American MAT Team Advisor Vietnam Veteran, Johnnie Walker, known in Saigon, as “The America Gangster”, became Saigon’s most successful Criminal Mastermind, as well as the most influential “unofficial” Defense Attaché Office (DAO) “Contractor” to the CIA’s Phoenix Program, and the owner of the famous supper club and casino, “Beaucoup Dinky Dau”, and who had unparalleled connections leading all the way up to Vietnam’s Presidential palace and the CIA.
It’s a story most Americans have never heard of and shines a new and disturbing light on the role of the United States in the creation of communist Vietnam, and their treatment of the indigenous tribes that fought for the CIA’s Phoenix Program.
Johnnie Walker dominated Saigon’s War profiteering, Black Market, Money Laundering, and Drug Trafficking for all the major Vietnamese Crime Lords Generals in Saigon, as well as for South Vietnam’s President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and Air Marshall /South Vietnam’s VP, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
His astounding metamorphosis from criminal mastermind to Vietnam’s ‘Oskar Schindler’ began in 1968 when he discovers that Washington intends to abandon his friends and former MAT Team CIA Phoenix program Montagnards, “The Yards”, fighters that he’d fought side by side with as a MAT Team Advisor in Pleiku. He loved “The Yards” and the War Orphans the Yards took care of, and he was going to make sure he did the “Right Thing” for them.
It was an amazing turnabout for the once money-hungry Walker, because even though he did not begin his journey as a hero, by the time the war was winding down, he became one. He used his cunning to bend the system to help him and his over 600 Yards and 100 Orphans escape Vietnam. He was strong in the face of constant danger and double-cross, and he placed the well-being of The Yards and Orphans above his own well-being.
Based on real historical events, the suspense and intrigue of the story carries larger-than-life qualities and heightened reality. It’s about 90% historical basis and 10% creative license, but it adds up to 100% spellbinding story. It has more political intrigues, more suspense, more intense psychological analysis, and more technological know-how than anything Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum could fantasize about.
And it has something else besides: It’s based on a true story, depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity, and the pragmatic triumph of good over evil, a triumph in eminently measurable, statistical, unsubtle terms.
Set in his adopted hometown, Saigon, Vietnam, where he spent over six years, American Gangster – Operation Beaucoup Dinky Dau, is the book that Steve Murphy has been building up to for his whole career. From its opening fusillade to its astonishing conclusion, it’s that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the Monsoons and Tsunamis bringing torrential rains to the Pearl of the Orient.
This is a story of love, laughter, hopes and shattered dreams. Happiness, passion, humor and self-discovery are interwoven in a candid, provocative, and romantic way. It captures the life of Aurelia, taking you thru WWII and ending in the U.S. where her parents’ values conflict with the culture of modern America…. http://amazon.com/Desire-Red-Wine-Lifes…/dp/1600478271 … … … … Trailer: http://youtu.be/R8hmF58s8Vk
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To win a woman’s heart, one must have a dragon…
He is the last of his kind. King Rhydderch Pendragon guards his secret: that he rules the last dragon in the kingdom. But when his dragon falls ill, he cannot figure out what ails her. As Rhyder’s wedding day draws near, he’s apprehensive about retrieving his betrothed. And with the recent murders in his kingdom, there’s no time to woo his princess.
As the youngest daughter of King Raedwald Baldach, Katriona is the only one who can save their kingdom from embarrassment. When her sister runs away rather than wed the dragon prince, Katriona is substituted as Pendragon’s bride. Now grown and with druid blood in her, Katriona accepts her destiny, especially when his forlorn emotions beckon her heart.
Rhyder vaguely remembers meeting Katriona at their betrothal, but their reunion sparks unexpected passion. When Katriona reveals a secret of her own, she does more than claim his heart. Is love the answer to his dragon’s plight and PENDRAGON’S PRINCESS’ acceptance?
One day to remember forever, one trip to last a lifetime.
Life has a way of throwing you curve balls. Dirty laundry, bad boyfriends, and a car breaking down. I thought I had been dealt the worst cards possible my senior year of college, then I got the call that would change it all. My brother had tried to kill himself and I had to get to him now. Jeremiah is my only hope.
I have a secret, and I don’t know how to tell Georgia. She’s been my best friend since I started college, but this could change everything. When she calls me and asks for a ride when her car breaks down, I don’t expect the interception we have to face.
We only have today to create a Snapshot that will last a lifetime, or change our paths forever.
Just before the outbreak of World War II, Fabienne, a young German girl flees her abusive, widowed father and takes a job, caring for disabled children in a home on the outskirts of Berlin. When Jurgen, a young soldier, turns up on the doorstep of the home, asking if he can take Fabienne to the local dance, the women running the organisation agree, against their better judgement. Soon the young couple are in love.
With the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party, comes persecution of anyone seen to be “inferior to the German master race”. This includes children with disabilities and Fabienne and the women flee the Nazi wrath, taking the vulnerable children with them on an epic journey across Germany. Some will survive the Nazi punishments, others will not. But in the background is her relationship with Jurgen. Will he stay loyal or betray her to his masters in the Nazi party?
When she hears that her father is in jail, awaiting the death penalty for murder, she is forced to come out of hiding to visit him and make her peace. The risk is enormous, but in doing so, Fabienne learns some extraordinary news, which changes the course of her life.
COMPLETED BOXSET OF THE CROWN AND DAGGERS SERIES!
Charming – The Captain – The Prince
Once Upon a Time…
Nothing ever exciting happens at the Ball.
Certainly there are lovely ladies and preening lords, but for Kit, it would be so much simpler to forego the entire event and be knocked senseless dueling than dance another waltz. At least that was until she walked in.
Ella thought the night might be perfect to kill herself a prince. Dance, drink, smile for the crowd Easy enough to slip a knife between the ribs and be home before midnight.
But the prince wasn’t what she was expecting; and the maiden was unlike any other he’d met.
Caught between duty and romance, prophecy and adventure, can two people find a way to be together when city walls stand between them?
One waltz at a ball. One trip of a slipper. One Prince. And one Assassin.
This is not your childhood Fairy Tale.
This is a very controversial, brief simple book without long boring introductions, reveals to you how rich people keep you poor, exposing to you why money gurus never show you real ways to get rich. It also teaches you real tried methods to get our of poor – average person life. It shows you real methods rich people use to stay rich. How the author as well has changed his life from barely able to pay bills to a financially free person.
If you want to learn how to trade stocks properly without gambling or if you have tried many ways to get rich whether it is trading stocks, being an affiliate to some company or even other trials. This books is for you, it gives you the bottom line so you don’t keep searching more for “How can I make money” stuff online again. It will work as well on developing your thinking and the way you see life.
Due to new weapons and technology, a power-hungry organization took control of Earth in 2150. The clone research has produced something evil which the world has never seen before. But an event in 2016 could change everything!
This book is about the future. What if humanity had not learned anything from the history? What would the world look like? Could a little resistance group with the help of two time travelers from 2016, save
the world, humanitarianism and the future?
The book covers several topics like time travel, new technologies, patriotism, solidarity and that we must learn from the history. Otherwise if we don’t, history will repeat itself and maybe it`s going to be worse than ever before!
“A really interesting and exciting book, written by a Mars One Astronaut candidate about the future of humanity and what happens if we learn nothing from our history!
Read it!” Andrea Rohpeter
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In the not too distant future, the human population is nearly wiped out by an alien invasion. Six years after the initial attack, Emlee Dow isn’t too worried about the continuing alien presence any longer. It’s the few humans left who pose a greater threat. Food and supplies are hard to come by, making survival an ever increasing struggle. Luckily, she finds refuge in an undiscovered basement room, containing enough supplies to last weeks.
Feeling full and relatively safe, Emlee decides to rest while she can. She wasn’t expecting her world to be turned upside down when she woke. Or for the already upside down world to be flipped right side up, pre-destruction. Thrown into the past, she meets Mykail, and has only days to convince him she’s not crazy before history repeats itself…or is it the future?
In these difficult and trying times, it’s hard to know who to trust. Just when you find someone, they’re lost just as quickly.
Can love be found again in the future? Or is it a thing of the past?
Two teenage sisters, growing up in the Plaka district of Athens, Greece. Their parents keep a taverna, where there is music and dancing regularly. Life seems idyllic, and the girls can’t think of anything that they ought to worry about, except for having a good time.
The only problem is, this is the late 1930’s, and things are about to change in ways they could never have imagined.
An old woman lies dying in a hospice in the UK. She has an incurable cancer and is in the early stages of dementia. Yet, in her lucid moments, she wants to tell her story, before it’s too late and her secrets are lost forever, to the only person who will listen. That person is her nephew, a retired accountant who has the time to sit and keep her company during her long, lonely, final days.
Panayiota was a teenager when the Germans walked into Athens in 1941. How she ended up in a hospice in the UK is the subject of an extraordinary tale, during the telling of which her nephew will learn things that will shake what he believes about his family and himself to the very core.
This book is about my life as a teen mom and a minority and fatherless daughter living on top of it in lower-income neighborhoods. I used life tools to get ahead after becoming a widow with two small children after their father past away. I was just 30 and he was 32 at his passing. My son was 11 and my daughter was 4 years old at the time. But I guess what I saw in my grandmother and mother who also were teen moms and fatherless daughters taught me that I could do this on my own but it would not be easy. They had also come from very low-income towns in Puerto Rico. The reason my mother moved to the United States with my three sisters and I was to give us a better chance of progress and a better life. The title is what I associated as a young girl that always watch people enjoying baseball games and I watch as the batters got all the intention and actually hardest job as the pitcher was hiding his pitch within his mitt! Just like life throws you curve balls that you do not see coming but when you do you batter up and hit your hardest to get that HOME RUN! For everyone in your team aka family & friends are watching you see what you do when you are on that base and by yourself awaiting that hardball that will come at you. Once you do get to hit it you better want a home run or at least a ball through the middle to get to run out your bases and maybe if you are a good enough runner you can slide home or at best third base in other words maybe become rich or at least well off in to say it not in baseball terms. I decided to write this book not only for my grandkids to have when I am gone but to help other women especially young Latinas that need the motivation to stay focused that they can be powerful empowered women even if life has thrown them down they can dust it off and keep trying and not give up! I feel that Teen Mom is a great show to show what to do and not do but also they are scripted a bit and get checks to do the shows and it helps them financially but in real time not every girl or teen gets that opportunity and also the show has parts that are edited in life there are no white out or chalk erasers thou you may get do-overs and sometimes not always. In some of these shows, some have dads that help out plus the producers & directors. In my story my dad was gone when I was 2 years old and no he did not pass away but separated from my mother.
Unwanted by Knox Tolbert
My grandson wrote this book about his life and what he went through being raised by his grandparents as his biological parents are Addicts.And the pain and hurt and the bully and he went through and all he wants to do is help other kids and adults to show them they can get positive out of all the negativity
This Anger Management: Control Your Anger guidebook is a handy guide on anger management. The book provides invaluable insight into the problem of anger management. It outlines strategies that help you understand, accept, and deal with your anger, build self-control, increase your self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and become a self-assured, calm, poised, self-aware, and wise individual who knows how to deal with his/her emotions as well as those of others, someone capable of successfully navigating through the different emotional phases of life.
Historical novel, fiction, series of 5 volumes for the young generation and everyone..
Historical novel, fiction, series of 5 volumes for teens/ everyone, from the 17th century when the glory of the Three Musketeers was still alive.
Historical novel, fiction of 5 volumes from the 17th century when the glory of the Three Musketeers was still alive.
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: A Brief Preview
* When bacteria infect our body and successfully multiply, they begin to kill or disrupt normal cell functions, making us sick a weakened defense can prove dangerous and fatal.
* Previously manageable bacteria have mutated, giving rise to antibiotic-resistant strains in the absence of antibiotics, either the persons defense (system immune) destroys the bacteria or if not the infection can prove fatal.
* By 2050, these bacteria will kill more people than cancer.
* The pharmaceutical industry is not developing new antibiotics to cope with the rise of resistant bacteria.YOU can take practical measures to fortify your immune system to fight these bacteria.
Poplar Hill
by Stephen Ramey Glines
Wilderness House Press
book review by Toby Berry in U.S. Review of Books
“The Depression and the War colored the rest of our lives, my whole generation.”
Kitty Stevenson resided in Germany before WWII as an American socialite, a woman somewhat oblivious to the worst of the Nazis, as if seeing it too closely prevented its clear focus. She managed to leave Nazi Germany on the last boat to New York, arriving just days before the Germans invaded Poland. Now, in Nova Scotia, Canada, she is dying of heart failure, determined to tell her life story to her best friend. This story inside of a story lets readers get to know the delightful main character, Stevenson, when she is both young and old. Glines skillfully weaves the two stories together. Seamlessly, readers go from the 1930s to the 1990s as Stevenson lives her daily hospice life and her memories aloud.
World War II historical fiction has been written in many forms, but penned from the perspective of a naive, young American woman is unique. Likewise, end-of-life stories are plentiful, but from the calm, matter-of-fact, optimistic Kitty Stevenson’s perspective, readers get a taste of the scene as “splendid altogether,” at least in a bittersweet way. Poplar Hill is a northern rural area not far from Halifax, and the descriptions of the rough life and energy it takes to exist up there is a story in itself. “Rescuing Kitty Stevenson had become a county-wide effort…The highway department was going to get the causeway open…then start on Scotch Hill…with two plows and five salt trucks.” Wartime choices made, secrets, guilt, and living life like you mean it are all themes explored in this deep novel. But it isn’t just the “what” but the “how” that makes this book exemplary. A truly professional writer touches deeply, and when Glines describes Stevenson’s bedside last breaths, a tissue box is highly recommended.
Addiction is a serious matter and Jason is slowly learning that lesson.
Jason Young is the newest member of the Riverside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, which is just about as terrible as it sounds, if you ask him. He doesn’t see why the judge sentenced him to the podunk town of Escape, Colorado. The center is outside of town near Crimson Ridge, cut off from the outside world, because no one wants to be associated with it. He may only be there an agonizing 6 months until he turns 18, but that doesn’t make it any better. He just hopes it’s bearable.
Everything begins to change once he meets Tabitha Blackwell.
She’s been there for a few months now, having spent her 17th birthday cooped up between the walls of the girls’ cabin. She talks about finally being free and one day getting away from Riverside. There’s a dark side to her that Jason’s drawn to, but sometimes a person’s dark side isn’t what you think. Their inner demons may be similar, but it’s difficult to tell whose are screaming louder.
Action! Adventure! Space opera!
Mykl d’Angelo, skipper and owner of the loderunner Pegasus, had fallen on hard times – and he’d just had the worst day of his life in that field. Due a minor misunderstanding, his crew had stolen the “Short Shit” – the ship’s only shuttle, leaving him and two others behind to crew the ailing (and now understaffed) loderunner on their own. As if that weren’t bad enough, just a few hours later, the rickety old ship literally lost its stardrive in the middle of the middle of nowhere. To add insult to injury, Mykl’s two remaining crewmen were killed in the explosion. Marooned alone in deep space, Mykl d’Angelo counted his blessings, offered prayers to any gods who specialized in miracles, and prepared to await (A) seemingly unlikely rescue, or (B) a lingering death.
In the meantime, as though in answer to d’Angelo’s pleas, a starship of the Imperial Space Fleet had been dispatched to investigate the mysterious silence of a remote starbase nearby. Rescue takes place, but at a price – taking into consideration Mykl d’Angelo’s past service in the Fleet – and his not insignificant knowledge and experience of Corsairs, he quickly finds himself re-activated in an advisory capacity. Proceeding at full alert, the Antares prepared for the worst – that is, the probability that the lost starbase had been attacked and destroyed by Corsairs… space pirates who dominate the space lanes and whose bloody choke-hold on interstellar trade overshadowed the last 100 years of Human history.
Seemingly by sheer coincidence, their paths cross with a legendary and fearsome Corsair – a man whose name sent shivers running down the spines of lesser men. Blachart… Blachart the Bloody.
“Blachart” is book 1 in the Galaxii Series by Christina Engela.
Cindy-Mei, who until recently had been Agent Winter, C.I.A. – that’s Colonial Intelligence Agency – had been one of their best agents… that is, until they threw her out for coming to work in a dress.
After that disappointing and sudden end to what had been a promising career, Mei rewarded herself with a long relaxing vacation in the outback to celebrate her gender reassignment and her new start in life. The first stop on her journey turned out to be a little backwater planet called Deanna…
As a third-rate colony in the Terran Empire, Deanna had more than its fair share of dull moments… Dull – but also definitely weird… Deanna orbited a star called Ramalama – and if you think that’s funny, Deanna’s two moons were called Ding and Dong, respectively. (This was a local joke.)
When a single Ruminarii Hammerhead – the first seen by Humans in over eighty years, arrived to invade the small backwater Terran colony of Deanna, rather than cowering in their basements or running away, the ordinary people of Atro City headed to the spaceport to meet the aliens when they landed – and grabbed anything remotely resembling a weapon on the way out the door!
As bombs fell on Atro City, Cindy-Mei found herself in exactly the right place at the right time – but what should she do? She’d hoped to put her violent and somehow depressing past behind her, but now it seemed her new beginning (and her holiday) were going to have to wait! The Gimp were back, and this was no time to be a sissy! She faced seemingly insurmountable odds in the midst of panic, hysteria – falling sherry – and people hiding under furniture! What would she do?
Thankfully, with the assistance of an alien walking, talking plant called Fred, a local bounty hunter called Beck the Badfeller – and the Skeggs Valley Dynamite Fishing Club, she wouldn’t have to find out alone.
“Quite simply, Christina Engela is one of the best voices in sci-fi right now and to not read her work would be to miss a treat!” – Mark Woods, author of Time of Tides and Fear of the Dark.
“Black Sunrise” is the first book in the Quantum Series by Christina Engela.
When an alien spaceship gets disabled by a man-made satellite, General Luke Barnes will put together a team consisting of three astronauts to venture on an Apollo mission. The two astronauts called John Miller and Michael Smith are tasked to capture that spaceship and exterminate the alien inside. Everything is about to change when the third astronaut called James Barkley finds out the truth about the Apollo mission. James soon finds himself in a twisted situation which he has to choose to trust the alien instead of his crewmates.
Deborah is a reader and writer of animal lives. She thinks people need to search in their souls and find the sacred place where inspired movement begins as a force to be reckoned with. As she addresses the staggering debacle of animal rights, Deborah brings readers to the edge of their seemingly fluid existence, bringing to attention the ability everyone has to change and respond to her plea to “save them all.” Readers will experience the character’s imperfect life, her struggle for hope, and her regret of past negligence. Her light-filled spirit will nonetheless bring the truth to bear as she finds the freedom and opportunity to heal and to save all those lives; all worth living. Deborah is an image of humanity in bloom.
About the Author
Beth A. Nigro graduated with a Masters Degree from Fordham University in New York, where she studied Animal Rights. She wrote an essay, “The Gulf Between Us: An Essay on the Separation of the Human and Non-human In Western Philosophical Thought,” that addresses Animal Rights and its connection with Feminist descriptions of the origin of dualist thinking and its role in the perception of animals and other Others.
No one ever truly realizes the power of their love, until love is tested and they have to endure things unimaginable and sometimes hurtful. And if the truth is declared, no one wants to but…
Sometimes we find ourselves standing in the test of love and this is exactly where Priscilla Marshall finds herself. Married to Steven since she graduated college, together they were the perfect couple. Both making successful business moves, both loved their choices, but one had a secret that could change their lives.
Priscilla, now forced to make a plan to secure her future, finds out that a plan without God involved is not a plan at all because “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails” (Proverbs 19:21).
What will God use to make this woman’s plan come full circle with His own, and after the test, will they find that they truly do have an Enduring Love?
This story is about drug addiction. How it controls your thoughts, your body, your life, and leaves you nothing to fight back with. Your mind will go to any lengths, no matter how depraved, to obtain what your body requires. It will show you doors and how to open them, doors that lead to wickedness, corruption and wanton decadence. Doors that lead you to the very bottom, to the very lowest points of life. To the point where you believe your only option is to overdose. For the eighteen years that I was a junkie, I reached that point several times.
My story involves sex scenes, many different illegal activities, police there informers and gangland stories, deaths and murders. Scenes from life in jail. Betrayals. And above all, the unbelievable lengths that junkies will go to to feed their habits.
When everything you know doesn’t make
sense anymore; who do you trust?
After her partner was killed while she was on vacation, D.C. Detecc
tive Catherine Richards, vowed to solve his murder. Little did she
know that soon she would be the one on trial for a crime centuries
old. Her accuser, Sabastian Mulacay, is a powerful man and used
to getting his way. Soon she is thrust into a world of ancient druids
and mystical powers.
Will she be able to persuade this beast of a man of her innocence
using her detective skills? Or will she have to resort to more
feminine tactics? Trying to clear her name will be one of the most
challenging things she has ever faced but if she succeeds it could
be the most rewarding.
When Sabastian first met Catherine he knew she had a Viking spirit
but he felt the lure of a familiar evil. Will he be able to finally bring
justice to his clan and crush the witch forever? Or will his enemy
destroy what’s left of him and his heart?
He had just turned seventeen, but Joey Bird had been serving time off and on since he was thirteen, arrested for assault, assault with a weapon, assault against a police officer, and breach of conditions.
Living in Winnipeg, young Joey had survived being initiated into a gang against his will, being homeless and sleeping outside in all kinds of weather, and feeling the rejection of his family, friends and community.
But nothing could have prepared him for the moment when his friend was shot in the head and killed while sitting just centimeters away from him.
When you’re battling addiction you are literally at war. It’s a war that is waging within yourself. It’s a dangerous war and it’s a deadly war. It’s also a war that’s difficult for most people to understand, unless they’ve been through it themselves.
Ths book will help anyone who is battling addiction. It is also a benficial resource for family members, friends and loved ones to learn more about addiction, and gain tools they too can use for their own recovery process.
In this book, Dr. KJ Foster outlines a new and provocative conceptualization of addiction recovery, which is based upon personal experience with addiction, and professional experience working with thousands of individuals and family members struggling to overcome addiction. Dr. Foster’s Warrior Theory outlines and defines Four Warrior Phases of Addiction Recovery and Six Essential Elements of POWER.
The key to all recovery is in learning what provides you with POWER and what depletes you of POWER. It is all about the POWER!
Hannah had lived through hell. Finally free and able to care for her little family, danger lurks just on the edge of her happiness. Can she learn to trust a stranger to give her all she never knew she wanted?
Jared Johnson was on a cattle run, again, when he stumbles upon a lady that could be the answers to all his dreams. She just must accept that Jared will answer all her unspoken questions.
Lord Adam Johnson is the eldest, the protector and the rock for the Johnson family. He knows his place and accepts his life. His next title? Perhaps a guardian angel.
Jenna is scared, alone and pregnant. Having lived her life without a loving family, tragedy strikes and she finds she has to make a choice; run, give up or trust that she truly has a guardian angel.
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The grass is always greener on the other side.
Two women will find out just how wrong they both are.
One longs for freedom, the other just wants her loneliness to end. But what will happen to them once those wishes come true and what lengths will they go to have these wishes granted?
Susan & Friends is a work of fiction, Contemporary Romance. Susan Applebaum is a no-nonsense businesswoman and along with her four beautiful friends that make up the Bosom Buddies group.
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Obsidian is an unconventional assassin in the 21st century. Living a life of obscurity, she must find the balance between murder and holding on to the man of her dreams.
When her child is born, she is swept into an underworld of elusive beings known as the Shadows, where a beautiful stranger makes promises of grandeur for her and her son.
In the tradition of Craig Johnson’s “Longmire” mysteries comes a new epic series.
1998 – someone or something is stampeding widower rancher Joe Mack’s cattle killing precious cows and calves and threatening his livelihood.
The local sheriff won’t help. He relishes punishing Joe for “ruining” his life, so Joe is forced to take matters into his own hands.
When his friends are beaten up and shot, his new gal nearly killed, Joe finds himself in the middle of a war with mercenaries with the deadly possibility of losing everyone and everything he holds dear hanging over his head.
A call from a ghost hunter changes Deputy Tempe Crabtree’s vacation plans. Instead of going to the coast, she and her husband are headed to Tehachapi to investigate a haunted house and are confronted by voices on the wind, a murder, and someone out to get them.
Take a ride with JohnEgreek as he journeys to the Old Country in fulfillment of a childhood promise made to his grandparents, the Patriarch and Matriarch of his family. His travels take him to a former communist country, once run by a dictator who in 1967 declares their Motherland,Atheist. His grandmother, insightful and deeply spiritual guides him throughout his lifetime as he himself opens to the reality of something higher than himself.
What happens along the way is a surreal journey and a deeply rooted experience. Travel with him and his pseudo family, as they discover the avenue to his soul and the recipe to Grandma’s Secret Blessings, bestowed upon him while she is alive and long after she is gone.
Hidden in a document revealed to him sometime after his trip to the Old Country, he finds the key that unlocks the door to the hidden ability to “transcend and go beyond.”
The journey of life is at times is a rocky road,sometimes endured by such things as relationship issues, health issues,monetary issues, and his case, a father who hates him from the very first day he is born and a son who walks out of his life with no explanation from either of them, as to why? There are hidden elements behind the experience that he calls, “Life.”
This book is for anyone who is teetering on the edge of disbelief that there is something higher than their greatest expectations as to why things happen to them. “Beware of the Temptation to view yourself, unfairly treated,” a key element to a life of the “Poor me syndrome.”
Everyone at some time or another will lose a loved one,but death is not the end, it is the beginning and they do find a way to speak to you from beyond. Make no mistake, this book will open your eyes as you discover the magical recipe to Grandma’s Secret, Blessings and you, too, can use them to heal your heart and find the avenue to your soul.
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JUDGEMENT OF SOULS is a Paranormal Romance/Gothic horror in which a naïve pure-blood Vampire is tossed into the mortal world.
Rachel meets Daniel, a nightclub owner and his group of friends and after Daniel’s best friend is murdered by Max, (her ex-lover), becomes embroiled in the search for an ancient vampire artifact.
Rachel tries to fight off her feelings for Daniel, even siding with her Vampire friend Arun to think again about Daniel’s involvement, but he’s her love and she’s going to protect him, no matter what.
A 300 year old quest.
A secret religious organisation.
Revenge – vampire style.
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Chris Edwards was born in Shawneetown Illinois and spent his formative years around Nashville, Tennessee. He presently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chris is a recognized proponent of the cultural arts, a strong business leader and a political activist for equality in human rights and LBGTQ+ causes. Chris has traveled to 46 countries and enjoys the diversity of cultures. Chris has led divisions of large public companies, assisted with the growth and support of social enterprises and served on boards of several non-profits.
Chris is recognized as a mentor in teaching those around him the skills of positive self-esteem and to enjoy the ups and downs of life experiences. Chris’s new release has ranked in the Amazon top 100 in “Self Esteem Self Help” and in “Self Help Short Reads”.
RAVENQUEST has been and continues to be such a journey for me. It has given me the opportunity to project in a creative way into our world a vision of a world where all creatures live in peace and harmony with one another. Yes, there are villains along the way but throughout this exciting story the reader senses an overarching philosophy that we are more alike than different and that we all have gifts to share with our world. What a world we would have if everyone were respected equally. Read the books….Join the community.
RAVENQUEST is truly one of the best fantasy books to come along in a long time. Everyone who reads it loves it. This series is the best and most exciting infantasy books for adults and yet is family-friendly enough to also be the bestfantasy books for kids. If you like fantasy books live Volume 1: Here Be Dragons is available for free and read by the author himself. We hope you will read all 7 volumes and agree that RAVENQUEST is truly the best fantasy book series you have read in a long time!
Summer: it’s a time of heat waves and sunburn, idle days and restless nights. What better place to spend a warm, magical summer than on a beautiful Greek island? Enjoy the blue ocean waves, the pebbly beach, the singing of mermaids, and a fresh, juicy watermelon in Summer: The Magic Blanket
The seasons teach us patience . . . you can’t hurry the changing of the leaves, the melting of the snow, or the ripening of the fruit. I would love to have fresh almonds year-round, but that is not possible. Nature and the Seasons teach me patience. Patience is a marvelous quality, and good things come to those who have patience. This is a lesson we can learn from the Seasons and a valuable lesson to teach our young ones.
Take a journey through America to unearth the truths behind white supremacy and sexism in society. Delve into the deepest and most fascinating secrets behind racism and sexism—the secrets they do not want you to know and may not realize.
Examine the origins and progression of racism, sexism, relationships in America, and the science and psychology behind what is real and what is an illusion. Discover how mind control is the weapon of choice to keep certain groups in power and others in the dark and oppressed. This book gives different perspectives from the physical to the metaphysical.
Finally, we explore astonishing revelations about why we are here, who we are, and how to heal and evolve to a higher spiritual level. Explore the mind-blowing revelations and proven facts that will challenge the way you think about people, life, and the universe.
Though this book focuses on America, its breathtaking discoveries can be applied everywhere, and with anyone around the world.
The Truth About White Supremacy, Sexism, and Mind Control in America has won the Dan Poynter’s Global Ebook Award and received numerous 5-star reviews from Reader’s Favorite.
An anthology book of Five magical children’s stories: Featuring, firstly Holly Christmas the little girl who’s wish for a happy Christmas looks unlikely in becoming true, until something magical happens to her in the village Church. Secondly, Penny and a talking rag doll, Poppy Pigtails become destined to be friends after waking up together in the middle of the night. Thirdly, The Truth Fairy who magically appears from nowhere to help Katrina mend her lying ways. Fourthly, The Tree of Mirrors and a dog named Duke come to Abby the dumb girl’s rescue in changing her life for the better. Finally, In The Chime of Angels two teenage youngsters Sophia and Sam find some dirty old Angel Chimes on a rubbish dump and literally fall into the magical world of Paradise Falls which changes their lives forever.
Desiree is an intelligent and beautiful young woman but she fell in love with the wrong guy. After finding out she was pregnant with his child, she found out just how wrong he really was! She tried to move on with her life but unbeknownst to her every new acquaintance, accident, and injury she will encounter is somehow connected to her ex-boyfriend who vowed to finish what he started.
Before the time of the great pyramids, on a lost continent at the edge of the world a mysterious boy searches for his mother in a desperate race against time. He carries her amulet, forged long ago in the stars by a God.
But all divine gifts come at a price.
Finally, a young adult fantasy novel with an all Indian cast, set across the mystical landscape of Kumari Kandam, India’s Atlantis. For lovers of Indian historical fantasy fiction, The Jewel of Vishnu is part one of an explosive three book, young adult series like no other.
Belle Stark has struggled to conquer crippling fears since being attacked by a maniac. Despite the efforts of countless cops, her stalker continues to roam free. When Belle discovers her lover’s mutilated body spread over the furniture, she becomes the prime suspect, but she’s certain her attacker is to blame.With no where else to turn, Belle seeks help from her ex-husband, homicide detective Mike Cranston, the one person she swore she would never let back into her life…or her heart.
In their hunt for answers, the two uncover more than a lunatic: a supernatural underworld hides beneath the tall skyscrapers along with a secret that could bring the city to its knees. Faced with a terrible choice, Belle surrenders herself to the hands of a monster, and Mike must solve an ancient mystery before it’s too late to save her…
This is a diverse and modern book, detailing a rabbit of Indian descent. She undertakes adventures with her friend, Susie, and many other animals and humans.
A lovely story for children of all ages.
The story is based on real experiences and true encounters with Bigfoot.
There’s nothing more important to Dagger ‘Dag’ Jackson than her job. She lives for the thrill of being the deadliest hitwoman walking the streets, as she gets to work side by side with her two best friends. Plus, working for the most dangerous and powerful woman in the city has its perks…as long as you follow the rules, and Dagger does just that…
Until Luca. When Luca steps into Dag’s life, everything is turned upside down. Life, as she’s always known it, is abruptly disrupted and has her questioning everything. The once untouchable assassin finds herself vulnerable, in the worst way.
Meanwhile, in the streets around her, a powerful danger lurks and threatens to rip apart the town she fights to protect it.
Suddenly, the deadliest woman in the city has more to fear, and so much more to lose.
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Avenging Angels is a mystery/suspense novel that focuses on a group of professionals working in the field of children’s protection. The core group of friends consists of Detective Carrie Gill and a handful of social workers who adopt the name the Karma Klub. Each member of the group either discusses wanting to inflict harm on perpetrators of child abuse, or have strong motivations to inflict retribution for victimizations in their past.
Beginning with the murder of one the most notorious child abusers (fictional) in history,Kate Montalvo, one by one, other perpetrators of child abuse are murdered, or mutilated, after they’ve been discussed during the weekly happy hour, KarmaKlub, meetings. The crimes mirror the abuse that the victims endured, but with a lethal, or near lethal, conclusion.
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Back Lands magazine for outdoor enthusiasts has featured Robin Hawke and her outfitting business several times. When her friend, Josie Whittle, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, asks Robin to take a group of writers and photographers out for a week Robin is happy to do it until she finds out that one of the writers going on the trip has never even been camping, let alone gone on a multi-day hike.
After getting fired from a business magazine, her life in ruins, and forced to go home to Colorado where her father has her under his thumb, Marianne Jones is lucky to be writing for anyone. Her new boss at Back Lands magazine, Josie, insists Marianne go out on a weeklong hike with some other writers and photographers from the magazine. The only hiking Marianne does is at the mall and she’s never been camping, so she is not happy about this trip.
Marianne makes Robin mad before the hike even starts, and Robin assumes Marianne is just another snooty socialite forced to work by her parents. Both women try to ignore the sparks flying between them on the trails in vain.
These two women with nothing in common, except broken hearts, are thrown together by fate. Can they find common ground, or will tragedy take away the chance for them to find out what they could have had?
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When a young white girl and black boy are found sexually tortured and murdered side by side on the notorious HOLMWOOD estate, racial tensions reach an all time high. With the top brass putting the pressure on the Edmonton Special Crime Group to up their game, everyone knows the SIO of this latest case will have their work cut out.
It falls to DI Peter Moone to step up and take the lead on a case muddied by local racist groups and drug dealers, and one that could lead to the end of the Edmonton Special Crime Group forever.
Moone soon comes to realise that his case, and an investigation led by an old flame, DI Sonja Field, are connected. This leads them both into a world of snuff films and a wall of silence on the estate that they somehow have to break… or watch the Edmonton team finally fall from grace.
A small valleys town in South Wales makes global headlines when staff and pupils at a local school have a terrifying encounter with the unknown. Soon after, there are sightings of strange objects in the sky and a sinister silver suited being lurking on the hillsides, while shopping trolleys and sheep vanish without a trace. As events escalate, fear, panic and paranoia spread, and supplies of tin foil run low. Journalist, Geraint Price, would rather investigate alleged links between a failed multi-million redevelopment project and claims of council corruption than what he thinks are the “ravings of a bunch of loony crackpots!” But Price and his colleagues are destined to become embroiled in the mystery of The Ffhâgdiwedd Thing…
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Plagued with recurring nightmares, and the devastating loss of her parents, Mia Summers has moved to the small town of Gordonsville in search of a fresh start. It doesn’t take long before she meets the man of her dreams. Despite her intentions to ignore her attraction, and guard her heart, Mia succumbs to his charm. Just as she is becoming comfortable with her new-found beau, Mia wakes to find herself the prisoner of a twisted reality. Torn between two conflicted versions of life as she knows it, Mia is left to question her own sanity. Hints of foul play emerge, leaving her life in the balance. Will Mia discover the truth before it is too late?
Time travel through a colorful haze of smoke and you will almost catch a contact high in this funny, witty, and at times terrifying account of a weed smoker who shares his adventures in this riveting narrative. The Blunt Chronicles journeys through three decades of blowing down, blazing up, inhaling, holding, and exhaling as a boy becomes a man in an epic diary of his highest times.
The Blunt Chronicles is a multi-snapshot diary in the life and high times of a young man as he graduates high school, goes off to an Ivy league college and experiences the psychedelic effects of the magical green herb. We follow his ups and downs as a scholar-athlete, engage in his highs and lows as a new stoner, and hold in the anxious smoke during the dangerous situations the author encounters. The storyline continues, as the young man decides against giving up rolling joints to work in law enforcement, but instead goes on to become a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala, Central America, where he becomes a bilingual pothead. His days and nights intensify in a world much different than the urban streets on which he grew up. Returning to the United States, no longer having unlimited access to inexpensive sticky-icky, the chronicles continue as the author begins to lead a double life, balancing a full-time job, a family, and new responsibilities with his ever present love for ganga. There is never a dull moment, as The Blunt Chronicles blends romance, comedy, risky business, and euphoria, hitting and holding readers in a trance, inhaling and exhaling the bong smoke of life.
Second chances lead to new beginnings… sometimes, they lead to murder.
Seventeen-year old Rose Jackson is a self-righteous, nature-loving truth seeker whose rocky relationship with her mother, Doris Murphy, is tested after Rose is court ordered to a youth house.
With six months left before she goes in front of a judge for potential release, her patience is tested between an in-house bully, her neglectful mother, and an inappropriate therapist.
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Racism,Terrorism two words that were to remain planted on each and every generation. My book opens at a time Racism has almost been eradicated save but for the odd outbreak,and Terrorism rears its ugly head.
Joshua Jenks a young coloured boy was born into poverty until his folks landed employment with a local rich white family who had a daughter the same age as Joshua. The Mcleods had inherited a scottish whisky distillery and were well known by the local white community around Memphis. Joshua became the son Sam Mcleod had always wanted so when the vacant position of Senator came along Sam suggested Joshua applied,much to Joshua’s surprise!.
Against all odds Joshua Jenks becomes Senator for Memphis and as he enters the Senate the first person to confront him was a racist in the form of Senator Whitney.
Within his duties Joshua is taken on a rollercoaster of on the edge suspense and intrigue as he confronts the reality that terrorism is making its mark on the world.Although short in today’s climate I feel this book has possibilities to gain a lot of interest?.
Someone is stealing Sully Wheeler’s cattle. Are they trying to force him out? Or are they after him because he’s an old time gun hand hiding from his past? And who is this red-coated Constable Theason who insists on investigating? Is this just cattle rustling or something else? The local newspaper seems to be more interested in what the Mounties are doing within their ranks than following the story of thieves and lost property; why is that?
With the rustlers on one side, his commanders treating him like a pariah, the press wanting information he can’t supply, a partner he doesn’t really trust, will Theason manage to survive?
The Yearlings
By Dave McGowan
A short story about a woman rancher and pioneer, alone and faced with theft, rape and perhaps …
And with a connection to the descendants of the characters in “Into the Mountains”.
Into The Mountains
By Dave McGowan
A short story about the aftermath of the Métis Rebellion and an escape to the North West.
It was a moonless, damp night in early summer. I was young then and did not understand that Mother was very worried. As she sat sewing by the lantern light she continued to glance at the cabin door and shift on the bench. Father was still not home.
At that time and for many years after I still believed that our father – our guide and anchor – could do as he chose. I expect that Gabriel, even though he is four years older than I, had similar feelings about the man who was our beginning and ending. As the years passed we both grew to understand how serious Father was about his family and their care. We eventually learned from his teachings that the respected leader is more concerned for those who follow than with him self.
“Every so often, love and betrayal go hand in hand.” What would you do if a loved one betrayed you?
Fourteen-year-old Emma Mae Davenport, an unsuspecting standout high school athlete and student vanishes without a trace. An unknown perpetrator with a vendetta previously stalks Emma through cryptic text messages. With her mother out of town and school on break; 48 hours transpire before anyone realizes Emma is missing.
Time’s ticking-minute by minute. Four of Emma’s friends armed with cyber-techno skills discover nefarious doings. They form the group, “Warriors for Emma” and as they gather clues, encounter copious road blocks and mishaps.
From a small town to an intriguing international context involving the FBI and headed by the Greek Adonis looking FBI Agent, Marco Damon; this tale quickly unfolds.
Where is Emma? Will she be found in time to celebrate her 15th birthday or will she remain missing?
Emma’s story, great for the young adult, millennial set, and adult audiences will have you mesmerized. Her story weaves intrigue, suspense, betrayal, love, friendship, faith, mystery and sprinkled with humor, captivates the reader to keep turning pages.
Get ready for thrills and chills. It’s like “Pretty Little Liars” with a twist of “Gone Girl.”
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Join Roc, a young businessman with a mind for money like none other. Growing up poor, he vowed to find a way to make a change, not just for himself, but for everyone around him.
Roc takes dirty money and allows his girlfriend to invest it in a Life Insurance business that turned out to do better than he’d ever thought. What he didn’t know, the toes he stepped on, on his way to the top, may come back to haunt him.
Find out if Roc will come out on top.
A deep journey, into matters of the heart, from a man’s thoughts and point of view. Showing what we as men go through in life; from broken hearts, to being alone and hurt. Only to keep those feelings and frustrations bottled up inside, without the ability, capacity or knowledge of how to vent and express them in a positive way. My book is the heart and soul of what a man puts into his life and relationships, and how sometimes, it doesn’t go too well. Finally having a chance to open up and let the world know we try to be strong but we too have our breakdown moments, needing a strong and loyal support system as well. It’s a message saying we are great men, fathers, sons, uncles and a whole lot more. We also chose to accept people and not judge, so why can’t we receive the same back? Bottom line.. there are more good men in the world than most people think. We only ask that you look pass some of our flaws and try to accept us as we are. You may be surprised at what you see.
What began as a college writing assignment evolved into the novel Generations: A Greek Family Odyssey about three generations of women. Sandra is a Greek immigrant whose arranged marriage to a man nearly 20 years her senior brings her to America in 1935. Duty, fear of deportation and motherhood keep her locked in a marriage for five years until she finds the courage and determination to assert her independence. Setting off for New York City to begin a new life, she knows there is no turning back. Using her skills as a seamstress and with the assistance of other immigrants pursuing The American Dream, she assembles a new life with her child, and eventually finds a new husband of her own choosing.
Amidst the turbulence and uncertainty of the mid-1960s, her daughter Krystal is forced to find her own way when her husband abandons her, leaving her with a two-year-old daughter to raise alone. Juggling three jobs, she places her child in the care of a strict Catholic order of nuns that run a historic boarding school in another state.
Granddaughter Angela, the only Greek Orthodox student at the 120-year-old convent school, tries her best to fit in and make friends. She encounters a mysterious spirit in a dormitory attic.
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Natalie Bowers is living the dream, a great job, a happy marriage, good money and loads of great sex.
Then she and her husband go for a next door barbecue, and she has an erotic experience that she cannot manage to forget. Tormented by the unforgettable member, she barely wades through the next week.
But what happens when the other party visits and she’s stuck with him in the most unlikely situation?
In a story that fluidly intertwines, suspense, a loss of marital responsibility, the hypnotizing effect of good f*cking with loads of sex, discover how Natalie manages to make an escape, even if just for one more day.
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Would you want to live forever?
Would you?
Would it be the most amazing gift to never die?
Or, would it be an eternal curse from which there is no escape?
Lord Thog of the Grey Marshes has lived for hundreds of years, never fearing death’s grim embrace. Instead, he fears each and every day, because he’s cursed to outlive everyone he’s ever known or loved.
Lord Thog is a complex man, forced into the role of heroism as he seeks a way to end his pain and be re-united with his beloved bride, who he has watched die numerous times.
What can free him of this damnation?
LGBTQ Romance!
Growing up with a strictly religious father in a house with little joy, or love, left Grady Stoltz eager to get out. At the first opportunity that presented itself, they left home with a young man who swept them off their feet, used their preferred pronouns, and accepted that they were gender fluid and wished to shed the name Grady and all of the constraints of their former life. Dubbed Gypsy, they never expected to return to that farm or the rural community they’d been raised in, but life took some unexpected turns, and they found themselves returning four years later. A little older, a little wiser, and the new owner of a house full of memories and regrets.
Cleaning the place up is only the first step towards deciding if they wish to sell it, or if they wish to stay and try and make a life for themselves in a place they’ve never felt as if they belonged. Haunted by the memories of the father who could never accept them, the mother they lost at a young age, and their own shortcomings and failures, they are in a very dark place when Rogue arrives.
Charismatic when performing in front of an audience, yet shy and vulnerable when faced with the prospect of being alone in a crowd, Rogue seeks shelter with Gypsy on their middle of nowhere farm, hoping for a new beginning and a chance to see if the tiny spark that had flared between them once before, can be kindled into a roaring flame.
Two battered souls, one tattered farmhouse, an old dog, a cranky chicken, several misspoken words, and one crazed ex-husband combine in an explosive combination of truth, lust, dreams, and vengeance. Will the force of it tear Gypsy and Rogue apart, or will it leave them closer than they ever dared to hope?
The Loc Princess deals with the traumatic life events and eternal healing process for Princess Brianna and her twin sister Tianna. Through the heartfelt affirmation “You are smart, You are loved, you are beautiful. Don’t think that you are, know that you are,” they are constantly reminded of who they are.
Every mom is a warrior. A biblical account of a mother who found well beyond what appeared to be the end.
For Beauty, all she wants is for her life to go back to normal. However, life has different plans for her.With her estranged husband, Caleb’s return, she is struggling with the idea of him faking his own death. Feeling hurt and betrayed, she is not sure who she can trust anymore. Now, everything has turned upside down as an unexpected enemy creates another problem for Beauty.As her younger sister, Kyra, is abducted, Beauty and Caleb, along with Kyra’s boyfriend Luke, and best friends Trace and Shy, will have to put their differences aside as they work together to find Kyra. Only, finding out who is behind Kyra’s abduction won’t be an easy task. With her previous mental instability due to previous violent events, the group has no idea what is in store for them. Discover this suspenseful sequel to the novel, I, Beauty.
Some things are meant to be — others are just never going to happen.
Aaron Adler’s marriage is over, but his super sexy ex-wife keeps calling him. Whatever she has in mind, he’s not interested. Is he? Things get even more complicated when Jane Barloc enters his life. There’s something about her that seems so familiar. As much as he tries to ignore his attraction, the immediate connection he feels is too strong to be denied.
When Jane’s counseling client Connor needs a ride to his parents’ house, she’s happy to help him out. But, after the young man drags her into the beautiful home, Jane is shocked when the man who’s been haunting her dreams for years is standing inside. She had no idea Connor Adler was related to Aaron Adler, the famous author.
Can the woman who’s always seen herself as a “Plain Jane” win the heart of the handsome and über wealthy man she could never seem to forget? What’s the shockingly erotic surprise Aaron’s ex-wife has in store for him? Will he be able to resist temptation?
Just the Way You Are is the first in a series of deliciously sensual full-length romances with happily-ever-after endings readers will love.
Billionaires – Musicians– Lovers – Best Friends – Manhattan Society Kit Ramsey, a public relations veteran, understands that donations from wall street wonders are as key to non-profits’ success as good social work. After all, its donors who help keep the doors open. This fast-paced satiric novel offers a unique viewpoint and some unexpected revelations about the social not-so-niceties that occur between the wealthy Manhattan society patrons and the social workers to whom they condescend.
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GAY MEMOIR – “BEING GREEN” A COLORFUL JOURNEY from the street lights of the Bronx to the bright lights of Hollywod. Read about my long, hard journey from a formerly closeted and confused gay man to the happy, well adjusted man I have become. I never knew my mother as a sane woman. My father mentally and physically abused me. I wore the mask of “normalcy” by leading a conventional married life for seven years, and finally at the bursting point, I volunteered myself into a mental hospital for 30 days. After much mental turmoil I finally came out and lived my truth and found myself working with such Hollywood luminaries as CLINT EASTWOOD, LUCILLE BALL, JOHN DENVER, JACK LEMMON, JOHNNY MATHIS, BARBRA STREISAND and a host of others. In addition I developed a friendship with my lifetime obsession, singer-actress DORIS DAY. The book is available in all formats, and can be purchased on the following web sites: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com and I-tunes. It can also be ordered at your neighborhood book store.
Battling my mental demons was not easy, but I persevered, saw a few analysts along the way, meditated, made a habit of positive thinking and have turned my life happily around. For anyone who feels that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, I believe overcoming my lifetime struggles may prove to be inspiring. That’s my hope.
Terrorists as we know them are social misfits, undisciplined. But what if they were well-trained, organized, and blended in like your next door neighbor? Meet the most wanted killers in America, targeting “soft targets” like an iconic mall. “Too realistic,” readers say.
A short novel that entwine poetry, drama, suspense and romance all in one place can only be called… “Love & Trust- A Poetic Novel”.
Beto Hernandez’s objective: Break the human trafficking ring plaguing Skagit once and for all. He’s not in Skagit to make friends—he’s kicking ass first and taking names later. Maybe. He crosses paths with an intriguing and sexy man, the first in years to spark Beto’s interest. It’s ultimate bad timing, though; no one in Skagit can be trusted.
Who is Carsten Quinn, and where does he fit in Beto’s investigation? Beto tries to stay away from Carsten but their undeniable chemistry keeps him close.
Carsten Quinn survived years in hell to return to “normal life,” and he has his own mission in Skagit. The only problem is he’s hiding, not living anything like a normal life. When his closest friend is severely injured it’s up to Carsten to finish gathering evidence to put some very bad people behind bars and he knows all too well he can’t trust anyone, especially not the law.
Ironically, the law appears anyway, in the form of a sexy cop he can’t stop thinking about; when Carsten’s past comes back with a vengeance, he has no one else to turn to.
Is happiness too much to hope for? Are Beto and Carsten too different and too broken to trust anyone, much less each other?
mm romance, LGBTQA, 18+
For centuries, Earth has served as the battleground for a secret war between a reptilian alien species and the clandestine human organization dedicated to eradicating this extraterrestrial threat. But when a single woman becomes the focal point of this brutal conflict, the fate of the planet alters forever…
Life hasn’t been easy for Riley Anbar since her grandmother’s death. Between struggling to run the family business, dealing with troubling psychic visions, and puzzling over unanswered questions about the parents she never knew, Riley is doing her best just to get by. After a pair of chance encounters with two mysterious men, Riley finds herself thrust into danger as both human and alien forces converge on her once-ordinary life.
But in this war, there is no clear boundary between good and evil. Both factions are determined to use Riley for their own ends, and they’re willing to endanger everyone around her to achieve their goals. Caught between the two men who have captured her heart and the secrets of her own past, what choice will Riley make when she discovers neither side is in the right?
After growing up heartbroken with an endless series of struggles, Maria Michaels creates a picture-perfect family of her own. But life changes too quickly, and she loses her grip on herself and her two troubled sons. In spite of her desire to give them a better life, they spiral downward on the paths they choose. They must fight through sadness, mistakes and tragedy to find redemption and the love that only a mother can give. Told from a dual perspective of mother and son, we follow the family’s battles with divorce, drugs and depression. You will laugh and cry, and probably want to call your mom to tell her you love her.