Back from 44

Back from 44 – The Sacrifice and Courage of a Few. Nick Bentas, Staff Sergeant US Army Air Force, finds himself in a severely crippled B-26 Marauder, trying to return to base, he remembers the different times in his life that led him up to this point. 

The Crystal Key

Two gods. A world divided. One man and one woman destined to decide which god will control humanity's destiny for the next 1,000 years. For Mirah, who has a mind of her own and a will far outweighing her slight stature, her late father’s general supply shop was the world. Then came a simple knock on the door one cold, winter night following an exhausting day. Her only goal being to dismiss whoever it was so she could get to bed, she answered it.

Unfortunately, the two Knights on the other side had orders that would ultimately shatter her world. In the blink of an eye, she’s ripped from the only life she’s known and riding headlong into a destiny for which she was not prepared. A destiny she shares with a man named Rasmun who seems bent on killing her.

The Ugly Princess

What would you give up to be beautiful? I don’t mean attractive, or pretty or any other term you could conjure up to describe that thing most women seek to be or most men seek to be with.

I mean staggeringly beautiful, men falling at your feet with hopeless adoration as they gaze upon you dumbfounded. That beautiful. I could become that beautiful if I chose, but only with a steep price. Would you pay the price? Does that call to your heart?

It doesn’t call to mine. Yes, when I look at the girl in the mirror, I see a young woman of average height and slight build. I see her lovely emerald green eyes and I see her coarse, orange hair poking out in all directions like some unnatural haystack.

The Silver Horn Echoes

The Dark Ages—a time of great turmoil and the collision of empires!

As the Frank kingdom prepares for war, Roland, young heir to the Breton March, has been relegated to guard duty until a foreign emissary entrusts him with vital word of a new threat to the kingdom. Now Roland must embark on a risky journey to save all he loves from swift destruction.

And yet while facing down merciless enemies, he must also reveal the hand of a murderer who even now stalks the halls of power and threatens to pull apart a kingdom reborn under the greatest of medieval kings, the remarkable Charlemagne.

Apollo's Raven

Award-winning Apollo's Raven sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Pre-Arthurian Britannia. In 24 AD British kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren's former queen, a powerful Druid, has cast a curse that Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him. The king's daughter, Catrin, learns to her dismay that she is the Raven and her banished half-brother is Blood Wolf.

Trained as a warrior, Catrin must find a way to break the curse, but she is torn between her forbidden love for her father's enemy, Marcellus, and loyalty to her people.

A Sense of Belonging

Wiltshire, England – Spring 1880

Second sight – a blessing or a curse? Flora Latimer has a gift. Precognition, second sight, telepathy, call it what you will. But her status as the eldest daughter of a strictly religious and overly ambitious cleric means that her gift must go unrecognised during her dour and bleak upbringing. Eventually she escapes her crushing restrictions and the prospect of an enforced marriage to work as companion to the elderly and eccentric Dowager Countess of Swindon, where she swiftly discovers a new sense of belonging in an opulent and aristocratic rural setting.

Heldenleben

Riveting drama, action, and murder – and always – the unexpected!

Cable's nightmare begins when, while imprisoned, he encounters an 18-foot, genetically altered, deadly King Cobra and then is tortured and dangled from the Death Spire in Chicago – not to mention challenging occurrences involving the women in his life. He is still being pursued by the Oculus, who has imposed a deadline to reveal what has been locked in his memory cells.

The Carrero Effect

EMMA ANDERSON has everything in her life worked out.

She has a perfect job in a Manhattan empire, allowing her to live a quiet, organised and safe existence. A necessity after a childhood filled with abuse, bad memories, and a mother who was less than useless.

She’s worked hard to get where she is – and she has just landed an amazing promotion.

But it comes with a problem – and one that could derail everything she thought she needed in her life.

Emma’s new role is as the right-hand man for billionaire playboy JAKE CARRERO. He’s exactly the type of person who could drive her crazy – and not in a good way.

Her Lost and Found Baby

Friends. Without benefits. They both agreed.

Until she stole his heart.

Tabitha Jones will find her kidnapped toddler…even if it means searching every daycare in Southern California. So when her hunky, wealthy neighbor, Johnny Brubaker, offers a deal, Tabitha sees it as an ideal way to expand her search. In exchange for working his food truck, Johnny agrees to pose as Tabitha’s husband. It’s the perfect relationship…until Johnny realizes posing as a family man isn’t enough anymore.

The Black Laird Requires

She is as elegant as any aristocrat, sweet and naughty as a beloved child, and ferocious as a tiger.

Cairistine Donohue had run away from Scotland to the Colonies to avoid an unbearable future. Now back in England her employment is unexpectedly terminated, leaving her alone with little coin and no prospects. Returning home is not an option. Faced with a life full of hard choices or starvation, Cairis gratefully accepts the position of companion to Lady Ashton.

Cullen Black O’Leary dominates the seas, his business, and the lassies. Returning to England to survey his new estate, Cullen seeks his escort, Cairistine Donohue.

Bound to Morocco

What if your family sold you to a Sultan's Harem?

Drugged and kidnapped, Shera finds herself on a ship to Morocco to serve the Sultan. Abandoned and alone, Shera must find a way to escape and confront the people who betrayed her. She gets help from an unlikely source: the man who kidnapped her. But, he has his own secrets. And, when their partnership turns to love, the two must face constant danger to endure. But will they ever be free?

Saber's Vida

Former Delta turned FBI Tactical Commander Rafael Saber doesn’t know how to be anything but the cliché military player with women just waiting for him to show up. New is never easy, but Michelle is, for about 3 days.

When Saber is put in his place by one woman, another finds his charm and panty-dropping smile worth the risk. Assistant DA, Cassidy knows she’s worth more than a Delta Groupie title and makes Saber work for it.

Jump into the world of adventure and laugh out loud situations that keep Rafael and Cassidy’s life interesting. The Providence FBI Ops Field Office is waiting for you.

MC: Boxed Set 1-4

Knight: Steve Knight is autistic. The government taught him a singular focus and he uses all he learned to protect the only family that ever accepted him. When he meets Jess, he learns how to love. With no conditions to that love he accepts and fights the disease that threatens to take her mobility away.

Wars are not only with gangs in Steve's world. He shows his Brothers what Badass means.

LaPonte: Danny is a player, it’s that simple. He comes back to the Club and loses himself in Club chicks and whores. When Kate realizes he's not all in she walks leaving Danny scrambling to get her back. As domestic violence takes center stage, Kate is seen in a new light and shows the MC that Badass is not.

Princes of Prophecy Books 1-3

The Princes of Prophecy: Books 1-3

Prophet: Dakota has never known Brotherhood. A warrior and special abilities make for a busy but lonely Dakota. Without the ability to sustain simple touch Dakota is weary but happily surprised by Jessie and Jess's offer. Learning to live with a new partner and wife is easy compared to the Brotherhood that is offered through the Club.

Reader: Life in the MC isn't always easy but Darren learned to navigate around his deafness. As VP of the Princes he's in all the meetings and knows how the Club runs but he still misses the little shit. When he meets Eliza, he realizes just how much he's missed. While he teaches her about respect Eliza teaches Darren how resilient women are.

The Light in the Trees

In 1970, twelve-year-old White Birch Camp veteran Ted returns to his once-favorite place. It is months after his mom’s violent death, and he’s convinced his dad is dumping him for the summer. Or maybe for good.

But he immediately meets his two best friends, Zeke and Neil. Karen, the director’s daughter, notices him, and he finds her more alluring than the camp’s panoramic view of Loon Lake. He also finds Hoss, an alarmingly intelligent, charming, and manipulative risk-taker with a knack for criminal mischief and an unusual vendetta.

The Isle of Thom

After a day of hot-air ballooning is ruined by a recurring quarrel, Jake and Rinah Richardson drive head-on into a fierce summer squall on Long Islands North Fork. Blinded by the flash storm, Jake inadvertently veers onto a narrow road to a small out-island, where they become stranded for the night. Already furious at him, Rinah adds this blunder to a growing list of offenses.

Soon, they realize that the island is not an island at all but a living thing that is slowly taking them out to sea. Now Jake has to call on his cunning and creative resourcefulness to figure out a way to escape before the Isle of Thom takes them to a deep and watery grave.

The Idle Pursuit of Pleasure

A literary novel set in 1920's Paris, when the city was the center of the universe for painters and writers and pleasure-seekers. A self-destructive artist witnesses the crime-of-passion killing of a woman by her female lover and becomes intimately involved with the murderess and overcome by his obsession to capture her on canvas.

Matters are complicated when it is discovered that the victim was the wife of a British noble and it becomes politically imperative for the police to resolve the case.

The Enigma Stolen

What is the result of combining unlimited computing power, a zealous desire to manipulate all but the elite humans, and amorally crippled mathematical genius? Unfettered anarchy! Can the ever-growing torrent of information, analyzed by sophisticated computer systems, neutralize freedoms of choice, then steer us into a predetermined destination?

Unidentified power mongers are plotting massive destabilization of the stock market, with the end game to not only optimize their wealth, but to also control the future. No need to cut a nervous investor off in traffic to initiate a stock market crash. All you need is unlimited computer power and the ethical nihilism to manipulate lives.

The General Theory of Haunting

Every haunting has a design… 

Winter, 1809. Lord Francis Marryman’s wife, Patience, is dying. In the madness of his grief, desperate to keep Patience’s memory alive, he’s compelled to build a memorial in the form of a remote country Hall. But as the plans move forward, Marryman Hall seems to become alive with more than just memories.

Francis, a brilliant mathematician and scholar, has built more into the walls than just bricks and mortar.

Autumn, 2018. Siblings Greg and Lucy Knights, owners of K&K Publishing Company, are seeking a venue to celebrate the 18th anniversary of their company’s inception. At such short notice, there is only one option that still has vacancies: Marryman Hall.

Heels With Power

Heels with Power is Diane Parker’s journey of healing and restoration from the devastation of her husband’s sex and drug addiction. Her compelling story embodies inspiration, strength, power and grace. Her story also proves that there is a place in God where you can walk and not be moved by the storms raging around you, because the most important pieces of your wardrobe are the clothing of moral strength and Godly character while standing in the midst of adversity with dignity, respect and faith in God.

In this book you will learn how to turn your “pain into power” by applying the biblical truths of God’s Word in every situation you encounter. You can experience victory in the face of adversity.

B. I. A. P

Though Americans have seen plenty of news updates on the Iraq War since 2003, few know what it’s like to actually live through the harsh conditions on a daily basis. In his memoir, B.I.A.P.: Baghdad International Airport, two-tour Iraq War veteran Sergeant Brian L. Gordon shows readers the constant challenges soldiers face on the ground in the Middle East. Serving first in 2003, Gordon drives a truck delivering bulk fuel and must regularly dodge rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs.

His unit also takes on heavy firefights and rocket launcher attacks while manning the water point at the Euphrates River.

Marijuana Smuggler

Outlaws lead a solitary life. They give up much for what little they gain.

In the 1970s, when I was young and idealistic, I wanted to strike a minor blow to undermine my government’s power and ended up dedicating my life to making marijuana available. I became a drug smuggler.

I loved the challenging life I chose. I became a valued and trusted smuggler, but at the same time alienated my wife and daughter and became something of an outcast from my mother and other close relatives. You can’t have it all.

This is the story of my adventures as an outlaw. Hold onto your hat, it's a wild ride.

Ed – For Love and Hope

For decades, Ed Meehan was the most popular singer/songwriter on the planet. Every woman thought his songs were written for them alone. But it wasn't just women who were drawn to his music. His words reached everyone in one way or another. There was something special about him that people picked up on and no one knew what it was.

With one exception: Chase Martin, of the Band 4. More like a brother than a friend, Chase alone knew that when Ed was just a young man, he had fallen in love with an older woman, who survived a terminal illness just long enough for them to find each other, fall in love, and be married.

Francine

Francine Boyers, a bright and beautiful young West Virginian with a mining engineering degree and an MBA, is hired by Jim O'Hara, CEO of OHARA Mining in New York.

As the CEO's personal assistant, she proves to be unusually quick on her feet, deft at fending off wolfish men, and rises through the ranks to Vice President with astonishing speed, handling pollution issues with Congress, a protest at a mining conference in Paris, troubles with OHARA's Caribbean gold and bauxite investments, and the rescue of miners in Sumatra. Her friend Nancy Smith sums up her preternatural talent for solving problems: “And you have that special gift of knowing what to do when nobody else does.”

The Naked Sommelier

Biodynamic. Naked. Organic. Laura McLove goes back to school. Spiritual school. She lures Leo – a hot, young, French natural wine expert – with the law of attraction and together they go on the road – Leo in pursuit of wine, Laura in pursuit of him.

Through My Daughter's Eyes

Through My Daughter’s Eyes is a one-of-a-kind, much-needed look at what it means to come of age in a military family today.

Our middle school heroine Abbie is wiser than her years—and most of the adults in her life, for that matter. Equal parts Flavia de Luce and Harriet the Spy, Abbie describes her life this way: “My best friend and fellow Army-brat Megan and I had a plan to get through Dessau Middle School (Go Diamondbacks!) by being just good enough to not get noticed and not so good we’d be picked out for any attention. And it worked—for a while.

Spirit Runner

The world contrives against a boy named Ron Campbell. His legs are mangled in a wreck and paralyzed. The people he loves die. His remaining relatives hate him.

Only his indomitable spirit sustains him – he will attempt every obstacle, face every danger, and answer every challenge to pursue his impossible dream of Olympic marathon champion. But nothing can prepare him for what awaits.

An epic journey of endurance lays ahead where he will learn that a true friend, whether animal or human, is the real prize of the world, and the mystical power of the spirit can work miracles.

Quest to the Unknown

Quest to the Unknown revolves around up-and-coming Dutch reporter Jessie Golden, ready for her first holiday with business mogul and playboy Carlos Gomez, with whom she is engaged in a budding romance. Her journey begins when she finds a folder full of information on a mysterious woman named Nancy and her son Paul, leading her to an unexpected quest.

Soon thereafter Jessie is confronted with a series of unexplainable supernatural occurrences. She realizes there is no such thing as coincidence, although she can’t unravel the true meaning of her quest nor her link to Nancy and her son.

The Honorable Knight

The Honorable Knight is the first book in the series The Fellowship of the Ancient Covenant. In the year 1099 AD, four young adults, Ian, Jacques, Serena, and Desiree, enter into an ancient covenant to protect mankind from evil forces for a millennium.

Ian leaves a hard scrabble farm in Eire on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Ian meets Jacques, a wealthy young knight, in France, and they join the First Crusade. They meet Serena, the blacksmith’s daughter, and Desiree, a nurse serving in the H’ospital of St. John, in Jerusalem.

In the present day, Ian is a Navy Seal, Jacques is a mercenary, Serena is a Mossad agent, and Desiree is an agent for the Center for Disease Control.

The Secrets to How Not to throw Mama From The train

I decided to write this book because I am an adult daughter with an aging mother and our relationship is often somewhat less than ideal. As a matter of fact, I would say there are times that it is frequently extremely difficult and unpleasant and at other times, loving and great.I have discovered that I am not alone. One day you love your mother, the next day you can't stand her.

I can compare this relationship to being on a roller coaster ride, full of anticipation, fear, screaming, laughing, and, in the end, whew! This book will offer insight into this complicated relationship.

Murder On The Fourth of July

P.I. Billie Bly is about to enjoy a quiet Fourth of July until a letter arrives in the mail claiming she will be dead by the holiday.

Likely killers include a road rager, her boyfriend's stalking buxom ex-girlfriend, a look-alike little person assassin she thought was dead, a cop desiring revenge, a neighborhood bully, and a former Portland Mayor she ousted from office.

But when things start blowing up all around her and suspects start crawling out of the woodwork, Billie wonders if there is more than one killer gunning for her.

She handles things in typical tough P.I. Billie Bly fashion while working around her red, white, and blue-haired assistant with her loopy boyfriend.

The Dark Ages—a time of great turmoil and the collision of empires!

As the Frank kingdom prepares for war, Roland, young heir to the Breton March, has been relegated to guard duty until a foreign emissary entrusts him with vital word of a new threat to the kingdom. Now Roland must embark on a risky journey to save all he loves from swift destruction.

And yet while facing down merciless enemies, he must also reveal the hand of a murderer who even now stalks the halls of power and threatens to pull apart a kingdom reborn under the greatest of medieval kings, the remarkable Charlemagne.

On the march, around the campfire, and in the taverns, they tell incredible stories about Tarmun Vykers, the Reaper – how he's never been cut in battle, how he once defeated hundreds of men by himself, how he exterminated an entire people over an insult. These stories make Vykers seem like a god, but he is a man, an arrogant, ruthless and bloodthirsty man.

For all that, he may be the only thing standing between the human race and utter annihilation at the hands of the mad wizard who calls himself the End-of-All-Things.

Award-winning Apollo's Raven sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Pre-Arthurian Britannia. In 24 AD British kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren's former queen, a powerful Druid, has cast a curse that Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him.

The king's daughter, Catrin, learns to her dismay that she is the Raven and her banished half-brother is Blood Wolf. Trained as a warrior, Catrin must find a way to break the curse, but she is torn between her forbidden love for her father's enemy, Marcellus, and loyalty to her people.

Winner of the Independent Press Award and the NYC Big Book Award, Goddess of the Wild Thing is a dramatic tale of one woman’s spiritual journey where magical happenings, unexpected turns of fate, and unseen forces impact her ability to love and be loved. Eve Sanchez, a scholar of esoteric studies, is driven into unreal dimensions of horror and hope as she encounters a seductive and frightening man, criminal lawyer Sam Shear.

Sam introduces Eve to a supernatural world in which the wicked powers of a surrogate mother’s twisted affection threaten love and life. Struggling to sort through right from wrong, frightened yet determined, Eve nears despair.

Over four hundred years before the birth of Christ, the island of Ériu is a patchwork of feuding kingdoms, wide plains, and impassable bogs. Battle, intrigue, betrayals, and courage are part of life for the Celts who call Ériu home, while from their underground halls the mysterious aes sidhe seduce brave warriors, turning men in to kings and binding them with fearsome geis.

Conall Mac Gabhann is content with his apprenticeship to the local blacksmith. Content, that is, until his family is slaughtered in their home.

Two men share responsibility for the massacre: a mad Irish king and a dissolute Roman. Conall will have his vengeance on both, or die in the attempt.

The Viking gods have been banished from Asgard by Odin. Today they make the best of life on Earth. Thor is a professional athlete, Freya a prostitute, and Loki sells cheap products on QVC.

Lurking in the background of their lives is a prophecy; one that declares that their time is at an end. Ragnarok is about to throw the gods into a state of civil war and the one who controls the hammer of Thor may be able to change the arc of destiny.

A Neo-Nazi conspiracy threatens Europe . . .

Esther Brookstone’s life is at a crossroads. A Scotland Yard inspector who specializes in stolen art, she’s reluctantly considering retirement. A three-time widow, she can’t quite decide whether paramour and colleague Interpol Agent Bastiann van Coevorden should be husband number four.

Decisions are put on hold while she and Bastiann set out to thwart a neo-Nazi conspiracy financed in part by artworks stolen during World War II. Among the stolen art is the masterpiece “An Angel with Titus’ Features,” a work Esther obsesses about recovering.

An original crime novel involving the juvenile justice delinquency system from a true insider's viewpoint. The honest private thoughts of an experienced juvenile court judge are revealed, the various participants are exposed, and you'll witness what occurs in actual juvenile court proceedings that are closed to public scrutiny.

When the Head of a major Los Angeles County official dies from a methamphetamine overdose, the curiosity of the judge lures him deeper into the maze of intrigue only to discover an insidious North Korean drug cartel's plot to distribute drugs to the young troubled children confined in probation camps and juvenile halls.

A Vietnam veteran, wounded and returning home, was not looking forward to spending the rest of his life tied to some wheel chair. He had planned to make this homecoming the beginning of a new life with the woman he was to marry. A barrage of mortar shells had changed all that, now nothing would ever be right again! He wasn’t going to ask Nickie to be his future wife, knowing what would be involved and the sacrifices she would have to make.

What he hadn't realized was the strength and tenacity of this beautiful person who would bring him back from despair to begin a new life, have his Son, and enjoy life to the fullest.

Katherine McCullough was an extraordinary ten year old girl with a bright future. Until a story written by her father drew the attention of corrupt individuals operating at the heights of global power.

Kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery, they thought they had buried her, but they were wrong.

Join Katherine as she claws her way from the gutters of Southeast Asia and exacts her revenge on members of the global elite who believed themselves untouchable.

This is the third book in the award winning Raven’s series.

Raven’s deep-black team has thwarted several terrorist attacks on America. President Blager, having twice survived assassination attempts, now trusts them.

Josie, a paranormal viewer, is a national resource. She can see what others cannot. Raven’s job is to protect her, but America’s enemies have allies in high places. His team is targeted.

The book opens with Raven and Josie isolated in a compromised safe house. They warn that a jihadist kill team is coming. The government sends an FBI counter-terrorism unit which is overwhelmed by a military force with heavy weapons. California asserts purview of the crime scene.

International Book Award Winner, The Unholy is a dramatic story of Claire Sanchez, a young medicine woman, intent on uncovering the closely-guarded secrets of her past. Forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop, William Anarch, she confronts the dark side of religion and the horror of one man's will to power.

Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, a mythopoeic realm of hidden terrors and guiding spirits, The Unholy is a supernatural tale of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.

The Long, Lost Exit Home by Chris Roberts is another great addition to the horror sci-fi traditions of Stephen King, Clive Barker and Dean Koontz. The reader encounters pulse pounding unspeakable horror in this terrifying dark fantasy thriller with a twist ending of delicious surprise!

“Oh, good lord! I’ve never read something so… GRIMEY and GROSSSSS!! But I LOVED it. Aliens plus horror equals skin crawling, and that’s exactly what The Long, Lost Exit delivers. Roberts’ descriptions are—well… How should I put it? Out of this world? And he wastes no time getting to the point.

Quest to the Unknown revolves around up-and-coming Dutch reporter Jessie Golden, ready for her first holiday with business mogul and playboy Carlos Gomez, with whom she is engaged in a budding romance. Her journey begins when she finds a folder full of information on a mysterious woman named Nancy and her son Paul, leading her to an unexpected quest. Soon thereafter Jessie is confronted with a series of unexplainable supernatural occurrences. She realizes there is no such thing as coincidence, although she can’t unravel the true meaning of her quest nor her link to Nancy and her son.

Rich Stryker is an ex cop turned private eye with a badass reputation of getting things done. His typical cases are the usual thefts and cheating spouses, but now a friend of his mother has asked for his help in finding their missing teenage granddaughter.

With a corrupt force and limited clues, how will Rich manage this one? This is an 18,500 word quick read Novella packed with action. It’s sure to please readers with a thirst for a suspenseful story.

Elizabeth Thames, Head General of BVOUC, takes the help of two friends as she unfolds the unsettling truths about her town.

California Dreamin’… It’s the summer of ‘67 and all Liam Sol wants is to ride the perfect wave and to sleep with the prettiest girls. But when his father’s murdered body is found washed ashore, his carefree life comes crashing down on him. After the prime suspect mysteriously dies in police custody, Liam leaves behind his life as a surfer and launches his own investigation into his father’s death — against the warnings of the police and his family.

But the killings have only just begun, and Liam soon finds himself being hunted by both the killer and the police, who suspect he is a cold-blooded murderer. His pursuit to find his father’s killer will lead him to a violent showdown and to a shocking discovery.

Earth. Our Last Sanctuary. The Last Beacon of Hope Against the Rising Darkness.
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The Obsidian Empire has shattered the Star Alliance. Lieutenant Chase Athanatos manages to escape their wrath, piloting his fighter to lead a band of survivors to the edge of the galaxy…to a little planet called Earth.

But Earth is in trouble. The Empire is hot on their trail, and unless Chase can find a way to stop them, what remains of the Alliance is doomed to extinction.

Growing up in a family of sharecroppers in the segregated South in the 1950s and ‘60s, Al Flowers never dreamed of becoming a history-maker. Lying in his bed late at night and looking up at the sky through the holes in the tin roof of his four-room home perched among the tobacco fields of eastern North Carolina, he just yearned to find some way out of poverty. At 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force.

Earning a pay of $94 per month at his first assignment as a warehouseman in North Dakota, he put aside $30 of his monthly check to save for his future and to someday buy a proper home for the grandmother who loved and raised him.

No matter how old you are, staying positive will keep you young.

In our youth-oriented culture, growing older is a challenge for millions of baby boomers. In this down-to-earth guide, entrepreneur, fashion consultant, and former model Brigitte Nioche shares her personal experience of getting older, staying positive, and preparing for the challenges ahead.

Through her charming, often self-effacing memoir, accentuated by cartoons from The New Yorker that spotlight the ups and downs of growing older, you’ll learn how to embrace this chapter of your life as a new beginning that can open up a world filled with joy and happiness.

A Poetic Journey of Life is a collection of 40 poems about one's journey through life. The subjects include the Fourth of July, baseball, dogs, tai chi, fighting a cold, Halloween, equal rights for women, three different states/cities, Mardi Gras, the old family doctor, telemarketing calls, and others.

This is Vic Tomlinson's second book of poetry in addition to a couple of action-thriller novels that can be found on Amazon. Hoping that you enjoy the poems.

In “Stellar” one will also have a unique opportunity to view emotionalism seemingly painted by the masters. In reality, however, these poetic words of distinction cannot fit on a canvas, but are to be read on paper and enjoyed by you and your imagination.

Who is Karina Wilson, where is she, and what is she up to today? Is she fixing a spaghetti supper for her family? Or maybe she's standing in the patio of her Chicago apartment, talking to her cat. She couldn't possibly be selling marijuana in a dive bar in Seattle, could she? Is one of these Karina's real? Or are they all just a dream?

A Dream of Houses is a novel about one woman dreaming herself into a life she thought she had left behind. While the version of her who hadn't left wakes up in a life she would never have chosen.