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Jimmy Crikey is the orphaned alien who chose to make his life in Roombelow, on Earth. He is not magical, but he has unique skills that come in useful when his friends need help.Roombelow suffers from the after-effects of the attack by rock-chewing Scarab beatles and even the Aquamites’ world was crumbling.A hole appeared in the Aquamites’ Emerald Lake. The lake began to empty and thirty Aquamites were swept away to end up in the lake of the Tritians.Rescue cannot come soon enough because the Tritians live in a radioactive environment that poisons the young Aquamites, and Jimmy’s close friend Annison is in trouble.Jimmy organised rescue for the young Aquamites by his advanced, home race...

As the sun rises, eight-year-old Grace is gone! Her tent is cut, while strange footsteps lead from deep in the forest to her family’s campsite and back.Days turn into weeks with no sign of Grace, although her mother, Jackie, refuses to give up hope.Detective Duncan Jewell stumbles upon Grace’s kidnapping investigation while searching for a missing teen. The two cases seem connected, but how? As he focuses on finding answers, he tries to ignore his growing feelings for Jackie, which have been just under the surface since they were kids. She is married—he has lost his chance.When his investigation reaches a dead end, he seeks help from his beloved Aunt Anna. She can see things that nobod...

A Post-Apocalyptic Western ThrillerWhen the borderlands become a warzone, survival is the only law that matters.In the wake of a global collapse, cartels, smugglers, and terrorists exploit the chaos, using the open frontier as their battleground. But the Dalton Ranch stands in their way—defended by those willing to fight for their land, their lives, and their legacy.In a world where law and order have crumbled, one rancher must stand against the rising tide of violence. Will he have what it takes to protect what’s his, or will the ashes consume everything he’s fought for?If you love gritty action, high-stakes conflict, and the spirit of the Old West in a dystopian future, Hoofprints in...

Now famous, a former New York cop turned PI finds himself helpless as Broadway actors get murdered for no apparent reason. NYPD detectives are equally baffled until the private eye's stepdaughter teams up with a Broadway make-up artist to go underground to reveal a mobster's plan to corrupt Broadway unions and control the Great White Way.

Amazing is the word that describes what grandchildren can teach us, and my seven rambunctious grandboys have taught me much about the word. But they have taught me much more. Over the years, and still now, they have taught me much about God's grace. I hope you will enjoy the journey with me as we walk through the years and learn more about God's mercy and grace through the eyes of grandchildren. I am sure, if you are a grandparent, you will find similarities. And if you are not there yet, these stories will make you anticipate the day when a small one will call you Meme or Pop.

"Ismarus" is a gripping historical fiction set in ancient Thrace. The story of a prince wrongfully accused and exiled is full of intrigue, betrayal, and redemption. The clash between Ismarus and his cousin Eumoplus drives the plot with intense drama. The timeless classic is for those who love plot driven story with strong characters and epic battles.Tegrios is a despotic king who has a son named Ismarus and a nephew named Eumoplus. Tegrios loves both. However, because of his poor judgment, he ends up favoring his beloved nephew against his own son. Though Tegrios was short sighted, the same cannot be attributed to his queen Calysto. In this novel, Calysto has been portrayed as the voice of r...

Some have enjoyed the best of times; others have experienced the worst. I have seen both. People who have walked through the doors and joined up and in with smiles on their faces, only later to be devoured … sucked up … and then spit out like a warm glass of salt water. My grandmother called the fish that annoyed her trash. Little fish that would not grab the hook. They would only suck the worm off. After a few times of this happening, she would say to me, “That’s nothing but trash. Throw your line in a different place.” She didn’t want to waste the worms she had spent time cultivating or digging. I can’t remember all the names, but I can see their faces. The ones—for this or...

Private detective Robert Klayman is hard at work on a twenty-year old cold case. He's holed up in Spring Dunes, a chic desert town a hundred miles east of L.A., where the jet set and casino moguls hobnob and meth labs proliferate. Sinister parties have taken an interest in the case, including a drug dealing casino manager who deposits his victims in acid vats. Klayman's attempt to bring closure for his client soon has him confronting the ghosts of his own past.

The trilogy, whose plot unfolds over several centuries. begins with the sea adventures of a youngradio operator embarked on a merchant ship in the 60s. During one of his travels, the young manmeets a strange character who intrigues him and brings him closer to a mysterious supranationalorganization, the Phoenix, which aims to unify the planet under a single government that offers allthe peoples of the Earth the sharing of peace and well-being. The young man joined withenthusiasm and, within a few years, reached the highest levels of the organization. Reached itspurpose, the Phoenix begins the exploration of space.A courageous commander of the space forces meets, on an unknown planet, incorpo...

‘The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller’ is a rip-roaring adventure story that takes place during the final, tumultuous years of the American Civil War. It is full of horse chases, gunfights and even has a beautiful Pinkerton Detective. But it is more than that just an adventure story; the hero, a young man named Teddy Miller, is forced to grow up and make serious decisions for which he has no experience and no adult guidance. Root for him, cry with him, and cheer for him as he travels from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to the tip of Florida and back during the last months of the War in search of love and redemption. 'The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller' is a mult...

Do you suffer from fear, helplessness, loneliness, etc? This book offers solutions to the human condition that plagues so much of humanity. For the Shattered Soul, offers hope, encouragement, revelation and sound advice to ‘heal’ the shattered soul. This book shows ways to promote healing in all aspects of the mind, body and spirit, and leave you with peace, joy, love and freedom as you journey towards the light.

 Rose glanced at a photo of herself with Gavin, taken a few years before he passed. She knew that everything changed. Time moved along, no matter how hard you attempted to stop, change, or rewrite it. “There’s not much to tell. Your grandfather and I had a great life together.”            Adele’s green eyes twinkled mischievously. “I’m sure there’s much more to the story, Grandmother.”            The past started to come alive in Rose’s mind. Should she tell her granddaughter the true story? Studying the young woman and remembering what it was like to be full o...

Rarely does a novel come along that so captures the heart and spirit of a human experience that it becomes synonymous with the experience itself. Such a novel, we believe, is “The Snow That Never Fell,” a poignant, sometimes hilarious, tale of Paul Peterson’s struggle to surmount the myriad challenges of divorce and single fatherhood, plus a childhood scarred by his own father’s loveless neglect. Challenges that come to a head on a fateful day when Peterson brings his son Mickey to participate in a Cub Scout Father-Son Pinewood Derby.Written with humor, insight, and tonnages of heart, “The Snow That Never Fell” is a captivating story of a man whose need to be a “good” father ...

Angel of Aleppo is a story of the Armenian Genocide. It takes the reader through history not widely told and highlights the little-known link between the Genocide and the WW1 Anzac experience. It puts into harsh focus the incomprehensible cruelty of the Ottoman Young Turks and their henchmen towards their Armenian citizens, but it is ultimately a story about faith and love and the redemptive power of forgiveness.Angel of Aleppo tells a story not unlike celebrated US-Armenian author Chris Bohjalian's The Sandcastle Girls.Angel of Aleppo is set primarily from 1915 – 1919 in Anatolia (southern modern-day Turkey), Aleppo and the Mesopotamian desert. It moves briefly to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1923...

The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers series, Magnanotron… and the stakes couldn’t be higher.Two years after the Black Water threat, Colonel Jason Patrick now lives a quieter life as commander of Fort Bragg Army base – but he longs to be back in the field with his Delta Team brothers, now under the steady and capable leadership of Tex Larson. And it isn’t long before Delta Team are thrust back into the heart-pounding action, as they prepare to test the revolutionary Magnanotron, a defensive weapon that promises to change warfare forever; a literal forcefield around the soldier wearing it.  The nano-magnetic technology is stirring amazement and excitement at ...

Looking for a Quick Snack?The Ickles® are proud to dish up 20 mind-tingling short stories to delight readers whose appetite includes fun, fantasy, adventure, and sci-fi themes– you certainly won’t go hungry.If you like aliens, AI robots, sharks, octopus, and mermaid stories, plus animals, bugs, boats and planes you'll love these Ickle stories. Each page-turning tale transports you to a whimsical world of pure imagination.You’ll meet:Heroickle, a 12-year-old video gamer who saves his school and the world from an alien invasion.Technickle, who invents an AI robot that goes rogue, threatening to exterminate all non-AI lifeforms.Tentickle, an octopus who captures a band of smugglers.Spher...

Science fiction with, like “The Martian”, a touch of real science, and in this case, some of what would be involved in asteroid mining.When a trial to cover-up a corporate failure ends Captain Jonas Stryker's career, he is invited by a very rich but dying man to humour his desire to go asteroid mining. Stryker soon learns this is really an expedition to expose a ruthless, shadowy organization with limitless funds called The Board, which aims to overthrow the Federal government or corrupt them so badly The Board can manipulate the economy for their own benefit. The first step of The Board is to control space, and to do this they employ space piracy, terrorism, and even weaponised asteroid...

Please read 5-Star Reviews at Amazon Books. Inspired by one of William Wordsworth’s 5 Lucy poems. Global 1st Place eBook Award Winner!“BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR!” (ERA 1500-1940) One of the great untold love stories in English literature is the love affair between 28-year-old British poet, William Wordsworth (1770-1850), and the mysterious 17-year-old Lucy Sims.Lucy was the subject of the poet’s famous Lucy poems, a series of five poems composed by Wordsworth that are credited with ushering in the Age of Romanticism in English Literature.To this day Lucy remains a subject of debate among literary scholars. Who was she? Where did she come from? Was she a ...

An alarm tech is called out to investigate unexplained alarms occurring at night in the Egyptian Gallery of the Royal Ontario Museum. Finding no fault with the system, he decides to spend the night to determine the cause. During the night a mysterious woman appears claiming to be the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. She explains she is the victim of a curse cast upon her by the evil snake god, Apep, and is trapped in the mummy of a cat. She pleads with the tech to carry the mummy back to Egypt and release her from the curse.Against his better judgment, the tech decides to steal the mummy and smuggle it back into Egypt. Little does he know the trip entails traveling back three thousand years in t...

A mystical dark comedy about brother and sister soulmates, Jon Karl and Summer Odom, orphaned at an early age and thrust into the best and the worst of a small southern town. It's not easy surviving in those waters infested with voracious women, dubious boyfriends, religious zealots, porn filmmakers, and especially a psychopathic barber. Thank God there are also a loving great-grandmother, a bighearted businessman, a charismatic country seer, a jack-of-all-trades maintenance foreman, and some good friends. Love has its hands full, but it conquers all. Featuring commentary by the unfiltered sage and raconteur Redwine Pyle.

Moses, Marilyn Monroe, and I have one thing in common. All three of us we’re adopted. Have you ever wondered what it would feel like being adopted? Would you want to know if you have any brothers or sisters somewhere in the world? What was the reason they had to give you up for adoption anyway? Imagine feeling the nagging need for finding the answers to these questions day after day. Would you want to meet your maternal parents? How I handled being an adopted only child was my way, maybe not the right way.As you read this book, please think of what you would do differently or how this relates to you or someone you know.Blended families experience some of these questions too, but most likel...

It’s the year 2002 and in the heart of the American Mafia’s empire, a powerful boss’s son, Domonic Ambrosi, yearns for a bride whose purity matches his desire for a wife.Aria, a young orphan is trapped in the clutches of her exploitive aunt and uncle, working endlessly in their Calabrian situated southern Italian café. As her eighteenth birthday approaches changes suddenly take place.These would send her from the oppression she has known on a journey she could never have imagined.Caught in the cunning scheme of her guardians, Aria is thrust into the unlikely role as a proxy bride to the Mafia heir.She is soon wept away from her humble existence to the opulent City of Rome, where she w...

The Monster Apocalypse is old news, but Remi Gatti has a fresh take—travel tourism to monster portals. Too bad it’s only a cover for his real job as a half-human spy. When he’s sent to Moon Star Ranch to charm a veterinarian with ties to his crime family’s enemies, Remi’s sure this will be an easy seduce-and-run job. How hard can it be to ride a horse anyway?Kaveh Salehi, a world expert on the medical treatment of alien species, has his own secrets. His friends at the ranch don’t know he’s part dragon and the alien entity known as the Matchmaker has chosen a human as his destined spouse. His clan wants the oblivious soulmate located and kept safe, whether that person wants to m...

Just in time for the holidays! Check out this magical holiday collection of eight original short stories by some of today's bestselling paranormal authors: Dreaming of a Witch Christmas by Mindy Klasky It's beginning to look a lot like Yuletide... And newlywed Jane Madison needs to find a gift for her husband and warder David Montrose. A pen set and a necktie would be easy, but those are hardly gifts of the heart. Fortunately, Jane does a little witchy research and discovers the perfect present. But now that she's found it, she's not certain she can afford it - in terms of money or of magic! Will Yule turn out to be the most wonderful time of the year? Or is Jane destined for a blue Christma...