365 Blessings to Heal Myself and the World
This book, from the bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Blessing, will help you learn to bless all situations and people as you go through the day and add overwhelming joy and presence to your existence.
A Becharmed Callie Christmas
Christmas comes but once a year… but will it be different this Christmas? Callie Mae Copeland is the only child of affluent land owner, Sullivan Copeland, and his wife, Faye. Because Callie has been doted on her entire life, she is pampered and outspoken. Although the Civil War is looming and is in its second year, it hasn’t affected the Copelands or their neighbors in north Alabama too much yet. Once she turns sixteen, Callie realizes the influence she has over boys her age, and uses her flirtatious graces to her advantage. She turns her sights on Christmas, and is determined to do everything in her power to make the Copeland’s annual Christmas party a success. Although money is tight, she convinces her father to buy material for her stunning new Christmas gown. She can’t wait for the party so that she can impress her beau, his best friend, and all the other guests who are invited. Even her cousin will be there! But following the party, Callie is abruptly faced with the realization that the war is closer than she imagined, and everything is uncertain. A terrifying thought consumes her. Will this be the last Christmas she will ever see in her family’s old antebellum home? Will anything ever be the same again?
A Conspiracy to Love: Living A Life of Joy, Generosity and Power
A Conspiracy to Love ♥
Do you want more love in your life? More respect? More joy? This book is designed to help you explore paths to personal growth and transformative power.
A Purposeful Life
A Purposeful Life is the inspiring personal story of author, Agitu Wodajo, detailing her life and extraordinary accomplishments growing up in the 60s in Ethiopia, studying and working in both Ethiopia and the United States, her services to others while raising five well accomplished children as a single mom, and traveling the world. The author takes readers through her various tribulations and the incredible perseverance, optimism, and faith she sustained through it all in order to find and heed her call to empower underprivileged women to become self-reliant and bring a positive change to their family lives and their communities.
AfterLife: There Will Be Trouble
With a nod to Voltaire, AfterLife goes above and beyond Candide by demonstrating the merit rather than fruitlessness of faith.
ALAM Beginnings
It’s the mid-80’s and two best friends Tiyshio and Shawn refugees on earth have their world rocked when family and war finally reached them. When Shawn sees has long believed dead mother a part of a race people that destroyed those closes to him. He choses to be with her but Tiyshio makes a drastic decision that tears Shawn and him a part. While Shawn goes down a spiral, Tiyshio wants to help his friend before it’s too late
Better Lucky Than Good : From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot, And Beyond
The impossible is possible! Fly with the author on an inspiring and improbable journey as he seeks to build a better life despite all the odds being against him. Book one in a series.
Bye Baby Bye: Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles Book 19
Bye Baby Bye Synopsis My protagonist is Madison Dawn Jackson, a law enforcement officer with the Texas Department of Fish and Wildlife. Madison is thirty years old. She has one nine-month-old child named Anna. They live with Madison’s father, Grant Jackson, a retired Texas Ranger. In a previous book named Justice, Madison was captured by the Mexican Jalisco New Generation Cartel and sold to the second in command of that organization, Jose Miranda. She was forced to marry him. Anna is the child of that forced marriage. Madison escapes the clutches of Miranda when her father rescues her from Miranda’s mansion in Tenancingo, Mexico and takes her home to Magnolia Bluff, Texas. Madison discovers her child has been kidnapped from her crib while everyone slept. Several law enforcement agencies become involve in the investigation: the local Magnolia Bluff Police Department, the Texas State Police, the Texas Rangers, and the FBI. Each law enforcement agency attempts to seize control. Madison wonders if someone she previously arrested might be the culprit that abducted her child.
Callus & Crow
Can a path of blood lead to redemption? Is redemption enough to amend a wayward world? Morality and reality have shifted from their natural axis. Technology and ideology derive from the remnants of a world long dead and segregated by the monsters that now rule the seas. Crow, a young ranch hand, is swept into an odyssey of redemption and revenge as he strives to hold back the ravages of fate and the urges born of a curse shared with his new mentor. Callus, an exile struggling to find redemption whilst keeping his vampiric curse from tainting his new ward, pursues his prey across the sea. The new world they discover reveals a tyrannical society fixated on their council’s ascension to godhood.
Chicks and Dice
Christian is a deluxe gigolo living in Las Vegas. He has many friends, issuing from the same mold: chicks, pimps, crooner, Shylock and other living in Las Vegas. Sin City is built on the fantasies people coming to visit, and dream having fun and excitement. Most of these are about sex, gaming and fame. Christian has a female clientele: patron that enjoys his romantic behavior and the pleasure he can give them for some dollars. So, with those, regular and occasional, he lives a lush life scrolling from casino to casino, from hotel to hotel, bringing them, if they pay for, for luxurious restaurants to fancy bar. A gigolo make love, but avoid falling in love. Until he met Ronny, Ronelle MacArthur. Together, they will live some romantic time until she has to fly back East. Christian usually left a little gift to her passionate patron. But this time, it will lead to a burden. And gaming will add drama to the World Capital of Entertainment. Dreams are usually confused with fame and fantasy. Christian and his friends how to use it for their profit. And trouble too. A 21st century tale of romance, sex, lush and dreams, set in the gaming capital of the world, where fun and drama could happen, as fortune could be made and vanish at once. And entertainment is everywhere as the action goes.
Confronting Chaos: The Civility Crisis
In “Confronting Chaos: The Civility Crisis,” Nelson dives deep into the heart of America’s current societal turmoil, pinpointing the root cause: the erosion of civility. With a blend of insight, compassion, and urgency, Nelson navigates readers through the complexities of this crisis, offering both analysis and solutions.
Danger in Plain Sight
For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler. “Weissbourd has created an entire genre—Seattle Noir… I devoured the novel in a single night, and I think you will, too.” —Jacob Epstein, writer and executive story editor, Hill Street Blues Celebrated restaurateur Callie James is stunned when her estranged ex-husband, French investigative reporter Daniel Odile-Grand, strolls into her restaurant on what could have been any Seattle evening. After fourteen years, the story he tells is even more unlikely than his sudden appearance. As she throws him out into the darkness, her nightmare begins. Daniel is deliberately hit by a car, hurled through the front window of her restaurant—broken, bloody and unconscious… Reluctantly, Callie hides him. Returning to her restaurant, she is greeted by two assassins insisting that she produce Daniel or pay deadly consequences. Overwhelmed, and hopelessly out of her depth, Callie hires the only man she knows who can help her: Cash Logan. Callie can’t imagine relying on Cash, a soldier of fortune… and her former bartender, a man she had arrested for smuggling ivory through her restaurant two years earlier, a man who still hasn’t forgiven her. After a devastating attack on her restaurant, with danger in plain sight, Callie and Cash face kidnappers, murderers, weapons dealers, and treachery at every turn. Ultimately, Callie is forced to change—to become authentically self-aware—with stunning consequences.
Delaney’s ADULT Book of Hilarity, Wit and Wisdom
An unfiltered collection of wisdoms, musings, observations and poems. Take a glimpse inside the mind of a slightly unhinged Irishman. From utter hilarity, one-line jokes, and Jase’s unique observations of living and life; to raw, powerful poems about mental health, Jasebook is a truly unique glimpse inside the mind of a slightly unhinged, yet hilariously funny Irishman. With over one hundred thousand followers on Instagram, Jason Delaney is an emotional poet whose poems and wisdoms you will often find flying around the internet, and widely shared daily by his many followers. “It’s like someone threw a few dictionaries and a colouring book into Jase’s head, and then chucked in a grenade, and the explosion resulted in this wild, unconventional yet hilarious book – there can be no other explanation really.” Priding himself on being an empath, and understanding that you have to tread through the darkness to get to the light, Jason is a passionate advocate for supporting mental health issues. He writes jokes and wisdoms – as well as poetry – to raise a smile, and loves to turn a frown upside-down.
Do You Believe in Monsters?
From the author of The Death Wizard Chronicles comes a new adventure suitable for teens and adults. Do You Believe in Monsters? is book 2 of Dark Circles, a teen fantasy adventure trilogy for readers 13 and older. This is a great coming of age series. — When Charlie Magus enters a fantastical world hidden deep in the forest, his life is turned upside down. The timid 13-year-old transforms into a powerful wizard wielding formidable magic. In the real world, life goes on as usual. But in the fantasy world, a war is brewing that will dwarf all others. Charlie’s newfound powers stand between victory and defeat. But in which world does he truly belong?
Do You Remember Me?
All his life Nick Hemming wanted nothing more than to be happy. He had brief periods of happiness but never found the inner peace he so craved. When he meets Carmen Seville, everything changes… When Carmen leaves him, Nick travels down a path of self-destruction. He tries to fill the void she left with memories of her and conversations with a ghost who lives in his head. Will a chance reunion help him put the past behind him and reach nirvana? Or will thoughts of the past forever plague him? In this coming-of-age story, Nick learns life’s lessons and explores his faith in God, himself, and the people who love him.
Downeast: This Blessed Assurance
Shortly after a brutal attack left Percy Black with gunshot wounds to his arm and face, and his lover Starr Knitter with a desperate bullet wound to her pelvis, their love story continues to gunshot wounds to his arm and face, he tries to rebuild his relationship with his son. His lover, Starr Knitter, having narrowly survived a gunshot wound to her pelvis , their love story continues to evolve slowly, like a smoldering fire. But fate has a cruel twist. From her hospital bed, Starr delivers a shocking message to Percy — a young mother has been discovered dead, her body entwined in the weeds of a local pond. That same night, little Carol, the young mother’s daughter, is found battered and terrified, weeping alone in a motel closet. Percy rushes back to Maine to comfort Starr and to do what can be done to shield Starr and Carol from the ruthless forces that pursue them. Though Percy and Starr are physically apart, they make plans to confront the evils that surround them. Percy must venture deep into the untamed wildness of far eastern Maine and its lakes, ocean reaches, forests, and mountains in winter. From her hospital bed, Starr fights to return from near death, while Percy searches for a likely murderer. This novel is a thriller, an intense and passionate love story, and at heart a murder mystery. It is written with lyrical elegance while it maps out the truths between Percy and Starr and about the culmination of their love affair.
EGG ISLAND: Death is Your Choice
Fine arts painter Percy Black is looking to find himself after a divorce and after being asked to resign from pastoring after 21 years. What he finds is Elizabeth, a young woman as adrift as he is. Although she’ll be the first to deny it, she is alone and in desperate need of help, and Percy feels the call to aid her even after she stabs him in his painting arm during their shaky introduction.
Eli’s Heart
1953 — One magical summer in a small town in Tennessee, lovely teenager KRISSY PORTER meets a visitor from New York, ELI LEVIN, a young piano prodigy born with a serious heart defect and not expected to live past the age of thirty. They play piano duets, talk about baseball, eat banana splits, and begin to fall in love—until their budding romance is ended by interference from Eli’s over-protective family. The star-crossed sweethearts manage to find their way back to each other years later while both are college students. They marry on Krissy’s twentieth birthday. Their shared love of music is a vital part of their life together. Once he begins his career, Eli’s rise is meteoric. Krissy, too, achieves a successful career in the world of music. Intensely devoted and passionate from the beginning, the couple is ever aware of their greatest challenge: living their best lives while never knowing when the various repairs to Eli’s heart might give out.
Ethics, Law and Technology Adoption: Navigating Technology Adoption Challenges
Navigate the ethical and legal complexities of our rapidly evolving technological landscape with this essential guidebook for professionals across all sectors. Technology is transforming our world in unprecedented ways, opening up new possibilities and challenges for professionals in various fields and domains. These challenges in technology confront us all with a variety of issues from technology ethics perspective. How can you make ethical and legal decisions that align with your values and responsibilities? How can you leverage technology to create value and impact in your work and society? Ethics Law and Technology Adoption will help you answer these questions and more. It will teach you • The essential ethical frameworks and principles to guide technology development and deployment • The key legal issues and challenges that arise from the clash of new technologies and old laws. • How professionals from different backgrounds and sectors, such as biotechnology, AI, robotics, cybersecurity, fintech and metaverse, apply ethics and law in their work through real-world examples and case studies. This book will equip you with the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that you need to succeed in the era of technology innovation. Whether you are a technologist, a business executive, a lawyer or an entrepreneur, this book is for you. It is one of the best biotechnology books, technology management books, books for entrepreneurs and future technologies books that you can find. It will help you understand the challenges in technology and the impact of technology on society. It will also inspire you to act with integrity and accountability in your technology ethics. Get your copy today and stay ahead of the curve and be a responsible technology leader with this comprehensive resource on ethics, law, and the societal impact of emerging technologies.
Fault Line
Newly minted 25-year-old lawyer Bob Abramson joins the DA’s office in San Diego and soon finds himself leading an investigation into the politically charged murder of the mayor’s husband, a powerful, wealthy developer with far too many secrets for his wife’s political ambitions.
Fruit of the Poison Tree
In the exciting sequel to Seven Seconds, dive back into the murky recesses of Olivia Osborne’s shadowy world as she searches for the truth about life and death, good and evil and the twilight in between. Gran warned against mixing the light with the dark – it was a magical place that turned everything to grey. The Fruit of the Poison Tree bears it all. Olivia Osborne is many things: a sensitive, an empath, a reader of death. Is she also a demon dealer? Or is she something else?
God’s Eyes: A Vision for Us: Presence, Promise, and Power (Spiritual Uplift Series)
God’s Eyes shares the author’s experience of a powerful vision where, for a minute, she got to see the world and its promise through what she experienced as God’s perspective. It’s a message that shares God’s presence and promise. God’s promise is that each of us is loved. God built many pathways so that all of us, no matter where we live, our culture, or what we believe, we can find a way home. That promise is so full of love. The power of love can support us and connect us in ways that are transformative. It gives us hope.
Harmony behind Bars
How does it feel to sit in prison at eighteen? In solitary confinement? When at the same time the peers play football, computer games, go dancing, and for the first time fall in love?
How to Dump a Body at Sea and Not Get Caught:
Wrong Place…Right Time Follow Hollywood sensation Al Ferrari on a true-crime odyssey as he tries to survive the tough urban environment of Greater Boston in the late 1980s. Meet Crazy Louie, Jumbo Zal, Pete Pistol, and The Plum Girl as they help Al along the way to stardom. In this book, you will learn: – How not to burn a car – How to turn a Celica into a Rolls Royce – How not to rip off Sears – How to really piss off the Mob …and more! Recommended for aspiring celebrities everywhere.
Is There Evidence for God?
Sooner or later every thinking person wonders about God. Does God exist, or is he simply a figment of our imagination? If God exists, what is he like? For most of my life, my answers were based on what others told me. Although I was curious about God and religion, I never took the time and effort necessary to explore such matters.
Just Say It
Turning forty, Lisa Grant is broke, alone and living in rural Gloucestershire, hurtling towards an inevitable midlife crisis. Romantically, she pushes people away. She cannot say, “I love you.” Jack, the only love of her life, put the Atlantic Ocean between them after they fell out the last time and now lives in New York. Fearing for her sanity, she addresses the problem she has carried with her for the past forty years – her narcissistic mother, Elizabeth. When Lisa was six years old, her father disappeared, and her mother kept the truth about why he left the family home hidden. When starting her journalistic career, Lisa reconnects with her father and discovers grim truths about her controlling mother. After four decades of sparring with her impossible mother, Lisa cultivates a more rational and sympathetic approach to discovering why her mother lacks empathy. Believing childhood trauma may be responsible, Lisa harnesses her journalistic skills to investigate her mother’s past and is shocked by what she finds.
Keeper of the Algorithm
Once a misfit dropout, Mike now controls the fate of man versus machine As technology’s grip tightens, a haunting question emerges: Does anyone hold the reins of the omnipotent Algorithm? Assuming another student’s ID in a crowded exam room, Mike’s journey takes an unexpected turn when a stern figure declares, “I am Jacob Winters. Welcome to the AI career placement test. Today, we will discover which of you represents the pinnacle of human genius.” Delve into Keeper of the Algorithm to discover a future where destiny is written in code and domination is the ultimate prize. For AI enthusiasts!
Life Painted Red: The True Story of Corabelle Fellows and How Her Life on the Dakota Frontier Became a National Scandal
The true story of a young woman who taught Sioux students on the Dakota Frontier in the 1880s, and she grew to love native culture and experienced one adventure after another. But when she married a half-native man, her family disowned her, and the yellow press exploited their marriage as a national scandal. Dime museums, freak shows, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show – all staples of the late 19th Century culture – followed.
Lizard of Transition
On his deathbed, a World War Two veteran, Joe Rubin, confesses to his son that he murdered a Japanese prisoner in the jungles of New Guinea, seventy years ago. In his last hours, Joe enters the world between life and death, known as the world of transition. He tells of his journey, with an odd lizard leading the way, as he recants the tale of the murder prior to his imminent death. He reveals to his son, Joshua, that he possesses, a Good Luck flag – Hinomaru Yosegaki, that he had taken from the Japanese soldier he murdered on the island of New Guinea during the battle of the Druinimor River. The flag has handwritten messages from the prisoner’s family and friends, which reveals his identity and the village in Japan he came from. His son, Joshua is under tremendous pressure. He’s separated from his wife, who comes to visit her father-in-law, bringing the two together to face their problems under the gut-wrenching veil of his father’s passing. By attempting to reunite the flag with the son of the soldier his father killed, seventy years ago, will the family find their way forward. From the wisdom of the ages, and from the Jewish perspective on death and redemption, “Lizard of Transition” shines a light on how understanding death and dying will lead us to live rich and fuller lives.
Montana Countdown
A wealthy Montana rancher inadvertently draws the attention of a beautiful, would-be novelist when she overhears his tempting tale of using seven keys to keep his millions safe. Troy and Ivy are surprised when intermittent sparks fly between them, but unnamed evil forces are at work. When the novelist disappears, the clock is ticking and mysteries must be solved or people will die.
New Beginnings-Book 2
A virus has decimated over 99 percent of the world’s population, few remain… In a small town in the mountains of central Oregon, two brothers, Clint and Steve Walker, begin to gather a few dozen survivors together. Food, fuel, power, and medicine are all in short supply. A warlord in the valley below has crowned himself the governor of the entire Pacific Northwest, going by his own rules, and giving himself absolute power of life and death. Since many of the things needed for survival are in the valley, the small-town survivors have a deadly conflict ahead of them. At sea, the last US Navy ship the Anthony Bruno, DDG 1007, now commanded by ex-fighter pilot Captain Jennings, travels in circles. With only 115 survivors onboard, the captain’s new mission will be to decide how to rebuild society under martial law. But will this newfound freedom from the old law prove too tempting for some? After all, #911 no longer exists…
Night Sirens
The feeders walk among us. They sap our energy and cause sudden old age death. If governments told people the truth, it would shatter the fabric of humanity. Frank Hram is living a double life. A Covenant Keeper, he hunts rogue feeders. The US-based Project Purple knows all about the Covenant and is seeking to unmask it. Is there a way to integrate feeders into mainstream society? Can Frank Hram survive betrayal by someone he loves?
PURPOSEFUL EDUCATION: My Bet Against Poverty
Have you ever wondered how a village boy with limited resources could rise to become a Group COO & CFO of three seaports with over a billion dollars of assets?
Roller Closer Ride
The Crows had achieved the impossible when they established Crowdom, a nation of Genetically Modified Crows with a combination of ambition inherited from Humans and the prowess for survival characteristic of Crows. Threatened on their southern, eastern and northern borders they also become aware of a madman Geneticist who created new hybrids that defy the Laws of Genetics and threaten internal stability. Hi-tech treasures that Crowdom possesses enable Koko, a CrowMan with super dominant traits to become King and carry the burden of uniting two nations.
Rough Justice
For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler. “When you get out of jail, don’t ever come back here.” Callie James thought those were the last words she’d ever speak to Cash Logan. Two years later, in Danger in Plain Sight, Callie and Cash become an improbable team taking on lethal adversaries. Now, in Rough Justice, Callie and Cash are back, and their world is about to explode. It’s been a year since they saved her ex-husband’s life and faced unexpected, terrifying adversaries. During that process—confronting kidnapping, murder, and the destruction of her restaurant—they came together, and against all odds, fell passionately in love. The smooth sailing abruptly ends when Sara, a twenty-five-year-old, half-Algerian woman, unexpectedly shows up at the restaurant and insists on telling them her shocking, unbelievable story. Someone has stolen her identity, and they’re trying to kill her. Sara needs their help now, and she has a stunning, life-changing secret to tell. Again, Cash and Callie assemble their unconventional ragtag family—including peg-legged Andre, and Itzac, “the Macher.” Together, they go to war with formidable adversaries to save Sara and ultimately their own lives. The fierce global battle leads them to Cuba, where they launch an audacious offensive that shocks even them…and will absolutely take your breath away. With Rough Justice, Burt Weissbourd elevates not only his deeply rich and complex characters, but the entire thriller genre.
Sons of Empire
The Empire of Arras teeters on the edge of destruction, with its last hope resting on the young Trastan Mage. As events shape their destiny, Trastan and his friend, Finn Raymos, become pivotal players in a world manipulated by the enigmatic Council of Five. From ancient swords to modern machine guns, from majestic steeds called Marsuts to colossal Grinder trains, their journey unfolds amidst chaos. Trastan Mage is the Empire’s savior, but there’s one catch – he’s already dead. Embark on an epic journey in “Sons of Empire,” the gripping first chapter of Chandler McGrew’s new series, “The Chronicles of the World of Arras.”
Sons of Empire
The Empire of Arras teeters on the edge of destruction, with its last hope resting on the young Trastan Mage. As events shape their destiny, Trastan and his friend, Finn Raymos, become pivotal players in a world manipulated by the enigmatic Council of Five. From ancient swords to modern machine guns, from majestic steeds called Marsuts to colossal Grinder trains, their journey unfolds amidst chaos. Trastan Mage is the Empire’s savior, but there’s one catch – he’s already dead. Embark on an epic journey in “Sons of Empire,” the gripping first chapter of Chandler McGrew’s new series, “The Chronicles of the World of Arras.”
STOP COPYING PARENTING PATTERNS: The Road to Conscious Parenting and Education for a Better Future
Have you ever wondered why unhealthy upbringing patterns are passed from generation to generation? Why children often copy what they see in their childhood, even if it is violence, aggression or other harmful patterns? “Stop Copying Parenting Patterns” is a warning and a guide at the same time. The author, who has extensive experience working with adults and families, exposes this difficult problem and offers concrete solutions.
Summers’ Deceit (Hunters Trilogy Book 1)
Jane Callahan is a reclusive, seventeen-year-old high school student dealing with the death of her beloved brother. Her home in Southern California with her mother is a constant reminder of her loss and pain. In hopes of escaping her past she moves to North Bend Oregon to live with her father, where she meets a beautiful boy named Aidan Summers.
Sweet Mystery of Life
1922: Eugenics has taken hold. A woman of color gives birth to a biracial baby who is a light complexioned blond cherub. She is told the child was stillborn. She and her husband refuse to accept that. Meanwhile, evil is afoot in Baltimore City. Someone is kidnapping little girls. When they are found, they have been raped beaten and sometimes killed. The police feel as if they are running in circles.
Talisman: Gifts of the Shavtal
GiGi’s gift of reading auras is awakened after her stepdad beats her mother unconscious. This draws the attention of a mysterious Sidhe fairy, who presents her with a talisman from a magical other world. Gigi must resist the temptations of power while protecting her family and friends from dark forces.
Tango Guitar Method
Argentine musician, educator, and composer Guillermo Marigliano has released a new guitar method book. For individuals who desire to learn how to play Tango music, this book serves as a learning manual. It is not a solo guitar arrangement book. This book explains several techniques to accompany a vocalist or oneself, from the most basic tango rhythm to the most complex. Beginning with basic traditional rhythms, we move through the styles of some of the most renowned tango composers (Carlos Gardel, Anibal Troilo, Astro Piazzolla). The book includes chords, rhythms, variations, ideomatic tango single lines, and the most popular phrases in tablature and music notation. You can apply the musical elements found in this book to any tango song and create new ones. You can use the musical concepts you learn in this book to any tango song and create your own comping and arrangements with them. It would be impossible to cover the history of the tango music style, which has hundreds of composers and songs, in just a single book, but this initial method is an excellent place to start. Includes access to a video online showing each example being performed by Mr. Marigliano.
The Adventures of a Southern (Baptist) Buddhist
This true story is about a girl who is born up north; into a conservative, fundamentalist/evangelical family—but then becomes a Liberal Buddhist. Her family moves back to their roots in the Appalachian south, where Pam is molested by her grandfather. She later owns her sexuality by becoming promiscuous; beginning a pattern of serial dating, marrying and divorcing. She is first married at 18 to another 18 year old, who gives her a beautiful son—but he is a redneck and they have nothing else in common. Her second husband is a talented musician, but turns out to like sex with men. Her third husband speaks five languages and is a Pakistani, but he beats her up. Her fourth husband is a chef who makes delicious meals, but turns out to be a felon and a crackhead. Finally, the love of her life neglects to tell Pam for seven years that he is married. In the meantime, Pam completes two degrees and works as a counselor, and then 20 years as a hospice social worker.
The Alas League: The saga begins…
The Alas League is an entertaining humorous series made up of episodes ranging from 80 to 140 pages each. Brief “interlude” short stories are inserted between instalments, adding increasingly funny new angles to the new Worlds they live in.
The Beauty in Her Soul
‘I can’t see my soul,’ she said, searching her reflection. ‘Wait until you grow up and fall in love. You will know it’s there. The man who will love you will see its beauty.’ Diana grows up in the Italian village of Santa Lucia during the 1950s. Abused by both parents, her childhood slips her by. Repercussions of a love once shared with Paolo affect her entire future. She marries Marco, unaware of his sexual dilemma. Coping with her mother-in-law’s overriding hatred, an estranged husband, a torrid affair, a demanding job, and a fake family life has extreme consequences. And her existence becomes meaningless when she discovers the truth about her daughter. Love and forgiveness are behind a locked door. Will someone find the key?
The Body In The Barrel
The Body in the Barrel is a crime novel set in 1973 San Diego, where a Harbor cop and a producer of X-rated films join forces to unearth the past, facing hard truths about their own histories despite death threats from the Chinese Tong and heat from San Diego’s conservative establishment.
The Demon of Avalon
It was a bizarre weekend for Leroy. A concert with the girl of his dreams. Helping his friend break the law. Then he fell into the demonic void. The endless abyss was not empty, much to Leroy’s terror. A woman’s voice calls out to him and warns him that he is in danger. When he turns 18 in two months, his father will come for a visit.
The Family Stone
Before the supermarket boom, corner markets dominated neighborhoods where most people did their grocery shopping. These corner markets sold all of your staples. They were hospitable and served as a junction to exchange ideas, beliefs, and gossip in much the same way as barbershops and beauty salons still do today. The Family Stone is set in the memory of these institutions long gone from most American economic landscapes. It is the year following the long, hot summer in America. Abraham and Winona Stone are the proud owners of Willie’s Market, a modest corner grocery store in a working class urban community. The Civil Rights movement is at full throttle. The fight for social equality does not halt personal drama. Intriguing neighborhood sagas of life, death, love, heartbreak, betrayal, hope, faith, and redemption play out against the fiery backdrop of civil unrest.
The Fortress
We are the fortress, and the fortress is us.
Sim was a teacher in his old life. Now he’s the savior of orphans. He isn’t their father. God knows he has already failed in that role. But he is their guide. And the kids? They are his penance. His redemption. For three years Sim has prepared his orphans for the hard realities of life after the plague that wiped out most of the global population. Theirs is a life without laws or creature comforts. He has trained them to forage and grow their own food, to be vigilant, and to protect themselves and each other by any means necessary. In building a fortress of brick and mortar, they’ve become a fortress of flesh and blood.
The Hang-Up
THE HANG-UP WHERE MUSIC AND LITERATURE COLLIDE ‘The Hang-Up’ by Tasmanian born author/songwriter/lyricist D J McMullen puts the reader right there amongst it as the songs are written, recorded and performed, giving them a fly-on-the-wall insight into why, when and where the songs were written. They’ll walk side-by-side with the two main characters, Jordie and Jess, as they step out onto the world stage; they’ll share the highs and the lows as the characters navigate the giddy heights and the lonely nights of life as popular music stars. D J McMullen has woven Tasmania’s beauty and charm into this tale of two loves, the love Jordie and Jess share for each other and the love they both share for music. Tasmania’s scenic wonders, its rustic charm and its inhabitants (good and bad) are all painted into the story. And so as not to leave the reader wondering he has brought the story to life by recording all the songs written within the story (professionally recorded fully mixed and mastered in collaboration with a crew of very talented session musicians including vocalists Joshia Ruff and Mella Barnes) so as to give the reader an aural perspective of how the songs actually sound. They are available to the reader as either a download, in CD format or to simply listen to on the author’s website http://djmcmusic.com as they read along to the songs being written in the story. ‘The Hang-Up’ is a story music lovers everywhere, young or old, will relate to. Anyone who’s been on stage, or simply stood in front of the stage and watched on in awe will be transported back to those heady days that will have lived on in their memory.