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A House Divided: Christian Historical Fiction
Book 2 of An American Family’s Journey – Check out The Long Journey first if you haven’t read it yet.In Tahlequah, George and Ellie Massey face an uncertain future as their children begin choosing paths of their own. Junior returns home carrying painful memories of his wartime imprisonment, struggling to find his place in a world that no longer feels quite the same. Jenny reunites with the man she has loved for years and begins building a future beyond the Cherokee Nation. Meanwhile, Hopson wrestles with questions of identity, belonging, and what it means to stand up for his people.As th...
Kenya Safari: A Guide for the First-Time Visitor
Award-winning photographer Jim Walker draws on 50 years of wildlife photography and extensive travel across Kenya to show you exactly how to plan, pack for, and photograph your first African safari. After fifty years behind the lens and expeditions across four continents, award-winning photographer Jim Walker takes you inside his Kenya safari with the hard-won wisdom most guides leave out. You will know what to pack, what NOT to pack, and what to expect and a photographic showcase of animals and birds. Essential reading for first-time safari planners and wildlife photography enthusiasts.
100+ Rules for Writers: From The Writers Who Wrote the Books
What if becoming a better writer isn't about following all the rules—but discovering which ones are worth keeping?In 100+ Rules for Writers: From the Writers Who Wrote the Books, author and publisher Heidi Richards Mooney brings together timeless lessons inspired by some of literature's most influential writers—and explores what their wisdom can teach today's authors.From finding your voice and developing memorable characters to writing clearly, building a writing habit, overcoming creative blocks, editing fearlessly, and knowing when to break the rules, this practical and thought-provokin...
The Expectant Author: A Trimester-by-Trimester Guide to Writing and Delivering the Book Inside You
You don't need to become a writer to write a book. You simply need to deliver the one that's already inside you.Have you been thinking about writing a book but don't know where to start? Do you have ideas, experiences, or expertise you want to share, yet feel overwhelmed by the process of how to write a book from beginning to end?You are not alone. Many aspiring authors struggle with the same questions: How do I start? How do I organize my ideas? How do I stay motivated and actually finish?The Expectant Author offers a powerful and practical answer. This unique nonfiction writing guide introdu...
Faerilon
Not all fairy tales are for children. Nina arranges and sells flowers from her home. Her whimsical artwork is in high demand. Nina never knew where her ability to make the arrangements came from. When she gets a couple of strange visitors at her house, Nina discovers hidden secrets of her past. Nina also receives a dire message. She enlists the help of two friends, Evan and Macy, to take an incredible journey with her and try to fix the wrongs in Faerilon.
Dirty Gerty
Gerty has much better things to do than clean her room. There are games to play, toys to enjoy and adventures waiting outside. So when Mum hands her a mop and broom, Gerty’s answer is simple: “Not today!”But a messy room can hide all kinds of surprises.First, two tiny dust bunnies appear beneath Gerty’s bed. Then there are more. And more. Before she knows it, the playful little creatures are growing bigger, bolder and increasingly mischievous. They climb over the furniture, bounce on the bed and pile themselves into a fuzzy hill that nearly reaches the ceiling.With her bedroom complete...
Bailey's Big Adventure. The Happy, Crazy Springer Spaniel
"Bailey's Big Adventure: The Happy, Crazy Springer Spaniel" A magical, heart warming tale about a joyful dog and the unforgettable journey he shares with his best friend, a young girl named Mia. In their cosy home on Maple Street, Bailey, an energetic Springer Spaniel with floppy ears and boundless curiosity, brings laughter, love, and chaos to everyone he meets.When a simple backyard treasure hunt leads to the discovery of a rusty old key, Mia and Bailey stumble upon a hidden door and enter a secret garden filled with wonder, colour, and new animal friends. Guided by a wise old tort...
Reign of the Shadow Scion
"To have a full and knowledgeable grasp on the present and future......one must look to the past."The Asaan al-Atollen have been restored to their golden age. With the corrupt Reverend Mother Diadra Maurian now completely overthrown and her favored subordinate, Malina Varkallas, now having taken the mantle of the Sirens' leader instead—alongside her lover Quanaris Veilstar—the future looks bright for Quisillon's protectors, with both women and men being granted equal opportunities to practice magic should they so choose.But it isn't long before unrest and distress comes calling once again....
So You’re Going to Be Grandparents!: The Unofficial Survival Guide for First-Time Grandparents
Becoming grandparents is one of life’s greatest plot twists.One minute you’re enjoying peaceful mornings and uninterrupted sleep.The next, you’re googling stroller reviews, practicing your “neutral reaction” face to a baby name you don’t understand, and wondering if you’re emotionally prepared for something called a “sleep regression.”So You’re Going to Be Grandparents! is a funny, slightly chaotic, and surprisingly heartwarming survival guide for first-time grandparents.Inside, you’ll discover:The five emotional stages of becoming a grandparentWhat absolutely NOT to say ...
Amy and Fin -The Time Travel Twins. The Return of James Maxwell's Equations: Book 1
Watch the short cinematic trailer below. Experience the story before you read about it.BOOK TRAILER LINK"What time is it?""And what time is it through the human interstellar portal?"Amy and Fin know all about weird dreams...They get them all the time...What they don't know is that everyday life is about to change for them inextricably, and in so many ways...Ways that they could never have imagined?For one thing, they don't have the faintest idea about the human interstellar portal or their special genealogy and secret hidden powers.And for another, the missing Lorentz force law quantum equatio...
A Journey of a Thousand Miles: A Reflections Saga
Ava's tragic past isn't haunting her. It's actively trying to murder her soul.She has been running her entire life, haunted by trauma, abuse, and abandonment, finding no solace in the psychic gifts she was born with - speaking to the dead, Clairvoyance and traveling the astral plane. Meant to connect her to the world, they only locked her into a lifetime of pain.Now, a terrifying metaphysical rupture called The Reflections is weaponizing her memories. Her only hope is Kyle, whose prophetic manuscript tells of a doomed 18th- century love that ended in violence- revealing a cycle of tragedy Ava ...
Echoes in the South Wing
When Millicent Calderwood finally receives the keys to the home she loved as a child, she expects dust and memories-not a floating man in a red mist and a web of old magic that reaches for her head. But the estate won't wait: a revenant keeps replaying the witch's cruelty, an imp hunts in the edges of town, and the people who shepherd her new life insist she's the only one who can finish what was started centuries ago.Thrown into a world of ritual, reluctant alliances, and slow-burning desire, Millie must learn rites from a housekeeper who is older than anyone should be and trust a brooding ca...
Private Members, Public Scandals
Unexpectedly elected to the House of Commons in Tony Blair’s landslide victory in May 1997, the 27-year-old Rowan Cannon found herself in the Mother of Parliaments with ambitions to make real and meaningful improvements to the lives of her constituents. Rowan may be bright, vivacious and attractive, but she will soon cross swords with the press who dismiss her as just another ‘Blair babe.’Rowan is determined to assert her feminist credentials against a patriarchal system and seeks to break down class privileges too. However, she soon discovers that politics is far tougher and dirtier tha...
Sunset
Six characters meet in Jerusalem during the last turbulent decade of Ottoman rule: Jamail, the Sunni aristocrat; Natalia, the Russian Jewess from the best brothel in Constantinople; Wassif, the Christian Arab who will keep the journal of the city; Joseph, the Sephardic entrepreneur who will build the first railroad in the Middle East; Thomas, the English archaeology student who will later lead armies; and David, the radical socialist fleeing from the Czar's secret police...They all came here...A story that isn’t just set in history — it breathes, sweats, sings, and argues its way...
Proof That God Is
We must all agree the most mysterious subject of all is the existence of God. Either God isn't or God Is. A Course In Miracles (1333 pages) by Dr.Helen Schucman is in my opinion the most profound spiritual manuscript ever written. Christians are looking for the return of Jesus; he has returned via these magnificent writings. Helen began receiving the material for The Course quietly over eight years, from 1965 to 1973 at the age of 43. Schucman said that the book had been dictated to her, word for word, via a process of inner dictation from Jesus. At first, insanity crossed her mind, so she ask...
Travesuras mágicas
Travesuras mágicas. 2ª edición. 2023. 199 páginas. ISBN 9798865763833. (Cuentos escritos entre 2004 y 2017)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU. Travesuras mágicas.Una bruja simpática, pero tan golosa que pierde la cabeza por un dulce de leche; una fantasma que tiene miedo de la lluvia; un fantasma goloso que se come toda la yuca frita de un pueblo; una perrita que protege a la flor de las estrellas; un niño goloso que ve cómo todos los dientes salen corriendo de su boca; una niña que aprende a saltar y a jugar en las nubes; un lobito que se desespera por conocer a la luna l...
THE HOLLOW SMILE: Every Face in Town Is Wearing It
In the isolated town of Hollow Creek, people have started smiling.Not laughing. Not grinning.Smiling.At first, it seems harmless. A cashier holds a smile a little too long. A teacher stands motionless outside her classroom with her lips stretched impossibly wide. Neighbors stop speaking altogether, choosing instead to watch from their windows with the same expression.Then the disappearances begin.When bestselling true-crime journalist Ethan Hale returns to his hometown after twenty years, he discovers something impossible: every victim was last seen smiling.The deeper Ethan digs, the more he u...
2020: The YEAR The Earth Stood Still
2020: The YEAR the Earth Stood Still, is an eye-opening look at the lasting impact that 2020 had on American society and freedoms. It’s a thought-provoking memoir that offers a critical perspective on one of America's most tumultuous years in recent history, highlighting concerns of government overreach, societal division, and threats to individual liberties. Far too many people are cursed with short memories of even the most impactful events in human history. The objective of 2020: The YEAR the Earth Stood Still is to prevent the monumental happenings during those 366 days...
Where the River Settles, The Lost Pages: An Epic 1940s Southern Historical Romance Saga • A Book Club Favorite (Hymns of Blue Hollow 2)
★★★★★ “This novel was as breathtaking as the first. I couldn’t put it down, and when I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about what would happen next.” — Reader ReviewerIn Where the River Settles, the second novel of the best-selling Hymns of Blue Hollow series, author Kemma MarShall delivers a gripping story of love tested and dark secrets unearthed.At the Old Reed Estate in 1940s Tennessee, Esther is still unraveling the foreign language of love, wary of its warmth yet aching for it in the same breath. All she has known is how to endure, not how to trust. Ian Huggler, the ste...
Before We Were Heroes: Southern Fires
Before wildland firefighters were seen as heroes, they were cursed, threatened, and run off from the very communities they were trying to save. In Before We Were Heroes: Southern Fires, Bill Beebe a 30-year veteran forester and firefighter who served on National Type 1 Incident Management Teams across Arkansas, Alaska, and the nation pulls backthe curtain on an untold chapter of American history. This isn't the version told at retirement banquets. This is the raw, gripping story of a brotherhood forged not in glory, but in grit. From the sweltering swamps of eastern Arkansas to the remote wild...
The Successor
THE SUCCESSOR AND OTHER ODD STORIES, the latest offering from award-winning author Carlos Rubio, proves once again that he possesses a wide range of narrative scope. In this volume he has gone beyond historical fiction (Forgotten Objects), romantic fiction (Italian Tilt), satirical fiction (The Neophyte), to take a new direction. Each of the ten stories in this collection, all told in the first person, contains an element of the unexplainable, and every one captures the interest of the reader from the opening sentence. Echoes of Teotihuacán, one of the stories, was nominated for the Pushcart ...
Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel
In a stream of consciousness mode, this is the self-account of the life and times of a man, who liquidates his immense wealth only to consign it to the flames.
The agony and ecstasy of his life as he makes it big in our materialistic world and the way he loses his soul in the bargain, only to regain it when tragedy strikes him makes one ponder over the meaning of success in life.
What with stories within stories, this philosophical ‘novel of a memoir’, in a stream of consciousness, is a compelling read that is conducive to contemplate about the nature and scope of human relationships.
The Three Piggs - Night Of The Wolf
Your mother read you the tale of The Three Little Pigs.The story she read to you was a lie.Deep within an ancient forest, live the three Pigg brothers. Very different but very close. Arnold, the eldest, a battle-hardened former special forces warrior retired to his secluded, hand-built log cabin. Brother Harold, a brilliant scientist with strength to match his intellect who spends his days conducting sometimes dangerous experiments in his brick home and laboratory. Youngest bother Norman is an accomplished architect and fitness fanatic, proudly residing in the innovative straw-bale house of hi...
Dirk Strangelove: The War is Already Over
Dirk Strangelove has spent years surviving Sanctuary's machinery of faith, bureaucracy and compromised memory. When answers begin arriving to questions he was safer leaving alone, he is forced into a darkly comic speculative-noir investigation of identity, free will and the systems that decide which version of the truth survives. The second Dirk Strangelove novel can be read after Die Twice, File Once or as a standalone entry into Sanctuary. The novel is entirely human-written by A. N. Mercer. The cover artwork was created with generative-AI assistance.
After the Call: A First Responder’s Guide to Processing Trauma, Loss, and Moral Injury
First responders are trained to manage the scene.What they are rarely taught is how to carry what comes after.After the Call: A First Responder’s Guide to Processing Trauma, Loss, and Moral Injury is a grounded, practical guide for those navigating the emotional and psychological weight of emergency work long after the sirens stop.This is not a clinical textbook.It is not a demand to relive what you’ve seen.It is a structured, real-world guide designed to help you understand what happens after the call and how to recover without losing yourself in the process.Inside this book, you’ll lea...
Relative Stranger
We never know how well we know someone. We have no clues about their hidden agendas, desires, or mistakes. Even those we love the most mask their aspirations and the lengths they will go to achieve them.What would you do if a lurking madman were stalking the woman you love. Would you follow the letter of the law to save her or take matters into your own hands to, hell with legalities.Follow Andi, Sherry, and Jud as they navigate the dangers life throws at them. When accusations are made that are impossible to believe how do you counter them when the evidence outweighs the feelings in your hear...
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA True West Magazine Best Historical Non-Fiction Book and Best Author of the YearWestern Heritage Award for "Outstanding Nonfiction Book"Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Historical NonfictionFrom the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitationThe epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to shape the identity of a new nation. Over time a dar...
Bread of Heaven
A cold case. A fresh crime. One village hiding decades of secrets.Book 4 in the compelling Inspector Harcourt crime mystery series.As the world teeters on the edge of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, a brutal attack on a young girl near the quiet Worcestershire hamlet of Salwood shocks the local community—and stirs memories of a haunting disappearance over three decades earlier.In 1988, teenager Rebecca Jarvis, the baker’s daughter, vanished without a trace. Now, with a new Cold Case Unit under his command, Inspector Harcourt selects her case as their first to reopen. But as his team b...
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