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The Ultimate Math Riddles & Logic Activity Book for Kids!Turn learning into an exciting adventure with this interactive math riddles and logic puzzle activity book designed for kids ages 9–14.Packed with 101 fun brain teasers, step-by-step challenges, and real-life logic puzzles, this book helps kids think smarter, not harder!What Makes This Book Special?101 engaging math riddles & brain teasersStep-by-step problem-solving challengesLogic puzzles based on real-life situationsInteractive write-in activity pagesClear answers with easy explanationsFun illustrations that keep kids engage...

NYPD Detective Josh Watson returns from a transformative trip, haunted by the memory of a woman he left behind. As he tries to move on, a new drug lord rises in the syndicate he previously investigated, only to be overthrown by a ruthless South American rival, plunging the city into chaos. Josh picks up the investigation into the murder of a cop, but his passion for justice fades, leaving him disillusioned.Seeking solace in a new relationship, Josh dives deeper into investigating a mysterious crime organization that threatens his life. As the stakes rise, someone close to Josh faces mortal dan...

Why waste time chasing love when you can be matched by a number?Age, looks, intelligence, wealth — the Attraction Abacus counts it all and gives you your entire romantic worth as a single, eye-opening score. Or does it?When doom-dreaming author, Evelyn Foster, takes an Attraction Abacus flyer from the infuriatingly charming Luke, her carefully unplanned life changes in ways she never expected. Evelyn is soon caught up in fake-dating chaos, questionable matchmaking, and finds herself falling for a man she knows she shouldn’t.Is Luke really the one? Can Evelyn help make the Abacus a global d...

What if the world no longer revolved around money, power, and fear? The Ten Levels – From Having to Being is a visionary novel that explores a radical new model for society — one based on responsibility, empathy, cooperation, and shared purpose instead of profit and competition. In a world where social status is determined not by wealth but by contribution, people grow through trust, meaningful work, and human connection. Through the lives of Elyas, Mira, Tayo, Ada, and Rafi, readers experience a profound transformation: leaving behind the chaos, inequality, and violence of the old world t...

The Battle for Truth and Shadows is a gripping thriller that delves into how far people will go when truth becomes a weapon and secrets turn into shadows that refuse to stay buried. The story follows characters trapped between loyalty, deception, and the relentless pursuit of answers. As hidden motives emerge and alliances shift, each revelation pulls them deeper into a dangerous web where nothing is what it seems. Ben D. Schwandt delivers a tense, atmospheric narrative rich with psychological depth, moral conflict, and unexpected twists. This novel challenges readers to reflect on the nature ...

The Night Doctor of Richmond by Tony Gentry is a deeply researched and richly imagined biographical novel about the Medical College of Virginia’s notorious 19th Century grave robber Chris Baker, who readily admitted to robbing hundreds of graves from the city’s Black cemeteries across his long career. Reviled in his time, Baker was regularly featured on the front page of local papers, which called him a ghoul, a witch doctor, a suspected murderer and even a cannibal. He was hounded, jailed, beaten and shot, finding his only shelter inside the walls of MCV’s Egyptian Building, where he pr...

Soon: Martial law declared. U.S. elections canceled. Congress and the courts dissolved. An audacious plan is underway to racially purify the land, one region at a time. In Richmond, Virginia the lights go out. The town is renamed Covenant City and remade as a model for a “homegrown heritage” white Christian nation. This is the story of a young white man who falls in with a cadre of multi-ethnic rebels. They enlist him to go into the city as a spy. Once there, to his surprise, a heritage survey uncovers a heritage from Jamestown settlers. Welcomed with special privileges, he has a fron...

Poetry is a puzzle of expression.  We poets enjoy piecing together images and rhymes to complete a puzzle of our experiences, of our feelings.  Trying to make the pieces fit challenges and liberates us, unleashing the creativity that builds up inside us.  As we add each allusion, each alliteration to the puzzle, it becomes a recognizable picture.  It may not be the most beautiful, yet it is the perfect representation of our momentary selves.  Soul of A Rose is such poetry.Since Rosemary Musachio was twelve, she has written poetry.  Since she cannot verbalize what ...

What happens when a parent’s pursuit of respectability costs a child their sense of belonging, and can that fracture ever be repaired?Scarlet Birthright is a multi-award-winning novella about family, inheritance, and the quiet reckoning that follows abandonment. When Joromi Enoch leaves Trinidad to build a life in America, he also leaves behind his firstborn daughter, Trisha. Years later, both father and daughter are shaped by that choice in ways neither fully understands.This story is for readers who carry complicated family histories, who want narratives that honor cultural truth without s...

She's gone. Vanished from a city so slick it looks like it’s been sprayed with high-gloss paint. But underneath, it's as rotten as a week-old banana in your gym bag. Where silence and deceit are bought and sold like just another commodity.Life as a private investigator was supposed to be easier than being a cop, but for Elias Gentry, it was anything but. Stumbling into forced retirement, a burned-out Gentry reflects on his past, haunted by the memories of a lost cousin, a partner who’s no longer around, and ghosts that whisper about bad decisions, threatening to unravel him.But when he tak...

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke) Roosevelt Theodore Franklin attempts to make it through life day by day. Roosevelt, a retired history professor, is a widower, who lost his beloved wife to cancer, and he has not stopped grieving. He along with his two closest friends, also retired and who have also lost loved ones, form a paranormal investigation group. They hope to find an answer to the question: is there life after death? When asked by a local teacher to investigate a possible haunting of her house, the group discovers an evil be...

SynopsisIn 1969, with thirty dollars stitched into the hem of his jeans and a rucksack slung over his shoulder, a young Indian man climbs the gangway of a cargo ship in Bombay. He has no visa, no guarantees, and no clear destination—only a stubborn belief that life must be larger than the one he has been handed.That single act of departure becomes the hinge on which an entire life turns.Thirty Dollars and a Dream is a sweeping, intimate memoir of migration, loss, resilience, and unlikely love. From the violence and upheaval of Partition-era India to the narrow lanes of Old Delhi; from a chil...

The old lady's body lay at the foot of the stairs. The police believe it was an accidental fall that killed great-aunt Jane. Young Australian, Belinda Lawrence is convinced it was murder and when she inherits her great-aunt's ancient cottage and garden on the outskirts of Bath, England, she finds herself deep in a taut mystery surrounding her legacy. A second vicious murder by a ruthless killer intensifies the tension and Belinda, now under threat herself, is befriended by two charming men: her neighbour Jacob and realestate agent Mark Sallinger. But can she trust them? And what interest has b...

Whisk Of Dust is a book of poetry. It aims to uplift and inspire, as it speaks of love, peace, and life. Sending you on a poetic journey.

Written with great attention to detail, putting the reader solidly in John’s shoes.Cleverly Written, Dynamic Story TellingJohn survived Vietnam, but first, he survived Detroit     This collection of short-stories depicts growing up in 1960s Detroit, capturing the author's childhood adventures—alone or with friends—often marked by both fear and excitement. Vivid descriptions bring his experiences to life, revealing the innocence of boys who chase adventure despite the consequences. Readers may recall their own childhood moments, especially those spent running from danger in...

Detail-rich story that keeps the reader engaged
Great introduction to the life of a young man heading to war
Thought-provoking memoir with smiles and tears

     Mr. Podlaski is well-known for the accounts of his time served in the Vietnam War. However, this short story allows readers to see the beginning. He shares the emotions of being drafted into the U.S. Army on 2-27-70 and how it impacted not only him but also his family.
     If you want to know what these ‘soon-to-be soldiers’ experienced at the Induction Center, then this book is a good place to start.

Realistic and well-written
Great story written by an excellent writer.
Podlaski draws readers into the meat of his stories immediately.

John Kowalski makes it home from the Vietnam War in one piece, and his battles are finally over. Or so he thought. Home for less than a week, John must defend his family from a pair of unwelcomed thugs hell-bent on revenge.

This book is perma-free on Amazon.

The author’s style of writing engages all the reader's senses
This evocative, descriptive micro-read will trigger memories
Author, you got me believing in the bogeyman again!

     As a reward, two fourteen-year-old boys are offered a great first-time opportunity to sit up front in the open and watch a movie at a local drive-in theater. Little did they know the movie would affect them in ways neither had imagined nor would ever forget.
     Pick up a copy to find out what happened.

2025 International Impact Book Award Winner.John writes powerful descriptions of people, places, and things.Gripping story that keeps you in the moment. The author paints a vivid picture that has you right in the middle of the action.Thrilling with a lurking sense of constant danger and death.In this page-turning story of bravery, fear, anger, and determination, the soldiers come to life.Realistic and gritty. The author is a great storyteller“When Can I Stop Running?” is the forerunner to this book.     Only a couple of hours had passed since returning to the firebase. Now, ...

Amazon #1 Best Seller in its category for several weeks.2020 Rave Review Book Club Awards: BOOK OF THE YEARJohn Podlaski tells a military story like few others can. He is a gifted writer and will make all of your senses come alive.Written with great attention to detail, putting the reader solidly in John’s shoes.Cleverly Written, Dynamic Story TellingAn amazing story that brought a night of terror into perspective.     Step into the shadows of the Vietnam War and join two young soldiers, alone in a listening post (LP), in the pitch-black jungle of Vietnam. The night seems to g...

A painfully accurate description of the life of a combat infantryman serving in the jungles of Vietnam.For those who never served, it’s an eye-opener. For those who did, it serves as a reminder of that life long ago."Cherries" presents an unvarnished account, and upon completion, readers will gain a deeper appreciation for the trials these young men faced throughout the year.It's a narrative that grips the reader throughout.     In 1970, John Kowalski was among many young, inexperienced soldiers sent to Vietnam to fight in a war that was already controversial. Referred to as �...

An article in U.S. News & World Report on 9/10/21 is titled, "How 9/11 Triggered Two Decades of Global War." This manuscript took well over a year of research and development. All information is factually verified utilizing the Microsoft Bing Search Engine. I performed one hundred and seventy-seven re-edits and published four other times with different titles. The editing of the thirty-four opening pictures and four embedded videos was an immense task due to the file extensions required by numerous retail channels. The reason for opening with pictures and videos is they clearly show the tr...

Jump Gate III – RoadMaker is the book that was destined to unite books two (Teleporter) and book four (Jump Gate). And sure to be the most difficult to write.This tale was intended to be the story of a journey to our closest, possibly habitable planet, orbiting Proxima Centauri. It is four and a half light-years away. There is, of course, an emergency. We needed one to build a story around. One that gives us a scant one hundred years to reach our destination.Mostly, between here and there are millions and billions of miles of empty space. Potential miles and days, months, years, of very empt...

"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...

STINKERBELL the FARTING Fairy, and the TOYBOX Toys!Meet Tink, a fairy with a very unusual magical problem…Every time she waves her wand — PFFFFFT! — something terribly smelly happens!Inside the toybox, chaos erupts as teddy bears, robots, dolls, and dinosaurs try to solve the mystery of the terrible pong filling the room. Who is causing the thunderous toots? And can the Toybox Toys stop the stink before bedtime?Bursting with giggles, rhymes, and wonderfully silly surprises, Stinkerbell the Farting Fairy is a laugh-out-loud children’s picture book and audiobook perfect for storytime, ca...

What if the centuries between life and death were missing… and you were the proof?Joseph William Horne was born in Devonshire in 1739, the son of a country surgeon, educated in the brutal realities of eighteenth‑century medicine and the unforgiving logic of the Enlightenment. His life should be known only to parish records and fading archives.Instead, he is found alive in 1952.As Joseph recounts his youth, his voice carries the texture of another age: the smells of the anatomy theatre, the peril of Atlantic crossings, the rigid hierarchies of shipboard life, and the moral certainties—and...

Between Two Worlds: An Odyssey BeginsCharlie Barley is adrift—literally and figuratively. Once a Royal Navy man, now a castaway on the sleepy island of Petit St Louis, he’s haunted by heartbreak and the bottle, drifting through sun-bleached days and rum-soaked nights. But when a young journalist arrives, chasing the legend of the mysterious Splitwind, Charlie’s world is upended. What begins as a playful interview soon becomes a journey into the unknown, as Charlie is swept into the orbit of Captain Josiah Patch, a grizzled sea gypsy with secrets of his own.Together, they set sail aboard ...

Some places never forget.And some stories refuse to stay buried.Thirty years ago, young sailor Vincent Brown went ashore on a remote South Atlantic island with his shipmates, Frank and Nobbay. What should have been an unremarkable visit left him instead with a memory he could never explain: two young girls, a moment of strange joy, and whispers carried on the wind.Now, Vincent returns to the island with his daughter—older, haunted, and searching for answers. As he walks the scarlet slopes of diddle dee and the wind‑scoured cliffs above a restless sea, the past begins to surface. History, m...

When everything familiar is taken from her, Rosie Winterbourne does the only thing she knows how to do: she goes to sea.A gifted naval sailor with a fierce will to endure, Rosie is already fractured by loss when her life begins to unravel—her career derailed, her loyalties tested, and her sense of reality itself called into question. Haunted by memory, driven by guilt, and carrying a secret she barely understands, she turns to the one place that has ever offered her clarity: the open ocean.Alone aboard a small yacht, Rosie sets out on a journey that is as dangerous inwardly as it is outwardl...

Some people move tourists.Some people move terrorists.Rosie Winterbourne is a former Royal Navy NCO with an unusual skill set: she speaks Arabic, remembers everything she has ever seen, and sails alone with absolute confidence. When a covert British intelligence unit recruits her to quietly observe yacht traffic in Gibraltar, Rosie expects to find drug runners and people‑smugglers.What she finds instead is a secret humanitarian network rescuing baby girls from ISIS‑controlled territory.But salvation has a price.As Rosie digs deeper, she discovers that the same maritime routes are being use...

How far would you go to save a friend—if the people trying to stop you are on your own side?When British intelligence trainee Rosie Winterbourne learns that her closest friend, yacht skipper Michael McCaffey, has been kidnapped by a Daesh splinter group in Libya, she makes a choice that will change her life forever.She disobeys orders.She disappears.And she goes in alone.Armed with her gift for languages and an infallible memory, Rosie crosses North Africa under false identities, pursued by her own agency and aided by men she knows she should never trust. To reach Michael, she must pose as a...

A jewel stolen from legend. A curse that never left the sea.In 800 BCE, a slaver seizes a gold pendant said to be a gift from King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba—and the ocean answers with a storm that swallows ship, crew, and treasure alike.Nearly three thousand years later, Royal Navy petty officer Patrick Redman is on leave in Mombasa when a routine dive turns into a nightmare: a squall erupts out of nowhere, their boat vanishes, and the sea takes one of his friends in a brutal shark attack. Redman survives the impossible swim back to shore—battered, half-conscious… and carrying a heav...

Return to Saba: search for the Eye is the gripping continuation of The Eye of Saba tale—where a lost relic, a fabricated murder case, and a brutal countdown collide.Patrick Redman thought he’d escaped Kenya for good. Haunted by guilt and a past he can’t outrun, he returns in secret to the coast where it all began—only to discover the nightmare has grown darker. Hannelore Friedmann and her friend Thomas Dennie have been condemned to die for a crime they didn’t commit, framed by evidence that shouldn’t exist and a system that won’t listen.With time running out, Patrick hunts for th...

A rogue ex‑operative. A hijacked yacht with hostages. A smuggling route that leads straight into Russia.After losing her dream job at Firegate, Rosie Winterbourne rebuilds her life inside Michael’s yacht brokerage—launching a new enterprise dedicated to tracking down stolen boats. It should be clean work. Insurance cases. Paper trails. Recoveries.Then Sir Tamlyn Battersby’s £2m yacht is taken—along with its skipper and Battersby’s daughter.Rosie is hired to bring them back. But the hunt drags her into a shadow network moving sanctioned goods into Russia: electronics, weapons compo...

Pranita Upadhyay has everything she thought she wanted — a dream job, a promising career, a life that shines from the outside. But when tragedy strikes, the glittering façade of the corporate world shatters, leaving her alone with an irreparable loss.Haunted by what she cannot change, Pranita leaves behind the chaos of the city and retreats into the Himalayas. There, under the guidance of a wise yogi, she discovers a different way of being — a path of meditation, introspection, and renewal.Years later, she returns, transformed and ready to build a life not just for herself, but for countl...

"From the beginning, the reader feels pulled into the narrator's world and observes, along with him, a delicate, beautiful and vulnerable universe as personal and intimate as a conversation between lovers."--Hope Maxell Snyder

Silver Award for Translation 2003 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award --This bilingual novel is "an unusual tale of love, hate, passion and revenge."--Karen Sealy, author of "The Eighth House"

Forgotten Objects traces the life of Anna d’Amio, daughter of opera singers Louis and Francesca d’Amio, from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the mid sixties. The novel proper is made up of three parts: Italy, Cuba and United States. Married at seventeen and widowed at twenty, Anna leaves war-torn Italy to find her fortune in Cuba, she eventually meets Ramón Contreras, a wealthy tobacco grower who later becomes her second husband. The idyllic world that the couple had so laboriously built suddenly comes crashing down after the communist take over of the island and Ram�...

Faded Dreams is an epic autobiography by my fellow writer and good friend Carlos Rubio. Beyond being a very personal story of a young man growing up to the backdrop of this remarkable country of Cuba, there is as well a political subplot of a country that is dragged through the mud by one of the most ruthless dictators in recent world history. The people who populate his world all fantastically come alive on the pages; Carlos does so well in telling how special they were to him, and are still special today. This book now gives us a close-up, in your face look at the very human side of Cuba as ...

A neobaroque novel that immerses the reader in a bedazzling and surrealistic vortex where a search for an idealized goal often turns into a mirage. The four protagonists, Li-Tzu, Candy Slice, Dhalia Meanor and Adela Carroza anxiously await the arrival of Mr. Ioso, the Greek who will fulfill their dreams. It is during this anxious wait that they recount the story of their turbulent lives which are often distorted by desire, ambition and revenge. (Spanish)