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It's a Living chronicled the author's jobs and But I Wouldn't Want to Live There recorded his travels. This book chronicles pretty much everything else as he considers his life's journey thus far. It is a hodge podge of memories collected from narratives, journal entries, letters, history lessons, poems, songs, and philosophical musings. The author pours a spectrum of emotions onto each page, ranging from nostalgic and humorous, to painful and...

Born in a well-lit council room in a beautiful brick building in Philadelphia, our nation was conceived out of an unheard-of political ideal and shaped by five words which have echoed off the walls and streets of every town throughout the nation: All men are created equal However, when the men at Independence Hall dared to forge a new nation against impossible odds, their iconic phrase was little more than a fantasy to such a diverse group ...

8, 000 years ago, the island nation of Gwyrthod rose to prominence as the epicenter of the greatest empire the world of Tarthalla had ever known. 6, 000 years ago, everyone on Gwyrthod suddenly and mysteriously vanished without a trace. Dubbed Terra Maledictus - The Cursed Lands - Gwyrthod was summarily abandoned, its pristine buildings were left to rot, its literature was put out of print and destroyed, and its role as the progenitor nation o...

Do you have any baggage?" she asked. Henry shook his head. "Just a fanny pack full of rocks, " he mumbled. "Rocks?" she asked. "Long story, " he mumbled. "This is a long trip, " Penelope said, "At least seven days by train across Zysa. I don't know if you realize this, but Zysa Railways is very strict. If at any point they suspect that you and I are not honeymooners, they'll put us off at the next available railway station - even if it'...

Captain Surov is a career Diaxophan navy man. He is a man with nerves of steel, and is capable of calming an angry crowd with his stoic presence. He is a man skilled at negotiating peace between the most hostile of peoples. And he has just been selected for the mission of a lifetime. He has been asked to explore Prazdny - an unexplored continent with a reputation for dark practices, mythological creatures, and death. Surov is a man of ambition...

Since the late 1980's, the author has flitted and fluttered merrily from job to job like some sort of hippie butterfly - a carefree gypsy workman whose occupational compass has been largely magnetized by the awestruck wonder of John Denver at one pole and the laid-back vibes of Jimmy Buffett at the other. In spite of the multitudes of people who view their jobs as drudgery, the author has always gloried in the experimentation of different work...

The true pictorial account of a stir crazy guy with a bike who decided to visit co-workers for self-distanced selfies during the self-isolation of coronavirus.

Six individuals who have had the same dream are thrust together by what appears to be supernatural means. They must go on an impossible journey into the place where all points converge to destroy Zrol, one of the last of an ancient human race, before he destroys all life in the universe.

With great brilliance sometimes comes great eccentricity. Meet Pertinax Crisp, one of the most acclaimed detectives in all of Vuldokos, and perhaps in all of Old Tarthalla. Along with his best friend and partner, Captain Thane Ryder, Pertinax Crisp solves crimes that the police department has deemed unsolvable. How was a rich old author murdered in a house surrounded by servants and family when the floors are so creaky that every footstep woul...

For more than sixteen-hundred of the two-thousand years since Christ established his church, the vast majority of ChristianityÕs missionary outreach was done by the unlikeliest group of people Ð monks. Satirized by movies and dismissed as irrelevant by much of Christendom, monastic orders are often depicted as huddling together in secluded rooms far away from the world, ignoring society and adhering to vows of silence. Contrary to how the worl...

An unusual coin. A manuscript of questionable credibility. A bronze statue memorializing an unknown lady. A lost city swallowed by a rainforest. A jewel-encrusted candelabra. A series of journals. Ular, hero of The Saga of Diaxophas books, uses these relics to piece together stories from DiaxophasÕ long-forgotten past. Five novellas tell stories from ancient Diaxophas. Discover the truth behind the first days of Diaxophas. Find out the connect...

When Ular is given the lost journal of Korvlos the Usurper, he is surprised to read descriptions of the tragic accounts of the decline and fall of Old Tarthalla and prophecies of the future destruction of mankind. Each tale is more outrageous than the next, filled with information that Ular initially dismisses as the fanciful imagination of a twisted, broken mind. More disturbing is the fact that Korvlos claimed to have received these tales fr...

Ular walked away from the two lovers, suddenly contemplating his own life choices. He had worked all his life for other people. He had given himself over to full-time service to several kings, the military, history, exploration and preservation, international diplomacy, and scientific reasearch. He had spent so many years in the service of others that he had never thought of pursuing anything for himself. He had spent so many years discovering...

ÒWhere did you find this bottle with a note from Amonwulf?Ó Ular asked, wide-eyed. "I found it washed up on the shore while fishing at the ocean, Ó Sofronius said. ÒItÕs meaningless, though.Ó ÒBefore you Tempests get all excited, Ó Talura warned, ÒYou should know that these things pop up all over Diaxophas these days. You guys are celebrities. That note was probably written by a kid.Ó ÒYou said that the bottle is meaningless, but you were wron...

The raw, dark inclination of humanity is for a person to elevate himself at the expense of another human being. Diaxophas is a dog-eat-dog world in which everyone is trying to claw their way to the top for his own purpose. One manÕs fate often rests in the hands of those whose actions may have wide-reaching and unforeseen ramifications. In this collection of stories, the fate of the Tempests is delicately intertwined with the actions of Sharpk...

An unusual coin. A manuscript of questionable credibility. A lost city swallowed by a rainforest. A jewel-encrusted candelabra. A series of journals. Ular, hero of The Saga of Diaxophas books, uses these relics to piece together stories from DiaxophasÕ long-forgotten past. Five novellas tell stories from ancient Diaxophas. Discover the truth behind the first days of Diaxophas. Find out the connection between Vayle ForestÕs initial enchantment ...

Where did the Adyntia plant come from? Who put it on Tarthalla and for what purpose? What were the AdyntiaÕs hideous effects on human test subjects? What were the Great Storms like and did anyone survive? Parallax only told you part of TarthallaÕs story. The short stories collected in Dead Whisperings weave together tales of horror, ghostly encounters, mystery, tragedy, conspiracy, other-worldly visitors, comedy, action, and mind-bending plot ...

Zyx and humans alike pursue a dead civilization's fabled treasure - a cache of unknown contents believed to have caused the destruction of Old Tarthalla. To avoid history repeating such cataclysmic events, Dyven and friends will have to make strange alliances, race to gather mysterious artifacts, and prepare for a war that threatens to destroy Diaxophas once and for all.

Two parallel storylines go across time to compare the fall of ancient Tarthalla with the apparent imminent fall of Diaxophas. Both worlds struggle with the moral dilemmas of power and authority: the unworthy who thirst for it versus the worthy who long to avoid it. Dyven and friends survive a whirlwind of political intrigue, prison breaks, technological gadgetry, and espionage as both timelines hurtle toward very startling conclusions.

When a renegade explorer named Korvlos turns up missing at sea, Dyven and friends uncover evidence that he might be a Zyx. Worse yet, Dyven and friends suspect that he might be the leader of a shadow organization called the Nysterion who are plotting treachery against Aglar, the High King. As our heroes spiral further into peril on the high seas, forgotten secrets and disturbed pasts come to light as a troubling connection is made between the ...