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Hundreds of infants, children, and young adults meet death everyday. In the early evening hours of June 20, 1997, the life of Valerie Victoria James ended as the result of a car accident. Valerie was a vibrant, enthusiastic, beautiful Christian teenager. She was an integral part of her community and school, her favorite organizational activities, and her close knit family. But Valerie's death started her family on a journey to overcome their o...

When one of Cassie Spencer's high-rolling customers offers to take the waitress sailing in the Caribbean, Cassie figures she has nothing to lose-that is, until a gang of drug pirates attacks the ship and takes Cassie prisoner after slitting her friend's throat. Knowing that any mistake will be fatal, Cassie waits for the perfect time to make her escape. She makes a swim for Dead Chest Island, where, days later, she is rescued by brothers Doug ...

This is the tale of Thomas Jadwin's dream of America. The story occurs during the last half of the reign of England's greatest monarch Elizabeth I and the first decades of her hand-picked successor James I. Thomas' father was a cutler of Welsh ancestry who supplied fine weapons for Nobility. Thomas courts and weds the beautiful and educated fishmonger's daughter, Catherine Pelham. As a wedding gift the Jadwins are given a tenement on the High ...

A house full of whispers is a true account of my struggle through unimaginable abuse, firstly by my foster parents and in a cruel twist of fate by my biological mother. Step-daddy loved me in a special way that became a secret. Mother allowed appalling things to happen, and played torturous games with my mind. I fought hard to survive as he broke my bones but never achieved my soul. The night devil was going to punish me for daring to speak ou...

A house full of whispers is a true account of my struggle through unimaginable abuse, firstly by my foster parents and in a cruel twist of fate by my biological mother. Step-daddy loved me in a special way that became a secret. Mother allowed appalling things to happen, and played torturous games with my mind. I fought hard to survive as he broke my bones but never achieved my soul. The night devil was going to punish me for daring to speak ou...

Contemporary Futurist Thought describes recent thinking about the future, dealing with both the hopes and the fears expressed in modern times concerning what potentially lies ahead. There are many such hopes and fears - perhaps an overpowering number, competing with each other and swirling about in the collective mind of humanity. Psychologist and futurist Tom Lombardo describes this mental universe of inspiring dreams and threatening premonit...

Who are we?' is an informative reading for all of us who want to know how we came about. It takes us to an extraordinary journey through life replete with observations, reasoning and faith. In this fascinating book Dr. Laj Utreja puts forth his provocative thesis that we create our world from the impressions of our unresolved intentions and attitudes. These intentions and attitudes afford us choices in making our destiny. Laj takes us to an al...

Are there any unique qualities that humans possess that make us special within the world of nature? Since the beginnings of recorded history, we have pondered this question. What if many of humanity's highest qualities and unique achievements, such as technology, civilization, morals, self-consciousness, freedom of choice, religion, and science are all built upon a single distinctive human capacity? It may be that our highly evolved mental pow...

. Wondering why every frog you kiss turns into The Complete Loser? . Exhausted looking for your Mr. Right in bars and clubs? . Think internet dating only offers Frankensteins? . Is there a sign on your suitor's head saying , "Girl, run for your life?" . Thinking, he hasn't called, should I call? He still hasn't called, should I call? . Does the Angel and Devil in you fight over when to have sex with him ? . Want to know how to act and where to...

When Sydney is stuck with a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill at Red Bud Cove, and is not able to pay for the metal detector and the microscope she had ordered, she gets mad. Mad enough to bring the crooks to justice. She, aided by her twin sister Taryn, and cousins Dylan and Bailey, makes life miserable for the crooks as they constantly investigate how and where the counterfeiters are operating. However, before the criminals are brought to justi...

Tami Tanaka finds a journal written by her granduncle, the commander of a Japanese submarine lost while on a secret mission during the Second World War. The journal raises many shocking questions and is the catalyst that propels Tami and ex Navy SEAL, Rick Hunter, on a perilous journey in search of sunken treasure.

E X C E R P T S from The Shaman in the Disco: .it often happens for men that sensual deprivation leads to sexual obsession. .Not knowing how to be with his inner alienation, he brings it to his girlfriend and experiences it, inaccurately, as estrangement between them. This perilous move to seek one's psychological moorings in someone else is to a great extent the fulfillment of our cultural fantasy of "love." .I see in the image of Dracula, be...

Assignment Sahara: Chad and Sudan puts Janine Simms, an experienced CIA operative, into one of the most dangerous assignments of her career. She is sent to Chad, Central Africa, under the auspices of the American Embassy, ostensibly to oversee the delivery of food and medical supplies to refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan. Her real mission is to search for the missing daughter of a U.S. senator. The girl, Lilli, has mysteriously disappea...

Stony Suitt went to the Yuma Arizona Territorial Prison for five years. Now he's out and returning to the town of Buckeye, Arizona where he was raised. It is his intent to find the men guilty of framing him for robbing a stagecoach that was carrying fifty thousand dollars in cash. When he begins to ask questions, people begin to worry, including his childhood friend, Jack Thompson, Buckeye's sheriff. Things really begin to heat up when a noted...

When one of Cassie Spencer's high-rolling customers offers to take the waitress sailing in the Caribbean, Cassie figures she has nothing to lose-that is, until a gang of drug pirates attacks the ship and takes Cassie prisoner after slitting her friend's throat. Knowing that any mistake will be fatal, Cassie waits for the perfect time to make her escape. She makes a swim for Dead Chest Island, where, days later, she is rescued by brothers Doug ...

When Sydney is stuck with a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill at Red Bud Cove, and is not able to pay for the metal detector and the microscope she had ordered, she gets mad. Mad enough to bring the crooks to justice. She, aided by her twin sister Taryn, and cousins Dylan and Bailey, makes life miserable for the crooks as they constantly investigate how and where the counterfeiters are operating. However, before the criminals are brought to justi...

Maximilienne Carpentier is an elusive and enigmatic figure. As fascinating as the island she lives on, this guileless and emotionally vulnerable woman is betrayed by her lover and left for dead by her family, yet through all these conflicts she still finds the courage to oppose-and the heart to forgive-those who have threatened her. Her cousin Emilie, however, is cut from different cloth, and her subsequent situation is as unwelcome as it is c...

Standing defiantly at the bars of his cage, Caleb Lomax shouts, "How could the fate of the world ever be dealt to the beasts? Only God can control that! God, and the one created 'in his own image'. and that's MAN!." The hunter's ranting falls upon deaf ears, and minutes later The Council and their newly found Chosen One render the death sentence to his countenance of horror and disbelief. When Buffalo Roam is brought to life by the fantasy's p...

It Took An Earthquake chronicles the life of the quintessential aristocrat Harry Frankland, great-grandson of Oliver Cromwell, son of the Governor of the East India Company in Bengal, India, and himself the 4th Baronet of Thirsk and the Collector of the Port of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It describes his voyage from Bengal to England at age 12 aboard a Dutch East Indiaman vessel and his education at the ancestral Frankland home, G...

Magic Moments is a selection of poetry from the work of three poets. It runs through a gamut of various forms of poetry as it travels a gauntlet of emotions. An adventure awaits you. Let your imagination free as you read poems from the narrative section. Relive the good and bad times as you read from Memories. Exercise and stimulate your mind with selections from Deep Thoughts. Relive love past and dream of love to come and recall those who ha...