A young gay teen wrestles with acceptance of himself and the fear of rejection of those closest to him.Following an altercation with his brother, a young gay teen wrestles with acceptance of his identity and the fear of rejection of those closest to him.

Charles Lambert, an orphan of the warf, hires on as a deckhand to "The Valiant Lady", captained by Darcell Covington. Charles experiences adventures he never dreamed possible, and when a terrible storm tosses the ship around, Charles is caught up in the ropes.Abra, an intellectually gifted woman from a family with mentally retarded parents and siblings, is the family caretaker until she goes away to college severing all family ties. Her high school teacher helps her find a small college far from home where she begins to weave a fictitous life as an orphan. She becomes a successful psychologist and creates an independent life that she likes. Sixteen years after leaving home, she learns that her sister died. She decides to share her family secrets with her friends and colleagues as the starting point on her quest to understand why she abandoned her family. She falls is love with Adam, her high school teacher's nephew, who helps her cope with her view that she has "dirty genes" which should never be passed on.

Brenna Strachan is getting ready to turn 30. For a demon, this is the time of maturing. She’ll gain all her demon powers and have eternity to learn to use them.But maturing has a drawback, for the next month, she’s mortal.Brenna Strachan is getting ready to turn 30. For a demon, this is the time of maturing. She’ll gain all her demon powers and have eternity to learn to use them. But maturing has a drawback, for the next month, she’s mortal. Prophesy says she’ll become one of the most powerful beings on Earth. There’s a long list of beings who fear and loathe the power that Brenna might gain and are willing to take advantage of her status as a mortal. However, when one of her own family members is involved in plotting her death, it’s becomes about more than just survival.

You’ll love this fast paced story from beginning to end packed with tons of action romance and laughs. Wilson entered college looking for fun, pizza, and friends. But found himself in a group of students rounded up by the government for their unique talents. In their 1st semester Wilsons group would be asked to not only pass all their classes but also save the world. Read book 2 "VISION" out nowA hundred years ago, Super Sapient AIs made first ever contact with intelligent life from outside our solar system. Millions died. A century later, an expeditionary force arrives to liberate the first human world to fall. Among them is an outcast officer, a rebel smuggler, and a soldier in a secret pact. They are unprepared for what they find. The AI cabal that guides Humanity discovers evidence of Post-Singularity beings among the aliens. However, they are puzzled by their hostility. Can peaceful contact between the governing minds be achieved? Can they balance this against the existential danger of a genocidal opponent? On the conquered human world, they begin to learn the darker picture of the galaxy's history.Burning Eagle is about a Transhumanist society that goes to war. Hard science fiction readers of Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space, James S. A. Corey's Expanse, or the Mass Effect universe, should consider it. Readers who appreciate Dan Abnett and John Scalzi's military science fiction, will also not go wanting.

Hell comes home to Jersey.Seven ancient demons known as the Fallen have awakened in New Jersey. Fortunately for Mike and Ann, so has the one man who can stop them, Joseph Miller. Trapped in a hospital filled with mythical monsters, only together can they unravel the mystery of the Cursed and escape with not only their lives but their very humanity.Hell comes home to Jersey.Seven ancient demons known as the Fallen have awakened in New Jersey after a hundred years. Fortunately for Mike and Ann, so has the one man who can stop them, Joseph Miller. Trapped in a hospital filled with mythical monsters, only together can they unravel the mystery of the Cursed and escape with not only their lives but their very humanity.Ancient Awakening is a Horror/Action novel with just the right touch of comedy. It is the first book in the series "The Ancient" which follows the adventures of eccentric demon hunter Joseph Miller. His job is to defend the human race against seven mythical demons and their offspring. Unfortunately for us, he has been dead for the last hundred years. Ancient Awakening will be followed by Ancient Enemies in 2010 and Ancient Revelations in 2011 and is written by Matthew Bryan Laube.The second edition of Ancient Awakening is re-edited and re-cut for maximum monster hunter action. It includes a free preview chapter of Ancient Enemies.

It's a book about show business, where fame is the stock in trade. Each year there are hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre, firmly convinced they're destined to be famous Broadway stars or playwrights.

Jim Stalin thought he was a nondescript government agent on a mission to find an artifact that has long been missing. He doesn't know where it is or why he's looking for it, but he thinks that all questions will be answered when he gets there. Join him and his insane friends as he goes on an adventure the likes of which haven't been seen since Leslie Nielsen had that love child with John Cleese.Jim Stalin thought he was a nondescript government agent on a mission to find an artifact that has long been missing. He doesn't know where it is or why he's looking for it, but he thinks that all questions will be answered when he gets there. Join him and his insane friends as he goes on an adventure the likes of which haven't been seen since Leslie Nielsen had that love child with John Cleese.A 2004 National Novel Writing Month winner, this insane story takes the absurdity of a Monty Python movie and inserts dozens of really bad running gags to the far extremes as they look for The Black Fossil.

From the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons comes a rich and compelling novel--a New York Times bestseller--about a mismatched marriage, and its consequences spanning three generations.

a novel by edward j. rathke: more information can be found at www.kuboapress.wordpress.comBy 2050 the country has gone through some slight changes thanks to a dramatic shift in the makeup in the country's populace giving liberals, referred to by various uncomplimentary names, control over Washington. In that thirty years the country becomes the veritable paradise moonbats have long sought to create, but more resembling a third-world banana republic where English is replaced by twenty-five variations of gang slang, no one gets beyond third grade, rioting and something resembling football with hockey sticks are the national pastimes. There is now a "Forever President," welfare moms have replaced small business, corn is the cornerstone of industry, and people drive around in either battery-powered bubble cars or Latino lowriders. All the while, non-thinking Schwartz is led around on a doggie leash, and has become a 'pinball,' with names ranging from Vic to Dick to Bic, and spends his day bouncing around the fenced playground of a former elementary school turned asylum for the insane. One fine spring day the gate to the compound suddenly opens and Schwartz, along with a hundred or so inmates, unthinkingly escape. While walking aimlessly down a highway, he is struck by another truck (an electric bus) and suddenly awakens from his long sleep to find the liberals' variation of paradise has really arrived in America! Schiessen!

Jaiden Daniels, son of a billionaire, has it all.Everything but Mina Lin's heart.Two years after Mina had rejected him, Jaiden convinces himself that he has forgotten all about her. Mina is but a memory... and yet his heart can't help but go crazy in Mina's presence. He wants Mina, but so does a creep... Can Jaiden win Mina's love and save her from a crazy admirer before it's too late?The Orb of Wrath combines fantasy, intrigue and adventure, while transports the reader into a world where almost nothing is what it seems. Plots, counterplots, mysteries, blossoming relationships, disappointments, betrayals, dangers and successes, are combined in this fun cocktail.Erion is a skilled looter who runs the kingdom of Bor with his "brother" Mithir, performing dangerous commissions for wealthy clients. Mithir helps with his long trained magical abilities. One day, when they are doing one of their assignments, they encounter another group of adventurers, with whom they are forced to cooperate.The plot runs in the World of Oris which consists of 12 kingdoms and includes elves clans, dangerous monsters, dwarf kings, rich desert emirs, strange beasts, hospital halflings, ferocious orcs, ingenious gnomes, powerful wizards, brave knights, merchants, terrible vampires, etc. Recommended for the permanent library of all fantasy readers.Do you dare to accompany Erion and his friends in their adventures?

In this story of hidden magic and forbidden love, the King's Rider Justin befriends Ellynor, a young novice at a convent-only to discover that she is a mystic being manipulated by the fanatical Daughters of the Pale Moon into hunting down and killing other mystics.

Sasha is a single mother and youngest of three sisters. Drama follows her everywhere and her sisters, Stacey and Randi are fed up with her temper and untamed tongue. She faces many trials and reacts harshly, failing to consider the consequences of her actions. Using her beauty to get herself in and out of trouble. Until she has a life-changing moment.Sasha is a single mother and youngest of three sisters. Drama follows her everywhere and her sisters, Stacey and Randi are fed up with her temper and untamed tongue. Their relationship with Sasha seems toxic due to her unbearable irresponsible lifestyle. She faces many trials and reacts harshly, failing to consider the consequences of her actions. Using her beauty to get herself out of trouble was typical, until finally she had a wake up call after killing two people.

It's the zombie apocalypse and the living have been separated from the undead. However, life still goes on as normal. Normal means there're some who prefer to be on the spotlight more than others. But, to what length can people go to to make themselves known.A short story.The Spark That Ignites The Flame.Seventeen years ago an entire generation of aliens were sent to Earth in order to save their home planet and integrate into the human population. Now, those aliens are being hunted.Amery Jones is finally allowed to go to camp for the summer. With her best friend Lola by her side, she is expecting awesome times ahead.Unfortunately, Lochie, her charming mortal enemy and the only guy who can get under her skin, seems to have made it his mission to annoy her for the entire summer.When one of the campers goes missing, Amery finds herself teamed up with Lochie in the search mission. Now, more than ever, her alien status has to remain a secret.Also in the Project Integrate Series:Ignite (Short Prequel)UniteDivideConquerSoarRiseBroken

When Ava wakes to her grandmother’s screams, she discovers her worst nightmare has become reality.Ten-year-old Ava wakes in the night to the screams of her grandmother. Fearing for her life, she rushes to the window to escape the terror that waits outside her door.Full panic sets in when the doorknob jiggles, then the familiar voice of her aunt rings out. Confusion clouds Ava’s sleep-filled mind as she realizes no one is there to harm them. However, the message she’s given is much worse than anything she could have imagined.There was an accident.With nowhere to go, no way out, and no one to save her, Ava alone must confront the nightmare that is now reality.

Have you ever met a vampire? What would it be like? Here is one version.Most days start off as normal days. At least that’s what little Lenny Helzerman thinks. He thinks that there aren’t any good or bad days—it’s just the stuff that happens during the day that makes it good or bad or memorable or forgettable. Little Lenny Helzerman doesn’t expect anything more from one day than he does any other day and he doesn’t give anything more to one day than he does any other day. It is all the same. And this suits him just fine.

Join an adventure through time and space! Go with androids, humans and their alien friends, to find adventure and companionship in the cosmic realms of the imagination. There's more to deep-space than meets the eye! So, come along with the interstellar gang of misfits, as they explore their worlds, and the universe around them.Oberon Prime and Titania Alpha, are perfect android and human breeding grounds! Not too cold, not too hot, and the gravity is just right, even if a little weaker than here. Doctor Maxwell Sohn, of 'Sohn, Space Industries', found two planets with favorable conditions for human life to prosper. He made it his mission in life, to create a second chance for humanity to make things right. With earthlings destroying their biosphere, and impact threats from above, he knows time grows short for those on a once hospitable Earth. The welcome-mat growths thin.... Expansion and diversity off planet, is the only way to win! After creating an army of sentient androids, and getting enough of them to volunteer for a dangerous space adventure, his mission to the stars takes shape (book one: Android Lives Matter). He sends androids to the stars with biologic materials, and the necessary equipment to artificially grow humans. Nyla and Wilber Sohn, (Dr. Sohn's adopted android companions) become the proud parents of a bakers-dozen of human infants on a far off world. Nyla thinks of them as her dirty-dozen, who are always in need of a bath. And, for the most part, she's right. Even though she does her best! They grow like alien weeds! Providing great challenges for the two androids. Along the way, they meet with what earthling would consider extra-terrestrial life-forms. Some friendly .... some not so much! An alien headband obtained during a pirate raid on their spacecraft during the long flight to Oberon Prime, teaches the ways of advanced technologies. As desperate gray's, make peace with their own fate. A multi-verse of cosmic domains, and a slipstream running throughout, creates an endless source of adventure. Nyla and Wil, raise a brood of human children on an alien world, far from home. But, to the young humans, Oberon Prime and Titania Alpha are not strange planets at all! They are home! And, they wouldn't have it any other way!

Watching Anna die was horrifying. But Eric can change it.Again and again, he goes back in time to stop her from dying... and yet she keeps dying. It's as if fate wants her dead.But fate has nothing to do with it. The government that oppresses the people know if Anna lives, they can never exist. As they try to kill her, Eric tries to save her, because a world without her is unthinkable.Anna sings like an angel, and it moves Eric in ways he can’t describe. Watching her die is an agony he cannot bear. So he goes back and prevents her death.It isn’t be the first time he changed history to save her, and it won’t be the last. Eric continually goes back through time to alter whatever may harm her, but it’s a full time job. No matter how many times he goes back through time to prevent her death, some new tragedy arises to end her life. Whether a lighting rig that falls on her during a concert or a train that crushes her—it’s as if fate wants her dead.But fate has nothing to do with it. The tyrannical government of Eric’s timeline knows this talented young singer’s very existence is a threat to their power. Something she does changes the awful future that is Eric’s present, and only with her death can their “perfect” society prevail. With access to Eric’s machine, they’ll stop at nothing to end her life for good.Ironically, Eric is running out of time. His machine is breaking down. Soon he won’t be able to undo the damage done by the leaders of his world. His choices narrow, and he knows even if he can save her she may never remember he existed.Eric has to try, for a world without her is unthinkable.

A one hundred fifty-year-old photograph of a dying boy leads a former New Orleans D.A. back to Louisiana when his son is abducted by the sister of a man he falsely convicted of murder.In the Antebellum South, when a family was about to lose a child to yellow fever or small pox, a photograph of the dying child would be commissioned. A desperate and frightening memento, it was called a remembrance photo. 　 Three days ago, ten-year-old Steven Haggerty, son of successful attorney and true crime author Richard Haggerty, disappeared from a playground near his Marin County home. 　 This morning, Richard received a manila envelope in his San Francisco office stamped with a New Orleans postmark. The envelope contained a sepia-toned photograph virtually identical to a remembrance photo from the 1800’s. 　 Except the child in the photo was Steven. 　 Now Richard must return to New Orleans, the city where he began his career. The city from which he escaped, leaving behind a dark secret. The city where someone from his past is holding his son. Remembrance Photo is a dark thriller that takes its audience on a journey through the shadowy underbelly of New Orleans and the surrounding swampy woods and bayous of southern Louisiana. It contains a strong but flawed male protagonist, a dangerous and terrifying antagonist and a series of disturbing twists leading to a shocking conclusion.

This Christmas is the first time Josh and his husband Garrison are sharing the holiday with their children, Henry and Gabriella. Of course, this being the Dabbs-Williams household, there are crazy dogs, visits from the in-laws, and the uncertain waters of parenthood. But Josh and Garrison have each other, and their family and friends, and a house full of love, so the holidays will be perfect.This Christmas is going to be a special one for Officer Josh Dabbs and his husband Garrison Williams: For the first time, they're sharing the holiday with their children, Henry and Gabriella. Of course, this being the Dabbs-Williams household, there are crazy dogs, visits from the in-laws to prepare for, and the uncertain waters of parenthood as Gabriella tests her boundaries. But Josh and Garrison have each other, and their family and friends, and a house full of love, so the holidays can't be more perfect.

You're never too old for a curtain call... especially on the front lines.(A FEW SAMPLE CHAPTERS OF HAROLD FLEENOR'S NOVEL "THE VALOR ROAD" FOLLOWS)The controversial and somewhat eagerly anticipated Ender's Game was not the first and only story about a kid being recruited to save the Earth through a video game simulation. That privilege goes to the original and totally un-derivative film, The Last Starfighter. Since then, the premise has become somewhat tired due to overexposure, namely by the use of actual video game addicts to pilot drone fighters in recent times. A tired premise, indeed, until now, where the additional plot element of hamburgers makes the entire production much more appetizing. Can you wait to find out what hamburgers have to do with child recruitment into video game wars that turn out to be real? You can't.

As a first time publisher I thought, why not write poems about something I know best- myself. Each of the poems in my book 'Poems From My Life' are in some form about myself and about my life. Whether it's about an self-harm problem or about the future, this book is sure to capture your attention and teach a little something about a struggle. The following 11 poems will get your heart racing.As a publisher, and a teen of the age 17, why not write poems about something I know best- myself. Each of the poems in my book 'Poems From My Life' are in some form about myself and about my life. Whether it's about an self-harm problem, or about the future, this book is sure to capture your attention and teach a little something about a struggle. The following 11 poems are guaranteed to get your heart racing and to turn your emotions on.