Shapers follows Blake, an old-school surfer from Venice, Ca, to Florida where he starts his life shaping and crafting surfboards. It is filled with descriptive content, and action. He's a little rough around the edges but you'll learn to like him.Shapers is the story of an old-school shaper, a surf-board maker, who moves from Southern California to the gulf coast of Florida, taking focus away from his surfing career and putting it all on making his boards. His name is Blake and he's a badass. He might talk like a hippie, but that's the years of psychedelic drugs finally getting to him.

Drake Jinx finds himself dragged into a huge conflict against a powerful enemy that the world has never seen before. After being given the power of leaping, the ability to transfer himself and his friends through packets of time and space, he sets out to build an army that can battle this strange new threat. But not everything goes as planned, and he finds himself wondering who he can trust.The Pisces Empire, the universe's biggest and strongest superpower, is under attack. For years, they reigned supreme over all other nations by utilizing the power of Leaping. The ability to Leap allowed a single representative of the Pisces Empire to instantly travel between not only worlds, but time periods as well. With the technology the Empire gained from this ability, they were thought to be invincible. But when this strange attacking force doesn't let up, the Empire starts to worry. Drake Jinx, a snarky and lazy scientist in the employ of the Pisces Empire finds himself forcibly dragged into a war he didn't want to be in after being granted the power to Leap and sent off into the unknown to gather an army in order to combat this strange foe. Accompanied by Lilly Swift, the Pisces Empire's chosen field agent and constant tormentor, Drake Jinx comes to find that he too might have stakes this war, and those that were once his friends might just be working against him.Off The Grid is a 57,000 word novel meant to be a fun read for any age. This book is a mix of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

"The black hole" is a fictitious work which takes you through time back and forth. A drama on love, trust and betrayal. Leena ,a woman juggles with her life unaware of truth and her son Sammer advents with time unusually on occasions unveiling the mystery slowly.She ran, ran and ran away, away with her dress sweeping the ground. She ran from the world . She wanted to run from everyone. She murdered . Did she ? "The black hole" is a fictitious work which takes you through time back and forth. A drama on love, trust and betrayal , it's a story set in India. Leena ,a woman juggles with her life unaware of truth and her son Sammer advents unusually on occasions. As the story proceeds , the suspense sheds off to clear the scenerio .

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward of The Last of the Mohicans and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart, whose name is English for the French nickname for the Delaware, le Coeur-dur. Natty is drawn to Hard Heart as a noble warrior in the likeness of his dear friend Uncas, "the last of the Mohicans."

The Hillbilly Jungle: Part TwoThe adventure continues across the Great Smokey Mountains for Karen, Jeff, and Fox.What people are saying about this book:"Finally, someone uses my WHOLE quote!": Ned Kelly."I guess I should have known it would come to this.": Noah"If only I had passed through Seagull City on my way to Rangoon!" Russell Guy.

Jericho Johnson: Gauntlet of Time is a new take on the much overdone time-traveling genre with a fresh, rule-breaking take on the choices and ramifications associated with such.Jericho Johnson is a twenty-two year old prodigy who has a masters degree in history, living out his life teaching at a college to students mostly older than him. When he discovers a white gauntlet with the ability to send him through time and space on a freak hiking trip, though, his already abnormal existence gets even more so when he begins traveling to all the wondrous places he had read about. Also, he uses his new gift like anyone else would in 2012 and becomes a billionaire in a few short months as he predicts major, world-changing outcomes and events, keeping the gauntlet a secret while the populace hoists him atop the pantheon of prophets, seers, wizards and the just plain lucky. Jericho's perfect, time-traveling life is turned upside down when he meets Chloe Sparks, a Russian girl from the year 2340, who tries to tell him that he should stop while he was ahead and give her his precious gauntlet. But just when Jericho thinks getting pulled over by a future time-cop is all he has to worry about, he meets Klaus, another man from the future who has his on private agenda including, but not limited to, the destruction of the Jericho's world and a major Russian takeover. When the reality hits, Jericho, along with a ragtag group of antiheroes he pulled from several different times, step up to the plate to stop the madman, save the world, everyone in it, and, most of all, time itself.

In December 1993, Pentagon weapons designer and engineer Doctor Olivia Tolchin attends a Washington, DC arms show. She is accomplished, professionally stymied and personally drifting. Then the senior Russian military intelligence officer in America, Major General Getmanov, approaches her and makes her an offer she can't refuse. A love, politics, and war story set in Russia in the 1990s.It is December 1993 in Washington, DC at an arms show. Pentagon weapons designer and engineer Doctor Olivia Tolchin is drifting. She is at the conference to network and to interview, to take the next step in her life. In a cliché, she is a brilliant, beautiful blonde.Professionally, she is stymied, on the verge of allowing herself to be co-opted by the Military-Industrial-Congressional complex, a far more lucrative life than her current one at Los Alamos. She is a highly-regarded engineer, worth a great deal of money to a defense contractor who could use her to sell sensors for urban combat to the Pentagon: fragile, exotic and hopelessly overpriced, while she wants to create reasonably-priced, reliable, good-enough. In the aftermath of the Cold War, she knows that this is more and more the defense contracting game. Playing it would give her access to better labs, equipment and personnel. It would make her a wealthy woman, while the betrayal, of herself and her country’s best interests, would embitter her deeply. Personally, Olivia was badly hurt in a light plane crash. A licensed instructor pilot, she learned too late how reckless her student was. In the instant when she chose to save her student’s life as well as her own, and then during all the months of therapy that followed, she fundamentally chose to live without compromise. By the time of the arms show, she is still unable to run but she can now hike again. Her lover didn’t wait to experience the changes in her character: he left her while she was still hospitalized. She settled out of court with the wealthy lawyer who was her student. Between the settlement, her family money, and her personal ability, she is more than financially secure. There is a great deal she could do with the rest of her life: it doesn’t have to be defense. She has many options. She is pondering these facts of her life in a defense contractor’s hospitality suite at the arms show when the senior Russian military intelligence officer in America, Major General Getmanov, approaches her. He tells her simply: you and your work are of great interest to us. Although we are not yet friends, we are no longer enemies—but we share common enemies. Call me if you want your work to matter. She does. Late that night, walking and talking, he makes her an offer. Come work for us, he says. Be our Walter Christie, the tank specialist whose ideas revolutionized our armor designs and helped us win World War II. She counters in a way that strips him of his tradecraft: not here, that would make me a criminal or worse. In Russia. Where I will skip all the phony testing and benchmarks, and within a quarter, maybe two, go straight to operational testing and evaluation in the field.In the cauldron that is the First Chechen War, a cauldron made infinitely worse by a Russian Army collapsing into the particular horror of military ineptitude.The last thing Olivia does before she gets on that plane to Russia is to tell the CIA what she’s going to do, and why. It’s not a promising meeting. Her CIA contact blows her off as drunk, drug-addled, probably promiscuous, delusional and grandiose, but, he promises her, he’ll write a memo. Do that, she tells him: gelding. Of course that memo is sold. Back to the Russians. Where it threatens to destroy not just Olivia but all those she has come to love and who have come to trust her.A love, politics, and war story set in Boris Yeltsin’s corrupt and violent Russia of the 1990s.

The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found.Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure—one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it. Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution—linked to the knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through an ancestor, a Confederate spy named Angus "Cotton" Adams, whose story holds the key to everything. Complicating matters are the political ambitions of a reckless Speaker of the House and the bitter widow...

Sir Differel Van Helsing awakens in the middle of the night to find her house empty. All her staff, guards, and servants have disappeared, including Vlad Drakulya. She is all alone and help from outside is hours away. Can she find her people and rescue them before it's too late? Without succumbing to the force that took them? This is a short story.Sir Differel Van Helsing has finally been confirmed Director of the Caerleon Order, and has begun her training to officially take over when she turns 21. Though dedicated and precocious, no one expects her to be able to do anything important for a few years yet.As such, when she awakens in the middle of the night to find that everyone in her manor house--staff, guards, and servants alike--have disappeared without a trace, she questions whether she has what it takes to find and rescue them. But she must try regardless, even if she risks succumbing to the same force.

The Legend of Brandice May. For kids around 10 - 12 plus. 10 year old Lawrence has spent the last year faithfully searching for his lost kitten Lucy. Soon he finds himself caught up in a mysterious plot involving ancient magic. Our two heroes fight a dangerous witch’s coven, rescue a sickly peasant girl, save the weird land of dream and visit strange, far off worlds.The Legend of Brandice May. (43,500 words) A longer tale for kids around 10 -12 plus, telling of a young cat burglar with a difference. Fit, adventurous, 10 year old Lawrence has spent the last year faithfully searching for his lost kitten Lucy. When his admirable efforts pay off, he finds himself caught up in a mysterious plot involving ancient magic. For spoiling these crazy plans the evil Brandice May remains determined to wreak revenge on them both. Our two heroes fight a dangerous witch’s coven, rescue a sickly peasant girl, save the weird land of dream and visit strange, far off worlds. The kind, thoughtful pair make powerful friends on the way too, but how will Lawrence and the rather special Lucy stop the unnaturally old evil forever?

A supernatural giant octopus is terrorizing the northern coast of Ecuador. Only one man can fight it: The Old Gringo. So an ecuadorian sailor asks for his help. This desperate request is the ignition of a close combat between the evil octopus and the elder adventurer.The novel is a kind of fast paced action spin-off of the well known "The Old Man And The Sea" by Ernest Miller Hemingway.A supernatural giant octopus is terrorizing the northern coast of Ecuador. Only one man can fight it: The Old Gringo. So an ecuadorian sailor asks for his help. This desperate request is the ignition of a close combat between the evil octopus and the elder adventurer.The novel is a kind of fast paced action spin-off of the well known "The Old Man And The Sea" by Ernest Miller Hemingway, depicting a different main character, more yankee style.

Swept away in a tsunami, Little John Lou drifts in his house along the currents of oceans and time, encountering characters, places, and authors from classic literature who help or hinder him along his way. Full of imaginative imagery and rhythmic language, this story will charm readers of all ages. In this first book, John meets the wandering seaman from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner.""It all happened when on the night of the storm, when the dogs ran away, and the parents weren't home, when the sea rose up from its bed in the bay and washed all the boats and the houses away. Then the sun peeked over the edge of the waves and caught the moon napping, so night slipped away. Then Little John Lou awoke all alone in his home like an island surrounded by foam. The waves splashed against the house with a roar, but he felt like a captain far away from the shore. Though lost and alone on a billowing sea, strange though it was he felt totally free."So begins the epic journey of Little John Lou. Join him in his quest to return to his family as he drifts along the currents of oceans and time, encountering characters, places, and authors from classic literature who help or hinder him along his way. Full of imaginative imagery and rhythmic language, this story will charm readers of all ages. Parents, in particular, can introduce their children to characters and stories from classic literature by reading this unconventional children's tale one chapter at a time as a bedtime story. This first book provides a brief window into Little John's Odyssey as he meets the wandering seaman from Coleridge's famous poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

A troubled young boy who has never learnt how to use his imagination sets out on a life changing adventure.Ever stopped to think what your life would be like if you could not use your imagination.No dreams, no visions, no creativity and you cannot make the boring and mundane anything but boring and mundane.Meet Steven Kray, a troubled young boy who has never learnt how to use his imagination.Close to his 8th birthday he sets out on a life changing adventure.

Given the chance, fifteen-year-old Peregrine "Perry" Eckert would dedicate every waking moment to Creatures & Caverns, an epic role-playing game rich with magical creatures, spell casting, and deadly weapons. The world of C&C is where he feels most comfortable in his own skin. But that isn't happening--not if his parents have anything to do with it. Concerned their son lacks social skills, they ship him off to summer camp to become a man. They want him to be outdoors playing with kids his own age and meeting girls--rather than indoors alone, with only his gaming alter ego for company. Perry knows he's in for the worst summer of his life. Everything changes, however, when Perry gets to camp and stumbles into the World of the Other Normals. There he meets Mortin Enaw, one of the creators of C&C, and other mythical creatures from the game, including the alluring Ada Ember, whom Perry finds more beautiful than any human girl he's ever met. Perry's new otherworldly friends need his help to save their princess and prevent mass violence. As they embark on their quest, Perry realizes that his nerdy childhood has uniquely prepared him to be a great warrior in this world, and maybe even a hero. But to save the princess, Perry will have to learn how to make real connections in the human world as well. Bestselling author Ned Vizzini delivers a compulsively readable and wildly original story about the winding and often hilarious path to manhood.

Sometimes you have to go home to find out who you really are. Charlie West went to bed one night an ordinary high-school student. He woke up a hunted man. Terrorists are trying to kill him. The police want to arrest him for the stabbing death of his best friend. He doesn't know whose side he's on or who he can trust. With his pursuers closing in on every side, Charlie makes his way back to his hometown to find some answers. There, holed up in an abandoned mansion, he's joined by his friends in a desperate attempt to discover the truth about a murder he can't remember--and the love he can never forget.