Two men during World War Two, one anxious to serve, the other just wants to stay alive. How can one man help another?Written by a veteran and released specifically for Armistice Day 2013.Remember our troops, both past and present. They give up their today so you might have a tomorrow.Erik Stenbock, the heir to a medieval castle in Sweden, is unwillingly dragged into a search for the missing half of an ancient Egyptian stone tablet. The tablet is thought to be a possible key to the decipherment of Linear A, the script of a mysterious and astonishing bronze age civilization. Despite his initial reluctance, Erik is soon engulfed in a roller-coaster ride of an adventure with unexpected events at every turn. Not only is his life turned up-side-down, he also finds himself submersed in an ancient long forgotten truth – with shocking repercussions for our understanding of ancient history.

Travis McGee has gone missing. His friend Murphy is called to rescue him. Along the way, he runs head long into white supremacists. But, that's OK. Murphy doesn't fight fair.John D. MacDonald wrote a series of novels based on the his character Travis McGee. Each book in the series had a color associated with it. MacDonald said that the last book in the series would use the color black. Unfortunately, he died before writing the book.This book was written as a tribute to Mr. MacDonald. It is in no way meant to equal his work. If you do enjoy it, I know you will love the original works.

R.M. Ballantyne, in full Robert Michael Ballantyne (born April 24, 1825, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Feb. 8, 1894, Rome, Italy), Scottish author chiefly famous for his adventure story The Coral Island (1858). This and all of Ballantyne’s stories were written from personal experience. The heroes of his books are models of self-reliance and moral uprightness. Snowflakes and Sunbeams; or, The Young Fur Traders (1856) is a boys’ adventure story based on Ballantyne’s experiences with the Hudson’s Bay Company. Annoyed by a geography-related mistake he had made in The Coral Island, he afterward traveled widely to research the backgrounds of his stories.

Set in 1790's Covent Garden this book whisks you back to a bygone era, and to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies, and four hundred and thirty-eight rioters. It is the tale of Cat Royal, an orphan, four foot four with long red hair and not a penny to call her own. She lives in the Theater Royal on Drury Lane, a place filled with dramatic characters, theatrical spectacles, and now, a secret treasure--which Cat has been asked to protect. Her new friend Pedro, a former slave and gifted violinist, is eager to help, and so is the theater prompter, Jonathan, who is hiding secrets of his own. But when the ruthless gang leader Billy Shepherd learns about the treasure, Cat thinks she's going to lose it for sure. She still doesn't know what the treasure is, so how can she keep it safe from Billy and his gang? Follow Cat into the streets of London, as she faces danger and adventure, racing to be the first to discover the diamond of Drury Lane!

In the year 2020, M-Corp, a huge cooperation has bailed out the UK; but for the price of M-Corp having complete control. As society gets chewed up by the rich, and the government takes a back-seat, a modern day Robin Hood emerges, taking things into his own hands. But can one act change the course of the future? Or will the wicked wheels of corruption crush anything that comes in its way.When seventeen year old Patience Gillespie arrives at her uncle’s house for one of her regular visits, she finds blood everywhere, and evidence that he has been kidnapped. She stumbles across a letter detailing that the world of fantasy and magic is in fact real, and that he had been expecting this to happen. He also leaves a magical ring which he says will protect her. Patience enlists the help of an elemental called Grim, Mercy – a sword fighting clairvoyant who has the ability to alter people’s memories and explore their mind, and Mortus, a zombie necromancer who can spirit walk among the dead and use shadow magic. Together they must uncover a plot that has been set in place ever since an ancient war which shaped the world we live in today. There are dangers, laughs, and a hell of a lot of style.

After several thousand years of visiting and abducting humans an alien fleet is sent from another star system to invade Earth and within all this conflict develops a love story. Also included is a Bonus from: Twisted all to Hell, the best short story collection you will ever read - guaranteed and which is also available for your entertainment.Alien spaceships come to Earth through a worm hole and hide beneath the oceans in preparation to complete a centuries-old mission. above the submerged starcruisers are tens of thousands of Earth's citizens - gifted people, who have been secretly imprisoned for decades. The world's governments have devised a plan to eliminate their imagined threat from these 'different people - genocide, then cover it up, but first they must repel the attacking extraterrestrial invaders. It's a race against time to destroy the prisoners and fight the aliens. The story incorporates: people with extraordinary mental and sensory powers, a naïve protagonist, spies, ufo's and their weapons, a Russian space station, a gun fight on a train, nuclear weapons, fighter jets, hired thugs, a fanatical military leader, politics, First Americans, attempted rescues, an Airborne battalion, and entwined within develops a love story.

Roger has just begun his life as a quarterback in the American Football Association, in the nation's capital. After weeks of bad performances and a minor scandal, the coach feels the need to move on and explore other options, leaving Roger a broken man. He is given a fresh start in Minnesota. Will he take advantage and prove his doubters wrong?When twelve-year-old Rebecca’s parents quickly split up, she moves hundreds of miles away to a big city housing project. She has had to leave her Beatles album and record player behind. Everyone who lives in The Project gets called “just Project”. Her mother becomes seriously ill. A younger Project friend disappears. Her brother leaves. Her father won’t come to take her home. How can she become a teenager when every day is worse than the last one?In spite of the family chaos, Rebecca holds onto the dream of turning thirteen years old. She hangs around with an older Project girl and learns to think and speak like a teenager. They plan a teenage haircut and cool clothes for Rebecca. Rebecca sneaks away to the lookout where she thinks about how her life has changed. She thinks about the Project and poverty, which makes her madder.As she becomes a teenager, her rebellion intensifies. She fights with her mother. Yet there is more to being a teenager than pulling away. Rebecca searches for the deeper meaning to growing up.

With the nation reeling from the recent terrorist attacks, Q and Angela leave Chicago and arrive in San Francisco. Their parents are determined to continue the Match tour but for safety's sake, they have decided to send Q and Angela to boarding school. Not happy at the thought of being taken off the trail of the ghost cell, Q and Angela race against time with Boone and the SOS team to find Number One, the leader of the world's most feared terrorist organization. It's the final showdown.

When they come back from a raging battle on the moon, the gang finds that they're parents have been abducted. Jimmy realizes that the Yolkians must be up to their old tricks and decides to end their fight once and for all.This is the first book in The Final Battle Series.Young and beautiful, Alexandra loves to get herself into mischief. With the help of her three friends, they plot to destroy anyone who gets in their way, or if they are bored, the first person they see. Life was always a game to the four of them. With the opening of a new Manor, Alexandra plans to have some fun with one of the guests. Depriving herself from the touch of a man on her own account, she decides it is time to find someone to bring to bed. All the men fall for her, but Alexandra loves the challenge.When the man she sought out turns out to be engaged, it doesn't bother Alexandra. But the problems arise when he turns down her good loocks and charm. Something that has never happened before. Read to find out how he tragically turns down Alexandra's approach.

The world is in a mess and getting worse. A secret war is going on. This war as as old as the human desire for power. Two men are being hunted. Jake Granger and William Allison are struggling to understand what is happening and why they are targeted. Could it be as simple as to stop their efforts to make Earth a better world? They have to find out fast and stay alive. Their adventure begins.An adventure begins. Where it will end is anybody's guess. Jake Granger and William Allison are struggling to understand what is happening and why they are targeted. Others become involved as they escape attempted kidnapping, murder, and a destructive force that seems to be tracking them from place to place. There are lies, misinformation and efforts to manipulate everything these two men understand about reality.Jake and William are both gifted, They do not recognize or understand that they are gifted, or what their gifts may be. They only know the world they live in isn't the world they thought it was. The world is in a real, down and dirty mess and getting worse. Everyone on Earth knows that unless they've been hiding in caves or living in institutions. Even the children sense the wrongness. A secret war is going on. It will grow less secret and more violent if not stopped. Can it be stopped? This war as as old as the human desire for power. Jake Granger and William Allison are being hunted. What will they learn. Will they learn what they need to discover fast enough? They are looking for solutions just to survive. Will they survive?

We have in this Rudyard Kipling biography an important clue to Mr Kipling and his work. Mr Kipling writes of the heroic life. He writes of men who do visible and measurable things. His theme has usually to do with the world's work. He writes of the locomotive and the engineer; of the mill-wheel and the miller; of the bolts, bars and planks of a ship and the men who sail it. He writes, in short, of any creature which has work to do and does it well.

In 1947 something not from our world crashed in a remote desert - in 2032 it's legacy will threaten mankind's very existence30 years from now a small organisation watches over Earth separately from the influence of nations. Armed with technology hundreds of years more advanced than our own designation 115 picks his own ideology and decides mankind has had it's day...Think screenplay when reading!

Herbert West can revivify the dead – after a fashion. Miskatonic University librarian Charles Milburn agrees to help him, compromising his principles and his romance with Alma Halsey, daughter of the Dean of Medicine. West’s experiments become increasingly risky, but when he prepares to cross the ultimate border, only Charles can save his life – if his conscience lets him.Plot Summary: Herbert West can revivify the dead – after a fashion. Miskatonic University Librarian Charles Milburn agrees to help him, compromising his principles and his romance with Alma Halsey, daughter of the Dean of Medicine. West’s experiments become increasingly risky, but when he prepares to cross the ultimate border, only Charles can save his life – if his conscience lets him.More Details: Arkham, Massachusetts, 1910. Librarian Charles Milburn takes up a position as cataloguer in the Library of Miskatonic University. He becomes the keeper of the Necronomicon, an ancient book of secret lore kept in the Library’s vault.Herbert West, a medical student with a dubious reputation, requests access to the fabled book, and Charles grants it despite his misgivings. So begins a friendship that takes Charles far from the rules of cataloguing and the conventions familiar to an honest young man from a good Boston family.Herbert West can restore the dead to life, he says, and he persuades Charles to be his assistant. Their experiments, carried out in secret by night, in improvised laboratories and by stealth in the hospital attached to the university, achieve success – of a sort. Charles finds himself caught between the demands of his fascinating friend and his growing attraction to Alma Halsey, daughter of the Dean of Medicine.In 1914, as war begins in Europe, Charles is both relieved and distressed to say goodbye to West as he sails away to France to serve as a medical officer. Over the next four years, West’s letters reveal a mixture of cynicism and black humour that hint at – what? Charles doesn’t know and would rather not guess. Engrossed in cataloguing the books of an eccentric professor, he develops an interest in alchemy as a way to transform the base into the excellent.West returns from the War to a career as a surgeon utilizing techniques perfected on the maimed, dying …and dead? Lonely and self-doubting despite his professional success, Charles can’t bring himself to abandon West as his reputation grows and darkens. Rumours of illicit experiments overshadow West’s spectacular public successes, and he begins to crack under attacks from colleagues and threats from his gangster brothers. Beleaguered on all sides and under threat of investigation, West appeals to Charles for help. Charles is sympathetic until West reveals the perilous nature of his plan.Vacillating between horror and hope and haunted by West’s misdeeds, Charles must draw on his knowledge of alchemy and his tottering faith in powers beyond himself if he is to save his friend’s life. Only his conscience stands in the way.

Imagine… What would you do if you found the key to a time machine? A twelve-year-old girl on her way home from swim practice, did just that. With her family and friends, she must solve riddles and travel back through history to find missing pieces of the time machine in order to save the world in the future.Will they have enough time?Betrayed - Alternate Ending gives Brook the chance to retaliate against her antagonists from the popular novel Betrayed. This is not a stand-alone publication, but starts at Chapter 49 of the novel Betrayed and then takes the tale in a new direction, with an entirely different ending. Written especially for readers of Betrayed, this alternate ending explodes with drama and suspense, and contains scenes not included in the original novel. To understand and appreciate Betrayed - Alternate Ending, the original novel must be read beforehand. Summary: After being abused for several days, Brook escapes into the snowy wilderness, where her captors assume she will perish. Then their victim shows up on the news months later, very much alive. They don't intend for her to stay that way. "I loved the original novel, but the alternate ending blew me away!" ~Randi Canning, Reviewer

When Wallace is sent to Camp Spider, he doesn't expect anything other than the worst-spent summer ever. But he gets so much more. Between meeting the only girl at the camp and seeing her taken away before his very eyes, he doesn't know what to make of anything.When Wallace is sent to Camp Spider, he doesn't expect anything other than the worst-spent summer ever. But he gets so much more. Between meeting the only girl at the camp and seeing her taken away before his very eyes, he doesn't know what to make of anything. Handling his fears, Wallace has to make a heroic step forward and goes to save her. With “Camp Spider”, you see the facts of Wallace and Teri's living nightmare. The cliff-hanger ending will keep you hooked long after the last brutal pages are closed. Feel the message of Opal Jones novel work it's magic. Enjoy the first book of Opal's career and feel absorbed into the pages. Read of the camp that was thought to change so little, but changed a world more.