They call it... "The Red Centre." Locals have their stories. Many claim to have seen ominous lights in the night sky. While backpacking in the Red Centre, Shawn Marshall suddenly vanishes during a cell phone conversation with his father. Devastated, distraught father Chris Marshall, sets out on a desperate journey to find his son. What he finds shocks him to the core.In The Middle Of Nowhere, You're Not Always Alone!They call it... "The Red Centre." Deep in the heart of the Australian Outback.Locals have their stories. Many claim to have seen ominous lights in the night sky. Considered crazy, some even testify of loved ones being taken.While backpacking in the Red Centre, Shawn Marshall from Colorado suddenly vanishes during a cell phone conversation with his father.Devastated—and with little help from authorities—distraught father Chris Marshall, sets out on a desperate journey to Australia to find his 18 year old son. What he finds shocks him to the core. A nonstop chain of events forces him to question if he will ever see his son again.And what took him.

Dashing back to Africa, Dr. William McArthur and his children head to Uganda in an attempt to save Harry from the General’s snare—having cut their trip to Japan short. Will this be the end of McArthur clan, or can they find a way to evade the General for good?Set in Uganda circa March 2011; follow the third nail-biting faith adventure of the McArthur family.Dashing back to Africa, Dr. William McArthur and his children head to Uganda in an attempt to save Harry from the General’s snare—having cut their trip to Japan short. Will this be the end of McArthur clan, or can they find a way to evade the General for good?Set in Uganda circa March 2011; follow the third nail-biting faith adventure of the McArthur family.In writing this book series, I aim to inspire young people to embrace an adventurous faith. Keeping pace with the McArthur family as they travel around the globe, I hope my readers nurture a compassionate, missional connection to the world, and in this case, the amazing people of Japan. I also hope many adults use these books to stoke their own sense of faith adventure, and most importantly, engage with young people in embarking on the Kingdom adventure.(Craig R. Kirkby, from the book’s Preface).

Old and New Worlds clash in a farming community on the frozen Minnesota prairie. Can Seamus Tripp and the kids break a Norse witch's enchantment over the town? He's Seamus Tripp, Loremaster.When Seamus Tripp, world traveler extraordinaire, is delayed by a blizzard during a business trip across the Minnesota prairie, he reunites with an old friend and together they make a chilling discovery: an Old World witch is in the country, enchanting local politicians!But when Seamus, aided by his charge Elie Doolittle and his nephew Gordon, attempts to break the spell of the witch, she turns her powers on them, unleashing ancient curses and a legion of Norse zombies.Bundle up for a showdown that pits Seamus Tripp against the elemental cold of the northland winter and the ferocious power of a Viking witch!Seamus Tripp & the North Star Witch is an introductory short story to the world of Seamus Tripp. Many more full length novellas of The Adventures of Seamus Tripp are also available.

Waking up with no recollection of his life before becoming a Jumper recruit, he falls in love, joins a rebellion, and focuses his efforts on overthrowing a government.Remember when?Commander Rafian VCA the most gifted Space Marine in the Anstractor Alliance remembers nothing.Waking up with no recollection of his life before becoming a Jumper recruit, he falls in love, joins a rebellion, and focuses his efforts on overthrowing a government. But as his memory slowly returns, he recalls his original mission. Rafian now has a new goal: find his way home, make things right with the love of his life, and avenge the aliens who invaded his planet. But first, the Jumpers must pay, pay for ruining his life.

A journey of human survival and conscious awakening.Gabriel Martin is on the Big Island of Hawaii when the Earth is dying from mankind’s actions. When tropical paradise transforms into icy wasteland, escape is a dream chamber where he experiences any life desired. His lonesome existence forces him to search his frozen world for meaning. He travels the Hawaiian Islands and into his mind to find truth, life, and love- ultimately a purpose beyond what’s dreamt. This is what happens When Dreams End.

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This is a story about the early years of the post apocalyptic hero Wanderer and tells of his search for his missing wife. He has not yet found his battlesuit and his foes in this tale are his fellow humans, the ones, like him, who have survived the end of days.Don't mess with a girl and her dragon, at least not these two. A young dragon loses his mother to lair raiders and is left to fend for himself. A lucky girl happens upon him and together they form a lasting bond. When more men come to raid the lair the two are forced to defend themselves, and each other, in a wicked battle. Magic, swordplay, and dragon riding await in this satisfying short story.Snippet:The cool night air rushed over them as they circled slowly upward on Crimzon's strong, steady thrusts. In the dragon's head his mother's soft voice whispered both instruction and encouragement, and the feeling of Clover on his back gave him the confidence and reassurance he needed to avoid falter. They climbed so high into the sky that Clover thought she just might be able to touch the stars twinkling above them. Her blood was electric with sensation. Her skin was chilled by the rushing air and her stomach was tingling as if full of wiggling snakes. She drew in a deep breath trying to calm herself but it was no use. Just as soon as she exhaled Crimzon rolled to the right and then dove sharply, leaving the wiggling snakes from Clover's belly lumped in the back of her throat. Her mind was spinning like a whirlpool. Far below, the majesty of the moonlit valleys and the hue of colors reflecting from the rocky snow-capped ridges unfolded before them. Clover marveled at the dozens of rivers and streams that glittered like strands and pools of molten gold. The force of the air pressed hard against her as Crimzon dove. She began to feel dizzy and distant, but before she slipped into unconsciousness, the dragon leveled out and sped them across the treetops at such speed that all Clover could see below was a shadowy blur. Soon their momentum died away and Crimzon began to circle and rise again, but now at a more relaxed pace. Clover was glad. She felt rubbery and nauseated. Sick or not she had to admit that it was the most exhilarating experience she had ever had. Don't miss Crimzon & Clover II - The Tricky Wizard

Evy and her horses rescue an orphaned moose calf, not realizing that the poachers who killed his mother will do anything to keep their activities a secret!Evy is out with her horses, Rusty and Twilight, when she comes across a dead moose. Things only get worse when she discovers a very young, now orphaned calf standing over his mother’s body. She is determined to save the calf, but before she can, Twilight, her mustang filly, disappears. Evy sets out to rescue her, only to stumble upon even worse danger: illegal hunters who will do anything to keep their poaching a secret. Will Evy be one of their victims?

14-year-old Maji Rios teaches her new best friend Bubbles how to steal cars. The first rule? Don't get caught!Many people think that the only good story is one that is voluminous. I beg to differ. There is beauty in simplicity. There is elegance in conciseness. This book is a compilation of 50 one-hundred word stories, dealing with a variety of topics, from day-to-day life to the great works of literature. I hope that these stories will inspire you and challenge your imagination in 100 words (more or less) in the same way a book three times its size might!

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world. M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant multiplatform artists at work today.

George Manville Fenn was an English novelist and journalist who wrote across a variety of genres, both fiction and nonfiction. His works are still widely read today.

When Insidious Chi threatens the universe with apathy, all its heroes are gathered to do battle. Unfortunately two bumbling Earthlings qualify for an invite.Insidious Chi (Sid) knows attacking the universe with force is futile. The law of inevitability states a small band of unlikely heroes would avoid the initial attack and ultimately thwart his plan. Instead he decided to wipe out any resistance by saturating the ether with apathy, leaving any fight-back in bed, having a lie-in.Brick and Spiritwind never needed an excuse for a lie-in, or to accept The Heroic Guild's invitation to partake in the mission to thwart evil's plan. The duo believed they could follow their usual work ethic of showing their faces at the right times and places while everyone got on with the actual job, leaving them to enjoy the complimentary buffet. Destiny, however, had other plans.Joining a crew of misfits, led by the perpetually intoxicated Jam Shandy, they're sent to explore numerous Earth franchise planets that are spreading the lazy sentiment throughout all that is. Hugo Cortizone is the pop star of the hero world, and Sid knows the likely fly in his takeover ointment. Capturing the Emperor of good, via a compound that makes him believe universal peace has been declared, Sid offers Hugo sanctity to come to terms with his unemployment. Guarded by a henchman disguised as a damsel, love soon becomes Hugo's new purpose, and social awkwardness the henchman's normality.With good's main hope embroiled in a futile romance, a vacuum needs filling at the pointy end of heroics. Sadly a vacuum has no quality control over who it sucks into it.

The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont is a wild ride of adventures in Australasia.

Jazz has less than twenty four hours to cross seven city blocks, get to her office, and scrub the Not Now Stone in her pickle jar of Soul-lution or she’ll suffer every injury the stone had ever healed four-fold. Piece of cake, or it would be if she wasn’t in Clowntown, hadn’t gotten trapped inside a haunted house, and her name wasn’t Jazz, Monster Collector.Jazz, Season One, Episode ThreeInjuries from the fight with the organ binder forced Jazz to use the Not Now Stone. Now the clock’s ticking. She has less than twenty-four hours to get out of Clowntown and back to her office to scrub the stone in her pickle jar of Soul-lution or she’ll suffer every injury the stone ever healed four-fold. The good news is that she only has seven more block to go to reach the hover-rail, the bad news is that a gang of clowns lays between her and that train. Hoping to avoid a pointless fight, Jazz takes refuge in the one building the Clowns haven’t vandalized, she’s going to discover that there’s a very good reason the goblin gangs left this house alone. Even if she manages to overcome the house’s horrid occupant, she still have to face the clowns, and time, for her, is quickly running out.

A love story, spaning three decades to the end of the war, explores the difficulties of friendship and acceptance. However, duty to one's country dictates how one has to live and behave but one young man has a secret, even his own family does not know.A love story which spans a period of turmoil from the end of World War I to the end of the Second World War. A group of young people eagerly look forward to a new world without the hate and prejudice of war but during these years of peace, there is also anger, love and jealousy. However, just as acceptance is attained, international events take a turn for the worst and friends are ripped apart. Duty to one's country dictates how one has to live and behave but one young man has a secret, even his own family do not know. Can love triumph over suspicion and hate?