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A Chronicle of the Roman Twilight: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $33.99The story begins in A.D. 364 when the author of this memoir, Marcus Cedranus, is born into a middle class landowner’s family in western Britain. While his material prospects are promising, his deteriorating relationship with his parents causes him to leave home for the continent. In Gaul he becomes a teamster for a freight hauling company, meets an older woman who will eventually play a major role in his life and is drafted into the Roman army in 382.
He is assigned to Legion XXII in Mainz and in 383 is temporarily transferred to Belgrade on the Danube. A revolt in the west makes this transfer permanent. He participates in several military campaigns and takes part in a triumph in Constantinople in 386. In 388 his regiment takes part in the eastern offensive against the revolt in the west that has by now spread to Italy. With the revolt suppressed, he is assigned to a new imperial guard regiment for the restored western emperor, Valentinian II. During another transfer to the east Marcus suffers a terrible personal tragedy from which it is impossible to recover. Another civil war breaks out in the west and is suppressed with terrible casualties.
Marcus is appointed tribune and made a member of the personal staff of Stilicho, the new generalissimo of the west. Further military adventures take place in Greece, Britain and Italy. A massive barbarian invasion of the west on December 31, 406 triggers political instability leading to revolts in both Britain and Italy. This inevitably leads to the sack of Rome by Alaric and his Visigoths in 410.
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A Very Powerful Gift
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99About the Book
Stewart the spider is afraid to jump to spin fancy webs like all of the other spiders. His mom gives him a special hat to help him have the faith in himself he needs to spin his webs. When a human waves a broom at the spiders’ webs to destroy them, Stewart must face his fear of jumping-or else!
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Brides for A King: Fathers, Daughters and the National Interest: England & France 1660-1
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Luke is ordered by the King to investigate the intrigues and deaths surrounding the King’s forthcoming marriage-with particular emphasis on England’s foreign policy and national security.
The increased attacks on past mistresses and potential wives might be central to these concerns or stem from the simple jealousy of women anxious to obtain the King’s favour or lying about their past relationships, conflicts often within the same family; or do these current problems stem from events that occurred during the King’s decade in exile; or the current greed and ambition of powerful noble dynasties.
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Deadly Treasures: Second Chances
Price range: $20.99 through $27.99Forget diamonds! These Deadly Treasures wear camo, carry a rifle, protect the innocent, and are Hotter than Hades. Navy SEAL team Echo is sent to the most dangerous places on Earth to do the impossible. From the Dark Heart of Africa to the Frigid Tundra of Siberia, the SEALs must face hard choices with dangerous consequences. Failure is never an option, but when Echo gets a new member, they will face their greatest challenge yet. Th e UCMJ forbids fraternization, but she’s beautiful, curved in all the right places, and tantalizingly tempting. Protecting her from themselves might be an impossible mission.
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DESOLATION: Part One
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Visited by the spirit world, a Hopi woman, an Aborigine man, and a Rabbi are told the earth will soon undergo worldwide desolation. They are divinely united to reveal the message to all humans that live upon Mother Earth. It all begins with a thermonuclear war between India and China over greed, which starts the cataclysmic events that alter the entire planet. They were told that man’s carelessness with his scientific technology will cause a cascade of events that will literally change the face of Mother Earth. Will Sarah, Yirawala, and Rabbi Raboy be able to warn all the humans in time to prepare themselves for these cataclysmic events? This book is part one of the Desolation trilogy. Mother Earth purifies herself and completes her rebirth in books two and three. William F. Covey is an electrician, doctor and author. He currently resides in Santa Clarita, California. Although this book is pure fiction, Covey hopes humans will eventually make their number one priority managing their technological progress so they will stop poisoning the earth on a daily basis. He believes that if the humans do not start taking better care of earth’s ecological system, they will have to pay a very costly price to repair earth’s ability to nourish and reproduce life as we know it
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El Monstruo de la Pradera
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99La historia está a nuestro alrededor, pero no siempre sabemos dónde hallarla. ¿Se nos ocurriría mirar en el patio de nuestra casa?
En el libro del autor Ronald S. Martínez Sr., El monstruo de la pradera, dos niños juegan, como suelen hacerlo todos los días. Pero, esta vez, descubren huellas que se asemejan a las de las pequeñas lagartijas con las que se entretienen. En su imaginación, establecen conexiones, visualizando una criatura más extraña que la realidad. Pero, con la ayuda de un sacerdote que comparte su entusiasmo, descubren que ¡el monstruo de la pradera existió de verdad! Al descubrir las huellas de dinosaurios en los lechos de los ríos en las áridas praderas al sur de lo que hoy conocemos como La Junta, Colorado, los niños y el sacerdote deciden emprender una emocionante expedición para dar a conocer la existencia del monstruo de la pradera a un mundo que lo desconoce.
El monstruo de la pradera es una historia cautivadora con referencias históricas. Al embarcarse en este viaje de descubrimiento, los niños y el sacerdote se convierten en testigos, y también contribuyentes, de la historia de Colorado en desarrollo.
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Facing the Dragon
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Intertwined with travel across the U.S., we follow Kristine, a married mother of three sons, as she faces the challenges life has given. Some are challenges within her marriage and some are with other family members. Kristine loves her husband dearly and must decide how to face his unfaithfulness, especially when it is more than once. She feels these are a struggle with Satan, the Dragon.
In addition, Kristine finds her one son straying from the family. He lost his way in the beginning of his college years. Much as she strives to maintain contact, Kristine fears she may have to face the rest of her life without him in it. She hopes for a return of the prodigal son, knowing the result is not within her control. Follow along to see if Kristine can successfully contend with the arrows the dragon throws at her and triumph in the end.
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Field of Oleander
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99When Raymond Karr is approached by a murderous gang to become a drug smuggler bringing narcotics from Africa, he immediately rejects the proposition. A straight-shooting immigrant, he abhors besmirching his family’s honor. But his deep-seated passion to attend George Washington Medical School is unmatched by his dismal financial capability, causing him to vacillate as his better instinct struggles with his ambition.
Eventually, through a series of coincidences and inertia, despite the re-occurrence of an eerie dream in a field of Oleander, he is swept along the road to criminality. After a tempestuous affair with a beautiful Latina whom he determines to impress into a permanent relationship, it’s game on.
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Fools and Children
$14.99Enjoy a romp through the 1950s with two small town boys hell-bent on action and adventure. Fools and Children is an unblinking and touching collection of memorable childhood escapades as it chronicles the outlandish and often dangerous exploits of these creative but naïve lads. Ed Frye and Herb Bierly, with their rogues’ gallery of friends, create havoc and consternation for town residents when they flood a section of town, loose a horse on the streets, and plan a bank robbery. Caves, creeks, hills, and farms are scenes of perilous undertakings.
Millheim provides their earliest up close and personal experiences with death, as well as poignant lessons for life. Along the way, they experiment with guns, horses, the sins of the world, and girls. Frye and Bierly skip none of the rites of passage, but almost always with a twist. Both learn early that the difference between hero and victim is often too close to call.
Filled with leisurely-told tales, colorful characters, cultural references to the Golden ’50s, and humor, Fools and Children takes Baby Boomers back to their own youthful years. With the freedoms available to these young adventurers in a simpler time and place, their zeal for life is reflective of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
What would a reader expect in a collection of leisurely-told tales? Danger? Humor? Sex? Insight? Naiveté? Creativity? Stupidity? Fools and Children provides them all.
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From Destroyed Webs to Masterpieces
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Mike belongs to a group of spiders that spin fancy webs and in order to spin these types of webs, these spiders have to have wonderful imaginations. However, Mike lives in a house
where the lady destroys his webs when she cleans (which is constantly).Now most spiders may not care if their webs are swept away, but Mike’s webs are artistic masterpieces. A decision is made, and Mike moves out of the house into the backyard. He discovers a wonderful, magical land of trees, shrubs, and flowers. As a result, Mike decides to use the bush by the backdoor as his canvas for creating his artistic designs. I could tell you the rest of this story, but it is more fun for you to open this book and discover what happens to Mike as he creates some amazing designs as he spins his webs. In the end, you might want to have a paper and colored pencils next to you so you can draw colorful, magical webs as well
and become part of the group that draws amazing and unusual webs.
From Destroyed Webs to Masterpieces – This short story starts in the living room of the house owned by the lady with the broom and ends with fantastic webs designed in the back yard. Discover how the sun shines brighter, more smiles are occurring as many come to inspect these artistic webs. Yes, this book is part of a series. This book about Stewart’s brother, Mike, is
the second book of the series.
From Destroyed Webs to Masterpieces – This short story starts in the living room of the house owned by the lady with the broom and ends with fantastic webs designed in the back yard. Discover how the sun shines brighter, more smiles are occurring as many come to inspect these artistic webs. Yes, this book is part of a series. This book about Stewart’s brother, Mike, is the second book of the series -
Hazardous Pay, Shirt Talk and Twenty-Four Other Stories
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99PRAISE FOR PRASHKER’S DUTY,
HONOR, VIETNAM – TWELVE MEN OF WEST POINT…“A fascinating portrait of twelve men who dream of serving and
leading our nation, and a unique, penetrating study of one of
America’s most important institutions. Ivan Prashker interviews
deftly and writes with a clarity and precision that give us a fresh
understanding of both. But more importantly he writes with
a genuine warmth, sensitivity, and fairness that sweep aside
preconceived and petty judgments. The book is a pleasure to
read and valuable to our understanding of America.”— THE GODFATHER’S MARIO PUZO
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HOPE BETRAYED A STRIPPING OF TRUST
Price range: $14.99 through $29.99James Armstrong, a man diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and his traveling companion, an attractive physician from Italy are chased around the world in a dangerous cat and mouse game by pursuers that want to keep their secret protected and their millions protected. Adding to James urgency is the diagnosis of his sixteen year old daughter with same disease.
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I Think My Brother is a Werewolf
Price range: $3.99 through $5.99Brotherly love is taken through an awesome adventure, when three friends see one of their brothers going through some horrifying, crazy changes. When his brother Jaden, starts to change into a teenager, Jorey mistakes it for changing into something even more horrifying!
With wild imaginations running at full speed, and with their only knowledge coming from horror movies, the boys think that poor Jaden is turning into a werewolf! The three friends try to do what ever it takes to save Joreys beloved brother. Timmy, Porto and Jorey find some wild and humorous ways to prevent these changes, they come up with everything from hiding the silverware to trying to shave his face. After everything their little minds can think of fails, Jorey must reluctantly face his dad and tell him everything that is happening. But to Jorey’s horror he finds out the worst, frightening, scary news ever! That in a few years these changes will happen to him too!
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In His Footsteps
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99In His Footsteps: Is a story that was written with our country’s veterans in mind. It is also for the survivors left behind, by the ones that died in battle.
Jeff O’Connor is a thirty plus year old man who lost his father in the Vietnam War. He wakes up one morning feeling his life isn’t worth much as it was. Though he is a successful business man, a father of two, his wife has divorced him. He figures his problem comes from not having been raised by his parents, but his grandmother. Though she did her best, she couldn’t give him what he needs as to information about his father. To add to that, she told him all about his mother, but she wouldn’t talk about her son. It was this lack of information that didn’t allow him closure. He feels if he had a better understanding of who his father was it would help him. Though he knows that he’ll never get his father back he feels the next-best thing would be to walk, “In his footsteps.” In doing what he proposed to do may give him something to start a new life from.
Though he sees some problems in what he decides to do, he also feels it will be worth it. As with so many things we decide to do, he finds himself with more than he expected. One of the things he learns is that no matter what you do; you’re apt to touch the lives of others.
So if you’re up to a story full of adventure, action, mystery, suspense and a few tears: Start turning the pages for a story you will find hard to believe.
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Inspector Loop Visits America
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Inspector Loop visits America is the first in a series of books involving Inspector Ulnar Lewis Loop, the foremost authority in the Science of Fingerprints. The Inspector’s quiet life as a retired fingerprint and crime scene specialist at New Scotland Yard comes to a sudden end as he is ordered by his government to go to the United States and study the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s new fingerprint supercomputer located in West Virginia. At his first stop in Washington, D.C. while visiting with the Director of the FBI, his orders are changed and he is thrust into the mystery of several bank robberies that have happened in and around Boston, Massachusetts. During his trip to that city, he learns of a ruthless plot by unknown persons to end his life. At his final destination of Smaller Wormwood, Massachusetts, he meets some very professional forensic specialists, who, with some assistance by the Inspector, come up with some very surprising methods in the processing of latent print evidence. The reader, through the words and eyes of the characters, will meet some interesting people, learn how fingerprint comparisons are really made, and other aspects of this forensic science. It is all told with some tongue in cheek humor without the use of sex, foul language, or violence.
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Jennifer’s Destiny
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Dear Readers,
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine I’d be writing this to you, but here goes. I always assumed someone else would write about the author, but this time I decided to do it myself. I’m not much of a reader, mostly for research, but I love to write, poetry, newspaper articles, short stories, and that’s what sort of got this project started. More years ago than I’d like to admit my mom, knowing I like to write, sent me a magazine she subscribed to with a note on the front to look on a certain page where I found a full page describing an amateur writing contest they have every year. It’s been so long ago that I don’t remember what the prize amount was, but it was five figures I do remember that and it could only be up to 25,000 words, I think. Gee, I thought that was an awful lot of words. Had no idea what I might write about, but agreed I’d give it some thought.
Then one day on the USPS rural one hundred and nine miles mail route I used to run an incident that happened to one of the girls in our high school years ago crossed my mind. I was never sure how the unfortunate situation was handled, but while I drove the rest of the route I began to imagine what I’d would do if I was in the same situation. That was the beginning of my short story. I’d think of something out on one of those lonely roads, like it and couldn’t wait until I could get home and put it on paper. When I finished that idea the story contained too many words to enter their contest.
And besides that it didn’t feel finished to me anyway. That’s when my vivid imagination really began to work overtime. As it happened at the time I was going through a divorce and had an abundance of time on my hands, so just let my mind wander. Where would the story go from there? And why? What motivation would that girl have? Really! But fate had in for her something she, like me, could never have imagined. I hope you like what she did, experienced, learned and enjoyed along the way. I think she did!
Donah