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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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Tobie
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99New Mexico Territory
Sandia Mountains 1826
A Mountain Trapper rescues a baby boy found alive with his Indian mother, dying in the winter snow. She lives long enough to utter the infant’s first name, TOBIE; then dies. Taken to San Felipe de Neri Catholic Church in Alburquerque, the baby is left to be placed in an Orphanage. It is here he remained until the age of eight. When on a cold stormy night, – his mind filled with boyish dreams – he runs; but his youthful reverie proved unfit for the rigors of nature, and he nearly dies. Found by a Ute Warrior, young Tobie is taken to his village and raised as family, until the age of 16; when fate again turns amiss. Wounded but believed dead during an attack by Army Soldiers he survives, while all others are killed. The village is left burning. Now at age 16, Tobie is left with one prospect, venture into a world filled with unknowns. The year 1842; a time in American history when the country is moving fast forward. Now, with great apprehension, he rides alone, into a strange and ill-defined world.
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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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Never Yours
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99This is about the story of a family who lived on a sheep ranch between 1910 and 1926. Times were hard for most people who lived at that time, but there were still “good honest morals” practiced, which were handed down from one generation to another. This is one family’s story of their world of love, problems and promises.
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The Riverndish
Price range: $8.99 through $16.99The Riverndish is a beautiful, magnificent creature from the planet Valarious. It ‘s mystical power grants everyone’s special wishes while it keeps it’s planet magically hidden. This story takes you on a journey of how one special wish took a little longer to reach it’s destination and how hard the Riverndish worked to make sure it came true.
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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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PIE GRANDE: MONSTRUO DEL HIELO
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Frenético por la desaparición de su esposa, Adam Reese viaja a una pequeña isla frente a la costa de Canadá con su hijo de trece años, Sean. Allí, los dos se enteran de que se hizo un nuevo e importante descubrimiento animal mientras Mary estaba filmando un documental sobre los osos polares para el Planeta X. Ahora los miembros de ese equipo de filmación están desapareciendo, uno por uno. ¿Será porque el documental vale ahora millones? No es ninguna cantidad de dinero ni ningún descubrimiento de nuevos animales lo que motiva a Adam. Adam no dejará de encontrar el amor de su vida, Mary, especialmente por el bien de su hijo. De alguna manera, Adam debe rescatar a Mary de la criatura con colmillos que la arrebató de la fría y helada nieve. Debe salvarla del Bigfoot de pelo blanco, el Yeti… el monstruo del hielo.
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Last Assignment
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Texas Ranger William McKiever is returning to headquarters to turn in his badge to begin a new life as a cattle rancher. The captain of the detachment is going to offer him one last assignment, but the captain is worried, knowing a killer lurks-a gunman who suddenly appears, kills, then disappears. Adding to the captain’s concerns is his knowledge that McKiever will take the assignment because of a woman-a woman McKiever had fallen in love with, but who had married his best friend and former partner. The woman, Sara Kincaid, is also burdened. She wants to see McKiever again, but feels guilty because of the danger. Sara’s guilt will turn to anguish when the killer and McKiever clash. In desperation, Sara turns to God in prayer, experiencing divine intervention!
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Will Walker Adventure
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99A long-abandoned Farmhouse infected with a horde of well-fed Rats, the Body of a young woman found dead in the basement, and the rebirth of an old haunting Civil War Legend; pull Will Walker and his Fiancée’ Kimberly into the adventure of a lifetime, into an underground world of secrecy and murder. A trip filled with adventure and daring, with twists and turns that put their lives on the line.
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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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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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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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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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The Max Faraday Chronicles
$14.99Who am I and why should you read my story? My name is Max Faraday. Nobody is going to believe me, but here I am putting it all down on paper. I am a man of two time periods. Forgive me, this sci-fi stuff is new to me.
A week or more ago, in July 2002, I came home for my 1982 high school class reunion. I was staying with my friend Jamie Scott and his family. On the way home from the reunion, we picked up his kids at the babysitter. Their little girl comes out and bounces a ball that tumbles out of her hands into the street.
Just as we arrived, a car speeds up and my instincts take over. I pick her up and get her out of the way, but I was then hit by the speeding car! Stunned, I wake up in September 1978! I am a thirty-eight-year-old man in a fourteen-year-old’s body! I can’t tell anyone, or they would lock me up, thinking I’m crazy! I know I would.
So here I am in the eighth grade all over again. When I went to bed in 1978, I woke up in a coma in 2002, wondering about the driver who ran me over.
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Yareli and The Dynamite Girls
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Our country was founded on religious principles, which were given to us by the Hebrews! Early on, Moses led the people from Egypt and gave them the laws to follow. God kept them protected with a column of fire each night that stretched far into the sky! No other nation would dare to draw near them, for they feared the column of fire. God led them to the ‘Promised Lands’ when they reached the banks of the Jordan River, forty years later, this was where the pillar of fire went out! But the spirit of the fire burned in the hearts of the girls, as they were cast out of their homes and separated from their families. This is the story is told by the Hebrew girl who traveled our country in the eighteen hundreds. She was given the name of “Yareli” She was protected by a column of fire, and this was her Sister Numees, she was Arapaho and she was the leader like Joshua was, and they battled their way to the promised lands. During their journey they battled with evil, and this was where they found ‘Rebekah’ This was a dynamic group of girls that had discovered the miracle of ‘Dynamite’ thus the name of the “Dynamite Girls” Yareli, who is the Hebrew girl, tells you the story of their travels. Her name Yareli comes from her Sister, in Arapaho, or ‘Algonquian’ it means “Water Lady” She kept the other two girls tempers cooled with the ‘Mikvah’ or the ‘Sacred Water’.
This story was told to me by my Grandmother, who came to the west in the eighteen hundreds. She lived to be near a hundred years old, and her eyes were clear and bright as the sun, right to the end of her life. She and my Grandfather are buried at ‘Myers Falls’ in Washington State, which is called ‘Kettle Falls’ now since the building of the Coulee Dam. My Grandmother was named ‘Annie’ and she was very special to me. She saved my life when I was around nine years old, and this is where her stories began. She had a talent for telling a tale; with her eyes she made me feel her spirit, she still lives in my Soul to this day. I still feel her Love wrap around me whenever I think of her. She is the force behind the story of Yareli. Grandmother would be furious when she spoke of antisemitism, because Yareli was Jewish! Grandmother loved all the people around her and kept them gathered together with her Faith. She never passed judgment on anyone because of the color of their skin. She adopted two NezPierce women who taught her of ‘Healing’ She lived near the Wild Horse trail on a homestead back in those days, and she was the closest thing to a doctor at that time, because Colville was way back down the trail. She was special to everyone that met her. I still feel her Spirit moving with my blood, as I write my stories for Annie, so her Spirit is never forgotten.
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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