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Global warming and changing weather patterns are here. Beautiful Mother Earth is polluted and troubled! Flooding forces Grandpa 42 and his gnome family to leave their beloved mountain home. The gnomes make a new home with the woodland fairies but terrible forest fires force them to flee yet again. Eventually a magic lady from distant Margate saves the day and sends her magic carpet and her rainbow birds to rescue Grandpa 42 and his family. The...

The island of Key West located on the Southernmost Point of the United States has always been a place known for its uniqueness and mystery. Many people that don't know the island, perhaps, believe it is a place to just have fun, relax, and go on vacation - but the small island has and always has had so much more to give. It is a very nurturing place where real families live and thrive. This is well known to the writer because it was where she ...

Groundbreaking. Tales from the Bloody Stump is an anthology of speculative fiction, all enclosed in a husk of humor--humor that is neither snide nor sarcastic. The book includes 15 stories of widely varying lengths, 5 poems, a book of fables (a book within a book), and a novelette. What a bargain! The collection can be described as surreal, with oddball characters and bizarre behavior. It is a mixture of fantasy, science fiction, abstract worl...

What the Trees Saw, An Intimate, Irreverent Look at Human Evolution is a no-holds barred critique of the history of the human race from the Neanderthals of the Pleistocene Age to the Neanderthals of the 21st Century. Mr. Miller uses his sharp wit to separate the fanciful, idealized biographies of famous and infamous people from the unblemished, naked, and sometimes shocking truth.

Beyond Sober: You Put Down the Booze, Now What?" is a must-read for anyone who has recently made the decision to stop drinking and is looking for practical tips and strategies to help them stay sober. Written by a woman in recovery who has dedicated over 25, 000 hours to researching and speaking with successfully sober people, this book offers a wealth of real-world strategies that can be easily implemented into daily life. One of the key stre...

My First Hundred Years is the memoir of Dr. Will Adams, sharing stories from his childhood, his quest for higher education, and his days as a Ballroom dance teacher, board game inventor, band leader and keyboardist.

As the story begins, Nessie finds something in her camera that might help the police solve an investigation. Unfortunately, she finds its too late. It does not help, because that person has already been tried. When Nessie gets home and finds her best friend, April, lying face down in a pool of blood, she quickly calls the police. Sadly, the police discover that her best friend is dead. Nessie and her sister Lisa are very close, so Nessie dec...

A nontraditional fairytale in a modern era for ages 9-12, filled with illustrations that captures the magic of our everyday world! Follow the tale of a Princess's journey to her happy ending with her Prince, where on the way she learns self-love, to listen to her Inner voice, resiliency in overcoming challenges, as well as Independence. All Princesses should have their happily ever after, however they must master these important lessons first....

Not many gay teens experience their journey of self-discovery on a national stage. Then again, not many high school seniors inherit a team in the National Football League. Welcome to the coming of age, coming out, gridiron novel, Ready ... Set ... Pride! Max Sparks-Picou only thought his last year at Shirley Chisholm High was confusing, with the gorgeous but horribly straight Silas Cannon roaming the halls, and Max still in the closet. At leas...

Scientific advances have always impacted every phase of human life, but the impacts and changes in the past few years have been more marked and far more astonishing than at any other time in history. We have become accepting of those events and, as a result, the world we know is unlike the one known by our forefathers. This book explores some of those advances and changes, and the author shares information about events, discoveries, and incid...

The Chief Executive Officer of a large private corporation has the Board of Director votes to thwart a buyout/takeover bid from a corporate raider. However, several members of the BOD will stop at nothing to ensure the bid is successful, including hiring assassins to kill the CEO to eliminate his deciding, negative votes. If the CEO is absent from the board meeting, the corporate raider will be successful. Complications arise when the young CE...

A suspicious fire destroys an historic hotel, where a stranger plunges to his death from an upper-story window. Newsman Kieran "Red" Maguire takes to the dark streets to unravel the mystery. It's the summer of 1955 in the legendary mining city of Butte, Montana. The Bugle crime reporter uncovers clues leading to death threats and gunshots in the night. More fires ignite in uptown buildings. Maguire and his reliable source for inside crime news...

Three Threads is a sequel to Jones' first historical fiction novel Pendulum. It casts three strangers from opposite sides of the world on distinct journeys, a lifetime in the making. Driven by external forces and clandestine missions, each must overcome unique challenges to converge on a land and its people, beset by strife. In this unconventional warfare setting individual skills, capabilities, and experience are tested to the fullest, yet su...

In days of the old West, life was challenging, dangerous, and lonely. Many young men went west to seek their fortune by themselves. Arranged marriages were big business in the mid 1800's. Thousands of women headed west each year and hoped to find the man of their dreams. The "pick-in's" in the east were limited, and word had it the outdoorsy men of the wild west were strong, handsome, virile, and potentially rich. But a magical turtle, an Indi...

My First Hundred Years is a memoir of the lifetime of Dr. Will Adams who shares many varied experiences culminating in the knowledge and opinions of a man who has lived a very fulfilling life. The book begins with an introduction to his family of four and the large extended family he grew up with. Many childhood memories surround that family which includes the story of starting a newspaper at a very young age with his brother, Bert, and sel...

The Mysteries of Light is an original literary meditation on the significance and meaning of photobooks. Written by a photographer and novelist, the book brings a strong new light to the photobook phenomenon. It's a mix of personal stories and examinations of such great artists as Robert Frank, Daido Moriyama, Saul Leiter, Alec Soth, Masahisa Fukase, and Christer Strömholm, as well as newcomers Daisuke Yokota, Laura El-Tantawy, and Jason Esken...

Shortly after marrying Ken, her best friend and soulmate in February of 1975, Katy Conklin, at thirty-five, learned that she had SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), an incurable autoimmune disease that can attack any part of the body. For Katy, lupus initially affected her joints often causing pain and fatigue. Later, this insidious disease progressed to her lungs and circulatory system, leading to asthma and then to blood clots, including DVT...

July 1854, Colleton District, South Carolina A half-dozen years before Abe Lincoln's inauguration, comes another collision between European immigrants and African abductees that does not end well. By 1854, the Tiffany family had enslaved over 300 Africans for more than a century on the 1, 100-acre slave labor camp that they called the Tiffany Plantation. The Tiffanys were the largest rice producer in South Carolina's Colleton District. While t...

This book is a collection of my reflections and pondering about the mystery of the sacred and its immanence in our lives, and, indirectly, of some of the ways nature itself unfolds and announces this mystery.

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