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Four friends, four coaches, a football team, and a vendetta. An afternoon ride solidified the alliance among the four captains of the Last Creek Lobos, who called themselves the Four Horsemen, and started the football season of a lifetime. Jackson McCullen, Bobby Surges, Nick Hartford, and Joe Blackfeather looked forward to their senior season playing side by side as first-string players, but Coach Burton had other plans for Jackson, who would...

Without a doubt, it is the right time for this book. Young people, old people, gay people, lesbians, trans, interracial couples, etc. are all looking for the answers that are available in this book. The Universe seems to be telling people this information is out there. Just search and you'll find it. The idea that treating relationships like partnerships works is because it requires two "equal" individuals working towards the health of their u...

The story spans 1954 to 1966. During this time, Linda lives in a neighborhood of 100 houses in University City, known as the Gates of Opportunity. She knows the names of all the homeowners. Just about everyone is Jewish. It is easy to feel a connection to her neighbors. They share a common culture and history. ¿Notorious for being the first vegetarian in her neighborhood at age five, Linda becomes a known individualist, quirky. She turns idea...

A nineteen, Victoria Werner journeys to an old home that's been in her family for over a hundred years. After arriving, the family curse takes her back to 1889. She and her German Shepard, Chewy-who must find a way to return to 2016 or die within the year. Fighting against time, Victoria falls in love with the Forman of near-by cattle ranch. Denver is a distraction she can't offered. Yet, Sara the witch's daughter cast a love spell over him. S...

Who am I? Why am I here? What is my life's purpose? This writer asked herself those questions after recognizing that her functioning roles left an emptiness and a feeling of profound loss. Cheryl Armstrong instinctively knew that changing jobs, attending a different spiritual center, reading another self-help book, and expanding her circle of influence still left her seeking more reflective meaning. Her path forward would be a concentrated and...

Richard Diamond FBI is the third in a series of spy novels that follow our reluctant hero from his time in the Marine Coupe in Richard Diamond USMC thru Richard Diamond CIA. The characters portrayed are based partly on personal experience and associations with the characters portrayed. The incidents, locations, and characters are based on real people that live their lives out in the news every day. Richard Diamond and the other protagonist por...

Congress and the world are shocked by the brazen attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House. The villains will not give up until the job is done. Author Christopher Emery provides another powerful Washington mystery that includes assassination, lust, intrigue, and deceit in a struggle for power. Who Shot the Speaker? is the second in the debut series and follows Who Killed the President?, a Washington, DC whodunit authored by a true White...

Terry Flaherty, 39, is a Bay Area standup comedian at a crossroads. Frustrated by his lack of upward mobility in the comedy scene plus the pressures as a husband and father, he is reassessing his career. Complicated relationships with his own father, siblings and his Irish grandfather add to his dilemma. A unique opportunity to make it big in the entertainment world could be the break he's always wanted, but will he get it? Set in the early 90...

Davey B Wild is a little boy with a big attitude! Anytime anybody asks him to do something, like eat his dinner, pack away his toys, or line up with his classmates, Davey refuses. He just shouts, "NO!" As Davey grows more and more stubborn, his body grows more and more disgusting. His teeth grow rotten from refusing to brush them and his nails turn grimy and gross from playing in the forest all day and refusing to wash them. Davey refuses to g...

Heidi A. Jurka escorts us on a captivating adventure of blissful consciousness expansion mixed with dire real-life challenges. Her intuitive glimmerings as a child living in the Hudson Valley in New York evolved to her becoming a professional psychic by her early 20's living in California. Heidi awakened bolt upright one morning to an absolute certainty that she must return to NY, after three years. Heeding the call but not clear about the rea...

January 12, 2115, was the day the robots took over. It was not a violent insurrection. In fact, no one actually took notice of it at all. There were no threats of bodily harm. No one died in humanity's defense. The movies had it all wrong. We walked through that door voluntarily. We abdicated with our increasing reliance on convenience. It was not convenient to read so we submitted to be read to. It was not easy to drive, too much stress, so w...

The character of the Montagutesi men and women was formed over centuries in the crucible of war, feudalism, religious strife, the black death, political corruption, and banditry. A strong Catholic faith and family honor were important aspects of that character, they provided glimmers of hope in a seemingly hopeless world and kept the Montagutesi from total despair. Follow the lives of members of real Montagutesi families (many of them related ...

You've probably had some interest in tracking your family tree back several generations or more. With currently developed gene editing techniques, scientists are now able to trace human heritage, as well as all life, back to our ultimate common ancestor who lived several billion years ago! This book unveils the transformative journey leading from Earth's earliest living single cell to the remarkable multicellular creature you see looking back ...

Richard Bryan of Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana was the consummate idealist. He had a forward-looking outlook. Slavery was an anachronism. In 1856, five years before the war, he offered emancipation to all 97 on his plantation, hired a teacher, deeded land, shared profits, and encouraged entrepreneurs. The Civil War devastated the South, but the war never reached his home. When Union occupiers arrived in Mt. Lebanon a decade later, they were astounde...

Among the orange groves of Lindsay, California, workers labor all day. Their children often toil beside them, to help pay the rent. At night, the streets and groves are full of violence and gang activity. The stark poverty and accompanying challenges seem insurmountable. In this collection of powerful stories, the students at Lindsay High describe their struggles and their dreams, unafraid to voice the realities of their present and their hop...

It's not easy growing up and going to school if you are from the wrong part of town. Gangs, violence, and extreme poverty often stand in the way of youth striving to succeed. In this collection of powerful stories, students set out to prove all the negative stereotypes wrong. They declare loud and clear that they do have the power to change their lives and fulfill their ambitions.

Welcome to East Palo Alto, former murder capital and a dangerous place to live. These collected voices of high school students in the hood are fierce, poignant and a moving testimonial to the value of bringing literacy to all students.

Signals in the Noise: An Exploration of Consciousness and Reality. How Current Research is Challenging Materialist Science "The Signals in the Noise, " groundbreaking theories about consciousness are meticulously explored, presenting an avant-garde perspective that stands to challenge our traditional, materialist viewpoints. The author leads us on an intellectual journey, questioning established materialist scientific norms and bringing forwar...

So you thought you'd never read poetry. The author has taken from his library some of his best works and woven them into a narrative of snapshots in his life and to give you a 'coat of many colours'. This is modern day, topical, varied poetry, interlaced with thoughts and observations directed at you, the reader. This book will appeal to a range of ages. Poems that span time and subjects relevant to today's reader. This diverse book will stir ...

Pender Denton was born in a bordello. His mother, a sex-worker, taught him to steal. He grew up with little regard for "normal" society. He was a pre-teen when he killed his first man. Pender wanders the lawless, post civil war west and survives by stealing and selling horses. He meets, and insults, famous outlaw Jesse James---and lives to tell about it. Pender also met Bill Dalton, of the Wild Bunch/Dalton Gang. Bill claims to be Pender's fat...