An unusual, Short Story-Novella occuring in a fascinating location with reluctant heroes fighting evil with amazing inventions and humorous situations. A lighthearted but dramatic story that draws the reader into a delightful and dangerous situation in Costa Rica.

Alison Reilly works as a legal secretary by day, but she spends her nights banging away on her beautiful blue drum set. Office politics and ill-advised romances rule the halls at worksomething Alison steers clear of until the firm hires Joan Stevens as a secretary. Joan is the most intense, most self-confident, and most brash woman whos ever worked at the firm. Shes also a stunning beauty that everyone in the office, including Alison, cant help admiring. When Joan goes out on a date with a...

Jack and Natalie cruise through the Asteroid Belt, searching for valuable rocks to push back to Sanctuary, a fantastic inside-out world. Unfortunately, there are people that are better at stealing than prospecting. The reader will enjoy this fast paced adventure with drama and humor sprinkled throughout the story.

Learn how to teach a Single Board Computer like a Raspberry Pi to recognize individual faces, using the latest Machine Learning techniques.

What begins as a World War II training mission becomes a haunting mystery that will stay with readers long after the final page.In A Deadly Storm: A Memoir, James West recounts his firsthand experience as a young B-17 radio operator during World War II. As he and his crew prepare for combat, a routine training flight is suddenly overtaken by a violent storm that leaves multiple aircraft hopelessly lost. Through quick thinking and determination, West finds a way to reestabl...

Lainey's job is to keep the system stable. Sometimes that means killing someone.She never liked it, but always believed it was necessary… Until now.Her latest assignment should have restored economic balance. Instead, it triggers questions no one wants answered. As a rising journalist begins challenging the official narrative and a governor starts pushing back against the powerful interests that put her in office, Lainey realizes they are all confronting th...

Alison Riley works as a legal secretary by day, but she spends her nights banging away on her beautiful blue drum set. Office politics and ill-advised romances rule the halls at work--something Alison steers clear of until the firm hires Joan Stevens as a secretary. Joan is the most intense, most self-confident, and most brash woman who's ever worked at the firm. She's also a stunning beauty that everyone in the office, including Alison, can't help admiring. When Joan goes out on a date wi...

The temperature is climbing. So is the pressure.Southern California, 1985. Money is pouring into technology, defense, and real estate while a brutal August heat wave pushes the city toward the edge.Engineer Joe Woods has problems of his own - a failing marriage, a demanding career, and a radar system that refuses to work.Then a coworker is murdered.What Joe uncovers reaches far beyond a faulty design: hidden failures, corporate maneuvering, ...

This is the story of an extraordinary journey that begins for author James Westly back in 1977. He was at the time happily married and involved in a successful corporate business career in Philadelphia. But something was missing. He didnt know quite what it was that he was searching for, but one day a small ad in the personals section of the newspaper caught his attention and started him on a path that totally changed his life.In the months that follow he set out on a journey of sel...

'I was in China and I wanted something more Chinese than Chinese: bigger, better, badder, redder. China held the promise of dragons' heads, acrobatics, mahjong and brothels. I was also expecting a display of kitsch, old-school communism: messages daubed on walls, Mao sculptures propped up against cash registers, crumbling socialist monoliths... But when my eyes hit Beijing for the first time, all this fell away.'When Sydney journalist James West lands a job at a state-run r...

The Effigy is the story of how a young man known as the Killer Cook and a young woman (Lisa Treatorn) living in a small fictitious town in a fictitious county (Madison County) become entangled in a relationship and had a child in 1986. The man, an inexperienced cook, learns how to cook in a restaurant, while the woman works at the telephone company. They are separate most of the day, but in the evenings, they get together and contend over how they are going to afford to raise their child. ...

When I retired, I wanted to write about my experiences. The problem was that I didnt know the first think about writing. I was capable when writing reports. I could wow you with my PowerPoint presentation, but writing a book was new. So, what could be so hard. I had spent many hours on airplanes reading a variety of books. I launched into my writing career. As this was my first book, I was willing to spend money to have my manuscript professionally edited. The result damaged my ego for som...