The Frog's Song depicts the light-hearted journey of three adults, one seven-month-old child, two dogs, and two cats who left home and hearth to sail away to a tropical island to live off the grid. Purchasing a picturesque cottage on a secluded macadamia nut orchard, surrounded by lush foliage and fragrant flowers, with the glittering Pacific just a stone's throw away, Joyce and her intrepid family settle in to live out their dream. Hawaiian life, however, is not quite what they e...

In the final days of World War II, Sergeant Kapp Johnson is being held prisoner in the dungeon of a medieval castle in the Black Forest. While he and another soldier from his all-black battalion await ceremonial execution, an even more sinister struggle between life and death is taking place within the castle walls. Under the watchful eyes of Nazi Colonel Otto Strass, the notorious inventor, Dr. Josef Weiss, injects a ten-year-old Polish boy with an experimental serum, killing him....

Amid the chaos and destruction of World War II, racial profiling runs rampant. After kidnapped children whose appearances fail to meet the Nordic ideal are taken to concentration camps, some are used in experiments to satisfy the Reichs quest for Aryan Superiority. It is April 28, 1945, and a sinister struggle between life and death secretly takes place high in a dingy tower of a medieval castle in the Black Forest.Under the watchful eyes of Nazi Colonel Otto Strass, notorious inve...

When an American Idol-like competition comes to Atlanta, Kaliaand Mariama Jefferson (sisters who couldn't be more different)stop arguing long enough to agree on one thing: Kalia has to tryout. A senior at a prestigious performing arts high school, Kaliahas a shot at making her dream come true. And with sixteen-year-old Mariama cheering her on, Kalia sings her heart out,eager to beat thousands of other hopefuls.But when Kalia makes the top twenty, the competition r...

Them Days is a quarterly magazine dedicated to documenting and preserving the old ways and early days of Labrador. Many thanks to the people who shared their time and memories, their names appear with their stories.

Martyrs offers compelling and chilling interviews with terrorist trainers, with the families of suicide bombers, fighters and fanatics, and with Muslim scholars offering differing opinions on the legitimacy of violence in Islam. Through the voices of those who plan and those who grieve, Martyrs provides provocative and troubling insights into the zealotry that leads to the targeting of innocents, the endless cycle of revenge, and the despair that besets the Middle East. F...

For someone like Joyce, who was getting back into horses after a 40 year absence, finding the new, which is really reinventing the old, information on horse gentling was like making that discovery as a 6 year old that pollywogs turn into frogs. Now trainers speak of gentling the horse, not breaking it. We as people are becoming caring individuals who honor animals as the Native American’s did, as little sister and little brother. We are also finding that animals, in turn assist our growth ...

Wouldn’t it be something if mother, a small voice from the past, a farm-woman sitting at her kitchen table pouring out her heart on paper in thankfulness and gratitude for the children she adopted could in some manner impact the world? The time was 1956. Mother wrote to Grandma Holt of the Holt agency off and on until 1967 when the letters stopped. The agency kept her letters all those years and then sent them to my step-dad. I typed them, placed them here between the covers of this book, ...

As German bombs rain down on the city during the Blitz, a teenage girl discovers she has unearthly abilities…A young woman by the name of Godiva finds herself being stalked by mysterious graffiti sprayed across the city…On his first shift, a tour bus guide decides to go off route, taking his only passenger along for the ride…Often overshadowed by its higher-profile Midlands neighbours, Coventry’s quiet demeanour conceals a steadfast spirit of resilience and resource...

Established in 1790, Elbert County was carved from adjacent Wilkes County and named in honor of American patriot and former governor Samuel Elbert. Located in Northeast Georgia on the Savannah and Broad Rivers, the territory witnessed Revolutionary War fighting and the creation of Fort James, Dartmouth, and Petersburg, occurring all before 1790. Later Ruckersville, Heardmont, Bowman, and Dewy Rose were established. Elberton, chosen as county seat by former governor Stephen Heard's committe...

The Lebensborn Alliance takes place 11 years after The Lebensborn Experiment, Book IIt is now 1956, and the apex of the Civil Rights Movement. Former U.S. Sergeant Kapp Johnson is enlisted as Dr. Martin Luther King's bodyguard and moves to Montgomery, Alabama. Hans has inherited millions from his dead uncle and buys the Vancouver Daily Times. As Managing Editor, Hans sends 20-year-old Adok, who Hans regards as his brother, to Montgomery to report on the bus boycott...

A WWII SciFi AdventureIn the final days of the war, Sergeant Kapp Johnson is being held prisoner in the dungeon of a medieval castle in the Black Forest. While he and another soldier from the all-black 761st Tank Battalion, also known as Patton's Panthers, await ceremonial execution, an even more sinister struggle between life and death is taking place within the castle walls. Under the watchful eyes of Nazi Colonel Otto Strass, the notorious inventor, Dr. Josef We...