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Take me back to the days when mentoring was a well-respected craft and a highly sought after profession by young people. First-time author Robert Collins delivers a passionate, spell-binding account of his life as an athletics coach and mentor spanning more than two decades of his life. His memoir is chock-full of delightful and compelling stories and experiences both on and off the playing field. Collins' paints vivid pictures of fond memories experienced as well as painful and insightful...

Captain Jason Ayers and his crew deal with aliens, politicians, colonists, and pirates. Their adventures include action stories, mysteries, and dramas. These short stories have appeared in Tales Of The Talisman, Golden Visions, and The Fifth Di…, among others.This collection contains all the “Frigate Victory” science fiction short stories. The stories are in chronological order. Also included is the concluding short novel Bear at the Door...

Oria is the youngest daughter of the famed magus Hilia of Bacaria. A rough end to a relationship and a message from one of her mother’s friends sends Oria to the great city of Nuvus.Someone is selling scrolls with false tales written on them, including ones about Hilia. Is this a scheme to get coins? An effort to undermine Luthgenicca? Oria is tasked to investigate. Will trying to solve the mystery take Oria’s life in a startling new direction?

Oria and her partner Culca are given an important assignment. Ships from one of Luthgenicca’s allies in Nuvia are being robbed when they sail into the port of another ally.The Novium Empire is supporting pirates attacking ships from Luthgenicca and their allies. Oria and Culca need to find out if the robberies are being committed by those pirates or other criminals before the situation sets allies against each other. Will the two young women be able to solve the mystery on their ow...

Oria and her partner Culca are recalled to Luthgenicca on news that a pirate ship has been captured. Everyone presumes that the Novium Empire is supporting pirates attacking ships from Luthgenicca and their allies.The two young women question a pirate and the leader of the pirate ship. They hope their questions will guide them to a plan to reduce, if not end, the pirate menace. Could Oria’s past as a child fond of pranks also help them achieve their goal?

Though she’s the daughter of a blacksmith, Cintha grows up learning to read and think. It’s those skills that allow her to trick a wizard into hiring her as a boy servant. It’s those skills that help her learn magic.She also learns that her master is a wicked man. In dealing with him as a young woman she reveals her talents. That brings her to the attention of the King. As she’s not been taught under the law, the King tells her she can’t be a lawful witch. He does think she can be ...

Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations. The old way of thinking has not served organizations well. They continue to experience high levels of technological and operational failures even though they apply a wide variety of industry best practices. The rapid pace of technological advancement has tended to hide some fundamental problems that have existed from the start. The...

This collection contains seven short fantasy stories. They range from a second chance at romance to a magic inventor trying to save lives. All of these stories have been previously published.

An intimate look at the people of the prairies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – who they are, how they live, what makes them a breed apartThe prairies are Robert Collins’s spiritual home. He was born and raised on a Saskatchewan farm, but spent most of his adult life living elsewhere. Now he returns to his homeland to pay homage to the special character of the people who live in this unique region of Canada.Prairie People i...

They gained their maturity in an age of monumental and unprecedented change – from horse-and-buggy, Model TFord, and crank telephone, to moonwalks, space shuttles, and the Internet. They are better educated, more affluent, more vigorous, and longer-lived than any generation before them, yet obstinately cling to a forthright simplicity no generation is likely to regain. They are proudly “old fashioned” in their outlook, hardworking, and frugal in their ways. They are the last enthusiastic p...

In a vast interstellar empire, a young girl from a desolate planet dreams of honing her incredible skills and making her fortune. Song Chunshi's amazing marksmanship and martial arts prowess earn her a coveted spot at the Imperial Military Academy, despite her humble origins.Targeted by arrogant aristocratic rivals who underestimate her, the "Passerby Girl" must navigate the Academy's cutthroat competitions and grueling training regimen alongside loyal friends and frustrating foes....

This book decribesthe history and side effects of chemtrails, with documented evidence of their presence around the world and what people can do to prevent them.