Bill Gordon is accidentally infected with the AIDS Virus and acquires some unusual abilities from the chemicals used in the year-long experimental program that almost kills him. Although no Superman, he is stronger and faster than the average man, with an increase in his body density, causing him to weigh more than a man his size. Once cured, he slowly adjusts to his new abilities, and his dream of marriage is rekindled when he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Mary Beth Johnson.

STS 3 The Landing is a true story of the recovery operations, from the author's perspective, to prepare a remote and hostile area to land and prep the Columbia Spacecraft for its return to Kennedy Space Center. To expose the rugged but fragile Spacecraft to the harsh conditions of a desert prone to strong gusty winds filled with gypsum sand was asking a lot of not only the Orbiter and crew, but the ground crew as well.

Even though older brother Jeremiah fought for the North, Ezra Barlow asked him to help prevent an ex-Confederate officer from taking over the Springwater, Texas, area.

Colors Running is a story about two men, one white and one black, both running, one from the law and the other from slavery.

What would it be like to travel back in time? You are about to discover when you read Other Times, written as if you are entering an earlier time. You will go with John Wallen, his son Jimmy, and Jimmy's girlfriend, Betty Ann, as they venture into the past and interact with the people of an earlier time, at times putting their lives in peril. Feel the present dissolve around you as the world of a thousand years ago draws you into its beauty and serenity.

Nathan Wright, a renowned Sportswriter, bunches out his boss when he finds out he is sleeping with his wife and goes on a three-month binge, vowing he is done with women. Not sure what to do with his life, Nathan moves in with his sister, Amanda Sims, on her ranch outside of Houston, Texas, and goes to work as a sales clerk in sporting goods for a major department store. All is well until love gets in the way when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful salesgirl, Marla Lane.

Bill Gordon boards a red-eye flight to L. A. after receiving a frantic phone call from his Nice Beth Ann Fletcher. A commuter flight returning to LA from Las Vegas crashes in the mountains with no survivors, including Beth Ann's parents. Since Bill is related through marriage only and Beth Ann has no other living relatives, California is going to place her in foster care. She and Bill love each other and want to be together, but the DHF refuses because he is not blood-related, so the battl...

Bill Gordon lost his wife in a horrible auto accident and wants to commit suicide, but family and friends get in his way, including his horse Wildfire and a young, down-on-luck country singer he befriends on his way to Florida. Once in Florida, he finds his will to end it all and be with his deceased wife has not changed. Bill begins a motorcycle ride across the country, following Lynn Ames, The young country singer, looking for a way to commit suicide without offending friends and family....

What are the chances a young girl would ditch school to go to the library to read books? Not a chance, you say? Then you don't know Genevieve. Rejected by the children of the orphanage and believed lied to by adults, Genevieve builds a wall of isolation around her and tries to create her own world. You might think a young girl feeling rejected and despondent would be driven to drugs and sex, but not Genevieve. Her unquenchable appetite for knowledge was so strong it drove her to the reserv...

A cultural critique of growing up in the USA, including such topics as our universities as purveyors of hopelessness and the dynamics of "getting laid" taught in high school, which emphasizes that taking on the "straight" role is damaging to all human beings regardless of sexual orientation. This role is taught to us from the moment of birth through all of the institutions of our society and the major methods by which it is installed are fear-based. Thus it sets up gender roles for men and...

To survive jumping out of an airplane as it breaks apart over the Pacific Ocean and enduring raging storm after raging storm and then being hurled over a jagged rocky reef while clinging to seat cushions—washing up on a deserted Island beach—should be impossible. Yet, this is where two strangers, Beth and Ned, find themselves, clinging to the hope of being rescued and each other as their emotions explode into a passionate romance, fueled by the reality they may not survive and, if they do,...

In 1845 in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau began a radical experiment: he built a cabin in the woods and lived there, alone, examining the world around him. He spent his days walking the shores of Walden Pond, growing beans, observing plants and animals, and recording his reflections in his notebook. These reflections eventually became his seminal work Walden.In this lovely picture book, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor imagine a special day spent with the cel...