TEMPORARY WARRIOR, WW II MEMOIR is the author's account of his WW II experience from joining the Enlisted Reserve Corps until the end of the war in 1945. The book cover is a photo of 103rd Division monument at the Texas Visitor Center on I-35 near the Oklahoma border. A friend's hand is on my shoulder.In 1942, as a freshman at Tulsa University I joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps. Within a few months I began three months of Infantry training. After that I went to the Army Specialize...

For two years, Jeff Blake worked on a Ph. D. dissertation dealing with the mathematics of time travel. Being unable to complete it, he changed his college major and obtained an advanced degree in math education. Then In August, 2013, he and his wife, Joanne, who was a pharmacist, begin a flight from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Castchanotsha, Michigan in a fifty year-old Piper Cherokee Jeff had inherited from his grandfather. With them are their children, ten year-old Jim and 12 year-old daughter, M...

A meteor is about to destroy the planet Entamida, a light year from Earth. A human population has existed there for untold centuries. Gano and Elantra were bought as infants by Tyre from a business that sold reproducing human clones. Tyre and wife, Loua, raised the couple, educated them and hired them out. Elantra is a mathematician working in space science and is a space ship instructor. Gano is a doctor and an archeologist. They have two children, Lee, age 14 and Broni, 12.Elantr...

A university graduate assistant, Greg Stevens,studying physics, learns that a giant meteor he has been tracking is going to cross the moon's orbit. It actually hits the moon, slowing it and shattering it into small rocks and dust, which fall to Earth. During the twenty-eight day spiraling descent of the debris, Greg fills his pre-WWII fallout shelter with whatever he thinks might help him survive the confluence.He emerges months later to find a moutainous moonscape around him. A fe...

We begin with stories Billy has heard about events in his parent's lives before he was born: His father Frank Grinnell, an aviation enthusiast in Topeka, Kansas, built and flew planes before marrying Marie MacConnell, Billy's mother. He has both the first aircraft license and first pilot's license in Kansas.They marry and go to Hollywood, where she works in a photographer's studio and he works in a garage, repairing tires and rebuilding batteries. On weekends he barnstorms, flying ...

Brad Williams is a young Auto Mechanics teacher at a Vo Tech in Oklahoma City. Older but attractive Oklahoma History teacher, Jewel Nicholson, annoys him with her giggling and unwanted attentions. After an unknown girl thumbs a ride, he's on his front walk when a large hailstone hits him above the temple. He's only partially conscious, when Ozod, an invisible, bumbling, interstitial entity, offers to save him from the deadly hail by sending him back in time to get him under a roof.L...

A new Alex Benedict novel from "a master of describing otherworldly grandeur." (Denver Post)Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies.Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that Robin had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they too vanished. A...

**Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+Joe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.**When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he’s not sure what to do—especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.But then things happen to make...

A secret agency must solve the riddles of history to battle an apocalyptic alien threat in this supernatural thriller series debut.In the summer of 1947, an unidentified object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. There were no survivors. Now it's happened again. But this time, two creatures have emerged from the wreckage. One is a small, benevolent being, brimming with intelligence. The other is an animal of remarkable strength, brought to Earth to annihilate all life o...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods, don't miss the Sweet Magnolias series that inspired the hit Netflix show!Single mom Lynn Morrow is determined to put food on the table for her son and daughter. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband has failed to meet his obligations time and again—but it turns out that Ed is struggling with his own demons.Enter contractor Mitch Franklin, an unlikely knight in s...

This award-winning satire shares a day in the life of a nineteen-year-old U.S. soldier home on leave from the Iraq War to take part in an NFL halftime show.A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal"—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush admi...

A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir.Doreen and Tim are married psychiatrists with a twist: She’s a self-proclaimed Long Island princess, grouchy couch potato, and shoe addict. He's an affable, though driven, outdoorsman. When Tim suggests “chucking it all” to travel cross-country in a converted bus, Doreen asks,...