In this collection of 29 stories, you can visit a smoke-filled bar in a fantasy world, or experience a love affair with artificial intelligence. Maybe you'd prefer to go back in time and relive the experience of going to a baseball game with your dad, or go back even farther to live in a perilous world when medicine was in its infancy. What's it like to experience the soul-crushing loss of a loved one, or to sit in Heaven's waiting room? Would you rather be a clairvoyant in the world of hi...

The Midnight Grave Digger is about a man who is visited by the ghost of a ten year old boy, Who leads him to where he has been murdered and buried in a mountain grave. When Ron reports this to the police he is immediately suspected of being an accomplice to the murder. He is allowed to be free only when the ghost reveals that there are eight more graves to be unearthed. The hunt for the murderer continues when the FBI joins the investigation. The story continues as they try to discover the...

You could kill her— after raping her!The thought seemed to leap into his brain. It was a half-thought and, somehow, a half-sound that seemed to originate all around him. It had no direction or origin. At first, it startled him. He looked around for the source of the voice. Finding no one, he had to conclude that he had imagined it. Curiously, he found that the possibility of committing rape and murder did not horrify or repulse him. It was only the thought of being caught and going...

Jennifer is the stirring story of a teen-age girl who lifts her family out of poverty by starting a lawnmower service. She is a hard worker and a perfectionist. The business grows to 3 trucks and 9 workers. The story begins in 1954. In the following ten years she successfully starts and runs three more businesses. The story relates her 4 romances, some tragic, and concludes with the love of her life who she meets on a cruise.

A group of monks who embark on a pilgrimage are surprised when they become the instrument of god;s rapture -- pushing the wicked out of the land and sealing them in new york and new jersey. The novel goes on to follow the open warfare and atrocities that follow. A woman, mysteriously restores law and order.

The Heffleys trade snow boots for flip-flops—but their tropical escape goes hilariously wrong.Book twelve of Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling series delivers sunburns, stomach bugs, and creepy critters that threaten to turn their dream vacation into a disaster.Perfect for readers ages 8-12 who love family travel tales with a twist.Collect all the books in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diary of a Wimpy...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR – THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES FROM STAR OF AFRICA . . .‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermottHAS BEN HOPE FINALLY MET HIS MATCH?The adventure began in STAR OF AFRICA, now ex-SAS major Ben Hope is in the most desperate situation of his life…Held hostage by a despicable tyrant in the heart of Africa, it’s not looking good for Ben Hope.

One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold.If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to...

In this post-apocalyptic thriller, a group of American friends search for safety following disaster, but danger is hunting for them.America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse—the stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce, and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city.As hordes of refugees...

Welcome to Golden Sands, the dream condominium built on a weak foundation and a thousand dirty secrets.Here is a panoramic look at the shocking facts of life in a Sun Belt community -- the real estate swindles and political payoffs, the maintenance charges that run up and the health benefits that run cut...the crackups and marital breakdowns...the disaster that awaits those who play in the path of the hurricane...

A major release in the New York Times bestselling One Second After series, set in an alternate America rebuilding after an electromagnetic pulse, this is William R. Forstchen's The Final Day.Since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States more than two years ago, the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina has suffered famine, civil war, and countless deaths. Now, after defeating a new, tyrannical federal government, John Math...

Rodeo champion Zach "Lightning" Lucas grumpily agrees to a Christmas Eve deal: put on a Santa suit and deliver gifts to a widowed mother. That done, he can finally leave Dry Creek, Montana, in his dust. Well, except for the small stowaway in his truck: Jenny Collins's grief-stricken little daughter. Like Zach, the girl doesn't believe in much of anything anymore. He brings her home just in time for a blizzard to strand him in lovely Jenny's barn. Where he unexpectedly helps a family-and hi...