Gaius Julius Caesar was intelligent, courageous, and connected. For the majority of his adult life, though, he took little advantage of his gifts. Then, in his early forties, he came into his own as an orator, politician, general, writer, and statesman. Caesar dedicated himself to a singular mission: building Rome into an empire over which he would rule. As he realized his grand vision, the world he had created crashed down on him. Friends and foes alike turned against him. A group of cons...

Nothing in history sounds grander than a trade route, one of those thick bold lines on the statistical maps by which people have exchanged the products of their hands, minds, and sporadically, even hearts. Some of the routes have shaped history, rather than merely reflecting it. Primary among them is the Silk Road, the overland route across Asia that endured for more than 1,000 years as a crossroad from East to West. Here, in this essay by historian David Grace is the story of one of the g...

They were never meant to exist.Born of a forbidden union between two ancient bloodlines, three sisters carry the rarest and most dangerous power their world has ever known. Torn apart as children, each has lived unaware of the others-until fate forces their paths to cross on Earth.Kate only wanted a normal life. Larissa only wanted her visions to stop. Milda wanted to belong. But when a shadow from their mother's past hunts them down, the sisters are thrust...

Veteran Homicide Detective James "Big Jim" Donegan and his partner, Detective Chris Hunter, have been called to scene of their latest case, a strangled call girl who has been put halfway through a wood chipper that was left unattended in one of the city's parks.Since he was eight years old Chris Hunter has looked up to Big Jim Donegan not merely as a mentor but also as a father-figure. Today Big Jim intends to use this case, like every other crime that they have worked together, as...

YOU have a powerful message, a unique story of growth that when shared with transparency and authenticity will create the life and impact that you want! In Your Story Sells, Les Brown and other industry-leading experts will show you how to craft and share that story so that you can connect with your ideal clients, increase your impact and income, and build your authentic and aligned global brand!

Big things always start small. Big steps can surely take an individual further ahead on the path of success, but it's the small steps that count – those were the steps that put the individual on the path in the first place. This is the ideology that has been discussed in this book. The author has studied ants most of his life and has always been fascinated by their relentless effort, never giving up to achieve what they want. He believes there is a lot to be learned from our little friends...

This book contains twenty Science Fiction stories totaling approximately 130,000 words. The first three stories follow Harry Dondero, the first officer of the tramp star freighter, Orion. The topics for these twenty stories cover aliens, time travel, rogue technology and more.Five of the stories were novelettes originally published in Analog Magazine.Three of the stories were written by Hayford Peirce and David Grace (then writing under the "David Alexander" name).

Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Quinn always gets his man – with one exception. The one fugitive Virgil hasn't yet been able to capture is his unstable ex-wife who's run off with Quinn's ten-year-old daughter. For nine long years, while Quinn is tracking down an on-the-run enforcer for a gang of sex traffickers, a bail-jumping kidnapper/rapist, a gang of murdering home-invasion robbers, and an under-the-radar serial killer, Quinn continues his relentless search for his vanished child.He...

Six crime short stories (about 25,000 words) including two "mob" stories originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine plus additional stories involving the mob, murder and mystery.

The federal bureaucrat charged with stopping the importation of dangerous materials vanishes only days before enacting a new list of prohibited substances. Homicide detective turned Homeland Security Agent Greg Kane suspects that the HHS employee may have been killed to keep the new list from going into effect, but he has no idea who's behind the crime, which chemical they are so desperate to import, and what they plan to do with it once they've gotten their hands on it.After he di...

David Wilaru's unique take on politics and society honed by his years as a columnist for "The American Inquisitor" weekly newspaper -- "All the news otherwise unfit to print."David Wilaru is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area town of Silicon City which is located north of San Jose, south of San Francisco, east of Los Gatos and west of Milpitas. If you cannot exactly pinpoint Silicon City on the map, just consider it a state-of-mind.David Wilaru's early employment was ...

Detective Chris Hunter from "Death Never Sleeps" is back with a new case.In an abandoned storage locker Detective Chris Hunter discovers the Murder Books for a notorious crime, The Early Bird Café Massacre, where eight people were murdered in cold blood.Since the case is closed and the killer is on Death Row, Chris leafs through the Murder Books mostly out of curiosity, until he finds a reference to his old partner, Big Jim Donegan. When Chris sees Big Jim's name his intere...