The exhausted Union cavalry company under the command of Col. Philip Creighton arrives at Howard Hill plantation where they find five frightened women living alone. Philip informs Caroline Howard, the widowed mistress of the plantation, that they are confiscating her home for a few days of rest. But those few days stretch into the nearly- ten month siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Watching Caroline cope with the stress of constant bombardments of the nearby city, the endless numbers of Union...

A retrograde sun brings an ominous warning, opening a series of prophesies Howard Hill is at the center of. The red spiraling sun brings warning of an alien invasion that could enslave the entire world of Concentratia. It is up to Howard Hill to prepare the Concentratian Outcasts to defeat the Fifty-Year Alliance and save Concentratia. However, releasing the Outcasts into mainstream society, even to save the home he loves, could mean banishment for Howard Hill.

Hooter the Owl          By: Howard HillHooter The Owl is a story about Hooter and his friends. The animals use teamwork to convince Hooter to sleep at night and sing during the day. Young children will enjoy this book.About the AuthorHoward Hill was born in Auburn, Nebraska, on May 30, 1947. Howard graduated from Auburn High School on May 23, 1966. Howard served three years in the United States Army from June 23, 1966, until June 15, 1969. Howard told this st...

Howard Hill and his family have been banned from their home planet of Concentratia. When they arrive on Earth, Howard finds that four other would-be heroes are searching for him to get him to help them with their problems. Ice Age is looking for Howard to warn him about President Fluff and his Earth II manipulations. Achilles Sr., with help from two Sixth Dimension equines, is trying to protect Earth from his son who usurped his throne and is sending Sixth Dimension beasts through dimensio...

Trainers and educators ask: 'What personality types do best at e-learning; who really likes e-learning?' Better that they should ask: 'How can we make e-learning more appealing to more people?' E-learning is here to stay in the same way that the Internet is here to stay. The classroom, as a mass education tool, was an invention of the industrial age and we have made good use of it. E-learning is an invention of the information age but we have yet to properly realise its potential. Some of ...

Willie Black è un giornalista vecchio stampo, ama il suo lavoro ed è mosso da un senso di giustizia che è quasi il retaggio di un'altra epoca. Per contro, beve troppo, e il suo carattere ruvido e schietto, poco incline al compromesso, non lo aiuta: infatti, dopo una lunga carriera nella cronaca politica del quotidiano dove lavora, Willie viene retrocesso alla nera, l'ultima sponda prima del licenziamento. Quando il cadavere di una studentessa viene ritrovato senza testa nelle acque del Sou...

To save her kingdom from dark sorcery, a captive queen must bargain with the most dangerous barbarian in the world.The King of Vendhya has been assassinated by a sinister curse, leaving his sister, the Devi Yasmina, desperate for vengeance. Driven by grief and fury, she plots to turn the fierce mountain tribesmen against the shadowy assassins known as the Black Seers of Mount Yimsha. Her target to lead the charge? Conan the Cimmerian, a rugged, bloodthirsty warrior...

When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn’t realize that she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator living in New York City in the 1940s, she seemed the least likely candidate for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer took her to what was then the Belgian Congo, and divorce left her determined to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation. In the ensuing half century she witnessed the fall of c...

In 1455 John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. Thirty years later, at the time of his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, he was Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Admiral and a very rich man (and his direct descendant is Duke of Norfolk today). How had Howard attained these elevations? Through his service to the House of York, and in particular to King Richard III during the setting aside of Edward V.John Ashdown-Hill examines wh...

The bestselling classic from the “Sherlock Holmes of Accounting”—updated to reflect key case studies from the past quarter century and the dishonest tactics used to mislead investors.This fourth edition of the bestselling guide shines a light on the most shocking frauds and financial reporting offenders, and gives investors the tools they need to spot deceptive financial reporting in the global markets. This unparalleled guide provides the investigative tools you n...

Willie Black is a newspaper reporter who has squandered a lot of things in his life—his liver, his lungs, a couple of former wives, and a floundering daughter can all attest to his abuse. He's lucky to be employed, having managed to drink and smart-talk his way out of a nice, cushy job covering—and partying with—the politicians down at the capitol.Now he's back on the night cops beat, right where he started when he came to work for the Richmond paper almost thirty years ago. The th...

Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery.In "One Dollar Jackpot," Michael Connelly's curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up "Bump," a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. "Hardly Knew Her" by Laura Lippmann showcases a young woman learning about bluffing the hard way, ...