In Too Much Magic, Pepper Paull, a good witch, lives alone with her familiar, an owl named Whittlesbee, and runs a small magic book shop. Most of her business is from other witches or those curious about magic and magicals. In Baltimore, as in most other cities, there is a full range of people, humans and magicals.Magicals include werewolves, witches, vampires, elves and many others.Pepper is the last of the Hesperus witches, a powerful family of good witches out of the Hidde...

The Progenitors is a Science Fiction tale based in the far distance of space and time. Akena is of the Shymyra, a governor of her people. Her world is ancient. Ruins of a 'lost' civilization fill vast expanses of wasteland. The past holds little interest to her people, they live in peace and contented comfort. The 'Progenitors' not only created the Shymyra, but gave them the task of renewing the world while guarding it and its people.Visitors from a vast alien civilization find the ...

In 2025 a coronal mass ejection licked from the sun to the orbit of earth, destroying most life in fires, flood, snow and then ice... recovery is slow.In 2043 the post-apocalyptic world is ravaged by sweeping sand and dust, Elizabeth Baker has found a means of escaping the sandbox with enough credit to live well. Working for Oliver S. Trenton as scribe and office cleaner she intends making the well-paid position hers permanently. Though the man runs a world spanning company, Liz has...

Despite constitutional limitations, the points of contact between religion and politics have deeply affected all aspects of American political development since the founding of the United States. Within partisan politics, federal institutions, and movement activism, religion and politics have rarely been truly separate; rather, they are two forms of cultural expression that are continually coevolving and reconfiguring in the face of social change.Faithful Republic explores...

In the far distant future humanity has joined a civilization that spans the stars, corporations rule through the commerce of technology and knowledge. Hired by one of those powerful corporations Professor Valeria Pelayrm, xeno-archaeologist, is on a mission tracking the origin of the Scribes, creators of artifacts found amid treasures of alien tech.Val has managed to decipher clues to the ID route the Scribes might have used. Commissioned with the promise of a substantial payday, Va...

In Pepper's Magic, the good witch, Pepper Paull, is not the only person dealing with magic books.Carol, the young wolf-witch, is still hitting the books to get a better grip on her own brand of magic. Taking a little vacation for Carol to test her magical control, Pepper encounters Zymnos, an entity that gives her a gift she can't refuse, even when she finds its deadly potential.But life goes on and Pepper opens a new book store to replace the one that got trashed by the bad ...

Hunter's Magic is the sixth book of The Merged Worlds.Stacey Bowen, vampire and leader of the current Daggerwomen is having a crisis of identity. The key to the effectiveness of the Daggers has always been in their secrecy, the fact that those who are helped keep their secret and those they oppose are dead. Historically vampires were the enemies of the Daggermen but times have changed and Stacey, being a Dagger, is proof of that. There are more enemies than only vampires in these da...

In Vampire's Magic Stacey Bowen leaves life as a waitress/party girl in a dark alley near her apartment when a rogue vampire drains her of life.The shadow-wizard, Nash, finds her in time to prevent her complete death, but she isn't really alive, either. Using his magic he saves her into the undead life of a vampire. The potion that he uses in place of blood meets her needs even though she desires human blood.As she gets used to being a vampire she takes up her life, resuming ...

Artificial Magic is Stacey Bowen's second adventure as a Vampire and Daggerwoman in The Merged Worlds series.While anonymity would be her primary protection, when a dangerous situation develops at Dawn's, where she works as a server, she takes action to protect her friends and co-workers from out of control magic. Using her daggers she's able to break a spell where a group of college boys use some very strange magic to take control of the room and those within it. Stacey gains a new...

The aim of this manual is to offer a comprehensive framework for both present and future military surgeons, enabling them to effectively navigate and build a successful career within the military, while also providing them with transferable skills upon completion of their military service. The military healthcare system operates within a unique framework with distinct challenges and opportunities. By acquiring knowledge and insights into the intricacies of military career paths, surgeons c...

Sea's Puzzle is bk4 of the Science Fiction series SeaScape. After Sea's family grows by five more little ones, she intends spending time on their home planet to raise the babies before going in pursuit of another of Valeria's missions. Gloria's birthing was difficult so recovery takes time. Sea has no reason to rush back into space for another mission. Val has the data of earlier missions to continue working on. As both the Warders and the corporation funding Val's missions offer new prosp...

The Brown Fairy Book, first published in 1904, is one of the later volumes in Andrew Lang's celebrated "coloured" fairy-book series, gathering tales from diverse traditions including African, Australian, Native American, Indian, and European sources. Its narratives range from animal fables and heroic quests to enchantment tales marked by transformation, peril, and moral testing. Written in a lucid Victorian prose style, the collection reflects both the era's fascination with folklore and i...