Bless the voice that tells these stories Beautiful and touching. The gospels for being humans. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?... A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faith...

Johanna Murphy, the illustrator, is in the 6th grade and enjoys growing up, teasing her younger brothers, playing in the Winter snow, picking the Spring flowers, and just being Hanna.The author makes his home in Concord, MA where he cares for his three children.These stories were born during a time of personal hardship and near despair as he struggled to hide his soul and protect his children. Hadar the main character (of now many stories) represents the best in us....

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you dont find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? Its against rules but we cant allow the childrens last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his han...

Book W of The Alphabet Series – 26 Letters, 26 StoriesBerlin breathed a brittle silence. Not the quiet of peace, but the unnerving hush of disconnection. The fiber optic arteries of a nation had been severed, leaving a country adrift in a sea of static. In the heart of the city, marble monuments stood shrouded in a perpetual mist, their stoic facades mirroring the secrets held within.Warren Drayton hadn't asked to be a hero. He'd been a tool, honed by years...

Far too often, we hear jokes and immediately forget them. This compilation of jokes is a collection from the past fifty years. Some jokes will make you laugh out loud, while others will produce a smile from ear to ear at a later time. Most were told by friends over a cold beer, while others were picked up on the run. Once we would start telling jokes, it was like turning on a water spigot. The jokes kept coming. Humor is a vital piece of life. Enjoy your reading and try to remember the rea...

A rare translation of Chinese military‑intelligence spy novels, authentic, intense, and rooted in the real power structures of modern China.A world rarely seen by Western eyes.Prepare to be captivated by a heroine unlike any you've met before.She operates in the shadows. She answers to no one. She is Miss Qiu.Orchid in Desert, the highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed Angel Heading to...

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you don’t find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? It’s against rules but we can’t allow the children’s last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his...

The most dangerous weapon in Europe isn't a missile. It's a decimal point.Rainer Müller is a man of mathematics. As a senior auditor for the Oversight Committee of Intelligence Services (OCIS), he believes the world can be understood through ledgers, frequencies, and the cold, hard logic of a balanced book. He doesn't care about politics; he cares about the truth found in the numbers.But when Müller uncovers a ten-million-euro "black hole" in a failed intelligence operation...

Book N of The Alphabet Series – 26 Letters, 26 StoriesSome assets are meant to be burned. Others are meant to fight back.Nicole Wilmington is the U.S. Department of Defense's most reliable weapon in the grey zone—the shadowy realm of espionage that stops just short of war. Her mission: derail the "Baltic Pipeline," a Russian project poised to hand Europe's energy future to the Kremlin.Operating under deep cover in the heart of Berli...

A shadow war is being waged in the heart of China. The most dangerous enemy is the one you can't see.Liu Jinwen is a ghost. A seasoned operative for the Ministry of State Security, she has spent years in the shadows of Europe, her identity a carefully constructed lie. But when her single point of contact is brutally exposed, she is abruptly extracted and brought home—not as a hero, but as a potential liability.Assigned to a backwater counter-espionage unit ...

Book L of The Alphabet Series – 26 Letters, 26 StoriesFrequent Traveler is a high-stakes espionage thriller set against the shifting landscapes of modern Europe. Luisa Brightmann, a covert operative for the U.S. Department of Defense, is a master of blending in—her life a constant cycle of train stations, anonymous hotel rooms, and coded messages. When a routine mission in Belgium unravels into a deadly web of international intrigue, Luisa finds he...

Class K: Killed if Failed.For Harvey Gallman, espionage isn't about gadgets or glory. It is about the meticulous adherence to protocol. As a courier for the Pan-Eurasian Analysis Kernel (PEAK), his job is to navigate the grey spaces of Berlin to retrieve intelligence that could prevent a continental war.But the mission is compromised.When a real-time signal intercept reveals that the adversary is inside his communication loop, the mission shifts fro...