The Voice Within: Lessons from Life's Seasons by John Jones is a deeply reflective memoir that takes readers on a journey through the seasons of life. From the challenges of growing up in the Rockwell Gardens housing projects to the quiet wisdom discovered in the later stages of life, this book explores the powerful lessons learned through both hardship and triumph.Jones shares personal anecdotes from pivotal moments his father's decision to act on love, the day he reinvented himse...

This Unusual Crime Story begins on March 31, 1950 in the small fishing village of Seaford, Virginia. Howard Rice a.k.a. Pintail is a well known resident and lives there in an old restored farm house on Purgold Road. Pintail owns and operates a Consulting Business out of his home and uses it as a front for his Elimination Business which is a Murder for Hire “Hit Man”. His fee for one Elimination “Hit” is $50 K cash.Read this exciting story and follow Pintail’s daily life as he uses ...

In this lively satirical verse, a playful "Upper Servant" offers a mock modern update of Swift's Directions to Servants, turning the routines of domestic life into a comic study of wit, temptation, and quiet rebellion. Across a grand household, butlers, cooks, valets, waiting-women, footmen, housekeepers, chambermaids, stewards, grooms, coachmen, nursery maids, dairy-maids, wet nurses, laundresses, and governesses are all drawn with sharp irony and affectionate mockery. Their duties become...

On a beautiful Spring morning in Jonesport Maine, Captain Jack Harper of Harper Industries walks into Mobys restaurant for his morning cup of Mobys jo, unsuspecting that it would be the beginning of a life change, not only for him, but for his community and quite possibly the country. Captain Jack had been a man of integrity and honor his entire life; a man of service to his community. Little did he know that his community would be asking him to be a man of service for the entire nation. I...

I am at a loss on how to express this extraordinary story other than fantastic and bizarre. You tell me? This story like so many others is a World War Two Scenario that was saved, reported and like so many others did not just fade away. It begins on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii where a young boy John Murphy Jr. a.k.a. Little John whose love of airplanes and flying becomes lost on a solo flight early one morning. A miracle saves his young life as he finds and lands on a Japanese Aircraft Ca...

Loosely based on his father’s life, this is the story of two brothers growing up in North London during the 1930’s. the Sutton Brothers were determined to escape the poverty and injustices of Tottenham. Jack looked to the Communist Party to bring the Revolution. That gave him a love, friends and a cause worth dying for.Tommy was older and smarter. He looked at the people with the money and wanted his share. He thought he could take what he wanted and have the beautiful women, sport...

Set in Alabama over a period of fifty years beginning in the late 1940s, this exquisite collection of fifteen short stories provides snapshots into the lives of different characters. The link between the stories is Billy, AKA William Vernon Johnson. Though they can be read as stand-alone stories, the collection chronicles the life of young Billy from a young boy to a man enjoying his role as a grandfather. Billy/William narrates several stories, but many of the stories are told in the thir...

When Saturn moves into Aquarius, you will be sensitive to different conditions as you usually are and your attitude does nothing for you. With Virgo being an Earth sign, you are honest and forgiving, but you must take the reins and control the situations you have faced before, especially when your emotions threaten to overwhelm. Do not be a doormat. Virgo's welcome change and when your disappointment comes you will be in a stronger position. Drop your heavy weight, and the man with the mus...

This series of books will continue to introduce man in person with his maker, God Almighty. God will meet and work with representatives from the Planet Ares (PA) to seek help in finding peace throughout his entire universe. God uses these meetings as a method to allow man to seek peace on his own terms. The primary setting for this continuing secret peace corps story is the United States of America (USA) in the state of Virginia on the Eastern Shore. Secret Peace Corps (SPC) agent John Jam...

This series of books will continue to introduce man in person with his maker, God Almighty. God will meet and work with representatives from Planet Ares (PA) to seek help in finding peace throughout the entire universe. God uses these meetings as a method to allow man to seek peace on his own terms. The primary setting for this continuing Secret Peace Corp (SPC) story is the United States of America in the state of Virginia. SPC agent John James VA10A; his wife, SPC agent Susan James VA10C...

This series of books will introduce man in person with his maker, God Almighty. God will meet and work with government representatives from the planet Ares to seek help in finding peace throughout his entire universe. God uses these meetings as a method to allow mankind to seek peace on his own terms. This story begins here on a beautiful country farm overlooking the Piankatank River in Middlesex County in the state of Virginia, USA. Retired police officer John James is reluctantly drafted...

This Bizarre Story begins in Newport News, Virginia (U.S.A.) at the Deep Creek Marina located at the end of Deep Creek Road. Six young men lifelong friends having just completed their advanced educations studying Marine Biology have formed their own Marine Research Company; The Osprey Six Marine Research Company (OSMRC). To support this new company they have purchased an Old Ocean going Trawler Boat they have renamed “The Osprey Six”. Unbeknown to them this old boat comes with a Covenant t...