Gods walk among us.Indomitable, all knowing and long-lived, they guide us, nurture us and protect us. They are answerable to nobody, beholden to nothing. They are the High-Lords of the Imperium. For over five hundred years they have ruled over us, their Mandate of Heaven gone unquestioned.Until now.Only one man, Alex Grey, dared to rise up and challenge them. He confronted them and won, but in return they cast him from the heavens. Banished forever to an underworld,...

Commander Jonathan Radec is dead. However, the Commander has already died once before, and for some death is but a doorway..."For whoever has lived unjustly and impiously goes to the dungeon of requital and penance which, you know, they call Tartarus." - PlatoAfter making a shocking discovery that reveals the truth about a long-held misconception, the crew launch a desperate rescue mission to Tartarus. The only way to reach there, aboard The Sunfire, which was once the Conf...

Jake McAlister uproots the world's foremost problem.Who is he? What is his motive?And what is the motive of his friend Chad Bingham, handicapped and hardened young veteran of the Iran War? And of Bingham's only love, Greta Ondráková, beautiful and damaged movie star?Why must they confront a world gone mad—where Great Apes are considered equal to humans—and one mysterious group named "The Nameless" is bent on killing humanity?You will find the answers to thes...

Commander Jonathan Radec has finally obtained everything he ever wanted in life. However, in a cruel twist of fate, just as he reaches out for his most heartfelt desire, it is torn from his grasp forever."For only he who has experienced ultimate happiness, can completely understand the deepest depths of absolute despair."Jon has always trusted those closest to him implicitly. It has long been his greatest strength, but one that his enemies have come to realise is also his u...

A fun-packed space adventure – with lots of funny details for little readers to spot, and a BIG fold-out rocket ending!Buckle up and blast into space with Ivy the inventor, and her trusty canine sidekick, Eddie...But when Ivy meets some very messy aliens, can she help them clean up their planet?And, of course, help them fix their super-duper hundred decker rocket?!A brilliantly inventive story with a subtle message about keeping our p...

Live boldly. Speak freely. Break the chains of fear.In a world that rewards conformity and punishes risk, The Pirate's Code offers a defiant blueprint for reclaiming your courage and living life on your own terms. Drawing inspiration from the outlaw ethos of history's most fearless seafarers, this book lays out ten raw, battle-tested rules for those ready to ditch the safety net and chart their own course.Whether you're facing a life decision, buil...

A true story of three young men who came from a small town are given the opportunity to open a store in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. A Head Shop. They've never owned or managed a store before. Two of them work full time in a tool and die shop and the third one is a senior in high school. See how they started in 1969 working together building a thriving business that surprised even their closest friends. It was a different time many things in the world were changing and they had to change wit...

The biography of controversial Burnley chairman Bob Lord, the self-made butcher who ruled the club from 1955 to 1981. A blunt, opinionated leader, football's own 'Khrushchev' upset many with his views; but he had the idea of running a club on businesslike lines, and oversaw a production line of top players then sold on to sustain his vision.

More than 100,000 soldNFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4–12 record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith’s leadership, the Falcons earned an 11–5 record in his first season and would go on to become perennial playoff and Super Bowl contenders earning Smith AP Coach of year in 2008 and vot...

A moving nonfiction debut by Mississippi Delta poet Mike Smith, this memoir-in-essays, AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING: ESSAYS ON ILLNESS, LOSS, AND LOVE, tracks the loss of Smith's first wife to cancer after the birth of the second child, offering a portrait of marriage, family, and tragedy. In honest, and at times darkly comic terms, Smith documents the strange set of coincidences between his first wife's illness and his stepdaughter's similar battle the year his sec...

Most studies of 1960s jazz underscore the sounds of famous avant-garde musicians like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Albert Ayler. Conspicuously absent from these narratives are the more popular jazz artists of the decade that electrified dance clubs, permeated radio waves, and released top-selling records. Names like Eddie Harris, Nancy Wilson, Ramsey Lewis, and Jimmy Smith are largely neglected in most serious work today. Mike Smith rectifies this oversight and explores why critical...

Across the Line of Departure is a gripping thriller about a jaded army officer whose unconventional code of honor sets him on a dangerous path to vengeance, from which there can be no turning back. It's the dramatic sequel to Backazimuth, Mike Smith's debut novel.