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OUTERNET
by David Nicholls
Aspiring Writers Short Story Winners
by Aspiring Writers
Deadly Intentions: an Al Pennyback mystery
by Charles Ray
Mudslide
by Ronnie Dauber
The Boys of Birmingham
by P. L. Ryan
  • Firestorm Sarah and Meagan are visiting their grandparents in BC but their vacation turns into a nightmare when they are forced to rescue their grandfather in an unfamiliar forest that they learn too late is on fire.
  • Dead, White, and Blue Al's friend, Buster and his wife Alma, witness a crime. Later, Alma and Sandra are kidnapped to cover it up, sending Al on a mission of rescue and vengeance against a white supremist militia group who are out to cause major mayhem.
  • True Love Or Disaster? True Love or Disaster? is your litmus test to see if your relationship is what you want it to be, whether it can be resurrected or if it's sure-fire heading for disaster. Anne Miles is passionate about helping people make the best of your relationships, making healthy decisions about their life path and to see past the thick smog of our emotions and lust to find our True Love.
  • Angel on His Shoulder Winston Nesbitt is a 40-year-old loser. He’s stuck in a dead end job where his bosses abuse him, loves a coworker who he’s afraid to ask out on a date. Winston leads an unvarying, dull, but comfortable existence. Then, his grandmother drops in. His grandmother had some unresolved issues in life, and she’s not going anywhere until she settles them.
  • Zinzi's Grown Up Morning Zinzi's Grown Up Morning (recommended ages 8-11) is about a young person waking up to a morning of limitless possibility. It is about hygiene, good grooming, healthy eating, healthy attitude, self reliance and self determination. Zinzi's character is magical and her world has an unrelenting, determined spirit.
  • Color Me Dead Al Pennyback, a DC-based PI is asked to investigate the murder of a teen that the cops think is gang-related. As he delves into the case, he finds more going on than he bargained for.
  • Child of the Flame The land of Pandara is peaceful. Pip, a foundling, has been raised by the tanner and his wife. They know nothing of his origins, and neither does he, until Pandara is invaded by warriors from Barbaria. It is left to the child Pip to save the kingdom, and find himself.
  • If I Should Die Before I Wake An Al Pennyback mystery. A Washington socialite is shot and is in a coma. Her husband is blamed, and Al is hired to find out who really did it.
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  • The Boys of Birmingham This book covers the FBI exploits of the men investigating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Boys of Birmingham caught James Earl Ray in just two months after Dr. King's brutal shooting at the Lorraine Motel. This book tells their true-life story for the first time ever!
  • When I Remember Love Chapter 1 When I Remember Love “That that is, is.” ~ Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Aidan Price was resting comfortably in the back of the limousine. He was on his way to the venue for his final concert.
  • No Way I'm Marrying Him This multicultural romantic comedy tells the story of an event coordinator, Reena Oberoi, who refuses to settle for an arranged marriage but finds herself falling for a man of her parents' choice when he clearly is in love with someone else.
  • MISSION POSSIBLE - Spiritual Covering Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to stand in the gap for your mate’s soul. This small book is a powerful tool for any woman who is married to a man who does not share her passion for Jesus. It will encourage and challenge the reader to embrace God’s promises for their spouse and future together. The author applies Scripture and practical action in this must have book.
  • On the Wings of Love A routine flight to a remote gold camp leads female bush pilot Wiley Hart and businessman Dexter Sweeney on an adventure through the wilderness of Alaska. Embarking on this perilous trek, they will encounter wild animals, raging rivers, and Mother Nature in her fury. But the most dangerous thing they will confront is their growing feelings for each other.
  • Spirit Song, Cape of the Red Jaguar The ancient Inca Temple of the Sun, five hundred years and fifteen hundred miles from where it should be in Cusco, Peru . . . . A sacred shaman’s cape bringing powerful magic to whoever possesses it . . . . A young anthropologist faces unbelievable dangers as the focus of her work – and her life – change dramatically.
  • Why I Hate Straws Online author Barry Parham unleashes his first bound collection of humor, satire and indignations. His perorations poke into family, dating, politics, culture, nature, good and bad decisions, and ferrets.
  • Revolutionary Liaisons: Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Sarah Morton as the First Woman of Ideas in American Art When poet and essayist Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton sat for Gilbert Stuart, the preeminent American portraitist of the early republic, a revolutionary alliance was born. Stuart painted Morton three times; the series is provocative. Both figures were objects of gossip during their lifetimes—Stuart for his proclivity for drink, snuff, and general dissipation. Morton for a public sex scandal that
  • Aspergers Fitting In. Coach Your Child to Success The Secret to Social Success for your Asperger is You. What your psychologist doesn't teach may be what your asperger needs for social success. Anne Miles is about to show you 7 secrets to how, as a single mother working full time she helped her Asperger son go from nearly being expelled from mainstream school to becoming Vice Captain in 3 short years. Learn DIY coaching skills.
  • The Day the Music Died Al Pennyback is hired to be bodyguard for singer, Cindy Caton. She's also getting death threats, and he has to find the person who wants to kill her. From DC to Colombia, he has to deal with poisonous snakes and a killer who likes to use a knife. He's running out of time and suspects, and if he doesn't find the killer in time, Cindy might be the next victim.
  • Why African American Children's Literature? The author presents her passionatae platform on the importance of the genre of African American children's literature. Ms. Velasco's life long dedication to create uplifting and empowering stories for children of color is put into an historic context. More importantly, she believes that today more than ever before the value of African American children's literature is of critical importance.
  • Sorry, We Can't Use Funny Following the success of his first book, the 2009 sleeper,
  • Memorial to the Dead A drunken derelict approaches Al Pennyback asking for help. A few days later, the man is found dead in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, and Al finds himself in the middle of a federal investigation involving Chinese gangsters and a decades-old smuggling ring.
  • A Good Day to Die Another in the Al Pennyback mystery series, featuring PI Al Pennyback, a DC-based detective who gets caught up in odd-ball cases in his quest to help the weak and defenseless.
  • Moonlight On the Lake Stuart Kirkland inherits a large estate from an aged aunt, with one problem. He must install a professional psychic in his aunt's country inn and long time home. This person must stay for at least a year. The psychic that takes up his offer is Esther Bloom a divorced woman with grown children who needs a change. Once she gets to Moonlight Inn she finds more than a change. What she finds is A
  • The Ravine Roman Steadwell and Jillian Lomas were from two completely different walks of life. Together, they were at peace as they found refuge in each others' company above an overlook they named
  • African Places: A photographic journey through Zimbabwe and southern Africa A photojournalist's look at Zimbabwe and southern Africa, the people, places, and animals that make this one of the more fascinating places on the planet to visit.
  • Blush: Politics and other unnatural acts Humorist Barry Parham's back with another acute collection of satire, targeting politics and other evils. And when Barry's inside the Beltway, no party is safe.
  • The Dying God & Other Stories The Dying God & Other Stories is a collection of short stories, illustrations and poems inspired by faerie tales and folklore from the imagination of S.M. Carrière Influenced by the bitter-sweet traditions of The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as Medieval Irish and Welsh tales, The Dying God is sure to delight dreamers of all ages!
  • Aspiring Writers Short Story Winners This compilation of short stories is the culmination of a yearly competition of writers in the Linkedin called 'Aspiring Writers' All proceeds of the sale of this book will be going to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.http://www.stjude.org/waystohelp
  • Die, Sinner Another Al Pennyback mystery. A popular preacher is found floating face down in his bath tub, and the police call it suicide. The daughter disagrees and asks Al to investigate. The world of religion is one that Al finds strange - and dangerous.
  • Deadly Intentions: an Al Pennyback mystery Al and his friend Buster go fishing with Lum Kellum, sheriff of Middleboro. Their vacation is disrupted by murder and mayhem as a leading citizen is found dead, and a new militia group springs up with another dastardly plot to bring the government down.
  • Pop's Way/Honoring the Tradition of Kwanzaa Every Day Pop's Way (recommended ages 8-11) is about patriarch
  • Deadline DC Private Investigator Al Pennyback is asked to investigage a murder-suicide to help a reporter friend doing a feature story. Problem is, the crime took place a hundred years ago. As Al turns over century-old rocks, bad things start crawling out, including a hidden treasure of gold coins, a murderous scam artist, and a ghost.
  • Mudslide Sarah and her grade 12 Geography class set out on a three-day hiking trip that soon becomes her worst nightmare when unexpected storms provoke a deadly mudslide. She must put aside her own fears and team conflicts as she works with her surviving teammates to rescue the victims of the mudslide in a tense race against time.
  • The Management Imperative Management is not the exclusive domain of business executives. If you need to get the children to school on time, dressed, fed, packed and prepared; you do management on a serious level. This book should be equally relevant to a care giver or executive. If you want to start gaining control and management of your life – read this…
  • A Winter Solstice Celebration This Children’s Story Shows Environmental Impact Through Animal’s Eyes “A Winter Solstice Celebration” helps children and adults alike to understand how the animals feel about their planet, how humans can help and how and how humans and animals can live together in harmony. A Winter Solstice is warm story that relates to all who read it.
  • Life with the Ladies of Low Arvie My second book 'Life with the Ladies of Low Arvie' has just been published and along with continuing our farming saga, it tells of my four years of study to achieve my dream of a University degree. We had many disasters during these years and one calamity that almost saw the end of our dream, but we are still here with the 'Ladies' and their calves.
  • Conquer All Obstacles A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO FIND LOVE ... WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES FOR A HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER ... EVEN TANGLING WITH A PSYCHOPATH ... YET, LOVE HAS THE POWER TO ... CONQUER ALL OBSTACLES.
  • The Ladies of Low Arvie - Living the Farming Dream In 2002 my partner and I bought a small piece of Scotland known as Low Arvie. Nominally a farm, Low Arvie was in reality just a wet and boggy piece of land. We have created a successful business rearing prime Scottish beef from our herd of pedigree Black Galloway cattle, who are 'The Ladies of Low Arvie.' This is our story - and theirs.
  • Web Secrets A young bride investigates a personal issue and becomes unwittingly drawn into a terrifying web of deception and revenge. As her family members and friends slowly disappear, she becomes the prime suspect and is left with only one friend in cyberspace who learns that she is the target of psychopath killer.
  • OUTERNET Could it ever happen and what would the implications be. This exciting adventure describes in frighting detail what would happen if the Internet was 'taken'down.
  • In the Name of the Mother An investigative reporter working for a London newspaper is sent on a mission to Spain to investigate the dissaperiance of a series of young men. While in Spain he encounters evidence of an ancient society that has existed in the hidden corners of Europe since the Stone Age. The society is a mother goddess cult where modern social roles are reversed. In this culture the women are in charge.

Al and his friend Buster go fishing with Lum Kellum, sheriff of Middleboro. Their vacation is disrupted by murder and mayhem as a leading citizen is found dead, and a new militia group springs up with another dastardly plot to bring the government down."

Charles Ray
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