Ballard: 265 books

Have you gotten comfortable—maybe even complacent—in your spiritual life? Maybe you can check off all the right boxes—going to church, reading your Bible, praying before meals. Maybe you even lead a small group or serve as a deacon and tithe regularly. But when was the last time someone really...

The Complete Story: Rehoboth Road through The Dancing Willow Tree, is the entire story of the 36 year saga between the Turner family and the Oliver family. It was May 1950, when fifteen year old Elizabeth Turner was raped by Reverend Oliver, the assistant pastor of her father’s church. After a hidden...

Egypt 1420 BC....The shadow of a dead man is summoned to the world of the living. On the moonlit banks of the Nile he watches as his grandson, Ahmose, is pursued by his own murderer. The boy is trapped, but soon all will be revealed –– who Ahmose's grandfather really was and the powerful, but all too dangerous document he had once archived.

Chaos Fountain is the Story of Kyle Durlow. A regular Joe Human who, after a chance encounter on the streets of San Diego, is drawn into a world where titans of industry have business meetings with gods, and he is dragged along for the ride. Quickly learning that not only are we not alone in...

In Book Two, Ahmose continues the archivist’s legacy. He makes a promise, which he intends to keep –– but good intensions are one thing and fulfilling the archivist’s task is another. It is more difficult than he could have imagined and key bits of information have gone with the archivist...

What does it feel like when you die—in those final moments? Do you feel the physical pain, or just the pain of your regrets? What does it feel like when you realize you can’t answer these questions because you’re not the victim?You’re the killer.River Daniels lives an ordinary life...

An Allegory For The AgesShelley Ballard’s debut novella is reminiscent of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.It will strike a chord in readers’ hearts. The confrontation between Carl and Clovis will sear into their minds for a long time.Readers will never forget...

In 1420 BC Egypt is ruled by Pharaoh, priests speak magic spells, and the dead commune with the living. Secrets are revealed and Ahmose, a scribe-in-training, finds himself bound by a promise once made by an archivist who suffered an untimely end. From the Valley of the Kings, to the edge of the Delta,...

Jacob’s Eyes In this dark time in our history, two brothers, Jacob and Jackson shared the same loving father, the same mansion home, but were separated by age and the circumstances of life; Jacob, a mulatto slave and Jackson, the sole heir to their father’s plantation. They were mirror images...

Alaska Virgin Air is a humorous mystery set in Fairbanks, Alaska.Abigail Vertuccio, reluctant clairvoyant, returns to Alaska to run the family air service.Home only a week, she stumbles onto a plot to destroy the business. To make matters worse, someone is trying to kill her.She...

Teenagers Marty Rogers from northern New England and Shelby Kingdom from the deep south, discover war doesn't always divide people, but sometimes brings them together. Based on a true incident, the Confederate raid on St. Albans, Vermont in October of 1864, The Raider is a story of courage, honor and friendship during that strife-filled time in American history - The Civil War.

Having survived a psychologically abusive first family—which he partially recovered from by going to college—William Ballard was ejected from the U.S. Navy for being homosexual, which he worked out of his soul by going to grad school. Jumping from the frying pan into the fire, he got married,...

Get out the bear spray. Double up on the vodka. Hide the Glock. It's Valentine's Day in Alaska!Rule 1: You live in Alaska, you don't back down when the going gets tough. Enter Abigail Vertuccio: Alaskan, independent, ready to take on anything. An outraged grizzly? No problem....

Covering both Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom as two campaigns within a single, if discontinuous, conflict, this book analyzes the strategic interaction between Iraq and the United States from 1990 to 2010 and the key operational decisions that determined the course of the war....