Rob: 2367 books

Rain, like a deluge of wet regrets, poured without pause from the murky skies. The huddled woman, a dreary figure, head hidden by a large black scarf, leaned over the stone railing of the little bridge. She sobbed into her cupped hands. There was an insubstantial quality to the weeping woman, a monochromatic...

Late one winter’s afternoon, Jake discovers an old bureau in his grandmother’s house with a strange handle in the shape of the Lincoln imp. His grandmother tells him that if you knock three times it will summon the devil. Caught between a belief that the world he lives in is dull and a wish that...

Shaken by China is a pacey novel based in modern China. It is eventful, thoughtful, and provides an intriguing insight into the modern republic.Very briefly Shaken by China is a story in which a young man escapes his overpowering problems at home by taking a teaching job in the rapidly changing...

Vollmer’s a young guy, grows up on ugly streets. He survives by being uglier, hurting people for money, hurting people because he likes hurting people. When he’s hired to track down Dust and bring back the money he stole, keeping Dust alive isn’t a priority. Neither is keeping anyone else alive,...

Rob Harden has the gift of passing folk lore and the resolve for life through ten generations. For over 300 years 'Harden's Shadows' share life threatening and humorous stories through the eyes and wisdom of grandparents to their children and grand children.

Hide your gold, girls, and booze, the landsknechts are coming!  Four swashbuckling stories of early 16th century  German mercenaries.  Follow the rollicking landsknechts from the twisted streets of Venice to the battered city of Vienna. Whether rescuing back-biting damsels in distress, harrying retreating...

Islamic terrorists have been killing and destroying targets in Brooklyn and Manhattan. They attack a bookstore where a reporter, Zed Nill, is working on a novel. They take him hostage to a safe house in upstate New York and demand the release of three Gitmo prisoners in exchange for his life. If the...

Driven by current economics, technology and politics, the people of earth gradually take three distinct and separate routes forward. The rich go down, the dispossessed stay put and the adventurous take off. This book follows their progress through parallel, intimate and gripping story lines...

The Giraffe Who Couldn't Laugh is the third in the ‘Creature Teachers’ series of books aimed at children from 2 - 7 years of age. Gino the Giraffe is not happy. He has a sore neck. He can't bend his neck or laugh with his friends. When a giraffe has a sore neck, that is a lot of neck to...

Injured, alone, Layri confronts her fears as she attempts to escape from a hostile planet's surface and the corrosive rain that falls every night.

You can’t even shit. Animals shit. Dogs. Insects. Microbes. You’re being outskilled by the most primitive lifeforms on Earth. Repressed rage. Entrenched isolation. Compacted bowels. Rob Hayes’ trio of interwoven monologues offers a funny, disturbing, and brutally honest assault on the illusion of modern masculinity.

Growing up in the 1970s, our young hero contends with parents who think he's weird, teachers who don't appreciate his challenging intellect, and classmates who resent his existential Show & Tell presentations. To make matters worse, he has strange feelings for his best friend. Nothing in his life...

The same scary dream repeating itself night after night creates a fear which cripples your day. When the nightmare then becomes real, altering your perception of reality, and things happen beyond and outside of your control, how do you respond? Can your mind accept something so surreal? Especially when they threaten to return.

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...