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In Legend of Beards Hollow, John and Mark Robinson discover an old book written by their great ancestor, William Robinson, over 150 years ago. It tells how, as a young sea-faring man, William was captured by pirates, tortured and turned into a slave. After a battle between pirate ships, he...

Sgt. Windflower is back and as usual he’s loving life on the east coast. He may be a long way from his home in Northern Alberta but he has been adopted by the locals as almost one of their own. He has a good life, good work with the RCMP, and a good woman that he has grown closer to in his years...

1960 — an American town, a 12-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, an escaped killer found lifeless in the woods. Champ Garrett doesn't fit in at school, doesn't fit in at home. He lives on an old farm on the outskirts of the sleek new housing development that defines the prosperous...

From Ashes, a Fantasy/Fiction book for tweens to adults, is written by Anika Baloun, a 15 year old, from New Mexico. It is the first book in the Forest Wolf Collection. It immerses the reader in the world of the Four Kingdoms and beyond. The book follows a young pup as he fights to survive. He goes...

When Eric Delaney returns to Brandon after ten years away, he creates quite a stir in town. Eric had always been a snoop. After leaving Brandon he has turned his snooping talents into a successful career by writing books about the secret lives of the rich and famous. Now the plans a new book about...

Conversation > < Contemplation is a collection of 99 short stories by author, William Collins. The book is an eclectic collection of fictionalized retellings and introspective ponderings; a little something for everyone. It's an entertaining smattering of quick reads for busy people....

This book presents a personal non-religious philosophy of life inspired by the 4th Century BCE Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). In the face of our irremediable not-knowing Zhuangzi suggests we abandon all supposedly definitive declarations of Truth and instead follow along with the trustful...

Yap…I’m Jakkals, the orphan pup given to detective JP by Bruno just before he was killed when saving JP’s life. This story is told in Book-1. After Bruno’s death I took over the role of first lieutenant. Book-2 is all about how JP and I captured a gang involved in the poaching of Fish...

On an otherwise quiet summer evening, Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate, is nearly gunned down on the steps of his fashionable casino. Inches away, a powerful and influential warlord is killed. The warlord had just left a secret meeting with Sun Yat-sen, the George Washington of China, aimed...

Jake Greenberg, an ex-pat who lived in Shanghai before the Japanese Army marched in, is now a major in the US Army Air Corps serving in China. He is ordered to go behind the lines into the occupied city. Some thing has gone wrong with the escape line that has saved downed American airmen. He is to...

Clarence and his friends live in a neighborhood of older, but well-kept brick homes in a typical American town. They like to ride the bus, hang out at the shopping mall, eat fish and chips, and surf the internet. It has come to their attention that a necklace owned by Mary Ann Bennett is actually...

A collection of short stories and tales that dramatizes the realities of working men, women, families, and loners. Whether it’s the discovery of old secrets or the pressures of work and family, the characters in this collection aim to do what is right for themselves and for their loved ones. They...

An adventuresome young girl finds it easy to feel lost in her large family. The most exciting things for her were the things that her brothers and sister were doing and she fantasized about being included. She held one specific event close to her heart. In this she will join them, when she is old...

Family, friends, neighbors, cops, demographic emergence, fledgling integration, attacks by bullies, attacking bullies back, twelfth floor water balloons, coconut launchers, nail launchers, Cohiba cigars, .22 calibre starter pistols and root beer balloons at the movies, fuse delayed explosives, wilderness...