James: 5752 books

Each book is a collection of short stories that provide an ideal learning resource for the classroom as their content lends itself to open discussion. The stories are delightful, interesting, often humorous, always uplifting, and all having a moral theme.

College life presents many challenges, in particular choices about drinking. Here are 25 tips for students facing the college party scene. Although abstinence is always the safest choice, most students drink. So, it is critical to have concrete, meaningful information about drinking. Here is that...

Think that heading out into the Colorado forest in 60 degree weather in May is totally safe? Think again. As Nico and his baby sitter Hannah quickly learn, Mother Nature can turn on a dime, and when she does, she dumps so much snow on them that they can't find their way out of what should have been...

Thirteen-year-old EZ Taylor knows that his soccer team, the StrikerZ, has the talent to be champions. They even dream of turning pro for the top clubs in Europe, one day. But who will ever see them play? The multi-ethnic kids, from small-town Nova Scotia, don’t even own uniforms or cleats....

“I never wanted to be a killer—an assassin—a Wraith Dancer. But as a priestess of the High Serpent King, Belial, I had little choice in the matter. Still, despite my inward desire for a life of perfect peace, it must be said that I was one of the best. Blood had splattered across the front of...

Can a witch who can only cast one spell solve a murder? Maddie Goodwell, Trixie, her Persian cat (who might also be her familiar), and Maddie’s best friend Suzanne Taylor, run their coffee truck, Brewed from the Bean, in the small town of Estherville, Washington state. Maddie always...

Just two years ago, the media turned Detective John Spader into a hero. He'd caught a twisted serial killer terrorizing Massachusetts, and the "Jack of Spades," as the media dubbed Spader, was born. But when the murderer walked free on a technicality--free to kill again--the public turned on Spader. ...

Charlie Eastman, whom everyone repeatedly mistakes for a Texas Ranger, is the protagonist in this fast-paced, contemporary authentic Texas mystery. Set in West Texas today, The Grave On Peckerwood Hill is chock full of authentic dialect, historically accurate facts and geography, and natural humor....

Beth Tanner is a beautiful lady who is used to getting her way. She broadcasts the news at Six and Ten and she doesn't like to share the spotlight. Nor does she care to share her money with those who would attempt to blackmail her. George Hastings is a St. Louis detective who's definitely seen...

When Jason Prophet is hired by his best friend to guard a hauntingly beautiful woman from Japan, he not only falls in love, he finds his best friend murdered. After the woman disappears, Prophet swings into action, following a trail of drug smugglers that leads to Japan. Soon he’s in the Land of...

A nod -- and a wink -- to Dashiell Hammett. A nameless operative for the Celestial Detective agency investigates a crime scene.

Jake Thorne is a fixer for the MGM, the biggest and best of the Studio's that rule Hollywood's golden age. If you're a big shot, Jake will sober you up, pay off the cops and keep it out of the papers. So when a too-young girl shows up strangled in a big director's garden, Jake's on the job. But there's...

Arcadia’s trusted ex-boyfriend, Gavin, bitter at being rejected at his marriage proposal, steals the recovered manuscripts from Arcadia and heads to Singapore to sell them to a billionaire collector, but Arcadia forces him to double cross the buyer, who tortures him in the hope Arcadia will exchange...

When Arcadia Jones, a Harvard professor and curator of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City receives a scrap of what appears to be an old manuscript, she has it carbon dated and confirms that it is from the 1500’s During research, her hunch suggests that the sample is from one of da Vinci’s...