Detectives Garnick & Paschal take on big trouble when the most celebrated author in the world hires them to recover his stolen diary. Charles Dickens' 1867 American reading tour is about to begin. Dickens mania has gripped the country, but the author is filled with dread. Fearing blackmail or worse - the loss of his readers' love and admiration - if his secrets are revealed, he sneaks away to Chicago where he believes the thief has absconded with his diary. Detective Quinn Pa

From Military History and Leadership, to How to Write and Get Published on Amazon, or Learning the Golf Swing, John has become a literary powerhouse. Over the last several years, John J. McBrearty has published ten books on Amazon. The incredible interest in his work inspired him to create this publication. This is a “one-stop-shop” for everything pertaining to John’s literary work. In this manuscript, John presents his brief synopses, book covers, standard synopses, book rev

A Guide for Beginning Writers What will you take away from this book? If you read, study, and follow the methods prescribed in this book, you WILL develop into a writer. Through the use of my simple, yet effective, writing exercises, along with a little effort on your part, you can be up and running as a writer in no time. From the author of ARMY VALUES, LEADERSHIP LESSONS, "From Operation Iraqi Freedom", COMBAT JOURNAL, COMBAT ESSAYS, AMERICAN HISTORY, "A Veteran's Perspecti

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This study of leadership resulted from an extraordinary three-decade-long military career that culminated with recognition for excellence by President Barack Obama. ARMY VALUES are the foundation of leadership for the United States Army. The following pages contain real-world leadership examples taken directly from the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom and will touch your soul. This is an excellent source of leadership inspiration for future generations of military and c

The Phoenix Monastery takes place around the year 1300 in Kufstein, Austria but mainly in Germany and Austria. The Baron decided he would have some monks start collecting information on anything worth archiving. These monks were noted for being fantastic scribes. In finding information for his people, he also takes a small fee for his services. Along the way, he finds some soldiers to help keep his castle and all the information safe. They happened to be some of the Knights T

In the Throes explores the awakening of intelligence and the coming into awareness of an evolutionary mishap on a forbidding apocalyptic planet. The story follows eponymic Gruff, the first linguistic/metaphysical awakener of his species, as he navigates identity, mentation, and ontology in relation to the Gruff's natural prey: humankind. Combining the writings of Freud and the spiritual truths of Krishnamurti, author Mathias B. Freese depicts the Gruff as an evolutionary dark

Book Four in the Dragon Singer Series In this fourth and concluding book of the series, Deryth Taylor will make some difficult choices on her journey to becoming a true Dragon Singer. Through it all, her mentor, Hyssstryona, is present to guide and strengthen her--until their bond is threatened by a startling revelation.

25th Anniversary Anthology Inland Empire Branch of the California Writers Club Welcome to the 2024 25th Anniversary Anthology of the Inland Empire Branch of the California Writers Club, which was founded in 1999 (The parent California Writers Club was founded in 1909). This collection includes short stories, poetry, memoir, nonfiction, memoir, original drawings and photographs, and one novelette entitled Murder in Huckleberry Heights. This anthology contains the varietal work

Ghost stories from America's Valley of the Sun have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! Welcome to the spooky streets of Phoenix, Arizona! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms.  Did you know that the booming, modern metropolis of Phoenix is a city filled with ghosts? Like the spirits who haunt the Smurthwaite House, which sits on the grounds of Phoenix's oldest cemetery? Or the restless

Max Fredericks can time travel. He doesn't know exactly how it works-just that it does. When it happens again, Max finds himself on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain in 1965 East Berlin. Still queasy from the shock of travel, he witnesses an abduction. The victim is a girl Max later comes to know only as Elsa, and the perpetrators are the Stasi-"the sword and shield of the state" in communist East Germany. Armed with comprehensive knowledge of the Stasi only a nerd from the