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The beginning was the best part of my life 'til it was not. "Everything about the middle part of my life seemed flawed, with every recovered memory becoming a nightmare, right up until the end...maybe." "I have heard it once said that being in a relationship won't heal you and being single won't kill you but I'm in a relationship of a sort with both men and it has healed me but yet I'm single to a point and it's killing me because I can't choose whom to be with, much less whom to trust. Once I do, what will happen?"

Solid Ground shatters the popular myths in today’s culture about how to create a successful life and career. Tom Lewis offers both a road map and a compass for discovering True North. Following these principles will not only put you on solid ground, it will significantly improve your chances of finding success and happiness.

I’ll be trying to focus on the stuff with real-life consequences or aspects so I’ve written it all down and put them into this book. So this is my book that is stacked with poems and stuff.

As the struggles of being a new entrepreneur were quickly mounting, giving him with the feeling of having bit off a lot more than he could chew, Peter reached out to his old friend in the hopes of gaining some much needed insight and mental stimulation. But he had no idea what was about to transpire or the grand discoveries he would receive.

Proper Burial is the story of Ashley Stonewall, an average 32-year-old woman who doesn't look for trouble, doesn't crave adventure, and never sought out the details of her own past. However, on her 33rd birthday, the dark secret of her bloodline finally seeks her out. In the derelict mansion of her long-dead recluse father, Ashley must follow the clues left by her recently deceased mother to traverse the ancient halls of her childhood home and uncover the mystery behind the strange events and haunting disturbances that plague her on her fateful birthday.

In De Profundis, Oscar Wilde, in a lengthy letter to his former lover, reflects on suffering, forgiveness, and redemption. As a confessional text, it ranks with the Confessions of Saint Augustine as an examination of the nature of penitence, its origin and transformative effect. T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), a social commentator, was extremely moralistic. Among his targets was Oscar Wilde, whose contrition, as expressed in De Profundis, he believed to be an elaborate and convenient sham.

Cowboy rides his big horse, Dusty, back to Atascosa after finding the answers he was seeking on that long journey. To reach the home place, he must first make amends to the one man he wronged years earlier. They meet by accident in an unexpected small town. What transpires there changes Cowboy's life forever. In a poignant reunion, Cowboy keeps his promise to the young girl he met on the way up the trail.

Tommy Klopt and his family are starting fresh on the straight and narrow. With their new crew member, Cosette, who they saved from a sea witch, the Klopts are building a life in New England. The ever-present ghost pirate, Francois l'Olonnais, has grown quite a reputation in the ghostly realm since meeting the family. He's garnered respect for acquiring a new crew of mortals, the Klopt family, at his beck and call.

This quirky, futuristic romp into extreme consumer activism pits time-traveling sentient giraffes and lions against each other in a society where corporations have total control. Who says crime doesn't pay?

Cowboy did not find Ray Patterson in Cowtown. His old pal was two years dead. Without Ray's help he would struggle to find Brother Van, the itinerant preacher, wherever that man might be in this wide open land. Locating the wandering evangelist was the only chance Cowboy had a real peace. His journey had begun.

After the Klopt's square their debt with pirate ghost Jacques Mignard, they are left with a new crew member, Cosette, and a debt owed to a sea witch, Volange that brings them to Scotland. Pirate ghost François l'Olonnais, always with a watchful eye over Tommy, decides to lend the family a hand for their next quest. He enlists the help of a Scottish pirate ghost, Captain Red Boots. Working in a time crunch, with two new crew members that don't see eye to eye, and avoiding Volange's powerful brother who wants to stop them, the Klopt family is in for more than their share of rough seas.

Dr. Flare Haich offers the only hope for diverting a solar flare that will dwarf the 2012 Mayan Event, which killed her parents and a half-billion others. She must overcome the betrayal of one she trusted and launch Empress III to keep the Sun's fiery message from scorching the Earth as One Imix-the time of new beginnings-arrives.

Two black jaguars become the symbol of hope for a race facing extinction when they accompany a dying traveler back to her home planet. Jaguar Hope a novelette, tells of the ill-fated journey to Earth's Age of Crystal in this action-packed prequel to the award-winning historical fantasy novel, Zero Time.

For two years, twelve-year-old Tommy Klopt, his dad, Hoody, and his two brothers, Connor and Dillon, sailed the seas as Robin Hood-type pirates. After meeting, and almost getting killed, by a pirate from the 1600s turned evil ghost, Francois l'Olonnais, the family decides to head back to land and start over.

Tommy Klopt is cunning and clever. Of course, he's a pirate. The 12-year-old, along with his brothers, Connor and Dillon, begin a life at sea when their distraught father, Hoody, hits hard times. After a couple of years of smooth sailing as Robin Hood-type pirates, the family encounters a typhoon in the form of 400-year-old pirate ghost, Francois l'Olonnais. To force Tommy to complete a task, l'Olonnais captures Hoody. In a race against time to free him, the boys go up against real pirates and the FBI.

Too often I've ridden down the wrong trail. Sometimes, because I didn’t know better. Occasionally, even when I did. Then one day a surprising thing happened. Without knowing why, I sat down and wrote the first draft of Dusty. The good Lord gave me the talent and the wanting to write. My desire is to have these stories help spread God’s Word. If nothing else, it is to share a story told well to those who will enjoy it.

T. W. Lawrence writes the stories that make us feel good about growing up in Texas and shows his love for the state. Take Me To Texas is his anthology of 12 short stories set in, or mostly about, people from south of the Red River. The subtitle is "Lone Star Stories of Love and Other Adventures", which hints at the situations and characters that fill the stories.

What if Alice was a cat? Then, she would be an awesome cat! Alice is a calico cat that was once a stray and came from a feral community. She was rescued by an organization for cats at an early age, then she was spayed and neutered for her own protection because she was a very sickly kitty, and they didn't want her to pass on her sickness to her kittens.

Poems on the Spot is an audiobook that features everyday life through poetry.

Spending spring break in Peru with her grandmother isn't sixteen-year-old Jade's idea of fun. She'd much rather be with her friends at Lake of the Ozarks. Then she meets Felix, a museum director's son. Jade discovers only she and Felix can telepathically access messages left on engraved stones in the age of dinosaurs. Following the ancient stones' guidance, they enter the Labyrinth of Time and - with a shapeshifting dog's help - seek a red crystal called the Firestone.