Bella is a rich and spoiled young girl used to getting what she wants. Following the death of her mother, her father has become enormously overprotective of her. This has led Bella to formulate a picture perfect image of life that’s not always grounded in reality. One night Bella decides to throw a party. The evening proceeds without incident and the guests have all presumably gone. Bella awakens the next day to discover that her house is in a terrible state, and more pressingly – that she is not alone. But foolishly, she takes the men present simply for friendly …

The Ballerina and the Doctor is the story of Melissa, an aspiring ballet dancer. Her latent genetic attributes only emerge well past her teens, condemning her to failure in her quest to become a prima ballerina. Guided by the eternal love of one woman, she discovers the courage to exhume her demons and unearths the perseverance to overcome difficulties and defy orthodoxy. Renouncing ballet to pursue the philosophy of Karezza, she enters the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the Sex Sports Event. Melissa becomes a target of G8 agencies intent on liquidating all advocates of Karezza, because this philosophy …

The title explains it all. A Short Story Collection of Horrors, the Bizarre, and the Mysterious is a 22-story horror collection ranging from the traditional Halloween story to the very bizarre. There is a vast variety of characters, from the criminal mind to black cats, witches, the insane, Satan, and the grim reaper. If you are a horror fan, get ready for a journey loaded with twists and turns. One thing these stories all have in common is that each one has an exceptional surprise ending. The other thing they all possess is the ability to keep readers on the …

Shortstop tells the story of a Massachusetts boy who liked to play baseball, and how he reached his dream of playing with the Boston Red Sox. Frank Lido was a shortstop from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, who just received a full athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin. He’s thrilled to be there and works extremely hard with his coaches to succeed. His team reaches national championship form. And at the end of the season, Frank signs with the Boston Red Sox. Despite his youth, he is put on the roster and tries to show he is mature enough …

Tour guide and owner of a New Zealand travel company, Rick Foster pulls together a group of old friends from their rock 'n' roll days of the '60s. Known as the Mereleigh Record Club, these 60-somethings meet to reminisce and, hopefully, in Foster’s case, rekindle an old romance as well. Foster envisions himself and his old mates partying from Auckland to the South Island. What he doesn’t bargain for is that he and his mates will become the unwilling targets of an international drug smuggling gang. A senior customs agent and a detective decide to use the group to set …

Teach Baby to Talk ... and Make Reading Fun, The Importance of Speech and Language in Learning to Read begins by recounting author Sandra Jean Smith’s experience as a teacher of illiterate adults, and also examines the possible causes for the ever-growing number of children starting school with speech problems unseen in previous generations. Smith’s research on this topic, interspersed with her personal stories make for impressive reading. She uses humour and anecdotes to entertain and inform readers. Learn the latest research into these problems and what parents can do to prevent and rectify them. Chapter summaries reinforce her research. …

When a slain store clerk’s ID is discovered in a young African American’s car during a routine traffic stop in Conway, South Carolina, he and his best friend are arrested, then mysteriously disappear from the county lockup. Later, they’re tortured and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan under the guide of racist Judge Barnes. Inside the young man’s car, a novel by Killian Prophet is found. Prophet is revealed to have intimate knowledge of the KKK’s bloody history in Conway. The KKK targets him, breaking into his home, and killing his wife. Two years later, just as Prophet …

In this first book of a trilogy, see an Earth-like planet and its population shaped by I AM (God) to perform a special task. I AM, An Alternate Saga of Biblical Proportions takes readers to a world where some very bad things happen, as a determined I AM shapes mankind into the most ruthless of warriors. Who better than Humans to wage war upon the Empire of Satan? Meet the players: Clan MacLee, who rebuilds their community after a devastating flood; the evil Order of Ra, who controls the world by shaping its leaders with drugs and debauchery; and the …

Zyanya: Always and Forever is the beginning of a thre saga that takes place in a central Mexican rainforest. Zyanya is the name of the prosperous coffee plantation that Severo Alba founded. Former shaman and now deceased, Severo’s lineage was chosen to bear and raise the child who would one day become the Great Shaman, fulfilling a 550-year-old prophecy. His son and grandson reject their heritage. They flee from the legend, the rituals, and shamanism. Now the ancient prophecy’s time has come, when a great Shaman shall rise against evil, combining the power and wisdom of the most influential shamans …

Two very different women in their mid-thirties and a fifteen year-old boy in a south London setting - what links these characters? Eileen, from a strict Catholic upbringing, outwardly vivacious but with terrible secrets from her past, and her best friend Vilde, a much cooler figure and also a victim of a repressive childhood in her native Norway. Between them stands Vilde’s only child Denzil, on the edge between his own troubled childhood and the world of adult awareness. Bullied at school but a dreamer with artistic ambitions, how will he rise to the challenges that fate has in store …

Can you imagine that in the United States or in Europe a young, scientifically, highly educated high school graduate had never heard anything about church or religion? Probably, you can’t. But nevertheless, it has happened. In recent decades, we have seen the dramatic growth of scientific knowledge that confronts traditional faith with facts. These facts seem to threaten the underlying truth of these age-old dogmas. Many young people acknowledge the problem: modern knowledge is contrary to the ancient dogmas of faith. Doubts about the credibility of traditional beliefs and religious ceremonies arise. The consequence is the absence from the Sunday …