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Blood-mottled walls mark a gory crime scene without a body, and a shocked witness tells an impossible story–that’s what awaits Conrad Blake, a Boston private detective, when he answers a desperate midnight call.

This is the story of a man and a woman who have made their respective plans to enter into their golden years after going through all of life's challenges, raising their families, wanting only to enjoy their retirement years with each other; filling those remaining years of their lives with travel, adventure, and grandchildren, along with making memories, only to discover their plans lost upon losing both "loves of their lives."

A project manager, former corporate trainer, and technical writer, Brian Eckard shares his compelling story of losing a job that he loved and his struggle to support his family during this challenging time. Through stories and humor, he brings you along on his journey to land a permanent job as he follows Jesus, resolving not to accept anything less than God’s best. He shows you how God was with him even in his darkest moments, guiding his footsteps and helping him rise from the ashes of defeat to the job He had for him.

The year was 1853, the crossing sickening, crowded, terrifying, and almost unbearable, and yet this family of six survived 40 miserable days and nights in the dark hold of the John Ruttle, a sailing ship built to haul freight, not passengers.

This is a book for everyone. As a parent, grandparent, teen, or adult, you will find one, perhaps many, of the characters in New Neighbors to be like yourself in many ways. As the story progresses, the diverse characters display their traits and emotions. While subtle in the book, they become recognizable no matter your state in life—as a teenager, parent, or a best friend—as the story progresses. Discovering yourself in New Neighbors is a part of the enjoyment of listening as well as recalling memories from your past.

The story behind the creation of the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade. Corporate politics, resistance, lies, and subterfuge almost closed this event before it opened. In this exposé of a famous place at a turbulent time, we look behind the façade at the making of a uniquely successful parade that has been viewed for four decades by a hundred million people. This is how the magic happened, and it wasn’t always charming, but the distractions only crystallized the spirit and determination of those who came together to build something truly extraordinary.

Your journey in life poses many challenging questions. Does God exist? Is Jesus Christ the Son of God? What is the purpose of your life? Why does God allow suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people? Is there life after death? This book provides answers to these and other questions, helping you travel from doubt to faith, enriching your life with meaning and happiness.

This novel comes at precisely the right moment as we figure out what 2020 means for the future. The Antifan Girlfriend shows you what will happen after the left has used the pandemic to destroy freedom: Political polarization erupts into civil war, the Green New Deal is used by elites to grab stuff for themselves, pagan Earth Mother religion replaces Judeo-Christian traditions, and the US surrenders its status as a world power.

This book was inspired by God. It brings God's activities on behalf of Earth's citizens from the shadows of history into illumination. God's mastery over the universe is brought to life from the Big Bang to modern times. A plausible theory is put forth regarding how God has employed his tools (only recently discovered but little understood by scientists), dark matter and dark energy, to create and sustain the universe as we know it.

Kai Cooke comes to the Volcano House for his strangest case yet - protecting the CEO of a geothermal venture from the wrath of Pele, legendary goddess of volcanoes. Rex Ransom is here in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park to attend the funeral for his second employee to die mysteriously in Pele’s domain. His wife sees a pattern and fears that Rex, having offended Pele by drilling in her sacred rainforest, is next. Kai is not so sure.

It all begins a thousand years ago on the flats of Africa and follows a wolf-dog as he makes life-altering decisions not just for himself but for the human with whom he develops a bond. This union remains inviolable as Puck’s soul passes from one life to the next. Puck’s story is as spiritual as it is terrestrial. His earthly visits are interwoven with returns to The Bridge and Azul, the latter a divinity who advises Puck but does not predetermine his actions - or his fate(s).

Follow Gustave as he embarks on a new exciting journey in pursuit of his dream. He faces many unexpected turns, learning a lot about himself along the way. Find out how his fun adventures evolve, meet colorful characters, and discover what happens when he faces some raging waves on the sea.

This audiobook, inspired by God, has two parts. Part One: The author was to tell how God chooses certain people to follow a plan or a set of paths laid out for him/her. Part one tells how God trains them, guides them, and even protects them from harm. Part Two: God wants all people to know how our culture is going down the wrong paths. The paths we are taking are diametrically opposed to what God has instructed us to do in the Holy Bible.

Your goals are not stuck in your head. You are. Have you ever had a dream that you wanted to achieve but for whatever reason, you couldn’t? Have you ever wondered why a goal you set your heart on seems to get washed out by daily life? It happens to many of us, from new achievers to seasoned ones. When it comes to pushing our goals out of our minds and into our lives, we all face challenges. Our mind is our biggest obstacle. And our biggest ally. What will you do to build your mind?

Beginning as a green new recruit with no fanfare, no uniform, and only the bare necessities, Joseph became a seasoned soldier, at times living by his wits and off the land. Joseph recounts, in harrowing detail, his confrontations with the enemy and numerous narrow escapes. There was more than one occasion when Joseph felt that divine providence had not only saved him personally, but had guided the war, as well.

When Special Agent Jonathon Howard gets the call telling him that the notorious serial killer he’s been chasing for five years has been caught, he jumps the nearest flight to Rappaport, North Dakota to bring the man in. But what he finds awaiting him there is not Jeffrey Marks, the serial sexual sadist. It’s Marks’s one remaining victim, Dana Cooper. A victim who, in a bizarre twist of fate, has murdered Marks in a fashion more brutal than anyone can understand or explain.

Millions of Americans are violently protesting; many more are refusing to pay federal income tax. States are threatening to secede from the United States of America; the president is desperately trying to avoid a civil war. While Tucker is offering a solution, his family is under attack from the most intelligent person in the world - a person self-diagnosed as a sociopath and psychopath.

Grady Huff, a wealthy and insufferable pain in the neck, killed his cleaning lady and confessed to the crime. No jury in the world could find him innocent and no amount of money can convince Mackenzie August to work for his defense. That is, until Veronica Summer's fiancé arrives in Roanoke and joins the prosecution. Darren Robbins has more on his mind than just convicting Grady - he's come to collect Veronica. And he's come to settle things with Mackenzie, a reckoning that will certainly spill violence into the streets.

Heidi’s gone; her body lies curled up at my feet. Despite the ache inside my chest, it falls to me to alert our alpha and maintain calm within the pack. Those are rules I vowed to obey. Yet, when my vampire neighbor Eli flashes his investigator’s badge, insisting Heidi’s death wasn’t the first, I join his hunt for the murderer, instead. Eli should come with a warning label, though.

Summoned to the Honolulu hilltop mansion of radio pitchman Barry Buckingham, presumably to trace his missing wife, the Surfing Detective is in for the letdown of his career. Kai Cook is hired to track another lost family member. A dog. Despite his qualms, Kai would seem a natural for the case, since the golden retriever named Kula is a famous surfing dog. Yet the PI knows nothing about finding missing pets. But he does know where to find help - Maile Barnes, an ex-K9 cop and kindred spirit with the keys to unlock the dark underworld of animal theft in the islands.