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Adversity is the stimulus of life. It moves one to develop or collapse. A young boy loses his entire family to a calamity and forces him to change. His mother's last wish was to find a man he has just barely heard about and doesn't know if he will be received well or not, but he must meet his grandpa in Texas.

Philip Whitney, a luckless young man who strangely becomes attracted to his family's genealogy, discovers that his American roots began in Salem, Massachusetts during the time of the Puritans. As his search takes him to a witch's house in modern day Salem, a witch that was known to be hanged in 1692, a procession of odd events take him back to the witch trials, where he is to free the woman's daughter, who was hanged for witchery, and bring her to the future.

Being likeable has always been a powerful weapon. The more likeable you are, the more you feel good about yourself. And the more you feel good about yourself, the more you are able to change your world and get what you want. Reinvent Yourself is a book aimed at anyone who wants to take action in life, cast off bad habits, and become the person who is liked by the people that matter the most. The result? You will get exactly what you want! There is only one way to succeed, and that's by being the person everyone feels good around.

Tips and techniques for the unemployed, underemployed, or entrepreneurs on how survive tough times by keeping a job or finding new employment or clients.

Join Authors Lee Houston, Jr., Nikki Nelson-Hicks, Mark Gelineau, and Joseph King as they saddle up and, with a little fairy dust and luck, take you on adventures never before imagined! Two of the most popular genres ever come together in rollicking adventure yarns that would curl a cowpoke's mustache in any enchanted forest! Wild mustangs and magic wands! Witches and outlaws! The good, the bad, and the fairy tale! All of that and more awaits in Once Upon a Sixgun from Pro Se Productions!

Patton, a college-aged genius plans to rob a train of gold. He enlists the aid of Geronimo, a widowed ex-con; Skittles, a good-natured circus acrobat; and Royce, a cigar-chomping biker. After the robbery takes place, the gold is divided into three lots and hidden on three different vehicles. This causes confusion and betrayal by all involved in this steampunk adventure.

Ten-year-old Jackson Rockwell loves to sail, and dreams of living on an island just for kids off of the coast of Maine. With the help of some friends his dream comes true, but running Kid Island is harder than he had thought. Follow his adventures as he tries to keep the island out the hands of the nasty Samuel Snarly. Will the children of Kid Island prevail? Only those who listen will find out!

Sam, age 11, is an eager explorer around the farm where he lives in rural Indiana during the 1930s. His cousin Howie, age 10, comes for a relaxing visit. This visit, however, soon turns into a hair-raising adventure as Sam and Howie embark on adventures and discover long-hidden secrets. Together they explore an abandoned log cabin on the farm and make a gruesome discovery: a skeleton in an underground tunnel, holding a horseshoe. Is the skeleton the result of a murder? Why is the skeleton holding the giant horseshoe?

“They killed Dean. He was just a boy,” the engineer said. “Ain't nothin' we can do about that now,” Herb said. “I'm sorry mister, but believe it or not, we didn't want it to end that way. We just wanted the railroad company's money for a good cause and that's just what we're going to get now.” The old man scowled at Carlson. “So you wanted the company's money for a good cause, eh? And what might that ‘good cause’ be, eh? To make yourselves richer?” Carlson shook his head and smiled at the old engineer. “You wouldn't understand.”

Far from being a poet of note or the wordsmith I wish to be, I’ve been flattered by others asking how I do it. Without the benefit of salient literary instruction, I’m urged to write, as providential inspiration may move while caring immensely about the outcome. I have learned that writing poems is cathartic and a wonderful laxative for the mind. Thus, to that question, I responded with the poem Take a Thought…Wholesome and Good to describe my way. That isn’t to say all poets follow the same creative pattern, and surely they don’t—I boast only of myself. 

Their hearts were slamming against their rib cages. With shaking hands, they tried to be there for each other, support one another. The future had trapped them in the events that were set to traumatize them.

It is now 1939, two years after Sam and Howie solved the giant horseshoe mystery. Sam, age 13, and Howie, age 12, are now involved in another hazardous adventure.

In the Wild West, at a time when pioneers went west for a dream, one such family traversed the Oregon Trail to follow such a dream.... This is their story....