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Stories About Stuff is a collection of 12 fables I had been telling my sons when they were growing up. The Stories About Stuff series is unique since it tells stories about objects of everyday use (a fork, a pen, a kettle, a candle) or object of nature (a stone, a leaf). Also, unlike most stories for kids, Stories About Stuff take on serious topics: evanescence, alienation, disaffection, estrangement; and make them accessible, educational, and engaging.

In the summer of 1984, four best friends become hip-hop outcasts and learn about the power of friendship, life, death, and how hard it is to be unique in a town that doesn't always welcome those who are brave enough to be different.

For centuries, there has been peace in the Desert Realm, where animals of every shape and size live together in harmony. However, when a menacing force known as the “Venomous Ones” kidnap the unborn son of King Aridin and Queen Sparra, that peace comes to an end. With war and conflict on the horizon, three brave young hares are entrusted with the task of finding and rescuing the kidnapped prince and bringing order to the Realm.

Elliott Harkness is finally legit. He’s learned the superhero ropes and even saved the world a few times. But when he makes a major mistake during a do-or-die mission, his confidence is shattered and he decides to hang up his tights for good. Unfortunately, Elliott will need to put his early retirement plans on hold. Ravager, the Annihilator of Worlds, is heading for Earth! To stop it, Elliott needs the Orb of Oblivion.

When pressed, Jonathan Shea admits magic runs through his blood, but he’s always been ambivalent about it - until a dragon and her mage show up in the Scottish Highlands, and then all bets are off. Jonathan’s charmed and captivated by the dragon - a creature fresh out of myth and legend - but the woman bonded to the dragon is incredible.

A dragon shifter stirs and wakens deep in the Scottish Highlands. His cave is the same and his hoard intact, yet something’s badly amiss. Lachlan ventures above ground-and wishes he hadn’t. His castle is gone, replaced by ungainly row houses. Men aren’t wearing plaids, and women scarcely wear anything at all, particularly the woman who accosts him with unseemly banter. What manner of wench is she to dress so provocatively?

Bloated on chaos, the Morrigan gathers power. A trip through Hell yields quite the assortment of allies. Fell creatures straight out of myth and nightmare that haven’t darkened Earth’s boundaries for centuries heed her call. Heartily sick of the Morrigan’s maneuvering, the dragons are close to shutting their world off from everywhere, Earth included. If they do, every dragon shifter bond will be broken. Horrified, Lachlan and Britta launch a desperate campaign to hang onto their dragons.

Furious and weary, Angus Shea wants out, but he can’t stop the magic powering his visions. The Celts kidnapped him when he wasn’t much more than a boy. He’s sick of them and their endless assignments, but they wiped his memories, and he has no idea where he came from. Arianrhod prefers to work alone and guards her privacy for the best of reasons. She’s not exactly a virgin, and she’d be laughed out of the Pantheon if the truth surfaced. Despite the complications of leading a double life, she’s never found a lover who tempted her to walk away from the Celtic gods.

Matt Freeborn’s travels have brought him to the abandoned river city of Burlington, Iowa. Unbeknownst to the weller, terrible things hunger in the darkness, and their eyes are fixed upon him! Matt soon finds himself running for his life, seeking shelter in the city in hopes to survive the night of the cicada.

Thousands have checked into the Infinity Hotel over the years. None of them have ever checked out. Peter Childress and Charlie Womack are successful engineers on their way to Phoenix for an important presentation. But one of Charlie's infamous shortcuts has gotten them good and lost once again. As night falls, the pair stumble across the Infinity Hotel and the promise of a meal, fuel and a good night's sleep before starting off fresh in the morning is too good to pass up. But while Charlie takes to the hotel's amazing amenities, Peter begins to uncover some of the hotel's dark secrets.

This book includes two manuscripts on minimalist living. Master the Minimalist Lifestyle: What exactly is minimalism and why might it be relevant to you? Minimalism is a method for becoming free in life. It can help you become free from worry and fear. It can also help with depression, guilt, and being caught up in a consumerist culture. RV Living: Master the Life on the Road: Get started on an adventure like no other as you prepare to leave everything you have known behind and hit the road with just the essentials.

RV living is growing in popularity as more people hit the road to travel in a different kind of way - by bringing their mobile homes with them everywhere that they go. Sure, you could buy a ticket and hop on a plane to your next destination, but what's the fun in that? Touring on the road, making little stops along the way that are off the beaten track sometimes, and exploring places you ordinarily would have missed, that's the real adventure that brings so much allure to life on the road living in an RV.

What exactly is minimalism and why might it be relevant to you in your life? Minimalism is a method for becoming free in life. It can help you become free from worry, fear, and overwhelm. It can also help with depression, guilt, and being caught up in a consumerist culture. That isn't to say that it's wrong to own possessions, but it's very easy to get caught up in what those mean. Some people even put aside their personal growth, passion, relationships, and health for the sake of continuing to own new stuff. Minimalism can help you live your life with purpose.

Tallis Black is not accustomed to playing the role of prisoner. Yet that is exactly the predicament in which he finds himself in this latest installment of the Lily Harper Series. Tortured, malnourished, and at the mercy of Persephone, a vengeful spirit who resides within the body of the woman he loves, Tallis future looks bleak. But the 2000-year-old Druid is not concerned with himself. Instead, he wants nothing more than to free Lily from Persephone's grasp.

Space freighter captain Matt McGregor and his fiancee, Tracy Warren, must rescue her mother, held prisoner by Marinas Christiansen Sorenson, a charismatic faith healer and leader of a religious commune, on a private planet called Eden. They enlist help from Matt's brother Marc, and sister Maddie, along with Jake Stevens, a Federation Detective. Can this unlikely group invade a foreign, possibly hostile planet, defeat Sorenson's army, and bring Tracy's mother to safety?

In a divided nation, a sharpshooter with nothing to lose can change the course of history. Missouri, 1862. Rob Finn has a lot of Confederate blood on his hands. From his humble origins as an Irish immigrant farmer, Rob rose through the ranks to become a special operations sniper with the nickname "Longshot". But even he was powerless to stop the war from stealing the lives of his wife and children....

When 24-year-old twins Laurie and Joseph Ercolani inherit a bundle upon the death of their estranged father, they learn their sailing-enthusiast father also left each an identical sailing yacht. The twins have different ideas about what to do with their inheritance. Laurie sees it as an opportunity to fulfill her dream of making a movie. Joe sees it as seed-money for a get-rich-quick scheme.

Rob Finn is joined by William Cody and Lonnie Walters as they begin their journey into the gold country of the west in 1862. Rob meets desperate and unscrupulous men such as Henry Plummer, as well as gentle and generous natives who heal and help the strangers in their land. We learn that the treasures of the earth are sought by greedy men on both sides of the Civil War, while lasting friendships are the goal of and reward for precious few hearty souls.

Twelve-year-old Elliott Harkness wants nothing more than to join his family as part of the Freedom Force, the world's greatest superhero team. There's only one problem, he's a "Zero;" that's super-speak for powerless. Frequently abandoned by his crime-fighting family, teased by his older super-sister, and picked on at school, Elliott is miserably ordinary in his heroically extraordinary family. All of that changes when a mysterious new girl comes to town. She believes Elliott is far from ordinary.

1862 was the year that the US Civil War underwent a major ramping up. People on both sides of the fight were confused, angry, and hesitant. Most believed the 'war' would have already been over. Very few people realized to what extent the citizenry was being manipulated to participate in the country's most dividing event in its history. In Longshot in Missouri, we meet Rob Finn - an Irish immigrant farmer living in Wisconsin - and follow him through his introduction to the grueling realities of war within a nation.