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Inside of Havelock's Emerald Pub is a mysterious room. A wooden plaque beside the door reads, "There be Dragons." When three juvenile delinquents enter the room, they are transported to the realm of Valasar. Where dragons can sure ruin one's day!

Two brothers go on a grand adventure!

Jenna Kane, a specialist in the Mind over Martyr program, ventures into the Kandahar Mountains of Afghanistan to rescue a Muslim boy who is speaking out against the Shadow Mediators. Jenna and her Delta team discover a trove of magical jewels. Chris Lone Hawk, a dog handler on her team, hides these jewels in a Lord of the Rings Chess set and smuggles them into America.

This is the story “behind” all of my stories, starting from when I was a kid growing up in Havelock and moving on through 45 years spent in the field of Youth Work. I may have a wild imagination when it comes to my audiobooks, but this one is non-fiction and filled with true stories of my Life and Times. Care to come along for the ride?

This is Book One in the Havelock Emerald series.

A children's story of the adventures of Tanner the Hamster and his experiences in the enchanted lands of Amber Woods. This story is filled all the forest characters that you would expect! Filled with close escapes, laughter and so much more....

Join Liam and Rory on another exciting quest filled with adventure and magic. There are elves and fairies, ogres and dragons, trolls and so much more! This is an exciting new world designed especially for children!

First told as a bedtime story, the Fear Slayers is a great book to bolster a kid's courage. Listen to the Fear Slayers, and never be afraid of the dark again.

When a lesser king and his two Sword Lords refuse to slay the dragon, Elendria, in order to steal her Star Fire, High King Manix declares them outlaws. When he orders that their three children are to be executed, Lucas, Alex, and Celeste become determined to rescue them - for one is to be a legendary Sword Lord, the other is to become the Lion Lord, and the third is destined to become the queen, Alicia the Black Rose.

In a coming-of-age story reminiscent of The Outsiders, 13-year-old Reason Nelson attends a party that is busted by the local police. As he flees, he collides with a detective and a drug dealer. He snatches up what he believes to be his leather jacket and crawls into a doghouse. In the pocket of this coat, Reason discovers a key that opens a safe-deposit box containing evidence that will solve the murder of a young female informant. Reason finds himself running from both the drug dealer who murdered her and the detective trying to solve her murder.

Shortly after his mother is killed in a car accident, Lucas leaves foster care at Wounded Arrow and returns home to Havelock to live with his dad. At his elementary school, Lucas stumbles upon three Muslim boys forcefully recruiting a young Muslim boy to carry out a school shooting. Lucas intervenes on behalf of Ali Kharim and comes away from the encounter carrying a pistol with scorpions engraved on its pearl handles. Little does he know that inserted into the butt of the gun is a flash drive.

This is the story “behind” all of my stories, starting from when I was a kid growing up in Havelock, moving on through the 45 years I spent in the field of youth work. I may have a wild imagination, but this one is nonfiction, and filled with true stories of my life and times. For all youth workers out there - I hope this resonates with you, and not only inspires you to never give up on even the toughest, belligerent kids, but serves as a clarion call for you to stand at the wall and fill the gap, while others have given up and quit.

The Havelock Emerald is an Irish pub located in the small suburb of Havelock, Nebraska. The Emerald’s iconic stained-glass window depicting a black dragon carrying a bright green emerald in its talons was gifted to the owner of the pub, Billy Connors, by a Gypsy chieftain back in Ireland years ago. Inside the pub is a gateway to an alternative realm. Old Billy is an Irish gunrunner and the Gatekeeper linking this world with the many realms beyond.

Thirteen-year-old Reason Nelson attends a party that is busted by the local police. As he flees, he collides with a detective and a Black drug dealer. He snatches up what he believes to be his leather jacket and drunkenly crawls into a doghouse, dragging the jacket with him. In the pocket of this coat, Reason discovers a key that opens a safe-deposit box. The box contains evidence that will solve the murder of a young female informant. The second theme of the audiobook involves the fact-based event that took place in 1966 on the outskirts of Lincoln.

In this Mythic Fantasy series, the Havelock Emerald is an Irish pub located in the small suburb of Havelock, Nebraska. The Emerald’s iconic stained-glass window, depicting a black dragon carrying a bright green emerald in its talons, was gifted to Billy Connors by a Gypsy Chieftain back in Ireland years ago. In the pub is a gateway to an alternate reality. Old Billy is an Irish gunrunner and the gatekeeper linking this world with the alternative realms beyond.

Ryan has goals to be like his father, the sheriff of Riverview, North Dakota. When he ventures into Stag-Heart Woods to rescue his friend's runaway dog, he stumbles upon the bloody aftermath of a shoot-out between an FBI agent and a Lakota man from nearby Stone Ridge Reservation. To Ryan, everything about the killing points to the Lakota man, Tallman Thunder Hawk, left unconscious by the shoot-out. But Dawn Red Feather, a young Lakota juvenile delinquent, has witnessed the shooting, and she brings Ryan evidence that would clear Tall of the murder.