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Leonard Miller is a frustrated artist. His publisher and his agent are out to capitalize on the blooming success of “Robot Ninja,” the greatest costumed superhero since Batman! One night, Miller witnesses a brutal murder of a young couple at the hands of ruthless thugs. He cries out for revenge!

Anger is an internal warning system that alerts you to problems and shows you how to solve them. With his revolutionary approach, psychotherapist and anger specialist Moshe Ratson teaches you how to access the wisdom of anger to transform your life.

College student, total Chad, and all around puddle of machismo, Tanner Henry finds his new favorite pornstar, Lena White, in a gif… only to then find out she was burnt beyond recognition in a car fire.

Gentleman swindler Lyman Moreau is used to knowing what he wants. But when he discovers an opportunity to steal a shipment of Egyptian mummies and recruits the help of a back-market antiquities dealer, a crooked customs agent, and the woman both men love, he gets more than he bargained for.

Sheriff Mac must put his love interest on hold when KORN radio station is attacked by a UFO. Believers flock to the lake to witness another UFO attack. The media frenzy grows when Bigfoot is seen near the attack site. Can Mac solve the UFO and Bigfoot mysteries in time to save his relationship with Faith?

In his latest novel, Markman's Cave, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. draws us into the further adventures of the humans Marna, Elan, and Martin as they leave their home in the village of Tenlakes.

Markman's Home is a journey in modern Magical Realism. Using multiple narrative accounts with a mix of history, philosophy, story, and essay, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. blends the present and past with a possible future after the world's destruction. The action takes place in familiar settings, fertile plains, palisades of stone towering above rivers, caves, waterfalls, and trees. Freedom against tyranny and slavery are at stake when humans turn against their own kind. They control Warts, wolf-like packs of wild dogs, and Mutans, human variants seeking to rise and dominate.

"But how do I get in?" The narrator asks himself, just as Alice did before she followed the White Rabbit. In a similar land of magical realism, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. sets up an escapade in "a long thicket of trees separating two sloping farm fields". We hike with Tony beyond a fallen fence with twists of old barbed wire wrapping into the tree bark of the forest perimeter. Encountering "Buddha-like" images, muscular snakes that grasp at his clothing, and rotting fruits from Hedge Apple trees, Tony ventures further into the unknown forest.

Author of Markman's Home, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., has created characters as memorable as any in the realm of magic realism. Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1976, the writer recounts what-ifs with spectacular scenes in a rail yard, through hidden tunnels, and in old abandoned buildings. From the beginning when a visitor from another world pops up in a downtown Louisville ad agency, until the spectacular finale, the action ratchets up at a dizzying rate.

Fasten your seatbelts for another amazing adventure from the pen of Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. Bringing together characters that rival the Mad Hatter, Mary Poppins, or Voldemort, the author takes us with them on a fantastic space journey. Tony, the adventurous reporter, begins quite innocently by knocking on the door of Doctor Heironymous Newton, who leads him down a farm path to an unusual barn made of orange tile blocks.

An ancient foe. A divided planet. And an impossible choice to make. The evil Nocterar was defeated, and the planet saved. But if Excelsior thinks the worst is over, he has another thing coming - quite literally! Things aren’t going well on Denab IV. And when it transpires that the link he kept with earth could destroy both planets, even some of Excelsior’s own people start doubting him. With Hodera on the march leading a deadly new army and an ancient foe rising more powerful than ever, everything both Matthew and Excelsior love is on the brink of destruction.

Ted doesn't like to do anything the other vampires do. Vampires enjoy scaring people and turning into bats so they can fly around. Not Ted. He is a lazy vampire.

The Great Bobbert has lost his weasel again. Where can that pesky Popgoes be? A story from the world of P.A.W.S., written by Debbie Manber Kupfer.

High school senior Matthew Peters thinks he's just writing some online fiction about an alien superhero, Excelsior. But when a woman arrives at his school claiming to be from the distant planet he's writing about, he must think again. What's more, she says Excelsior's lifeforce lives within him. As an alien assassin tries to kill him, Matthew must decide what is more important: to save his own life or to retrieve an ancient artifact that could save two worlds. To stay the guy with growing online popularity, or lose himself to something he can't understand.

The "Golden Rule" is for everyone. When a young girl starts to learn about the different ways to say it, she finds that every culture and faith has their own way to express the "Golden Rule". Celebrate a love of diversity and acceptance in this tale.

The silver of Miri's cat charm passed on through the generations. The silver of Jessamyn's scepter, the source of her illusions. The silver of Quentin's scrying bowl, forged by Merlin. All intertwine in Argentum. With Alistair gone a measure of peace returns to P.A.W.S., but Miri is tormented by nightmares. The silver charm that had recently hung around Alistair's neck is now in Miri's possession and seems to have taken on a life of its own. And then it mysteriously disappears.

Life isn't easy when your big sister is an annoying cat and your moms can't understand a word you say. But that doesn't stop Rumplepimple from saving the day in a most unusual way. Find out how a car ride transforms a naughty terrier into a grocery store hero.

God was going to war. He had chosen His soldiers, presently a horde of browbeaten slaves, viciously harassed by task-masters in Egypt. He had selected as His leader a faraway, aged, sheepherder to gain the slaves’ release, develop them into a unified force and lead them from Egypt to conquer a distant, evil land, Canaan (present-day Israel). They would become a “holy nation, a kingdom of priests” under God’s tutelage to do a mighty work that He would later reveal to them.

Rhys Harrison’s dreams of a medieval fantasy world called Seodrass have lost her a lot of sleep, but also provide inspiration in her story writing and design for her video game company’s latest project. When her brilliant young intern, Braeden Somerleigh, suggests her dreams are visions of a real place, she suspects his genius has driven him insane—until his research leads them to a doorway between the two worlds.

A world of Magical Realism greets Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.’s saga, Xortal! The novel proceeds at a riveting pace with a tale of cave exploration, sudden disappearances, battles, and romantic interludes. Swords, clubs, and body tubes! Hidden chests, ancient scripts, and zizterrays! Characters we love and love to hate. Follow the humans at Tenlakes with their sentient horses and furry triads, and fightmutans, warts, mad Markman, and the evil Marloth. Add romance and danger to this adventure, and we are thrilled and chilled!