The cover is a photograph of the old farm. Growing up in Oklahoma being born near the first day of statehood in 1907 only 18 years after the famous land rush. Living on a homestead farm miles from anyone else, moving a house with mules and ropes, a sister rescued by a pack of wolves during the move, going to a boarding school for high school, going to college, becoming a school teacher, coach and superintendent in Oklahoma. Albert B. Clark was represented Oklahoma in the national teacher o...

This is a love story of a miracle filled life.  It was love at first sight when we were 12, but she never saw me.  I lost her in the crowd at Disneyland, California.  I met her during a lightning storm when we were 26 years old. We traveled much of the United States and Europe.  We had so many miracles we quit planning and would just do on the spur of the moment trusting a miracle to happen.   Some were very important, we were told that it would take at lea...

Ancient Destiny I - SHIP - is a science fiction novel with a new twist. The science is either true, or rooted in actual theory and written by a retired manager of United States Air Force with 30 years in the thick of Research and Development. Some may not approve but the novel makes a strong statement for women's liberation in that the women in this series are the real movers and shakers. There is are good arguments for women outnumbering men in the establishment of colonies on new planets...

The women come into their own establishing space colonies.  The colonies are expanding and developing new technology as they recreate Earth on three separate planets.  Exploration continues.  Craig and his six woman crew discover some ancient planets that were partially destroyed then abandoned.  Was it war?  Was it a flaw in their technology that made the planets uninhabitable.  As they search for answers they find an enemy that they must defend the colonies ...

Women are better travelers in space. They eat less, breath less, and physical strength is seldom needed on a space ship. Brains are needed and women can hold their own in most areas. If you are going to establish a colony on a new planet it is important to have more women than men to have more children to populate that new colony. In a couple of generations the ratio of women to men will even out. If you read volume one you will understand how and why Craig has chosen his crew ...

This is an important book to read. A must read before WWIII which is coming soon. The basic information in the novel was from my 2nd semester term paper for air war college. However, it was rejected “we will never have a military confrontation in the Middle East”. I had spent weeks of research and writing. I spent about two days saying that Russia is the enemy and it was passed and I graduated. I then wrote the novel. Only a few copies went out. My sister wrote part of a war game that had ...

A single day in the heat of armed conflict can shape the future of the world. Throughout history, individual battles have inspired the birth of nations, the devastation of cultures and the triumph of revolutions. Yet while some battles rise up as the cornerstones of history, others fade in our cultural memory, forgotten as minor skirmishes. Why is this so? What makes a battle "important"?Celebrated veteran and military expert Michael Lee Lanning offers a provocative response with T...

An action-packed, on-the-ground memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire and the courage, resilience, and sacrifice of the firefighters who saved the city.In May 2016, what began as a remote forest fire quickly became a nightmare for the ninety thousand residents of Fort McMurray. A perfect combination of weather, geography and circumstance created a raging wildfire that devoured everything in its path. Winds drove the flames towards the town, forcing the entire popula...

The best military adventure writer in the country today. —Clive CusslerA superb storyteller. —W.E.B. GriffinHardliners gain control of Russia and motion to retake Ukraine. After detonating an atomic device in Ukraine, the United States flies in a fleet of F-111 combat planes for support – including some of the first women to fly in combat, who have something to prove.About the Author:Dale Brown is a former U...

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, despatched an invasion fleet to the island of Rhodes. This was the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths, and the ensuing battle for control of the Mediterranean would last sixty years.Empires of the Sea tells the story of this great contest. It is a fast-paced tale of spiralling intensity that ranges from Istanbul to the Gates of Gibraltar and features a ...

-a Firehawks Lookouts romance storyTess Weaver is only at home at the top of the mountain above a thousand square miles of Idaho-Montana wilderness, watching for wildfires. It’s the quiet place she makes sense to herself, alone in the sky.Right until Jack Parker becomes her closest neighbor, on the next ridge, one lookout tower and fifteen long miles away.A magic summer, connected only by the wildfire watch and radio, they discover that they’re both Looking for the ...