The first book in the Civilizations Trilogy broke new ground by introducing the protagonists of a civilization like never before. Prepare yourself for a completely new, completely original First Contact. Astronauts Susan and Michael approach an unidentified space object, which developed a close-to-the-Sun trajectory and then moved itself to the far side of our Moon. Upon making contact, Susan goes through a series of relevant events from another planet, crossing from one era to another in ...

Meet Eddie, a smart-ass, overly-educated barkeeper of The Hyde Out Inn and never-to-be courtroom lawyer, as he tries to figure out the connection between John-John, his sorta brother, and a Chicago Capone-era gangster dead for the past forty-five years. Charles, their sorta father and mentor, unalive for three years now, has not really left them. He had taught Eddie a lot and was planning on teaching him a lot more. Instead, he left him a lotta dough, a real lotta dough. He left him John-J...

Capitalism and the corporate form it creates is over-rated and neither are understood. Capitalism and that corporate form restrain your choice. They both present us with either an absence of choice or meaningless ones. Democratic Socialism doesn't do either. Democratic Socialism means more real and freer choices. Ed tells all the why, the what and the who. Economics, politics, and ideology aren't always easy to understand. But, it is necessary that we do so, if we are to be a free people. ...

Be Prepared to enjoy another well-crafted and entertaining novel, Sometimes the Innocent Pay, the third in The Hyde Out Inn Mystery series. Sometimes the Innocent Pay moves the investigation to Lansing, Michigan and introduces a whole new team. Like its predecessors, Sometimes the Innocent Pay will keep you guessing as to where the hell is all of this going? Just as you begin to think that the mystery is solved, it starts all over again until it reaches its surprising conclusion.Dis...

Meet Ed Weiss, who has written these short stories and the well-crafted and entertaining novels. Begin with several short stories, a few serious, a few comedic, a few true, a few controversial. Then continue with excepts, the first couple of chapters or so, from The Hyde Out Inn Mystery Series: Hammering Nails Can Be Murder, Felony Murder, Sometimes the Innocent Pay, The Droopy-Eyed Bank Robber & Stosh the Cop's First Case. Also included here are excerpts from the stand-alone novel, The Gr...

Be Prepared to enjoy this well-crafted and entertaining novel, Felony Murder, the second in The Hyde Out Inn Mystery series. Felony Murder revives a character nobody at The Hyde Out Inn wanted to be revived. Like its predecessor, Hammering Nails, Felony Murder will keep you guessing as to where the hell is all of this going? Just as you begin to think that the mystery is solved, it starts all over again until it reaches its surprising conclusion.Discover how Eddie G., a smart-ass, o...

She loved a man who loved crocodiles - a part of his soul belonged to oneLove and terror - two parts shared. Had he hurt others, girls whose photos she finds?She knew she must escape. She fled from him but could not leave this spirit behind - now it possesses her too.It draws her to itself. She finds herself locked in a cage with only this demon for company. Where can she safely go?Susan is an English backpacker who goes on a holiday to outback Australia. She m...

It was the misfortune of Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that, with most of the conditions requisite for the formation of national unity, she had no really national institutions. There was an emperor, who looked something like an English king, and a Diet, or General Assembly, which looked something like an English Parliament, but the resemblance was far greater in appearance than in reality. The Emperor was chosen by three ecclesiastical electors, the Archbishops of Ment...

A good portrait of Locke would require an elaborate background. His is not a figure to stand statuesquely in a void: the pose might not seem grand enough for bronze or marble. Rather he should be painted in the manner of the Dutch masters, in a sunny interior, scrupulously furnished with all the implements of domestic comfort and philosophic enquiry: the Holy Bible open majestically before him, and beside it that other revelation - the terrestrial globe. His hand might be pointing to a mic...

Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel The Wind in the Willows is brought to life for the stage. All of the famous characters, including Mr. Toad, Mole, Rat, Badger, and others come to life in this play intended for children.

Discover the incredible memoirs of internationally bestselling author Cathy Glass with this free extended eBook sample of I Miss Mummy, the story of Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother.Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mother snatches her from her parents' house and disappears.Cathy spends ...

As if with any story you've ever heard or read. There is more than one side to the story and I believe the story of Jonah deserves to be looked at with a different perspective, with at least some context. You've probably heard one of two versions. The kid friendly version with the drawings of a beautiful whale and Jonah comfortably praying on his knees inside the whale's belly, or the adult version where an angry God will send a storm your way to punish you for not doing his will and then ...