Opp, Alabama, in 1937, was a boring place in the summer for a ten year old boy.Opp was short for Opportunity, a sad contradiction for a town that never developed beyond a series of small farms and ranches. But it was fertile ground for a kid with imagination and time on his hands, and young Billy Stacy had an abundance of both. And it would soon land him in trouble.

Paul Mitchell, a senior investigator for the National Security Agency, is tasked with investigating a series of seemingly random suicides of leading cosmologists, which has the science community alarmed. He uncovers a link between the suicides and a benign astronomy project team searching for cold dark matter.As Paul traces the last living members of the research team to take them into protective custody, his curiosity is piqued by an attempt on his life by a professional assassin....

Jeff Lambert wanted to be the best golfer in the world. But he would have to pay a price, a very high price.

Have you ever wondered what real life might have been like for the people you read about in the Bible? Their lives were difficult, sometimes complicated, and often filled with mystery.Imagine the apostle John in prison taking dictation from God as he writes the letters of The Revelation, Mary and Joseph with a baby on the way and the uncertainty that lay ahead, and Noah and God discussing Noah's role in saving humanity as well as the entire animal kingdom.The following storie...

Tom, the successful CEO of Global, an international paper company, had a mid-life melt down that caused him to kill his adulterous lovers. His inner demon, locked away in his mind since a childhood trauma, surfaced without warning and transformed him into a serial killer of young women. Now the act of lovemaking triggers in Tom an insuppressible urge to take the lives of his lovers.Detectives David Grant and Paula Wilson struggle to find a common thread with the women, and to discov...

At the turn of the 20th century a young preacher, Thomas McCade, lost his faith. Years later, led by dreams and visions, he found himself on an unintended mission from God. His appointed task was to save a hopeless Georgia farm town, its church, orphanage and citizens from a ruthless tyrant and his hired guns. His mission was complicated when he falls for a saloon girl.

A comprehensive technical digest of the terminology and vocabulary of the art of fencing; from Olympic Competitive fencing to Theatrical Swordplay. This eBook has been designed for ease of access for the student swordsperson, available on all major digital platforms, from home computers to smart phones and everything in between. The Codex has all the answers you will require to pass your proficiency award qualifications from all recognised fencing governing bodies.If you are studyi...

A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator’s travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest. Sasquatch myths and serial killer realities, a runaway Appaloosa, and turbulent volcanoes beneath serene mountaintops help chronicle a coming of age for both a narrator ...

Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy and hiding, Dorothy Allred Solomon, the twenty-eighth of forty-eight children, went public with her family’s story. Descended from five generations of Mormon polygamy, Solomon evokes the fervor and dedication that bound the Allreds to “living the Principle.” She vividly renders the persecution ...

Two books in one!A new version of an old classic. The Andy Adams western story of driving cattle, in a new easier to read format. Also includes,How to be a Cowboy, How to be a Bounty Hunter, and How to Hide From an Outlaw. I removed the original first chapter and added my own. It now reads like a personal journal written by Gent Johns.Also includes a lightly edited version of the or...

Explore each organ of the body in this immersive audiobook adaptation of Kay's Anatomy, read by world-wide multi-million bestselling author and former doctor Adam Kay with a full cast of voices, including Mark Gatiss, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Nyman and Lolly Adefope.Do you ever think about your body and how it works? Like really, really think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well...pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is wei...

Featuring leading scientists acting as consultants on the stories, and writing scientific afterwords, bringing the theory featured in the stories to life, including Prof. Sarah Bridle (Jodrell Bank), Prof. Jonathan Wolff and Prof. Frank Jackson (the inventor of the 'Mary's Room' thought experiment).Science is always telling stories. Whether in the creation myths of evolution or the Big Bang, or in the eureka moments of science history, narrative – just as much as metaphor – is a ke...