James McQuade, a young handsome marine biologist sails on a whaler into the Antarctic. On board is Victoria Rhodes, one of a number of nurses, and James falls hopelessly in love with her. However, other members of the crew, who range from ordinary as seamen go to very rough personalities, also lust after Victoria. Her origins become the centre of attention and an air of mystery surrounds her. Following a return to port in Cape Town drama ensues and startling facts emerge. The author depict...

A stirring and compelling story, full of adventure, set against the background of the move to freedom in Africa. In the face of opposition, hatred, violence and death, the gentler human feelings of friendship and love are nonetheless maintained. Joseph Mahoney is the last Colonial Commissioner in the Kariba Gorge, faced with easing the transition to new rule. To complicate matters, his servant Samson has been accused of murder, and he is drifting apart from Suzie, whom he loves very deeply...

Accidental Ukrainians: Part Two - Missile Mania is the ongoing account of two US citizens who were on the ground in Kyiv and Chernivtsi from February 2023 through February 2024. It details the ongoing missile attacks, some of their volunteer efforts to assist the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF), and personal details about their lives.Accidental Ukrainians: Missile Mania enables you to experience firsthand the escalation of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv. The book ...

For many years hunters had tried to kill Dhlulamiti, but he had survived. An elephant some thirteen and a half feet tall – his name translated to ‘Taller than trees’ – and weighing in at twelve tons he was a giant even amongst the largest species of mammal ever to have inhabited the earth. In his early days, he had roamed the savannah in Africa as a killer, attacking every man that came his way, but now wiser thoughts prevailed. Inevitably, one day Dhlulamiti met up with Jumbo McGuire, a h...

Accidental Ukrainians is a description of living through the Russo-Ukrainian War by US citizens living in Kyiv as non-combatants from the Battle of Kyiv (February 2022) through the first year of the full-scale invasion (February 2023). Featuring personal accounts of events on the ground and other background on Ukraine.Accidental Ukrainians enables you to witness the Russo-Ukrainian War from the viewpoint of US civilians on the ground, who went to Ukraine without a...

John Gordon Joyce was born on the 8th March 1879 in Richmond, Victoria, Australia, to a family of touring actors. He led a remarkably varied early life, working as a professional heavyweight boxer and theatre actor before migrating to England around 1909.After serving in the First World War, he settled permanently in Britain and began a career of full-time fiction writing. His debut thriller novel, ‘The Big Heart’, in 1923 helped to establish him as a runaway force in pulp fiction,...

This poem was not written to bring fame, nor to waft a fortune; for, fame and fortune are but small incidents when compared with the higher things in life. It was composed more for pleasure—the pleasure of meditating on, and the commemorating of, the splendid people who were among the many fine early settlers of this state; and likewise to impart this joy to the readers who may peruse this little story of pioneer days. Then the old “Spelling Down”—once so common in schools and so brilliant...

"When a web is broken it can never be rebuilt. Instead you abandon the old and build anew. But the new web, you wonder, will it break? What caused the old one to break, what tore that painstaking symmetry that experience and the history of lifetimes of web building created? So you build the next web more carefully, sure that this one will hold together. Yet it doesn't. The next web you decide you know what the weak place was. You will build this one different, uniquely strong. Again the je...

How much government is too much? How much protection becomes intrusive? How does the individual draw the line when decisions are made by the few for the many? In every land on this planet people ask these questions, even if they ask them quietly. Where has the educational system of any nation failed to provide basic reasoning skills and clear logic as the primary template for life here? When manipulation becomes common, when money and power become ends in themselves the individual comes to...

Pleasure Houses were found on every civilized planet in the galaxy. Their work was designed to prepare the way for Star Black to consume all life. The unique ruling consciousness for controlling all sentient life was the Inchanda Teen. Inchanda, always a woman, was trained and uniquely prepared for this task by the great mothers of the pleasure houses. She faced one being she could not control in the inner universe. Kellon Naper, was an asteroid miner blinded by contact with the Cereon Cry...

You are flying cross-country in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. I’ll bet you an overpriced on-board sandwich that three-quarters of your fellow passengers can’t explain how that half-million-pound machine stays aloft. “It is something about lift, and curved wings,” they will say. Really? If the wing’s upper curvature matters, how can planes fly upside down? Most will add, “I don’t know, and I try not to think about it.” I sympathize. I am approaching three million miles on just one airline, and I...

In September of 1964, as my family’s green Chevy pulled away from campus, I choked up. I wondered what the heck am I doing? I know NOBODY here, and I am seven hundred miles from home. I had been a popular and capable student-athlete during high school. However, as a naïve eighteen-year-old, I wasn’t ready for my new situation. To varying degrees, the young men in my dormitory who became my best friends were unprepared as well. Though we were from different states (more like different world...