Bøker av Bob Freeman

When Malia wakes up to find her dog, Lily, talking to her, she can hardly believe it. But she can understanding everything her canine companion is saying and soon realizes Lily is asking her to let her outside. Malia is amazed but wonders if it was only a dream. When Malia's Papaw finds out about her experience, he talks to her about their dreams.In Who Said That? written by Bob Freeman and illustrated by Bryan Werts, Malia's life is turned upside down when she discovers her dog can talk. But as she navigates her newfound friendship with Lily, she discovers that dreams can be both beautiful and mysterious. Along the way, Malia learns valuable lessons about the power of imagination and the importance of friendship.Who Said That? is a delightful children's story about the power of dreams and the joy of friendship. With an imaginative story and captivating illustrations, this book is sure to delight any young reader. So pick up Who Said That? today and let your dreams take you on amazing adventures.

The 4th volume in the H2LiftShip Series pits rogue algal rockets controlled by semi-sentient, somewhat angry tailGel-AI tablets against the Heliospheric Navy. Captain Graciela Lucerne, on her repaired and renamed BosonsWave^2, joins forces with Commodore Herb Grauer on his Gorilla Class Fast Cruiser to bring the HiveWar to an equitable finish.Graciela, a human female, and Herb, an Eastern Mountain Gorilla, may have started the Hive war, and now they had to figure out how to end it. We start at the end of the heliosphere and follow Hans and Jingles scrapping exotic ions born at the intersection of the heliotail and cosmic rays as they try to return to their former occupation, busting asteroids for fun and profit while avoiding the Asteroid Union who banned them from the job they loved. Graciela's parents escape the algal-slimed HuB asteroid and join their daughter on Luna, where the repaired and renamed Solar Sail ship travels to Earth to purchase cargo for the asteroid miners. She has the pleasure of showing her family the difference between living in ZeroG and on a 1g rock with its oceans, deserts, and tasty carne asada burritos. The usual assortment of pirates, gamblers, and merchants round out the story as everyone tries to move forward after the bioGel ATMs are compromised, and the economy crashes.

H2LiftShips- Beyond Luna Captain Graciela was master of her own fate, far from her controlling family in a solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. Her small crew on the H2LiftShip, the LunaCola, was all the help she needed: Jack, a talking dog with a nose for Earth jerky, Tang, a poker obsessed orangutang, and Octopus, in his watery navigation station.Strong, finely woven nano-spider cloth, filled with hydrogen, haul H2LiftShips to the edge of Earth before being transformed into kilometers-wide solar sails. The same fabric, on return, is a parasail, flying the ship to the aerodrome in the desert. Commerce is the name of the game in this saga and everything has a value. Heat generated from the collection of molecules and garbage surrounding the planet is captured in radiators and sold to the planetary electric grid as a bonus for the crew.The crew was anxious for some 'me' time after being in the void for too long.Tang was ready to double his money in Las Vegas, Octopus planned a coastal shopping trip for live fish, clams, and eggs. Finally, Graciela and Jack were on an epic road trip looking for cargo for the asteroid mines.It wasn't all fun and games for the vast population inhabiting the heliosphere. Asteroids societies were structured on what the sentients knew best, small city-states hanging in the void. Ponos is an injured miner and has to fall back to gig work as he recovers. He was lucky to make enough to cover food and waste handling on the jobs he could find. Find out how he connects with his old pirate captain and makes a break from the daily grind of a workologists on a cold, isolated rock.Lead had more value than gold and was hard to find in the asteroids. Mushrooms, infused with lead, protected all living-chambers, lightly glowing as cosmic rays bounce around the mycelium, changing states for all concerned. Every sentient and most machines use DNA-computers, which store petabytes of data and interface any sensing device. These semi-sentient bioGels suffered in their growth tanks as cosmic rays blasted billions of neural paths into existence, sending a flash of pain throughout the gel. It was no better after leaving their growing chambers and being sold in the wider heliosphere. Every sensor interaction required a fine needle shoved through their one-millimeter-wide edge and suppressed anger was their normal existence.There were no avoiding family issues as Graciela met her mother on some distant rock. Her mother's controlling passive-aggressive nature shown through as she continued playing pranks on her daughterWould Graciela rescue her mother from a kidnapping by pirates and win it all in a rigged card game?Find out in the first volume of the H2LiftShip series - Beyond Luna.

The Essex Experiment is an adult story that incorporates intrigue, love, and mystery. It places the main characters in a series of events that include industrial espionage, murder, scientific investigations, and family relationships.The theme centers on the possible discovery of a cure for HIV. The novel explores the attempt by a few unscrupulous individuals for greed, vengeance, and the lure of money to hold back that discovery from the public.It might seem like chance that brought Dr. Charlie Rodgers and Calvin Kunin together that one hot summer afternoon in New York. However, as the seventy-eight-thousand-word story unfolds, it becomes apparent that Calvin, financial adviser to Leslie MacPherson and her millions, was on a mission to lure Charlie Rogers into an adventure that would change Charlie and Leslie''s life forever. It was the beautiful Leslie, heiress to the family millions, who had been instrumental in trying to resolve the murder of John Beads, discoverer of a HIV magic bullet.The setting of the novel is New England, home of both Leslie and the chemical research company owned by her family. It is here that the story develops, and it is here that the mystery and murders take place. How the romance between Charlie and Leslie blossoms, the mysterious murders and cover-ups are unraveled, and how Charlie''s part in this intriguing adventure with its strong, concise dialogue plays out are the threads that present a compelling and fast-paced story.Based in fiction, many of the facts are real due to the author''s thirty-five years'' experience in chemical research laboratories.