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Jaden Foxx has had a rough past that includes the untimely death of his mother and a history of abuse, but the 18-year-old tries to maintain a normal life as much as he can. With a group of friends that he can rely on, a crush that he's fallen head-over-heels for, and a dad who has sobered up and become the parent figure that Jaden needs, you could say that Jaden's life is finally normal. However, this all drastically changes when Jaden wakes up to the sight of his home city, Westwood, Mississippi, completely trashed and deserted. Alone and confused, Jaden barely has time to question what has happened to everyone he knew and loved before he's overwhelmed with numerous circumstances that are just as unexplainable as they are unsettling. A suspicious wall now encases the city, and Jaden finds multiple dead bodies lying sporadically throughout Westwood, each left in the same, unnerving condition. On top of these things, Jaden has a newly acquired ability to relive the past, which causes him to experience disturbing moments that nobody should be forced to witness. These are just a few of the many strange phenomena that leave Jaden worried about what actually happened to his home city and what's currently happening to his sanity. Perhaps the most frightening detail about Jaden's isolated state, though, is that he's nowhere near as alone as he thinks he is. About the Author: JD first started writing Abandoned when he was a sophomore in high school, determined to reach his goal of writing a book. Now after finishing Abandoned, JD intends on creating a series from Jaden's story. JD is from Woodland, AL and currently resides in Auburn, AL, where he is a student at Auburn University.

A body found on a Manhattan sidewalk riddled with poisonous darts... A missing heart surgeon from Charleston, SC... A terrorist bombing at the Museum of Natural History... A kidnapped thirteen-year-old girl... These events will bring together two unlikely allies, Detective Moose Pederson and private investigator Alexandra Adams. Their gripping journey together will take them from the streets of New York to Washington DC and the halls of the White House itself. As the story unfolds so does Moose's awareness of the unnaturally long and unique life he has led. His memories slowly return through dreams, visions, and encounters with people he's somehow known before. He'll discover that his real name is Uriel...and he is no ordinary man. And so it is, that an extraordinary man will have extraordinary enemies. Michél Broussard and his half-sister, Jordan Scheering, have battled Uriel over and over again, as angels and devils have done since the beginning of time. But now, Jordan whispers in the President's ear as Michél plans the upcoming wars that will destroy the world as we know it. It's up to Uriel and Alexandra to lead the fight to stop the greatest evil of all from consuming the world's soul - and nailing it to The Wheel.

When you open the box to a puzzle, inside you''ll find separate pieces randomly piled together. Uini Research applies the same approach to the paranormal field, in which everything is a piece of the bigger picture. An apparition is a puzzle piece. Electronic Voice Phenomenon is another puzzle piece. The effect of climate conditions on spiritual activity is also another piece of a giant puzzle. Unfortunately, in the paranormal, we don''t have a puzzle box with a picture for guidance. All we can do is attempt to put the pieces together in a logical way. Paranormal Puzzle reveals the world of the paranormal in an entirely new way. The book lays out the "puzzle pieces"-including findings from some of the incredible experiences of Uini Research-allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions and perhaps see beyond the invisible veil separating one world from the next!

Ezzy and Zezzy, just know! When they feel the need they follow their instinct and help save Zearth. Where they live. What is beyond is different. Upon those special occasions when they run into each other and their existences and experiences mix and combined it is because they are expected to help. Words are heard! When few criminals attempt to steal letters...one by one...from the words on Zearth....Zoon appears...summoning happens. the boys try...through knowing and sensing the truth...to recapture the letters that...begin...words.

Dr. Gambil, a Genetic Modification scientist, worked for ABBA, a US beef company with world-wide operations, owned by Livingston Tec, a large conglomerate. His goal was to improve the quality of beef cattle. In 1989, angry at government interference, he destroyed the ABBA lab and was thought to have died in the explosion. Eleven years later, in 2000, he sends an e-mail to ABBA demanding a ransom of fifty million dollars or he will destroy their world-wide operation. The threat is not taken seriously, until the ABBA ranch in Argentina is attacked. ABBA hires OMICRON, an international security company, to interrogate the lone surviving attacker, who reveals Dr. Gambil has trained and sent out four teams to destroy the breeding stock on ABBA ranches throughout the world. Our protagonist, Joe Garner, an intelligence analyst, has quit his US government job over an ethics question and is hired by OMICRON. Seven years before, he had done a tour in the Marines in Kyrgyzstan, and was almost killed in a terrorist attack. Because he is fluent in Turkic, he is sent to Argentina to interrogate the Islamic survivor. Dr Gamble has fled to Kyrgyzstan, where he has developed a serum, which, when injected into breeding bulls will deteriorate the quality of their sperm. Joe also learns Dr. Gambil is related to the terrorist who led the attack on him seven years ago and the ransom money will be used to support the Islamic terrorists from Uzbekistan. OMICRON is hired to stop the attacks. After they intercepted the attack in Kansas and the ABBA ranch In Kenya is decimated, they must find Dr. Gambil and stop his mad plan. As they track Dr. Gambil to Kyrgyzstan, there is one question: Do they terminate or rehabilitate him? Joe Garner also learns that the terrorist that wounded him is behind the plot and his need for revenge grows. The story culminates with explosive action in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

What Makes a Boy a Man. . . This is the story of Lon, a kid that was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1895, grew up in Tottenville, Staten Island-one of the boroughs of New York-and returned to Brooklyn where he spotted Mildred, a beautiful young woman with Auburn hair at a Charity Ball and was smitten. It tells the amusing events of a self-driven boy who loves the challenges of life and participates fully. He Joins the 1st Calvary of New York during WW1, breaks horses and becomes a Trick rider. Goes on to create the STANDARD LIBRARY of New York that has salesmen bringing books to Manhattan office employees to read for 25 cents a week. Lon becomes the father of three boys and three girls and shares the duties with Mildred, his Auburn hair bride. After WWII, with kids in the WAVES and attached to the Air Force, Lon and Mildred follow them to California. Here he starts a new career, finds new friends and lots of grandkids.

David Nammar was only 13 years old in Jerusalem, Palestine when for the first time in his life he heard and learned the meaning of the word "terror." That's when the peaceful city he once knew turned upside down. When the Jewish paramilitary invaded Jerusalem's modern Arab neighborhoods, they would abduct his dad and older brother leaving his mom with the rest of the seven very young children unprotected at their home on Nammar Street. Not for long though. Eventually the family would be forced out of their home into a fenced security zone confined with a few other Palestinian families that were also forced out of their neighborhoods. A year or so later, with dad and brother still being held at a concentration camp, David had to look for a job so that his family could survive under this new apartheid state of Israel. After facing countless obstacles under Israeli rule, finally at the age of 27, with hardly any money in his pocket, he succeeded in running away from Israel to find freedom and a future in the United States of America.

Professor John Orbatz, outspoken critic of South Florida's record of environmental degradation, has departed from Key West on a motor-sailer for a secret Sabbatical. His subsequent activities are designed to avoid harassment by those he has identified as responsible for the wanton destruction of the Everglades environment and its unique wildlife. Professor Russell Fairchild has taken early retirement from Golden West University in Colorado to Everglades City, Florida. The seafood and tidal river attractions of the Island Seafood Market lead to frequent social activities with Island Woman Krista and bewhiskered John, gentleman friend of Luisa, owner of the mystery-laden Glades Lady motor-sailer. Fairchild's social activities and introduction to the unique Everglades are interspersed with a family-requested search for the elusive Orbatz. Climate change mitigation in Florida has been stalled by a policy of business as usual, supported by the propaganda of the political party of science deniers. Orbatz is inspired to emerge from his secretive Sabbatical to communicate a series of website lectures on the natural laws and the planet's response to the greenhouse effect amplified by human activities. This has awakened the younger generation in Everglades City to the need for a grassroots transition to renewable energies, which leads to Orbatz' suggestion and support of a New Generation Climate Corps. Still, public apathy to the extreme environmental danger of global warming continues as our planet responds to the human-caused energy imbalance.

A society that improves its citizen's lives is "progressive". America is proficient in producing individuals with knowledge, vision, and a focus on achieving success however, societal issues remain. This is because America is focused on producing "leaders". The continued perception and classification of social issues as liberal / conservative, democratic / republican, etc., reflect ego driven, divisive, and First Half (FH) of life thinking. Society can only progress and resolve its problems when it develops people who have a different focus about life. Society must develop elders. Second Half (SH) of life or elder thinking eliminates labeling and ego thereby making long term resolutions possible. Elder thinking is not automatically obtained upon reaching a certain age or retirement status. Rather, it is developed either naturally within established structures or individually elected and sought after. Currently, our leaders have stifled the natural development process and it will take at least a generation for this method to be revitalized. The second method can begin immediately. It is individualistic. As unlikely as it may seem, the second way is only possible after an individual is humbled by experiencing life's devastating events and, thereafter, elects to undertake a new but unclear, perhaps mystical or spiritual, journey to evolve into an elder. In doing so, the developing individual assimilates the concepts of suffering, love, empathy, good character, gratitude, trust, and hope with an outward focus towards others. Additionally, the individual becomes part of something bigger than their self. As the individual's life improves, so does the lives of others. Society then progresses.

The American blood chit is a bandana-size-nylon cloth carried by all American combat airmen. It bears an inscription in several languages of the combat area that identifies him or her as a member of the U.S. military, and promises a reward for his or her return to friendly territory. The chit is readily identifiable by a replica of the American flag printed there on. It also has a serial number and the bearer's signature. A blood chit is not only a promissory note to those who assist Americans to escape from enemy territory, it is a bond between the government and members of the armed forces who willingly accept the special fidelity of being combatants deep in enemy territory. The record of evasion in World War II and Korea is rich with expressions of integrity and fidelity on the part of our government in fulfilling it's promise of a meaningful reward. All that an enemy helper needs in order to collect a reward is the American's name and the blood chit's serial number. This book tells the stories of the men who sacrificed themselves to find the American POWs in Korea.

READ THE EXCITING HISTORY OF THE MIESSES. The Miesse book has been many years in the making. The Miesse Family Tree began with the works of Ezra Miesse, George A. Katzenberger, Milton Arnold, and Anthony J. Ruble who encouraged their families to keep good records. Ezra, George, and Anthony each compiled a self-published book. As Dorothy Ruble Hudson traveled around the country in search of genealogical roots many amazing surprises were uncovered about her Miesse Family. New cousins were found including Mary Harrell-Sesniak with whom Hudson decided to co-author the Miesse Book. While both researched all Miesse descendants the project was divided into two parts, each beginning with the adventurous life of their emigrant father, Johann Daniel Miesse. In Volume I, the reader will be fascinated by the exciting accounts of his sons, Jacob, Joseph, Abraham and their descendants as written by Dorothy Ruble Hudson in cooperation with Mary Harrell-Sesniak. With Hudson's assistance, Harrell-Sesniak wrote the enthralling legacies of Johann Daniel's children, Elizabeth, John, Daniel and their lines. Through the authors' different styles, the highly successful completion of this Miesse historical resource will be invaluable to descendants as they enjoy the rich collections of ancestral stories, documents and photos. In the spirit of their forefathers' dreams, the authors encourage readers to record their family history at the end of the book.

Not sure if this old voodoo tale would work, Ms. Betsy Sue carefully sliced Mr. Lonnie on the bottom of both feet with the razor blade she always carried in her corn husk pocketbook, pour vinegar into the cuts to kill the tissue and to prevent too much blood lost. She wasn't trying to kill him...Mr. Lonnie needed to know how much Betsy Sue loved him. Ms. Betsy Sue would always say "Love is what Love does" ("SWOOSH" as she slashes him for the 3rd time across his feet) Mr. Lonnie was too drunk to realize what was happening. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. (Romans 8:1-39 ) Mr. Lonnie's flesh never went back to that Ridge Avenue Bar...My father's flesh did.

You can survive change and be better for it! This book chronicles the journey of Dr. Kenneth Na'dar Reynolds emotional and spiritual exploration. In this journey he is reunited with his star-crossed lover, Anthony Marcus. Their journey leads them on a wild adventure, leaving no parts of their lives untouched. They negotiate their relationship and how they interact with the wider world and their creator.

In the backdrop of the South in the 1940s, Eve, a mixed race girl in the deep country, has a not-so-memorable past and a less-than-hopeful future. Living with Mae Evelyn, her neglectful mother and Bear, her malevolent stepfather, Eve is forced to suffer physical indignities and abuses, in order to carry out the domestic duties, of which she is solely responsible. When Bear observes her having to put down the family cow, her courage and sorrow unexpectedly softens him towards her, allowing him to see the woman she is becoming. Hoping for a chance at autonomy, Eve attempts to work with her mother at the local courthouse, but winds up incurring the elder's wrath, as Eve's no nonsense personality ignites the interest of the hiring boss, Judge Latham Honeycutt. In a torrent of discovery, the slow burning embers of real love cause Eve to flee from her abusive home, running into the arms of uncertainty, where at every turn she guards herself against the fury of her mother, the uncertainty of her employer and the outright hatred from the society in which she lives.

Lena can''t seem to filter her thoughts. Whatever she thinks comes directly out of her mouth. After giving this problem serious thought, she concludes that she needs to have a ''thought filter.'' When she accidentally lands a job at a TV station, she is put to the test. "How does one accidentally land a job?" you ask? When you meet Lena, you will understand. Once Lena establishers herself as a Professional Makeup/Hairstylist, she begins to roll with the rhythm of the personalities she is surrounded with. She learns their likes and dislikes as well as. She finds out more than she needs to know about their personal lives. She wants to fall in love, but the assortment of men who enter and exit from her life will make your head spin. Just when she thinks she finds the man of her dreams, he makes a quick exit. Anyone who had a large ethnic family can relate to Lena''s Nana. We all have had a Nana, Busha, or Yaya. The story will warm your heart and make you laugh out loud. Although there are many books available about Italian American''s history in this country, there are very few books about one person, one life and one Italian girl''s experiences. This book will appeal to a wide range of Italian Americans from the teen years and up. The writer''s family and friends will probably amount to hundreds. Cousins, second cousins and their friends will soon want to see if they are in the book! The secondary market would be Latino women and woman of Greek and Eastern European descent who could relate to the closeness and traditions.

Currently kept in captivity following defeat in the Ore Wars by their enemy, the human remnant endured forced labor living beneath Ghost Glass Dome. Conscripted by the all-seeing Alliance to Diapsidorian Authority, their enslavement was not without all hope - three well-known, well-trained participants unwillingly enroll in an upcoming, annually televised event ineptly dubbed Freedom Runs. Populating the expanse of space beyond Pelagius Paradox*, diversity of life spanned the spectrum - Humanity gave rise to robots to further means of exploration. During the machine exploration, the robots conceived in circuitry, built, and furthermore received their Synthetic lifeforms demanding they perform duties, as did their programming built by their creator. With all electric life flourishing, the watchful Alliance took immediate notice and enslaved the lion's share of the emulous synthetic herd. Gaining control of them, the Alliance grew a feared reputation while immediately doubling their efforts tripling their numbers; furthermore expounding that domination of all species is imminent. Once this broadcast reached the militant conscience, they received the threat of imminent domination as a declaration of war and quietly used it as excuse enough to invade further reaches of space under the auspices of mandated ore retrieval. Reaching deeply into the Federal Alliance's cosmic backyard under said auspice, looking to contrast the dominance unfolding there with a fight of their own, this historically sparked the celestial conflagration ablaze. As the grand Ore War ensued, humanity eventually fell to superior synthetic numbers. With the Alliance officially claiming victory, ending the large-scale war, several people were lost, dead, or simply forgotten... With the wars spanning the stars and the infamous event nearing, will the Alliance succeed in the imminent destruction of all registered species now having access to autonomous synthetic androids? On the other hand, shou