True Adventure

A true tale of individual triumph on the gridiron of the University of Southern California (USC) campus in the early 1900s-a story with as much heart as Notre Dame's beloved Rudy's.

Love in the City Love in the Country is the trilogy Whispers Between Pages, Colors of Watonga, and Benjamin the Hero are all combined in this one book. Series description: Whispers Between Pages begins a saga of the life of Emma and James and their children. These are light romantic fiction novellas. Emma and James meet in Emma's bookshop called Whispers of the Past. Emma had inherited this quaint bookshop where she lived in a world of books where she preferred to live instead of the world around her until James quietly walked into her life. Their wedding was a fairy tale and the honeymoon ...

A TEENAGE LOVE follows the crazy, true story of two teenagers in love. In 1991, two unlikely lovers, Donnie and Lisa get together under unusual circumstances. Donnie's a nerdy private school student preparing for university and Lisa's a brash city girl just trying to have fun. At first glance, it would seem that neither were made for each other, but love knows no bounds, and it also makes people do the craziest things. Together, though, they're the cutest couple. Follow them as they try to get along as a couple despite the crazy events that happen to them that serve to break them apart. Can...

Flos Ventrine, princess of Solijax, is to be wed to the vile king Jonan of Nelktern. On the eve of the wedding, Flos escapes, running into the forest, only to be met with things she has only read in books. Will the mysterious beings help her escape, or will Jonan get her back?

At first, the plan seems foolproof. Every contingency is covered, and the payoff will make them all rich for life. No one would even get hurt. But not everyone is who they seem. Even as the gang's stolen helicopter is lifting off from the cash depot with $6.5 million inside, questions remain unanswered. What secrets does each man hold?

Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, and now the current occupant of a cell in the brutal and unforgiving Hell Gate prison. The Kid's crime? He looked too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down a look-alike killer on the loose.

The worldwide pandemic and lock-downs have become far worse than anyone could have possibly imagined. Mark and Lamai have been contacted by Uli, a wealthy old friend that is dying of cancer that owns a Tall Sailing Ship in Hamburg, Germany. Uli tells them he has an escape plan, and to watch the 2013 sci-fi movie Elysium, where most of the elites have residences, advanced technology, no sickness or disease, and even healing pods like in the movie. Uli believes it is not up in space, but most likely a small continent or group of islands in the South Pacific, or even beyond Antarctica.

After a spaceship crashes into the planet Tonath, the lone occupant survives and fights his way to the sunlit part of the planet.

When a passing freighter finds him and takes him to the Western Starshift Institute of the Way, he finds the teacher. Tonath is a planet torn apart by the forces of nature, and only the teacher can predict the movement of the stars and interpret the prophecies.

But will the teacher be able to recognize true man and true foe in time to save Tonath from a thousand years of burning?

A romantic wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will, a treeplanter, hikes with a companion to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter in BC's remote Jumbo Pass. An overnight storm pushes them to the brink of deadly choices, at fate's mercy. Caught in the strands of a deadly time-loop, Will must navigate a series of doorways to survival. Each choice means a different outcome, a different life… or even death. The story’s mystery plays out against the backdrop of vast natural beauty in the Purcell Mountains of ...

This short story is based on the amazing true tale of castaway Daniel Foss who, in the 1800s, survived alone on a remote and barren rock island. A fast read of approximately 18 pages.

For 444 years, there has been speculation about the location of Sir Francis Drake's landing site at Nova Albion and where he hid the greatest buried treasure of all time. What follows is an account of my 22 year quest to provide the answers to these questions, and to correct the historical record about Drake's Plate of Brass.

Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall.

A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Grace's cottage in flames, he takes her orphaned daughter Molly on board ship disguised as a boy to join his crew. But Molly, or Orlando as she must call herself, will grow up to outshine all the men of Tom's company and seek revenge – and a legacy – all of her own.

Author Michael J. Hayde's definitive work about Superman on radio and television. Hayde is well-known for My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and The Films of Jack Webb and Little Elf: A Celebration of Harry Langdon, and this new treasure trove of information on the Man of Steel covers comprehensive episode logs for the radio series and the original television series, plus the complete story lines for two unproduced television series episodes, and dozens of "deleted scenes" taken right from the scripts.

In the summer of 1977, thirteen-year-old Scott Bergman's life takes an unexpected turn when his summer vacation plan is obliterated, and is forced to spend the summer in Palo Alto, California with his mother and her new boyfriend. As he navigates a new world of friendship and intrigue, Scott discovers a startling secret behind his enigmatic neighbor, uncovering a long-buried past connected to the most fascinating prison escape in American history.

In the tradition of Michael Lewis and Tom Wolfe, a fascinating and frightening behind-the-scenes look at the interconnected cultures of hackers, security specialists, and law enforcement. A cybersecurity professional turned journalist, Kate Fazzini illuminates the many lies companies and governments tell us about our security, the lies criminals tell to get ahead, and the lies security leaders tell to make us think they are better at their jobs than they are.

December 13, 1920. It was a typical Monday morning when three US Navy officials boarded a hot-air balloon for an easy, routine training flight. But as evening came, heavy rain and wind knocked Lieutenants Louis Kloor, Stephen Farrell, and Walter Hinton off course, eventually forcing a crash landing deep within the snowy Canadian wilderness. As the men searched for salvation, they were overcome by freezing temperatures, starvation, and fatigue. To survive this harrowing experience, the brave military officers would have to go up against their greatest enemies yet.

One look at Uric’s mother and his fiancées run screaming. Known as the Ogress, her fearsome reputation is almost scarier than Uric’s own. So when his queen sends him on a quest to bring back a healer rumored to be a witch, he can’t resist taking the beauty home. Surely a witch is more than a match for an ogre… Duty bound to serve her queen, Ceylon is still not happy to travel with Lord Uric, the queen’s berserker. His prowess in battle is legendary, and then there are the rumors about his mother… Determined to elude his romantic pursuit, she accepts his escort to Queenstown, ...

1913.Captain Scott and his four companions reach the South Pole to find their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen has won the race. Defeated, they set out on the 850-mile journey to their ship. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the explorer sent out to meet them at One Ton depot, peering South through thick spectacles, sees only an infinity of white, and turns back. A year later Scott's pitched tent is found, just ten miles from the depot, and the bodies within speak of hunger, the unbearable strain of hauling the sledge, and the brutal winter cold. They lie in a tomb of ice.

Can the lighthouse keeper lead Ann's broken heart home? The last thing Jeb Miller ever expected to see washing up on the shore of his little island was the body of a woman—but there she was. When it turns out she's still alive, he has a problem. The ports are closed, and no one will be out to see him for weeks. He'll be forced to share his little cottage with the woman he found shackled at the wrists and ankles. Not knowing her past, he isn't sure what to think of her. Despite her past, the more Jeb gets to know Ann, the more he wants to keep not just the lighthouse—he wants to keep her...