True Adventure

The former career of Captain Ike Smith, a retired fire investigator, exposed him to the dreadful human beings inhabiting the world of arson...a group of people he does not miss. Since retiring, he has been chasing his new passion and career as a charter boat captain, pulling kayak fishermen out for a weekend of fishing and fun on Tampa Bay in Florida. However, a call from an old supervisor unexpectedly pulls Ike back into the life he thought he had left far behind.

In The Beer's Folded and the Laundry's Cold: Mostly True Adventures in Housewifery, Paige Kellerman follows up her hilarious debut - At Least My Belly Hides My Cankles - with the natural next step-taking on budgeting, babies, and trying to keep the day drinking down to a minimum while staying at home.

Katie Beagle has a new summer job. But babysitting kids isn't the same as babysitting a dragon with special needs and a sassy, disabled toy lamb with a BIG personality. Katie quickly learns that believing in magic seems much easier than believing in herself (especially when a picnic turns into a big mess). But after a sudden sewing emergency teaches Katie a lesson in self-reliance, she's inspired to make a special gift for her new magical friend.

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.

Libby Holman was an acclaimed Broadway actress, torch singer, and one of the most celebrated luminaries of her day. Smith Reynolds was a young Southern millionaire, heir to a massive tobacco fortune. Their love affair, as volatile as it was vigorous , ended suddenly with a bullet one hot summer night . Whose hand was on the trigger is a mystery to this day. Madame Timbu once again finds herself embroiled in a scandal that would grow to sensational proportions equal to the Lindberg kidnapping.

Maggie Murphy is in big trouble. She hit her little brother back. As many kids would, she thinks it’s unfair that she is the one in trouble when she didn’t start it. While trapped in timeout, questioning how life could be so unfair, Maggie is visited by her guardian angel, Mikey, who appears to her as a quick-witted ten-year-old boy. They have a mission from God to “save the philosopher.” But which one?

#BigFishThursday is short story that takes place in 2013 on Lake Texoma the Striped Bass Capital of the World. Based on the true account of one of my biggest striper taken at that time, and my cousins biggest fish ever, I take you through the methods and tactics we used and tell you how it all went down. I include the good, the bad, and the ugly, and at the end of each story, the info to take a fishing adventure there is included. Lake Texoma is my home base for all things fishing. There will be multiple stories from this and other locations, but almost all of the stories start and end at ...

In Joy's continuing journey of discovery, she finds that the more open she is to sex with other women, the more opportunities that present themselves. She delights in the warm, sensual softness of other women’s bodies and finds herself just as eager to please her female partners as they are to please her. It was also clear to her that, in the swinging lifestyle, which she has totally embraced, women enjoying women is not only accepted, but encouraged.

JoJo is separated from his family after a fierce storm. Trapped on a sandbar, JoJo is rescued by young boy named Dean and his companion dog named Toffy. Together with Dean, Toffy, and Ama, the mermaid, JoJo learns about friendship, trust, and family.

We meet the main character, Arc Zex, and he has amnesia.

Soon after the first maritime trade routes became operational, seafaring bandits appeared to prey upon the cargo, crews, and ships of others. Crimson Waters traces the history of piracy around the globe, stretching back from its roots in 2500 BCE, through the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and up to the modern-day pirates who still threaten boats along coastlines and on the open seas.

Some guys show up to fish with Captain Mike and they can't seem to get untangled. But when The Lords of the Lake arrive, it is #FishOn. Read why some groups of client anglers seem to get all the picture fish and trophies, while others aren't so lucky. The story "The Big One" is Lords of the Lake 1.

America's first African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, has a chance encounter with a mysterious Irishman, named Altamont, when they meet at the boxer's restaurant, Café de Champion, in August 1912. Johnson's new relationship with the unusual man, with beady eyes and hawk-like nose, places him in an unusual circumstance to help Altamont get out of a tough situation.

Mary Barber was born in Massachusetts and married Sioux chief Squatting Bear in 1867. In her memoirs, she described her experiences with the Sioux and the many relations of Squatting Bear.

Agent KillMouseSkee and Agent YouDirtyRat are called in by the Chief Cheshire Cat to find the criminals who has been stealing from the Fishy Cannery Row Company. Will they catch the criminals?

The lives and adventures of some of history's most prominent Pirate Captains. This volume relates their plundering and murdering as well as the method and way they met their end.

Twenty-three-year-old Jonathan Tobias considered himself a loser after suffering from his father’s physical and verbal abuse. In turn, Jonathan chose to live his life blaming circumstances and others for his failures. His one way to escape was through playing adventure video games. When offered an opportunity to take a faraway adventure with friends, Jonathan embarks on a physical and emotional journey searching for a lost treasure. Solomon’s Riches is an adventure tale wrapped in a poignant story of self-discovery.

Drawing on historical documents and contemporary accounts and on exclusive interviews with Carlsen's family, Delaney opens a window into the world of the merchant marine. With deep affection, and respect, for the weather and all that goes with it, he places us in the heart of the storm, a "biblical tempest" of unimaginable power. He illuminates the bravery and ingenuity of Carlsen and the extraordinary courage that the 37-year-old captain inspired in his stalwart crew.

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...

Middle-class, mid-career, and Midwestern, 20-something Emily Carpenter walks into a new job that isn't middle anything. In only slightly more time than it takes to get a passport, this brave adventuress finds herself thrust into a world of lavish luxury, corporate hijinks, and personal scandal. Jet-setting around the globe with her sociopathic boss, she discovers the line between right and wrong is generally negotiable, and almost always in a language other than English.