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In a search that takes him from Georgetown to Chinatown and elsewhere in Washington, Socrates finds himself threatened, physically assaulted, suspected of having committed murder, jailed for a time, and constantly confronted by conflicts arising out of his three disparate cultures. Yet, he is neither daunted nor deterred by these obstacles. Instead, Socrates draws upon his deep knowledge of vintage fountain pens, Chinese history, and the Mandarin language to puzzle out the complex motives behind a burglary and murders....

Around the world, what the media often refer to as “the animal rights movement” is taking off. However, with a few exceptions, these efforts are not truly about “animal rights” but about “animal welfare.”

Shannon Simpson has no idea she can communicate with animals when she sets off on a 100-mile trek through the forest seeking her long-lost grandmother. Finding Gran means winding her way safely through the woods with only a compass, her wits and a mysterious, possibly magical, marra mamba stone to guide her. During her journey, Shannon faces bad weather, injuries, hunger, thirst, and wild animals—some nice and some not so nice. And she uncovers secrets about her family and herself.

Travel Like a Local Kanas City by author Dawn M. Stevens offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit Kansas City, Missouri.

By the time we reach adulthood, most of us know what brings happiness and fulfillment into our lives—what makes our hearts sing. Yet we struggle to make our dreams into reality, and our struggles cause sadness and frustration. In 2003, psychotherapist Steven Keeler began a self-imposed experiment to prove that our beliefs, which we can learn to control, are the single biggest influence on the reality we create for ourselves. But fear-based beliefs keep us trapped by the idea of scarcity—that within our vast universe there aren’t enough resources to go around. Steven moved to the Big ...

Secrets, Adventure, Fear, & Love : Book Four is a collection of six stories by a team of very talented authors. Riderless Horse by Chera Thompson A recent terrorist attack casts a shadow over a family trip to Cairo, which follows the mother through the ancient roads and tombs. But a chance encounter with a local man challenges her to confront her fear and prejudices and take a leap of faith. The Challenge Seekers by Elaine DeGroot An eclectic group of ladies in a writing group decide to participate in a writing challenge. Nightside: The Turning by Michelle L Crocker One step into the ...

“Oh, I want to go back to the Rio Grande! The Rio! That’s where I long to be!” The words, sung in a soft and musical tenor, died away and changed to a plaintive whistle, leaving the scene more lonely than ever. For a few moments nothing was to be seen except the endless expanse of wilderness, and nothing was to be heard save the mournful warble of the singer. Then a horse and rider were suddenly framed where the sparse timber opened out upon the plain. Together, man and mount made a striking picture; yet it would have been hard to say which was the more picturesque—the rider or the horse.

Travel Like a Local St. Louis by author Dawn M. Stevens offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit St. Louis, Missouri, home to the Gateway Arch, otherwise known as the Gateway to the west.

Travel Like a Local Branson, Missouri, United State of America by Author Dawn M. Stevens offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit Live Entertainment Capital of the World.

It is 2003: Ellen Parker, now a journalism intern and trying to deal with her demons from violence of a decade ago, watches while in the countryside and small towns of eastern Pennsylvania, someone is stalking and killing women. The killer is not a fool and appears to be quite knowledgeable of police procedures. Disciplined, intelligent, his motives carefully hidden, the killer’s violence is escalating. The task force hunting him, including county Deputy Sheriff Craig Morgan, knows they are running out of time. Ellen has an idea for her paper that is both exciting and terrifying: explore ...

In the spring of 2016, someone kidnapped the young step-daughter of John Allen Douglas, a very dangerous figure in the Philadelphia criminal world. Is this the opening move in a gang war, one designed to distract Douglas from his business, or is it something more personal? Ellen is drawn into the hunt for the child when Robert Blasingame reappears in her life. Ellen first met him during what was supposed to be a vacation but turned into a life and death struggle. She cut off her feelings for Blasingame when she discovered he was a very dangerous man operating outside the law. Nowadays, ...

Holiday Stories book one Valentines Day is a collection of short stories by a team of extremely talented authors. “Candy Hearts” by Award Winning Author Chera Thompson - A curious visitor on Valentine's Day has an unexpected influence over a troubled family. “Sliding into Love” By Judi Getch Brodman shows you how when you least expect it things can change for the good. Allie suffered a horrible breakup two years prior. Valentines Day was the last thing on her mind. Romance was not even something she thought about. She hadn’t planned on meeting a great guy perfect for her but then ...

In the third of the Ellen Parker novels, it is 2013. From the Carolinas to southern Pennsylvania, someone is killing women and leaving many hanging on barbed wire fences. While the unknown killer is pursued by a multi-agency task force led by the FBI, Ellen Parker, a Philadelphia journalist, is contacted by Iraq veteran Elizabeth Chernov, who has encountered a young girl fleeing from the drug-related killings of her guardians. Chernov believes the girl is pursued by the murderers perhaps aided by the police; she trusts Ellen only because she did a story on her and others dealing with the ...

In the 29th Century, the greatest evil in the human settled worlds is slavery, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. While many oppose it, on some worlds it flourishes, restrained only by the slaveholders’ fear of the slaves themselves, for there is no such thing as slave loyalty. However, in the shattered, burned rubble of Torianis, a rebel warlord’s elite soldiers, soldiers who died fighting with an almost inhuman precision and competency, put the Free Union’s intelligence service on the track of what might be programmable slaves. More than mass produced clones, someone has ...

During the summer of 2018, young boys are found in shallow graves scattered across Chester County, Pennsylvania, the sites marked only by a red ribbon. There are few clues in the killings and an FBI task force is only slowly finding links between the boys. The ribbon is the killer’s desire for recognition, a desire so strong he calls reporter Ellen Parker to make sure all the bodies are found. He is not simply trying for notoriety – he wants recognition and he wants it for protecting a terrible secret. Ellen Parker, with the help of Robert Blasingame, tries to solve the puzzle of the ...

In Mercenary’s Redemption, the seventh Wild Geese novel by Steven M. Silver, Free Union President Peter Mavis Carmichael, the cunning and ruthless leader of the most powerful bloc among humanity’s Settled Worlds, struggles to maintain his grip on power. At the same time, on the backwater farming world of Kodomir, a member of the Free Union, the man known as Gwielgi tries to find peace with his demons. His grief and guilt drive him into a desert. As fighting rises within the Free Union, Carmichael is believed dead and chaos rapidly spreads and Kodomir is occupied by a brutal leader of ...

Mercenary’s Justice, the tenth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver, follows Gwielgi as he flees from his home, a place of painful memories, and. becomes a mercenary again. He hires on as a security advisor to a judicial team representing the Organization of Settled Worlds’ High Court. Sent into the Frontier to resolve conflicts, the team finds itself in increasing danger and it becomes clear powerful interests, for reasons unclear, are keeping the legal team exposed to that danger. While Gwielgi tries to protect the team and deal with ghosts and ex-enemies of the past, ...

Mercenary’s Peace is the ninth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver. Kodomir, a small world and home of the former mercenaries called the Wild Geese, is attacked during peace negotiations, killing and wounding many. Among them is Gwielgi, who, like many others, has wounds of body more than matched by his damaged heart – among the dead is the woman he loved. As the war moves on, the Kodomiri try to pick up the pieces of their lives. Then the war that almost casually savaged Kodomir turns from its distant battlefields and returns to Kodomir. Still heart broken and ...

The twelfth and final Wild Geese novel, Mercenary’s Promise, follows Alisti Kheyntamenti to his home world of Osiris, a place where his family, he believes, was wiped out in the first of a series of civil wars. Now Osiris is suspected of being at the center of a criminal network that has taken thousands of lives and Kheyntamenti is asked to find the truth. But Kheyntamenti is a soldier, not a spy, and his wanderings attract the attention of those who treat his mind like a plaything and try to weaken him by forcing a confrontation with his deepest fears of loss and failure. Stirred by the ...

The eleventh Wild Geese novel, Mercenary’s Humanity, opens with a cry in space, a cry followed by silence. Disasters visiting new colonies is not rare, especially in the Frontier, and Kodomir sends a relief force. But there are secrets inside of secrets on New Monterey and the first is the colonists are not alone. Something, someone, from the dark past, is rising from the mountains like ghosts of mythology. Into this comes the Wild Geese and Gwielgi has his own secrets revealed, including one that could result in his death. As Gwielgi and the Geese fight to survive, they find an ...