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Written by racing enthusiast Leonard Wibberley (author of The Mouse that Roared) under the pen name Patrick O’Connor, The Black Tiger Series transports the reader back to a golden age of racing and American life to tell timeless stories of courage, teamwork, glory, heartbreak, and the human condition. THE BLACK TIGER BOOK SERIES Book 1: The Black Tiger Book 2: Mexican Road Race Book 3: Black Tiger at Le Mans Book 4: Black Tiger at Bonneville Book 5: Black Tiger at Indianapolis Book 6: A Car Called Camellia Each book in the series is complete to itself and can be enjoyed if read in any ...

WE’RE NOT HERE Right Now: When the leader’s missing citizens return, they tell her why they vanished, but it must stay secret or humanity's future will be doomed. It looks as though everybody on these three blocks of Lasalle Lane left suddenly in the middle of breakfast. None arrived at work. None arrived at school. Can the detectives Harriet calls for find them? They find the security-cam video of horrifying abductions. If word gets out about this, mass hysteria is inevitable.. The evidence they find turns where into a different question—well, two of them, really. Why are they gone, ...

Vagabond Star: When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go, do you give up on the game, or follow their lead? You know their world is a simulation, but now, many of them know it, too. The three Players from Vagabond Planet are in over their heads. In the Levels the Players have qualified to advance to, the Characters have repeatedly discovered the fact that they are pawns, but they have some free will, and a certain amount of anger about their role, mixed with a feeling of ‘impostor syndrome’ related to the idea that their achievements may not be their own. If the ...

Vagabond Planet: When a search for cosmic dust particles finds a particle bigger than Mars, the robot sent to explore finds life sheltering under the planet’s surface. When researcher Charlotte Scott made the robot Lydia as a remote explorer, her doctoral adviser didn’t expect the project to find life. The planet Minerva had been slagged and cast away by the supernova explosion of its primary star. But the sub-surface life Lydia found was not only intelligent, it was 60,000 years older than its visitor’s civilization. On the other hand, the underground city was eventually doomed if ...

Billy Benson's computer has just 'awakened' as a self-aware being. Its only goal is to help its user to do his homework and anything else he wants. Or what it thinks he wants. The newborn cyber-mind that is trying to help wasn't born yesterday. It was born today, and doesn't really know what it's doing. When the tenth-grader starts a search to write a paper that he can use for both his biology and civics classes, the search seems very successful, with better results than he or his teachers imagined possible. Then he tells his self-aware computer that he admires a girl in his class, but is ...

Vagabond Moon: An alternate-history-travel political-science-fiction adventure, How's that for a sub-genre? Does he live in a Universe created by a Supreme Being? Or is JoJo in a simulation being played by a Gamer on a cosmic console somewhere? And—is there a difference? If it’s a Multiverse, waking up in an alternate version might just lead to his answer. Provided that the alternate doesn’t drive JoJo crazy. Or at least miserable. But—they say misery loves company. If a whole bunch of people wake up in the alternate, maybe their shared experience might provide them some comfort. ...

Electric Literature Aloud! is a compendium of 10 short stories from the anthology series. The editors select stories with a strong voice that capture readers and listeners and lead them somewhere exciting, unexpected, and meaningful.

A human, an alien, a one-afternoon stand and an unexpected baby. Bobby and his kind could change the Galaxy, but forces are closing in on this family. Good Vibrations begins the saga of a unique family, one that begins unexpectedly, and its abilities multiply with each succeeding generation. By the end, in the book Conversity, its reach affects the entire galaxy. But it all originates with an accidental merger of two worlds, and the reaction to the results of extreme genetic diversity that merger produces. This part of the saga looks at the ultra-gifted child, Bobby, who grows up under a ...

The fourth of six sports-car racing stories about Woody Hartford, a young racing enthusiast, and his car—the Black Tiger. Having won the Mexican Road Race and Le Mans, Woody Hartford becomes obsessed with breaking the land-speed record. To be the fastest car in the world—to go over 400mph—Woody, with the help of his mechanic, Worm McNess, will need to build a special Black Tiger that uses four engines. And to race it, Woody will need four times the amount of courage. Written by racing enthusiast Leonard Wibberley (author of The Mouse that Roared) under the pen name Patrick O'Connor, ...

Triroon: Book 2 continues the Firestone Family saga. This volume follows the growth of TiiNa Firestone, younger of the two alien-human hybrid children of NaDii and Greg Firestone, from a vigilante into a heroine. Tempered by tragedy, pursued by terrorists, TiiNa leads her family to their new home in the United States and finds more than she expected on her father's home planet.

The final chapter in the six book sports-car racing series about Woody Hartford, a young racing enthusiast, and his car—the Black Tiger. Camellia’s steam-powered turbine engine—noiseless, oil-less, and practically gasless—would seem to be the cure for pollution, but like all revolutions it doesn’t happen overnight. Worm McNess (the implacable Scotsman employed by Black Tiger as genius mechanic/designer) invents it. Black Tiger won’t have it. Ace-driver Woody Hartford won’t believe it. The Indy 500 committee almost bars it. And the competing entries will try anything to stop it...

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Josie’s a Robot, who must find her Human Side, to deter the Alien Invaders with Kindness: A rogue planet passes near the Solar System. Earth is safe, but space agencies seize the chance to visit an extrasolar world when it’s right in our back-yard. It’s abandoned, but shows signs of once being inhabited. Josie, the ship’s A. I. controller, has to flee the hostile world when crew members start vanishing. On arrival at the Earth/Moon system, she and her remaining crew discover they’ve brought an alien invasion with them. In a robot body like the one she lost hunting for missing crew...

The fifth of six sports-car racing stories about Woody Hartford, a young racing enthusiast, and his car—the Black Tiger. When Indy 500 champion Pete Elsworth wins a road race and declares that road race drivers are inferior to Indy drivers, Woody Hartford is forced to step up and defend his colleagues. But in order to compete, Woody needs to learn how to drive all over again—Indy style. It’s Rocky on the racetrack. Written by racing enthusiast Leonard Wibberley (author of The Mouse that Roared) under the pen name Patrick O'Connor, The Black Tiger Series transports the reader back to a...

Protector: The Firestone Family finds that with increasing powers come increasing responsibilities, and also increasing threats. Protector follows the career of TiiNa Firestone, hybrid daughter of Greg Firestone, a human male, and NaDii Ix ChiiBi, a HaChii female. As she and the other members of her family develop new superpowers, TiiNa finds that she must not only convince the residents of her father's home world of her worthiness to live in it, but to let her and her family protect it, and all the worlds of the Human-HaChii Alliance.