Warped Destinies: Tales of Terrara Vikos #4

Warped Destinies: Tales of Terrara Vikos #4

Christine McDonnell

Childrens / Picture Books / Parenting / Adoption

After a heated argument with his father, Lucian gets pulled into an organization that has connections to the Seeker, Lucian's destined enemy. Determined to save the innocents that had been brought unwillingly into this mission, Lucian will need to utilize his Realm Leader lessons and embrace his inner Protektor in order to save those he loves.Account #4- Trials of Terrara Vikos prequel seriesIt has been a good few years since Lucian had learned that he was the Protektor, one of the members of the foretelling known as the Profecia. After an argument with his father, he storms off. This escape soon turns even more sour, when Lucian gets dragged into an organization known as MonReneix. Sensing the evil Seeker's energy nearby and seeing the poor depressed children being held captive, Lucian makes his decision to stay there, undercover, and try to learn more about this organization.However, when the leader sets his eyes on 'recruiting' Kimberly, the love of Lucian's young life, he must learn to embrace the Protektor within and send the Seeker a message:You mess with my life, and you will pay.Account #4 of the Tales of Terrara Vikos story saga.Prior stories in this saga:Cross of Faith (#1)Trees in the Storm (#2)Blood on a Broken Hand (#3)
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Masters of the Trading Game

Masters of the Trading Game

Jim Cline

Parenting / Nonfiction / Self Help

A science fiction short story, where an ambassador from the federation of Planets is gathering data so as to establish the most effective trading method with the natives, but suddenly finds himself in deep trouble.Book 2 in the Dimensions Saga.Kyrin is forced by Daemionis to stay in Paragoy Dimension, but only after he sends her on a dangerous mission to retrieve the coveted seal of Carathis. While away, she befriends a creature that threatens to disrupt the peaceful life in the Valharan Castle.Finn realizes that the Knights of Valhara have a grudge against the known evil, and he sets out to make sure Kyrin is treated as a noble. He starts to realize it’s going to be a harder task than he first though, but feels indebted to her.Alric struggles to understand why Kyrin stays with Daemionis. He and Sithias try to find a way to keep her in Paragoy, when they become afraid that she’s about to shift out permanently. More nobles bring more conflict, and Alric’s afraid it may be more than Kyrin can handle.
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Diane D In The Headlines - Volume 2 - Part 2

Diane D In The Headlines - Volume 2 - Part 2

Doris Miller

Parenting / Nonfiction / Psychology

Diane D In The Headlines is a sequel to DIANE D The Musical Drama and DANGEROUS DANA A Suspense Thriller. It is a suspense, drama, psychological, thriller about a family owned Charity and Entertainment Organization. This story involves 3 generations of the Diaz-Davidson family. The family's Charity and Entertainment Organization performs shows around the country and the world to raise money.This story involves two male hospital employees, one white and one black, who work the night shift. One night during the night shift, the two male hospital employees are working inside a dimly lit isolated clinic hallway as they eavesdrop outside one of the closed clinic room doors secretly listening on Diane D’s private conversation while Diane D is alone inside the clinic room talking on the telephone. The two male hospital employees hear Diane D about to leave the room. They quickly back up away from the door and quietly race back down the other end of the hallway going around the corner. As the two male hospital employees hide around the corner, they hear Diane D leaving the room shutting the door behind herself. They go to take a peak around the corner and accidentally make a loud noise! They fear that the loud noise has attracted Diane D’s attention, blowing their cover! They then hear slow footsteps coming so they quickly turn and sneak down the stairwell into the lower level of the clinic area. They then hide and bend behind some boxes in the dimly lit hallway on the lower level. They then see Diane D in the distance coming from around the dark corner. They secretly watch Diane D from the distance and see her strange eerie behavior as she looks around the dimly lit hallway as if looking for someone. They then see her go from locked clinic room door to locked clinic room door trying to open each door. They then witness Diane D do something so strange and so frightening that they become shocked and frozen in fear! They can't believe what they just witnessed her do! They frighteningly have their backs leaned against the wall with their mouths and eyes wide open not able to move! Diane D then angrily goes into a storage room. While she is inside the storage room, the two male hospital employees manage to break loose from their fear! They quickly sneak away and frighteningly run back down the hallway out of the area! They then turn around the corner and race towards the stairwell! They reach the stairwell door and run back into the stairwell! Once inside the stairwell, they run right back up the stairs, not looking back!This story also involves Diane D’s eerie and frightening performance in Germany which causes several thousand spectators in a German park to scream and run in fear!This story also involves, the Dianettes’ back stage attack on another well-known female singer who wanted to perform and collaborate on stage with them and Diane D at a shopping mall. Again, the Dianettes will not hear of it! They later chase down the well-known female singer and her husband behind the shopping mall inside the parking lot. They catch up to the well known female singer and her husband and knock them down to the ground! They then attack the well known female singer and her husband! All six of the Dianettes are then arrested over the beat down! The well-known female singer and her husband both had to be hospitalized which causes the well-known female singer’s upcoming concert in New York to be canceled! While the Dianettes’ are in police custody, they overhear that the two well-known Latin female duo who tried to perform and collaborate with them and Diane D before are outside the police station secretly talking to Diane D. The Dianettes then bust out the back door of the police station! They charge after the two well-known Latin female duo! The two well-known Latin female duo turn and have to run for their lives!
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Hawks of the Sea

Hawks of the Sea

Michael Daniels

Parenting / Psychology / Nonfiction

The 12th man. How and why is it so important. There is a reason it is. The power won't leave.Hawk is about to battle against impossible odds surrounded by his enemies. Maybe the crowd above will save him. There is always a chance. His family is gone he is alone, but his will to win may be too great to die.
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DIANE D In The Headlines - Volume 2 - Part 1

DIANE D In The Headlines - Volume 2 - Part 1

Doris Miller

Parenting / Nonfiction / Psychology

DIANE D In The Headlines is a sequel to DIANE D The Musical Drama and DANGEROUS DANA A Suspense Thriller. It is a suspense, drama, psychological, thriller about a family owned Charity and Entertainment Organization. This story involves 3 generations of the Diaz-Davidson family. The family's Charity and Entertainment Organization performs shows around the country and the world to raise money.DIANE D In The Headlines involves headline and article scandals, sniper shootings, highway shootings, road rage, drunk driving arrests, weapons possession charges, fist fights, attacks, highway car chasings, motorcycle chasings, paralyzations, miscarriages, abortions, suicide, mental illness, split personalities, eerie spirit possessions, superhuman strength and the supernatural. It also involves Diane D and her deranged and dangerous cousin Dana, of DANGEROUS DANA A Suspense Thriller, being tossed and thrown behind bars together! While Diane D and her cousin Dana are in jail, their lawyer is on the phone talking to Diane D. While he is talking to Diane D, he overhears Dana in the background hollering, cursing and swearing about him calling him every name in the book after he fails to get them bail! After the lawyer overhears Dana belittling him, he turns to Diane D and Dana’s family and threatens to quit and walk out on their case telling Diane D‘s family that he will represent Diane D, but not Dana! Diane D and Dana’s Grandfather Mike will not hear of it! He has a fit and tells the lawyer to either represent both Diane D and Dana or represent none of them!This story also involves a newspaper reporter and Dana getting into a heated argument and physical altercation outside a Banquet Hall over what the newspaper reporter threatens to write about Diane D! This story also involves three female police officers being beat up, attacked and injured on two separate occasions by Dana. Dana is soon tossed and thrown behind bars again for assaulting the female police officers. All three female officers are forced to quit and resign from the police force because of the injuries they suffered. This story also involves the Dianettes rivalry against another well known female pop group who wanted to perform and collaborate on stage with them and Diane D. Diane D says ‘yes’ to the collaboration but the Dianettes will not hear of it! The Dianettes and the other well known female pop group fuss and go at it with each other! The Dianettes later speed in their van and chase the other well known female singing group’s limousine down the highway all the way to the airport! When the Dianettes’ van and well-known female group’s limousine stop at the airport terminal, the Dianettes come out their van, run to the limousine and start to pull the other well known female pop group right out of the limousine! They then attack the other well known female pop group right at the airport! All six of the Dianettes are then tossed and thrown behind bars over the beat down! The other female pop group had to be hospitalized which causes them to miss their flight and upcoming concert in Paris!
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Struggling to Survive

Struggling to Survive

Sadie Malmberg

Parenting / Religion / Faith

A devastating story of five children who are abandoned and are forced to survive the treacherous obstacles of the wilderness.Five children are going an a trip to visit their relatives on the other side of the country. It seems like a totally normal one before their aeroplane unexpectedly crashes into the mountain side. The five are forced to battle the treacherous obstacles of the wilderness while waiting to be rescued.
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Bouncing High Above the World

Bouncing High Above the World

Jim Cline

Parenting / Nonfiction / Self Help

On a rainy day which had canceled out a glider training flight, the time was spent investigating an odd rectangle in the desert vegetation off the edge of an old runway. What they found there brought memories of WWII-era tale that enlivened nights around the campfire at the ranch long ago.Any scientific expedition to the Arctic expects plenty of risk. However, Dr. Welham of Miskatonic University's survey uncovers far more than the usual geologic and ethnographic samples. In the severe, rock-scouring blizzards of the far north, the team comes across a hideous object from an elder age. A relic that brings earth shattering terror in its wake...  This story is loosely inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story, Polaris, which was written in 1918. In that story, a modern man is troubled by recurring dreams, gaining in intensity. During these visions, he assumes the role of a sentry guarding the pass against the invading Inutos people from the west. However, under the malign influence of the pole star, the watcher falls asleep. This time, when he awakes, screaming, the sentry wakes as a modern man and realises that he has failed the marble city of Olathoe in the lost land of Lomar.
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The Best Birthday Present Ever

The Best Birthday Present Ever

Kathy Glover

Education / Nonfiction / Parenting

Meet Lucy, a precocious soon-to-be 8-year old with a mind of her own. Follow her through her unique Christmas Eve journey where she discovers The Best Birthday Present Ever.Have you ever been disappointed, ever felt like you were the only one with a problem? That's what Lucy thinks and I invite you to enjoy her as she learns that her "problem" is a blessing instead. You'll laugh at her choice of words, and maybe even get just a little bit irritated at the same time, but it's worth it in the end.
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DIANE D The Musical Drama - Volume 1 - Part 2

DIANE D The Musical Drama - Volume 1 - Part 2

Doris Miller

Parenting / Nonfiction / Psychology

This is Part 2 of DIANE D The Musical Drama, a sequel to DIANE D In The Headlines and DANGEROUS DANA A Suspense Thriller. It is a suspense, drama, psychological, thriller about a family owned Charity and Entertainment Organization. This story involves 3 generations of the Diaz-Davidson family. The family's Charity and Entertainment Organization performs shows around the country and the world.In Part 2, Diane D gets in trouble by her family. The following day, she goes inside her family's office, goes to the telephone and secretly threatens her lover's girlfriend right over the telephone, blaming her lover's girlfriend for calling her family up causing all that trouble for her. Diane D also goes man-hunting for a date for a High School Dance she is suppose to appear at and perform. When one of the men finally agrees to be Diane D’s date, his wife finds out about it. The man's wife goes and looks for Diane D. When she finds Diane D inside a church, she angrily confronts Diane D! She then pays a price for it. Diane D and her family appear at an elementary school one night so that Diane D can perform for a charity case there. After Diane D’s singing performance inside a crowded auditorium is over, a chubby little 9-year old black boy named Marcus approaches her. He brings Diane D to a private area in the school and tells Diane D that there is no charity case in the school. He confesses to Diane D that there was never a charity case at the school that the entire charity case was all a hoax planned by him and his older brother. He tells Diane D that he and his brother tricked her and her family into thinking that there was a charity case at the school just so that she can appear there and perform. Diane D becomes shocked when she realize that there was never a charity case at the school. She is shocked when she realize that she and her family had been tricked into coming to the school. She starts to become sad. She then becomes angry. She then goes CRAZY and terrorizes and harms the little boy right inside the school! The little boy pays a price for tricking Diane D and her family.
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Apples

Apples

Sadie Malmberg

Parenting / Religion / Faith

This story is about a bullfrog named Fredrick who is forced into doing something he knows he shouldn't do.This short story is about a bullfrog named Fredrick who encounters a mysterious and uncontrollable addiction that causes him and his friends to change pretty much who they are.
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You're Not Alone

You're Not Alone

Nance Newman

Fiction / Parenting / Adoption

Quinn O’Reilly is hearing whispers after losing the love of her life to cancer. She has to start believing in an afterlife as a battle begins for her beloved’s estate when she enters a world of ghosts, spirits and specters. Can the dead really reach out from the other side? Can Quinn open her mind enough to help her and her dead lover? Is it okay to commit a crime for a greater purpose?When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it. Nothing more. At least that’s what Quinn O’Reilly thinks. But then she starts hearing whispers after losing Matthew, the love of her life, to cancer. Quinn either has to start believing in an afterlife or admit that her own sanity is in jeopardy. As Matthew’s parents fight Quinn for his estate, threatening her with financial ruin, the voices intensify. To make the voices stop, Quinn enlists the help of a woman who communicates with the afterlife, the owner of a cemetery, and an odd professor of Egyptian studies. They enter a world of séances, grave digging, and spells from the ancient Book of the Dead. To help her do this, Quinn turns to Chaz, her gay best friend and assistant at work. He has been by her side from the beginning and as bizarre as Chaz believes this task is, he follows Quinn, Andjela, Chester and Mr. Princeton into the world of spirits, ghosts and specters. He just never knows what to wear. What’s appropriate attire for a séance or digging up a grave?What Quinn and the others must do to unravel the mystery of the whispers tests Quinn’s belief system in every way. Can the dead really reach out from the other side? Can Quinn open her mind enough to help her and her dead lover? And, is it okay to commit a crime for a greater purpose?
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Trees In The Storm: Tales of Terrara Vikos #2

Trees In The Storm: Tales of Terrara Vikos #2

Christine McDonnell

Childrens / Picture Books / Parenting / Adoption

Little 7-year-old Lucian Gallager has to face reality when his mother goes missing. All he can do is hope that his friends and family will support him with whatever decides to happen...Account #2 of my Tales of Terrara Vikos story sagaA prequel to my Trials of Terrara Vikos series (hopefully coming soon)At seven years of age, Lucian Gallager is very mature for his age. Among the struggles with his budding crush on his tomboyish friend and his mother's disappearance, he must learn what it means to be strong for others, but also learn how to let others be strong for him.Account #2 of my Tales of Terrara Vikos story sagaCheck out the rest of the Tales of Terrara Vikos stories:Cross of Faith (#1)Blood on a Broken Hand (#3)Warped Destinies (#4)The Protektor's Reality: A Trials of Terrara Vikos prequel novel - Now available!A prequel to my Trials of Terrara Vikos series (hopefully coming soon)
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Saved by my Weretiger

Saved by my Weretiger

Neil Sinclair

Parenting / Nonfiction / Family

After a near-miss in Central Park, Lena is rescued by an incredibly hot older guy. Despite the odds, he seems to be interested in her. But Lena’s half-sister Raya is convinced that the man is dangerous, though she never fully explains the reason. When things start to heat up between Lena and the new man, she wonders whether she’s ready to hear the truth.Joe was determined not to make any friends -- not while he was in a psychiatric hospital, where everyone around him was crazy. His only concern was dealing with his own inner demons, demons that insisted death was his best option. That's why he latched on to Steven, his schizophrenic roommate who was considered the social leper among the crazies on the adolescent psyche ward. Hanging around that angry and deranged sixteen year old Native American meant everyone else would leave him alone, that's what Joe wanted. When Steven invited Maddie, a habitual liar and long time cutter, to join them at dinner one evening, everything changed. The lives of these three hurting and broken teenagers would become reluctantly entwined and lead to an unpredictable course of events where they would have to depend on one another to survive.
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Three from the Stones

Three from the Stones

David Goff

Parenting / Nonfiction / Christian

At the heart of a walled city, three youth struggle to carve a place for themselves amid a cold and alienating society, drawing on their dreams and the legends of their childhood to make sense of their own life and purpose. For one of them, deciphering the meaning of a mysterious song may unlock the answer."Every night Rhoneh dreamed. And, but for during his Days in Adversity, he resided while awake entirely in his mind, elaborating on his dreams..." In this dystopian coming of age novella, three young men are slowly drawn out of their separate, isolated routines to engage with the increasingly strange demands of their society. As their lives intertwine, their dreams begin to bleed into reality; songs and voices summon them to unprecedented actions; and they find that the most vital secrets lie far closer than beyond their city's walls. Each of them has a choice to face: whether to squirm amid the mounting chaos, or to step forward and let a new change rise through them.
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CyberCrime

CyberCrime

RawanShiha

Childrens / Picture Books / Parenting / Adoption

Computer crime, or cybercrime, is any crime that involves a computer and a network.[1] The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target.It has been a good few years since Lucian had learned that he was the Protektor, one of the members of the foretelling known as the Profecia. After an argument with his father, he storms off. This escape soon turns even more sour, when Lucian gets dragged into an organization known as MonReneix. Sensing the evil Seeker's energy nearby and seeing the poor depressed children being held captive, Lucian makes his decision to stay there, undercover, and try to learn more about this organization.However, when the leader sets his eyes on 'recruiting' Kimberly, the love of Lucian's young life, he must learn to embrace the Protektor within and send the Seeker a message:You mess with my life, and you will pay.Account #4 of the Tales of Terrara Vikos story saga.Prior stories in this saga:Cross of Faith (#1)Trees in the Storm (#2)Blood on a Broken Hand (#3)
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