Canyons of the Mind

Russell James Ray is credited with the first canyoneering descents of the Barrancas Sinforosa and Batopilas. It was an endeavor that spanned several years, and included a self-delusional non-first descent of the Barranca Del Cobre. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he dreams of other things. 

Carmella

Carmella was a typical Easter bunny, discarded at about three months of age. It took her a long time to recover, although never fully. Patricia put up with her antics because she also had a hard-knock life. She loved her spunk. This is Carmella’s true story.

Cat on a Black Moon

Television anchorwoman Garner Olsen becomes the target of brilliant and deranged ex-flower child Darla Dare when Garner’s husband, a federal prosecutor, prepares to take Darla’s lover to trial for drug trafficking. When Garner’s life is upended by stalking, kidnapping and murder, she vows to track down the woman responsible. She succeeds, but with shattering results.

Chalk Wars: Pommel Clock and the Incredulous Cost of Integrity

In a world dominated by gymnastics, one team stands out above the rest. Seven Bridges Academy has won three consecutive National Championships, earning massive resources for the school, permitting its students to live in luxury, filled with mansions, mega-yachts, and all the precious gems they could ever want. But when four students uncover the dark secrets underpinning SBA’s success, how far are they willing to go to bring honesty and integrity back to the sport?

Facing bribery, money laundering, scandal and corruption inside the World Gymnastics Federation, and opposition from inside their own school, Whitfield, Aspen, Ugu, and Flaherty must rely on their own superior mental and physical abilities to stop an evil organization intent on destroying the world of gymnastics as they know it. Can Aspen decrypt the cipher before time runs out? Can Flaherty stop a group of agents from hijacking a security system? Can Ugu survive two weeks inside the Glass Box? Can Whitfield forgive the daughter of the man responsible for killing his parents? And through it all, can the students at Seven Bridges ever forgive one of their own for forfeiting the All-Around Title?

Charley's Adventures

Have you ever stopped to imagine what the animals in the woods do? How they communicate, how they live, what they do, and how they do it?

Through the eyes of a young great horned owl named Charley, follow along and you can be a part of some of the adventures that Charley encounters while growing up in the woods. You, as a reader, can meet the friends Charley makes and see for yourself how growing up in the woods, alone and unfamiliar with the environment, can be quite the experience.

Charlie, The Border Collie Without a Job

Did you know that Border Collies are often considered to be the most intelligent breed of all dogs? Due to their high level of intelligence and athleticism, Border Collies are in need of a job. If left to their own devices, they often get bored and get into trouble. As a member of the “herding breeds”, their job traditionally has been that of herding sheep. But not all Border Collies live on farms. Read to see how Charlie, the Border Collie, finds his own mission in life.

¿Sabías que el Border Collie se considera, con frecuencia, la raza canina más inteligente de todas? Debido a su alto nivel de inteligencia y atletismo, el Border Collie necesita tener un trabajo u oficio. Si no tiene con que ocuparse, se aburre y se mete en lios.  Como miembro del grupo de perros pastores, su trabajo ha consistido tradicionalmente en cuidar de las ovejas. Pero no todos los Border Collies viven en granjas o ranchos.  Lee para ver cómo Charlie, el Border Collie, encuentra su propio oficio.

Chasing Rommel

On June 6, 1944, tens of thousands of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen assaulted the German held coast of France at Normandy. Some were killed, some wounded, and all of them were changed as the battles raged against Rommel and his defenders. They fell for yards of sandy beaches, for critical roads, bridges, villages, towns, and cities. Together, we will travel to those places, and we will relive all the bravery and horror, all the mistakes and honor, as we learn their stories - Chasing Rommel.

Cherry Blossom Blues

Delve into a lyrical love story shared between two Afro-American men living in the District of Columbia during the ethos of the roaring 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance. In spite of their class differences, their clandestine affairs thrive among their respective travels, marriages, careers, and time itself. Experience exhilaration as the main characters intertwine with real-life figures: Al Capone, Marcus Garvey, Herbert Hoover, Stephanie St. Clair and Albert Khan in Harlem, Macon, Georgia and Paris, France. Get goosebumps observing the living commune with the dead during ritualistic and mysterious séances. Observe how history often repeats itself by encountering the ramifications of the Spanish Influenza, World War I, Prohibition, and the threat of rising fascism foreshadowing the Jewish Holocaust. Most importantly, glean the profundity of our interconnections with everything in the universe in order to achieve authentic bliss.

Child Protection in America

Child abuse and neglect are tragically common. Each year, more than 1,000 American children die due to maltreatment. Thousands more suffer physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Across the country, every community has a system of government-operated and funded child protective services (CPS). But given that social workers of CPS have the authority to remove children from unsafe parents, it is no surprise that CPS is controversial. Does CPS protect children? Does CPS do more good than harm? Is CPS fundamentally racist, as some critics argue? Should CPS be abolished? To answer these questions, it is essential to understand the origins of child protection in America. How did we arrive at the child protection system in place today? This book traces the history of child protection from colonial times to the present and provides the most in-depth analysis ever published of the origins of child protection.

Children of the Amazon

Larissa was born with a gift. The Brazilians call it poderes. With the help from her brother Sergio, the children convince their father to take them on a trek to Brazil. Their mission is to find their mother, whose plane has disappeared somewhere over the Amazon rainforest. Larissa helps her family by uncovering clues from her vivid dreams that foretell the future. They travel a long, treacherous journey through unexplored regions of the Amazon and meet mysterious children in a hidden village. The children help Larissa and Sergio face their fears, find out who they truly are, and discover the secrets of the white flower.

Children of the Shadows: Firmness of Purpose

The die is cast when the malefic King Ajutu realizes that he has been betrayed thrice over on Nkem’s account. With Nkem, Odera, and Namdi deeming they are no longer within easy striking distance of the king, the king charges his goons with the task of silencing them for good. When Nkem, Odera, and Namdi come to terms with what they’re up against, they form a frantic alliance with the king’s twin, Prince Ikuku, and unwittingly the estranged Queen Nena. As they also enlist the help of the Children of the Shadows, will King Ajutu, along with his gentry, become too hot to handle, or will he and his camarilla meet more than their match in the ever-growing alliance?

In Children of the Shadows: Firmness of Purpose, the fight for justice and peace, and for the innocent child victims of the supposedly banned Mkpátáku ritual reaches boiling point.

Christianity as the Moral Order of Integration

This book is an integration of the Old and New Testaments, and it is intended to demonstrate that there should be only one Testament. Together they form the Bible of the Jewish people. They unfold the long journey that Abram and Sarai were summoned by God to initiate. As migrants without a country and without an ethnic identity, they personified the Truth of God by incarnating “the Lord God’s” being of presence and transcendent possibility. Incorporated into an eternal covenant as Abraham and Sarah, they established the birthright of God’s elect people as the embodiment of the integration of universality and ethnicity.

The journey continued through their descendants, vacillating between the union of universality and ethnicity and mere ethnicity, and, in the course of Israel’s history, it separated the prophets from the priests. The journey traverses the Yahwist Strand of the Pentateuch, the four prophetic divisions of the Book of Isaiah, Book 1 of I Enoch, the Apocalypse of Daniel, John the Baptist, and it climaxes in the ontological termination of the moral order of separation through the death of Jesus of Nazareth and the inauguration of a New Creation and its New Humanity through his resurrection from the dead.

The journey is concluded by Paul the Apostle who, as an ethnically determined Pharisee, is called by God to proclaim the moral order of integration as a gift to the nations of the Gentiles.