Chasing Light

Chasing Light, begins with the story of Anthony Beckles, an international student from the island of Jamaica in the Caribbean. He is pursuing a postgraduate degree in marine biology at California State University Monterey, where he meets Aileen Wu, a second-generation American Chinese student, completing a master’s degree in social work.

Chasing Light also explores the stories of Anthony’s immigrant brothers, Donald and Trevor, together with their partners, traversing a generation to their young niece Carla, her partner, Antonio, and his own Spanish mother, Consuela, as well as Keira and Pari, truly intriguing twin sisters from Kerala, India, who first meet Anthony and Aileen in the small Atlantic island archipelago of Bermuda.

If you are a reader who enjoys complex characters that drive immersive plots, and the evocation of eidetic locations, as well as searing emotions – thought-provoking novels, with dramatic twists, turns and thrills, shocking events, wildly intense sorrow, sudden chuckles, inspirational tropes, and memorable but unpredictable cross-cultural love stories, Chasing Light is for you!

The Corrigan Factor

Two ships, Alcyone and Solira, an alien vessel, both in trouble from unprovoked attacks.

Two captains: one still aboard his disabled ship, the other picked up by Alcyone’s sister ship, Electra, and accused of desertion.

A daughter eager for reunion with a father she hasn’t seen in years.

The father who all but abandoned her and who has been conducting illegal scientific experiments and profiting from the venture.

An ambassador in a hurry, eager to take credit for a possible first contact.

And a minor crew member aboard Electra, whose unexpected abilities unite them all.

Split from Reality

What happens when you realize the foundation of everything you knew about yourself and life in general is shattered? How do you cope when it’s found that your own mind, and even reality itself, is playing tricks on you? Is it even possible to adapt to a bizarre, unforgiving, and even horrifying mindscape?

These challenging questions and others will be explored in this book. This autobiography tells a tale of a young man as he struggles to function in life while experiencing very unusual circumstances. The tale explains his experience while battling some of the most disturbing psychotic thoughts.

This is a story of wonder, extreme challenges, and eventual plateau into some form of success. This book not only demonstrates the problems and stressors common with the illness called schizophrenia but also highlights methods, techniques, and useful solutions to some of the most challenging and slippery mental conundrums that one might encounter during psychosis.

Sassy the Green Tree Boa - Adventure Two

Hello, it’s me... Sassy the Green Tree Boa.

On my first adventure in Sassy the Green Tree Boa, I met so many wonderful snakes, you see.

I ended my adventure pretending to be a Christmas tree!!

Are you up for another adventure?

Then come along with me as we set out on another great adventure...

where we shall see what other snakes have fun pretending to be!!

What's Wrong With This Picture? Tommy Goes to Work

Tommy is an ambitious young dog.

One day, he decides to learn how to do the same jobs that people do. He tries many of them and learns quickly, but he also makes mistakes.

Can you spot the mistakes he needs to correct if he wants to improve?

In this coloring book, each page has a fun sketch for you to color while helping Tommy become a better worker.

My Family's Godly Road

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
– John 3:17

To get to the Heavenly Father…
You must believe in Jesus…
That he lived and died for you.
No matter the religious road you go down, you must accept Jesus as your savior…

This book chronicles the many roles the author played within the church and how her journey impacted the lives of those around her. From Sunday school teacher to Usher, and eventually marrying a preacher, her dedication to her faith and community is woven throughout her story. It also serves as a heartfelt tribute to her family, including her grandson Malachi, who became a deacon, and her granddaughter Delisia, whose solo performances touched the congregation. Through her experiences, the book highlights the profound life lessons that the church instilled in her and her loved ones.

Self Righteous

Many of us have witnessed someone walk free despite being guilty of a crime. Perhaps we have even felt the urge to take justice into our own hands but held back due to fear of reprisal or the legal consequences. But what happens when a victim, or someone connected to a crime, decides to act? Does seeking vengeance make them self-righteous, or are they justified in making the guilty pay?

In this gripping and suspenseful novel, Jake does exactly that. As he takes justice into his own hands, he leads the police on a relentless chase, leaving behind cryptic clues about his next target. With each riddle, the stakes rise. Can the police decipher his messages and catch him before he strikes again, or will Jake continue to outmaneuver them while carrying out his version of justice?

Tales from Beyond

This anthology brings together a riveting collection of science fiction and horror tales, each set in a different place and time, inviting readers to explore the unknown.

In ‘Destination Infinity,’ astronauts on a mission around the Alpha Centauri system return to Earth 150 years later than planned, only to find a totalitarian regime has seized control of a high-tech society with unsettling visions for communal life.

‘An Encounter With Destiny’ follows the survivors of a plane crash stranded on a remote Pacific island during a nuclear war as they confront the haunting possibility that they might be the last people on Earth. Among them is a mysterious scientist, whose presence stirs both hope and unease.

In ‘The German Factor or The Recreation Machine,’ a man invents a device that turns photographs into reality. But as he falls in with a reneged army bent on rebellion, his invention is weaponized, transforming this tale into a thrilling war story.

The horror story ‘Even the Wicked for the Day of Evil’ follows a Haitian immigrant who, after his French roommate dies in police custody, turns to voodoo for revenge.

In ‘The Next Star Past Luyten 725-34,’ the first astronauts on a mission of interstellar colonization stumble upon colonies already established by previous Earth expeditions.

The science fiction tale ‘A Return to Huntington Grounds’ imagines a near future where a baseball team travels back in time, altering the course of their sport forever.

Finally, in a ‘Deadland,’ a lonely man driven by despair reaches for the occult to escape his misery, gaining unimaginable power to retaliate against everyone who stands in his way.

This collection offers a journey across the strange and the terrifying, where the boundaries of reality, ambition, and revenge are pushed to their limits.

Thoughts Expressed Through the Written Word

This literary work is the product of my personal activity in the effort of lifelong self-expression. Self-expression can be accomplished through a number of manners, including all forms of art, music and performance. My form of expression is through the written word. As I experience the varied performance arts of others, I appreciate the message and communication of the artist and ultimately experience self-growth.  Some individuals are driven to self-identify and as Dale Carnegie stated, “Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.” I started writing when I was twelve years old.

This work expresses the intellectual, emotional, and personal growth I have experienced over a period of fifty-five years. As stated by Oprah Winfrey, “If we’re really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression”. My two previous literary works, Grinnin’ Like a Jenny Eatin’ Saw Briars and Let Me Tell You a Story, published by Austin Macauley involve the communication of events and experiences in my life. As stated by Pearl S. Buck, “Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfilment”. For this reason, I have chosen to fulfil my literary work through the writing and publication of this book.

Iris Lynne

If you like historically accurate depictions of various topics that might take you all over the world and through different periods of time, this book is for you. There is no intended relation between the subjects chosen other than that the author herself wondered about another explanation for what had actually occurred: a supernatural one. This is historical fiction with a supernatural twist, with the exception of the first story. The first story is dedicated to one of my older sisters, Iris Lynne, who always wanted me to write scary stories that would hold one’s attention when learning factual history, especially if one’s mind tended to wander off into the fictional areas of the supernatural. She loved my purely non-historical fictional story. The other stories, which move around the globe and through time to discuss such things as Cleopatra’s little sister, Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad, Balboa, Percy Shelley, President William Henry Harrison, and the Pendle Witches of England, should be fascinating!

Growth, Modernity and the Nations of Wealth

Eric Humphrey and Dwight Semler present a new theory explaining the mysterious historical emergence of modern economic growth and its even more baffling offspring, modernity. Noticeable changes in material life began less than three centuries ago, but previous theoretical accounts have failed to explain their arrival. Thinkers assumed modern wealth and morality were the universal standard driving human history. They assumed modern rights and riches were natural and normal. In this way they thought of such things as ends rooted in human nature, rather than deriving them as consequences from a historical, nonmodern baseline. Misdirected, they set out to liberate the imprisoned modern homunculus who “caused modernity” through moral education and economic institutions. Modernity became an “awareness problem.” Yet this high-maintenance modern self and its ever-growing needs are a consequence of modern processes rather than their cause. Consequently, theorists of the modern world produced comically omnipotent notions of human agency. Marxists and developmental economists saw modernity as a moral or material self-realization project, requiring only a liberator or engineer. But when their God-of-Genesis model failed the facts, they overreacted and defaulted to its alter ego—humans were passive leaves in the wind of history. Modernity thus oscillates between a chosen destiny and a given fate. With modernity represented as a historical fate, all pretense of a grand theoretical view vanishes in thick description of one damn thing after another, and the historian’s rote chronology replaces any theoretical causality, as a specific description of a particular falling rock replaces a general theory of gravity.

Understanding the modern world and how it came to be, argue the authors, is less a matter of facts than of the foundational assumptions used to link facts together into robust and coherent theories. We must un-assume our modern selves and give poverty and illiberality their just historical due. With better and more scientifically consistent assumptions, they argue, the old facts of history can be seen in a new way. Then the solution to understanding the most puzzling and abnormal of human events, the modern world itself, turns out to be hiding in plain sight.

Sake: For You and Me

These inspiring haikus will capture your heart, offering profound wisdom wrapped in a simple poem of 17 syllables in three lines. The author dives deep into feelings of love, loss, flirtation, passion, self-awareness, and the experience of living life fully and inexcusably.

Sake: For You and Me is a collection of versatility, confronting honesty, and intense expression, alongside hope, light, and distinctive spirit. The author’s evocative language reveals a whole panorama of thought in three lines. This collection of enchanting haikus tackles topics that strike most deeply at the core of what it means to be human.