Men Are Like Cars

Men Are Like Cars

Mariana Reuter

Young Adult

A humorous short story about a woman CEO who confides in a young reporter telling her how she has managed her relationships with men through her lifeA humorous short story about a woman CEO who confides in a young reporter telling her how she has managed her relationships with men through her life. Meet Sherry McPherson and her unique style. For her, men are like cars. From the utilitarian, compact vehicles you purchase when you are at college, to the European monsters you get when you're at the top, the men a successful woman picks during her career much resemble her car.
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Bedtime Stories for Kids

Bedtime Stories for Kids

Uncle Amon

Childrens / Business / amazon

You and your child will enjoy these cute bedtime stories. They are a perfect read before bed!* 5 cute bedtime stories for kids* Excellent for beginning and early readers* Cute short stories that are great for a quick bedtime storyAre you looking for a children's book that is highly entertaining, great for early readers, and is jam-packed with bedtime stories? This children's storybook has it all!This is an excellent read for beginning and early readers. Each story is easy to read and exciting. Cute and bright illustrations for younger readers!This book is especially great for traveling, waiting rooms, and read aloud at home.* 5 cute bedtime stories for kids* Excellent for beginning and early readers* Cute short stories that are great for a quick bedtime storyThis story is great for a quick bedtime story and to be read aloud with friends and family.
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Zombie Outbreak Survival: What's Left of America

Zombie Outbreak Survival: What's Left of America

Van Allen

Magical Realism / Fiction / Fantasy

You already know you can count on me for great zombie apocalypse survival ideas, but I want you to come to me for all your zombie apocalypse and zombie outbreak needs. Of course, survival is my expertise. I promise to continue delivering the survival goods to you as I continue to write. I thought just for this one PSA, I would take an interesting detour. By the way, did you get your flu shot?When the $h!t hits the fan, forget most of what you think you know about zombies based on Hollywood movies, TV shows, and video games. What you don’t know will get you and everyone else killed. In his series of public service announcements, Captain Allen USMC, offers the unfiltered and uncensored harsh reality of surviving real zombie outbreaks. He delivers expert level knowledge of zombie outbreaks, and shares recently declassified information to help you get ready for and survive the coming zombie apocalypse. Keep one fact in mind as you read Captain Allen’s PSAs: Surviving a zombie apocalypse is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid. If you want to live, read this, learn this, and ignore most of what you see or read anywhere else, before it’s too late. When the fecal matter impacts the rotating aerial oscillator and you find yourself up to your eyeballs in flesh eating zombies and lunatic apocalypse hooligans, you’ll be glad you took every chance you could to read every one of these definitive zombie apocalypse preparation PSAs you could get your hands on. It’s not too late, yet.
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Garden of the Light

Garden of the Light

Grace Gardener

Grace Gardener

Words from the Garden of the Light is a feast for the mind. Many Quotes, Poems and essays. Stories of writing with Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell when I was a teenager. The story behind Circle Game, Both Sides Now, Woodstock, Sounds of Silence, and Bridge Over Troubled Water. And photographs of my travels for the past five years.Words from the Garden of the Light is a feast for the mind. Photographs of my travels for the past five years. Poetry that explains my life. I’m publishing this because I’m running out of ideas on how to get through to Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.I’ve also included stories of me in my teens, writing with Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell. The story behind Circle Game, Both Sides Now, Woodstock, Sounds of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Water. Please read my ebook, Babble On, for information on me and to learn how all of the statements in this book could possibly be true. It will change your outlook.
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"When Universes Collide: A Star Wars Fan Fiction"

"When Universes Collide: A Star Wars Fan Fiction"

scifiguy3553

scifiguy3553

In what could only be considered taboo, this Star Wars FanFiction takes us to planet Earth! Where, Jacob, a young human in Chicago, is befriended by a Sith, Darth Harest. Her hopes of adding him to a new struggle of the Sith against the Jedi Order is confronted by Jedi Salvitor; whom is also on his own mission to recruit humans to fight an emerging Sith power on Earth!Lynda Lassiter is eighteen years old, she has been hired by the CIA as an Operative Agent. Her very first assignment is to act like a sixteen year old girl on a cabin cruiser. She is to help another Agent in getting information out of Arab teenagers. When this assignment goes bad and everyone is killed but Lynda, she is upgraded to a Field Agent eventually ending up with her being assigned to Afghanistan. There she notices that young girls as young as eight are being taken from their families and sold into prostitution. She vows to end this practice and uses the U.S. Army to help stop the practice. This assignment also blows up in her face.Lynda marries another Agent so that she can adopt one of the small girls and her life seems to straighten out. But things go well only for so long. When her husband is killed in a shoot out she begans a new campaign to free missing young girls in Aruba. It isn’t long until she realizes that she is pregnant with her dead husbands baby. This doesn’t stop her for long. The only problem is, someone is trying to kill her. She finds out that a Sheik in Iran is after her for killing his son. The climax of the book occurs with her meeting the Sheik and his security team and Lynda finds herself in a deadly gun battle.
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CIA  -  The Slave Traders

CIA - The Slave Traders

Joe Bob Newman

Joe Bob Newman

Lynda is eighteen years old, she has been hired by the CIA as an Operative Agent. Her very first assignment goes bad and everyone is killed but Lynda. She is upgraded to a Field Agent assigned to Afghanistan. There she notices that girls as young as eight are being taken from their families and sold into prostitution. She vows to end this practice even if it costs her, her life.Lynda Lassiter is eighteen years old, she has been hired by the CIA as an Operative Agent. Her very first assignment is to act like a sixteen year old girl on a cabin cruiser. She is to help another Agent in getting information out of Arab teenagers. When this assignment goes bad and everyone is killed but Lynda, she is upgraded to a Field Agent eventually ending up with her being assigned to Afghanistan. There she notices that young girls as young as eight are being taken from their families and sold into prostitution. She vows to end this practice and uses the U.S. Army to help stop the practice. This assignment also blows up in her face.Lynda marries another Agent so that she can adopt one of the small girls and her life seems to straighten out. But things go well only for so long. When her husband is killed in a shoot out she begans a new campaign to free missing young girls in Aruba. It isn’t long until she realizes that she is pregnant with her dead husbands baby. This doesn’t stop her for long. The only problem is, someone is trying to kill her. She finds out that a Sheik in Iran is after her for killing his son. The climax of the book occurs with her meeting the Sheik and his security team and Lynda finds herself in a deadly gun battle.
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Victoria, Cat and the Pop Star

Victoria, Cat and the Pop Star

David Elvar

Kids

Meet Victoria. She’s a girl and pretty laid back. And meet Cat. He’s a cat and…well, he’s just Cat. And when a pop star appears in their garden, Cat decides to get in on the act…Cody Marsh's domineering, embittered mother is the only family she has ever known until her grandfather arrives on her doorstep. He brings with him the acceptance and kindness previously missing in Cody's life, and his death a short time after they meet leaves her empty and yearning. Defying her mother for the first time in her life, Cody sets out for the boyhood home of her grandfather -- Wallace, Idaho -- to find connections to him, to find her place in her family, to find peace within herself.Instead, her search lands her at the scene of a double homicide and Cody's discoveries of her grandfather's past become entwined in a history very much alive. The bordellos, politics, and silver mines of the past reach into the present, driving at least one of her new acquaintances to acts of desperation. Cody must find the strength to face not only private failures and the ghosts of old memories, but betrayal that will strike at her newfound courage.
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The Memory Keeper

The Memory Keeper

Lisa Stowe

Fiction / Mystery

A young woman defies her domineering mother and goes to Wallace, Idaho in search of her grandfather’s history. Instead, she is involved in murder and learns that the bordellos and mines of the past reach into the present, entwining her in a history very much alive. She must face not only private failures and ghosts of old memories, but also betrayal and loss.Cody Marsh's domineering, embittered mother is the only family she has ever known until her grandfather arrives on her doorstep. He brings with him the acceptance and kindness previously missing in Cody's life, and his death a short time after they meet leaves her empty and yearning. Defying her mother for the first time in her life, Cody sets out for the boyhood home of her grandfather -- Wallace, Idaho -- to find connections to him, to find her place in her family, to find peace within herself.Instead, her search lands her at the scene of a double homicide and Cody's discoveries of her grandfather's past become entwined in a history very much alive. The bordellos, politics, and silver mines of the past reach into the present, driving at least one of her new acquaintances to acts of desperation. Cody must find the strength to face not only private failures and the ghosts of old memories, but betrayal that will strike at her newfound courage.
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The Counterfeit Lighthouse

The Counterfeit Lighthouse

Gerrard Wllson

Gerrard Wllson

Amber treasured her Navajo heritage. Until now, she had never left her home on the reservation in the Four Corners. The only reason she was standing on this South Korean moonlit shore was to honor her father's last wishes. She had brought his ashes here to commemorate her Code-Talking grandfather. A man who had left for the Korean War and never returned home.Shash Hayou had been lost in action..Amber treasured her Navajo heritage. Until now, she had never left her home on the reservation in the Four Corners. The only reason she was standing on this South Korean moonlit shore was to honor her father's last wishes. She had brought his ashes here to commemorate her Code-Talking grandfather. A man who had left for the Korean War and never returned home.Shash Hayou had been lost in action along with his best friend, Charlie Atene.But Charlie was alive. And the more Amber discovers, the more she questions everything she once held as true. * * *The Counterfeit Lighthouse is book one in the Navajo Footsteps in Korea series. Lisa's novellas are written without explicit intimacy or violence. As such they are suitable for teens and up. Half of all proceeds from this series benefits battered women's shelters.
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A Punt on the Thames

A Punt on the Thames

Gerrard Wllson

Gerrard Wllson

One of the best things I can recall from my childhood days is first time each summer we saw the punt resting low at its moorings, ready for another busy season transporting day-trippers across the river Thames. One year, however, that trip across the Thames turned into a NIGHTMARE.This cute little children's book, written and illustrated by Donald A. Tangborn, takes them on an adventure of a day in the life of Hippy Dippy Doo. Teach your children the almost lost art of how to tell time with an analog clock. It also teaches small children how to count. Makes a great bedtime story for your little ones.-Published by Slipstream Publishing
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The Shoebox Pursuit - Part 2 - Footsteps and Shadows

The Shoebox Pursuit - Part 2 - Footsteps and Shadows

Benjamin Maxwell

Benjamin Maxwell

As the War rages on, the Alpha-Omega missions spiral into turmoil, thrusting the unlikely group of heroes further into a web of insanity. Isolated, short on supplies and exhausted, a sudden turn of events forces the squad to take refuge in the sanctuary of a sinister and looming mansion in the midst of a storm...As the War rages on, the Alpha-Omega missions spiral into turmoil, thrusting the unlikely group of heroes further into a web of insanity. Isolated, short on supplies and exhausted, a sudden turn of events forces the squad to take refuge in the sanctuary of a sinister and looming mansion in the midst of a storm. But all is not what it seems, and as their dreams start to collide with their nightmares, Charlie, Billy, Specks, Yankee and Doodle realise they are in a trap of immense proportions and are no longer in control of their own reality…
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Pawsitively Bunnie: The Adventures Begin

Pawsitively Bunnie: The Adventures Begin

A. C. Rose

Young Adult / LGBT / Contemporary

When Bunnie's Easter basket gets chosen by Johanna's daddy, a world of adventures begins. In their first adventure, Bunnie and Johanna go on a surprise trip to a museum.When Portia Simpson implemented tax on patty, it mad Dr. Bert Kemp, a psychiatrist. He then became a fat ninja, hell bent on murdering Portia Simpson’s head-crown, so every patty can be tax-free. His wife, Marjorie, decides to take care of her mentally-touched husband and hopes she has the strength to stick by him for better or worse. But as she unbearably loses everything and everyone because of Bert’s insanity, she crumbles, thinking she’s holding on to dead hope for her husband to regain his sanity, but will it ever happen? Scorned by her friends and family for living with a madman her only listening ear is the handsome, thick-bodied Dr. Arnold who wants her for himself. Bert grows jealous and goes to utterly unsound measures to keep his wife’s love but instead, is pushing her away. The ultimate question then is, “Will Bert ever get to take off the Right Honourable Portia Simpson’s head-crown?”EXCERPT 1Marj looked at him and the wrinkles straightened out her face. “See how mi smart? You nuh see how fast mi mek you reach yah?” Bert asked, “You lucky you come quick though enuh, a light mi did gone light the gas cylinder and mi couldn’t find the matches, you think you coulda out it in time if mi did get fi put mi hand pon the matches? You stay deh, you woulda blow till you weak you couldn’t put out that deh big fire deh mi woulda set the house pon. A woulda bun dung the whole a in yah then claim insurance.”She threw her hand up and slapped her forehead harder than she intended to. She wanted to be angry, but when she looked in his eyes she breathed out some of the fire out her chest and shook her head. Her voice lowered,“Bert, that’s a boxing ring Hun, I can’t wear that.”She repeated her mantra, “For better or for worse Lord, for better or for worse.”EXCERPT 2Six and a half hours later, Marj came in the evening and was greeted by the Vybz Kartel, he was blasting in the house, ‘Cock it up pon the Dumper Truck’. Her ears hurt. But what was more alarming to her senses was a smell. She was smelling heat, stale heat like an iron left in fire. Something was burning. She charged into her living room. Bert still had the curling iron plugged in, until it was dangerously hot and red.“What are you doing Bert?!”Bert was reclined on his back in the sofa, he offhandedly answered,“Clearlyyyy,” he dragged on the word ‘clearly’ for emphasis, because she must have been blind not to recognize what he was doing, “what I’m trying to do here Marj. I’m trying to master level seven of Ninja’s Thermatology, where my eyes can absorb the direct heat from the hot curling iron. Alsooo, . . . mi can absorb the heat wid the inside a mi bottom lip. Ain’t that obvious?”EXCERPT 3Bert totally oblivious to the hill and gully in his chest that Clivey was talking about, Bert indifferently said,“A suh mi chest stay. Mi a get thick from morning. No pills.”“No Bert, mi know a nuh suh it stay. Mi know a sponge under deh fi buff up your chest. Mi a nuh idiot.”Bert slammed down his fart tonic on the bench and said,“You chat too much. A mi chest. A mi so-so chest.”“A nuh your chest. Lift up your blouse mek mi see if a so-so chest under deh.”Same time Clivey spotted the piece of sponge shifted up at the neck of his blouse. It was obvious now. A piece a sponge Bert have underneath deh. Bert replied,“Weh mi a tell lie fa!” He kissed his teeth and blatantly said, “God kill mi right yahso ten time if mi a tell lie.
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The Jamaican Ninja Bert!!

The Jamaican Ninja Bert!!

Richie Drenz

Richie Drenz

When Portia Simpson implemented tax on patty, it mad Dr. Bert Kemp, a psychiatrist. He then became a fat ninja, hell bent on murdering Portia. His wife, Marj scorned by all for living with a madman except the handsome, thick-bodied Dr. Arnold who desires her. Bert grows jealous and goes to utterly unsound measures to keep her but instead, pushes her away. Will he regain sanity or her love?When Portia Simpson implemented tax on patty, it mad Dr. Bert Kemp, a psychiatrist. He then became a fat ninja, hell bent on murdering Portia Simpson’s head-crown, so every patty can be tax-free. His wife, Marjorie, decides to take care of her mentally-touched husband and hopes she has the strength to stick by him for better or worse. But as she unbearably loses everything and everyone because of Bert’s insanity, she crumbles, thinking she’s holding on to dead hope for her husband to regain his sanity, but will it ever happen? Scorned by her friends and family for living with a madman her only listening ear is the handsome, thick-bodied Dr. Arnold who wants her for himself. Bert grows jealous and goes to utterly unsound measures to keep his wife’s love but instead, is pushing her away. The ultimate question then is, “Will Bert ever get to take off the Right Honourable Portia Simpson’s head-crown?”EXCERPT 1Marj looked at him and the wrinkles straightened out her face. “See how mi smart? You nuh see how fast mi mek you reach yah?” Bert asked, “You lucky you come quick though enuh, a light mi did gone light the gas cylinder and mi couldn’t find the matches, you think you coulda out it in time if mi did get fi put mi hand pon the matches? You stay deh, you woulda blow till you weak you couldn’t put out that deh big fire deh mi woulda set the house pon. A woulda bun dung the whole a in yah then claim insurance.”She threw her hand up and slapped her forehead harder than she intended to. She wanted to be angry, but when she looked in his eyes she breathed out some of the fire out her chest and shook her head. Her voice lowered,“Bert, that’s a boxing ring Hun, I can’t wear that.”She repeated her mantra, “For better or for worse Lord, for better or for worse.”EXCERPT 2Six and a half hours later, Marj came in the evening and was greeted by the Vybz Kartel, he was blasting in the house, ‘Cock it up pon the Dumper Truck’. Her ears hurt. But what was more alarming to her senses was a smell. She was smelling heat, stale heat like an iron left in fire. Something was burning. She charged into her living room. Bert still had the curling iron plugged in, until it was dangerously hot and red.“What are you doing Bert?!”Bert was reclined on his back in the sofa, he offhandedly answered,“Clearlyyyy,” he dragged on the word ‘clearly’ for emphasis, because she must have been blind not to recognize what he was doing, “what I’m trying to do here Marj. I’m trying to master level seven of Ninja’s Thermatology, where my eyes can absorb the direct heat from the hot curling iron. Alsooo, . . . mi can absorb the heat wid the inside a mi bottom lip. Ain’t that obvious?”EXCERPT 3Bert totally oblivious to the hill and gully in his chest that Clivey was talking about, Bert indifferently said,“A suh mi chest stay. Mi a get thick from morning. No pills.”“No Bert, mi know a nuh suh it stay. Mi know a sponge under deh fi buff up your chest. Mi a nuh idiot.”Bert slammed down his fart tonic on the bench and said,“You chat too much. A mi chest. A mi so-so chest.”“A nuh your chest. Lift up your blouse mek mi see if a so-so chest under deh.”Same time Clivey spotted the piece of sponge shifted up at the neck of his blouse. It was obvious now. A piece a sponge Bert have underneath deh. Bert replied,“Weh mi a tell lie fa!” He kissed his teeth and blatantly said, “God kill mi right yahso ten time if mi a tell lie.
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No Rhyme or Reason, Volume Two

No Rhyme or Reason, Volume Two

Thomas Clagg

Thomas Clagg

The journey of unimaginable terror continues in volume two. One person is set to find out what terror truly is. (highly recommend to read volume one first for free).The fast-paced journey continues to haunt everyday people who come face to face with kind eyes and the blade. Will someone find out who Mr. Beautiful is and why he is determined to cause the most inflicted pain anyone can imagine? (highly recommend reading Volume One first for free).
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Dreaming Falling Down

Dreaming Falling Down

Lee A Jackson

Lee A Jackson

Instead of death, Abraham chooses salvation that is offered by a dark stranger. Given a purpose and a duty to perform, Abraham is left in a dark world where no questions are asked and where everyone lives in fear of the Three Sisters. But the Sisters have caught up with him, are hunting him down and Abraham finally gets to see what is inside of the black boxes which he delivers.After contemplating crossing the threshold over from this life, a broken life, into eternal darkness, Abraham is visited by the dark stranger. The offer of salvation, the offer of having a purpose is a strong enough lure to make him hand himself over to the stranger. But instead of a bright new hope, he finds instead a long, suffering torture where he fulfills his duties under the cover of night. It is a duty which isn't clear of purpose to him. Just deliver the black boxes and never look inside of them. Simple rules, but the Three Sisters, the fabled harbingers that the Deliverers fear, are coming for him.
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