Where Stories Rise with the Rain

Lal Benjamin took a wrong turn and missed the American Dream. Stuck in a dead-end job, constantly at odds with his father, and overshadowed by his successful brother, the sixty-two-year-old longs for something more. After years of exploring India on his couch, he finally stops postponing and books the trip of a lifetime.But the moment he arrives in Delhi; his adventure spirals out of control. A heated exchange at customs exposes his unusual depth of knowledge, drawing suspicion. Detained as a suspected criminal, he's thrown into a communal cell with dangerous men--only to be smuggled out by a gang and trafficked to a remote village. Stripped of his freedom, forced into servitude, and trapped...

Revenge and redemption come together in this murder mystery set in America's deep South. Jack Hennessey is a retired homicide detective who is wracked with guilt for failing his best friend who was arrested on murder charges six years ago. Jack proved the man's innocence by tracking down the real killer, who tragically turned out to be his friend's teenaged daughter. She went to prison. Hennessey descended into deep depression, devastated by what he had uncovered. The friend's adult son bitterly despises Jack for destroying his family. Nevertheless, he reluctantly asks Hennessey to investigate another murder involving a colleague because "my father still says you are the best detective ...

In a country rent asunder by civil war, two people try to find love despite deeply held religious, political and age differences. This is a true story about US Civil War General John Fulton Reynolds, one of the most respected and admired Union officers of the war, and a beautiful woman sixteen years his junior,  Catherine Hewitt, whom everyone called Kate. Reynolds was destined to become one of the most famous officers of America’s Civil War.  President Abraham Lincoln even wanted Reynolds to lead his vast Army of the Potomac. Fate, however, had different plans for the general. He was shot and killed on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, taking with him a secret...

J. Paul Hickey’s historical spy novel, The Double Man, explores identity, survival, and moral pressure in the unstable world that emerged from World War II.Most people think of identity as something fixed. A name. A country. A past. A set of memories that belong only to one person. But war has a way of making even the most stable parts of life uncertain.The Double Man by puts identification under great demand. Set against the collapse of Nazi Germany and the uneasy political world that follows, the novel asks what happens when survival requires a person to become someone he never expected to be.That gives the story one of its most compelling questions: How much can a person change in order...

overviewTHE COMPLETE TRUE NORTH TRILOGY — THREE NOVELS IN ONE VOLUMEExperience the entire True North story from beginning to end in one complete collection.True North: The Complete Trilogy includes all three novels:Book One — A Nation StandsBook Two — A Nation FallsBook Three — A Nation ReckonsFrom the first threat to Canada’s sovereignty to the final reckoning, the complete story is here in one volume.Already started the series? The three novels are also available individually.A nation does not fall overnight. It happens quietly. One compromise at a time. When foreign powers begin exploiting Canada’s economic vulnerabilities, few people recognize the danger. What start...

The Fun ABC Flipbook is a great learning tool for young children - using six illustrated alphabets - boys, girls, sports, dogs, cats and zoo animals - by artist Shelley Dieterichs that are in 3 complete alphabets of the mixed up letters sitting side by side and spirally bound at the top.  Kids can flip the letters and make three letter words, learn their alphabets and how to spell.  The books are fun and easy to use.

Just days before the world erupts in the Russia-Ukraine war, Jasmine and Kave set out from Gloucester, Massachusetts in their thirty-foot fishing boat, chasing bluefin tuna across the remote Seamounts of the North Atlantic.They sail straight into a nightmare.After a violent storm disables their boat, a massive Chinese supertanker appears out of the fog, bearing down on them at full speed. The giant vessel shows no signs of slowing. Jasmine and Kave shout and wave frantically—but there is no response from the towering ship.With only seconds to spare, they dive into the sea as the tanker crushes their boat beneath its steel hull.The ship never stops.As the vessel thunders past, they see a li...

In the year 226 BCE, the young Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca is given an unusual and dangerous assignment: train sixty elephants for war.These massive beasts must then be transported across the Mediterranean Sea to Iberia, where they will become living weapons in Carthage’s struggle against the fiercely independent tribes of the peninsula.Among the elephants is Obolus, the largest and most powerful of them all. Two unlikely companions—Liada and the brilliant young Tin Tin Ban Sunia—become essential to Obolus’s care and training, forming a bond with the giant animal that will soon be tested by the brutal realities of war.Meanwhile, far away in the southern Iberian kingdom of A...

PRECESSION: A timeless tale of friendship, survival and the endurance of the human spirit.Embark on an extraordinary journey through three aeons of time, asmeasured by the astrological movement of the zodiacal constellations.PRECESSION weaves together three compelling stories, each set in adifferent age, spanning approximately 2,150 years.Part 1: PISCESAt the dawn of the 21st century, two boys from vastly disparate socialbackgrounds form the unlikeliest of friendships. Bonded by a mutualpassion for birds of prey, they share an adventurous rite of passageuntil adolescence and environmental circumstances inevitably tear themapart.   War brings about an all too brief and tragic r...