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Second in the series, "The Alexander Saga." Dahomey (Benin), West Africa 1717: Bess leaves home to work her plot in the village garden, never to return. Swept up in the brutal slave trade of the Middle Passage, she seizes an opportunity to survive the Atlantic crossing. The 'Cateret' is the first slave ship to sail into Charles Town harbor after the siege and starvation of the Yamasee War, where Bess is thrust onto the auction block and sold as a slave. Interwoven with her rice-planting masters in the South Carolina colony, her legend of survival begins a two-century legacy of lineage and ...

Rachelle and Rocky, the twin raccoons, are off on another adventure when the great white spirit bear comes into the Earth's dimension. The spirit bear asks them to go on a mission to help raise the vibration of the planet Earth. Rocky and Rachelle meet the spirit, Elder Ellora, when they travel through the center of the Earth to the Ellora Caves. They visit the sacred waterfalls, and discover the peace and joy of meditation using mandalas, mantras, the labyrinth, tai chi, singing bowls, drums, and dance.

The Adventures of Atlas and Artesia are a series of books about the lives of a wolf-dog named Atlas and a little red fox named Artesia. When the oldest talking tree in the forest tells them the reason Mother Earth is quaking is because she has become unbalanced, the two adventurers take a journey to the land of Zarah to find the elves that have the secrets of sound.

First in Series: A Midtown Murder Mystery. Psychic profiler Clara Carson and the unlikely detective, Jack Jackson, join forces in solving their first cold case murder mystery. The Friday night before Christmas, 1953, an elegant old Cadillac crashes through a fence and plunges into an abandoned quarry, killing its sole occupant. The death is ruled a suicide and the case is filed away and forgotten. Thirty years later, Jack Jackson buys the dead woman's derelict house from her only heir, who is clearly insane. He ignores the daughter's final warning, but is unable to overlook what he ...

A Midtown Murder Mystery. Kansas City police detective and psychic profiler, Clara Carson, and the unlikely detective, Jack Jackson, join forces again in solving their second cold case murder mystery. In September, 1936, in spite of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, twenty-four-year-old heiress Pony Boyd remains one of the richest and most powerful in town, and won't let anyone forget it. Pony and her estranged husband, the handsome Dr. Ed Evans, have just returned from their summer in Europe when she dies a violent death during a welcome-home party being given in her...

The Adventures of the Reiki Raccoons are a series of books about twin raccoons, Rachelle and Rocky. Their curiosity and good intentions take them on adventures that teach them about positive energy. When the longest-living member of their village, Grandma Olive, asks them for their help, they find themselves on an adventure they had dreamed of all of their lives.

The Reiki raccoons, Rachelle and Rocky, are asked to help bring balance and peace to mother Earth, by a beautiful angel. She asks them to take a journey to the planet behind the sun to find the knowledge. The mission is on when their eagle friend, Zenith, responds to their call for help. Together, the three friends embark on another adventure.

December 1970: A young woman is murdered in a motel on the outskirts of St. Louis. In an attempt to cover his tracks, her murderer sets her room on fire and the unsolved case becomes known as Twenty-One. Coincidentally, Clara Carson was loaned to the St. Louis police in one of her first criminal profiling assignments, but the case remained unsolved, languishing in the police department cold case files. December 1994: The death of a Berkeley professor during rush hour in San Francisco is ruled an apparent suicide. After their last case, Jack and Clara recovering from their injuries at Eva's ...

Hey there—Todd and Jackie here! Welcome to In the Groove with Todd and Jackie, where good vibes meet great conversations and changemakers take center stage. As co-hosts, we bring our unique experiences—Todd as a Life Mastery Consultant and Marine veteran, and Jackie as a TEDx speaker and trauma-to-victory coach—into every episode to create a space where voices are amplified, and stories spark transformation. Each week, we sit down with purpose-driven people—authors, entrepreneurs, educators, community builders, and everyday heroes—who are making a difference in the world. You’ll ...

Alan E Bailey, author of The Alexander Saga and The Midtown Murder Mysteries, shares memories of growing up and coming of age as a relatively gender fluid and willfully naive child in a freakishly large Southern Baptist family during the Baby Boom, college and dating issues during the seventies and eighties, travels with his mother, and struggles in his 50s and 60s to stay current in a ever-changing adult world. This collection of situational adult humor tells the stories that could not be included in the PG-rated Alexander Saga, including what remains his most embarrassing moment - at ...

A Midtown Murder Mystery. Kansas City police detective and psychic profiler, Clara Carson, and the unlikely detective, Jack Jackson, join forces again in solving their third murder mystery. July, 1992. A woman called the "Witch of Washington Avenue" is mysteriously murdered on the front porch of her decaying mansion, in full view of the passing Fourth of July parade and its spectators. Her spinster daughter, the only possible suspect, is taken away in handcuffs. Although Jack and Clara watch the parade from across the street, they see nothing. Even the photographs Clara take offer no clues....

1945: The story continues as the next generation, Myrtha's and Louie G's children, adjust to a new world order that is both exciting and terrifying. Ernest, newly released from the Navy, confronts bigotry in his home state of Texas and struggles to settle into a life that is expected of him but cannot make him happy. Rose is determined to be the perfect wife and mother in a world that is coming apart at the seams. Carolyn, unsure of her future, leaves San Francisco to wait for her husband to return home. Dolores begins her career in a business world that wants her to go back home and stay ...

During the booming 1920s Dianne Dameron was the privileged daughter of a real estate heiress and a dynamic builder of homes for the wealthy. But in 1935 her mother's fortune is gone while her warehouses stand empty, and the small house Dianne's father is building is his last contract. At the age of 25 and with no prospects, Dianne is facing the reality of a long and lonely spinsterhood in the shadows of her parents' decaying mansion until an intense stranger with freshly shined shoes and polished manners begs her father for work; any work. Dianne finds herself irresistibly drawn to this ...

A body buried for decades is discovered in the rose garden of the old Bradley House. Since the suicide of the last member of the family almost thirty years ago, the decaying old mansion has been unoccupied - mostly. Although there is evidence of bizarre blood rituals in the basement, Jack and Clara lack the evidence to prove their case, although they know the coroner's conclusion is wrong. Frustrated and discouraged, Jack leaves town and the group of friends unravels painfully. Will they see the overlooked clue that can lead them to the killer? Will that path end with fatal consequences?

A battered strongbox, rescued from a trash pile after the death of the real-life Myrtha, is crammed full with letters, postcards, and photographs she saved over a lifetime. Starting with the missive from Walt that changed her heart, these letters follow Myrtha through courtship and the early years of marriage, seeing her family scatter during the Great Depression, the excitement of the war years and the exuberance of the decades that follow. The author shares this treasure so readers can better know the woman and family they have come to love. A supplement to "The Alexander Saga."

Four sisters, two wars, one epidemic, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. Beginning in rural Missouri in 1911 and ending in San Francisco during the final days of World War II, this is the story of the four Alexander sisters, all with very different lives. They are the granddaughters of first settlers of the Missouri wilderness and daughters of an iron-willed woman who buried four of her five children before the sisters were born. The eldest sister is a practical and outgoing business woman. Second is the beautiful, selfish and self-righteous farm wife. Third is the main ...