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A small-town boy going through teenage angst escapes from his home after his first year of college. He joins the Navy to see the world, and, most of all, live his dream of working with computers. His first years after school are filled with decisions made to escape life's tedious realities. Each change he makes only results in unhappiness until he realizes that most of the problem lies with him, with his mindset. He gets out of the Navy, returns home, and settles down, overcoming romantic setbacks and a criminal investigation while building a business that supports himself, his family, and ...

On a dark and lonesome night, a meteor that wasn't crashes to earth on a grieving man's land deep in the Arkansas mountains. Hunting the remains afterward, he finds more than expected and spends years investigating his find and changing the Earth. Along the way, his grief heals and he becomes revered to humanity, helping lift us from Earth to the stars. He finds love, knowledge and new friends along the way while building the empire of man in the heavens and on Earth.

Penny and Jubal return to Eagle in their new personas of Jean and Warren, claiming to have inherited their old home. They resume their life in the new persona, and the adventure continues. Paddy and Lana initiate change in the world when he uses his magic to build the first electric vehicle. This invention changes the automotive industry, indeed, the whole economy. Unions and the government become involved, leading to problems for everyone. They navigate through a split in the time stream and, with their family, become deeply involved in changing the world.

Penny, a young wizard in 2027, searches for a new home. She wants to live in a sparsely populated area with friendly people, clean air, hills, and streams. While searching for a new home away from the hustle and bustle of modern-day USA, she meets a young man who claims he cannot return home. Taking him under her wing, she discovers a time anomaly, and when she takes him home, she is stranded in 1913. His hometown is exactly what she was searching for, and she builds her new life in the small town, raising her family and living the good life. Two world wars and 40 years later, Penny and her...

Tom Porter was a burned out young National Guard Warrant Officer when he moved to Tooterville in search of peace and quiet. He makes his living taking short tours of active duty for the Guard and is looking for a home and a job to provide income after he retires. He makes friends in the small town and finds the love of his life in the small house next door. His adventures and life in Tooterville make him realize he has found his home and a secure income stream for his retirement.

In the long awaited book 6 of the popular series "The Wizards" Elroy and Dawna are flying down the river looking for a place to camp and unwind when they see a glistening object on the riverbank. Investigation shows it to be an aluminum canoe. Further investigation reveals Dawna's brother, long thought to be dead on Earth, living on the riverbank. After a joyful reunion they take him home and teach him the intricacies of being a wizard. He adapts and after conquering his teen age angst Doyle fits into the community where he finds love and his niche on this new world. He adapts Warren's ...

Young Garret Mans started his adult life as did many young men. He wasn’t sure what he really wanted to do with his life but he did know he didn’t want to work at something he didn’t enjoy. He became known as a Ne’er do well around town because of his proclivity to hunt, fish, and work just enough to have a minimum amount of spending money. His grandfather finally got through to him and he began, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, to settle down and find a career. He found he liked to be thought of as a ne’er do well or, in country speak, a good ole boy and encouraged those...

In book 5 of the popular Wizards series two new World Walkers appear. Elroy and his wife Dawna are trying to find their way in the strange world they find themselves in when they meet Warren the Wizard and, through him, more of the World Walkers. The old hands teach them wizardry and help them find a place in their new world. They overcome their sorrows and many obstacles before settling into a new home to begin their life as wizards, helping their new friends build a better world.

Bob was a soldier, a man who cared for his family, his fellow soldiers, friends and companions. He was also somewhat of an idealist and ethically above reproach. He believed in live and let live but was an implacable foe if you tried to force your belief or way of life onto him or others. Unknown to him, he was selected to be one of many World Walkers, some of whom spread throughout the history of the world. After his first transfer to another world, Bob discovers a startling fact. Not only is he a World Walker but he is a wizard. Native Americans revere him as the Great Shaman. This story ...

Three short stories about five young people find themselves moved from Earth to other worlds where, to their surprise they find magic exists and actually works! Much of what the locals call magic is actually what we of Earth call science but it works and allows these young people to live and prosper in their new home. In “Transplanted Wizard”s, our young gamers, nerds or geeks all, are driving home from a gaming session when, somehow, they are transferred to a world with two moons. Unable to return home, they discover the magic they ‘learned’ in their games allows them to work and ...

Another tale of magic and intrigue from the Master storyteller James Maness. Obed, a young wizard, has achieved Master level and is sent out into the world to practice his magic. Inexperienced, he runs afoul of the rich merchants in his first hometown and, after a destructive fight decides to move on in hopes of finding a new more pleasant home. During his travels he encounters and fights dragons, brigands, greedy nobles and corruption. By chance, he encounters other wizards known as World Walkers who welcome him into their group. They fight corrupt merchants and greedy usurpers to the ...

PROLOGUE Three short stories by a master storyteller. In “The Bet” two college students bet a third one they can survive and thrive without handouts or assistance from the government. They succeed and thrive, winning their bet and becoming famous and well to do over time. In “Building A Dream” a young engineer was spending the night in his family cabin when, somehow, he was transported back in time to 1873. He rescues an Indian woman from a bear, an uptime woman from brigands and a third one from her husbands murderer. As they live their lives together they introduce modern ...

Bob, the first known World Walker who can move between worlds voluntarily, is unhappy with his current iteration of Earth. He decides to move to another Earth in search of happiness. He settles his affairs on his current world and moves to the new world, where he settles in and makes changes that change the world's history drastically. Discovering he needs help, he returns to his prior world and recruits other World Walkers. Together, they guide the people of North America to a brighter future while holding the European nations who want to colonize North America at bay.

In the near future terrorism and smuggling continue to increase. The U.S.Air Force is authorized to interdict and escort every incoming flight to a port of entry. If the planes do not follow instructions, they are authorized to shoot them down. One such interdiction mission results in the downing of a bona fide UFO. Almost overnight the United States and world obtain technology that allows them to expand to the stars. The search then begins for the home world of the aliens who sent the ship to Earth. Finally, years later, an intrepid team of young Space Force members crack the computers in ...

An eighty-year-old man returns to his childhood hometown for what he believes to be the final time. His trip down memory lane ends with a fall that is similar to one he took when he was four years old. Like before, he awakens in a hospital after the fall. Has he died? Is his life passing in front of his eyes while being judged? The hospital, people, and even his home and small body are just as he remembered them so many years before. Join Tim as he takes his second trip through life and breathes new life into a dead village.

Jerrod was and is an enigma. He was a gifted metalworker, a talented cabinet maker and finish carpenter. Additionally he had gone to college and become a brilliant engineer. His future could have been one of moneyed leisure had he applied himself. Instead now he lived in a small town making a mediocre income. While in high school and just after he had taken almost every welding course he could find and became certified to weld everything from basic steel to aluminum to stainless steel, even cast iron. He worked part time for many fabrication plants to make money to pay his college tuition. ...

Ninety-three year old Garrett Belvedere, a retired aerospace engineer was wiling away the remainder of his life in an assisted living facility when he was offered the chance of a lifetime, a chance to return to work and be useful once again. With some trepidation he agreed to take the newly offered position, a position that could result in his death or a chance to live years longer. His job? Allow himself to be transported to a new colony world where, if he lived, he would be young again. After riots and world upheaval on Earth the colony was abandoned, left alone to survive or not on its ...

Three short poignant love stories written by a master storyteller about farmers who have not fared well in love. Surprisingly they find strong love and companionship where they least expect to do so—right on their farms. Each mans inherent kindness causes women they helped to love them unreservedly. These stories received very high ratings and much praise when first published online. In Wood Nymph, our heroine Sarah is mistreated by men for years beginning with her mother’s boyfriends, then men in foster homes and finally by older men she works for. She ran away from her live in ...

Warren, an out of work computer nerd, was indulging in one of his favorite pastimes--attending a renaissance faire--when, on the spur of the moment (and in desperation), he answers an advertisement for a job as a wizard. Little did he know it was an actual job in an impossible field or that it came with a wife! Within minutes of taking the job he finds himself and his new wife transported to another world where he is thrown into the situation of being resident magician in his new city of residence. Over the course of years he grows into his job and makes his new home a better place. During ...

Heartbroken Peter Walker, saddened by his first love choosing another wizard (The Wizards, Book 10, Gaia's Disciples), discovers how to World Walk and ends up on a new world in British Colonial America. The new world is unlike the one he grew up on or the one Gaia brought him to. Landing in an uncharted wilderness, Pete begins a journey eastward, meeting and befriending many while searching for a permanent home. Wizards are considered by many religious sects to be disciples of the devil. Pete fights those believers and the Governor, finding true love and building a new country in the heart ...