Hotel Grandee: Tales from the Funny(dark)side. Hotel Grandee, a place where people and food go hand in hand in another dollop of Joe KING’s strange stories from the Tales from the Funny(dark)side series. When Shane Long decides that a weekend break is needed from his humdrum life of drinking, little did he realise that the weekend he was about to go on was going to turn out the way it did? All his adult life, Shane had been a heavy drinker. The problems were not when Shane was sober, because he was normally a gentle giant. The problems came when he drank. Gone was the mild-mannered giant. A monster inside Shane’s mind would transform him into an arrogant, obnoxious ogre, who took great delight in teasing and causing trouble to whomever he came across. Now, aged forty, Shane realises he is never going to find the One by drinking and abusing others. His plan for one last weekend binge on a Greek island would be his last, but as the trip gets underway. Nothing is as it seems. Shane soon finds himself doing something he would never do. Helping a stranger, but it was never going to turn out well, not now he is booked into Hotel Grandee.

The BOG! Tales from the Funny(dark)side: The BOG! is a comedy/horror story with a very different type of entity, which will leave you looking down the toilet before you commit yourself, that is if your sense of humour is up to it! This fun detective story from Joe KING, has plenty of humour/humor to give you something very different to read! A chemical leak has led to a strange creature growing in the sewers, and is now seeking human flesh to reproduce. When people start to go missing in very unusual circumstances, the case is given to detective Mack McKenzie & his new sidekick Steve. Something weird is happening to the people of the city, and they soon realise they will have to go down the sewers to find out what is killing all of them. Will they find out who, and what, is causing them to disappear? Or will it all just get flushed down the pan!

Magnetifico: Tales for the Funny(dark)side. When brothers Tommy and Mick Stone go on a reconciliation weekend to the Welsh valleys, little did they realise that they were going to get caught in the middle of something so out of this World, it is going to change their lives forever. Since childhood, both had gone their separate ways in life. Mike, an academic with a family, children, and a bright future. Tommy, living life on the edge. Going from scam to scam to make ends meet without a care in the world. Neither of them would believe what they would find on that weekend of bonding, and neither would forget the tragic set of circumstances they have now found themselves in the middle of. But what they do not realise is that this mysterious event they have now witnessed, has drawn them into a deadly game of life and death. With changes happening to them, and events happening in the background they have no concept of, they return to their lives thinking they are the only ones who know the truth. How wrong could they have been as this alien contact story leads the brothers on an adventure they will never forget!

A librarian who just came into money dies in a New York hotel room, and justice is overdue: “Full of fun and delightful people. A really terrific plot” (Chicago Daily News). With a seven-hundred-dollar inheritance in her pocket, small town librarian Harriet Bascom went to the track. By the time she left she had thousands—enough to live life the way she had always wanted: with champagne, music, and love. The champagne and music flow freely once she arrives in New York City, but it’s love that brings trouble. When she discovers her beloved has a terrible secret, she makes the mistake of being alone when she confronts him about it—and doesn’t even scream when she dies. Harriet is one of the three thousand women who disappear in New York each year—the women Hildegarde Withers wants to know more about. Unhappily retired, this former elementary school teacher is hungry for action. Investigating Harriet’s case—and the three other ladies who follow her into death—will provide all the action Miss Withers could ever want. Four Lost Ladies is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes The Penguin Pool Murder and Murder on the Blackboard.

The history of Highland began on the shores of the Hudson River in 1754, when entrepreneur Anthony Yelverton started a sawmill, later followed by a brickyard, store, and ferry service to Poughkeepsie. During the 19th century, steamboats made regular stops near Yelvertons settlement. Starting around 1830, riverfront businesses began to relocate to the high land above the river, and a new Highland business district was born. The West Shore Railroad was completed in 1883, with a station at the riverfront. The area was called Highland Landing. The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge, now the Walkway Over the Hudson, was completed in 1888, and in 1897, a trolley line began operation from Highland Landing up to the Highland village and, from there, westward. Highland had a new claim to fame as the Gateway to Ulster County.

When Layton Johnson wakes one morning to find a perfect square of chest hair has been removed in the night, little does he realise that this was the first sign he has been chosen. Layton has been promoted to his dream job and after three months, begins to feel the pressure of being the new Bank Manager. His homelife is suffering and the pressure is mounting but not just from work. His wife Clara wants their new house refurbished and so far, Layton has been working late every night to just cope with his own workload. Suspicions begin to be aroused in Clara and discovering the strange square patch of hair that is now missing on his chest fuels her belief that he is having an affair. She too has no idea what is coming to their once idyllic lives because Layton is about to change, now his body has accepted the first phase in his transformation by a person he never thought he would see again. His father, Frank, has been in the military all Layton’s life. Frank has been an absent father, but what Layton did not know was that his father has been working on reverse engineering Alien technology for the last two decades, and now his son is becoming a new breed of human. Transforming into something so out of this world, it is going to blow Layton’s reality and life apart in this Alien invasion Sci-fi thriller. The Greys have been coming to Earth for over five-thousand years. Plotting, planning, and planting technology to not give the human species a better way to live, but to bring about their demise. When Layton finally puts all the pieces together on why the Greys now want him, and with his future in danger, Layton must now make the ultimate choice. Will he sacrifice his life for the love of his life? Or will Layton accept his fate and do the right thing for all humanity?

Growing up on a council estate and going from being bullied, to the bully, Danny’s life is set to go down one road, prison. Enrolling into the Army should have been the making of him, but after a traumatic event in the middle east, Danny had no idea how vulnerable his mind could be as he tries to tell his story of events that leads him down a rabbit hole of alien abduction and conspiracies he could never have imagined existed. “Hi, my name is Danny Bridges, and I can tell you one thing. Do not believe a word anyone tells you about aliens unless it is, they are real because from what I have just experienced I never thought they could mess up my life like they have. I am the one you see. They want people like me who have that certain extra intelligence like I have. Got me locked up but that is only the half of it as I will try to explain it to you. The world is under threat and these alien geezers want change to come and for people like me, young and prime to do their bidding once they have brainwashed me, but I am not having it. I will fight to the last breath to stop this happening and if I were you, I’d be careful who you trust because they could be knocking on your door next. I thought I was just a nobody once. A council estate lad from Tameworth with nothing more than my streets to get me by. What a joke that is. Why they wanted me I will explain because I am as sane as you guys. I am not a psychopath or multiple personality dood, I am a regular guy going about his life until this alien stuff kicked off as I will explain. We are not alone guys and once you read my account of the events so far, you had better look over your shoulder the next time you think you are being watched. Because you probably are being watched but not by government bods, by Aliens who want to take over your mind as they are trying to take over mine.”

Mindset Matters: The Corner Stone of Sustainable Entrepreneurship By: Chris Ehiobuche Ph.D. & Bright Justus Ph.D. Mindset Matters thinks differently about mindset and its applicability. It argues that mindset is never static, and it could be nurtured in a person, the central theme being everyone has the ability to make the right mindset shifts when and where necessary to achieve the highest level of success in business and in any life endeavor.

The town of Lloyd was first settled in 1754, when Anthony Yelverton brought equipment for a sawmill across the Hudson River. In addition to his sawmill, he built a brickyard and conducted a store in the lower level of his house. The riverfront became the town of Lloyds first business district. This area was later called Highland Landing, for the new village of Highland that developed on the higher ground above the landing. In the 19th century, steamboats carried freight and passengers from Highland to New York City, and ferryboats crossed the Hudson River to Poughkeepsie several times every day. With the completion of the West Shore Railroad in 1883, the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge and the Central New England Railway in 1888, and a trolley line going west in 1897, Highland could rightfully claim that it was the Gateway to Ulster County.