Larian's comrade-in-arms and friend, Jiles, received a family heirloom in the mail: a pendant from his deceased grandfather. Then he lost it during a night of liberty in Mirasol, a town near their Company's camp. Larian agrees to help Jiles find his lost heirloom. Their search brings them into the heart of Mirasol's underworld, where they encounter dangers they did not expect during a simple night of liberty. Grandfather's Pendant is a 8,300 word novelette, and is the fourth of Larian's adventures. His earlier adventures are chronicled in Michael Kingswood's earlier stories: How NOT To Rescue A Damsel In Distress, Measuring Up, and First Blood.

Jamie's adventure begins with his summer holiday at Aunt Jane's Flamingo Pink cottage and the 'Twist of a Key' in an old wooden Grandfather's Clock. He can't believe he is faced with the 'Challenge of Chime' or the doom that will come if he does not complete all the challenges ahead of him successfully. Jamie delights in meeting his new friends especially the Time-Keeper who explains how he is the 'Chosen Guest' in their Enchanted Land. The evil Time-Taker has quite a different plan and is determined to see Jamie fail his mission. He plots to take the Crown of Cogs from the Time-Keeper and will not tolerate any child getting in his way.

After a terrible first day of sixth grade at his new middle school, Ryan Evans's life takes a dramatic turn when he comes home to discover a shocking family secret. Ryan's grandfather, whose very existence has been kept from him, has died. As if that weren't enough, he learns that his grandfather was a native Shaman. In ancient times, Shamans were believed to possess special powers. Ryan's grandfather has left him a mysterious pendant and a cryptic letter that reads, "Keep it close to you when you sleep and it will help you realize who you truly are and all that you are capable of achieving." As the mystery of the pendant begins to unravel, Ryan comes to understand the ramifications of his grandfather's gift and its true meaning. During the day Ryan contends with typical sixth grade concerns: bullies, an angry teacher, and worried parents. But at night Ryan journeys into a strange dreamworld where dark spirits have invaded the land of the Meono tribe. Ryan must overcome his fears to help his friends, Oni, Roli, and the rest of the Meono tribe, put an end to the devastation inflicted by the shadow creatures that are destroying their world. Will Ryan defeat these evil spirits before the Tri-Lunar Eclipse-and fulfill his true destiny?

Within a desert landscape lies a mystery of a cursed past, a young man’s destiny, and a beautiful ghost horse. On the Punta Prieta coastline, along the blue waters of the Sea of Cortez, there is a centuries-old legend of a Spanish nobleman whose ship ran aground. In a mutiny by the impoverished crew, he and his prized possession, a beautiful, fiery Azulejo horse, are brutally murdered. Yet before the nobleman draws his last breath, a curse sounds forth from his dying lips that will echo throughout the generations... As a young man, Donato Perry comes to live with his great-great-grandfather, Don Tomas, on his desert ranch in Baja, Mexico. It is there that he learns to become a seasoned vaquero and seeks to capture a wild azulejo horse, the only horse, it is said, of its kind. But when Donato becomes heir to a precious treasure, he finds himself caught in the curse that must finally be played out and a love that must be won. When author Victoria Auberon was four, her father, a British explorer, took her to live in Baja, California. Many of the characters in My Grandfather’s Horses are based upon real animals she knew in her childhood. From age thirteen to fifteen, Victoria spent three years handling horses on the uninhabited island of Cerralvo, in the Sea of Cortez. As an adult, Victoria has managed horse farms in several states as well as having owned, bred, and trained her own Arabian Horses in the USA.

A Choice to Cheerish During a cold Montana Christmas, Alan cuts down and decorates a Christmas tree for himself and his dying grandfather, George. As his present, Alan may choose one of eight keepsakes of his grandfathers. Yet before he can choose, he must read a story George wrote about each keepsake. Through these stories, Alan learns the secrets of his grandfather's life. The Snowflake Christmas 1897. Ellen Pierce and her brother are determined to reach the Alaska gold rush. But when ice stalls their steamship, all seems lost, until Buck Lewis makes a decision: he'll lead all who dare to follow on foot toward Dawson City. Buck is determined to leave behind a heartbreaking past. No amount of ice or weather will stop him. But he never counted on a woman joining a dangerous wilderness trek--or on falling in love with her. As their journey unfolds and Christmas approaches, Ellen and Buck discover that the greatest gift of all can't be wrapped in paper and tied with a bow. It comes from, and is received in, the heart. Come share in a soul-deep romance that gives a joyful reminder of a redeeming God who makes us each unique, yet loves us all the same. The Angel of Bastogne In the tradition of It's a Wonderful Life and John Grisham's Skipping Christmas… Newspaper reporter Ben Raines is a full-fledged cynic trying to bypass what he feels is the least wonderful time of the year-Christmas. But his plan to escape on a dream vacation overseas is foiled when the boss assigns him to write the annual front-page

"James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such clarity and compassion. There's suspense and beauty on every page . . ." --Andrei Codrescu Flight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, offers up an intimate portrait both of his insular hometown and his generation's counterculture. Flight runs as a theme throughout the book, which begins with Nolan's escape from the gothic mental hospital to which his parents committed the teenaged poet during the tumult of 1968. This breakout is followed by the self-styled revolutionary's hair-raising flight from a Guatemalan jail, and years later, by the author's bolt from China, where he ditched his teaching position and collectivist ideals. These Houdini-like feats foreshadow a more recent one, how he dodged biblical floods in a stolen school bus three days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Nolan traces these flight patterns to those of his French ancestors who fled to New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century, established a tobacco business in the French Quarter, and kept the old country alive in their Creole demimonde. The writer describes the eccentric Seventh Ward menagerie of the extended family in which he grew up, his early flirtation with extremist politics, and a strong bond with his freewheeling grandfather, a gentleman from the Gilded Age. Nolan's quest for his own freedom takes him to the flower-powered, gender-bending San Francisco of the sixties and seventies, as well as to an expatriate life in Spain during the heady years of that nation's transition to democracy. Like the prodigal son, he eventually returns home to live in the French Quarter, around the corner from where his grandmother grew up, only to struggle through the aftermath of Katrina and the city's resurrection. Many of these stories are entwined with the commentaries of a wry flaneur, addressing such subjects as the nuances of race in New Orleans, the Disneyfication of the French Quarter, the numbing anomie of digital technology and globalization, the challenges of caring for aging parents, Creole funeral traditions, how to make a soul-searing gumbo, and what it really means to belong.

Mystery India, there are many unknown things, perhaps you have heard of "baby water burial", also heard of "child marriage", or "killing a girl," etc., but you do not know that the Indian folk have a very magical thing called "baby god".

The most powerful shaman of the People of the Bear Mother invites a young woman to take her soul's great adventure by painting a new piece of animal art on the walls in the deepest chambers of the awesome Great Cave. The time has come for Little Bear to make the life-altering choice to overcome her fear of the terrifying old shaman, and in doing so, unalterably change all the lives her soul will subsequently experience even as her "lion eye" reappears in each lifetime to identify her avatar. But before she may embark on her hero's journey, she must be initiated as hunter and then as Seer through trials, ordeals, and the revelations of her people's mythology expressed in the art of the Cave. The tale builds to an unexpected climax as one soul experiences many lifetimes in a hunting culture where being born female or male, homosexual or heterosexual, young or old are equally valid ways of being human. Inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell and the artwork of France's 35,000-yearold Chauvet Cave, the novel takes a fresh look at, and is a new take on, the life-ways and religion of our earliest ancestors through Little Bear's encounters with shamans, hunters, avatars, and painted caves. This story reveals that the spiritual messages hidden within this magnificent, incredibly ancient art are the same metaphysical beliefs of the New Age and the same universal human truths at the heart of every world religion and mystical philosophy. 2011 Book Competition Finalist Awards: USA Best Book Awards for New Age Fiction; IBA for Chick Lit-Women's Fiction; IBA for Gay-Lesbian Fiction.

He inadvertently obtained an ancient medical book, practiced the extraordinary medical skills, then rescued many sick beauty. By chance, he came into possession of an old medical book, which contained all sorts of difficult diseases. Originally uninterested in life, he began to study the book. As soon as he learned a little bit of knowledge, he saved a beautiful woman's life. It seems that this is a divine book! He studied harder, hoping to use this magical medicine to help more people. Among the girls he had rescued, the most troublesome was a beauty who has deadly poison in her body. After curing her, she chased him and wanted to be his girlfriend! Although he refused many times, deep down his heart, he has begun to quietly love her. He said to himself, "if she confesses it one more time, I'll be her boyfriend. " ☆About the Author☆ Mo Dao Bu Xiao Hun, an outstanding author of online novels. His novels have unique ingenuity, ups and downs, and humorous language.

A Metaphysical Odyssey:The True Story of a Thunderbird Medicine Woman.It is the story of Grandfather, Little Hawk and Desert Wolf. It is a true story of romantic passion, drama,adventure, learning, and mystery. It is a story for all ages.Grandfather Thundering Elk says, " A good story, upon hearing it, has the ability to heal..."