Small things do not necessarily mean insignificant things. If you move the decimal in your checking account, you will see exactly what I mean. This book is about change. How change "adds up"; change in a small thing or idea under the initial conditions, morphs into a much different thing or idea as time passes. Change is not an option, it is a constant. However, how we choose to deal with change - is an option. If we could change ourselves into a perfect human being, would we? Even more, would we allow a perfect human being to exist? Would we resist that change? Read the book and find out.

This book is a world of ideas. The foremost idea is a simple one. Pure love will always be thwarted. Most of us can learn to love others, and forgive them their sins. It is much more difficult to forgive or love ourselves, without resorting to conceit or even narcissism. Most of us know how to love, but we find it difficult to learn; how to be loved. We are not taught that we are as worthy of love as the one we are showering our love on. What if someone came back to life, and showed us how to love ourselves fully? What if that someone was human? Truly human. Would we listen? Would we search for explanations ? Would we reject what our senses are telling us? Would we cower in fear? Attack with hate? If you read Translated, you will find out some ways that folks might react to love. In the End, it is really all about love. The meaning of life is love - love does not give your life meaning. Enjoy the book. Read it once for the story, then, read it again for the meaning. Then let me know what it meant to you!

Vostok Station, the coldest recorded place on earth, a Russian research facility deep in Antarctica that sits on a dome of ice over 5000 feet deep. A place unique not just because of record cold temperatures but because of what lies beneath the ice, Lake Vostok, a fluid mass larger than Lake Ontario, nearly 2000 feet deep. Renegade Russian and Chinese scientists drill through the ice into the lake, discovering a secret that has been trapped there for millions of years. Compressed by trillions of tons of ice, the lake water is saturated in oxygen and explosive natural gasses. When exposed to low atmospheres, the water instantly boils into gas. Beneath that mix, the earth's crust, stretched by the huge mass of lake and ice, has laid bare the world's largest oil and gas reserve, held in check only by the weight above.

The discovery begins a chain of events that spiral into the biggest massing of military forces seen since the Second World War. And then the unthinkable happens. A blinding flash of light and an enormous electro magnetic pulse rips out from the northeast end of the lake, sealing off Vostok from the rest of the world. The Russians and Chinese blame the U.S.

The event triggers a military race to claim the ice. Amidst this, two brothers, Brian and Lance Hamilton find themselves dragged into the unfolding nightmare.

Colonel Brian Hamilton caught in the electro magnetic pulse, witnesses the annihilation of the Vostok research station from a cruise missile strike and the ignition of the wellhead that begins a count down to dooms day. His escape from the ice centre and pursuing Spetznaz forces enables him to warn the coalition of the approaching Armageddon.

With the entire Antarctic sealed off to the Australian and US forces, it is up to Squadron Leader Lance Hamilton to devise a strategy that will get him and his Pig, the venerable F111, close enough to extinguish the flame. The burning well head quickly creates a hole over four hundred meters wide which rapidly sinks towards the lake of oil and gas below.

"Within 72 hours, the ice will blow out and the lake will explode. Within minutes, the entire ice dome, over a thousand square kilometres of ice, 5000 feet thick, will collapse, throwing the contents of the lake tens of thousands of meters in the air. This is an extinction event. We will all either burn, suffocate, be killed by the resulting shockwave or drown in the biggest tsunami the earth has experienced since the last big meteor wiped out the dinosaurs. We have 72 hours to put the flame out or we are all very dead!" -Dr. Alexander Blake, RosenBridge Foundation.

In a growing conflict that debuts weaponry never utilized in battle before, the Russians, Chinese, Australian and US forces punch it out on the ice and Southern Ocean, each believing they are fighting the just cause. But for all of them, the ticking bomb at the end of the Earth threatens the extinction of all life. Brian and Lance Hamilton find themselves flung together in a desperate last minute attempt to avert a catastrophe of biblical proportions.

Captain Saul Craddock piloting a battered old space freighter, discovers his brother is in charge of the Galaxy Police on a 'hunt to kill' mission, and he is their quarry.

Labelled 'Enemy of the Galaxy' by the G.P. for five years of spatial piracy, Craddock fights two enemies, the Galaxy Police, and his ex-employer the mighty Star-Link space shipping line.

Seeking the extra crew he needs in an insane effort to rid Sector Two of the imagined evils he sees lying there, he is suddenly confronted with a simple truth, and everything changes.

Determined to get back into good standing in society by making amends for his evil past, Craddock faces a daunting task.

Visiting Earth in his quest, he suddenly finds himself betrayed by a politician, arrested by the police, and embroiled in a war. Unaware that he is taking sides, Captain Craddock rescues the beautiful Jeelepala from a burning helicopter of the New Liberation Army rebels. Love is in the air; however, this could be his biggest mistake, for she will kill him if she ever finds out who he really is!

Despite all odds, he manages to win acceptance back into civilised society.

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As the title suggests, this book is a collection of clean horror short stories, a spellbinding volume of tales to bewitch the young teenager's mind.

The Dark Realm is an enchanting saga which takes the reader through the nooks and crannies of a new world, where horror lurks behind every corner, waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting soul. Orange glows light up the sky, creatures wait hidden in the darkness, ready for the kill. Can you escape from this web of tangled mystery?

Cameras play with the human mind, bewitching the senses and changin personalities. Ancient Egyptian artifacts promise to protect you, but what happens when you accidentally harm them? Deja vu takes hold of you and the wrath of witches in unleased as you enter The Dark Realm and Other Short Stories...

A passionate story of life and of death and the tangled web that binds one to the other, told through the eyes of a dying man to the only woman who can share his torment.

In the nineteenth century, William Jude Gregor trekked to the South American jungle and beyond, returned home and left one seed - the promise of immortality. Then he disappeared. A century and a half later, big business kills for Gregor's seed, steals the new drug and the cure for mankind's ultimate affliction.

With the help of Andean shamans, a pharmaceutical research team finds the source of the seed and her ancient keeper. The keeper, however, is no ordinary man and the organism that produces the seed, no ordinary plant.

Beginning with murder at Whistler Mountain to London to Bolivia then back to North America, the seed weaves a path of deception and betrayal, spreading her predatory grasp to a new snowy peak.

After thirty years of war with the Planetary Empire, the Kasna Republik has beaten their enemy back and an age of peace is expected. The Empire is in shambles and they are attacking shipping lines, some say their people are starving, others who have long fought the Empire, believe they are not in as dire straits as they seem.

WAR...

But when a Kasna Senator is caught in an imperial plot to destroy the homeworld of the Kasna, the war that was supposed to be over, starts anew, led by a mysterious and powerful woman called Lady Pmac. The Empire strikes with more fury than in years past and the Kasna Republik begins to fall.

HOPE...

But there is a sliver of hope for the Kasna. A belief: should Lady Pmac be killed, the tables of war might be turned. A plot is hatched by an ancient and powerful Kalek warrior, Vong Kidfar, and a force is sent to a distant world called Etar. A world where Lady Pmac has taken to hiding, as the war worsens.

DESTINY...

But in this attempt to turn the tide of war, Vong and his companions will face the awakening of great destinies... and for the hope of a brighter future. All that Vong holds dear may be sacrificed, so that one end, might herald a bright new beginning...

The story follows four teams of paired species as they go to the first games celebrating interspecies cooperation. They're so different the teams couldn't even survive on each other's worlds. Yet each pair has private reasons for competing, hidden agendas that make the stakes incredibly high. And where the stakes are high, there are forces that will stop at nothing to keep them from competing.

Have you ever wanted to change destiny? The new destiny is woven thread by thread. Out of the jungle, the cavern, the sea and the plain come the weavers. The new destiny begins here.

Dance of the Sacred Spiral of Life is the Apprenticeship of an Immortal set within a visionary fiction fantasy story. It is a metaphoric journey of a lowly creature who becomes an adept of the Mysteries under the guardianship and stewardship of a Master. Under formidable and challenging circumstances, this creature makes contact with the unparalleled powers of The Sacred Sea Dragons of the Void during the Dance of the Sacred Spiral of Life, a sacred ceremony of spring, in which the Divine Mother Goddess and Father God of Creation are celebrated. Suffering from the brutal disorientation of such a major upheaval, the adept is brought back to consciousness by a Priestess of the Temples of the Goddess of the Sea, who assists in his healing with the help of a Grand Master Wizard. The adept then reclaims his memories and extraordinary abilities comparable to The Original Ancestry of the Gods.

Falling in love with the Priestess he first met, Godson must deal with the pain of his unrequited passions. During The Final Reckoning, Godson must come before the raging forces of Darkness, a time foreshadowed by the Prophecies of old, and meet with his brother, Nabyss, the greatest Taskmaster of Evil the world has ever known. Only then will Godson and the rest of The Kingdom of Oceana come to know who will walk away a crowned god!

Several science projects are in the works to be used to take over an alien planet. Geoffery Scott, the genius of the main project, has to decide whether or not to abandon his "Life Force Project". When Geoff is nearly killed, he's hidden out on the alien planet and discovers the planned takeover.

Socrates was a very strange child. His lonely existence as a child translated directly to a solitary life as an adult. His only chance at a meaningful existence was to create and enter a cyber utopia. To make his cyber utopia feel real he discovered a way to capture human essences and insert them into this world. Upon entering his cyber world he became trapped and was destined to an eternity in a cyber hell of his creation.

The Tapping Wand follows the exploits of two denizens of the land of Æthos, Matoen and Ashula. Matoen, an aging scholar desperate to make a discovery that will win him eternal fame, has spent the latter part of his life futilely searching through old scrolls and books for a timeless finding. Ashula, his young apprentice, worries about his health and well-being. She tries everything she can to get his body out of their cottage and his mind out of its obsession.

After one fateful trip to town, Matoen begins to have dreams which speak in dead languages; dreams which lead them on a quest to find something...something important ...something powerful. What they find is the Scepter of Life, more commonly known as the Tapping Wand. Forged by an extinct people for their greatest king, the Tapping Wand is a mighty artifact able to siphon the life-force from one being to another. Matoen realizes that this is the greatest find that he, or anyone else, has ever made.

However, was the Tapping Wand ever meant to be found?

Doctor Joyce Barnhardt, a highly respected organ transplant researcher, is made aware of an accident victim's death and autopsy that reveals the patient had recently received numerous organ transplants that showed no sign of rejection. She begins a search for the answers to this seemingly impossible surgery. Her search leads her to Seattle, Washington where she meets and falls in love with an ex-marine, Rick Marks, who is following the patient's death for life insurance reasons.

Her quest for answers leads her to "Brothers Hospital" in Miami where she gains more insight into the medical procedures and suspects the hospital is involved in criminal activities. Ultimately, she is taken to a Bahamian Island, where she is imprisoned and forced to aid Dr. Sevorski in his procedures that "program" young kidnap victim's organs to be transplanted to the very rich and powerful patients at the Brothers Hospital. Doctor Sevorski refers to his research laboratory as "The Garden".

Finally, Rich Marks and law enforcement discover the entire criminal scheme that not only involves organ transplants but heroin smuggling. Dr. Barnhardt is rescued from the island, but mad Dr. Sevorski escapes to begin further work in South America.