Derek E Miller: 6 books

Four authors. Twelve stories. Another writing session with only the unknown before them.In the pages of Beyond the Door Volume 2 can be found stories about:a dangerous beauty seeking revengethe power of wordsan alien invasionespionage during the Civil Warfraternity hazing with a dangerous...

A mystified archeologist, an Amish ghost, and avenging angels are just a few of the stories found in Beyond the Door, Volume 1, a twelve-story supernatural anthology.When multi-published authors get together for a play date, and are presented with a writing challenge they can't resist, the results...

Detroit's mean streets. Two orphaned boys. The beginning of a life of crime. An elderly Japanese grandmother fights for her grandson's life with her only weapons - good food, tough love, and a forbidden diary. Eleven year old Mu-Chan learns the meaning of true courage when he and his friend, Johnathan, discover the stirring words of his kamikaze grandfather, a man who chose to live.

During World War II a top secret battalion made up of magicians, actors, and artists saved over thirty-thousand lives without firing a single shot. They were known as The Ghost Army. In 2014 the battalion saves one more life when an unlikely friendship with a surviving veteran pulls a troubled teen from the edge of self-destruction.

Secret diary. War-torn country. Incredible courage. Seventeen-year-old Owen Petrov expects to be bored out of his mind when he has to accompany his immigrant grandmother back to Russia for a reunion. He is polite, but counts the hours until he can return to his comfortable suburban life back...

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...