Stephen Michael: 214 books

Craig McNair, following the devastation of divorce is peacefully trying to rebuild his life, and is beginning to realize his dreams. Leaving a life of construction behind, he has opened an outdoors shop and marina along the St. Johns River. Craig has also come to believe that he may indeed be able...

The Surprising Story of Hedy Lamarr, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" As a teenage actress in 1920s Austria, performing on the stage and in film in light comedies and musicals, Hedy Kiesler, with her exotic beauty, was heralded across Europe by her mentor, Max Reinhardt. However,...

The internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal has been a star on stage, film, and television for nearly sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, for which she won the very first Tony Award, and The Miracle Worker. In Hollywood...

Gloria Swanson defined what it meant to be a movie star, but her unforgettable role in Sunset Boulevard overshadowed the true story of her life. Now Stephen Michael Shearer sets the record straight in the first in-depth biography of the film legend. Swanson was Hollywood's first successful...

The Christmas Crusader is the story of a tiny squirrel named Pearl, telling her true life struggle to survive and how a squirrel learns to be a member of a family. As she grows Pearl receives a magical assignment and discovers the wonders of Christmas. Pearl’s tale of survival and her imaginative...

Figaro and Rumba are best friends. Figaro is a dog who loves to run like the wind. And Rumba is a cat who once sang and danced in Cuba. When they catch the Very Fast Train that goes all the way to the beach, they meet a cunning crocodile with conga drums and an elegant satin waistcoat. Surely...

What if I told you- you could triple your speaking engagements, build more viable speaking career and get people to want to hear you speak over and over again even if they have to pay for it?It doesn’t matter if you’re just starting out as a newbie speaker or you have already been up to six...

Kendra Cartwright longed to find a new center for her life without falling into the pit of self-destruction. She was twenty-six and totally lost. Everything Kendra loved and dreamed was taken from her…all a result of harsh fates not of her seeding. She held tightly to one small glimmer of...

Sometimes Love is in Another Place They were as far apart as a man standing on a beach is from the moon, and like the moon he could see her luminosity, yet she possessed no perception of the man on the beach or the tides within him she influenced. Anna Holloway is a Star at the highest...

A Hunt for Unfathomable Treasures Leads to Appalling Treachery CIA Deputy Director Warren Jumper uncovers an outlandish Jihadist plot to finance their next 9/11. Their plan, find hidden Pirate Treasure along the banks of the St Johns River in Florida. The basis of the extremist’s blueprint...

The Demon of the Southwest Wind is a true story. Combining true crime and memoir, it describes one man's quest to find the truth to one of crime's most enduring mysteries: who was the Zodiac Killer, what crimes did he commit, and why did he do what he did? In the course of the investigation, the author...

It is 1953 in rural Ontario, and a 5-year-old boys cheeks are wet with drool. His eyes are focused on his red-faced father. Soon, his fathers words are not relevant, for the young man has already received the only message that matters: this day will not be scored as a no-hitter. The boy, who...

Figaro and Rumba are old friends. And their new friends are the cats who run the Cool Cats Cafe. Customers come from everywhere to try their chicken empanadas, and to swoon beneath the spell of their singing and steel guitars. But the Cool Cats top singer can't rehearse while Figaro is howling...

"Worship outside the Music Box" calls for Christians to set aside personal preferences, to welcome different musical and liturgical genres, to learn from each other about what pleases God, and to model His love for a multiethnic, multicultural congregation of believers. The importance of...