Cypress Publications: 16 books

Karen Davis knows having a positive Attitude is the key to a successful life. A single mother who made positive changes to give her children a better life now shares her secrets and beliefs. “I wrote this book to help people see how simple changes in their Attitude can help them through the rough...

On August 9, 1990, 16-year-old American Jeff Connors enters the lobby of a four-star hotel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, dressed in the dishdasha of an Arab Bedouin, trying to be reunited with his father. He just survived a terror-filled week, the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi army. Jeff has no idea...

The swamps and forest of North Florida are desolate and dark at 1:00 a.m. on a moonless night. Five teenage boys and a girl thread their way down a path and into a pit, using the meager light of matches. At the bottom is an even darker opening, the cave that is the object of their travels. Three of...

After Shawn’s parents die in a plane crash, he goes to Florida to meet a man whom his mother dated when she was a student at Florida State University. He agrees to become Shawn’s guardian.By mistake, Shawn plays in a college football game and becomes an overnight sensation.The remarkably intelligent...

When a Hispanic family is killed in a tragic fire, Peter is scrutinized by the police, and his world makes little sense. His best friend ignores him, and he is lured into the frightening world of a secret militia. Peter becomes an unlikely hero: saving Jerrod and his sister, undermining a second hate-crime, and finding the courage to believe in his convictions.

Sixteen-year-old Peter Grayson and his pal Jerrod rescue a nearly drowned young Hispanic man from raging floodwaters. He refuses to give the boys any clue about the terrible place from which he’s escaped. After leaving their care, Pedro’s body is found floating in the waters of Diablo Creek. The boys’ quest for the truth leads them into a deepening spiral of danger and corruption.

When seventeen-year-old Carter Chamberlain is uprooted from his quiet American life and moved to London, he fears his biggest problem will be boredom. Instead, he is drawn into the sordid world of Irish Republican Army terrorism, while trying to keep his own dysfunctional family intact. Ultimately,...

Grief-stricken following his wife’s death in an automobile accident, former cop and ex-railroad detective Benjamin Reed runs away from the tragedy and becomes a hobo. He drifts around the country until one spring morning near a railroad switching yard in a small South Georgia town he encounters...

Finally, two humanitarian scientists, Drs. Maggie James and Jangbu Tong, have developed the fountain of youth by slightly altering and augmenting a plant growing naturally in northeast Nepal. The properties in the plant have the potential to prevent diseases, even those caused by deadly viruses, improve...

Andie, an up-and-coming investigative journalist, learns that her friend was investigating horrendous war crimes perpetrated by officials within the US administration. It is now up to Andie to expose those responsible for the atrocities. But she is threatened by agents operating under orders from...

Sure-Kill is a fictional memoir depicting the forces of nature and nurture that combine to create a psychopathic personality. By interweaving the past and the present, the narrative shows how a psycho killer can be created by dysfunctional parenting and peer abuse, focusing less on the actual crimes...

Brian Tanner was not pleased when his editor assigned him to interview Shawn Barton, whom he had never heard of. He found Shawn delivering a lecture on theoretical Physics before a large audience. Shawn Barton was far more than a talented jock. One of Shawn’s exploits included making his first movie....

Miranda has a dilemma. She loves Frank, a tall, blond, baseball star. She also loves Lucio, the artist who creates beautiful fantasy paintings on the sidewalks. Frank loves her very much, but Lucio understands Miranda’s heart. She must decide between them while dealing with an alcoholic father, an absentee mother, a grandfather lost in the past, and gang violence.

In 1905, measles ravages a Georgia community, turning neighbor against neighbor. One victim, Luther Smith, is a 29-year old husband and father whose sudden death irrevocably alters the lives of his widow and two young daughters. With no means of support, Leola and her daughters move in with her parents,...