Pharos: 15 books

Book of Cryptic Crosswords - How a compiler thinks

The Prophecies are the key to their survival. Can they solve them in time? Book one of the Portal Prophecies Series, A Keeper's Destiny, follows a group of ancient races who join together with some unlikely teenage heroes.The only clues they have to help them are hidden within predictions contained...

Willow and her friends are back and find themselves under the scrutiny of the magical inhabitants of the main world. Everyone seems to be against them including the directors, the mayor and Keith Quidnunk, the intern journalist for 'The Empowered' newspaper who none of them have ever seen. At the...

"Kim Aleksander's, FALSE POSITIVES: A Techno Thiller, is a well-paced and imaginative page turner that will appeal not only to techno-junkies but to anyone who likes a well-spun yarn... Try it, you'll have fun." ~ The Kindle Book Review In 1972, a gifted student at Berkeley...

What was it that enabled a few thousand “Jesus followers” to win hearts and minds in an empire entrenched with pagan gods and temples? Why did the Jewish authorities continue to persecute the apostles after Jesus? What forced the Jews into a suicidal rebellion against Rome and why did it allow the...

He began life as the sickly son of a landless Polish immigrant. In the next sixty years he was to wrest from the wilderness a thousand acres along Florida's most breathtaking jungle river. At age 25 Vince Nelson "disappeared" up the wild and scenic Loxahatchee to escape the glare of publicity...

Fort Jupiter and the "Military Trail" of garrisons forged in the wild to push the resourceful Seminole Indians deep into the Everglades. How the army built two camps on the Loxahatchee and tried to open the fickle Jupiter Inlet with shovels and rakes. The wreckers of Key West. How they provided the only...

How did a small band of Jesus followers spring from Judaism and expand across the Roman world? What made the Jews rebel against Roman rule despite impossible odds? Why did Rome almost self-destruct just a few years after reaching the height of its glory? At last, history’s least understood era is revealed in this riveting epic.

When Spanish settlers first arrived on the shores of ''La Florida' in 1565, they would soon be immersed in one of the most dramatic struggles in human history. At first Florida seemed so inviting. A virgin tropical wilderness would be settled and cultivated to yield riches rivaling the bounty of gold...

An eclectic collection of Blogs, Articles and Talk Transcripts on Christian themes. Topics range from keeping your faith in the middle of a divorce to honoring your parents, from witnessing like Jesus to giving your time to the Church and from taxes to the environment. Ever suffer from Naked Fear...

A collection of Forever Knight flash fiction stories that were originally written for the online fanzine "Watchers" between late 1995 and early 1997. Is the Devil himself walking the decks at night and what is the mysterious Cargo in the ship's hold? Nick befriends another lost soul while...

In 2012 Alexander Vernick killed his fiance after someone proved she was stealing from him. That person then turned him in and he was arrested and tried. He managed to get off but has spent the better part of a decade looking for the person who ratted on him and he's found him. Now he can have his...

We all know that Life is a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. The thirteen poems in this collection explore those passages. Asking questions about the future, making statements about the present and looking around the corner to the past. Lurking in these passages are such terrible monsters as homicidal felines, blank pages and a premature Christmas.

A quartet of Highlander stories written for the fanzine Highland Blades. Richie Ryan stumbles into an all night café only to find there are worse things than being Immortal. Or is it Tessa that learns that lesson? Connor MacLeod and his new student Ian Andrews are being investigated by a New York...