Tom: 4996 books

The time is December, 1837, and the Daly family, Irish immigrants, are struggling to survive on a farm in Upper Canada (as Ontario was then known). The country is in turmoil thanks to exploitation of the poor, land swindles, and the suppression of freedom by the wealthy Tories. One day Old Mr. Moss,...

Jack Toland, 17, has traveled to England with his mother, Cara Peters, who plays “Montana Black” in a well-known TV adventure series. They are to meet Jack’s father, Dr. Charles Toland, a “TV scientist” who has been investigating destructive gold mining practices in Eastern Europe. The family...

For one battle-weary Union spy the Civil War is not over. The bodies of an Army patrol carrying out a secret mission for the president lay in the blood-soaked soil of a remote ravine, victims of an ambush by soldiers of the same Army under the command of a rogue military leader. Union...

Ottawa County, Kansas. The homesteader era. The eastern newspapers of the period promoted the Midwestern frontier as a paradise for settlers. They didn't mention the Indian raids, droughts, grasshopper plagues, and prairie fires that awaited the pioneers. 'Prairie Tapestry' tells the...

It’s late in the year of 1975 and someone isn’t happy with the way their life has turned out and where it might be heading. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but first our guy must go through some trials and tough times before he is able to reach that light. Life is all about making good...

When Argus Kirkham disappears, his older brother Alex returns to the city of his youth to join in the search, but finds himself instead at the edge of a baffling mystery he can neither see nor begin to understand, in this fourth and final re-mix of the Dragon City series.

This is a collection of three stories. The first is about a man and woman dining in a coffee shop enjoying breakfast when an escaping criminal has a shootout with the police. The second short story and longest of the collection is a reimagining of Chiron, the centaur. This short changes the way the...

Dream magic is the most dangerous of magics because it is so difficult to control. Apprentice mage Glimmer—Not a Glimmer of Magic—realizes this when he discovers that his apparent lack of magical talent is because his magic manifests only when he is dreaming. His first attempt at dream magery...

What if someone - or something - stole one of your days? Just one, and you didn't know why, or what they had done with your life in that time? Young Philip Galvez and his friend Marcus Holmes found out for themselves when they decided to discover why there was a giant stuffed moose in a house down the road.

They teased him for being smart, but now they need a hero. Bryan Matthews, tall, gangly, and shy teamed up with Jimmy Garcia, the short class comedian, to start a computer club at their middle school. They named themselves The Brain Trust Computer Club, but the kids at school just call then...

Alexander Patterson, head of Project Z, a US government organization hidden from the world under a lonely stretch of Texan desert, discovers a secret is not safe -- a dark and dirty secret. Only two people in the world know that the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy was no accident. But on a computer...

This is a travel story of a solo sail to Cuba and Mexico with the goal of climbing the highest peak of each country."N/A is now anchored in the Sarasota Bay and fully stocked for the long voyage. The sailing machine needs to be in top condition and loaded with water, food, gear, and packed with my mountaineering equipment, climbing boots, crampons, ice axe, and all."

A collection of poetry and prose published by Old Mountain Press that has been gathered from poets across the country relating to relationships: people to people, people to animals, animals to animals, people to places ect..

A flash of energy ripples at light speed across a mile of southwestern desert. It alerts watchers who have waited for it over half a century, and the race is on to possess the secret to the most powerful force ever created. Vernon Washburn is a retired assassin, now seeking a return to normal life,...