B Smith: 277 books

A brutal crime in the woods of southern Iowa has deadly repercussions years later in the state’s capital city, where a string of gruesome murders tests the considerable skills of Detective Edward “Red” Shaw. Shaw had seen a lot of nasty business in his time with Des Moines PD, but the...

THE OLD MARKET-CART  BY Mrs. F. B. SMITH Excerpt from book:  IT stood with its thills upon the low stone wall that separated the barn-yard from the house-yard. There were wedges behind the wheels to keep the cart from rolling back, for it was little Sally Reed's baby-house just now. She...

*The premise: That if 5 authors start with the same sentence, they will all write vastly different stories. The results: A series! After the success of The First Sentence, we upped the degree of difficulty. These romantic novellas run the gamut of genres but all are inspired by the same SECOND sentence. * Catch...

Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto...

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in...

Manifest Destiny - Memoirs of a Dreaming Woman combines Spirituality, Paranormal and Magic into one romantic odyssey. D.M. English PhD writes preventive programs for peer-review magazines and clinics. She is at the end of her career and looking for something else... She begins to hear things...

Author's Note: All characters are the age of adulthood (18 years) or older.I am taking on my lifelong challenge. A problem that has plagued me for it seems all of my years, which I must agree has not been a great many years, but that is of little help to me. Does everyone else know who they are...

High Creek, Texas. A small Southern town was reeling from a tragic shooting that left a swath of destruction of pain in its path at the annual Cook-Off. Luckily, the quick response of both law enforcement and brave townsfolk mitigated a greater loss of life. Following the shooting, the town dealt...

Rural communities share an intimate culture that can be experienced anywhere in the Small Town, U.S.A. Everybody knows your parents, varsity football players get a free pass and nothing is as greased as the rumor mill. So, when a curve-ball is thrown into the mix, things tend to get out of hand.Texas...

Hi there. So nice of you to be here. So you want to lose some weight, or get healthier. I applaud you for this undertaking.Let me introduce myself. My name is Beverly and I am a RN. I have over 30 years of experience in helping people in crisis, starting with a degree in Psychology from VPI&SU. I...

The Premise…That if 5 authors start with the same sentence, they will all write vastly different stories. The results: made of awesome. From contemporary to futuristic, these novellas have a little bit of everything, but most especially—love-filled happy endings. And then we decided we...

We first made the acquaintance of young miss Chelsia Bleu, our Kallie, in Bleu Moon (Kallie Bleu).As a young girl she was not overjoyed to be unceremoniously transplanted to the high mountains of Kentucky. She finds herself overwhelmed, "Lost" and in need of a guide as she sets off to identify and...

This remarkable true story relates the conflicts of a young man seeking truth and freedom in central London in the early 2000s. Set against a fast-paced dialogue between wildly diverse cultures—American, English, and Russian—it tells how the subtle deceptions of evil can eventually destroy a life. When...

August in the Midwest. A muggy morning in Des Moines. A cyclist turns up dead outside the central transit station, and the real heat is on. Detective Red Shaw and his partner, Phil Vega, are on the scene early but hardly at their best. Shaw had recently outsmarted a murderous sociopath who...