J Steele: 89 books

Written while on vacation, about how the stars are so bright everywhere except for Los Angeles. Also, a weird evening where we got into all kinds of trouble, except the good kind. Sorta redundant, but its better that way.

Balfour has fallen. Andy is a prisoner. Druids are playing their hand. John, Tom, and their renegade friends are charged with rescuing Andy and stopping the war--which might not be as easy as it sounds. This is the fourth book in the Sexton Chronicles series. Book 1: Sexton Book 2: Sexton Spice Book 3: Storm Clouds Over Sexton

When Tom, John, and Andy learn that simple herbs and spices are illegal in Sexton, they decide the people deserve food that tastes good. They "invent" fried chicken, and start smuggling herbs. They're already under a death sentence, so why not? ...Their actions bring Sexton and Crescens one step closer to war.

Trista Bomstruck, a fifteen year old creative engineer, fills her daily life with amusing inventions. At the annual inventors’ festival, Trista is swept up in a war that her grandfather thought had ended. As an aggressive robotic army creeps closer to Trista’s doorstep, she and her grandfather...

Two Microsoft Access MVPs show how you can become an Access power user Microsoft Access is the world’s leading database system, with millions of users and hundreds of thousands of developers. The best practices, tips, and techniques in this book can turn users into power users. Millions of...

Effective SQL brings together the hands-on solutions and practical insights you need to solve a wide range of complex problems with SQL, and to design databases that make it far easier to manage data in the future. Leveraging the proven format of the best-selling Effective series, it focuses on providing...

Jenny is the daughter of one of the wealthiest businessmen in L.A. She has everything she wants right at the swipe of a credit card. Well, almost everything. After an attempt on her life, Jenny’s father has assigned her a personal bodyguard. Fabian follows her wherever she goes with his delicious...

This volume describes the little-known world of John Baptist Salpointe, successor to Archbishop Lamy and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe, who worked among Indian tribes in both Arizona and New Mexico during the tumultuous final years of the frontier between 1860-1898. All of his impressions and accumulated...

It was a dream come true. Ellie has become a contestant in the National Art of Dance Competition. And she has no intention of accepting anything less than first place. But it isn’t her skills alone that will be the deciding factor. Every dancer in the competition is given a partner. Ellie’s...

The origins of the idea to write this book are impossible to trace. What I can say with some certainty, is that the book would not have emerged without the pleasing interplay of two contingent pleasures which occurred in the summer of 1978. The first was the penetrating sense of awe experienced when...

Gideon has going out with Shirley for two months. She’s principled, strong-willed, and beautiful. He enjoys her company, and hopes that one day she will agree to make their relationship official. But there’s something he’s not telling her. A secret so terrible he’s afraid of what she...

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...

Thirteen tales of Seasonal Magic from your favorite Changeling authors. Lick This by B.J. McCall: Faith hates peppermint. Can a sexy Elf tempt her to lick a candy cane laced with Christmas magic? Santa's Clause by J. Hali Steele: Breaking Bad with Santa is so damn good! Strange...

Originally published in 2012, Volume Four continues our tradition of bring speculative fiction fans the winners of our annual writing competitions. In this installment, stories by Milo James Fowler, Douglas J. Lane, Samuel Mae, Sandra M. Odell, Alva Roberts, Lynn Veach Sadler, Christine E. Schulze, and Bon Steele.