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Two ships. Two captains. One part of a desire to conquer the world. The other with a desire to conquer himself. When the captains and their ships meet it will be a duel at sea of monumental proportions. A female spy has the ability to change the course of the duel between the ships. Which captain will she favor? A bleak, rocky island named Kerguelen will see the emergence of one captain as the victor and the other as his prisoner.

Frank Berg, rescued from Kerguelen Archipelago, receives another commission in the US Navy with the express task of seeking out one of the aces of the German submarine command with a newly commissioned Liberty ship with improved anti-submarine capability. Kurt Stein, a U-boat ace follows Admiral Doenitz' orders to lie in wait for American merchant ships on the East coast. When these intrepid captains meet what will be the outcome? Only extreme skill and luck will determine the victor.

An original Merry Widow doll, an illegal enterprise, a policewoman and two murders.

Frank Berg is tapped to command USS Thomas Maguffin with the mission to capture or sink one or more German supply U-boats.

Frank Berg, fresh out of sick bay, finds that he’s not done with the war. In fact, he will be given command of a British lend-lease destroyer escort. His assignment is to capture one of the new coding devices developed by the Germans, named Omega. With a mixed crew of British and American sailors and an executive officer who was in command of the DE prior to Berg’s assignment, Berg is none too confident that he can pull off the retrieval of an Omega.

Sweet Drop in Africa: Faith gives Emily Hobhouse a chance to tell English audiences exactly what the Boer women and children are experiencing in the concentration camps. She writes letter after letter to the London Times refuting the official view of the camps. Emily attempts to visit South Africa again but is kept from going ashore. She is deported by order of Lord Kitchener. Emily continues speaking out against the war. With the peace treaty Emily returns to South Africa to see what has become of the Harschoon family.

Sweet Drop in Africa: Charity shows Emily Hobhouse's determination to ameliorate some of the cruelty the army has perpetrated in South Africa. She uses her writing skills to motivate relatives and friends to support the relief effort for the women and children who experience the horrendous living conditions in the concentration camps. The letters she receives from South Africa show the conditions in the camps are deteriorating faster than Emily had imagined. Emily decides to go to the camps. She travels to Cape Town and finds that getting to the camps is extremely difficult. Emily finally ...

San Francisco in 1879. Ghastly, grotesque and gruesome murders stump Lt. O'Flynn and his friend Peter Dawes. The autopsies as well as the crime scenes are devoid of clues. There are no suspects. Can they get past the brick wall they confront?

Thomas Higgins, a 37-year-old who works for the state of California in the Climate Agency has a relatively happy life. His idyllic situation tends toward destruction as he has a recurring dream that takes him to the Middle East. To try to understand why he has the dream, Thomas seeks professional help from Dr. Farid at the local Kaiser office. In the question and answer sessions, Dr. Farid asks Thomas to write the experiences he’s having in the dream so that Dr. Farid can analyze what is causing the dream. In a conference in San Francisco Thomas meets a colleague from the San Jose office ...

Ishmael, Foley Baha, Flank, “Ned” Hanford and George Washington Black survive the sinking of the ship Pilgrim. For over a week in a whaleboat with limited supplies of food and water, the castaways hope for rescue from a passing ship. Their hopes are dashed before they finally find the British ship Amazon and board her to try to unravel the mystery of why there are no officers or men aboard.

Denise Parker is a successful advertising executive. She has a Porsche, a stock portfolio and an apartment in one of the safe neighborhoods in San Francisco. If it weren't for a recurring nightmare she would look forward to an even better situation. The nightmare leads her to a past lives therapist, a cult leader, an ex-boyfriend and other characters who appear in her past lives. What it all means and who "Algapesh" is requires all of the novel to unravel this psychological Gordian knot.

Denise Parker has become Vice President in Walker, Scott and Newcomb. In the interim between the disastrous party in which her friend George Moffatt died a mysterious death and the present time, Denise has become a member of The Light of the World, a new age religious group. She also has an ongoing but unfulfilled relationship with Sam Abbott. With no apparent reason, Denise experiences another nightmare She has no idea why she has the nightmare, and she asks Mary Elizabeth Scott, the leader of the religious group what it means. Some of the people that were connected to the disastrous party...

Larry Dean loves flying. His love started with building model planes, then graduated to flying magazines and finally to take flying lessons. Larry also loves women. He is unsure about Jennifer and then he meets Brenda, a welfare worker. She is compatible with his desires. At a chance meeting at McDonald’s, Larry meets Monica, a lawyer that he finds very attractive. His last female acquaintance is Ginger, a student at UCD who is a vegetarian and wild when it comes to sex. All the while he is enjoying the company of these women, Larry is undergoing an unexplained transition to early ...

Angus Diggsworth, a gray-haired bronc rider, left the rodeo circuit when he’d won enough Lotto money to fulfill his dream of having a pony-rental business. Sitting in his apartment with a fresh cup of coffee, he pored over a map of the foothills. The area around Jackson, Amador County, California looked like it might be the right spot. If there were available land outside the city of Chaparral it would be the first step in creating Angus’s business. Next on his list of to-dos, Angus drove to the city of Chaparral. He met with Fred Kleinsdorf, a realtor, and agreed to buy a five-acre ...

Josh Colum appears as normal as any one of us but he has a deep subconscious memory of how his mother treated his father. Josh has layered that early part of his life onto all females in Sacramento and he formulates a plan to eliminate their seemingly inescapable hold over him. Coincidentally, Janet Slade returns to California’s capital. After seven years away from her original job as a public information officer with the Sacramento PD she has returned with political help from her father’s friend to the higher status of homicide detective.

Susan Fields and her friend Jeffrey Hatton camp out on Skedaddle Mountain, the eastern edge of Honey Lake Valley. Sometime after dark with a camp fire going, they look up at the starry night. Commenting on how many more stars can be seen, Susan sees five lights suddenly appear. Jeffrey looks at them and comments that they must be UFOs. Susan hopes they aren’t going to be taken up into one of the space ships. As soon as she says that the lights dip toward Honey Lake and with incredible speed vanish.

Harry Jenkins’ granddad was a prime suspect in Kingsley Bridge’s death. Harry is given an assignment to find out whether Bridge was murdered or died naturally. His granddad Carl Jenkins filmed his journey to and employment at Thiokol Chemical in Corinne, Utah. Harry is not convinced that he can solve the mystery of Bridge’s death since it took place nearly sixty years ago, but he is willing to try if for no other reason than to clear his grandfather’s name.

Goldilocks, White Bear and Thomas are three characters on a quest to obtain a real mouth for White Bear who, without a real mouth, can only communicate by gestures or facial expressions. Once they reach the Dark Forest and meet Ozimund, they find out what they must do to complete the quest. By returning each of the items to the environment in which they found or received it, the quest ends with White Bear getting his real mouth.

The stories I told to my son Thomas at bedtime were similar to the stories in this book. His companions on these fictional journeys were White Bear and Goldilocks. Some of the elements in the stories are what he wanted to hear and including them seemed to be the right thing to do.

Jack Rhodes leads his payroll detail back from Reno, Nevada to the small town of Susanville, California. The time is 1864. The Civil War in the East is as bloody as ever. The detail is nearly wiped out as they near the town of Janesville. Jack Rhodes is the only one left and the killers take him and the gold leaving the bodies of the fallen where they lay. Five years later Jack Rhodes' mother Belle Jean Rhodes hires Peter Dawes to find out what happened to her son and clear her name in the process.