THIS STORY is about a remarkable Viking family of great genius in the 11th century. The family was able to coax tremendous wealth from the earth by invention and hard work, only to be driven from country to country by despotic kings and governments of TAKERS. If you are of Scandinavian, Scottish, Irish or English decent, these may have been your struggling ancestors. The action in this book takes place in a time before the protection of the Magna Carta, the Constitution of the United States and the American Bill of Rights. Read about a heroic families' struggle for freedom and justice. If you enjoyed reading the concepts of Ann Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED, you will find the Magnusson family struggling with the same issues of the government TAKING the intellectual capital and hard work of the people...1,000 years ago. Readers have said, "It's a Viking James Bond...it's a page turner." Others have said, "THE TAKERS are a metaphor of today's business unfriendly American government." It's the ruling (TAKING) class with their sharp swords, against the producers of wealth and jobs.

In 1977, an Atlanta community is disrupted by tragic lovers' lane killings; Computer Science Professor Phil Gregory's daughter was one of the victims. More than twenty years later, the killer is back. Phil abruptly retires to catch his daughter's killer. Using the Internet, he tracks the killer through the underground world of sadomasochism and bondage. After baiting the killer into a showdown, which is inadvertently broadcast via the Internet.

Carl Truitt, high school teacher and ladies' man, is shocked when FBI agents storm his Atlanta classroom and arrest him for a murder committed in his hometown - 30 years ago. Thea, Carl's wife of twenty years, like the rest of the community, is in disbelief and sure that this case of mistaken identity will soon be cleared up. But when she visits Carl in jail, he pours out his heart to her and a story echoes from the past that is truly unbelievable. Undaunted by the circumstances, Thea Truitt stands by her man. Selling their home, Thea follows Carl back to his hometown, where she battles corrupt officials, greedy lawyers, and poverty in an attempt to save him.

This book traces the digital footsteps of an award winning novelist from ones and zeros in a high school classroom to writing a blockbuster movie. It is a ighthearted trip down memory lane with a writer who happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right technology.

During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Billy (Georgia Boy) Ricks becomes an American hero. Not only does he save his Recon Marine squad from annihilation, but later Billy saves his Lieutenant from an attack by a disgruntled Black soldier in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King murder. When he returns to his family, however, Billy is not met with yellow ribbons tied around oak trees, but the harsh reality of unemployment.

Fear and terror grip a small Southern town when a cheerleader goes missing. Ginny Westbrook, a budding journalist, seeks out the killer even as she searches for her own identity. Digging too deeply and stumbling upon a string of missing girls, she clashes with a serial killer who harbors a hate of interracial relationships and has a passion for nursery rhymes. Are the strange occurrences those of the occult or just coincidence? Or could it be an unknown mother, an earlier victim, back from the grave to save her daughter from a similar fate.

First published in 1936, this remarkable guidebook explores the seamier side of Shanghai, China, in the mid-1930s. Written by two pretty, dissolute foreigners living life to the fullest and working, at least partially, in a Whangpoo whiskey haze, this candid handbook focuses on the colorful nightlife--particularly the sex and sin--of the city. This is a hilarious and unique history of a covert Shanghai.

Clay Furlow, NYPD Detective, has a theory about unexplained murders: "Follow the money trail, then read 'em their rights." Hienrich Ressler, a discredited psychiatric researcher, also has a theory, "God didn't make any perfect animals; we all have our own psychosis." The two men match wits in a battle to the death when Clay and his 10 year old, computer genius, daughter discover that seemingly random killings are actually the results of an elaborate murder-for-hire scheme - spawned over the Internet.

After moving to America, Nick Wideman - son of a Greek sprinter and an American pole vaulter - is dumbfounded when he is criticized by the black community and ostracized by whites for transferring to all-black Central High School in an attempt to join a nationally acclaimed 400-meter relay team, whose runners are so fast they are called Rocket Men. A school-boy's crush on pretty brown Mia Hunter only adds fuel to the fire as Nick battles reverse discrimination and stiff competition to make the team.

Fear and terror grip Wrightsburg, Georgia, when Beth Campbell, head cheerleader at Chandler High School, goes missing and is later found murdered. Ginny Westbrook, a budding journalist, seeks out Beth's killer even as she searches for her own identity. Ginny, born too white for black and too black for white, is despised by the black community because she is different, and hated by whites for an interracial kiss shared with Dewey Colton, a fellow student, in a school play. While researching an article for the school newspaper, Ginny stumbles upon a string of missing girls. Digging too deeply, she clashes with a serial killer who harbors a hate of interracial relationships and has a passion for nursery rhymes.