"The submersible slowly moves closer to what looks like a mound of rocks. "Steve, something is alive down here..." Doctor Bruce Webster's found the keys but his rival Steve Morrison releases the Leviathan, can it ever be stopped?

Why is someone who just defended her doctoral dissertation still wasting her time at her childhood home, two months after her mother's funeral, making coq au vin and osso buco? Olivia Tschetter, the youngest of four high-achieving South Dakotan siblings, is not returning to "normal"--or to graduate school-- quickly enough to suit her family. She wants only to bury herself in her mother's kitchen, finding solace in their shared passion for cooking.
Threatened with grief counseling, Olivia accepts a temporary position at the local Meals on Wheels, where she stumbles upon some unfinished business from her mother's past--and a dark family secret. Startling announcements from two siblings also challenge the family's status quo. The last thing she needs is a deepening romantic interest in a close but platonic (she thought) friend.
But while Olivia's mother is gone, her memory and spirit continue to engage Olivia, who finds herself daring to speak when she would never have spoken before. Told with humor and compassion, "Starting from Scratch "explores the shifting of family dynamics in the wake of shattering loss and the healing power of cooking.

Down on his luck and down to his last few shillings, John Crayton finds himself marooned in Yokohama at the Four Winds Hotel. A financial disaster has nearly wiped out his bank account back home in England and he needs a job quickly in order to pay his hotel bill or risk jail in Japan. He and a similarly unemployed friend have a fortuitous encounter with the shady and morose Abel Starkenden in a local bar that changes their luck. The Starkenden Quest has overtones of Haggard, Bedford-Jones and all the Indiana Jones movies. Starkenden and his two explorers-for-hire encounter a run-in with Chinese pirates, crossing a raging river of white rapids in a most unusual fashion, and travelling through an ancient cavern equipped with a lantern made from a human skull. Collins is well worth investigating for readers who like intelligent rousing adventures. First published in 1925 by Gerald Duckworth and Co. The Starkenden Quest was popular enough in its day to merit an abridged version in the pulp magazine Famous Fantastic Mysteries in the October 1949 issue. The Raven's Head Press edition contains a foreword by genre fiction critic J.F. Norris who gives us a fascinating insight into the man behind the novel, Gilbert Collins. A ROUSING ADVENTURE NOVEL IN THE LOST RACE GENRE WITH DWARFISH APE-LIKE CREATURES, A HIDDEN TREASURE TROVE OF GEMS, A MUMMY, A WHITE GODDESS, A LOVE INTEREST AND HEROIC CHARACTERS FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES. THIS IS PULP...

Are the really good men just forgotten, or overshadowed by a woman's quest for a perfect man? A man who has the right job, car, and bank account.
This is a story about Robert Loggins, just an average guy, with an above average love for his women. Robert had made every wrong turn looking for love until he made the right turn to God.