Laird: 199 books

A vacationing couple take a GPS suggested shortcut through the mountains on an old, abandoned road, foreshadowing a tragic accident awaiting them, its consequences and an unexpected result. A Short Story

The Walk On is a person who walks on the field, tries out for a team and makes the team. This is the story of how Shawn Tanner was not asked to try out. He was not recruited. He did it on his own.

Written in the style of calssical confessional literature, the adult protagonist, shocked by a fleeting thought about his mother, whom he loves, but resents, retraces his youth looking for reasons and answers for his emotional conflicts. This captavating, suspensful, sometimes shocking, and...

Simon, a chess player, meets a beautiful and mysterious woman, Sarah, at a city park. She is also a chess player, but she doesn't play the game for fun; her stakes are a little higher...

At the time of Awakening, Jadara is awakened to her own destiny. She is the one who has been foretold to bring about the time of Change in the land of Fellnesia.Meanwhile, the evil Greenflack tries to expand his reign of terror by enslaving the peaceful freegan; noble beasts from The Fire Hills...

This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists,...

"Get the best hooker that money can buy and go out in a blaze of glory," was the advice of a friend. So, Adam did. And that blaze of glory was Gabriella Marguerite Duchene...

It is a time of peace in the land of Fellnesia. Greenflack has been defeated, and the freegans returned to their fiery dwelling. The Conference of Barveyn readies themselves to welcome their new prince. Yet there is still a threat to the very fabric of the land; a presence that seeks to halt the very...

At the time of Awakening, Jadara is awakened to her own destiny. She is the one who has been foretold to bring about the time of Change in the land of Fellnesia.Meanwhile, the evil Greenflack tries to expand his reign of terror by enslaving the peaceful freegan; noble beasts from The Fire Hills...

The time has come for Erix, son of Adamen and Jadara, to embrace his destiny and take on his Passer training. Unfortunately, his mind is more preoccupied with the delights of local maidens than the burdens of leadership.Verdily, equal to him in strength and ability decides to face her own demons...

A lovely counterspy knew of one sure way to make her country's enemies spill everything. She went to Mexico, applied for a prostitute's license, and was ready to go!

Edinburgh’s New Town, built between 1767 and 1850, is one of Europe’s finest neoclassical neighbourhoods, a triumph of town planning, with UNESCO World Heritage status. But the importance of the New Town goes far beyond the quality of its architecture. Nearly 250 years after it was built, today...

High-school writing prompts often ask students to provide overly simplified responses to complicated issues, but a person’s stance in the real world can rarely, if ever, be reduced to “agree or disagree.” Arguments are complex, with more than two points of view and a range of evidence to consider;...

Few modern events have aroused more controversy than the Spanish Civil War. This controversy was especially acute in Great Britain, which was torn between its distrust of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on the one hand and of Communist Russia on the other. The British public, pacifist in sentiment...