Ronald: 2667 books

In this delightfully creepy novel from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Ronald L. Smith, twelve-year-old Simon thinks he was abducted by aliens. But is it real, or just his over-active imagination? Perfect for fans of Mary Downing Hahn and Louis Sachar. Twelve-year-old...

A delightfully creepy novel from a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner imbued with magic and seafaring mythology. Lemony Snicket and Jessica Townsend meet Greenglass House, with a hint of Edward Gorey thrown in. When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a spooky old...

Alex is a 10 year old boy who is very smart. As such, the wizard (Edain) who is in charge of the Boundless World Library comes to meet Alex. Together, they explore this secret library where stories of adventure, history and all sorts of things become exciting live in realities. Somewhere along all...

Taking a comprehensive, nuanced, and inclusive approach to Christopher Columbus, this illuminating biography with activities for young readers places him in the context of the explorations that came before, during, and after his lifetime. It portrays the “Admiral of the Ocean Seas” neither as...

Jack Mitchell is an adventurer and occasional bank Vice President who battles evil and Satanism when not dealing with computer problems at work.With a past tinged by witchcraft and forged in war, he fights satanic evil in his own fashion, often without regard for human laws. His self-appointed...

Looking for a Patsy This is book one of the Patsy series, a 13000 word crime thriller noir. Looking for a Patsy is a fictional crime series set in Montreal. In book one you will encounter Big Mel, the leader and chief enforcer in the Point, helping him control the area are some of...

Big Mel's in control here, no one else. He runs the pubs, taverns, strip clubs and even your mom and pop's corner store. He distributes, drugs, porn and  controls the construction industry. In "The Point," a small community in Montreal people  are subject to a certain code. Play by...

Nothing but a Patsy is the final book in the Patsy series. A crime thriller noir. It is 9000 words RCMP Officer Liam and prisoner 5212 have a meeting in a pub with a draft. Big Mel and the remaining brothers confront Liam and Dylan and his family try to pick up the pieces. Has vigilante justice prevailed? Or is it just a change of guard?    

Pretty, young Catherine Harewood is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with some fresh mushrooms. As she passes a gambling house, she hears a gunshot and two young men emerge. One man falls dead on the pavement and the other is Henry Felitham, a handsome young man Cathy...

In the course of his travels, he travels to Poway, California, where he meets with an angry teen-aged ghost who is bent upon reaping revenge for her untimely death against all who come into her path. Trapped by the powerful spirit, Jack must convince her that he deserves to live.In Wilmington,...

In this stand-alone novel, Private Eye Johnny Sundance takes on a difficult case with all its twists and turns and dead ends. Witnesses are elusive. Evidence is scarce. When will the assassin strike again? Who will be his next victim? Panic strikes the Florida town of Eden Palms as the serial...

The legendary Dutch 'Red' Lancers – the 2nd Light Horse Lancers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard – were formed in 1810 after the emperor annexed Holland and its army to France. The former hussars of the Dutch Royal Guard got a handsome new uniform, a new weapon, and a hard-driving new colonel in Baron...

“A brilliant discussion of campaign finance in America…a must for all who care about the American political system.” —Erwin Chemerinsky “Thorough, dispassionate, and immensely readable.” —Floyd Abrams On April 2, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down aggregate limits...

In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses timeless questions: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What are death and immortality? He joins a sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. Belief in God is one manifestation of this view, but not the only one.