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What’s in a Name? The Royal Secret is a mystery history and psychological thriller of fact and fiction yet told topically through the eyes of an American woman of today seeking her personal Holy Grail. It is based on the true story of the dramatic life and loves of the man who was the true but hidden...

From the Preface to the Smashwords edition"In June of 2000, after twenty-three years of teaching English, I retired. My experience was all at the secondary level, much of it with students who had experienced limited success in previous English classes. Over time, my classroom became centered...

Abstinence is only painless when advising someone else to do it.See more free articles on recovery by Douglas Hankins here at Smashwords.

A Very Funny Book! "Pranksters at Play: Tales Out of School" is chock-a-block with, what else - pranks! Reader beware, "Nothing is ever exactly what it seems." Author Mel Anthony lived 5 years at boarding school and was both a perpetrator and victim of pranks. Royalties...

Why you should self publish your book and a brief comparison of Lulu, CreateSpace, Kindle and Smashwords.This is a work in progress, please watch for updates!

Autumn in New Hampshire. The air is crisp, the moonless night still. Bonnie and I tilt our chairs back against the rear deck railing and take in a brilliant celestial canopy. How can there be so many stars? Were they hung there just to remind me of my own insignificance?A satellite hurries by overhead,...

The photographs illustrating the “Plant Families in Pictures” were taken by Claude Trudel at the Montréal Botanical Garden. The many plants of the Montréal Botanical Garden come from all continents. They are grouped in thirty thematic gardens, the ten exhibition greenhouses and the vast arboretum....

This is a collection of word snapshots of events in the life of the author. The author is 93. The pieces were written during various random periods of time concerning events that took place from childhood to recent times. This is the 196th ebook that the author has written and published in Smashwords.

This is the diary of Greg Holcomb-Jacques, a teenage boy who was diagnosed with DIPG, a form of terminal brain cancer. It is published by his family who wants to share his story with the world. Greg weaves between haunting and uplifting in his diary entries; his spirit is strong and he chooses to...

This is the working outline for my screenplay "Elkton Rules: The Little Prison That Thought It Could." I will be adding more chapters as I progress as well as fleshing out this outline as I go along. I want to make it available right now as a collaborative project. Any and all suggestions for improvement...

The author is a retired US Navy officer who has always been a voracious reader of adventure books and history, much of it military. He is almost 75 years old and this is his first book. He had the idea of the story percolating in his mind for years and one day sat down and wrote it in a few weeks....

This pre-primer picture book is for children learning to read English, learning English as a second language and for parents teaching children to read. The book is written in large letters to make it easy to read. Pages are done separately, to address the issue of letter and picture distortion on...

Are you one of the countless people who have a book that is aching to be published? Have you dreamed of getting your ideas in print? If you have the talent, the desire, the motivation, the time, and some limited computer and Internet skills, you can have your book published in an e-book and in paperback,...

When the new child joins Lauren’s little group for story time at the orphanage, the evening takes an unexpected turn. As the little storm in the story goes in search of courage, the children test the boundaries of their own limited existence. Lauren meets a woman with wings and Emma, the new child,...