Wholesale chaos in the world of Retail... Derrick Payton, assistant manager of a high-end home improvement store, has been waiting nine years for a promotion to full store manager. Now, the job has fallen into his lap. Unfortunately, the store he’s been handed is on a downhill skid, and he only has a week to turn it around. Now he has to battle crazy customers, employees who think the time clock is optional, and the dreaded Wicked Witches of the West—a pair of back-stabbing female associates who are determined to see him go down in flames. His wife is pushing him to ask for a raise; his staff is trying to push him out the door; and his customers are about to push him over the edge. Caught in the middle, Derrick can’t help but wonder... Who says the customer is always right?

Who's Minding the Store?

Literature & Fiction

Lucero, David

Humor & Satire

Navigator Books

Why do you hunt?" Mary asked. Big Jim held up his rifle and said, "It's in our nature to hunt." James 'Big Jim' Peck is a professional game hunter in Africa whose life has evolved from wartime encounters to hunting animals; but when a client is killed in a hunting expedition gone awry, he's forced to hang up his guns and retreat to his plantation in the face of an ongoing investigation. When a rogue Cape buffalo whom villagers believe to be infused with an evil spirit terrorizes the territory, Big Jim is asked to track and kill the creature. With the help of his trusted partner, Caesar Wilde, and American photo-journalist Mary Watkins, they embark on an adventurous journey through the African bush. After a series of inexplicable deadly encounters the hunters soon realize they are up against a creature unlike any other they have hunted, and it will take all their combined experience to kill it...or be killed "Big Jim takes the reader on a safari where one can feel the heat and smell the dust of the hunt " - InD'tale Magazine "Big Jim presents a delightfully involving African saga for readers which explores so much more than the thrill of the hunt alone. Readers will appreciate this novel replete with insights on relationships and motivations." - Midwest Book Review

Big Jim

Action & Adventure

Light Network

The Sandman

When CIA's top saboteur infiltrates Bushehr Nuclear Research Facility in Iran and starts a fire threatening a core meltdown, Iran's worst nightmare is about to become reality!But the saboteur - codename: Sandman - soon finds his luck turn for worse when he fails to compromise a secondary control room capable of providing vital coolant to the reactor, which would prevent disaster. The setback means he must remain in the facility until a meltdown is assured, making his escape an impossibility!Unbeknownst to the saboteur, the Israeli Mossad have infiltrated their own agent to track his mission progress. Should he fail, this agent will signal for an Israeli air strike on the facility, threatening to kill them all.With time running out, a brilliant Iranian Army officer takes charge of the battle against the saboteur, matching wits as they outmaneuver each other in dark corridors of the underground complex for the all-important secondary control room.  But with each passing second, temperature in the reactor rises, bringing them closer to nuclear catastrophe!And just who is this saboteur? What kind of man follows through on a mission where he will likely die?  And what will happen if he manages to trigger a Chernobyl-scale nuclear catastrophe on Iranian soil?The countdown is on...            

Contemporary

AuthorHouse

The countdown is on....! The West trembles when Iran announces their Bushehr Nuclear Research Facility is operational, and they have every intention of developing weapons-grade plutonium. Israel presses the United Nations for a pre-emptive airstrike, but unintentional consequences sure to follow such action are too great to contemplate. America's answer to this dilemma: Send in a top C.I.A. saboteur to neutralize this threat. His codename: SANDMAN The countdown to nuclear disaster begins when the saboteur infiltrates Iran's nuclear facility and creates a fire threatening a reactor core meltdown. Iranian security forces work feverishly to save their reactor. However, their worst fears are realized when the saboteur barricades himself inside the secondary control room that accesses the coolant. While deadly gunfights between the saboteur and Iranian soldiers ensue, temperature in the reactor core quickly rises ... Bringing them closer to nuclear disaster!

It's 1942 and the Battle of North Africa is reaching a climax. After two years of seesaw battles, the Germans are poised to strike a devastating blow against the British. But one obstacle prevents their plan from being a sure thing a lack of petrol! Jack Ruggero was drafted in the U.S. Army with one thing in mind Survival! An expert poker player, Jack makes good use of his luck at cards to keep him out of harm's way. However, as luck would have it, he finds himself in the middle of the war where stakes are higher than any card game he played. With the powerful German Afrika Korps poised to defeat the British, Jack finds himself in the precarious position of being a 'wild card.' His firsthand knowledge of a secret German base loaded with precious petrol has made him all-important to Special Air Service (SAS). When Jack is pressured to take part in a behind-the-lines sortie with British commandos, his fortunes turn from bleak, to worse. ....But when the chips are down, every card shark keeps an ace up his sleeve, or in his case, a Jack of Spades.

Jack of Spades: A World War Two Story

Literary

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Who's Minding the Store?

Big Jim

The Sandman

The Sandman

Jack of Spades: A World War Two Story