Kirjahaku

JOURNEY INSIDE THE HEAD of a chronically homeless man--a man that in a less politically correct age we might have called a hobo. Gerald Good, known now only as G2, volunteered to take the place of a homeless man, believing he would work his way back quickly. Ten years later, twenty... thirty years, find G2 alone in his head, his memories, and his boxcar. A story without chapters, we follow whatever G2 thinks of as his present at the moment. In delving into his non-linear life, perhaps we can discover what separates the chronically homeless with nothing from those who constantly collect and consume.

Someone has his fingers in the till. "I spend most of my time in cyberspace, a world my girlfriend has dubbed 'Nowhere Land.' But the streets I walk are every bit as real to me as the rain-splashed sidewalks of Seattle. And when I find a thief, I'll run him to the ground. I hate thieves and I'm a bad-ass in cyberspace." Computer forensics detective Dag Hamar has been hired to help a credit card company beef up network security, but are his new co-workers helping him or attacking him? Security video doesn't lie, does it? Dag is about to get dragged from behind his computer screen-away from the comparative safety of cyberspace-into the gritty streets of Seattle where an online predator has become a real-life serial kidnapper.

Gee Evars stumbled into Rosebud Falls on Independence Day just in time to rescue a toddler from the rushing torrent of the Rose River. And to lose his memory. In an attempt to make Rosebud Falls his home, Gee becomes a local hero and inadvertently leads a revolt that changes the balance of power in the town. But will he ever know who he really is?

Gee Evars wandered into town without a memory a few months ago. In that time, he has become the city champion, led a proxy takeover of the city's biggest business, and become a spokesman for the Forest and the Wild Woods. The fence came down between the two on the night of the election approving annexation of the area.But now Gee is faced with a new reality. The Wild Woods holds secrets and someone needs to manage its exploration and discovery. If the woods has been used to manufacture drugs and to traffic in children, someone needs to go in and find out if anyone is still in danger.That task falls to Gee and a small army of high school volunteers who are determined to clean their woods and make it safe and welcoming.And when brainwashed children wander into town, who better to teach them than the man with no memory.

Computer forensics detective Deb Riley has been cut loose to continue the work of her partner, Dag Hamar. He sent her to get the code from a dead man's tattoo. He told her she needed to crack the encryption on Simon's thumb drive. He told her he loved her.And then he died.Now Deb finds she is in possession of something everyone wants. There's Jordan Grant from FinCEN. There's Simon's wife, the Muffin Top. And there is the mysterious "Committee" who seem to be willing to do anything to stop Deb from cracking the encryption and revealing the drive's contents.Including kill her.Enter the world of Deb Riley, code breaker, detective, and master of disguise, as she races into the heart of the mystery and risks discovery or worse in Seattle, Belize, and Croatia. She has Dag's reputation to live up to.

In an alternate timeline America, societal classes have been well-defined and maintained. The ten classes are not based on wealth, position, or heredity. They are based on each individual's character and proclivities as demonstrated to his or her teachers. Most of Liam Cyning's acquaintances seem pleased with their classification, even victorious. But on his eighteenth birthday Liam is told he has been designated as part of the Leader class and he doesn't know what to do.He is further told that a personal assistant has been hired for him and discovers it is his old elementary school nemesis, Meredith Sauvage, classed as an Advisor. The two of them must overcome ambiguity in the class structure, parental expectations, and their own sometimes adversarial relationship to establish a place at the table for Liam.This story is a Bildungsroman, a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. With his grandmother as an example and Meredith by his side, Liam evolves from a self-centered boy of privilege to a man people can trust to lead them.

Tall skinny Jackie is a fresh high school graduate, still in her cap and gown when she is given the keys to her grandfather's 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 Fastback 390. Jackie, her 25-year-old Aunt Misty, and her dog Roadkill jump in the car and take off following an old fashioned TripTik map into an alternate dimension. In this alternate dimension, Jackie is a Warrior Wizard encountering robbers, mountain monsters, ogres, rival clans, obstreperous customs officials, a stowaway princess, an adopted bobcat kitten, werewolves, ghosts, giants, and dragons-all on her way to rescuing the Sovereign's kidnapped son. As she travels, she discovers her magic powers, and the powers of all the weapons she carries-her cap and gown, honor cords, stole, basketball, and things she picks up along the way-including a pocketful of magic beans.This "fractured fairy tale" takes place in a folk tale reality where you'll almost recognize the world we live in and fairy tales you read as a child-monsters, ogres, giants, werewolves, and ghosts Oh, my

After Steven George met and mastered his dragon, he and Madam Selah Welinska traveled together for seven years as he continued to trade Once Upon a Time stories with those he met. Now the King has summoned Steven and Selah has declined to accompany him. The Principality of Rich Reach has been beset by a Terror No one knows what it is or where it is located, so the King has summoned Steven to find and master his terror as he did his dragon. What is Steven to do, but what he has always done: travel the long road exchanging stories with those he meets. Each Once Upon a Time brings him a step closer to his goal. Steven realizes that just as it had with his dragon, all roads lead to his terror. A tale told in a series of Once Upon a Times.

Erin is stranded in a new town after a short and bitter divorce and waits tables in a diner where she meets the man of her dreams; but Preston is a socially inept recluse constantly on guard against gold diggers. When Erin inadvertently becomes his personal assistant, a comedy of errors ensues that throws the two together--and threatens to tear them apart.