Download or read book Taldi na written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rear Admiral Gale Harkness's ship, the Argos, under the command of Captain Bernice O'Reilly is despatched on a mission to discover the fate of two remote outposts of humanity that have gone silent. To discover that both colonies have been totally obliterated, with the exception of one young girl, is a shock in itself, but when Gale and her crew are assaulted by hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanoes that seem to have no basis in nature, she has to ask whether an alien intelligence is involved. Narrowly escaping from an artificially produced Nova, the crew of the Argos discover a moon that shows the remnants of a nuclear explosion and some intact artificial structures. A landing party is sent, but is forced to abandon their ship and as a result become marooned. What they find provides answers to many of their questions, and who or what the Taldi'na are, is finally revealed.

Download or read book With No Warning written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of an unarmed merchant vessel, with no warning, shocked everyone, and Vice Admiral Gale Harkness, is sent to investigate. What she finds is a single dust cloud that is all that remains of the EV Harmonica. Then two more ships, but this time of military origin, disappear in the same way, and Humanity, together with their Shi-az-ee allies, prepare for war. A deserted colony, a mysterious empty building, a strange ion trail, ships that leave no jump signature, and another unwanted promotion, are just some of the problems that Gale has to face before the mystery can be solved.

Download or read book As a Consequence written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity had been at war with Humanity for fifty years when a greater threat, in the form of the Shi-az-ee, came along. The Shi-az-ee blamed Humanity for an atrocity that they did not commit, and embarked on a holy war, vowing to destroy them all. Due to public pressure in both systems of humanity, the war between them came to an end, and the combined fleets turned their attention to the Shi-az-ee. But hidden in an unlikely place, lurked the true enemy, waiting and watching, and seeking its revenge.

Download or read book Speaker written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title story is a science fiction short based on the work of two well known authors, but those that follow it, may stretch your imagination by taking you into all that is weird and wonderful. A ghost in love, a fortune from a Leprechaun, an evil twin, a time traveller, a door to Narnia, the revenge of a witch, and a visit from some aliens are just a few of the things that, hopefully will make you laugh, cry or be terrified. Our hero moves into a new house, and it's haunted, His sister is a holy terror on legs and impossible to control. He takes the blame for all her misdeeds. Then he meets the ghost. Both are immediately attracted to each other. But that is the least of their problems. One twin is an astronaut, one a murderous criminal. The second has always coveted his brother's success, but his criminal past betrays him. So he schemes in an effort to take his brother's place. Just two of the thirty-two stories, set in the past, present and future that are waiting inside.

Download or read book The Yellow Dragon written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erun Oncant, the ordinary son of ordinary parents, lived in Cardoney. That is, until chosen by a dying dragon to be the rider for her unhatched daughter. As he took the sword from her dying body, it became instilled with magical powers, and all that remained of her flowed into it. The egg hatched into the first ever yellow dragon, a colour never seen before and only talked about in legend, and with the help of Princess Lelia from the Kingdom of Vanticor, he cared for her, as she grew to full size. Her name, inherited from her mother, became Corella. Tensions between surrounding Kingdoms had developed into all out war under the influence of a wizard of immense power. All feared that Cardoney would be next. Erun and Corella forged an inseparable bond, and together, they set out to foil the evil machinations of the wizard and restore peace to the world.

Download or read book The Ordeal written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Massive explosion that destroyed the underground station, when Larry Dexman was walking past... A strange drone that flew overhead and dropped a bomb, when Larry was taking Sally to the Vets... A missile fired from an adjacent building into his bedroom almost completely destroying the building... Two armed assailants driven out of Gregory's café, by Larry and an MI6 sniper... An encounter with a machine gunner in a London street... Two of his friends both murdered in their beds for no apparent reason... Despite having no idea why, Larry has to finally face the fact that someone is really, really, determined to see him dead. But when the who and the why are finally revealed, despite not believing that it could be possible, he must be ready, or face the consequences.

Download or read book Daisy Weal and the Monster written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Weal was gifted with extraordinary powers. Her early years were spent learning how to control them, learning how to fit in and learning how to be Human. But now Daisy is ten and as her knowledge of the universe expands, she discovers a monstrous being from another reality that is a serious threat to Humanity. Can her understanding of it be enough to prevent disaster? Would she have enough time to deal with this threat, before a second emerges that was trapped in another dimension. How can she know that the gateway has been inadvertently opened by a curious scientist and that the fate of the entire universe now hangs in the balance? Despite all of her efforts to maintain a front of normality against these impossible odds, she was eventually noticed and recruited into a secret service specifically for her special talents. Would those talents be enough to enable her to deal with one monstrous being, one dimensional horror and at the same time stop a madman from destroying London.

Download or read book Sudoku Food for the Mind written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sudoku puzzles are done mainly in Japan where not many crosswords are done. The name 'Sudoku' roughly translates as 'Number Place'. A simpler version was created by a Swiss mathematician in the 18th century and today's puzzles are thought to have evolved from that. The first puzzle in the UK appeared on the front page of 'The Times' on the 12th November 2004 and they have, since then, appeared daily on the back page. Today, however, they appear everywhere, in books papers and magazines.

Download or read book Cardoney written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an Omnibus edition of two books 'The Yellow Dragon' And 'The Diamond Sword of Tor'

Download or read book The Diamond Sword of Tor written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years ago, humans burst through a portal between realities bent on conquest. With the help of the Elves from this reality, they tried to eradicate the dragons. Things did not go well, and the invaders moved the Elves to safety between realities and withdrew. The power used to move the Elves backfired through the portal damaging the invaders' reality severely, and the dimensional key in the form of a Diamond sword was left behind. But now after five centuries the sword hidden behind a disguise of steel, has found its way into the hands of Erun Oncant, Sovereign King of Cardoney. A child at play caused the portal to allow a single team of humans through, and they need to recover the key to return home. When they don't find it in the castle they kidnap the Queen, to coerce Erun into returning it.

Download or read book The Disappearance of Natalie Firth written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry the eight year old son of Malcolm and Natalie Firth, engages Larry Dexxman to find his mother, but he has no idea of the can of worms that Larry is about to open. Larry's wife Penny, Neil and Denise his two new assistants, and Sally his tiny Shih-Tzu/Yorkshire terrier cross, embark on a mission to find her . With the help of MI6, they delve into the murky depths of Malcolm's life and are astounded and horrified to find that he has links with Vincente Vasquez, a known villain, suspected of drug smuggling and murder. When Special Branch shows an interest in his case, Larry finds that he has unwittingly become embroiled in an ongoing espionage investigation, which seems to be inexorably linked to Natalie's disappearance. Whether Natalie is alive or dead is a moot point, when keeping himself, his friends, and Harry alive, becomes the order of the day.

Download or read book Cindy Lost and the Black Witch written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cindy Lost was an ordinary girl with an ordinary mother. That is, until she set the cat's tail on fire by waving a stick at him. After that everything became weird. Gnomes coming out of her mother's glass cabinet, being just one example, and large Black birds asking to be let into the house being another. Her introduction into a world of enchantment and all things magical was tempered by the knowledge that something evil was lurking there. Finding out that her mother was not as she seemed to be, and was suspected of being the infamous Black Witch, Cindy set out to unmask the real culprit, and prove her mother's innocence.

Download or read book Daisy Weal and the Last Crenian written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Weal is gifted with extraordinary powers. Her early years were spent learning how to control them, learning how to fit in and learning how to be human. Daisy has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when the Crenian comes to earth. His race had been wiped out by a genetic shift that had been introduced centuries ago, and instinctively his first act is to attack Daisy, before he realises that her powers are at least equal to his own. Eventually he joins forces with her and together they unravel the mystery of his race's condition, and set out to prevent the same thing from happening to the human race. Daisy and the Crenian are getting uncomfortably close to the truth and, as a diversion, the President of the United States is kidnapped and Daisy's friends start to disappear. She discovers that a sinister plot is being hatched by the being that she has seen as her friend and mentor. Once more she calls on the Crenian and together they meet the enemy in a final confrontation.

Download or read book Grandpa s Shed written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert was almost ten years old, so things like make believe worlds and strange creatures were no mystery to him. He wasn't a complete baby, and realised that was just what they were, make believe. So when his Grandpa started to tell him stories about other realities and the weird and wonderful beings that inhabited them, he thought he was just being told made up stuff. That is, until he took a real look into Grandpa Kenneth's garden shed....

Download or read book The Star Queen written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passenger liner the Star Queen, suffered mysterious damage to its jump engines and emerged from hyperspace, close to the sun, at half-light speed on a collision course with Earth. Distress signals were sent out as the ship scorched into the Earth's atmosphere to explode devastatingly just before impact. 600 years later, and 600 light years away, the distress call is intercepted by a warship of Her Majesty's Star Fleet. The distress call is a radio signal, presumably because of an FTL coms failure, and it is soon realised that its origin is the start of the twentieth century, before space travel was discovered.

Download or read book A Promise to Doreen written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering from a heart attack, Larry is being overprotected by his colleagues, which in itself is providing more stress than he needs, so he decides to take some time out with a visit to Gregory's café. A conversation overheard in the café attracts Larry's attention, and becomes more intriguing when a day later he witnesses the murder of the principle speaker. On the spur of the moment as he kneels beside the dying girl he makes a promise. He promises to find the murderer, whatever it costs. It is a promise that he will find has a much higher price than he would willingly pay. An imposter in MI6, murder, embezzlement, and terrorism, are just four of the hazards that he has to face, as he struggles with the bizarre, in the form of an almost identical twin to himself. When Margaret, Larry's adopted daughter, fails to return from assignment, Larry fears the worst, and thus begins a race against time to ensure that those fears are not realised.

Download or read book Dauntless written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years had passed since Daisy has come to this little planet with the three suns, and four hundred and fifty since her husband had died. As she sat by his graveside, the thought came to her that after all this time it really was time that she got over him. An unexpected visit from a starship, and her first contact with another human being in almost five centuries, awakens in her the need for human companionship, and convinces her that it is time to return to Earth. So together with the Lentor, an intelligent and telepathic, dog like creature who has adopted her, she shifts through the dimensions to arrive back into a place far different from the England of her memories. But not only is it different, something is not quite right. It is as if an evil is lurking, changing, affecting and influencing in areas where it can do the most harm. Some power is planning the overthrow of a society that has lasted for hundreds of years, and not with benevolent intentions.