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A Boy A Bike Alaska!

"Look out world here I come!" Imagine the adventure of a lifetime. After spending the winter rebuilding an old Honda motorcycle, you graduate from high school and leave for a summer job at your uncle's fish camp near Denali National Park. Over three thousand miles of solo riding from Mt. Shasta City, California to Alaska! "Look out world here I come!" Imagine the adventure of a lifetime. After spending the winter rebuilding an old Honda motorcycle, you graduate from high school and leave for a

Tales From a Mid-Century Boy Growing Up in Michigan

Short stories, poems, and narratives mostly about a ten- to sixteen-year-old boy growing up in Durand, Michigan, a small mid-western town during the 1950s, and summers spent at the family cottage on Tawas Point in "up north" Michigan, at a time when kids were free from the fear that dominates the world we live in today compared to the ultimate freedom kids had during mid-century America. The freedom to roam far and wide on bicycles seeking "pick up" games of sports, fishing, and exploring the wo

Penelope's Hope

A delightful story about a little dog with a big dream, Penelope's Hope is all about never giving up on your dreams, even if they turn out a little different than how you first imagined. Inspired by the author's own pup and brought to life with charming illustrations, Penelope will warm hearts and inspire young readers to have big hopes of their own. Penelope was no ordinary dog. She loved to play at the park and fetch the mail. She learned to talk and read, and she had big hopes for her future

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Matagam Pagwa #1: Defender down and Bleak Realities

Matagam Pagwa The history of explorer Matagam Pagwa's search for the Milky Way Galaxy and a planet safe from war for people to live circulates among the space travelers. Defender Down Defender Down is the first book in the Matagam Pagwa Series. It is the story of the crash of the battle cruiser Defender on the planet of Yovex. Yovex is suspected to be the origin and cause of the legend of the feared Ghost Ships. At great risk to their lives, six crew members rode the Defender down to the surf

To The Top!

To the Top! Adventures of a Small Town Boy This prequel to A Boy A Bike Alaska! introduces readers to eighth-grade Jack Iverson as he experiences a year of adventures. Time for a change Jack Iverson had always loved to read exciting books and talk his best friends Davie and Trevor into acting out the adventures. But the summer before eighth grade, things started to change. It was time to have some real-life adventures of their own in their hometown of Mt. Shasta, California. It started with

Kim Crawley

I'm a former cybersecurity professor at OPIT, the Open Institute of Technology. I'm the author of a handful of books through major commercial publishers including: The Pentester Blueprint (co-authored with Phillip Wylie, published by Wiley Tech) 8 Steps to Better Security (published by Wiley Tech) Hacker Culture: A to Z (published by O'Reilly Media) Cloud Penetration Testing (published by Packt Publishing) Digital Safety in a Dangerous World (self published) In my spare time, I love to que

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