Bøger af Bill Jones

This novel has been updated and re-released as Grandfather Time, on sale now. This is the original version, on sale for a limited time. Charlie Patterson is an exceptionally bright young man, with no close friends. When his great-grandfather becomes trapped within the world of dreams, the Stream, Charlie and his friends set out to free him. There they will encounter fur-covered dragons, deserts of colored glass, distorted history, and other strange beings. However, there is a growing darkness in the Stream, and it wants both Charlie and his great-grandfather.Charlie's entire summer has been filled with increasingly disturbing dreams. Most feature a strange, dark-haired girl, who watches, but does not speak. Her name is Robin LeBeaux, a lovely girl from New Mexico with a tragic past, and she is quite real. Despite Charlie's insistent logic, and Robin's enthusiastic illogic, they become fast friends. Together, guided by Robin's deceased sister, they discover a singular talent - the ability to walk into and influence others' dreams. Charlie and Robin are determined to find Charlie's great-grandfather, G'pa Joe, and bring him back, no matter the cost.

Trope-free science fiction! If you're looking for traditional sci-fi full of stupid, predictable video game plots, boring engineering dialogue, armed space scientists, or autocratic space armies aiming to enslave the universe, sorry, this ain't it! Welcome to the Aligned Worlds, innovative, progressive, pansexual science fiction for Gen Z and beyond. You've never met characters like these or been to worlds like theirs. Climb aboard via Books 1, 2, or 3. You won't regret the ride! A tall, dark, alien stranger from the far side of the moon leaves 1970s Detroit to lead a team to investigate twin planets that orbit a distant star. Both of the planets share the same orbit, but miraculously, never collide. There is something odd going on with those planets, and Herk Delacroix's team, cruising in the starship Dolomite, needs to learn what it is before it's too late. A fun romp through the galaxy with appearances by characters you'll have come to know and love from the prior Aligned Worlds(TM) novels, as well as whole new set of imaginative characters. It's a wild adventure that marries advanced science and magic in a way that's never been done before.Laugh-out-loud funny, wildly imaginative, and full of worlds and characters you won't forget, this is future fiction at its best. Herk Delacroix leads you on a new adventure with old friends, and you need not have read any of the other books in the series to enjoy it. He's a brother from another planet, and one you won't soon forget.

Trope-free science fiction! If you're looking for traditional sci-fi full of stupid, predictable video game plots, boring engineering dialogue, armed space scientists, or autocratic space armies aiming to enslave the universe, sorry, this ain't it! Welcome to the Aligned Worlds, innovative, progressive, pansexual science fiction for Gen Z and beyond. You've never met characters like these or been to worlds like theirs. Climb aboard via Books 1, 2, or 3. You won't regret the ride! An android named Riley embarks on a journey through space and time to prove his own personhood. He will find music, adventure, love, and murder.Rashon Riley, an android so advanced he has organic components, attempts to prove his consciousness through music. Along the way he discovers that a soul comes with a dark price. Riley wants to make his own way in the universe. His chosen field of battle is jazz, and his weapon, the double bass. He meets up with Monk, a four-thumbed pianist, and together, they start on a path only the jazz greats from Earth's music heydays have ever seen. There's more at stake than music, however. Riley's people back home are in trouble, and only by proving his own worth can he help them. Things really take a turn for the odd when a robot stranger shows up and takes Riley on a journey to 20th-century Earth, to where jazz was born and thrived.If a Robot Play the Blues Do It Still Be Funky? It do, dear readers. It do.If A Robot Play The Blues is a science fiction adventure like none other, starring a human-like android lead you'll never forget.

The exciting follow-on to the dystopian science fiction thriller, Hard As Roxx!BOTH BOOKS SERVE AS PREQUELS TO THE SCI-FI SERIES, THE ALIGNED WORLDSTrinity Sabo Grail has lived her life under many aliases, including Trint (in Hard As Roxx) and Chan (in If A Robot Play The Blues Do It Still Be Funky). Even her partners never knew the truth about her amazing life. Now she stars in her own epic tome, revealing her precarious existence thrust into a role as one of the most influential people in a world that's falling apart.After nearly a century's worth of increasingly deadly pandemics and a worsening global climate, the world into which Trinity was born bears little resemblance to today's earth. The United States is threatening to fragment into five or more pieces. Africa has become Africasia, a political hotbed on the brink of war. Most of Europe is buried in nine months of winter. Enter Trinity, born to a fabulously wealthy family and one of a few with both the inclination and the means of saving the planet.Within the wild adventure she calls her life, Trinity is, at various times, an academic, revolutionary, terrorist, political target, world leader, wife, mother, and is even proclaimed the New Moses as she attempts to lead captive robots and androids to a new promised land. By the time she survives her second political assassination, she knows the world needs a radical solution if there is any hope of saving the planet. That solution is Trinity ... or Trint or Chan ... or whoever she is that week.Follow along as Trinity takes you on journey you've never imagined, meeting characters you'll never forget, all culminating in her landing light-years from home among the Aligned Worlds. Filled with nail-biting suspense, Trinity's Redemption is sci-fi like you've never seen. One extraordinary woman and a few great friends can make all the difference.This is a tour-de-force that joins science fiction, romance, adventure, and political intrigue into an exciting, bittersweet narrative that will make you feel a great deal, even if all of it isn't joyous.

The Juice and Other Stories brings together a collection of 15 tales of romance, science fiction, urban fantasy, and suspense. Stories include: - Beings from another world find themselves herded along their own trail of tears. - A woman struggles to regain her memory, and her life, after a devastating brain injury. - A street walker searches for her next client, and promises him surprises. - The Clown Man visits a beautiful child's dreams and turns them to nightmares. - Luce, a vaporous visitor from a dying planet, must find the only robotics expert who can help save the alien race from destruction. - "Fool O'clock" details a stressful day in the life of Jim Pyle, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Fool Abatement, a government agency tasked with keeping the U.S. safe from fools of all sorts. - In "Days of the Never Was," three pairs of arguing friends disappear into a strange fog bank and reemerge with their entire worlds turned upside down. - A team of private investigators meet for the first time; is it love or his Crazy Magnet? Also: "He Ain't Heavy," a suspense story; "From the Black, the Blues," Sci Fi romance; "The Utopian / Dystopian Compass," Sci Fi; "Reggie and Rocky Vs. Space Monsters from Beneath the Bed," a contemporary fantasy starring 3 and 5-year-old dream walkers; and "Set Fire to the Rain," contemporary fantasy. Note: Some stories contain adult language and situations.

"An Excellent Sourcebook for Practical Christianity" Learn to see God around us in the living of life Mixing touches of humor and unconventional perspectives, the author has taken everyday occurrences, observations, and memories and related them to practical Biblical lessons. The devotional story subjects range from falling out of a pickup truck to pondering the patience of toads. They reveal that God is with us every step of our journey through life, and He uses the good and bad, and the small and large to show us His love and mercy, and teach us how to live.

Trope-free science fiction! If you're looking for traditional sci-fi full of stupid, predictable video game plots, boring engineering dialogue, armed space scientists, or autocratic space armies aiming to enslave the universe, sorry, this ain't it! Welcome to the Aligned Worlds, innovative, progressive, pansexual science fiction for Gen Z and beyond. You've never met characters like these or been to worlds like theirs. Climb aboard via Books 1, 2, or 3. You won't regret the ride! In this standalone sci-fi thriller, Elea'nora, a twenty-five year-old woman who has always been treated like "ordinary dust" by her status-seeking family, bonds with her young nephew, Finn, and tries to carve a life for herself. When they are both forced to leave home, traveling to distant planets, they will find their formerly idyllic lives will never be the same again.Finn joins the military and Elea'nora pursues the man who has destroyed her life. Full of adventure, romance, and suspense, Ordinary Dust is one part literary fiction romance and one part science fiction crime thriller.Join Elea'nora and Finn as they grow up and make their ways on worlds full of alien races, adventure, and tragedy. You'll end up at the edge of your seat, reading about characters and worlds you will never forget.

Trope-free science fiction! If you're looking for traditional sci-fi full of stupid, predictable video game plots, boring engineering dialogue, armed space scientists, or autocratic space armies aiming to enslave the universe, sorry, this ain't it! Welcome to the Aligned Worlds, innovative, progressive, pansexual science fiction for Gen Z and beyond. You've never met characters like these or been to worlds like theirs. Climb aboard via Books 1, 2, or 3. You won't regret the ride! After 5600 years in space, a young woman is tasked with vetting a planet that might finally be a home for the thousands of people on her GenShip.Mya Landric has lived all of her life aboard the Rebibe, a generation ship that launched 5600 years earlier from a dying planet Earth. Everything aboard the Rebibe is tightly regimented via color-coded bars-status, career aptitude, even whom you date or marry. Mya is stuck in the ship's middle status layer, unnoticed by anyone and unhappy about it. Now, however, the captain and the ship's Artificial Intelligence, CAMLO, have tasked her with the most important job of her life: investigating a planet that might, finally, be a home.There's just one nagging problem. Mya and her small group of friends are beginning to believe that perhaps their own Captain Bligh has no intention of letting them land there, and Mya most definitely does not wish to be the Rebibe's Fletcher Christian. Emotional, hopeful, and enthralling, this future fiction epic is the first novel in a series of epic adventures in the Aligned Worlds(TM) universe.Stay tuned for space-time travel, pointless wars, love, sex, and rock and roll, all on planets you'll have to read about to believe. It's going to be a wild ride, and Year 5601 takes you there with a roaring start.

There is a rich history of achievements by Chartered Surveyors in Singapore going back as far as the 1880s. Their stories have largely gone untold. This book tells the stories of individual Chartered Surveyors in Singapore over the first hundred years since the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors was founded (1868 to 1968) and explains the role they played in the development of Singapore. The book also includes the stories of the pioneer Singaporean Chartered Surveyors from the 1940s onwards, many of whom studied overseas but returned to Singapore where they would play important roles in the real estate industry over future decades.

Hometown History From the authors of the popular "Images of America: Winnsboro" book, comes a more comprehensive history of the small town of Winnsboro, Texas. Compiled from the many articles Bill Jones has written for local publications, Reflections of Winnsboro tells the story of this area of East Texas from the beginning of civilization to the recent cultural renaissance of the town. It is all written with the same country charm you would experience if you met Bill at the local coffee shop and chatted over a cup of coffee. If you like to stop in small towns and find out what makes them unique, you will enjoy this virtual visit to a town that was visited often by Bonnie & Clyde and was the home of the founders of the Bama Pie Company. The last Confederate soldier was also a visitor to Winnsboro, as were many famous singers, including Elvis Presley. But what makes any town great are the everyday people who have their own stories to tell. Bill has done extensive research and interviews to bring those stories to light. REVIEW OF IMAGES OF AMERICA WINNSBORO "This is a collection of the history of Winnsboro, Texas, a small town in East Texas, in pictures. The pictures are clear and the captions are well done. There is a book planned delving into the people and places in and around Winnsboro througout history by the same authors, and I am planning to buy that one, too." James Moyers

Bill and Debra D. Jones present Volume I of the collaborative effort of more than 45 contributing authors and prayer partners in Volumes I and II. The series of books is destined to be a go-to resource for married couples and singles looking to strengthen and encourage the institution of marriage God's way.Contributing authors - Alice M. Baker, Roosevelt & Gale Barden, Eboni B. Barnes, Tammy M. Brackens, Belinda Espy, Minister Vivian J. Gipson, Dr. Evelyn Ogletree, Rodney & Barbara Owens, Gloria Riles-Walker, Vernisha Shepard, Elton & Danielle Simmons, Angela Scott-TorborPrayer Partners - Nia Abdallah, Vicki R. Alexander, Josephine Arthur, Vanessa Blaze, Annette M. Burnam, Felicia O. Hudson, Gisele Jolivette, Katrina Jones, Mattie P. Jones, Michael E. Jones, Wendolyn Jones, Pamela Lindsey, Minister Terry Marshall, Sonia Meeks, Torin Murray, Jay Pleasant, Joy Tharpe

A collection of 120 salmon recipes organized by meal course and covers appetizers, soups, salads, and entrees, as well as marinades, curing, and different cooking methods. Editor is an experienced cook and award-winning author.

Nikola Tesla, inventor of alternating current motors, did the basic research for constructing electromagnetic field lift-and-drive aircraft/space craft. From 1891 to 1893, he gave a set of lectures and demonstrations to groups of electrical engineers. As part of each show, Tesla stood in the middle of the stage, using his 6' 6" height, with an assistant on either side, each 7 feet away. All 3 men wore thick cork or rubber shoe soles to avoid being electrically grounded. Each assistant held a wire, part of a high voltage, low current circuit. When Tesla raised his arms to each side, violet colored electricity jumped harmlessly across the gaps between the men. At high voltage and frequency in this arrangement, electricity flows over a surface, even the skin, rather than into it. This is a basic circuit which could be used by aircraft / spacecraft.

A comprehensive reference book for anyone interested in Britiush politics, covering modern history, institutions, ideas, key terms and key political biographies. -- .

This introduction to the life and work of Bert Coombes should be valuable not just for its assessment of Coombes, but for the light that it sheds on the social and industrial context in which he lived. His writing articulated the social and economic injustice of contemporary capitalism.

Our young and earnest hero, Algernon Swift, returns from his travels abroad and must once more face the trials of life, love and the English language. Back at home, Algernon tries to cope with the exorbitant passion of the exquisite Mavis (a woman with X on her mind) and his elderly uncle, Reverend Hawker, and his exasperating inability to mean one thing at a time. Well-meaning in a world of double meanings, can Algernon avoid becoming another of Mavis's Xs or, at least, plunging into an existential crisis of his own? Amidst perpetual solicitude, can Algernon find both solace and solitude? Punning on subjects as diverse as Henry VIII's wives, Pre-Raphaelite painters, mathematics and fairy tales, we are taken on a hilarious and punishing journey of jokes - both high-brow and homespun - as Algernon attempts to make sense of, and even delight in, the world of word-play. Written and illustrated by Bill Jones, The Life and Times of Algernon Swift contains some of the best - or indeed worst - puns and jokes you will ever read.

Short, yet comprehensive. Completely up to date. Great value for money textbook by two established scholars .