Bøger af Larry Webb

Damey & Grandpa Tutor Gathered with his adoptive white great uncles for the official reading of Grandpa's will, Damey's mind drifted back fourteen years. Moving into a Habitat for Humanity's home across from William (Bill) Berkley, a retired secondary school teacher, turned into the first good break in Damey's life. Bill stepped in to be his tutor, mentor, friend, confidant, and eventual adoptive grandpa. African American Damey and Alex, his Hispanic buddy, teamed up for games and adventures-including the time where the two found themselves lost in the woods after following a pure white deer. One cannot stay lost for long before nature calls. Damey cleaned himself using green, three-pronged leaves found in the woods-poison ivy. Sometimes, RediCares do not concern themselves with patient modesty. Later in the year, Xavier, Damey's biological father, returned to the scene. Their initial contact left Damey suspicious and not liking him. Shaundra, his mother, had fallen in love with the man at fourteen and wanted to pursue the relationship to see if her lingering feelings were real or imaginary. After Xavier visited a week in April, Shaundra and Damey drove to Oklahoma for two weeks to continue the journey. Damey and Xavier's relationship deteriorated to the point where he slapped the boy hard enough to bounce him off the cupboards and into a heap on the floor. Using Googled maps, Damey decided to ride a bike back to Michigan-almost 1100 miles. Author Bio Larry Webb taught secondary school English for thirty-five years. Using his many years of experience dealing with young people and their trials and tribulations, Damey & Grandpa Tutor is his seventh novel all available at Amazon.com and the Kindle as well as other venues.

A teen and young adult paranormal coming of age adventure While mowing the lawn, Jeremy has an intuitive flash of a hit-and-run accident killing Scott, his lifelong neighbor and best friend. The reality of the accident leaves him devastated beyond belief. He finds no relief until he visits the cemetery for the first time a week after the funeral. When he arrives, he sees a ghost boy, Scott, along with the ghost of Mooshy, his long dead dog sitting on the mound of dirt waiting for him. After initially freaking out, Scott calms him down and reveals that because of the closeness the two of them have had throughout their lives, his guardian has given them the opportunity to try to discover exactly happened and why. The two boys set out on a series of teen paranormal adventures attempting to solve the mystery. Once they consider that the case is closed in their own minds, it is time for Scott to leave for good. However, he tells Jeremy that all he has to do is call for him, and he will be able to come if the situation warrants it. As life goes on for Jeremy, he bumbles his way through adolescence-parties, sex, and booze problems. Suddenly, Marty Johnson, Jeremy's new friend and classmate, disappears for no apparent reason. Marty, who suffers from child abuse and neglect, lives with a step father, Bruno Bashore, who is mean and unstable. Jeremy calls in Scott and together they unravel Marty's problem-saving his life and momentarily, at least, getting Bruno out of his life. Be sure to click on "Look Inside" button above the cover image.

After learning about his estranged abusive father's death from his own son, Jayden's suspicions led to a couple of opportunities to run a couple of different DNA checks to verify his parentage. Finding Closure (Book 3 of the I Can and I Will: Tell Me Why series) begins when the first test is returned from the forensics lab at the university where Jayden works. The results only provide answers to part of the mystery. After discussing options with his wife, adoptive mom, brother, wife, and kids, it is decided he wants to do further testing.By then, Jayden's biological mother had developed dementia and wasn't a whole lot of help-however, over a short period of time she repeated the same basic storyline on three different occasions. The details were always different, but one aspect remained the same-a tale indicating possible child trafficking. Since a pattern was developing, Jayden and his family decided to try a top-of-the-line commercial DNA analysis.Barely believable results occured. As the family pondered their next move, an email arrived from Florida from a complete stranger who claimed he had also taken the same test. Naturally, the first question that came to Jayden's mind was the legitimacy of the information. Was it a scam? Had someone in some way hacked the records? In order to find closure, he had to contact the man and find out whatever information possible.

Really Short Shorts is a compilation of forty short stories-most ranging from four to six pages. There is a wide range of topics included. Most of the stories deal with people--from little kids to seniors. Most of them involve some humor. Some are pure fantasy, others are more serious. Keep in mind that my ultimate goal in writing is to entertain myself. If you enjoy my stories, then that's a plus. Read and enjoy.

This novella is the third and final of the "As Life..." series. Jeremy's ghost buddy Scott has been dead for two years, and his appearances have become scarcer and of shorter durations. Scott's mentor is making him wean himself away from Jeremy. Jeremy needs to finally take over his own life and control his own destiny. He has leaned on Scott his entire life and it's time for him to grow up. It's the first day of break before their first year of college starts in the fall. Jeremy, his girlfriend, and other friends have the entire summer to enjoy as they transition into adulthood. The big question becomes how can Jeremy and Scott make that final break, or can they? However it works out, life continues.

It's two weeks before their wedding and Andy and Jen have just moved into their new home. They are planting a commemorative tree in the side yard when the mail truck stops at their curbside mail box. The delivery man climbs out of his vehicle and waddles towards them. Their first thought is that there will probably need to be another upward revision for the caterer-which has already cost them dearly. Instead, he presents Andy with a registered letter with no return address. He opens the letter and discovers that Mandy, the girl he took to the senior prom in high school and ended up with in the back seat of his father's car with his pants down to his ankles, beer cans strewn all over the place, and a cop banging on his window with a flashlight, is sending his nine year old son, who he didn't know existed for a weekend visit. Jen loses it and threatens to shoot the plane out of the sky before settling down and accepting the situation. Ike, whose picture looks like a miniature clone of Andy, shows up on Saturday morning with scraggly, unkempt, purple hair, a skull and crossbones earring, and an attitude. The stewardess has two documents for him to sign-an airline agreement for safe delivery of the minor and another registered letter from the Miami court system. Mandy has terminated all parental rights and turned the child over to Andy.

Really Short Shorts is a compilation of one fifty page novelette and twenty-four short stories ranging from four to seventeen pages. The stories cover a wide variety of topics. Most of them deal with people, dysfunctional and normal, ranging from young to old. All are pure fantasy flowing from my imagination. The key for me is, if you can read the first story about a set of twins and their weird family, and not end up scratching your head with questions, I screwed up. As always, I entertained myself writing the short stories; hopefully you will be by reading them. The subtitle, "Bathroom Edition," comes from two sources. A close friend of mine kept Really Short Shorts: Book 1 in his bathroom for a long time, which I found amusing. Telling this story to one of my writing groups, a lady became very serious. She indicated the hardest thing to do when her mother passed was to dispose of the two short story books she'd had stashed in the bathroom for over forty years.

BOOK DESCRIPTION: Adventure thriller. A freakish disaster at sea on an icebreaker left Damey locked in the bowels of the ship with no electricity, water, or heat. The rest of the ship suffered the same conditions with outdoor temperatures ranging in the vicinity of twenty below zero. They, however, were not locked into their rooms. The US Navy had discovered a mysterious flow of oil seeping out from under the ice shelf in the Antarctic. As a fifty year international ban went into effect in 1988 regarding any oil or mineral exploration in that area of the world, the discovery was automatically suspicious. For some reason, unknown to Dewline Robotics Engineering, the National Security Administration and Department of Defense were aware of the nuclear powered, oil-sniffing, underwater robot that Damey and his crew had been developing. The NSA contacted the company and asked for help. As the vice president of Dewline, Dr. Damarian Williams, PhD, AKA Damey, is considered one of the top, if not THE top robotics scientist/engineer "Geek" in the country. Therefore, Sam Wardwell, owner of Dewline, always left all emergency troubleshooting operations up to him, much to the chagrin of his wife, Zandy, and children, Zack, Zaiden, and Zane. The boys hated having Dad gone for extended periods.

Reading the obituary, naming his father as a dead man's estranged son, left Ryan speechless. Who was this man, and why hadn't he and his brother Rayden ever even heard of him? Because of this incident, the boys come to realize they know nothing of their father's childhood. Why? Therein lies the title, Tell Me Why.When growing up in a happy, stable home, sometimes one never thinks of oddities. For the Miller boys, the fact that their last names and those of their grandmother and dad's brother were different never occurred to them. That's just the way it always had been. Sometimes, a jarring episode changes things.On Monday morning, one of Ryan's friends walked up to him before school and offered condolences over the loss of his grandfather. Ryan had no idea what the boy was talking about. Their family had eaten dinner with his grandpa the night before. His friend said his mother had showed him the obituary that morning, and he should check it out with the school counselor who always carried the daily paper in his pocket. Ryan raced to the front of the school and found the man leaning against the wall chatting with other teachers as the kids entered the building. Mr. Martin took him to his office and showed him the obituary. The questions started there.

The team had just finished the last day of tryouts, and the roster sheets had been posted on the door. Jayden, who had played halfback as a freshman, did not see his name on the JV roster. Devastated, he sat alone on the bench in the dressing room, with his head buried between his knees. His mind flashed back to what his father had preached to him his whole life. "You can't do that, you're too puny. You can't do that, you're not smart enough. You Can't do that!" So, what should he do? Should he give up, or should he fight? With the help of a number of people-his teachers, his counselor, his coach, his soon-to-be best friend and his friend's mother, Jayden developed his own life's mantra-I Can, and I Will!

Amy sat in the parking lot of the credit union pondering the past of all those who are close to her. Why had Mr. Carter insisted she probe Thomas's brain until she dug out the entire, previously unmentioned to her, story of his life? What hadn't Dad Carter told her? He insisted the task was for therapeutic reasons-Thomas's or hers? He hadn't said. Thomas's past was something the two of them had never discussed. Why not? Everyone talks about their childhood. Everyone, that is, except Thomas. He never mentioned it. So, what had she missed? As she sat there thinking, she nodded, realizing it was a subject he'd continuously skirted. Later. We'll talk later, he'd say, if and when she brought it up, but they never did. Why? Was he hiding something? She'd known him for several years. On the surface, he was an upright, straight forward, honest, and loving guy. Was he somehow some kind of closet criminal? Was there something evil about his past she should know? As she saw him walking across the parking lot towards her way, she made a decision. One way or the other, she would find out-the sooner the better.

As Life Moves On A Teen and young adult paranormal coming of age adventure Jeremy and Marty arrive at school Monday morning to find police cars parked all over the place. Called to the principal's office, they learn the school was broken into and vandalized-including spray painted threats on their lives. Suspicion falls on Bruno Bashore, Marty's step-father, who recently escaped from a mental health facility. He admitted murdering Marty's mother in Book One-As Life Goes On. Life is hectic for a few weeks, but after no sign of Bruno, things eventually get back to normal until four year-old Bobby, the child who Marty babysits for, is kidnapped at the mall. Jeremy calls in his ghost buddy Scott for help. Scott's spirit world mentor initially allowed Scott's ghost to come back to help Jeremy solve the mystery of the hit-and-run accident that killed Scott, but his role expanded. The boys set out on a series of teen paranormal adventures trying to solve their new mysteries-major girl problems-a suspicious work accident that left his dad in a coma-the disappearance of Marty-and Bruno's plan to murder the boys. For more information on Larry's work, visit: www.larrywebb-author.com

When Dr. Jack Jackson takes a turn for the worse in the hospital's critical care wing, the nurses notify the family. One of those gathered around is his son, Dr. Jason Jackson, who bemoans the fact that even now in the year 2053 modern medicine can't do everything. Regardless of the sophistication of the time, nature always prevails. As Jason stares out the window, his mind drifts back forty years to 2013. That's when it all started for him. The first eleven years of his life had been a period of extreme abuse and cruelty. For the most part, he'd been able to block it from his memory over the years. Watching his dad sink farther and farther into the beyond, it all comes back to him in vivid, unwanted, painful detail.

Every pastor knows that each community of faith consists of individuals who may be in crisis at any given moment, for a multitude of reasons. However, it s essential that church leaders also view their congregations as a single organism in need of looking after as a whole.This book explores the core competencies, skills, and knowledge available to and needed by pastors so that they can provide suitable care for the most common needs of their members. Crisis Counseling in the Congregation provides a basic tool kit including in-depth listening skill, helping questions, various frameworks, and when to refer. Pastors will also benefit from the suggested reading list."