A delightful story of an adventurous young boy who does not want to go to bed.

Go get the life you want. Be a Rhinoceros! There is something dangerous about this book. Something big. Something full of power, energy and force of will. It could be about you. You could become three tons of thick-skinned, snorting hard-charging rhinoceros. It is time to go get the life you want.

It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris's bed. They talked of Chris's friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. "Alexander was a pretty bad horse today," Chris said. "He wouldn't eat his cereal. He wouldn't sit up at the table and he spilled his milk." "That's too bad," said Chris's father. "What else happened?" The ensuing conversation of Alexander's bad day makes for an entertaining read, along with its priceless ending.

Alexander Thorsson is a frustrated ex-football player and a cashiered Air Force officer, now living life out of a suitcase as an airline pilot. He always thought hed amount to something morethe people of the galaxy think so too. The Galactics have watched Humans for thousands of years; Humans are the most physically powerful, most adaptable and most brutally brilliant sentients in the galaxy. However, when Alexander the Great boasted that his conquests would continue, Even to the everlasting and innumerable stars. the Galactics took him at his word. They live in constant fear that someday Alexander will rise again and lead his legions to conquer the stars. Everyone knows this except Humansand Alexander. Still, the exotic and masterful Nazeera of Chem kidnaps Alexander from Terra and sentences him to death on the fantastic prison planet of Pantrixnia. That should have been the end of Alexander but somehow he refuses to die quietly; given one final chance at destiny Alexander forges ahead and becomes the legend everyone was afraid of. Galactic conspiracy revolves around him, splintering the Galactics into factions vying to ally with Alexander, negotiate with him or to destroy the threat of Alexander and Earth for all time. Earth is caught between its own brutal history and the reality of its insignificance; only Alexander can save his planet from destruction and save the Galactics from destroying themselves.

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Jacob Jarten made the big leap and officially moved to Rockville, Rhode Island to be with Alexander Lionel, the man who captured his heart in just a few short weeks the summer before. Everything was going perfectly until Alex’s teenage children from his previous marriage begin to visit one weekend a month. Now Jacob finds himself having to pretend to be Alex’s friend and roommate, waiting for Alex to acknowledge their love to those closest to him. And the waiting is the hard part. Alexander Lionel has found love for the first time in his life. He and Jacob went from a summer fling to a year-long budding romance, and now that they are living together in a domestic partnership, he could not be any happier. But now Alex, who had been hiding his sexuality for years, has to choose between coming clean to his children and ex-wife on who Jacob is to him, or run the risk of losing Jacob forever. This sweet and steamy continuation of Catch and Don’t Release will have you falling deeper in love with the teacher and fisherman you first met in the summer of 1981.