Unlucky in love, Mr. Smith, who always fashioned himself as a father, decides to use artificial insemination to create that family he so desperately wants. By the summer of 2025, Mr. Smith, partnered with a couple of buddies, has taken partial ownership of the local saloon called "Pirate's Treasure", where he has since moved with his two young children, who he must now raise by himself and he thought he'd have to continue to do so, alone, until Miss Jennifer Monroe walks into his life when she gets hired as the new waitress in the summer of 2026. Will our hero finally "get the girl", and finally have that complete, traditional family that he always wanted since he was a teenager?

William and Victoria Smith are a wealthy couple living in suburban New York, who thought they had it all, a nice house, three handsome sons, maids and butlers at their every beck and call. When Bill and Victoria decide to adopt a child from a local orphanage, however, they both find it rather odd that the orphanage didn't have any records of who this little girl was, but they adopt the little girl anyway, and name her Carol Anne.Eventually Bill and Victoria find out about Carol Anne's past and that she wasn't born, so much as created by a group of mad scientists who wanted to use her as a guinea-pig for experiments. Then, when one of these scientists; Dr. Matthew Fredericks finds out that this "test subject", who was given the codename Rosemary, was adopted, he sees her as a threat, and tries to dispose of her once and for all. Dr. Fredericks then hatches a plot to kidnap Carol Anne and turn her back into a guinea-pig for more experiments.Can the Smiths save their adopted daughter in time, before i

Springdale, Ohio is a middle-class town nestled in southwestern Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati.It's a quiet, sleepy town which has a secret.In the early 1920's a man named Michael Westerly moved into this old house on Deadman's Bluff, overlooking a graveyard, but there was a reason Mr. Westerly chose this spot. He was into voodoo and trying to make zombies out of the townsfolk, but when the townsfolk got wind of this, they tried to drive him out of town, and ultimately they lynched him, but Mr. Westerly got his revenge, and 100 years later, the town of Springdale, Ohio was the epicenter of a conspiracy that brought Mr. Westerly's threats to fruition. Now the townspeople, including the Smith family, who moved into town in the summer of 2025, to flee for their lives in the ensuing zombie apocalypse. Can the Smiths and the townspeople of Springdale survive the nightmare that they find themselves in, or be swallowed up by "The Curse of Deadman's Bluff"

The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe): A man is bitten by a golden bug and what ensues is a treasure hunt adventure featuring a cryptic message. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson): A young boy is trapped between fierce pirates and his desire to find the missing treasure. The Pirate of Panama (William Macleod Raine): A story of the fight for buried treasure. Black Bartlemy's Treasure (Jeffery Farnol): A treasure hunt for the gold of legendary pirate, Black Bartlemy. The Pagan Madonna (Harold MacGrath): An unusual treasure-hunt tale featuring a lost but precious glass bead and a modern pirate. Pieces of Eight (Richard Le Gallienne) The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates (Ralph D. Paine) Stolen Treasure (Howard Pyle): treasure hunt stories from the author of Peter Pan adventures: Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main The Ghost of Captain Brand With the Buccaneers Tom Chist and the Treasure Box Jack Ballister's Fortunes Blueskin, the Pirate Captain Scarfield The Ruby of Kishmoor A True History of the Devil at New Hope

Every family has their family traditions when it comes to the holidays and especially the holiday of Christmas. For Suzanne and Bill, ever since they became parents, that included decorating their "humble abode", and putting up their massive Christmas-tree. As their family grows, with the birth of their daughter; Elizabeth, son; Oliver and their twin daughters; Candace and Carol Anne, so do their traditions, adding new ones along the way; ones that they'll cherish until the end of time.

The wall between dimensions is so paper-thin all it takes for someone to travel between dimensions is a little bit of magic, which can be found in the most mundane objects.Little Carol Anne Smith found this out while she was playing in her basement, one cold winter afternoon and found this ruby amulet on the floor, and when she picked it up, it led her on a fantastic adventure through the Forest of Sorrows where she would team with a ragtag band of warriors, a young knight, an archer, and a couple of fencing wizards.Carol Anne and her friends must get the ruby amulet back from this evil troll named Harold, before he can give it to a wicked witch named Belinda who wants to use the magic of the amulet to take over the universe, and Carol Anne and her friends must race against time to get the ruby amulet back to its rightful owner, Queen Rebecca of Dernolia, and foil Belinda's wicked plans for universal and world conq

Samantha and Carol Anne have been friends for the past couple of years and now they have another friend in Deborah Anderson whose family moved into Springdale at the beginning of 2018.Now, as they move through their third year of life, the girls are going through all the normal learning experiences, including now being potty-trained.The girls also improve on their talking skills and are soon growing by leaps and bounds and their relationship only grows and gets stronger as their third year of life methodically progresse