In this quirky, character-driven debut novel seven hotel employees puzzle out the events of a botched assassination attempt — the next read for fans of Fredrik Backman (Anxious People) and Matt Haig (The Midnight Library). Finalist for the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best First Novel Seven ordinary hotel employees. Catering, Reservations, Management. Seven moles, waiting for years for a single code word, a trigger that will send them into action in a violent event that will end their dull lives as they know them. The event has failed: the action was a disaster. Each employee is being debriefed by an agent of an invisible organization. These are the transcripts of those interviews. What they reveal is not just the intricate mechanism of an international assassination, but the yearnings inside each of its pawns, the desperation and secret rage that might cause any one of us to sign up, sell out, and take a plunge into darkness. Both sinister and absurd, Seven Down is a puzzle to be solved, a comedy, and a panorama of life. At once sociological, satirical, and scary, it paints portraits of the mundane human failings behind geopolitical machinations. A RARE MACHINES BOOK

December 7, 1941. A soft Hawaiian breeze flutters across the lanai. A perfect Sunday morning . . . until tragedy strikes. Thirteen-year-old Emiko Arrington can't stop looking through the window at the cloud of smoke rising from Pearl Harbor, a shimmering curtain of black and gray that gradually drifts out to sea. She sees the planes, swarming like insects as they pour down the valley and turn into the harbor. She sees their bombs and torpedoes fall away. Within a short time, Emiko and her family cease to be Japanese-Americans. Somehow, without warning, they simply become Japanese. They become the enemy.

This book is written to empower you to face every battle that comes your way. With this book the Lord will put his armor upon you and destroy the fiery darts of the enemy. There are seven principal pillars of Satan you need to pull down before success and salvation can be erected in your destiny. This book addresses them all. They comprise pride, lack of knowledge, anger, and lack of faith; prayerlessness, self-affliction and pursuit of vanity. You are not expected to plant good seeds of life and reap little or nothing. You are created a unique person and; to achieve unique reward. You are the salt of the world. This book will provoke you to action and win every battle of life. You are to crack every concrete situation in your life so that your destiny may thrive. The seven pillars are dangerous to humanity. They swallow effects of prayer. The wicked do this intentionally by placing load of distractions in your hands. They do it with smiles but with wickedness in their heart. Satan is smart! He places load of distraction in our hands and turn it to pillars designed to swallow our destiny. Distraction takes priority in our life over the glorious presence of God so that we lose appetite for God and receive no vision or revelation. We must checkmate the wickedness of the enemy. It is for this reason this violent spiritual book loaded with spiritual missile bullets is written. This book will silence and break to pieces these evil pillars. There are battles seeking your daily tears and ready to bury your destiny. They are spiritual pillars that say; “if I am not lifted, you can’t be lifted”. They are there pressing you down, boasting you can’t go. They are happy to press you down. They are spiritual vultures assigned in the spirit to announce your obituary. At this point; call on angels of war to come to your aide and fight the battle. You need drastic, violent and no nonsense spiritual powers to destroy the evil pillars. Your cry to God won’t have effect if you are not prayerful and know what to do. This book gives good counsel to go about it. This book is wonderfully packaged with violent prayers vomited by Holy Spirit. Arise and pray. Now is the time every witch and wizard, and every form of evil power that surrounds you should surrender. Above all, this book will give you access to the following as you count success over the seven pillars of darkness. You shall be set free from the grip of the enemy. The powers of your father’s house shall bow. Losses shall seize in your life. Your destiny shall experience spiritual fertility and growth. Pillars of darkness assigned against you shall break to pieces and expire. The glory of the Lord shall locate you and your eagle shall fly high. Helpers shall arise for your sake and locate you. Every dark battle against you shall bow and scatter. Every dark arrow of limitation, untimely death, bad health, poverty and whatever shall backfire to the sender. Every dark pillar troubling you in order to swallow your destiny and keep you in perpetual cry and agony shall be pulled down by fire. The battle is won. Pick your copy and buy for others. Your joy is borderless and super! Congratulations and praise the Lord!

THE QUEST FOR BATTLEMECHS TAKES ITS TOLL ON ALL WHO SEEK THEM... The BattleMech. King of the battlefield. Prized. Feared. Coveted. Fearing being left behind in the arms race among the other Great Houses, the Draconis Combine will do anything—anything—to possess this fearsome technology. Even grind its most loyal subject into useless husks in a decades-long attempt to gain the information the Dragon so desperately needs. Two brothers. One an intelligence analyst and deep-cover operative, the other a leader in the Combine's commando unit. Both with the same goal—recover the BattleMech plans—but with very different ideas on how to accomplish it. But only one will survive and emerge triumphant... or will the Dragon's machinations destroy them both?

This new edition of Seven Times Down Eight Times Up: Landing on Your Feet in an Upside Down World is the right book for the right time. We seemingly are in the midst of an upside down world in which the economy is in shambles, our security is threatened, and we're uncertain of who we can trust. It is no wonder that we struggle with our emotions to the extent that we do. The second edition revises many of the original stories while adding a host of new ones. The book retains its easy-to-read format, offering a hundred brief, parable-like stories that hold your interest while conveying valuable insights that help you to feel better and function differently.