This carefully crafted ebook: "JAMES FENIMORE COOPER – Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels, Western Classics & Sea Tales; Including Travel Sketches, Historical Writings and Biographies (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie The Littlepage Manuscripts: Satanstoe The Chainbearer The Redskins The Adventures of Miles Wallingford: Afloat and Ashore Miles Wallingford Other Novels: Precaution The Spy The Pilot The Red Rover The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish The Water-Witch The Bravo The Headsman The Monikins Homeward Bound Home as Found Mercedes of Castile The Two Admirals The Wing-and-Wing Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief Wyandotté The Crater Jack Tier The Oak Openings The Sea Lions Short Stories: Tales for Fifteen Imagination Heart The Lake Gun Travel Sketches: A Residence in France Excursion up the Rhine Second Visit to Switzerland Recollections of Europe Other Works: Ned Myers: A Life before the Mast New York: The Towns of Manhattan The Chronicles of Cooperstown Eclipse Criticism and Biographies: Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury James Fenimore Cooper by Mary E. Phillips James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Before embarking on his career as a writer, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy, which greatly influenced many of his novels. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, tale of espionage in Revolutionary War. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans.

SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! Editor Alex Ebenstein brings his acclaimed split-novelette series back featuring:

"So Quiet, So White" - Patrick Barb

Roger Grimsby, a small-town curmudgeon known for his '80s horror paperback cover art, believes an ancient, bloodthirsty entity with ties to his family may have reemerged. But how does this connect to his wayward grandson, who prying police detectives and grieving parents blame for a recent knife attack massacre at a nearby summer camp? "So Quiet, So White" is cosmic folk horror that balances the act of creation through destructive forces, with the Grimsby family at the fulcrum. Prepare for bloodshed, and the beauty found within.

"Imago Expulsio (The Red Animal of Our Blood)" - J.A.W. McCarthy

Shauna's infatuation with the enigmatic painter she meets at art school escalates into unwavering devotion when she learns about the mercilessly brutal cat and mouse game that has consumed Elise's life. She vows to protect her, to keep her safe-but how far will she go to keep her promise? A self-portrait vomits viscera and the sinister secrets that lie at the heart of the decadently deranged "Imago Expulsio (The Red Animal of Our Blood)," where body parts and gore become fine art. 

Throughout Covid and emerging in and out of lockdown, I have found joy in the small things that life can bring a walk in the park in the rain. I also have been drawing on my memory bank of happier times.

As the land withers under a changing climate and resources grow scarce, a hungry family confronts a dark legacy. An old storehouse holds an ancient secret: an imprisoned girl who can bestow bounties of food and prosperity. But in return she requires sacrifices.

 

Her ancient power contains the truth they must face. You can deny family, but you can't deny blood.

 

". . . creepy folk horror"

--Kerry E. B. Black

Author of CAROUSEL OF NIGHTMARES

Born in a time of rising conflict between God's chosen and those who stood against them, cousins Kathryn and Karem were brought together to be raised with the understanding that they would one day be called to fight. Although the circumstance and timing were never known to either of them or their family, when their settlement is attacked, and they are forced to leave their childhood home, they embark on a journey neither one of them are prepared to face, but with the help of a new friend, they finally come to realize the answers they never expected to find.

I hide not in fear of the unknown,

But to let my words truly be shown.

For it's not about me, but about you,

And the wisdom that you pursue.

Each line is yours to interpret and heed,

To shape the path that you will lead.

For you hold the power to shine so bright,

To become the beacon of your own light.

So take these words and make them your own,

And let your inner wisdom be known.

For in this life, you have the key,

To unlock the door to your destiny.

In the heart of Manila, Agent Maria Santos, a skilled operative, unveils a sinister web of government corruption during a covert police operation. As she delves deeper, her path intersects with Rico Velasco, a former hacker entangled in the conspiracy. Amidst the chaos, Maria discovers her secret crush from university days, Gabriel Reyes, is a journalist aware of the scandal. A fateful love blossoms, intertwining their destinies in a city of contrasts. The revelation of a high-profile traitor prompts a dangerous decision-should they expose the corruption legally or take extrajudicial measures? The unfolding drama tests the limits of love, loyalty, and justice against the backdrop of a Manila rife with intrigue and peril.

In the near future, a forensic investigator communicates his concerns to his superior regarding a murder suspect whose name keeps popping up in the testimonies of other criminals whose cases have baffled the police for decades.

A taxi dispatcher tells of a murderous nightshift driver convinced he was immortal.

A short-order cook at a desolate truck stop describes the events that occurred in the wake of a lone drifter that left a trail of crystalized blood.

A police officer's strange interview about a beheaded victim from his cell in a mental institution.

A successful audio engineer's drug-fueled misadventure leads him to rescue someone he may never escape from.

A confession from a man who kills his sister's ex-boyfriend.

There is the case of a woman arrested for living in a mausoleum who claimed she dated the suspect.

The odd testimony from a moon base phlebotomist about a disappearing impostor who bathed in blood.

An interplanetary bureaucrat's account of his own pursuit of the suspect for crimes in the past.

The depictions of the suspect and the experiences of each eyewitness lead the investigator into a logically inexplicable rabbit hole of possibilities making his continued pursuit if the truth seem beyond his reach.

Contains poems from my life's experiences from God's love and trustworthiness.

My testimony demonstrates the many trials he has supported me through.

The poems were written in plain languages for everyone.

This book defies categorization. Although written from Catholic perspective, these stories of God showing up are eminently readable by anyone of any faith, including those on the fence about God. Her life story is her God story, but to call it purely a memoir or an autobiography would be inaccurate. It is too remarkable. In the end, the book is about God and His presence in a life and what can happen when a soul cooperates. The stories are engaging--often intensely personal--drawing souls into the moment and opening windows for God's light to shine in, illuminating a personal story within the reader (perhaps long forgotten) and instigating a new conversation with God.

Inland is a compact story or group of stories, each nested within another, nonetheless opening onto a seemingly endless fractal geography, where the interior of Australia, the Midwestern prairie, and the Hungarian Alfold merge, imitate, and enfold one another in the mind of a man sitting alone in a room full of books.

Spending Life with You: Love Poems Book 3 includes poems about lifelong love by Walter the Educator. Collect all books in the series at WaltertheEducator.com. This poetry book about lifelong love is a beautiful way to celebrate, explore, and share the magic of enduring love.

Hitting the charts only once isn't just unfortunate...it's a crime.

Over the decades, tons of musical artists and groups have had a hit song that has lived on long after the tune topped the charts and is often looked upon fondly for decades to come. For some musicians, this may be the only the song they're ever known for and they fade into obscurity soon thereafter. These are affectionately known as "one-hit wonders," and are much celebrated by fans and music publications, particularly on September 25th each year on One-Hit Wonder Day.

12 of today's best short story authors have taken their favorite one-hit wonders and reimagined them as the influence for some pretty heinous crimes. (I Just) Died in Your Arms features a decades-spanning collection of immediately recognizable hit songs turned into stories from the amazing talents of Vinnie Hansen, Jeanne DuBois, Josh Pachter, J.M. Taylor, Christine Verstraete, Sandra Murphy, Joseph S. Walker, Wendy Harrison, Bev Vincent, Leone Ciporin, Adam Gorgoni and Barb Goffman.

When Phoenix probation officer Casey Carson goes to work, she expects naked people to answer doors, meth-addicted clients to hit on her, and angry judges to chew her out in court. After a routine home visit with a client, a Diablo gang member, goes horribly wrong, she knows she must watch her back. Even she must admit that a one-eyed, bad-ass, angry gangster and his crew gunning for her is a bit more than she was trained to handle.  

 

Casey has even more reason to fear Diablo when her cousin Hope goes missing, and it looks like their handiwork. With women vanishing at an alarming rate in the area, police treat Hope's disappearance as a priority. Still, Casey can't sit on the sidelines, even with her ex-husband leading the investigation. After she receives information that proves her suspicions about Diablo right, the gang will do anything to keep her from sharing it with police, even if that means taking her on a one-way trip to the desert. 

A recovering alcoholic must face his demons in the 'land of the dead.' Two actresses become dangerously consumed by an experimental approach to making theatre. A married couple travels to their old vacation spot in search of everything they've lost. A neighborhood's misguided efforts to remove a gaggle of domestic geese lead to the transformation of a young boy. Two lifeguards wrestle over thorny questions of guilt and accountability in the long shadow of 9/11. The owner of a local bike store and a misjudged teenager enter onto a tragic collision course one fateful night. Set principally in the Jersey Shore area, these eleven stories portray people who somehow manage to wrest a strange and singular beauty from the ordeals that define their lives.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Lauxs trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom.With odes to the unlikely and elementalsalt, snow, crows, cups, Bisquick, a shovel and rake, the ubiquitous can of WD-40, the way / it releases the caught cogs / of the worldLife on Earth urges us all to find extraordinary magic in the mess of ordinary life. One of our most daring contemporary poets (Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle), Laux balances wonder at the night sky and the taste of a ripe peach with recognition of the sharp knife of mortality. The volume includes powerful homages to the poets mother and her carpenters spirit, reflections on loss and aging, and encounters with the fleeting beauty of the natural world.Transcending lifes inevitable moments of pain and uncertainty, Life on Earth instructs us in our own endless possibilities and the astonishing riches of the world around us.

Once proud citadels of virtue, the US military academies have lost their way and are running on fumes. They need to be fixed before it's too late.Saving Our Service Academies covers one man's unrelenting thirty-year fight with the military bureaucracy to instill qualities of force and thoughtfulness in officers-to-be, to show young men how to be adults with other men and women, and to show young women how to deal with the men. Bruce Fleming has spent over thirty years teaching midshipmen and future officers at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. This position was both a dream job and a nightmare for the enthusiastic, athletic, young Fleming. He found, in the thousands of midshipmen he taught, mentored, and exercised with for three decades, a heartbreaking waste of potential, as promising officers-to-be lapsed into apathy and cynicism because of the dispiriting reality behind the gleaming facade of the Naval Academy. What happened to duty, honor, and country at Annapolis? These values have disappeared in the wake of changes in the world, such as the rise of ROTC and the increase in expense of civilian colleges (the service academies are free to the students), and in the attempt to use the service academies as experiments in trendy social engineering. A staunch advocate for military strength, Fleming shows how the smoke and mirrors of service academies produce officers who are taught to say ';SIR, YES SIR' rather than to have the guts to say things their commanding officer doesn't want to hear. Is that why the US hasn't won a war since World War II? By writing op-eds about the waste, fraud, and abuse of government (and taxpayer) money, Fleming put a target on his back that the USNA administration used to fire him in 2018, despite being a tenured civilian professor. He was reinstated by a federal judge in 2019. The service academies are government programs that no longer fill the needs for which they were created, and so like all government programs, can be re-examined. Indeed, as Fleming argues, they teach blind obedience in officers rather than informed and respectful questioning, and so sap our military strength rather than increasing it. They need to be re-imagined not as stand-alone undergraduate institutions that wall off future officers in an increasingly untenable isolation from the country they are to defend, but either be combined with the officer commissioning sources that currently produce over 80 percent of our new officers, or re-purposed to post-civilian college training institutions.

After the commander of Skylab reports a massive circular structure in the snow-covered ground in the winter of 1974, two curious teens begin hunting for this elusive geological phenomenon on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. They're unaware that they've stumbled upon a generations-old secret reluctantly revealed to the U.S. government and young geologist Lawrence Marten during World War II and defended with deadly violence.

Paul Meadows is just fourteen when his friend, Pete Flottmeier disappears on a solo search for the circle.

Jennifer von Guericke was also a child inspired by the mystery--her farm marked the epicenter of the circle described from space. Her father's disappearance soon after the Skylab report tore apart her family, and now, twenty-nine years later, in 2003, Jen has returned home to bury her estranged mother.

Jennifer meets Paul Meadows, still lost in his search for his boyhood friend. Now a new generation, led by Trempealeau County cheesemaker Steve Schleusener and 86-year-old professor Lawrence Marten, must decide if they will defend the awesome secret of the circle, or help Paul and Jennifer learn the truth.

But the secret is stirring. Mysterious earthquakes, building in strength, are shaking the globe, and the truth in Trempealeau threatens not just one Earth, but two.

HUMOR, SUSPENSE, AND CAJUN CHARM WRAPPED UP IN A DELIGHTFUL SERIES

In the second installment of the captivating series, Minou and Joe readers are once again transported to the enchanting world of the bayou, where chaos, laughter, and a touch of mystery await. Filled with authentic Cajun language that blends ancient French with colorful Cajun slurs, this tale immerses readers in the unique culture and vibrant atmosphere of the Louisiana Bayou.

Join Minou and Joe as they navigate outrageous and supernatural occurrences that seem to arise from the depths of the bayou. With their quick wit and unwavering determination, they unravel the mysteries surrounding them while keeping their sense of humor intact. Whether you're a fan of supernatural mysteries or simply seeking a heartwarming tale, this book will surely captivate and entertain.

Minou and Joe is a delightful blend of humor, suspense, and Cajun charm. Through vivid descriptions and lively dialogue, readers will feel the magic of the bayou come to life. Prepare for a wild ride through the bayou, where anything can happen!

What would you do if you were planning to kill your brother-but someone beat you to it? 

 

After former Olympic contender turned burn-out horse trainer Cillian Clarke is framed for the murder of his identical twin Christopher, a rising-star Virginia politician, Cillian is forced to go on the lam. But when someone from Christopher's past emerges and offers Cillian the chance to clear his name, Cillian is plunged headfirst into a sinister conspiracy that not only threatens the sanctity of democracy, but also promises to expose the devastating secretintertwining the brothers forever-the truth behind the death of a woman they both loved. 

Nestled in the heart of Appalachia, the rugged terrains of Harlan County, Kentucky, birthed a story of resilience, honor, and unwavering spirit. Harlan County Son reveals this narrative, taking readers on an evocative journey that transcends time and emotion. 

A young boy's life in Harlan County echoes the timeless adventures of "Tom Sawyer" but is also pierced by real-life traumas. Suffering abject poverty, witnessing the tragic killing of his father and enduring a near-fatal accident, he faces challenges most can only imagine. Yet, the trials of childhood pale in comparison to what awaits him in young adulthood. Joining the Army paratroopers at the age of seventeen, he confronts the brutal realities of the Vietnam War, facing battles that test not just his physical mettle, but his very soul. Every gunfire, every life-or-death decision, is described in visceral detail, pulling the reader into the thick of the action. 

But war is just one chapter. Returning home, he joins the ranks of the Kentucky State Police, dedicating three decades to the pursuit of justice. His illustrious career in law enforcement brings to light heart-pounding cases and profound insights into the criminal justice system. 

Crafted with precision and passion by Douglas E. Asher II, Harlan County Son isn't merely a biography-it's an anthem to the human spirit's ability to overcome, adapt, and flourish. Step into a world where each challenge is a lesson, each setback a stepping stone, and every triumph a testament to the enduring power of determination.

Dawn, a self-employed cleaning lady in upstate New York, agrees to pose in the houses she cleans for her friend Matthew' s provocative photography project. Over the course of one week, she and Matthew scour the contents of each home to find inspiration but what she uncovers instead is an unexpected connection to the people who live there: from the insecure Bridget Riley, and the recent immigrant Wei Chen, to the pretentious Robert McIntyre. But it' s the troubled housewife, Barb Turner, and the chaos of her life that finally force Dawn to confront her darkest secret about the death of her fiance . Coming Clean is a novel of forgiveness, family, and fresh starts.

"Oh Yeah ... Watch This!" is the story of the making of a man. Born amid tragedy, Lloyd Edward "Ed" Allen Jr. endured an abused and lonely boyhood to become a Naval Flight officer, the Captain of an aircraft carrier, and a Navy Rear Admiral. After his experience in the corporate world, he founded the Executive Success Group, coaching executives, sharing his insights on leadership and achieving business results.In this powerful and poignant memoir, Allen brings those insights, and much more, to a wider audience. Here you will meet another Ed Allen who was grappling with the lingering pains of the past that drove him to accomplishment. He shares not only the accolades but the anguish. Even as he rose to more senior levels in the military and in business, this was a soul in search of self. You see a hurting man looking upward and asking, "Why?" - and he takes you with him on a journey of forgiveness and closure.Few other memoirs have dealt so honestly with what it means to be human. "On the way to higher ground," Allen tells us in the opening pages, "I often slipped and fell and shouted in pain, but I grew stronger as I climbed to where, at long last, I could see the view." To anyone thinking that making it to the mountaintop is an impossible dream, this is Allen's challenge: "Oh Yeah ...Watch This!"