Books with author B B Hoffman

My childhood was filled with fear. And I feared everything for the future. I feared getting married. I didn’t want kids. I didn’t want to ever depend on someone like my mom did. Not only did I not want to depend on someone, I didn’t want to hop from one person to another, like my father, and be scared of being alone after over 20 years.My father cheated on my mother with her own sister. Her older, fatter sister. She was kicked out before I graduated high school. And three months later, after I turned 18, he decided that him and my mother were getting a divorce, that way he wouldn’t need to pay child support. I was the youngest after all.He moved out a day after Christmas.My mother was nowhere near the perfect housewife. She was an alcoholic, and she had been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure in my 11th year of high school. She grew up with three older sisters, and oldest two had been knocked up before they ever moved out, and respective baby daddies moving in.My dad had actually grew up in at least 6 different houses, all with his 5 other siblings, and he joined the Navy right out of high school.In my 11th year of high school I made a conscious decision that I would take a year off to get my ducks in a row, and work since my dad made too much money for real financial aid. So, I became a nanny right out of high school. Small neighborhood gigs, and then I got into the good paying ones when I saved enough for a car.The first three jobs I had, gave me the opportunity to work with speech therapist and since I had always been with the same woman and how well I was getting the kids to talk and do their homework and all around have better manners.The only person I ever felt happy and myself around was Nick... he was my high school sweetheart, and because of my fear... I drove him away. I made him go to college, I cut off all contact, and for 8 years... I was okay with being alone.But one decision, one major move from one city to another, and he's the only familiar face I didn't want to see.

Spencer Kane, a teenager on vacation with his family at Shadow Lake, Michigan, finds himself in the middle of peculiar, even paranormal situations that affect many of the lake residents. Spencer and his friends unknowingly cause the events to intensify and become more violent, bringing even more danger to those who haven't yet fled the lake in terror. Excerpt: The voice appeared to come from inside the tunnel. I slowly lowered myself down to the bend to get a better look. I didn’t hear anything. I called out “Is anyone down here? Do you need help?” I turned back to where the flashlight was aimed, and immediately saw two shining circles, resembling eyes glowing from the light, and looking in my direction. Before I could make another move, I heard. “Please help me.” “Who’s there? I asked again. As I watched the shiny spheres, they began moving closer and closer. I stared at them at first, not certain if the person in trouble was approaching me, or if I should be running for my life from something evil. As the eyes drew closer, I could now make out a figure. It looked strangely familiar. Then I realized the figure was the little girl I had seen in my nightmare. The same one who had disappeared in the lake and hasn't yet been found.

ONE GIRL STANDS ALONE, DIFFERENT FROM THE REST.When the peaceful and isolated land of the Shamra is invaded and its people enslaved, a young Shamra girl named Dara must lead a ragtag resistance to defeat the enemy. But even as she fights the invaders, Dara grapples with self-doubt and is criticized by her own people for being outspoken and different.Venturing into uncharted territory to seek allies, Dara encounters unusual creatures and dangerous lands. But is her rebellious spirit enough to help her overcome the patriarchal and oppressive rules of her own people and convince them that she is the only hope the Shamra have to regain their freedom?

Dear God: Butch died this morning. He's on his way to Heaven. I'm sending this picture so you'll know him when you see him. Butch is on the right. I'm on the left, . I know you're real busy, but I hope you'll have time to play with him. He loves to swim, play ball, and chase squirrels. Are there squirrels in Heaven? Give him a big hug for me! Thankx - and have a nice day! Love, Bobby

Silver medal winner in 2019 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards ...a Narnia for the modern age, a new classic..." –Readers' Favorite Finalist in Young Adult Fiction 2019 Best Book Awards .–Readers' Favorite Odo Whitley is translucent, human frosted glass, eyes peering through him, never at him. His achingly lonely existence is upended when a strange girl with flaming orange hair passes him a cryptic note in science class, sending the two unlikely new friends on an interdimensional quest for a mysterious lost doll.With help from the enigmatic man in the gray hat, a huge yellow octopus from Plindor, a lovely old brainless dead lady, and their new boss at the Serendipity Salvage Company, Odo Whitley and Sephie Crumb must travel to the terrifying world of Atroxia and find the doll before it falls into the hands of the murderous children of Sensus.

"An epic that hits all the perfect notes of science, magic, and sweetness." -Kirkus Review "...the metaphysical adventures of Bartholomew Rabbit..." "...a fine work of Visionary Fiction..." "...The Alchemist meets The Hobbit, but with rabbits..." " A homogeneous blend of Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland, these stories are well worth the effort to really read them. They speak to any age and any level of enlightenment." Bartholomew the Adventurer has 71 ratings on Goodreads and Amazon / 4.5 stars The Bartholomew the Adventurer Trilogy is a story of spiritual transformation wrapped in a romping tale of adventure set in the far distant future after humans have vanished from the planet. The protagonist is a rather silly and self centered rabbit named Bartholomew who sets out in search of a missing object which he is unable to describe or name. Along the way he meets his adventuring companion, Oliver T. Rabbit, a brilliant scientist who also undergoes a deep transformation in the trilogy, coming to understand that there is no magic, only science, whether it’s time travel, parallel dimensions, manifesting physical objects with thoughts, or reincarnation. Their adventures take them to lost cities, parallel universes and other planets, along the way meeting a host of memorable characters including ancient robotic rabbits, the Tree of Eyes, the Singing Monks of Nirriim, the Blue Spectre, Edmund the Explorer, etc. By the end of the third book Bartholomew Rabbit has transformed into a fully awakened and enlightened being. The Eleventh Ring Sent to the Cavern of Silence by his servant Parfello, Bartholomew Rabbit begins a quest to find the mysterious Great Gem. He is aided along the way by the Tree of Eyes, the nefarious Skeezle Brothers, and his new best friend Oliver T. Rabbit, a renowned scientist working for the Excelsior Electro-Vacuumator Corporation. As Bartholomew’s self-awareness and magical shaping skills grow, his quest transforms to a search for his dearest childhood friend, Clara Rabbit. To save Clara from certain death, he must defeat the evil and powerful Zoran the Emerald Shaper, wearer of the dreaded Tenth Ring. Excerpt from The Eleventh Ring: “Blindly reaching out for his bottle of Madame Beffy’s Headache Tonic, he knocked over a vase filled with glass marbles. They fell to the floor with a great clatter. As he watched them bouncing and skittering across the stone tiles, he had an unexpected thought. The wild, chaotic path of the marbles was not really chaotic at all. Each marble was precisely following the known laws of physical motion. He was not witnessing chaos, but order and perfection. Each marble was exactly where it should be at every moment in time.”

Titan is bound by his honor to uphold his father’s laws, even when logic would demand otherwise. Laws that keep the West from retaliating when attacked by enemy kingdoms, that keep Titan from being with the woman he loves, and that ultimately keep his father from being armed while in negotiations with the mad-man known as Devvon. But when Devvon murders all neighboring kings, Titan must learn to survive in a world where religion and magic interweave, where the laws of kingdoms and physics are little more than suggestions, and where Titan, his sardonic boyhood friend, and the woman he is fated to be without must choose to either take up dangerously seductive powers or let the kingdoms fall back into an age of terror.

A young girl (Makenzie) is jaded by her common, mundane life. So drained of excitement was her summer life in Troy, Ohio that when one day chance presented her with an exciting opportunity, she was not about to refuse. Entering her father’s lab she fiddles with one of his science experiments. Immediately and to her immense regret the experiment began to manifest itself and Makenzie was sucked through a swirling vortex of energy. In a distant world and, perhaps even a distant time, Makenzie lands upon the hard rock floor of a cave. What our young friend would soon realize is that the experiment changed her as the harshness of the metals and chemicals she used were fused to her spinal cord and brain. With mere thoughts, Makenzie could now transform herself into a very large panther with glowing silvery orbs for eyes and purple and black fur. With her new found treant friend (Urek) and her new found ability she must battle her way off the spaceship in which she finds herself now trapped upon. She must make new friends during her journey if she is ever to defeat the evil race of Molkin (mole creatures) and she must use every ounce of her incredible intellect if she is to thwart the evil plan of the Molkin Leader, Solor. She must do these things if she is ever to return home to the existence that she now misses and cherishes.

Curse of the Shamra is a rousing adventure tale about the isolated and peaceful land of the Shamra people who are enslaved by invaders called the Trocs. An unconventional young Shamra girl named Dara escapes and ventures into unknown realms to find allies and leads a resistance to repel the invaders. The novel is an allegory about the quest for freedom on many levels.

When Orville Mouse rescues an errant windblown hat on his way to work, he soon discovers the hat’s shadow is not behaving as it should be. While attempting to discover the cause of this curious phenomenon, Orville and his best friend Sophia Mouse uncover a terrifying secret, soon finding themselves in a desperate race to prevent the imminent destruction of uncountable parallel worlds. With help from their old friend Proto the Rabbiton, mysterious Madam Molly, a wistful robotic curator named Copo, a pair of gigantic vacationing insects, a ghostly engineer, the vaporous Others, and the simmering Forest of Thorns, the two stalwart adventurers must retrace the journey of a centuries old explorer named Haukesworth Mouse to the lost world of Tectar and a terrifying confrontation with Mendacium the Dark Wizard in the dank and dismal dungeons of infamous Castle Caligari.