Books with author Bobby L. Jackson

Swoon. Swoon. Swoon some more!Gorgeous best friend. Superpowers. Two boys who are in love with her. What more can a girl want?Falling in love with her best friend is the last thing sixteen-year-old Yasmine wants to do. But it's inevitable. Terrace is kind, protective and a science prodigy. He gives up his bed for her just so she can have a safe place to sleep after she wakes from night terrors. Propheszing the deaths of everyone she loves and the destruction of entire races of people fill her dreams night after night, and Terrace is there for her. Yasmine never imagined that Terrace would be the one to cause her death.Terrace has done everything in his power as the leader of the rogue army against the Coalition for the Superior Race to prevent Yasmine from finding out what he is, what she is, hybrids mixed with the DNA of gods. Daivat, the scientist that created them, is determined to destroy all races in order to populate the earth with his superior beings. Yasmine and Terrace discover that they were created to be together, but when Terrace’s family kidnapped him when he was a baby and hid him from the coalition, Mysin was his replacement. Mysin is willing to die for Yasmine. Daivat created him with the blood of a serpent god intentionally making Mysin prone to evil. However, Daivat hadn’t planned for how much Mysin would love Yasmine. Yasmine’s existence is tied to both Mysin and Terrace.The battle to save Yasmine’s friends and family will cause her to question everything she knows about love, honor, and sacrifice.

When the enigmatic Sarah Tanner re-opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms soon after a disastrous fire, the gossips of Leather Lane grudgingly admit she has €œthe luck of the devil.€ Yet when a local butcher is falsely accused of a heinous offence €” selling horsemeat €” it seems her luck has run out. Drawn into an evermore dangerous series of confrontations with a gang of youths who seem determined to put an innocent man out of business, Sarah Tanner€™s own livelihood looks set for ruin into the bargain.But what links the persecution of a humble butcher with a certain Dr. Stead €” a leading practitioner of the strange art of mesmerism €” and a desperate plea from Sarah€™s former lover, the aristocrat Arthur De Salle? As Sarah Tanner investigates, she increasingly fears that the mesmerist, patronized by the highest society, is a charlatan and his latest patient, the unwitting victim of a grotesque fraud.To preserve a family€™s honour, Sar

A groundbreaking compendium honoring the amazing true stories of fifty inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in space exploration from the nineteenth century to today--including Hidden Figure's Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former NASA chief astronaut Peggy Whitson, the record-holding American biochemistry researcher who has spent the most cumulative time in spaceWhen Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module, Eagle, he famously spoke of "one small step for man." But Armstrong would not have reached the moon without the help of women. Today, females across the earth and above it--astronauts and mathematicians, engineers and physicists, test pilots and aerospace psychophysiologists--are pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, helping us to understand the universe and our place in it. Galaxy Girls celebrates more than four dozen extraordinary women from around the globe whose contributions have been fundamental to the story of humankind's quest to reach the stars.From Ada Lovelace in the nineteenth century to the "colored computers" behind the Apollo missions, from the astronauts breaking records on the International Space Station to the scientific pioneers blazing the way to Mars, Galaxy Girls goes boldly where few books have gone before, celebrating this band of heroic sisters and their remarkable and often little known scientific achievements. Written by Libby Jackson, a leading British expert in human space flight, Galaxy Girls will fire the imaginations of trailblazers of all ages.