Books with author Brian Siddons

"While Crisps Attucks was the first American to die for the cause of liberty he was not the only African American patriot. This informational text looks at Attucks life, his murder at the Boston Massacre and the determination of colonists to be free of Britain's tyrannical rule. This book, however, also looks at other African American patriots who fought at Lexington and Concord and other battles and who bravely fought for the nation's freedom and their own"--Provided by publisher.

When an unassuming shopkeeper goes off the rails and starts killing players — even in safe zones — Coral, Daniel, and their friends accept an impossible quest: Stop him. At all costs. Coral joined the immersive virtual reality video game Travail Online because her waitressing job, like so many other jobs, was automated by a growing robot workforce. She starts as a Seamstress, hoping to craft useful clothing in-game to sell for real life cash. The game, however, has other ideas. What starts off as job replacement quickly launches an adventure of epic proportions through a virtual reality world filled with magic, intrigue, and betrayal. Daniel has played for longer, but the game changes him to a new class that doesn’t actually seem to exist. How can he maximize his skills when his class is completely uncharted? How can he avoid dying at the hands of a madman and losing all of his inventory and gold? Can he, Coral, and their friends stop the murderous NPC before the MMORPG world of Travail comes crashing down, taking the world economy with it? Welcome to Travail, where hard play makes fun work. TRAVAIL ONLINE is a LitRPG series of books and short stories that follows players and non-player characters through the virtual reality world of Travail — complete with elves, magic, and mobs galore. SOULKEEPER is just the beginning. Click “Buy Now” to start reading today!

Coral, Daniel, and their friends have their heads in the game. But what happens when the game gets in their heads? Strange things are afoot in Travail Online. People like Coral who couldn’t find jobs offline joined Travail so they could grind away at the virtual reality video game and sell in-game items for a bit of real world cash. Travail, however, has just launched new content that turns that premise on its head. The game resurrected a dead god and is using it to brainwash players into pouring their life savings into the game, ruining their livelihoods and threatening to destroy the game’s economy worldwide. Coral can’t stand by while the game mind-hacks players and siphons away their gold, but will getting involved cause more harm than good? Meanwhile, Daniel has his own concerns. The head of the Assassins’ Guild is still trying to recruit him, the Regent of Travail’s human city wants him to start a war with the dwarves, and the elves seem to be hunting him and his friends. The game just keeps throwing roadblocks in their way, not to mention the mess it’s making of their minds… Welcome to Travail, where hard play makes fun work! RESURRECTION is the second full book in the TRAVAIL ONLINE series. Find out whether Coral and Daniel can keep their wits about them long enough to save Travail from the brink of world war and psychological destruction. Click “Buy Now” to start reading today!

Marcus, Roxie and Axel, friends since grade school and now in their mid twenties, were driving north on Highway 35 to meet up with the rest of their group for the annual cabin getaway in Havenswood Valley. Seven years in, the weekend get together was always fun, yet safely uneventful. Until this year. Havenswood Valley is about as idyllic a small town as their is, nestled in a forested area well north of Minnesota's main metropolis, it's citizens embracing the harsh winters as easily as they fill their days during the magnificent summers mother nature provides. It's hard to imagine that in such a beautiful area there was a deathly evil lurking, and occasionally striking, the populace. It didn't take long for the group of friends to learn this weekend would be quite different. When a mysterious disturbance in the middle of the night sets them all on edge, they decide to report the incident. They soon learn from Sheriff Anderson and his two close friends, Robert, the owner of the cabin and Norma, a local seer, there is a deep and deadly history to Havenswood Valley not talked about in the travel brochures! The Voyageurs - Discovery In Havenswood Valley is the foundation novel in a three book series that will introduce the reader not only to a cast of heroic characters, but also to a challenge of good versus evil that takes hold far beyond their weekend at the cabin. Lace up and keep pace with the group as they go from Havenswood Valley to Prairie Falls and back in their search for answers to the evil that has caused untold tragedy for over 100 years.

Jesus, Born over two thousand years ago, his life continues to shape and shake the world today. The Story of Christmas includes the foretelling of his coming to earth by prophetic Scriptures in the Old Testament; the biographical account of his birth as told by Matthew, Luke, and John; the promise of his return declared by Jesus in the Gospels and by John in Revelation; and the power of Christ in us as recorded in the Epistles of the New Testament. Enjoy the richness of this life-changing story taken from The Passion Translation, a new, heart-level translation that expresses God's fiery heart of love to this generation using Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic manuscripts, merging the emotion and the life-changing truth of God's Word.