Books with author HUGHES

Colorists can make the grade with 31 chalkboard-style designs printed on a realistic, black background. Each illustration features an inspiring saying, from "Dream Big" and "Love Conquers All" to "Choose Happiness" and "Make Someone Smile." Illustrations are printed on perforated pages for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Chalkboard Art and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.Other books by CJ Hughes available on Amazon:- Color New York City - Volume #1 - Wandering Tourist (New York City Coloring Book)- Color New York City - Volume #2 - Central Park (Central Park Coloring Book)- Color & Draw Undone Doodles - Monsters (Monster Coloring & Activity Book)- Nodding Off - (Going to bed book, bedtime book, bedtime story book)- Coffee Doodle Book (Create cute doodles using dozens of coffee stains)- Big Fat Rats (City Rats Coloring Book - Rat Coloring Book)

Spirit of Prophecy - a highly acclaimed, award winning novel from a best-selling author: If you murder your soulmate to save your tribe, when and how will revenge and retribution arrive? Karma is coming for you.Olympic event rider Juliet Jermaine may run, but can she hide……?‘’This is one awesome, imaginative novel with a splash of Stephen King, and worthy of a cult following.” 5* Reader Review Publisher DescriptionA gifted psychic but an emotional wreck, Rosetta Barrett is much more than a simple Detective seconded to a sleepy, rural English constabulary. She's part of the International psychic CID, and a high-ranking member of EPIS (Elite Paranormal Intelligence Services) a super-secret, Inter-Governmental, global organization, based underground in Dulce, USA. EPIS is tasked with dealing with the new realities of the twenty-first century – the rise of AI and ensuring robotic, deep-learning doesn't lead to humanity’s destruction; alien visitation and cracking their telepathic communication codes are also part of the remit. Plus expanding psychic powers including prophecy, in order to automate crime prediction and prevention.When Juliet Jermaine's Olympic Champion horse Gothic, and his teenage stable-hand rider are callously murdered, in what appears to be a terrorist-inspired road-rage incident, the police are baffled. Even EPIS are behind the curve, as this doesn’t fit any MO they’ve ever come across before. Plus, with the arrival of some rogue E.T.’s back at the Dulce HQ, the time portal is dangerously malfunctioning. So, Barrett will have to rely on old fashioned door-to-door detective work to try, and unravel the cause and effect buried way back in the past. Linear time is running down, meanwhile can they stop the incidents from speeding up, and the death count inexorably rising?The murder investigation takes first Rosetta, and then Juliet to Southern Ireland, where they both fall for the devilishly handsome, Irish-traveller, horse dealer, Tommy Rafferty. Does Tommy know more about the road rage deaths than he's letting on, and ultimately will he betray his soul mate, Juliet, to save his clan?With Barrett’s ex-husband, a power-obsessed Foreign Office Diplomat to Russia being a prime suspect, and Jermaine not taking the karmic connection seriously, Rosetta is under intense pressure. She knows only too well that Wrongs not Atoned = #HIT-REPEAT. For all her experience and gifts, has Detective Barrett more than met her match? Is she simply in way too deep this time, with no chance of ESCAPE? ***********************“An engrossing tale with nuanced themes and a genuinely complex heroine.” Kirkus Professional Reviews.“Overall, a superb novel that has everything a reader would want in a story.” Red Headed Book Lover“The plot is original, very well thought out, and much more intricate and extensive than anticipated.” Readers' Favorite.N.B: This book was previously published under the author’s pen name of J.J. Hughes.

From author and screenwriter, KL Hughes, comes It’s a Man’s World, But I’m a Lesbian—a sharp and uproarious collection of essays bubbling with wonder, charm, and wit. Hughes takes us on a tragicomic rollercoaster ride in a candid examination of her experiences as both a young lesbian growing up in a conservative, religious family in a tiny Southern town and as a woman navigating a male-dominated society. Her perceptive gaze lends valuable insight into oft-overlooked struggles and a deep, ever-evolving understanding of the complexities of the human condition.It’s a Man’s World, But I’m a Lesbian is a funny, heartfelt, and authentic observation of what it means to be a particular type of human in a particular type of world; a collection of astute, compassionate essays about perseverance, wonder, and above all, growth.“Experience is the eye of the needle. We squeeze and shimmy and slip and struggle through it, and once on the other side, we expand. We grow. We change.”

In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("the best account yet of Nixon’s devious interference with Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 Vietnam War negotiations"-- Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon’s reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president’s darkest secret.While Nixon publicly promised to keep American troops in Vietnam only until the South Vietnamese could take their place, he privately agreed with his top military, diplomatic, and intelligence advisers that Saigon could never survive without American boots on the ground. Afraid that a preelection fall of Saigon would scuttle his chances for a second term, Nixon put his reelection above the lives of American soldiers. Postponing the inevitable, he kept America in the war into the fourth year of his presidency. At the same time, Nixon negotiated a "decent interval" deal with the Communists to put a face-saving year or two between his final withdrawal and Saigon’s collapse. If they waited that long, Nixon secretly assured North Vietnam’s chief sponsors in Moscow and Beijing, the North could conquer the South without any fear that the United States would intervene to save it. The humiliating defeat that haunts Americans to this day was built into Nixon’s exit strategy. Worse, the myth that Nixon was winning the war before Congress "tied his hands" has led policy makers to adapt tactics from America’s final years in Vietnam to the twenty-first-century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, prolonging both wars without winning either.Forty years after the fall of Saigon, and drawing on more than a decade spent studying Nixon’s secretly recorded Oval Office tapes--the most comprehensive, accurate, and illuminating record of any presidency in history, much of it never transcribed until now-- Fatal Politics tells a story of political manipulation and betrayal that will change how Americans remember Vietnam. Fatal Politics is also available as a special e-book that allows the reader to move seamlessly from the book to transcripts and audio files of these historic conversations.

Built on sugar, slaves, and piracy, Jamaica’s Port Royal was the jewel in England’s quest for empire until a devastating earthquake sank the city beneath the sea A haven for pirates and the center of the New World’s frenzied trade in slaves and sugar, Port Royal, Jamaica, was a notorious cutthroat settlement where enormous fortunes were gained for the fledgling English empire. But on June 7, 1692, it all came to a catastrophic end. Drawing on research carried out in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States, Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery, and the Great Port Royal Earthquake by Ben Hughes opens in a post–Glorious Revolution London where two Jamaica-bound voyages are due to depart. A seventy-strong fleet will escort the Earl of Inchiquin, the newly appointed governor, to his residence at Port Royal, while the Hannah, a slaver belonging to the Royal African Company, will sail south to pick up human cargo in West Africa before setting out across the Atlantic on the infamous Middle Passage. Utilizing little-known first-hand accounts and other primary sources, Apocalypse 1692 intertwines several related themes: the slave rebellion that led to the establishment of the first permanent free black communities in the New World; the raids launched between English Jamaica and Spanish Santo Domingo; and the bloody repulse of a full-blown French invasion of the island in an attempt to drive the English from the Caribbean. The book also features the most comprehensive account yet written of the massive earthquake and tsunami which struck Jamaica in 1692, resulting in the deaths of thousands, and sank a third of the city beneath the sea. From the misery of everyday life in the sugar plantations, to the ostentation and double-dealings of the plantocracy; from the adventures of former-pirates-turned-treasure-hunters to the debauchery of Port Royal, Apocalypse 1692 exposes the lives of the individuals who made late seventeenth-century Jamaica the most financially successful, brutal, and scandalously corrupt of all of England’s nascent American colonies.

Emily Rose roamed through a country ravaged by war, a damaged land where the very grass blades drank the blood of brothers, cousins, and friends. Protected only by her growing wits and Nathaniel Whiteeagle, a slave with Cherokee blood, Emily swore she would find her fiancé and buy his freedom. Facing danger at each turn, every clue she followed left her another step behind. Would she ever find Caleb? And could Caleb endure the unthinkable cruelty of civil war prisons long enough for her to rescue him? Or would she and Nathaniel meet a violent end? Conecuh (Cah-NECK-ah ) is a story woven around and through the actual events in the mysterious and ironic life of Private Caleb Garner, CSA, during the most tumultuous time in American history. Whatever happened to Caleb? History has left us blind, but there are clues. Conecuh explores one very real possibility. Rated FIVE STARS by Reader's Favorite: "I enjoyed Conecuh, and it is clear that this author has quite a talent for writing historical fiction!"

You’ve seen Steampunk accents on laptops, desktops, chairs, clothing, and, if you frequent science fiction conventions, you’ve seen people in hero costumes that have been adorned in the Steampunk fashion. You’ve seen pictures online of how to turn ordinary things into Steampunk, and you’ve looked at different types of art that features the genre. By purchasing this book, you are opening yourself up to a whole new genre of artistic expression. You are stepping into a time that has only existed in science fiction. You are also embarking on a journey that will take you to a different version of the Victorian age, one with technology and where even animals can take on human qualities. This is Steampunk, and after you’ve learned how to draw this genre, there is a chance your talent will never be the same. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: - How Steampunk got its start- What you need to get your feet wet in the Steampunk genre- How to draw simple items- How to draw items that are a little complicated- How you can add a little steampunk to everyday items