Books with author JW KELLEY

Opps! Buddy Alexander accidentally drops his pocket calculator into a particle accelerator. As he retrieves it, he notices it is lime-green, warm and vibrates. Later he discovers the calculator has been transformed into a time traveling device. Join Buddy as he witnessess the Kennedy assassination, the Murrah building bombing, Was that a UFO crash in Roswell, NM in 1947? What is it like to meet a caveman, an alien, a robot from the future. And who is Will Power?

The Bible's children's stories are often a child's first glimpse of God. Recent surveys show that a high percentage of Christian adults still believe these childhood stories to be literally true. But most believers have never heard the adult versions of these stories with their additional detail and background, information that not only enhances their validity but also reveals new insight into the character of God. And for non-believers who've dismissed them as fairy tales or fables, this information provides logical reasons to reconsider their decision and open their hearts to God once again. Here, then, are the adult versions of the Bible's children's stories, actual occurrences of God's earliest revelation of Himself to man. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope (Romans 15:4).JACK KELLEY is a management consultant with over thirty years of experience helping businesses address the challenges of growth in today's economy. He has given thousands of paid presentations on leadership, management, and personal productivity improvement throughout North America. Jack "grew up" in a major denomination, but at age 40, he experienced a radical conversion to Evangelical Christianity. Since then, he has devoted substantial time and energy to Bible study, serving as teacher, counselor, and lay pastor. He has led several pilgrimages to Israel and Jordan, and he recently returned from a research trip to Greece and Turkey in preparation for a book that he's writing on the seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3. Jack now devotes most of his time to Christian writing. His articles and commentary can be found at www.gracethrufaith.com, an Internet ministry with regular visitors from every state in the U.S. and over fifty-five countries worldwide.

Val and Lanora have been friends forever. Val expects their relationship to stay the same. But after they start middle school, Lanora decides to reinvent herself. Her parents have split up, and she wants to rise above that. Unfortunately Lanora's choices lead her into trouble. Val hates watching her friend lose her way. She wants to rescue Lanora, but how? Val doesn't know what to do until a stray cat leads her to a strange boy who lives in an even stranger bookshop. Together they embark on a quest. Will they be able to save a lost friend? Will they get lost themselves? Or will they find a way to help each other become who they want to be . . . . The Book of Dares for Lost Friends by Jane Kelley is a nuanced, universal story about friendship and that delicate time of adolescence when there is much to lose and much more to find.

Lenora Scheid leads a nomadic and brutal existence. Travelling from one war zone to the next, she knows more about blood and death than most. From Africa to Asia and Europe to North America, she has seen the worst mankind has to offer.For more than a century Lenora has explored the world, not fully human and not completely vampire, under the vigilant and oppressive gaze of her father. At night her dreams are occupied by a blue-eyed man she knows nothing about.Not until she and her father arrive in Ireland does Lenora finally meet the man of these dreams.Michael is everything she expected, and more. Despite her father’s stern warnings, Lenora quickly falls for him and finds, after more than a century of looking, something to live for. With her father on a murderous rampage, determined to retain the power he holds over his daughter, and faced with impossible choices, will the secrets he has been keeping from her destroy them all?

Mimicing the lyricism contemporary fiction readers have grown to love in the works of Alice Seabold and David Guterson, MAX AND MENNA is the story of two siblings surviving a deplorable home life in the South. Telling the story from each of their viewpoints, Max and Menna outline their reliance on each other and on Nick, their only friend, as they cope with growing up in poverty, living with an alcoholic mother, and having no indication of the other half of their parentage. Life changes for Max and Menna when with the advent of Nick, a Native American, and the story continues to take place during their summer vacations progressively through high school. Max, quiet and introspective, struggles to understand how to be the only man in the house and protect a family that seems determined to destroy itself. Menna is quick-tempered and vivacious, and grows to love and view Nick as a method of coping with a childhood that requires her to be very adult. Despite the strength of the bond the three of them share, however, the world around them seems determined to pull them apart. As the children of the town drunk, the younger siblings of the town slut, and the friends of an Indian from "over the fence," Max and Menna fight not only to grow up, and get out, but to stay together, and stay safe.

Bane is a Warrior of the first age of man. After battling beasts in his homeland he is thrown into a battle against an evil Necromancer and his invading armies. Bane, the Warrior, overcomes human and sorcery driven enemies to free the country of his friends, Elfmed, Ialone and Aftrag. After his heroic and epic feats he is tricked by the Necromancer Amon Ra into becoming a Vampire. He follows the Necromancer through the ages seeking to destroy him for what he has done to Bane-the stripping away of his humanity. On his journey he makes friends and enemies that are other than human. Many are Immortal Weres that are good and bad.

An orphaned African grey parrot who can speak 127 words. A girl so sick, she has forgotten what it means to try. Fate––and a banana nut muffin––bring them together. Will their shared encounter help them journey through storms inside and out? Will they lose their way, or will they find what really matters?Here is a story that will remind readers how navigating so many of life's desperate adventures requires friendship and, above all, hope.

Val and Lanora have been friends forever. Val expects their relationship to stay the same. But after they start middle school, Lanora decides to reinvent herself. Her parents have split up, and she wants to rise above that. Unfortunately Lanora's choices lead her into trouble. Val hates watching her friend lose her way. She wants to rescue Lanora, but how? Val doesn't know what to do until a stray cat leads her to a strange boy who lives in an even stranger bookshop. Together they embark on a quest. Will they be able to save a lost friend? Will they get lost themselves? Or will they find a way to help each other become who they want to be . . . . Jane Kelley has created a nuanced, universal story about friendship and that delicate time of adolescence when there is much to lose and much more to find.

An orphaned African grey parrot who can speak 127 words. A girl so sick, she has forgotten what it means to try. Fate––and a banana nut muffin––bring them together. Will their shared encounter help them journey through storms inside and out? Will they lose their way, or will they find what really matters?Here is a story that will remind readers how navigating so many of life's desperate adventures requires friendship and, above all, hope.

Eleven-year-old Megan is stuck in the wilds of Vermont for the summer with no TV, no Internet, no cell phone, and worst of all, no best friend. So when Megan gets lost on the Appalachian Trail with only her little dog, Arp, for company, she decides she might as well hike all the way to Massachusetts where her best friend, Lucy, is spending her summer. Life on the trail isn’t easy, and Megan faces everything from wild animals and raging rivers to tofu jerky and life without bathrooms. Most of all, though, Megan gets to know herself—both who she’s been in the past and who she wants to be in the future—and the journey goes from a spur-of-the-moment lark to a quest to prove herself to Lucy, her family, and the world! “First-time novelist Jane Kelley uses the light touch of humor to let in the sunlight. Bravo!”—Sid Fleischman, Newbery Award–winning author

This is a story about a group of college students who become stranded in a college town after a zombie outbreak. Joseph is a young student out of Bales Community College. Unlike his older brother, who is a star soccer player, he is receiving an academic scholarship. Joseph becomes acquainted with the town, its' people, and students before starting school. Shortly after his second day of school, a zombie infestation begins. Joseph and his fellow students clamor as the school descends in to chaos.