Books with author James West

Ira Wright is a b*tch.The worst part is no one knows it but me.All they see is the sweet, innocent side of her.I’ve seen who she really is, and will make sure everyone in town does as well.My brother deserves justice for what has happened. I’ll take down anyone and everyone to make sure that happens, no matter what the cost or risk. I will have my revenge.I’ll gladly take Ira Wright down with me.IraEveryone has some good in them, except Dean Hawthorn.He’s not the same boy I remember growing up. He’s not the same boy I once had a major crush on.Ever since the accident, he’s changed, for the worse.Son of one of the most influential families in Blue Falls, filthy rich and drop dead gorgeous, Dean thinks he’s pure royalty in town. He’s cold and callous to most.Maybe I’m wrong though.Even a man like Dean Hawthorn deserves a second chance.Dark Prince is the second book in the Second Chance High Series. Each book in this series are enemies to lovers standalone novels, each with their own happily ever afters (HEA) and have no cliffhanger endings.If you enjoy high school bully romance novels, this series is for you.

He thinks he’s gotten under my skin. He thinks he can break me.I’ll show him what I’m made of.I’m the new girl in the small town of Fallon Hills. I stick out like a sore thumb amongst the rich brats that surround me.I never thought I’d run into Nathanial Carleton in a place like this.He’s changed for the worse.He likes to think he runs the whole town. King of the rich kids. He acts like he can do and say whatever he wants to me, and I’ll just take it. He thinks I won’t fight back.He’s dead wrong.My life is full of drama, and I feel like my world is about to implode. Hell, I almost want it to.Then she comes back into my life, and changes everything.Just when I think things can’t get any worse for me, Tara, a blast from the past, is back in my life.Who does she think she is? Why is she even here?She doesn’t fit in a place like Fallon Hills.She doesn’t fit in with someone like me.So why can’t I stop thinking about her?Bully King is a standalone High School Bully Romance novel. If you can’t get enough of enemies to lovers romance stories, you won’t regret diving deep in the word James Rich creates.

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources. In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided and diverse.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources. In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided and diverse.

Eli Joyce’s life had never been the easiest, what with every person who crosses his path fearing him and the power he cannot control. After a tragedy takes nearly all he has, Eli is given a chance to finally be trained as a mage. His studies become interrupted, though, as he begins to realize that there might have been more to that fateful night than he thought. Eli tries to unpuzzle the circumstances that lead to his life being changed, but can he solve the mystery without his magic running wild?

Matt Lumen has never known who he was. It’s hard to when he’s lost every memory except for his name. For almost a year, Matt has gone through life without any clue of who he is or where his family is. But all that changes when he finds out that his past has been searching for him, too.When Matt and his best friend, Chase Falcoon, are attacked by a monster, they soon find themselves meeting Matt’s ‘family’, who tell them that Matt is far more than the average amnesiac. Now as Matt comes to terms with his past, he and his friends, both old and new, must evade a darkness that is determined to capture him.

The time since Matt Lumen’s eventful winter vacation has passed quietly and he has adjusted well to life with the Guardians. However his peace comes to an abrupt halt when a strange man comes to him in his dreams, warning of a threat surrounding the diary of one of the most powerful warlocks ever to have walked the earth. Matt and his friends soon find themselves racing against the Order of Shadows to find what could be the Holy Grail of magical knowledge. In a race against time, the Guardians come face to face with Zedric’s newest and most fearsome agent: his own apprentice.

In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day.More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.

Matt Lumen and the rest of the Guardians are left waiting for disaster to happen after the Order of Shadows steals Dante’s spell book. Though they train hard for even the worst to happen, Matt is hindered as he struggles to control the dark magic inside him. Meanwhile, Chase Falcoon remains haunted by his dark past. The boy’s search for redemption leads him to meet a girl whose special gift may be the key to finding his forgiveness and the Guardians’ chance at defeating the Order of Shadows.

Since the Guardians’ bitter-sweet victory in Eridon, Matt Lumen has studied magic night and day for weeks with one goal in mind: freeing his best friend from the control of Zedric and the Order of Shadows. But Matt finds his search interrupted by the newest and most fiendish plan of the Order of Shadows, one that could spell the end of the Guardians of Light. The Guardians most stop a conspiracy that could affect every warlock on the planet, while Matt struggles to find a way to save the very friend he must now face as an enemy.

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources. In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided and diverse.

Matt Lumen has never known who he was. It’s hard to when he’s lost every memory except for his name. For almost a year, Matt has gone through life without any clue of who he is or where his family is. But all that changes when he finds out that his past has been searching for him, too. When Matt and his best friend, Chase Falcoon, are attacked by a monster, they soon find themselves meeting Matt’s ‘family’, who tell them that Matt is far more than the average amnesiac. Now as Matt comes to terms with his past, he and his friends, both old and new, must evade a darkness that is determined to capture him.