Books with author Jamie Hughes

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.

Dachy isn’t embarrassed by his hearing aid, but sometimes his friends are so loud he has to turn it off. One day, he does just that to get some peace and quiet, but that’s the last thing he ends up getting. The adventure that follows drives home the importance of listening to and caring for your friends as well as appreciating differences in others and overcoming personal obstacles.

Process of Elimination is about a young man who has suffered a terrible loss, one that has crippled him emotionally for months. In the book, he grieves and searches for a reason to resume his life, until he is seized by an idea that gives him a reason to face each day and the motivation to start living his life again: he is going to even the score. About the Author Author James Hughes has always enjoyed reading and writing. Growing up he especially enjoyed the writings of O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter). He liked the unique twists and surprise endings to his stories. While working as a career engineer, Hughes was required to write about the many military systems he worked on, but these were mostly factual accounts and reports about those systems. It was writing, but not the kind he had in mind. Process of Elimination was written over several years, starting first in Hughes' mind before he tried to put it all down in words. He would write for periods of time, let it lay for months, and then would again attempt to flesh out the story as new ideas and thoughts came to him to add to the narrative. In July of 2018, he decided that had said all he wanted to say in Process of Elimination, his attempt at an O. Henry-inspired story.

Mamie Currie Hughes' Jacksonville, FL birth certificate carried the label "colored." After all, she was born in the late 1920s. Despite spending a lifetime advocating for Civil Rights, women's empowerment and ethnic equality, this octogenarian dismisses any attempt to assume a "politically correct" label like African American. She is adamant about a lot of things, especially equality and justice, and is revered as a model for social activism in her adopted city of Kansas City, where she came as a bride with her attorney husband.This autobiography is a microcosm of the Civil Rights movement in the U. S. through the eyes of one of its prime movers and shakers in the Midwest. Mamie ran for office in county government, served as a regional director for ACTION, spearheaded and helped with projects to establish the 18th and Vine Jazz District, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and advocated for black history celebrations and archives, holocaust survivors, Hispanics, older Americans and foster families. She fought racism in her children's schools, in Mississippi in the early days of voter registration drives and even in her church.Through scores of tributes and accolades, Mamie Hughes continues to network and advocate for justice, all the while helping neighbors and urging others to get involved and exercise their civic duties and political voices.This is current history through the eyes of someone who made it in her own corner of the world. It's a story of bravery, hardship, racial bias and gender discrimination. When she first ran for office and even for the Miss Fisk contest at her university, everyone wanted to know, "Mamie who?" After Mamie's 86 years of service, few people ever ask that question now.