Books with author Martin H. Manser

Everywhere around us the clock is ticking. Everyone has a mission they are trying to achieve. Some are exciting - climb mountains, wrestle animals, train serpents. Some are important - cure cancer, translate languages, capture criminals. Some are, well, boring - make beds, wash dishes, pull weeds. And then some are commanded. Commanded? Yes, commanded. If we are Christians - if we have put our trust in the Lord, repented from our sins and given our lives to Him - we have a mission of our own. Your Mission is written in God's Word - The Bible. It is not all about you though - it's about honouring God by the way you live.

In 1952 Sammy Collins' family moves to Jasonville, Indiana and into the Johnson House, a long vacant home rumored by neighborhood children to be haunted. Unknown to anyone, Paul Mason, a WW-II veteran and now a wandering vagrant, has squatted surreptitiously in a nearby, old abandoned cannery. During the previous six years, twelve young boys from the towns where Paul lived or worked, have gone missing. While in Jasonville, another boy disappears. Is Paul guilty of this heinous crime, or is it Joe, Paul's deceased lifeboat companion, whom Paul has been searching for since the end of WW-II?

The Melissma Sea migrates on Hytrae’s equatorial Salt Plain of Shilom, spending two years as sole but temporary property of three politically diverse provinces. At her leading edge, the massive Storm Zone’s fresh water dissolves old salt while in her shallow quiet evaporation zone, she returns the cleansed salt back to Shilom. The Naweci call the sea the Dissolver of Doubts and the salt plain the Peace Maker and teach their children the two form a holy union as is the marriage of truth and men. Fishermen swear the souls of those who die at sea are captured in the holy mist Locsoldrn, a mysterious cloud legend squeezed from the Melissma when she tasted the blood of man’s first violence against man. The silent lightning within Locsoldrn is, they say, the souls of the dead warning of the Day of Judgment. The Melissma is crossing the border into Ides. The Merchant Prince of Ides, Soroff Baejon, has discovered the mist can be used to resurrect the recently deceased. He assumes die once and live forever. Baejon prophesies his emperor will be assassinated at the Idean Onset celebration and, in two days, live again to lead Hytrae’s race of mortals into immortality. Never do men know all the consequences of even their smallest endeavors. The wicked come only like a feather on a breeze, gently upon the mind as in a dream until men step into their domain or invite them into theirs. Baejon believes he can merge the two dimensions to his advantage. This he declares Hytrae’s Singularity. Randy H. Martin was born in Anniston, Alabama, and received a BS from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, and an MS in biology from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama. He’s taught biology as an adjunct professor at Gadsden State Community College and as a full-time professor at Jacksonville State University. He also taught biology, physics, physical science, government and economics, computer science, and chemistry at Jacksonville Christian Academy. He’s worked as a quality control chemist in manufacturing and research and in the testing of drugs for cancer treatments. He and his wife reside in the Appalachian Foothills of Northeast Alabama. He is founder of the GOWIYM Group, whose sole purpose is to Get Old Wisdom Into Young Minds.

In 1952, Sammy Collinss family moves to Jasonville, Indiana, and into the Johnson House, a long vacant home rumored to be haunted by neighborhood children. Unknown to anyone, Paul Mason, a World War II veteran and wandering vagrant, has squatted surreptitiously nearby in an old abandoned cannery. During the previous six years, twelve young boys from the towns where Paul lived or worked have gone missing. While in Jasonville, another boy disappears. Is Paul guilty of this heinous crime, or is it Joe, Pauls deceased lifeboat companion, whom Paul has been searching for since the end of World War II?