Books with author Tim MacDonald

Welcome to Kluskey's spacer hangout. Here, spacers swap yarns of ghost ships, space monsters, the weird and wonderful and the downright daft.The five little men who walk into Kluskey’s are no ordinary customers. They are Shantaitha, monks from the planet Gide, making an epic journey across human space. On the way, they would like Kluskey Burgers. (A 3,800 word short story).

Little Beaver s search for a friend he thinks he hears across a pond is perfect for every child who's ever felt lonely."Children old enough to long for friends of their own will nestle right into this appealing story....Ideal for reading aloud at the beginning of the school year of during camp sessions, when there's a little bit of Little Beaver in every kid." -- Booklist"Perfect for little ones at quiet-time or bedtime." -- Publishers Weekly "Enchanting." -- The New York Times Book Review

Discover a world where losing a video game has terrible consequences.Jake Wingfoot is Dybsy, the legendary gamer and esports champion. He has earned the fear and respect of clans and guilds throughout the world, but nothing has prepared him for the Singe, where humanity is fighting a secret war -- a video-game war.The Singe is under attack by an enemy known only as Nemesis, defended by the elite soldiers of Vector Academy. But Nemesis is winning, and the Academy needs a new plan and a new weapon. Enter Dybsy...When the Academy reveals the Singe and recruits Dybsy into the war, he must train in neuro-combat and learn to fight within his team of gamer misfits. If he can't, the enemy will conquer the Singe and humanity will fall -- and worse, Dybsy might never game again.

Skipper Alex von Strada is one of the Fleet’s highest achieving officers, commanding the corvette Minnow with a company of eccentric officers and last-chance crew sent to him for rehab. The updated 2nd Edition includes the free first chapter of Fourth Fleet Irregulars Book 2: Karadon.After a PR disaster has activists and media storming the Admiralty gates, First Lord Dix Harangay sends Minnow out on a makework patrol. Inspector Mako Ireson goes with them to investigate what’s really going on. Mako has never been on a starship before. He can’t tell port from starboard, doesn’t know what the 0-G sign means at freefall hatchways, and may need to change his underwear after the launch.Nobody is expecting that the “mission zero” they've been sent on will turn into a real operation. When it does, the Minnow’s crew has to rise to the challenge and justify their skipper’s faith in them.This is the first mission of the legendary Fourth Fleet Irregulars, the unit you send for when you need a miracle.For Mako Ireson, it will be the adventure of a lifetime.

Welcome to MOUTHPIECE, BOOK FOUR of the MY CRIME SERIESGo to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COMto listen to FREE INTERVIEWS with the subjects of the MY CRIME SERIESThe MY CRIME SERIES presents to the world books written on inmates by inmates.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES was written in 2018 by the presently incarcerated about the presently incarcerated.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES has been dictated, read, and reviewed by the subject.Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COMto listen to interviews recorded off of the prison phones.Buy the paperback for someone else and receive the eBook free for yourself.The books of the MY CRIME SERIES grant citizens insight into the lives of unknown felons in the California prison system. YOU become the judge. YOU will read about each subject’s interactions with family. YOU will get a sense of the subject’s neighborhood and school. YOU will come to know each subject’s motivations. YOU will move from childhood, youth, and adulthood with each subject. YOU will get a sense of the why’s and how’s of what makes someone choose crime. The MY CRIME SERIES books have been produced so we better know each other, including the felon. The ultimate goal is to create a better system, a system that lives up to our own standards of justice. All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK FOUR of the MY CRIME SERIES. MOUTHPIECE grants an understanding into inner city life. Understand the motivations and the temptations experienced by a youth who leans toward wrong doing, despite the best intentions of his family. Understand how crime is chosen as the best alternative from bad options. Witness, how the young subject fully dedicates himself to criminal enterprising. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COMto hear a portion of the audiobook plus extensive phone interviews with the subject.All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK FOUR of the MY CRIME SERIES: MOUTHPIECEMouthpiece is a brutally told biographical sketch of an incarcerated pimp, in prison for human trafficking. Raw boasts and brazen inner-city tales litter the story’s violent, unrepentant landscape.Like a marked man, Mouthpiece keeps after the reader with a cold perspective. Money is the aim and young women are the product.Bullets fly, tears drop, and children watch, Mouthpiece communicates the pride and prejudices of a warrior-pimp seizing plunder, camaraderie, and a demigod sense of self, through violence, street credentials, and psychological manipulation.Thank you for taking time out of your day to read and learn about MOUTHPIECE and the MY CRIME SERIES Content Includes:Family Life - Neighborhood Life – Gang Life - Drug Use – Youth/Adult Incarceration – Murder – Beatings – Property Theft - California Culture – Youth/Adult Sexuality – Prostitution - Profanity

Welcome to FIVE TRUE CRIME STORIES from CALIFORNIA INMATES, BUNDLE ONE of the MY CRIME SERIES – INCLUDES THE FIRST FIVE AUDIOBOOKS OF THE MY CRIME SERIES: SPINNERS STORY, HOLLER AT YOUR GIRL, HOOD TO HEELS, MOUTHPIECE, AND 38 YEARS LATER. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to FREE INTERVIEWS with the subjects of the MY CRIME SERIESThe MY CRIME SERIES presents to the world books written on inmates by inmates.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES was written in 2018 by the presently incarcerated about the presently incarcerated.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES has been dictated, read, and reviewed by the subject.Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to interviews recorded off of the prison phones.Buy the paperback for someone else and receive the eBook free for yourself.The books of the MY CRIME SERIES grant citizens insight into the lives of unknown felons in the California prison system. YOU become the judge. YOU will read about each subject’s interactions with family. YOU will get a sense of the subject’s neighborhood and school. YOU will come to know each subject’s motivations. YOU will move from childhood, youth, and adulthood with each subject. YOU will get a sense of the why’s and how’s of what makes someone choose crime. The MY CRIME SERIES books have been produced so we better know each other, including the felon. The ultimate goal is to create a better system, a system that lives up to our own standards of justice. All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BUNDLE ONE of the MY CRIME SERIES. Non-fiction biographies that read like fiction, that have life circumstances most people never considered, that present options most people would flee from, that bring consequences most people could never adjust to are the essence of the My Crime Series and the content of, “The First Offense: Five True Crime Stories from California Inmates.”Follow to prison a pimp, a transgender prostitute, a methamphetamine cook, an L.A. gangbanger, and the criminally minded boy next door. Place yourself in the debate as to whether nature versus nurture causes crime while you gain an understanding of the life circumstances, pressures, and motivations that compel unlawful conduct.Then with a better understanding of the criminally minded, create a justice system that better represents your values as a citizen.All stories enclosed are true as dictated by each subject to an inmate writer. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to hear extensive phone interviews with the subjects.All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BUNDLE ONE of the MY CRIME SERIES: FIVE TRUE CRIME STORIES from CALIFORNIA INMATESThank you for taking time out of your day to read and learn about FIVE TRUE CRIME STORIES from CALIFORNIA INMATES and the MY CRIME SERIES Content Includes:Family Life - Neighborhood Life - Sibling Relations - Drug Use – Youth/Adult Incarceration – Kidnapping – Burglary – Property Theft - Criminality - Romance - Gang Life - Philosophy - – Racism – California Culture – Youth/Adult Sexuality – Church/Religion/Spirituality – Transgender Themes – LGBTQ Themes

1848 – Superstition Mountain Wilderness, Republic of Mexico. Men work frantically in an anonymous mine pulling gold out of the ground before the territory is turned over to the United States and the precious ore is lost forever. Making their way south, Apaches attack the miners leaving a lone survivor. Present day. Jake McMasters has problems of his own. Uprooted from his life in New York City and moved to a small town in Arizona, Jake’s big city background and attitude make him an easy target for the local toughs. After meeting CJ, a classmate who gets him out of a sticky situation, Jake learns the legend of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. When Jake finds a note, hidden away for almost a century, the two set out into the mountains to search for the long lost mine. Along the way, they come up against unscrupulous treasure hunters, a band of Indians and their mysterious leader, and the local bullies, all while trying not to arouse the suspicions of their families. Will Jake and CJ figure out the clues to the mine’s location? Or will they disappear in the mountains taking the secret of the lost gold mine to their graves?

1848 – Superstition Mountain Wilderness, Republic of Mexico. Men work frantically in an anonymous mine pulling gold out of the ground before the territory is turned over to the United States and the precious ore is lost forever. Making their way south, Apaches attack the miners leaving a lone survivor. Present day. Jake McMasters has problems of his own. Uprooted from his life in New York City and moved to a small town in Arizona, Jake’s big city background and attitude make him an easy target for the local toughs. After meeting CJ, a classmate who gets him out of a sticky situation, Jake learns the legend of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. When Jake finds a note, hidden away for almost a century, the two set out into the mountains to search for the long lost mine. Along the way, they come up against unscrupulous treasure hunters, a band of Indians and their mysterious leader, and the local bullies, all while trying not to arouse the suspicions of their families. Will Jake and CJ figure out the clues to the mine’s location? Or will they disappear in the mountains taking the secret of the lost gold mine to their graves?

Welcome to A Senseless Teen Murder & the Hardknock Life, BOOK EIGHT of the MY CRIME SERIESGo to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to FREE INTERVIEWS with the subjects of the MY CRIME SERIESThe MY CRIME SERIES presents to the world books written on inmates by inmates.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES was written by the presently incarcerated about the presently incarcerated.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES has been dictated, read, and reviewed by the subject.Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to interviews recorded off of the prison phones.Buy the paperback for someone else and receive the eBook free for yourself.The books of the MY CRIME SERIES grant citizens insight into the lives of unknown felons in the California prison system. YOU become the judge. YOU will read about each subject’s interactions with family. YOU will get a sense of the subject’s neighborhood and school. YOU will come to know each subject’s motivations. YOU will move from childhood, youth, and adulthood with each subject. YOU will get a sense of the why’s and how’s of what makes someone choose crime. The MY CRIME SERIES books have been produced so we better know each other, including the felon. The ultimate goal is to create a better system, a system that lives up to our own standards of justice. All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK EIGHT of the MY CRIME SERIES. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to hear a portion of the audiobook plus extensive phone interviews with the subject.All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK EIGHT of the MY CRIME SERIES: A Senseless Teen Murder & the Hardknock Life1000 motivations can be offered for murder, a crime that merits the curse of all ages. Yet how plain is the common cause for killing. Daniel Davidson put a low bar on the value of human life and Curtis Frasier was not presented the case to respect the dignity of others. Both fell to puffed-up pride and an inflated sense of self, egoism. Still, how different are the paths that led each to kill, a child murderer and a ghetto child.Make no excuses for the times and circumstances that produced the value sets herein enclosed. These are testimonials of the collective cultural perdition.With a heavy heart and a recognition of general worth is Book Eight of the My Crime Series presented to the public. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read and learn about A Senseless Teen Murder & the Hardknock Life and the MY CRIME SERIES Content Includes:Family Life - Neighborhood Life - Drug Use – Adult Incarceration – Murder – Drug Use – Property Theft - California Culture – Youth/Adult Sexuality – Church/Religion -

What would you do if you left home to go to the mall and two hours later woke up in a strange city a century in the past? This is how it all begins for Alfred William Mason, an ordinary 12-year old who hates history, but finds himself in the middle of an extraordinary time traveling adventure. As Alfie is hurled about through time, he gets himself involved in major events of historical significance. Along the way, he meets up with his great-grandfather as a boy, helps an immigrant family come to realize the American dream, and discovers he's tougher and more resilient than he ever imagined. While the scientists at the lab frantically work to bring him home, Alfie comes to realize even the smallest actions of the past can have far reaching implications for the future.

Welcome to A Senseless Teen Murder & the Hardknock Life, BOOK EIGHT of the MY CRIME SERIESGo to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to FREE INTERVIEWS with the subjects of the MY CRIME SERIESThe MY CRIME SERIES presents to the world books written on inmates by inmates.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES was written by the presently incarcerated about the presently incarcerated.Each book of the MY CRIME SERIES has been dictated, read, and reviewed by the subject.Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to listen to interviews recorded off of the prison phones.Buy the paperback for someone else and receive the eBook free for yourself.The books of the MY CRIME SERIES grant citizens insight into the lives of unknown felons in the California prison system. YOU become the judge. YOU will read about each subject’s interactions with family. YOU will get a sense of the subject’s neighborhood and school. YOU will come to know each subject’s motivations. YOU will move from childhood, youth, and adulthood with each subject. YOU will get a sense of the why’s and how’s of what makes someone choose crime. The MY CRIME SERIES books have been produced so we better know each other, including the felon. The ultimate goal is to create a better system, a system that lives up to our own standards of justice. All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK EIGHT of the MY CRIME SERIES. Go to WWW.CRIMEBIOS.COM to hear a portion of the audiobook plus extensive phone interviews with the subject.All books are written on inmates, by inmates. Welcome to BOOK EIGHT of the MY CRIME SERIES: A Senseless Teen Murder & the Hardknock Life1000 motivations can be offered for murder, a crime that merits the curse of all ages. Yet how plain is the common cause for killing. Daniel Davidson put a low bar on the value of human life and Curtis Frasier was not presented the case to respect the dignity of others. Both fell to puffed-up pride and an inflated sense of self, egoism. Still, how different are the paths that led each to kill, a child murderer and a ghetto child.Make no excuses for the times and circumstances that produced the value sets herein enclosed. These are testimonials of the collective cultural perdition.With a heavy heart and a recognition of general worth is Book Eight of the My Crime Series presented to the public. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read and learn about A Senseless Teen Murder & the Hardknock Life and the MY CRIME SERIES Content Includes:Family Life - Neighborhood Life - Drug Use – Adult Incarceration – Murder – Drug Use – Property Theft - California Culture – Youth/Adult Sexuality – Church/Religion -