Books with author Will Smith

New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith—hailed by Stephen King as the “best historical novelist” and one of the world’s biggest-selling authors—returns to Ancient Egypt in this breathtaking epic that conjures the magic, mystery, romance, and bloody intrigue of a fascinating lost world.Game of Thrones meets Ancient Egypt in this magnificent, action-packed epic. On the gleaming banks of the Nile, the brilliant Taita—slave and advisor to the Pharaoh—finds himself at the center of a vortex of passion, intrigue, and danger. His quest to destroy the Hyksos army and form an alliance with Crete takes him on an epic journey up the Nile, through Arabia and the magical city of Babylon, and across the open seas. With the future of Egypt itself on his shoulders, Taita enters a world where the line between loyalty and betrayal shifts like the desert sands, evil enemies await in the shadows, and death lingers on the edges of darkness.

It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold... `The scope is magnificent and the epic scale breathtaking... Wilbur Smith is one of thos benchmarks agains whom others are compared` - The Times `Meticulous research supports constant excitement in a fast-moving tale` - Washington Post

You are special and original! God has a great plan for your life, and no one is an accident. God loves you so much, and He wants you in His family. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Whosoever means you! This book shares God’s love and the message of salvation.

Maybe you got off to a rocky start, didn’t finish your education or had to take a job you hated. Did you marry young or have a child before you were ready for that much responsibility? Have you struggled with addiction, depression or despair?Life takes us down some pretty strange paths. If anyone knows that, it’s two-time author Captain Will Smith.In his book, Ditches to Riches, Will offers up some real-life lessons from a man who had it all, lost it all, then got it all back again. Will was dealt a bad hand when he was sent to prison for more than two years for a crime he did not commit. Once free, he moved to a new state with no money and a felony conviction still marring his otherwise perfect record. The only thing he had was a friend who let him sleep on a couch and a job digging ditches in the Florida heat. But he did have one other thing, a desperate desire to climb out of that ditch.Today, Captain Will Smith owns an aviation company and flies all over the world, inspiring and motivating others to get the most out of their lives.“I’m not a financial advisor, I don’t have a PhD., and I’m not a licensed therapist. But I do know how I climbed out of a ditch and became successful. I can teach you how you can do it too!” Captain Will SmithWritten in an easy-to-read style, Ditches to Riches will not only show you how to become successful, it will also fuel and incentivize you to get the most out of your life. If you’re struggling financially or emotionally, this could be the most important book you’ve ever read.The only thing stopping you, is you.

(Outlaw Galaxy 1, stand-alone novel) Benjamin "Trip" Trippany dreams of someday traveling to the stars ... but he never imagined that he’d be kidnapped and forced to join Diamond Black Joe’s pirate gang! A rousing space adventure for readers of all ages. 73,000 words or about 200 pages, reading time: five hours.Trip lives with his Uncle Craz in the bustling port town of Pennick's Crossing, working in Craz's repair bay while dreaming of having his own ship and adventuring among the stars. A chance encounter and chase through the bustling city delivers him into the clutches of Diamond Black Joe, the infamous space pirate. Forced to join the pirate gang, Trip learns that Diamond Black Joe plans to attack and capture a Sh'nar cargo ship fleet, where his best friend Jinx is among the crew. Forced to choose between his own safety and saving his best friend, Trip is plunged into deep space battles, blaster battles with ferocious pirates and a desperate struggle to free Jinx and the captured Sh'nar!By Bill Smith, author of Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Del Rey Books) and Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game (Second Edition, for West End Games)

'I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog's snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner's blade of the dorsal fin'. Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck. "Wilbur Smith is one of the benchmarks against whom others are compared". ("The Times").