Books

This page contains the resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. Admittedly, it is an eclectic list. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts, videos, and slideshows.

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Dead Man’s Hand by Eddie Jones (Dry Bones Publishing, 2020)

★ Selah Award Winner for Middle-Grade Fiction ★ first published by Zonderkidz

This is an authentic old west ghost town, son. Around these parts the dead don’t stay dead. – Sheriff Wyatt Earp.

Nick Caden’s vacation at Deadwood Canyon Ghost Town takes a deadly turn toward trouble when the fourteen-year-old finds himself trapped in a livery stable with the infamous outlaw Jesse James. The shooter whirls, aims and… vanishes. Great theatrics, Nick thinks, except now he’s alone in the hayloft with the bullet-riddled body of someone playing the part of Billy the Kid. By the time the sheriff arrives, the body disappears.

Soon Nick is caught in a deadly chase—from an abandoned gold mine, through forbidden buffalo hunting grounds, and across Rattlesnake Gulch. Around every turn, he finds another suspect. Will Nick solve the murder before his family leaves Deadwood? Or will the town’s desperate need for tourists’ income bury the haunting truth about souls, spirits, and the destiny of those who die?

Parents can trust the Caden Chronicles to be safe reading for children. There is no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language, only a wee bit of humor.

Dead Man’s Hand is an excellent book for tween, teens, and young adults who love a good mystery adventure.

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Amazon customer reviews

114 global ratings

Blackbeard the Pirate and Stede Bonnet’s Fateful Clash by Eddie Jones (Raleigh: Dry Bones Publishing, December 1, 2020)

★ Selah Award Winner ★ (Fiction based on real events!)

In the year 1717, Ricky embarks on an unexpected journey aboard a ship captained by Stede Bonnet, a wealthy sugar plantation owner who abandons his comfortable life to set sail as a pirate. As they chart a course toward the North American coast, Bonnet’s crew is put to the test when they encounter a heavily armed British warship. Soon, stealing, killing, and plundering their way becomes their grim routine on the path to the Carolinas.

Only when Bonnet’s men come under the tutelage of Blackbeard do they truly learn what it means to be a pirate. Under his leadership, they endure the harsh realities of life at sea, pillaging ships, and facing the consequences of serving the most black-hearted pirate ever to sail.

While navigating the treacherous waters of the Caribbean and North Atlantic coast, the men face adversaries, mutinies, and ultimately end up marooned near “Top Sail” inlet, just off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina.

Blackbeard the Pirate and Stede Bonnet’s Fateful Clash blends adventure and historical accuracy with a dash of humor, giving readers a lively pirate yarn that will last for the ages.

This concludes the next chapter in a thrilling seafaring saga – stay tuned for more high seas, high jinks fun!

Parents can trust the Caribbean Chronicles Series. There is no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language, only a wee bit of humor. 🙂

Amazon customer reviews

59 global ratings

The End of Calico Jack by Eddie Jones (Raleigh, NC: Dry Bones Publishing, September 9, 2019)

★ Selah Award Winner for YA Literature ★ – In this YA pirate tale, award-winning author Eddie Jones blends action, adventure, and humor into a fictional retelling of the exploits of pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read.

While searching for rumored treasure in a cave on Coffin Cay, a small island off the southwestern tip of Haiti (Hispaniola), Ricky suffers an absence seizure. During his last trance-like episode, Ricky uncovered a treasure from the Nuestra Señora de Riqueza, a vessel in an armada of ships sailing the Spanish Main. Now back on Coffin Cay with his parents, Ricky hunts for the treasure he found in the cave over three hundred years earlier during his trip back to pirate land.

The End of Calico Jack is a fictional retelling of the pirate escapades of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read. The story is based on historical research of the life of “Calico Jack” John Rackham. In the telling of the story some liberties were taken, but many of the events reflect what historians believed happened to Jack, Mary, and Anne. Also, in real life those who suffer absence seizures may appear to be in a trance but cannot recall what happens during their episode. The book includes a PIRATE MAP of Calico Jack’s sailing routes and the ports he visited.

Parents can trust the Caribbean Chronicles Series. There is no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language, only a wee bit of humor. 🙂 We hope you enjoy these pirate books for young adults, teens, and older kids.

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Amazon customer reviews

72 global ratings

Dead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie Jones (Dry Bones Publishing, 2017)

If you were forced to sail with pirates . . .
captured and tried for piracy . . .
and sentenced to swing . . . would you trade your body to the crew of the “Flying Dutchman” in order to save your soul? Ricky did. Some dead men DO tell tales. And there is stolen treasure in this pirate story.

★Directors’ Choice Award Winner Finalist ★

Last winter Ricky Bradshaw was another gangly freshman hoping to fit in — or at least not get picked on — and maybe catch the attention of Becky Nance, a girl in his biology class. Except sometimes Ricky “zones out” in class because he has absence seizures. If you’ve never heard of absence seizures, that’s okay. A lot of people haven’t. Ricky’s teachers are a lot of those people.

And that’s what happened to Ricky last Christmas Eve: he had an episode and ended up in pirate land. When Dead Calm, Bone Dry begins, Ricky is on his way to being tried for piracy. In the ship’s brig, he is about to learn that some things are worse than being unpopular in high school. MUCH worse. Like sailing to . . . Well, we best let Ricky tell the account. It is his story, after all.

Parents can trust the Caribbean Chronicles Series. There is no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language, only a wee little bit of humor. 🙂 We hope you enjoy these pirate books for young adults, teens, and older kids.

Amazon customer reviews

71 global ratings

Curse of the Black Avenger by Eddie Jones (Dry Bones Publishing, 2014)

If the sea spit you out, thrusting you back into the age of pirates, buried treasure and beauty beyond belief. . . would you stay? Ricky is about to learn that some dead men do tell tales—and of a terrifying sort.

★ Moonbeam Book Award Winner — Selah Award Winner ★

RICKY BRADSHAW has never sailed the Spanish Main, searched for buried treasure, or battled pirates on the deck of a Spanish Galleon. He’s never fallen through the floor of Davy Jones’ locker, skippered a pirate vessel, or saved the life of a governor’s daughter.

But all that changes on a snowy Christmas Eve when Ricky falls into the chilly waters of a creek across from his apartment while trying to rescue BARNACLE, a mangy mutt with shrimp breath.

Now Ricky finds himself on a raft in the middle of the Caribbean Sea where there is surprising beauty on every island, danger around every corner, and great honor and glory for all who can survive the curse of the Black Avenger.

Amazon customer reviews

80 global ratings

The Day The World Sneezed by Eddie Jones (Raleigh, NC: Dry Bones Publishing, 2020)

Elmer made a mental note of the date and day the man from the Bureau of Land Management came to his farm: March 12, 2020.

“I’m Mr. Ricks with the Bureau of Land Management. Got a minute to talk?”

” ‘Bout what?”

“I heard you’re stockpiling cleaning disinfectant. Thought we should talk about that.”

It was a day and visit Elmer would come to regret for the rest of his life. Over the next few weeks Elmer would witness an unprecedented economic collapse, the shocking news that world leaders had fallen ill to the deadly coronavirus, the implosion of the billion dollar industry known as “amateur athletics,” professional sports teams sidelined and forgotten, (all but the Tampa Bay Rays who actually experienced an increase in attendance at Tropicana Field,) and martial law enforced in major cities as neighbors fought over the basic needs for survival. Amidst the chaos and panic, Lysol would become the liquid gold that saves a nation.

And Elmer had warehouses full of Lysol.

The Day The World Sneezed is Whimsical Almost-End-Times Satire