Alley Cat Junkyard Dog

The question is: can dogs and cats be friends? The most unlikely of allies must band together against a common enemy; can they put aside their differences, learn to understand each other and be triumphant? What twists and turns with the story take? What will they have to learn? Who will help them? And why is there such a strange sense of familiarity between them? Join the characters on a different sort of adventure, as they battle to overcome their differences and preconceived ideas and learn how to work together. The story is a powerful journey through friendship and self-realization. And yet they still have so much to learn.

The question is: can dogs and cats be friends? The most unlikely of allies must band together against a common enemy; can they put aside their differences, learn to understand each other and be triumphant? What twists and turns with the story take? What will they have to learn? Who will help them? And why is there such a strange sense of familiarity between them? Join the characters on a different sort of adventure, as they battle to overcome their differences and preconceived ideas and learn how to work together. The story is a powerful journey through friendship and self-realization. And yet they still have so much to learn.

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“A nice coming of age tale. Carver's got the energy of the track, the obsession that makes people attempt the impossible down cold. This is a good book.” —Chuq Von Rospach, Otherrealms Imagine Clypsis, an entire solar system designed as the most awesome racetrack in the history of the sport. Imagine personality-implanted robots, whose knowledge and influence can make or break a racer's career, and fusion-fueled ships that move at extraordinary speeds. Imagine a young hero from Earth, braving the unknown to reach Clypsis, where his dream of being a faster-than-light racer can come true. Enter the imagination of Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Roger Zelazny. Share the dream of Mike Murray as he makes his way from the racing pit to the cockpit of the universe's most dangerous and exhilarating challenge. Roger Zelazny and Jeffrey A. Carver launch a sensational series with technical blueprints of the racing ships by visionary automotive designer Hayashi. A Midwesterner by birth and upbringing (I grew up in Huron, Ohio), I’ve lived in New England ever since attending college at Brown University, in Rhode Island. Now I live outside Boston with my wife and daughters, and also with a boxer named Hermione and a cat named Moonlight. I’ve loved science fiction since I first began to read, and from the time I began writing, I always knew my first love was going to be SF. I'm not sure where you'd place me as a writer: I love astronomy and cosmology and hard SF concepts, and yet the characters are the most important thing to me in any story, whether it’s a story I'm reading or a story I’m writing. It's the people, and the sense of wonder, that have always made science fiction--and science!--so awe-inspiring to me. Basically, I have always tried to write stories that I would want to read myself. Some years ago, I developed and hosted on the air an educational TV series for middle-school classrooms, called Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy--teaching kids the basics of how to turn ideas into stories. That later turned into a computer-based course called, oddly enough, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. In 2005, I decided it was about time to put the information online as a public service, available for free to any aspiring writer. It’s online now, and you can use it anytime you like, just by going to http://www.writesf.com. I also invite you to stop by and read my regular blog, at http://starrigger.blogspot.com, or my web site at http://www.starrigger.net. Thanks for visiting! And please take a look at the video trailer for my novel Sunborn. If you'd like to view it in full-screen for full effect, you can do that at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K03RMcSeiY4. --Jeffrey A. Carver

Join the Alley Dogs (Harvey, Ruffles, Mac, Puddles, Patchy and Bonnie) and their friends the Alley Cats, as they fill the nights with barks and yowls, search for missing toys, put on a circus and cool themselves on a hot summer day.

Justin is fascinated with the aged guard dog at the corner store. He names it Smokey and sneaks the dog treats. Smokey belongs to a company that supplies working dogs to local businesses. Justin is thrilled to get a job working for Smokey's company, until he learns about the mistreatment of the animals. When Justin can't shake his suspicion that someone in the company is involved in a rash of thefts, he tries to quit. But Justin knows too much, and his boss won't let him go.

He has a wicked past that refuses to let him go. After faking his death to escape a ruthless shadow clan of shifters, Julio “Gash” Kennedy has found a home in the Ouachita Mountains. Working as a security guard for Lake Haven Lodge allows him to keep a close eye on the female who’s meant to be his fated mate. He will do whatever it takes to keep her safe, especially from himself. But cutting ties with the past isn't as easy as he assumed, and now the men he betrayed are coming for them all. She wants an eternity with him… that he refuses to allow. Abandoned by her family when she was young, curvy weretiger, Bailey, is used to rejection. But she thought those days were over when she found a home with the Ouachita shifter clan. Until dark and mysterious Gash showed up, causing her inner animal to long for a future neither of them could have. Now, her man is in danger and time is running out for them to find their happily ever after. As Ouachita prepares to meet their vilest foe, they'll have to depend on help from a most unlikely source to free Gash from the darkness that followed him there. Welcome to Lake Haven Lodge. These mountain cats know exactly what you need to make your stay unfurgettable.

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