Tom Roberts

The adventures of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and how they deal with the big bad wolf.

The Three Little Pigs

In Tom Roberts' award-winning debut historical novel, Lost Scrolls of Archimedes, you will encounter improbable-though not impossible-history. Along the way, there will be danger, adventure, pain, and love. And a few philosophical discussions of the dangers of new technology. Marcus, a young Roman scholar, and Hippolytus, his mentor, steal two long-lost scrolls of Archimedes from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. Legends say the encrypted documents contain the knowledge of immense powers. When Hippolytus flees Alexandria to avoid Roman agents seeking him, Marcus is left to safeguard the scrolls. He waits, but after four years, he decides to try to crack the complex coding obscuring Archimedes masterwork. Marcus seeks help from his best friend, Kleon, and from the alluring Electra, cousin of Cleopatra and an expert linguist. The ambitious Kleon, seeking wealth and status, betrays Marcus to the agents of Roman strongman, Octavian. On a trading voyage for his father, Marcus is attacked and thrown into captivity as a galley slave. Marcus and Kleon thus begin a dangerous game of cat and mouse as each rush to extract the knowledge of the scrolls. Assassination, kidnapping, a midnight raid, and a long chase across the Tunisian desert bring Marcus to the climactic encounter with enemies-and friends-on the day of the epoch-making Battle of Actium, the funeral pyre of the Republic and the crucible of the Roman Empire.

A Historical Novel of Ancient Rome and Egypt

Lost Scrolls of Archimedes

Founder Governor of World Wildlife Fund Pakistan and Member Tom Roberts, (Ed

This is the memoir of a man who had everything: family, good job, house. He walked away from it. Why? Tom Roberts learned five years after he just walked away and lost everything he had bipolar disorder II and the reason he left all that he had was because he was in a manic episode. Tom's memoir takes the reader from what appeared to be a comfortable college professor's life to the dirty streets of Hollywood, CA. He was living in a fantasy that he could earn a living as a film actor just as he dreamed when he was in high school. His "escape" as he calls it, was triggered by medical treatment following a horrible depression that had lasted six months by the time he was hospitalized. He was prescribed the new antidepressant Prozac and it turned out to be the worst anti-depressant for a yet undiagnosed manic-depressive. Tom's story begins, however, 30 years earlier in a family dominated by his Father's undiagnosed mental illness and then the sudden death of his 34-year-old Mother. Tom lived through the suicides of his brother and later his step-sister. The end surprisingly, is back in Hollywood as a working voice-over actor with several on-camera film credits. How he got there is the rest of the story and the final destination of his journey that went from nowhere to "now here."

A Manic-Depressive's Journey to Nowhere

Escape from Myself

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At a time when traditional funding is diminishing and costs increasing, the need to look to new external sources of money is now central to survival for many organizations. New avenues of funding often demand a new outlook, and old ways of thinking can prove to be barriers to success. This book looks not only at methods for raising funds, providing practical steps in preparing for new funding initiatives, but also at the attitudes and mind-sets that form part of the whole picture. The volume is concise and accessible, with plans of action, bullet lists and diagrams for ease of consultation.

New Routes to Project Fundraising

The Funding Revolution

Santa's Prayer is a tale of a young boy and girl who discover Santa praying at a church nativity. What they overhear is Santa's prayer for the children of the world. It is a prayer shared by every Christian parent . . . a prayer of hope that our children (and grandchildren) will always be mindful of and thankful for the birth of a little baby whose life and legacy has changed the world. Illustrated by Doug Moss.

Santa's Prayer

Peter Oborne

The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump's tweets, by contrast, formed a constant stream of provocations, insults, conspiracy theories, "alternative facts," and outright lies. And they helped him win power. This book analyzes Trump's incendiary mendacity in all its bewildering guises, and shows how this fusion of entertainment and cunningly-crafted propaganda has destabilized the world's most powerful democracy.

His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language

How Trump Thinks

This collection brings together four grand 1930s pulp heros that attempted to rival the success of Doc Savage: Secet Agent X, Captain Hazzard, Super Jim Anthony and Rush Randall, each in a novel-length adventure.

The Rivals of Doc Savage

The Adventurers

A New Norm is a poetic tale that is intended to reflect the feelings of those of us who struggle with anxiety, depression, grief, anger, doubt, shame, fear and more, yet provide encouragement that difficulties such as these can be overcome. It expresses how routine thoughts of negativity can sometimes cloud our reality making it difficult to enjoy life, to appreciate what is truly good, to have positive relationships, or to develop to one's full potential. It is a story that reminds us that perception is reality. That if one is willing to look, willing to accept, and willing to try, that there is a light both within and beyond available to not only illuminate, but change our world for the better. Our hope is that this story and the discussion guide that follows will become a springboard for a conversation with ourselves and/or with others to define what our dark clouds are and how we can make efforts to find the light of our new norm.A New Norm is the result of a partnership between Avera Behavioral Health and Children's Home Society of South Dakota in a joint effort to promote mental wellness. Purchases of this book will benefit the mission of helping kids and families served by both of these organizations.

A New Norm

Complete with a foreword by George Lucas and an introduction by famed artist James Bama, Alex Raymond: His Life and Art delves deep into the history and work of this internationally famous artist, showcasing never-before-known facts and art that transcended the confines of a comic strip page and make him more than the renowned artist of Flash Gordon.

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