Bøger af Tom Frye

Come along for the adventure of a lifetime, as two young brothers are transported to a magical land where they have to face the Fear Warriors and the terrible Dragons of Dread! Watch as Liam and Rory have to find the key to defeating these two foes!

When Ryder Dane and Travis Jackson end up in a fight in their school lunchroom, the juvenile judge sentences them to community service at a local dog retreat. There, Lakota dog handler Chade Long Soldier introduces the two boys to his guest of honor, a legendary Narco dog named Rocket. In the days leading up to the pit bull's retirement ceremony, Ryder and Travis bond with the dog. As payback for the millions of dollars Rocket alerted to during his time with the DEA, he is stolen by the leader of a Mexican cartel. It is up to Ryder and Travis to rescue him.

After Ryan's near fatal encounter with the Wanagi, murders around Riverview begin to add up. Ryan and Dawn resolve the issue of turning in evidence to Sheriff MacNeil to clear Tall of the murder of the FBI agent. Due to his willingness to help, Ryan is asked to give a deposition to Carly Raven, investigator for the Bower Law firm representing Tall. His father, Jess MacNeil, the Sheriff of Riverview, soon finds himself working closely with Carly as a number of murders take place. Although Ryan is attacked by the mysterious Wanagi, demon of the forest, he begins to understand the seen and the unseen events happening in and out of the Otherworld.On another venture into Stag-Heart, Ryan rescues a wolf groggy from a shot by a tranquilizer gun from Mandrake, the killer grizzly. He, in turn, is rescued by Dawn and Amos Thunder Hawk, the grandfather of Tall. Back in the day, when his mother taught at Stone Ridge, Amos was one of her staunch supporters, and Ryan had been to many pow-wows with the old Lakota holy man.Due to Carly's investigation into Teresa MacNeil's fatal crash, she reveals to Jess that Tall was set up for the ride that sent her car off the pass on that wintery night. FBI Agent Koops is there when Jess is confronted and he denies knowing anything about Tall's blood alcohol level. While Jess and Carly work together on investigating the drug deal that resulted in the killing of the FBI agent, Ryan and Dawn have a near-fatal encounter with the Branch brothers, prime suspects in the drug deal.Read less

In the conclusion of the story, all the characters end up in a deadly confrontation in the deeps of Stag-Heart, including a terrible encounter with Mandrake the bear. When a white buffalo calf is born on Amos Thunder Hawk's ranch, Nate Cloud steals both the calf and his mother and takes a short-cut through Stag-Heart. Nate encounters Mandrake and the cow is killed, while Nate and the calf escape. Tall, who has followed Nate into the woods, encounters the face-painted Wanagi locked in a death-struggle with the bear as he attacks Nate Cloud. Nate is seriously wounded by the bear, and Tall is forced to transport him to safety by horseback, while the demonic Indian flees the scene of the attack.Suspicions as to who savagely murdered the three kids so long ago in Stag-Heart have swirled above the heads of two men, Nathan Cloud and Gus Morgan, but in the end, Ryan learns the hard way who the real killer is, when FBI Agent Koops stabs his Irish wolfhound with the legendary deer antler. While Bran hangs between life and death, Ryan's dealings with Koops are brought to a final conclusion deep inside of Stag-Heart. Koops is gored by the Black Stag.Koops became unhinged so many years ago when his young son was arrested for drug possession. The entire affair resulted in a divorce and no visitation with his son. Blaming his son's three friends for involving his son in drugs, Koops took his revenge for suffering such a hardship by using the deer antler to savagely mutilate the three boys during their camping trip inside of Stag-Heart.Later, back in Riverview, Ryan and his grandfather, Doc Mac, are preparing to pull the plug on Bran, when Dawn, Tall and Amos arrive at Doc's office with the white buffalo calf. Whether it is a miracle or powerful magic of the calf, Bran is destined to live. The last lessons in the book are given by Tall to Ryan in regards to the two wolves that live inside of us all, and the wolf who wins is the wolf we feed the most. Tall, still knowing he is responsible for the death of Ryan's mother in the drunk driving accident, talks about Crazy Horse and the troubles he had to overcome to forgive himself, when he accidently killed a woman himself before he ever became a famous war chief.

14-year-old Ryan MacNeil stumbles upon a drug deal gone south on a reservation up north. Ryan has goals to be like his father, the Sheriff of Riverview, North Dakota. When he ventures into Stag-Heart Woods to rescue his friends runaway dog, he stumbles upon the bloody aftermath of a shoot-out between an FBI agent and a Lakota man from nearby Stone Ridge Reservation. To Ryan, everything about the killing points to the Lakota man, Tallman Thunder Hawk, left unconscious by the shoot-out. Ryan knows Tall was just recently released from the state pen, having served ten years for the drunk driving accident that killed a white woman who was at one time Tall's teacher on the rez. She also happened to be young Ryan's mother.To Ryan, it is obvious that Tall has killed again. He wants to see that he is punished for his mom's death and also for murdering the Federal agent. But Dawn Red Feather, a young Lakota juvenile delinquent, has witnessed the shooting and she brings Ryan evidence that would clear Tall of the murder. Ryan's conflict is he does not want Tall cleared, and badly wants to see him punished for his mom's senseless, tragic death, and so he withholds the evidence.Stag-Heart is a mysterious place, located between Stone Ridge rez and the town of Riverview. For years, it has been considered a haunted forest where three young boys were found brutally murdered on a camping trip. White kids blame the savage slaughter on an old hunter who lost his hand in a beer trap, and now uses an antler to serve as his missing hand. Indian kids claim it was the Wanagi, a demon of the forest. While others blame the deaths on Mandrake, the killer grizzly who roams the woods. After encountering the bear when he was much younger, Ryan has stayed far away from the forest, and yet he finds himself returning there with Dawn to recover the drugs supposedly left behind by the dealers who actually shot the agent.

What were the chances that that on November 23rd, 1963 President John Kennedy was shot and killed while a second John Kennedy was gunned in small town Beatrice?So began the adventures of Hawk and Dec as they become involved in a complicated conspiracy for a young girl's murder, but an unforgettable quest that might very well lead to Jesse James' stolen gold.If the Knights of the Golden Circle don't find it first!

If you've ever read Scratchin' on the Eight Ball, this is where the story begins. During the aftermath of a school bus wreck caused by a drunken biker, Rain Nelson finds a map leadingto a white buffalo robe with a Cheyenne peace treaty marked on it during the Night the Stars fell from the Skies.In attempting to retrieve the relic, Rain kills a crooked cop and goes to prison. Years later, his son, 13-year-old Reason Nelson, finds the map hidden behind an award his dad won before going to prison. The map places Reason at odds with the Nomad, a cold-blooded killer. Jessie Dalton, former vice president of the Outlaws biker club once led by Reason's father, offers his help but Jessie finds it a challenge to keep Reason safe due to his addiction to drugs.During an intervention, Jessie informs Reason that his father, Rain, has spent most of his life locked up, and when the Kid and the Con meet the first time, Jessie knows a lot of healing needs to take place before father and son can get on with their lives.

The Havelock Emerald is an Irish pub located in the small suburb of Havelock, Nebraska. The Emerald's iconic stained-glass window depicting a black dragon carrying a bright green emerald in its talons, was gifted to the owner of the pub, Billy Connors by a Gypsy Chieftain back in Ireland years ago. Inside the pub is a gateway to an alternative realm. Old Billy is an Irish gunrunner and the Gatekeeper linking this world with the many realms beyond.When 11-year-old Lucas Holland learns that his dad, President of the Elder's Den biker club, has been sent on a mission to the Middle East due to Billy's meddling, his rage meter goes in the red. With baseball bat in hand, Lucas is determined to shatter the Emerald's stained-glass window. Instead, he discovers a doorway inside the pub that leads to an alternative realm where dragons can sure ruin one's day.

This is the fourth book in the Havelock Emerald series, where Lucas, Alex, and Celeste find themselves back in the realm of Valasar. They find themselves in a quest to not only slay a dragon, but a conspiracy to save one, as well.When a lesser king and his two Sword Lords refuse to slay the dragon, Elendria, in order to steal her Star Fire, High King Manix declares them outlaws. When he orders that their three children are to be executed, Lucas, Alex, and Celeste become determined to rescue them, for one is to be a legendary Sword Lord, the other is to become the Lion Lord, and the third is destined to become the queen, Alicia the Black Rose.

Shortly after his mother is killed in a car accident. Lucas leaves foster care at Wounded Arrow and returns home to Havelock to live with his dad. At his elementary school, Lucas stumbles upon three Muslim boys forcefully recruiting a young Muslim boy to carry out a school shooting. Lucas intervenes on behalf of Ali Kharim and comes away from the encounter carrying a pistol with scorpions engraved on its pearl handles. Little does he know, that inserted into the butt of the gun is a flash drive.While Homeland Security Agent Gloria Raynes teams up with K9 Officer Beef Tory to locate this flash drive, Lucas makes their job difficult due to his behavior disorder. His dad, Stone Holland, is the president of a notorious biker club, the Elder's Den, and an ex-Delta Ranger who was involved in a cat-and-mouse game with extremists in Mosul, when he and his team of dog handlers discovered two ex-ray machines with enough radioactive material to make a dirty bomb. Stone has his own theory about the mass-Muslim migration, which is why Lucas is reluctant to help Ali's father, Khalid, an anti-terrorist secret service agent who is here tracking a group of Iranian extremists waiting for a green light on a terrorist plot.The flash drive contains the directives to these Muslim terrorists: To infiltrate the dog compound of Wounded Arrow, where 200 Military service dogs have recently been returned from the war over-seas. Their goal is to place a chemical agent in the ventilators of the compound located outside of Havelock. By doing so, they will succeed in psychologically attacking Military dog handlers by eliminating these retired service dogs awaiting adoption as a reward for the service they provided to the US. Some of these dogs shamed the extremists in Mosul, when they discovered the ex-ray machines, making them look really bad in the eyes of the world.While the central plot is to prevent this attack on the dogs, Lucas learns a lot about Islam through Ali and his father, Khalid. Despite his own father's bitter hatred of anyone Muslim, Lucas comes to realize the difference between Moderates and Extremists, and yet the story takes an honest look at these "guests" to their "host" society.

In this Mythic Fantasy series, the Havelock Emerald is an Irish pub located in the small suburb of Havelock, Nebraska. The Emerald's iconic stained-glass window, depicting a black dragon carrying a bright green emerald in its talons, was gifted to Billy Connors by a Gypsy Chieftain back in Ireland years ago. In the pub is a gateway to an alternate reality. Old Billy is an Irish gunrunner and the gatekeeper linking this world with the alternative realms beyond. The first two books in the series sets the stage for the main characters' interaction with Billy and his "waystation" to the Otherworld.Enter the main character, 11-year-old Lucas Holland, a foster kid with a real bad disposition, who meets a foster dog with an even worse attitude than his. When Lucas, the son of the president of a notorious biker club, is placed in foster care due to an altercation between his dad and his mom, he ends up in the home of a police officer. The turmoil of living in a home with boundaries stresses him out. When his family support worker, Ben Black Bull, escorts him to anger management, Lucas races to a downtown parking garage, where he threatens to jump to the street sixth stories below.While Ben performs crisis intervention, Lucas looks down to a car stopping in the street far below them. When the driver of the car tosses two pit bulls out onto the downtown sidewalk, Lucas switches out of crisis mode and saves Goblin, the pup. He and Ben are both confronted by the larger pit, Grunge, a legendary fighter. Ben drives Lucas and the two dogs to Wounded Arrow, his dog rescue ranch where the Lakota dog handler works with some of the most damaged dogs on the planet. Ben incorporates a company of veterans who suffer from PTSD, pairing each dog with a wounded warrior. It's there that Lucas learns that dogs and people all need healing of some sort.

This is the story "behind" all of my stories, starting from when I was a kid growing up in Havelock and moving on through the 45 years I spent in the field of Youth Work. I may have a wild imagination, but this one is non-fiction and filled with true stories of my Life and Times.For all you youth workers out there, I hope this resonates with you, and not only inspires you to never give up on even the toughest, belligerent kids, but will serve as a clarion call for you to stand at the wall and fill the gap while others have given up and quit.Care to come along for the ride?

In a coming of age story reminiscent of The Outsiders, thirteen-year-old, Reason Nelson attends a party that is busted by the local police. As he flees, he collides with a detective and a drug dealer. He snatches up what he believes to be his leather jacket and crawls into a doghouse. In the pocket of this coat, Reason discovers a key that opens a safe-deposit box containing evidence that will solve the murder of a young female informant. Reason finds himself running from both the drug dealer who murdered her and the detective trying to solve her murder.Scratchin' on the Eight Ball, the first of the three-book Havelock Chronicles, is the most lost, stolen, missing book in the Lincoln public schools and public library system. Used in treatment centers, detention facilities, alternate schools, and three Federal pens, it is not a boring book!

The fourth and final volume of our popular melodramas series includes four new works from Tom Frye: FAST FOOD FRENZY - 3 male, 3 female, 1 non-gender dog / 1 Exterior & 3 InteriorThe restaurant business is booming for the Frye family of Rose Hill, Kansas. There's only one problem - well, maybe more than one - the neighbor is crazy and the dog talks! This wacky famly is facing a treacherous villain, Mr. Sour Kraut, who wants the mortgage, but even more, he wants their beautiful d

Volume 2 [written by William P. Johnson and Rosemary Willhide].

Various male and female roles / Melodrama / Simple setWith the Mosley Street Melodramas you'll sigh for the dainty Heroine, cheer for the righteous Hero, and boo and hiss the dastardly Villain in plays with a contemporary twist on the traditional version. These hysterical, audience-participation plays are perfect for community theatres, churches and schools to perform. Especially for fundraisers! These ain't your Gramma's melodramas!Plays include The Lost Samantha Treasure, The Plague on Mad