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.

If you don’t want to scroll through the entire list, you can click on one of the links below and filter the resources by specific category.

I will update this list as I discover new resources. If you have a resource you think I should add, please email me.

Jehovah Jireh - The Incredible Provider: A Superhero Graphic Novel

Jehovah Jireh – The Incredible Provider by Eddie Jones (Raleigh, NC: Dry Bones Publishing, 2024)

Jehovah Jireh: A Faith-Filled Graphic Novel for Teens and Young Readers! Discover the Good News of Jesus in full color on premium coated paper! This Christian graphic novel inspires teens, youth, and readers of all ages.

Through illustrated stories that resonate with today’s audience, Jehovah Jireh weaves timeless Biblical lessons of faith, virtue, and character into “Jesus’ Messages” that teach God’s morals, values, and goodness. With stunning illustrations, it offers guidance for youth and encouragement for parents.

A Journey Through Faith and Righteousness

Each panel brings the Bible to life, highlighting Jesus’ acts of kindness, love, and provision. The “Jesus’ Messages” explore themes of humility, forgiveness, and responsibility, presenting practical lessons for daily living. Teens and young adults will see how self-discipline and trust in God bring His promised blessings into our lives.

For Families and Youth Ministries

Parents seeking to instill Christian principles in their children will find this graphic novel to be a valuable resource. Designed for teens, youth, and kids—and anyone who enjoys a one-minute word of encouragement—the vignettes promote Christian values while capturing the imagination of middle-grade readers and up with colorful, action-packed illustrations. The book serves as both an engaging devotional and an opportunity for meaningful family discussions about honesty, righteousness, and the goodness of God.

Illustrated Hope and Inspiration

Faith-Building Comics: Visual scenes paired with Scripture inspire teens and young readers to deepen their trust in God’s goodness and the “riches of Jesus” available through Him.
Guidance for Teens: Explore themes of daily provision, promised abundance, and generous giving, offering clarity and purpose for life’s challenges.
Bible-Based Values: Help shape the next generation with stories of faith in Jesus and growing into His character through the Holy Spirit.

Perfect for youth groups, parenting tools, or as a gift, Jehovah Jireh speaks to both Believers and seekers, offering Christian guidance through imaginative, illustrated narratives. By blending Biblical truths with illustrated storytelling, this graphic novel uplifts and empowers readers to walk in integrity and embrace their God-given purpose.

For kids, teens, and young adults seeking help, hope, and meaning in life, the messages in these comics lift us from pits of despair to places of blessing. Experience the joy of Jesus and be set free to live the life He wants for you—fully and abundantly. Deepen your faith in God’s goodness. Expect your Lord to do the impossible.

Read the words of Jesus and believe that He desires the very best for you.

Amazon customer reviews

Down to Davy Jones by Eddie Jones (Raleigh, NC: Dry Bones Publishing, 2023)

Once again, our reluctant hero, Ricky Bradshaw, faces a life-threatening event. His mom is sick. Like, really sick. Desperate to try anything to get a miracle and having watched the movie Jesus Revolution with his mom, Ricky agrees to be baptized in a creek by the Pirate Preacher. Perhaps then, God will spare her life.

But things go from bad to worse to apocalyptic when Ricky doesn’t come up for air. In the next moment, he’s on a ship with Jonah the prophet, in the middle of a raging storm.

Sensing that the King Neptune needs a sacrifice, the crew of barbaric men—none of whom are fond of bathing—casts lots to see who’s gonna be the unlucky chump that gets thrown into the sea.

Ricky’s all like, “Don’t pick me, don’t pick me!” but before he can escape and hide, Jonah steps up like the whale of a guy he is.

Except, surprise surprise, fate has other plans. Out of nowhere, a giant octopus grabs Ricky off the ship and drags him down, down, down into the abyss. For a few harrowing moments, Ricky and Jonah share a really tiny space in the gut of the Kraken. Then the Kraken gets sick of Ricky and…

When Ricky finally washes ashore, he realizes he’s in the underworld, where the crew of the Flying Dutchman sails around collecting the souls of the dead. And wouldn’t you know it, they want Ricky’s soul most of all.

Talk about a bad day. But even a bad day in the underworld can be a fun, adventurous sail, with love and sacrifice, zombie pirates, scores to settle, and hope for a miracle when… you get to meet the One who made the wind and sea.

Down to Davy Jones is a fictional retelling of past pirate escapades based on future events. Not sure what lies on the other side of the grave? Check out Ricky’s voyage into the realm of hot water.

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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.

Amazon customer reviews

72 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

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.

Christian Books for Tweens and Teens — review

“In this sequel to Curse of the Black Avenger, high school freshman Ricky Bradshaw has evaded Captain LaFoote, only to land in the brig. Now he faces the hangman’s noose at the hands of British authorities. The charge? Piracy. His fellow inmate, the mysterious William Shakespeare, seems to give good advice . . . And yet after the commodore’s daughter, Rebecca, denounces Ricky before the tribunal, Ricky barely escapes by cliff diving, only to awaken in another, if possible darker dream—if it is a dream. Still Ricky has one more chance to save a crew of orphaned children, win Rebecca’s heart, and find his deceased father before it’s too late.

“This is a book boys will read; loaded with speculative fantasy, dry humor, a strong dose of violence and with a sprinkling of romance. Dead Calm, Bone Dry, continues Rickie’s journey through mayhem and betrayals and what becomes more and more like a living hell. His quest mirrors his struggle to forgive, and with life and death and heaven and hell in the balance, Ricky must choose.

“The Caribbean Chronicles is one of those series were the first book seems incomprehensible without the second. But for those who will soldier through, there’s great entertainment value, along with a powerful and uplifting spiritual message.”

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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.

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

80 global ratings

Rumor of a Werewolf by Eddie Jones (Illuminate YA, 2019)

★ Shortlisted as a Selah Winner for Middle Grade Fiction ★

Can a person be turned into a werewolf? Nick is certain the Wolfman myth is Hollywood fiction, but then his dad hands him a newspaper clipping from The Daily Crawler.

In a chilling discovery, law enforcement officials investigating the gruesome death of Candee Brenneman claim that a wolf or some other large animal may have attacked the victim. An employee of R.I.P.’s Restaurant found the 32-year-old avid jogger and fitness instructor under a bridge in Rockefeller State Park. Her throat was savagely ripped apart, and large misshapen paw prints were found around the body. There were also bite marks on her hands and arms. Some have wondered if her death, occurring during a full moon, suggests a werewolf may be running loose in Sleepy Hollow. The investigation is ongoing.

While his parents and sister drive a moving truck from Kansas to their new home in Savannah, Georgia, Nick takes a train to Sleepy Hollow to visit his grandfather. At the Headless Horseman Inn, Nick meets a girl his age who goes by the name Nancy Drew. Together they dig into the case and discover hints that suggest part of the werewolf legend may be true. Racing against time and the’70s Detectives — a quirky group of amateur sleuths, inspired by classic detective shows — the pair uncover the curse of Silas Long. Is this Scooby Doo character the key to solving the case?

As the last large moon of the month rises over Sleepy Hollow, Nick is about to discover that some monsters are real. And the worst monster is the one you never see coming.

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