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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1998
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • You Know You're Fifty When

    Whether you’re over the hill, approaching the hill, or rolling down it, this is the ultimate guide to life after 50 -- so get your readers and settle in! Getting closer to the big Five-O? Know someone who is? Sure, 50 might be a scary number, ...

  • Boy Called Mary

  • Fate Decided

    These 26 papers, written in honour of John Wacher, take a look at the towns of Roman Britain, western Europe, and beyond. With subjects ranging from Ancyra to Wroxeter, from urban art to waste water, this collection complements Wacher's seminal publi...

  • Fate Decided: The Final Answer

    Frank Marsh now lives in Washington, D.C. He is forced to bear the cross for a program he inflicted on an unsuspecting but willing world population. Dr. Frank Marsh is the original bleeding heart, conscientious social worker, and all the other labels...

  • Radar Contact Lost

    Royce Lemmington, a greedy and ruthless corporate giant, throws the lovely Caribbean island of San Miguel into turmoil. Stewart Pryce, an Air Traffic Controller with a troubled past, is drawn into the conflict by the crash of a jetliner on the island...

  • Human Brain Soup

    This Horror Science Fiction Story "Human Brain Soup," powerfully illustrates the horrors that farm animals endure by rudely shoving humans in their place. The story tells of the planet Huw, on which super intelligent, ant-like Huwites with 200-pound ...

  • Freezer Burn

    Freezer Burn is a comic adventure about a pair of redneck hunters who find an old fridge in the woods that just happens to be a portal to past. Unfortunately, their get-rich scheme-leading safaris to the Ice Age-goes quickly wrong. Their clients get ...

  • The Tail of Horace Boris Kline

    The Tail of Horace Boris Kline is a rhyming adventure story of how a little league baseball team, a lonely little baseball playing Dragon and a veteran big league baseball umpire create a winning attitude through friendship and love. Share with Ho...

  • The Hitman's Lover

    When it’s a family affair, something is bound to go terribly wrong... Jack Scully, partner in a Jersey City law firm, has a nice, quiet life until his crotchety Aunt Maude guns down a policeman. Her defense? She claims he was really a hitman hired ...



  • Asian on the Beach

    An anonymous writer tells his tale of meeting an Asian woman on the beach. Erotica for open minded adults only. All persons depicted in this short confessional were at least 18 years of age or older at the time of the depiction....

  • Revenge for a Hanging

    Bush Creek's Marshal Mason finds his life under threat in his own jail, but he is saved by a young fugitive he had arrested on charges of abduction, horse theft and murder. When the youngster confesses that he knifed an uncle who had lynched his fath...

  • Almost West Virginia

    Almost West Virginia, Taradiddles II: More Tales of my West Virginia Home continues the saga of Quick, WV, and its residents with true-to-life adventures about . . . * Rudy’s uphill battle to overcome his natural ability to be rude to anyone at any...

  • Carnivore

    A popular fossil field in Arizona has been visited by hundreds of Paleontology students from all over the world for more than half a century. Now, the state of Arizona, utilizing its National Guard, has locked down the area, prohibiting access to the...

  • The Shark's Window

    The old aquarium had been abandoned for years, but Beverly, Pete and Butch knew that something still lurked in the huge, waterless tank. They had all heard the stories for years, and now the three 15 year olds were determined to uncover the truth abo...

  • Secrets in Deep Water

    Two teens from Roswell, New Mexico discover something hidden in a meteorite fragment they found in 1955.Sixty years later, the Federal Government is still trying to keep the discovery a secret. But now, the secret has been uncovered and has escaped. ...

  • Temple of Leaves

    Casey Wright has been a bush pilot for over ten years and loves his job, but while flying a special charter down the Amazon River with two National Geographic journalists, his normal work day soon turns into a reeling nightmare. Discovering a lost ci...

  • White Vision

    Athena knew the day would come, when she would need to fulfill her role in bringing Calgar’s wrath to an end and bring the Star Ring back home to her people. What she hadn’t foreseen was the human, Ransom, arrival. From the moment they met a fri...

  • Particles of Anna

    In 2050, Anna Melrose was at the top of her game. The 34 year old research scientist was beautiful, brilliant, and worked as a senior scientist at the prestigious Arkins Institute in Atlanta. Now, it was her turn to try out the machine that she had h...

  • Two Seats to Mars

    Major Chad Baker and Professor Howard Long were the last two crew members selected to make a very important and historic journey - a journey of over 280 million miles lasting 15 months - an epic journey to the fourth planet from the sun - a journey t...



  • Dreamsville

    Princess Ayanna wakes up in a world called Dreamsville, where she is now a Princess. Upon arrival she learns that someone wishes harm, so she sets out on a journey to change the heart and mind of that person, by sharing her world to them. Follow her ...

  • The Fin Chasers

    The sighting of Great Whites in the Gulf of Mexico was more than a rare event, it was an extraordinary event. Now, almost overnight, the vicious attacks started. The deadly encounters occurring from Biloxi all the way down to Tampa. The great whites ...

  • Old Men and Deloreans

    Otis and Charlie were both in their 70's when they first saw the map - the map to the vault buried below the Old Nevada ghost town know as Heaven's Gate. Legend had it that Howard Hughes had buried 50, new and pristine, 1981 Deloreans in the massive ...

  • Angels and Aviators

    A curse is put on a B-29 Bomber in 1943, right before its scheduled assembly completion at the Boeing plant in Washington. Now, only a miracle can save it as it flies across the Pacific on a doomed mission to Hawaii....

  • The Flak Bucket

    In the summer of 1944, a crash in the Burmese jungle leads a war weary B-25 crew to lost temples, tigers and a secret enemy aircraft that had been hidden away for over a year. Now, the five man American crew takes off in the stolen plane on a perilou...

  • God Bless These Boys

    A Band of Young Confederate soldiers escape Union captivity soon after the battle of Atlanta. These six young men head south, where they believe they can regroup and join up with another regiment. The 120 mile journey quickly becomes an unforeseen ni...

  • The Box of Light

    Fifty Thousand years ago, something crashed into the Arizona desert leaving a crater almost a mile wide and 600 feet deep. Now, mysterious glass objects discovered at the bottom of the ancient crater have three explorers mystified. A meteorite may no...

  • A Dark Dawn in Texas

    On her deathbed, Laura Peters shocks her son by belatedly revealing that his uncle did not die alongside Paul's father in the bloody confrontation at Gettysburg in July 1863. She urges Paul to ride west in a quest to find this relative who holds ...

  • The Perfect Machine

    Nathan Long had a gut feeling all along that the device was real - and now, he possessed the ancient stones that told its incredible story and a weathered map to its actual location. A map to an ancient city in the Andes that did not exist on any oth...

  • The Boys With Wings

    In the Spring of 1943, the Japanese begin building a massive secret weapon in the pacific. A P-38 training squadron is called on to attack and destroy the remote facility. Little do these brave flyers know, the secret weapon is not at all what it app...



  • My Best Sky

    Mitch Patterson was a professional pilot and an amateur artist. Something had happened to one of his recent paintings that made him think twice about ever painting again. The painting of the sky over Grand Canyon had been his best - his best sky, but...

  • The Priceless Shaman Protocol

    All Avius wants is a quiet trip home. Instead he's kidnapped by a secretive group of industrialists. The ransom...secrets and technologies no earthly person could possess. But when his furious guardian arrives not with gifts, but a chilling apocalypt...

  • Dying In Gray

    Harold James has no recollection of his life before his 16th birthday, but that is all about to change as he walks across an old Civil War battlefield. The 32 year old aircraft mechanic is suddenly thrust into another time and place - 150 years earli...

  • AIRSHIP II

    In this sequel to Richard Smith's novel, AIRSHIP, members of the original search party from the crash of the Monterey, team up once again on a mission to recover Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft. They soon discover that they are not the only ones despe...

  • The Restoration

    The old Hailey Mansion was the only home ever built on Black Beard Island - a mysterious and forlorn island off the coast of Georgia. Architect Bill Wright and his friend and general contractor, Doug Johnson, were charged with the task of bringing th...

  • The Cheeky Monkey

  • Mexican Mercy Mission

    After Sam's parents and sister are murdered by four bandits in a raid on their Texas homestead, the seventeen-year-old decides to ride south with his uncle, Marshal William Grant. Sam is determined to avenge the deaths of his family members. Across t...

  • Olin's Duster

    Fifteen-year old Joshua Carter struggles with the death of his father as the world around him seems to be rapidly unraveling. The teen knows that his mother can't come to grips with the accident that took her husband's life - the crash of his small p...

  • Marines In The Revolution Charles

    Marines In The Revolution by Charles Richard Smith; Charles H Waterhouse Traces the activities of one special group of Marines; the successes and failures of the group as a whole, and the fundamental aspects of modern Marine amphibious doctrine which...

  • City of Sand

    Twenty-six year old Valerie Case was the curator of one of the largest natural history museums in the United States and Cody Larson was the young owner and C.E.O. of Larson Engineering. Their divergent paths would eventually cross when Cody's company...



  • The Drift

    Albert Einstein simply called it the 'Drift,' where time and space would unexpectedly drift apart for a short period of time and then come back together at an unpredictable place in the future. It was a theory that received little press in 1938 and e...

  • The Last Station

    The migration of Germans to Argentina at the end of WWII wasn't really an unusual event in history, but the old abandoned train station in the jungle where most disembarked held a secret few were aware of. As an Archeologist, David Adams had a ken in...

  • Who Is Jacob Martin?

    Jacob Martin is a nationally known athlete with unlimited ability. He is projected to be drafted after completing one year of college to the professional level. It appears that nothing is able to hinder or prevent him from achieving a high level of s...

  • The Lancaster Ledgers

    The ancient ledgers hidden away in the basement of the library had been under her watch for over 30 year, but now the old leather-bound books would become someone else's responsibility. Rosemary Campbell was about to retire as the chief librarian of ...

  • Soul Proprietor

    Mark Mason works in life insurance -- but not the kind where your family gets money after you die. Rather, his job is to pass on the souls of the dead. Sometimes, though, the dead can be difficult to deal with......

  • The Last Landing

    Amelia Earhart thought about what she would tell her rescuers when they finally reached her. Fred collapsed in his seat as we approached the beach. He had a heart attack as we dropped to 500 feet. There was nothing I could do but take the Electra on ...

  • Understanding National Wealth; The Triumph of the Most Successful Political Economy in History

    Far too many public statements are taken as fact and go unchallenged, such as, “The country is on the verge of bankruptcy,” to “We are saddling future generations with crushing levels of debt,” to “China has undue leverage over us since the...

  • Homeward Bound

    George is a recently widowed seventy-nine-year-old. He nearly made it as a rock star in the 1960s and he's not happy. Tara is his teenage granddaughter and she's taken refuge from her bickering parents by living with George. Toby is George's son-in-l...

  • The Dark Side of the Moon

    Why you may ask, is the name of this novel "The Dark Side of the Moon"?  The back side of the Moon is not dark, it receives as much sunlight as the front side does.  The term "dark" is often used in Science to denote our lack of knowledge, ...

  • The London Medical Student Albert



  • I'm Still Standing

  • The Darzoids' Stone

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    A special stone hidden in a quiet cove in Cornwall more than 200 years ago, is the object of a desperate search by two opposing factions. When Harry and his school friends discover a code whilst holidaying in the cove, they assume it will lead them t...

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Richard Smith has published 51 books.

Richard Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I'm Still Standing, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Richard Smith, You Know You're Fifty When, was published in May 1998.

No. Richard Smith does not write books in series.
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