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Jt Kalnay
Biography
JT Kalnay is an attorney and an author. He has been an athlete, a soldier, a professor, a programmer, an Ironman, and mountain climber. JT now divides his time between being an attorney, being an author, and helping his wife chase after seven nieces and nephews.
JT was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Growing up literally steps from the Bay of Quinte, water, ice, fishing, swimming, boating, and drowning were very early influences and appear frequently in his work.
Educated at the Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa, the University of Dayton,and Case Western Reserve University, JT has spent countless hours studying a wide range of subjects including math, English, computer science, and law. Many of his stories are set on college campuses.
JT is a rock climbing guide and can often be found atop crags in West Virginia, Kentucky, California, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, and Italy. Rock climbing appears frequently in his writing.
JT has witnessed firsthand many traumatic events including the World Trade Center Bombing, the Long Island Railroad Shooting, a bear attack, a plane crash, and numerous fatalities, in the mountains and elsewhere. Disasters, loss, and confronting personal fear are common themes in his writing.
JT was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Growing up literally steps from the Bay of Quinte, water, ice, fishing, swimming, boating, and drowning were very early influences and appear frequently in his work.
Educated at the Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa, the University of Dayton,and Case Western Reserve University, JT has spent countless hours studying a wide range of subjects including math, English, computer science, and law. Many of his stories are set on college campuses.
JT is a rock climbing guide and can often be found atop crags in West Virginia, Kentucky, California, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, and Italy. Rock climbing appears frequently in his writing.
JT has witnessed firsthand many traumatic events including the World Trade Center Bombing, the Long Island Railroad Shooting, a bear attack, a plane crash, and numerous fatalities, in the mountains and elsewhere. Disasters, loss, and confronting personal fear are common themes in his writing.
Where to find Jt Kalnay online
Website: http://www.jtkalnay.com
Books
5.fun Guide To The New River Gorge, Volume One, Bridge Buttress
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 5,100.
Language:
English.
Published: May 20, 2013
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Extreme sports
The next in the series of 5.fun guides to rock climbing. This volume covers three super fun routes at the Bridge Buttress.
The Flats
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 94,250.
Language:
English.
Published: February 27, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Urban
(4.00 from 1 review)
John Reynolds just wanted to be left alone. After surviving the World Trade Center bombing and the Long Island Rail Road shooting, he thought he might be left alone in Cleveland. For 18 years things were quiet, until the City and the mafia decided that no man should be an island...
5.fun Guide to Joshua Tree, Volume Two, Hall of Horrors
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 6,350.
Language:
English.
Published: October 24, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Reference
Volume Two of the 5.fun series of climbing guides to Joshua Tree. Covers the Hall of Horrors, West Outer Wall.
The Point
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 73,010.
Language:
English.
Published: August 28, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
Charles Ginetti wants to see his daughter in San Francisco. He decides to sail his recently deceased father's boat from Santa Cruz up the coast and through the Golden Gate.
Sierra Marney's family has been tending the lighthouse at Pigeon Point for four generations. She lives a lonely life at the isolated lighthouse.
When Charles' trip goes wrong, Sierra is there to help him find his way.
G1.1 Ginny's First Adventure
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 97,320.
Language:
English.
Published: May 20, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Social Issues
This is a coming of age story where Ginny, a gifted triathlete, but also a gifted hacker, must decide whether to use her talents for good or for evil.
Ginny was bullied as a child.
Luckily she had swimming, biking, running, and computer programming to turn to when everyone was against her. Now that she has become a champion triathlete and a gifted hacker a crisis makes her face a choice.
5.Fun Guide To Joshua Tree (Book 1, Trash Can Rock)
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 9,350.
Language:
English.
Published: January 24, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Reference
This is the first in a series of books for beginning rock climbers who want to try the super fun and super easy climbs at Joshua Tree. There are exhuastive guides for the intermediate and hard routes. But this one is for the 5.0-5.5 climbers amongst us (even hip replacement patients like me...)
88 C Programs
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 31,300.
Language:
English.
Published: January 22, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Computers & Internet » Programming » C
(3.00 from 2 reviews)
C programs used to teach C programming.
C++ for C Programmers
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 68,260.
Language:
English.
Published: January 16, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Computers & Internet » Programming » C++
A book with exhaustive examples of C++ intended to help a C programmer learn and use C++.
Caumsett
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 59,200.
Language:
English.
Published: December 23, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Ghost
(3.00 from 1 review)
In 1897, the Cold Spring Harbor whaler Stella Maris was lost in Long Island Sound when she foundered on the rocks just offshore of Caumsett. For nearly 100 years her captain has been imprisoned in his home on West Neck Road in Lloyd Harbor. Imprisoned until Bill Jones sees the Stella Maris founder during a coma-induced dream. Now the captain may have found the way to break free from the prison...
The Topsail Accord
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 107,470.
Language:
English.
Published: October 16, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » General
Romance on Topsail Island, North Carolina.
By Smashwords #1 Best-Selling Author, JT Kalnay.
Mina's Eyes
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 55,800.
Language:
English.
Published: August 20, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » General
(4.75 from 4 reviews)
Love and danger collide on idyllic Sardinia. Martina has retired from the ballet after a career ending injury. Kane is volunteering at a free medical clinic deep in the island's poverty ravaged interior. They meet, and together they try to resolve her pain, and his. Hers, over the loss of her career, her husband, and her twin girls. His, over the loss of his long-suffering wife.
Wounded Warriors
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 77,110.
Language:
English.
Published: July 22, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Wounded warriors Lieutenant Jesse and Sergeant James return direct to Ohio from a deadly ambush in Afghanistan that has killed four of their closest friends. Jesse will lose her arm, and James will lose his leg, but they will fulfill their self-proclaimed duty to return the bodies of their fallen comrades to their families.
The Pattern
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 80,050.
Language:
English.
Published: July 22, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
(4.80 from 5 reviews)
Has one programming error killed hundreds of people in airplane crashes? A handful of west coast computer geeks know the answer. After reading The Pattern, you will too. Follow auto-pilot programmer Craig Walsh and his beautiful engineer girlfriend Stacey "Jack" Horner as they create, and then confront, a malicious computer virus that seems destined to destroy air travel as we know it...
The Trade
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 76,600.
Language:
English.
Published: July 22, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Wall Street or the CIA? This is the choice for brilliant computer scientist Jay Calloway. But is there really a choice? Beautiful and mysterious Tonia Taggert first captivates and then confuses the young programmer while MacKenzie Lazarus CEO Angus MacKenzie throws both gold and lead in his path. Only the help of long time friend Rick Hewlett can help Jay extricate himself from the tangled web.
Obsession For Vengeance
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 71,610.
Language:
English.
Published: July 14, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
(4.00 from 1 review)
After being dismissed from the Army, the only family Hank Adams has ever known, Hank embraces his demons. Follow Hank as his obsession with Kate, as his obsession with hate, and his obsession with vengeance collide in gruesome detail in and around New York City. Serving as a shadow warrior, both sanctioned and unsanctioned, all over the world has given Hank access to every weapon system imagined.
The Keeper
by Jt Kalnay
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 28,320.
Language:
English.
Published: July 13, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Time travel
(4.75 from 12 reviews)
The portal to the center of time and space secretly exists in a circle of trees in the Madawaska Highlands. The Keeper has promised to protect the secret of the portal at all costs. He has been given a diamond arrowhead with special powers to help him protect the secret. Travel through time and space with The Keeper as a series of loves threaten his promise, and challenge him at every turn.
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