Oscar has always lived a life of quiet paranoia, but now everything is changing. Suddenly, the bus is frequently late, his housekeys won't fit in the lock, and someone has taken his juice, which was the one thing holding his life together. He strikes back against the people behind it all, but when he strikes too hard an innocent man ends up dead, and Oscar ends up in jail, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and facing life in a mental institution. On his journey to mental health and the...

In a world where different is dangerous, only the truth can set them free.Oscar's orderly paranoid world has been turned upside down by the Red Fist Army and he now lives in exile. With the help of Penelope, Jim, and Mr. Hodge the hedgehog, he must free their hostage town, take on the Red Fist, and discover the truth about Dr. Boggs' sinister war against those who don't fit in."A great series. ... and you won't think twice about staying up waaaay past your ...

One man. One woman. One can of tuna.Charles has his life organized just the way he wants it, until a natural disaster destroys all electronic and mechanical devices and his city collapses into anarchy. So together with his boss, Janet, who he's terrified of, he must trek to a distant town where things are hopefully simpler and safer. Along the way they meet friends, enemies, and cannibals, along with one very angry possum, all while civilization rapidly descends in...

Humanity has been reduced to a few hundred survivors. All technology has been lost. In the Valley, the only law is survival.A young woman known only as Murdergirl longs for a life beyond subjugation by the brutal warlord Hambone. A chance discovery of a motorcycle and shotgun from the long-lost past leads Murdergirl to embrace the darkness within on a quest for humanity's freedom. She battles violent gangs and cannibals, and with each kill risks losing herself to w...

Oscar is back.He isn't looking for anything, since he has just about everything he could want. A wife. A house. A hedgehog that isn't trying to gnaw his face off. But their life of comfort lived under martial law is disrupted when the Red Fist Army suddenly disbands and a nuclear weapon goes missing, leaving it up to Oscar and his wife Penelope to save their town. Along the way they receive help and sometimes hindrance from one or possibly two hedgehogs, a shotgun-...

In a world gone mad, only the truth can set them free.Oscar's orderly paranoid world has been turned upside down by the Red Fist Army and he now lives in exile. With the help of Penelope, Jim, and Mr. Hodge the hedgehog, he must free their hostage town, take on the Red Fist, and discover the truth about Dr. Boggs' sinister war against those who don't fit in.However, when things go wrong and Oscar loses his closest friends, he has to rely on an unlikely grou...

God has been silent for centuries.Angels and demons walk among us. Nathan Miller, an assistant pastor in a quiet town, doesn't believe in them. His life is thrown into chaos when terrorism strikes his town and a reactionary religious militia rises against it, and a surprise encounter with a demon-possessed woman forces him to face the truth that the world is not what it seems.To save humanity, Nathan must become something more than human.

Charles has his life organized just the way he wants it. But when a freak accident plunges his city into anarchy, Charles and his boss, Janet, must journey to a distant town where things are simpler. Along the way they encounter a particularly hot sun, possibly dirty water, cans that can't be opened, impolite cannibals and sore feet. But in a world where the only trail mix has no chocolate chips, can things ever go back to the way they were?

Oscar isn't looking for anything, since he has just about everything he could want. A wife. A house. A hedgehog that isn't trying to gnaw his face off. But their life of comfort lived under martial law is disrupted when the Red Fist Army suddenly disbands and a nuclear weapon goes missing, leaving it up to Oscar and his wife Penelope to save their town.Along the way they receive help and sometimes hindrance from one or possibly two hedgehogs, a shotgun-wielding preteen, and a Russi...

Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs. As he aged, he came to hate the inequality in his society, and renounced his royal title. He was imprisoned and spent decades in exile for his views, which he has laid out in this book. He points out the flaws inherent in feudalism and capitalism, and how our current economic system creates poverty and scarcity even though there are enough resources for everybody, and outlines a better system based on people working ...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...

Amid growing public concern about the negative effect cross-examination has on vulnerable witnesses, this book examines the effect of recent reforms to the practice across the different jurisdictions of the UK and Ireland.Drawing on observations and transcripts of trials and interviews with judges, advocates and intermediaries, the book provides an evaluation of cross-examination in trials involving vulnerable witnesses and the extent to which reforms are producing meaningful chang...