The American Songbook from Vaudeville to Hollywood celebrates the cultural expressions contained in the unforgettable jazz-inflected songs of the twentieth century. Charting the development of songwriting in the context of American culture, David Michael Hertz treats words and music as of equal importance, exploring the mystery of how they work together in the phrase structures of songs. With a carefully drawn historical chronology, his narrative recounts a story of the evolution ...

For fans of The Witcher and the novels of Joe Abercrombie and John Gwynne, comes a bloody Norse tale of grief, vengeance, fear, and fate from emerging SFF writer Michael Pogach.It's ninth century Norway and Rúnr Njalson has been gifted supernatural warrior abilities as Odin's chosen Berserkr. Enemies and allies quake in fear at his approach. But when the unbeatable hero cannot save his own daughter Yrsa during a rival clan...

A journey traveled by two women born on the same day and live parallel lives. One born in Nicaragua and the other born in Texas. They are both touched by Pedro and Pancho. Although Pancho has become a very strict moralist, he understands the real life of people, their sins, their troubles, their challenges. These women come to know each other through Peter, now the Pope. Their journey is just as hard, even if in different ways. It explores the reality of living life, having faith and the r...

Many people inherit a faith long before they understand it. They grow up within a world of rituals, rhythms, and expectations that shape them quietly and completely. Yet somewhere along the way, a question begins to rise: Is the gospel as complex as the system received, or is it simpler than ever imagined? This book follows the journey of an unnamed pilgrim whose life unfolds inside a sincere and structured religious tradition. Through Scripture, education, relationships, and loss, the pil...

It follows the life of Pedro, a young boy born in poverty in a small town in Nicaragua. His father is killed the day he is born allowing for his life to progress without the influence of the 'macho' culture of his father. He lives a happy life with his mother, oldest sister, and his two brothers. He establishes a close relationship to the Village Catholic Priest. His mother is introduced to a friend of the priest, an electrical engineer with severe depression. They become a family. A few y...

It follows the life of Franklin, a boy brought up in an orphanage in Congo. He is raise by deeply religious and loving nuns, both American and African. They motivate him to a religious life. He is beaten and tortured as a young boy and as a young priest that leads the heads of the religious order to take him out of Africa and put him in Rome. There he meets Pedro, Pancho and the Rodriguez family and is assimilated into the family fully. When Pedro dies, Franklin is elected as Pope. But eve...

In the early days of World War II, an American family living in Davao City is thrust into chaos when the conflict reaches the Philippine Islands. Overnight, safety vanishes.Separated by war and forced into hiding, a mother and child face relentless uncertainty as occupation forces tighten their grip. With limited resources and no clear path forward, they rely on instinct, resilience, and the quiet bravery of Filipino civilians willing to risk their own lives for strangers.A...

Our Savior Uncomplicated, His Church United invites readers into a clear, generous, and deeply biblical vision of the Christian faith, one that honors the church's long story while cutting through centuries of confusion, division, and inherited misunderstandings. With pastoral warmth and historical precision, David Michael Bouterie guides believers through the central doctrines that shape Christian identity, showing how Scripture, the early church, and the great teachers of the faith conve...

David Michael Lacer, born in January of 1949, in Junction City, Kansas, lettered in wrestling in high school and played in a rock and roll band through his early years at college. He was drafted into the Army during Vietnam and served in Europe before returning home to Kansas. David went to work for the State of Kansas, the department of epidemiology, working with those diagnosed with venereal disease, and later transferred into a regulatory branch, inspecting hospitals and nursing homes f...

Will the Human Species Survive the AI Agential Revolution? opens at Lake Caballo, Sierra County, New Mexico, on the morning of a government directive that pulled the most capable AI models from public access. It follows two co-authors - a Jain Vietnam veteran organizational storytelling scholar and an AI language model - through the question the title asks.Drawing on Ed Breeding's Star Seed cosmology, Erin Brockovich's data center mapping, the Socorro moratorium, Oracle's Project J...

THE CALEDONIAN, warrior son of KING BRUDE, knows nothing of epic power struggles or political deception. VENUTIUS, the Brigantes King, arrives in the Caledonian settlement of BRUDE with a proposal. QUEEN SIBH, in the south, seeks an alliance with the Caledonian King to destroy the Roman invaders. THE CALEDONIAN is ordered, by his father, to ride south to meet the Queen and determine her loyalty. But treachery amongst his own blood may be his downfall.

The series takes its name from the practice developed by Boje and Grace Ann Rosile (Edward Elgar, 2020): generating knowledge through genuine conversation with people whose stories have not yet been heard, whose experiences have not yet been included in the official record, and whose futures depend on being heard before the seal closes.The six books move from the inside out. BLISS begins where all lasting change begins: in the self-talk that runs beneath every decision, every relat...