From David R. Slayton, bestselling author of White Trash Warlock and Rogue Community College, comes the epic sequel to the award-winning Dark Moon, Shallow Sea.For Raef, priest of the moon goddess Phoebe and one-time thief, it was too much to hope that resurrection of the moon and his mistress might set the world aright. The Grief still chokes the docks and streets of Versinae with vampiric ghosts, while the nations of Aegea prepare to wa...

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 ...

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 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...

For centuries, Christians have honored Mary with titles, stories, and devotions that grew far beyond the brief, beautiful portrait preserved in Scripture. The Apostolic Road invites readers to step back through time and examine how those later traditions emerged--through apocryphal writings, cultural imagination, and the powerful pull of inherited devotion. Drawing on Scripture, the early Fathers, and modern scholarship, David Michael Bouterie traces how the Mary of the New Testament gradu...

They say a good book can change your life, but what happens when you become a part of the story?Jonah just wanted to be like everyone else, a normal guy, living a normal life. But some people were never meant to be normal. Normal people don't grow gills and talk to fish. Normal people don't get into arguments with surly owls. Normal people don't have to try so hard to be like everyone else. Is Jonah just some overimaginative fool, or is there something more to him? What if his stra...

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.

An argument against the myth of "American exceptionalism"Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism h...

An epic tragicomedy spanning three generations, UGLY explores the horrifying and hilarious truths of man's inhumanity to woman, delivered with unforgettable characters and indelible dark humor in the grand tradition of John Irving.Three generations of women, one horrifying and hilarious story of defiance.Charlotte Adams escapes a destitute orphanage in prewar London, only to find herself in the lavish but equally treacherous home o...

Kidahin leads Assault Team-Two Huntresses Jassalin, Aplilin, Merkrida, Hollfara, Tialdrin, Kyralin, Alfara, Seliaha, and Einstika on their first solo mission. Joining them and consenting to Kidahin's leadership is Warrior female surgeon-in-battle Mimiran.Mimiran holds the supervisory social rank of Mistress and has higher military, hierarchical, and social rank than all Team-Two Hunter females combined. Indeed, she is Hunter's Moon's Mistress of Inner Strength, the senior ...

"You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder." With those words, the West Palm Beach assistant DA began the 1986 murder trial of Judy "Haas" McNelis. The only woman on the U.S. Federal Marshal's 15 Most-Wanted List, she gained infamy as head of the "Haas Organization," a reputed $267 million per year marijuana empire. But before her jet-set lifestyle as a drug "queen-pin," Haas was simply a divorcee with two young children and a penchant for growing pot.