After a rough breakup, gay romance author Renny Ross heads to the Bay Area for a fresh start. His new gig writing the anniversary story for a local university is supposed to be a fresh chapter (thanks to university president Dr. Taylor James). But Renny didn’t expect to run into a familiar face from his past.After dropping off his youngest child at college, recently divorced Brent D. King DuPree, is on a journey to freedom, liberation, and living the life he put on hold for over tw...

This audiobook helps English speakers learn German through easy short stories designed for beginners and lower intermediate learners. Each story uses practical vocabulary, clear sentence structures and everyday situations to make German listening practice more approachable and enjoyable. The learning method is based on repetition and active listening. Every story is presented three times to strengthen comprehension and memory. First the complete story is heard in German, then the English t...

One night of passion and possibly one more chance at love…Determined, motivated, goal-driven, and eternally single, Dr. Taylor James is an accomplished university administrator in San Francisco determined to get his campus successfully through an upcoming accreditation process. The process could set him up for his ultimate career goalto be one of the only Black and openly queer university presidents in the US. Taylor gives himself just one day a week to have fun and let loose with ...

Two newly single, Black, queer, and socially aware men have packed up to start again—in love, career, and life—in the West Hollywood neighborhood of LA.Zaire James, on the cusp of 30, has decided marriage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Despite friends, family, and coworkers loving Zaire’s “perfect” partner, divorce is a necessary step for finding himself and being free. If only it were that easy.Kenny Kane has made a career of deferring dreams, lowering expectations, and ...

Elijah Golden and Justin Monroe are uncle and nephew with eclectic careers, friends, and family in LA, trying to center joy in their lives. Then their worlds turn in ways nobody expects.Elijah, a dedicated thespian, auditions by day, does theater by night, and works two jobs on weekends. With enough life for three people, he keeps his recently divorced partner Zaire coasting on bliss…until secrets and real-life dramas test their love.Justin, Elijah’s uncle, is a single fath...

Dirty little secrets can lead to public scandals and unexpected love affairs…Malcolm Campbell is the director of a south Los Angeles organization focused on mentoring gay youth, and his nineteen-year-old nephew, Blake, is being sent to stay with him for the summer. Malcolm has always been a community and family role model everyone looks up to. But he also has a secret he never knew he had… until it pops up on the Internet.Across town, in the closed and closeted world of Bla...

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.We members of settler colonial culture-the latest form of what novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn calls Taker culture-are constrained by myriad institutions that leave us with little choice but to engage in practices that are profoundly damaging...

Reflections on the events in the last year of dystopia and lies throughout COVID and Lockdowns etc. from Jan 20 to Feb 21. They are mainly applicable to the situation here in Ireland, (not a Republic as it is supposed to be) but you may see similarities in your own countries and situations. You may not agree with all of them, but that is for you to decide. Never let others guide your thinking, think for yourself – I encourage it. It is not all doom and gloom I assure you. There are some ot...

This book is written basically for Christians. The unsaved will not know these scriptures and stories I refer to. But even they can see them, and get curious enough to accept Christ. There are scriptures especially in Revelation that even Christians have never heard before. Ask yourself why you were never taught these things in church? Christians must start a personal and serious Bible study on their own. The Lord will guide if you will use what He shows you for His work. He doesn’t waste ...

Poetry from the dystopia of Corona Flu 2020 to February 2022.

A collection of acrostic poetry by Irish poet Alistair Frederick Smith.

The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years.In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse th...