Some things don't stay in the past. They follow you — in your body, in your reactions, and in the quiet ways your life begins to shape itself around them.Not because you choose it, but because no one ever showed you there was another way.For a long time, it can feel normal. Predictable. Just the way life is now.Until something shifts.In A Whole New World Beyond Rape and Sexual Assault, Rusty Lee Smalley opens a different conversation — one that move...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Five years of backbreaking work. One bullet. Everything on the line.Slim Wilcox clutches a $10,000 bank draft—the first real money his struggling Arizona ranch has ever seen. After half a decade of drought, debt, and doubt, he and his wife Sara are finally going to make it.Then comes the gunshot.The powerful thud in his back sends Slim crashing from his saddle into the desert sand. As blood seeps...

The true story of an English drug-smuggler, a notorious Bolivian prison and enough cocaine to cover the Andes ..."A unique window on a bizarre and corrupt world" Publishers Weekly"Travel literature of a very special and captivating kind" BooklistRusty Young, a twenty-something Australian law graduate, was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, an English drug trafficker w...

Five years of backbreaking work. One bullet. Everything on the line.Slim Wilcox clutches a $10,000 bank draft—the first real money his struggling Arizona ranch has ever seen. After half a decade of drought, debt, and doubt, he and his wife Sara are finally going to make it.Then comes the gunshot.The powerful thud in his back sends Slim crashing from his saddle into the desert sand. As blood seeps into the dirt, one question burns through th...

If you’ve ever struggled with sexual sin, you are not alone. Sexual sin is one of the most common struggles for men in the church – and it’s something Rusty Meeks struggled with himself for more than twenty-five years. He wrote this fourteen-week study to help men who are struggling and to provide a resource for men to counsel their peers. Throughout the study, he examines Scripture on sexual sin and shines a spotlight on the grace we have through Jesus Christ—as well as the freedom we can...

Sixty-eight tipped occupations just got a four-year tax break. Most of them won't use it. The ones who do can walk out the other side with real money in the bank. Without working a single extra shift.The No Tax on Tips Act, signed July 4, 2025, lets most tipped workers deduct up to $25,000 in tips from federal income tax every year through 2028. Servers. Bartenders. Baristas. Hairstylists. Uber and Lyft drivers. Even podcasters and streamers who get audience tips.Sixty-eigh...

About 70% of this book was written in my prison cell on a smuggled cell phone and emailed to myself. All sketches I did personally after prison.In 2003, without a body and against police evidence, I was wrongly convicted of drowning a fish poacher and spent 10 harrowing years under horrendous conditions in Zimbabwe's prisons during Mugabe's rule. I write about being subjected to conditions most people would find unbearable, having to draw on my inner resources and strengths to endu...

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. What followed took both men by surprise: they formed a strong and instant friendship and then became partners in an attempt to record Thomas's experiences in the jail. Marching Powder is a shocking, ...

PRAISE FOR HALF CRIME"The characters in this collection have been brought low by circumstances or their own actions, but Rusty Barnes is clear-eyed and compassionate in telling their stories, which can be grisly or heartbreaking or-most often-both at the same time." -Scott Von Doviak, author of Lowdown Road"A writer of incredible humanity, Rusty Barnes doesn't just know the blood that beats through the heart, he knows how it spills as well. Beautiful, poignant, and muscular...

The compelling, true story of an SAS veteran, who led a team during the assault on the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980, as well as serving in the Falklands, Northern Ireland and throughout the globe in a 15-year career with the Regiment.From its early beginnings in World War II, the Special Air Service (SAS) has won renown in some of the most dramatic, dangerous and controversial military special operations of the 20th century. It is a secretive and mysterious unit, ...

Blending fact and fiction, Colombiano is a powerful and heart-rending story of revenge and war, set in Colombia.For four years Rusty Young, author of the international bestseller Marching Powder, worked secretly for the US government in Colombia. During this time he was shocked by the stories of child soldiers he encountered. He vowed that one day he would turn their tales into a book and let their voices be heard.*In Colombia ...

In his follow-up gay erotica anthology, Rusty Saber presents four stories of men- black, white, and Latino- who all like giving it and taking it rough and hard with a side of kink. Stories include: Soaked!, Front Desk. May I Help you?, I, Spike, and Lil' Red Low Ridin' in Da 'Hood.