Pain changes you.Loss breaks you.But what if it could also forge you into something stronger?Forged Through Fire is not just a story—it's a journey through grief, faith, and transformation.After experiencing unimaginable loss, Daniel Gonzalez found himself questioning everything—his faith, his purpose, and even his will to keep going. In the darkest moments, when silence felt louder than words and hope seemed out of reach, something began to shift.This...

There comes a moment in life when you realize…You've been living in the dark.Not because you were meant to stay therebut because no one ever showed you the way out.Stepping Out of the Darkness is not just a book…it's a wake-up call.This is for the ones who feel stuck.The ones who know there's more to life but can't seem to reach it.The ones who are tired of repeating the same cycles, the same thoughts, the same pain.This b...

From the author of THE SHADOW FROM THE DEEP comes a fantastical picaresque on food, dignity, and liberation...A comedy, a fantasy, a parable. A COOK IN THE KINGDOM unfolds character by character. Each tale focuses on a different perspective orbiting House Fish and Bird, one of the most exalted kitchens of the Kingdom of the Sun. Upon a great change, the people of the Kingdom will either accept the world-shattering transformation, or be consumed by it.Chef Tarak - a man of p...

"A mighty philosophical parable. Literary and powerful." - GoodReads review"The storm came from the sea where beneath its darkness and weight slept the enemy of man and all the creatures of the land…"An ancient evil destroys an island village. The survivors starve. To save them, a band of outcasts must venture into the most dangerous place for men: the open sea.A nail-biting man versus nature tale with a Lovecraftian twist, this terse novel features an ensemble cast...

In an exposure of the psyche, The Reality of the Christian Mind dives into the mental closets of people to talk about the skeletons and baggage that all keep. In a non-censored poetic telling, author Daniel Gonzalez exposes his inner workings to the world to bring peace to all, and with topics ranging from pornography to down home cooking, The Reality of the Christian Mind is sure to be able to relate to anyone's life. An adventure into another life and the medicine we all need, The Realit...

The story that follows is real, and presents the financial suffering incurred by thousands of victims who were affected by the downfall of the bank. It is also a story of the sadness experienced by thousands of people who were involved in the bank’s development and then were touched by the hand of corruption, vice, wickedness, murder, blackmail, and drugs; all in the name of the Most Holy God who was thought to be pouring out his blessings to endorse these financial monstrosities.

History is filled with legends of those who walk among us, living seemingly innocent lives by day, only to transform into fearsome creatures as the daylight fades and the shadows deepen.These are the stories of those who HUNT BY NIGHT.Contains stories by Lee Allred, Tami Veldura, Leigh Saunders, L.D.B. Taylor, Sidney Williams, Elizabeth Hosang, John Di Donna, L.A. Selby, T.C. Ross, K. Anders, Re Gwaltney, Gary Robbe, and Daniel Gonzalez. Edited by ...

Death Row Restaurant is a debut satire novel about a disenchanted flight attendant searching for “authentic experiences” who instead finds an unexpected opportunity running a restaurant staffed by serial killers.Flight attendant, Dave Aslin, circles the globe in search of true experiences that he’s never quite found. When Dave meets a canceled child actor from the 1980’s sitcom ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ who is planning a radically new restaurant concept, his lif...

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Technologies, Systems and Applications, held in Quito, Ecuador, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a hybrid format.The 29 full papers along with 1 short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on smart technologies; smart systems; smart trends and applications....

Dave and his puppy, Dusty, are best friends who love to fish. As they embark on an adventure around America, they begin fishing in some of their favorite spots.By Mississippi ponds, Dave and Dusty go cane pole fishing for catfish while sucking on blades of grass and listening to the cicada sing. Alongside Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, the pair patrol the shore and cast crank bait lures in search of hungry bass. While sharing the banks of the Kenai River in Alaska with gigant...

Ticks of the Southern Cone of America: Diagnosis, Distribution and Hosts with Taxonomy, Ecology and Sanitary Importance focuses on the tick species prevalent in The Southern Cone of America, including their distribution, biology, associated pathogens, their effects on the host, and control methods. Based on review of the literature from more than five decades, 62 species of both hard and soft tick have been discovered on the Southern Cone of America. Tick genera observed and recorded inclu...

Through the combined effects of certain natural facts (connected with the passage of time), institutional acts (performed at various points within the university system) and bonds offriendship (forged over quite a number ofyears ofacademic life), I have lately become an occasional writer of forewords. It is certainly not a kind of work that dis pleases me; but it would be too much to say that I have learned to do it with ease. Quite to the contrary! Writing a foreword is, it seems to me, a...