The most lawless town in the West is about to get some justice in this novel in the USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series…After ten years of working his way across the West, Cas Everett returned to his family’s farm in Texas only to find a charred ruin that was once his home—and five grave markers representing his parents and siblings. Their deaths were not accidental.Cas’s time as a bounty hunter has earned him notoriety as a quick-draw artis...

"Empowering Educators, Students, and Society for a Brighter Future."Uncover the journey and wisdom of Dr. John M. Edwards "JME"—a dedicated educator, leader, and advocate for empowerment in education. In What Lies Beyond Limits? Empowerment and Success, Dr. Edwards shares his inspiring life story, from his beginnings in Memphis to his influential roles in district and state education, and reveals how resilience, critical thinking, and empowerment theory ca...

The Geometry of the ShoreA Liturgical Theology of Divine Process, Covenant Architecture, and Sacred TimeIf God could accomplish everything instantly, why does He repeatedly choose to work through ordered process, sanctuary geometry, and human participation across history?In The Geometry of the Shore, readers are invited to step out of the flat, temporal theater of human history and behold reality from the eternal vantage p...

The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country's history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs, Mary could have completely changed her country's orbit, making it a province of the Habsburg Empire and obedient again to Rome.These extraordinary possibilities a...

What do you do when the people you love the most become strangers?When silence replaces connection…and you're left wondering if healing is still possible.In this raw and deeply personal follow-up, John Edwards opens his heart in a series of letters-written not for sympathy but for truth, reflection, and reconciliation.There are no chapter breaks, no polished endings.Just one father's honest attempt to make sense of the silence and offer something real in r...

Life often evolves differently than we had hoped or expected. Some of life's transitions lead to a love we have only dreamed of, but others can traumatize and overwhelm us completely. As a result, we feel discouraged and disenchanted as we quietly start to wonder about the meaning of life.John Edwards understands this deeply as he takes us on an elegant, insightful, and profound journey of his personal experiences that are a jumping-off point for discussing how cultural, psychologi...

Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong to. In this Very Short Introduction, John Edwards offers the most up-to-date brief overview a...

The first volume of John Curtin’s War was recognized as ‘a landmark in Australian political biography’ (The Australian) and ‘remarkable’ (AFR).That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia’s place in the world: ‘The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.’This second volume, ‘Triumph and Decline’, tells the full, fascinating story of the next four years, as Curtin leads Australia in meeting its enemy and its new ...

Break free of the layers of wounds, pain, and anger that are keeping you from living a life of passion and purpose.At age seven, every child's unconscious mind is programmed with self-limiting decisions, beliefs, and world-views. By thirteen, these programs are locked into the unconscious and operate in the background for the rest of his or her life.John Edwards takes you on a journey, exploring childhood trauma and how your trauma is alive and active in yo...

The articles in this volume explore both individual and corporate aspects of religion in Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries - Jewish, Christian and Muslim. John Edwards looks in particular at the status, experience, and attitudes of the conversos, those who had converted to Christianity to avoid expulsion from Spain, and at the activities of the Inquisition. In the second part of the book he expands his analysis to examine the social, economic, and political basis of religious confli...

Welcome to the world of the Ford family. On the surface, they appear to be ordinary folks running a movie theatre in the heart of New York City. But behind the facade of normalcy lies a dangerous secret. The Ford family are drug dealers, operating in the city's underbelly, their lives a delicate dance between their illicit enterprise and their seemingly idyllic facade. As the family's empire comes under siege, their choices will be tested, forcing them to confront the brutal reality of the...

Less than ten years after the establishment of the colony of South Australia in 1845, Edward John Eyre published his treatise "An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of their Relations with Europeans."This book is one of the earliest South Australian accounts of interactions between the colonists and the indigenous inhabitants of the country. It recounts, with sensitivity and keen observation, customs and practices, many of which have since been lost....