Readers call the ARISEN series: "thoroughly engrossing, taking you on a wild ride through utter devastation" … "Wall to wall adrenaline – edge of your seat unputdownable until the very last page" … "a once in a lifetime experience. Nothing else matches it" … "the most amazing and intense battle scenes you've ever experienced" … "rolls along like an out of control freight train" … "They grab you on ...

Since its composition and first performance in 1724, Bach's St. John Passion has captured the spiritual and musical attention of musicians, audiences, and congregations. This bookexamines this monumental work from a twenty-first century perspective, providing a new and comprehensive examination of the music and libretto.Michael Fuchs and Bradley Jenson explore the historical context of the work as well as its performance history and practice. They address important questio...

'You want to know who gave you your immortal soul? You want a personal relationship with God? Well, we found God. We're all up in God. We've got God's private number. And so do you: imprinted a hundred trillion times – once in every living cell in your big dripping corpus.'So says a woman with a pole-axe pressed to her neck, and the solution to the entire mystery of human existence clutched between her palms.Two weeks earlier, she was just your average Brit...

Readers call the ARISEN series: "the wildest and best rollercoaster I've ever been on" … "Pulse-pounding action at a relentless pace" … "THE ABSOLUTE BEST FREAKING SERIES IN THIS GENRE" … "the most unputdownable military zombie apocalypse arc ever" … "for adrenaline junkies only" … "A full-on express elevator to hell!!!" … "A one-of-a-kind ZA opus. The indomitable warrior ...

Two million dollars in a black bag.The meaning of life hidden on a deviously encrypted web site.And several dozen heavily armed guys with serious existential issues.The hunt is on for The Manuscript.The Manuscript is a philosophical cyber-thriller – a novel of huge ideas disguised as a blow-your-hair-back thrill ride. Its cast of unforgettable characters includes a gun-toting...

Keniff and Keiff are two angels connected together by a single pair of wings.They are given an assignment from Heaven to help a sick and suffering little five year old girl.The little girl shows the angels what friendship and sacrifice are all about.

A world fallen under a plague of seven billion walking dead. A tiny island nation the last refuge of the living. One team of the world's most elite special operators. The dead, these heroes, humanity's last hope, all have...Arisen.When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living with 50 million beleaguered survivors facing down a world of 7 billion ...

Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue between fantasy and lived reality, as well.While several of the essays focus on “name” horror films such as IT, Get Out, Hellraiser, and Don’t Breathe, the collection also features essays...

Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert YeatesMetropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a par...

The Kennedy stares into the abyssThe world's last floating nuclear supercarrier looks into the face of oblivion as her thinned, exhausted, and beleaguered crew face the largest herd of dead ever recorded. Soon the ship's five-acre flight deck will become the scene of a furious and desperate set-piece battle - like no combat any modern army has seen since Stalingrad. The ranks of the dead are infinite, and those of the living are tiny, depleted, and running out of t...

Alpha team, the world's best and last surviving Tier-1 operators, are adrift on Lake Michigan - and fast drifting into what looks like a damned hostile shoreline.Deep in the National Forest nearby, a former police officer and survivalist battles to keep her family alive - and tries to decide whether the commandos of Alpha are more dangerous to her alive or dead. Meanwhile, the John F. Kennedy, the world's last floating supercarrier, is run aground off the coast of ...

Tucked away in a high-tech Tactical Operations Center, inside an isolated safehouse in the Horn of Africa, sits Agency analyst Zack Altringham.He is Kenyan-born, Princeton-educated, badly burnt-out - and condemned by his language and cultural skills to a lifetime of fighting America's shadow counter-terror wars. But when another mystery epidemic breaks out, terrifyingly quickly it reaches a tipping point and chaos descends - and Zack and his team (including two for...