At the time of the Lincoln assassination, Thomas A. Jones was 45 years old and had spent the years of the American Civil War working “with zeal” in the Confederate cause in Southern Maryland. He primarily acted as an aid to Confederate spies moving through Charles County and helping the substantial intelligence network by moving mail.By the time that Jones wrote this account of having helped John Wilkes Booth escape, his assessment of Abraham Lincoln had gone through a transformati...

J. Wilkes Booth: An Account of His Sojourn..., first published in 1893, is the straight-forward account of the doomed escape of John Wilkes Booth following his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The book was written by Thomas Jones, a Confederate agent who helped Booth evade the authorities for five days by hiding the assassin near his house in Maryland. Illustrated with 18 pen and ink illustrations.

I saw Jesus on the cross, and all of heaven was motionless. I could see legions of angels just waiting near the cross. Then, as I looked upon the cross, I couldnt bear to look at what I was seeing, for it was extremely sad. The last time I saw Jesus, it was a picture of absolute splendor, majesty, and glory when He came forth from His Father. But now to look at Him was almost impossible, for He looked nothing like He did earlier Just then, my attention was taken back down into hell. Every ...

You just closed your laptop for the last time, or maybe you still have a few days left, and a thought is already running through your head louder than the paperwork. The thought says your resume is now broken, and that the layoff has stamped a mark on your career that every employer will see. That thought is wrong. The layoff did not change your skills, erase the results you delivered, or make you less capable of the work in front of you. A company made a financial decision, and that decis...

In a city where debt is a death sentence, the most dangerous weapon is the truth.Hecate Hawthorne is the Argent Guild’s deadliest enforcer. In the smog-choked, neon-lit tiers of the Null-State Covenant, her ledger is flawless, her Debt Score a glowing shield against the poverty that swallows millions. But when she accepts a lucrative, off-the-books bounty to retrieve a disgraced Master Architect named Elian Everlight, she walks into a trap of terrifying proportions...

In the darkest depths of a broken world, the system that enslaves you is the first thing you must survive.Fenris Fallow, a brilliant revolutionary serving an indefinite sentence as a captive consultant, is forced to accompany the Covenant's elite Aegis Guard on a doomed deep-earth expedition. When a catastrophic seismic collapse seals them inside the lightless labyrinth of the Umbral Vein, the expedition’s technological lifeline goes dead. Cut off from the authorit...

EVERY culture, religion, and people group have all answered the same questions foundational for a worldview belief system. The Christian worldview IS NOT your conservative political persuasion, belief in traditional marriage, pro-life stance on abortion, or support for Israel in geopolitical matters of the Middle East.A worldview answers the four most important questions of life. The answers to these questions must be coherent and correspondingly true to each other so a rational wor...

Clare's mind strayed back once again to that weekend in August at Henry's house. Perhaps nothing would have happened if they hadn't played croquet on the Saturday afternoon. Fucking croquet.Alex and Clare have gone to spend the weekend at Henry and Victoria's house in the Kent countryside. Clare and Alex have been a couple for ten years, but little of whatever brought them together is left in their marriage. Henry's a friend from the old days, but it isn't...

Drift into deep, restful sleep with this calming collection of bedtime stories which take place on rainy days.In Get Sleepy: Rainy Days, these relaxing stories are designed to quiet your thoughts and guide you into peaceful rest.Narrated by the soft, steady voice of Get Sleepy’s host, Thomas Jones, this collection of short stories is designed to help you release the worries of your days and snuggle up in bed. The harmony of Thomas’s slow and steady pacing, with sof...

In a world where human lives are traded on a ledger, the ultimate price is your own soul.Genevieve Grace is an Unbound—a brilliant, ruthless broker who clawed her way out of the Null caste by selling the futures of others to the highest bidder. After a decade of climbing the social tiers, she finally has enough capital to purchase her Sovereign Nullification and escape the Covenant's crushing grip forever. But when a terrifying deep-tier warlord named Balthazar Bla...

A mysterious catastrophe has doomed humankind to extinction within a century. Thirty years later, the frightened, dying remnants of humanity face a new upheaval when a million alien spacecraft land all over the world. But another threat lurks—by far the most serious, yet if it can be overcome, Earth might enter an era vastly different from anything it's ever known."A thrilling and well-paced science fiction novel." — IndieReader"A very compelling story, well-written and ver...

This being, that becomes; from the arising of this, that arises. This succinct formula, recorded in texts and carved in inscriptions throughout the Buddhist world, is said to summarise the whole of the Dharma, the teaching of the Buddha. But how can such a simple summary be the conceptual formulation that characterises the experience of a Buddha, an 'Awakened One', a state beyond all words and concepts? Dhivan Thomas Jones tells us how, and takes us into the heart of the Buddha's insight t...