For 18 years, I've handed out roses made from napkins to strangers.Not because life was perfect—but because it wasn't.This story didn't begin in a garden.It began in a jail cell.What started as a simple act in a broken place became something I never expected—a way to bring kindness into moments where people needed it most.Restaurants. Waiting rooms. Meetings. Airports.Thousands of roses.Thousands of moments.This is the...

Quetzalcoatl "Quetz" Juarez (simply referred to as Quetz in the story) is a 17 year old teen living in modern day Mexico City. He is of American/Mexican/Nahua descent and is looking for his own past through his endless search of the Aztec Mixed Martial Art known as Yaomachtia. Quetz grows as a person throughout the story, as he makes mistakes, corrects them and then learns from each experience.Set in modern day Mexico City, Quetz embarks on his journey and searches for his dreams w...

Preretirement Ideas, Postretirement StrategiesSeventy-eight million baby boomers will retire soon. Some are prepared, but many will fail. You have to ask yourself, "Am I prepared?" and "What could go wrong?"Being prepared means having much more retirement income than you can imagine needing. With the rising costs of health care, everyday living expenses, and inflation, your cost of living could double over the course of several years.Do you have substantial savings,...

Southern Race relations are a disordered and mismanaged mess snared in prejudices, suppression, and failures in communication. Tangled Branches does not fit into the popular context of the causes or effects. While slavery existed within the author's family for thirty-four years, the black and white families remained together for 150 years. Tangled Branches is a week-long discussion between the author and the African-American grandson of his mother's maid. It is the story of a middle age wh...

In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and sy...

Battlefield Forensics for Persian Gulf States provides an illustrative reference of various weapons, toolmarks, headstamps, and other traits in order to identify the origins of a variety of guns, casings, and ammunition that can be found in the Middle East. Various conflicts in the region have led to innumerable weapons being used throughout the years. The lead author, Don Mikko, has investigated and examined firearms related items of evidence in countless crime scenes throughout the world...

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Perhaps because of being a math teacher with an avid interest in cosmology, the author has acquired an expectancy of alternatives such as "if not real, then imaginary" all the way to "if not matter, then antimatter." This has led to the "what if factor" demonstrated in his novel. "What if" (to the first power) a man can hear sounds emanating from paintings in a museum? To what end, you might ask: perhaps a hobby of cataloging masterpieces based on tones from one to four? But "what if" (squ...

This book tells the following: why income tax must go; how to reduce production costs; the need to get everyone into work; how to create jobs; how the poor pay the taxes of the rich; what life should be like; a solution to the EU crisis. Envisage a system of government in which the people in the community will enjoy the following: free health for the family; free education for the children; a good standard of living; no fears of recession; a low rate of infl ation; an adequate pension at t...

Quetzalcoatl "Quetz" Juarez (simply referred to as Quetz in the story) is a 17 year old teen living in modern day Mexico City. He is of American/Mexican/Nahua descent and is looking for his own past through his endless search of the Aztec Mixed Martial Art known as Yaomachtia. Quetz grows as a person throughout the story, as he makes mistakes, corrects them and then learns from each experience.  Set in modern day Mexico City, Quetz embarks on his journey and searches for his ...

“Illuminating and infuriating . . . A staggering achievement.” (Publishers Weekly starred review)A powerful coming-of-age memoir of one girl’s struggle, adrift in warrior cultureAt eighteen, Bailey Williams bolted from her strict Mormon upbringing to a Marine recruiting office to enlist as a 2600—a military linguist. But the first language the Marine Corps taught her wasn’t Arabic, Farsi, or Dari. It was how Marines speak to, and a...

A Teacher's Passion... She's spent years teaching students English, changing their lives and igniting a love of learning. Her passion for her job is not only fueled by a love of teaching, but a desire to escape a lifetime of personal loneliness. A survivor of sexual assault, she's also mastered the art of "self-medicating" and looking for love in all the wrong places. All that changed the day Marley walked into her class. He was just as wounded as she. . . but there were just some lines a ...