The seed of this book started with a hug. But at the time of that hug. I didn't realize my life would change forever. She gently pulled me in and whispered these two words, "I'm done." I was completely thrown off guard. I ask her what she meant. What do you mean you're done, done with what? She quietly whispered in my ear, I'm done with us. My heart sank and a numbness of emotions consumed every cell in my body. I couldn't grasp how we could be married for twenty years and now it was over....

***Don't Be A F*cking Idiot***is a raw, unapologetic journey into what it really takes for a man to build and keep a great relationship. Written with grit, heart, and a dash of spiritual rebellion, it's part field manual, part confessional, and all truth.After sixty years of living, loving, and screwing things up in spectacular fashion, Blake Hill lays it all bare. From the ashes of a twenty-year marriage and the adventures chronicled in his first book, Westfalia, comes th...

The seed of this book started with a hug. But at the time of that hug. I didn't realize my life would change forever. She gently pulled me in and whispered these two words, "I'm done." I was completely thrown off guard. I ask her what she meant. What do you mean you're done, done with what? She quietly whispered in my ear, I'm done with us. My heart sank and a numbness of emotions consumed every cell in my body. I couldn't grasp how we could be married for twenty years and now it was over....

Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863–1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursued an education, alternating between work on the family farm and attending school. Moore originally dreamed of becoming an educator and attended notable teacher training schools in the state. But later, while at Shaw University, he followed another passion and entered Leonard Medical School. Dr....

Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web-based games of the twenty-first century, including popular titles such as Red Dead R...

'Proper funny cartooning - I love it' – Jim Smith, Laugh Out Loud Book Award winning author of My Big Fat Poo DiaryWelcome to Chicken Hill: join Ferdy, Gripper and Tink as they investigate all things strange in their seriously weird town.Three hilarious and off-the-wall stories in one full-colour graphic novel, perfect for fans of Dog Man and Bunny vs Monkey.Chicken Hill: Just your...

Der ehemalige Navy SEAL Ben Blackshaw entdeckt beim Austerntauchen in der eisigen Chesapeake Bay das gesunkene Wrack eines Rennbootes, millionenschwer beladen mit Kisten voller Goldbarren. Eine der Kisten enthält jedoch eine schmutzige Nuklearbombe. Und mit Öffnung der Kiste hat er versehentlich einen vierundzwanzigstündigen Countdown bis zu ihrer Detonation ausgelöst. Wenig später sieht er sich dem skrupellosen CIA-Agenten Maynard Chalk gegenüber, der sowohl das Gold als ...

**ENROLLMENT BEGINS NOWA beguiling, sinister collection of 12 dark academia short stories from masters of the genre, including Olivie Blake, M.L. Rio, Susie Yang and more!**In these stories, dear student, retribution visits a lothario lecturer; the sinister truth is revealed about a missing professor; a forsaken lover uses a séance for revenge; an obsession blooms about a possible illicit affair; two graduates exhume the secrets of a reclusive scholar; horrors are uncovered...

A timely and hauntingly beautiful new opera with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Leroy Aarons and score by accomplished composer Glenn Paxton. Scandal erupts in the White House - and in the national press - when Thomas Jefferson's longtime love affair with his slave mistress Sally Hemings is revealed.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shana Blake Hill, Annette Daniels, Cynthia Jansen, Christopher Schuman, Haqumai Sharpe and Michael Paul Smith. Composed by Leroy...

Think and Grow Rich was written in 1937 by Napoleon Hill, promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. Hill writes that he was inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. While the book's title and much of the text concerns increased income, the author insists that the philosophy taught in the book can help people succeed in any line of work, to do and be anything they can imagine. First published during the Great Depression, at...

'Proper funny cartooning - I love it' – Jim Smith, Laugh Out Loud Book Award winning author of My Big Fat Poo DiaryWelcome to the seriously weird town of Chicken Hill – three MORE brilliantly hilarious and off-the-wall stories in one full-colour graphic novel, perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey.Life is never normal in the town of Chicken Hill. Just ask local boy Ferdy, a tech wiz with some seriou...

You never know what destiny has in store . . .A rugged loner and ex-biker-gang member, Duke Dawson is looking for some peace and quiet while recovering from an accident. But when Anna Romo comes wandering through his woods and into his cabin, she completely rocks his world. The last thing he expected or wanted was to find himself hungering after a woman whose eyes held hurt even deeper than his own . . .Running from a troubled past, Anna is building a new life in D...