An exploration of stories from Joe Waite and the lives of 64 fallen comrades during the Third Battle of Ypres enduring the impact of war. Written neither as a conventional biography or battalion history, this work centres on the remarkable life of Joe Waite, a boy soldier of the Great War. Though, in telling his story, the names and lives of 64 of his fallen comrades are also revealed. All were lost in just one month of fighting, during the hell that was the Third Battle of Ypres – also kn...

Here is a volume of eight short stores exploring the vagaries of the human mind as it has evolved from the micro-cosmic singularity into today's macro-gestalt, the product of a brain containing more organisms than there are stars in the known universe. From Belligerent Jerry's brief sojourn into politics, to the demise of Beauty, a disturbance in the universal equilibrium may be attributable to the flap of a butterfly's wings in northern England, but is, in fact, merely the creation of an ...

The men and women who fought in World War II are often referred to as "The Greatest Generation," and for good reason. Before ever stepping onto the battlefield, most had survivedThe Great Depression, and if they happened to live in the Midwest, The Dust Bowl. Such was the case with my father. Dad grew up in poverty in rural Kansas with no electricity or plumbing, not even an outhouse. While in college he became a pilot, and then joined the Army Air Force shortly before WWII. For someone wh...

For many of us, cancer is an inescapable reality. It is estimated that one in two people will be affected by the disease during their life. Mortal Musings: Waiting for Dawn is a moving, thought-provoking and intensely personal account of one man's journey.In October 2016 my indigestion turned out to be cancer. A few days later, the news got worse when it was discovered my cancer was not only rare and incurable, but it was Stage IV and I likely had only a f...

"The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen."—Gene WolfeIn a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate.A noble Byzantine mercenary . . .A female Florentine physician . . .An ageless Welsh wizard . . .And Sforza, the uncanny duke.Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester—and ...

Holy Angel Dust Batman!Can Harmon Waite survive goddess-level manipulations and the warlike old gods, or is he condemned to end his days in the lost realms?Meanwhile, Harmon's family and friends are under assault by the fallen and their creations, as well as one sentient monster bent on the destruction of the entire universe.It will take more than miracles for our heroes to survive.

First published in 1952 and 1955, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain remains a classic in Canadian arts and letters. Described as the greatest biography ever written in Canada, it earned Donald Creighton two Governor General's Awards. In 2013, the Toronto Review of Books recommended it to anyone who wished to become a better Canadian.In this book, Creighton examines the public and private lives of Canada’s first prime minister, his victorie...

Chaos separates a piece of himself and, with certain mad glee, molds a charmingly deadly little girl to twist their minds as she follows her inevitable path toward the destruction of Harmon Waite and his friends.In the midst of that madness, the Antichrist, boasting "god level" power-ups, shows up for a showdown.

Death is an angel. His left hand gives life. His right hand has no mercy.Harmon Waite and his team spring Satan’s trap and end up pitted against an entire world’s black magic. Can they survive evil sorcerers, hordes of hungry dragons, a giant raptor stampede, and an over-protective goddess—in addition to the schemes of fallen angels?Even if they manage to prevail against a planet that wants to kill them, will they be able to return to Earth, or are they str...

Book 1 of The Saga of Arturo Bandini--John Fante's First Published Novel"Of this I am sure: all the of the people of my writing life, all of my characters are to be found in this early work. Nothing of myself is there any more, only the memory of old bedrooms, and the sound of my mother's slippers walking to the kitchen." -from the Preface to this edition by John FanteHe came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and...

Tom Horn overpowers free speech as his powers, inherited from a fallen archangel and a powerful goddess, outpower Harmon Waite and his superpowered friends.His goal?The end of Harmon's world.

Maid in Waiting is the first novel in the third and final trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues the lives and times, loves and losses, and fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes. The trilogy here begun is called End of the Chapter and concerns the cousins of the younger Forsytes, the Cherrells.The Forsyte Chronicles has become established as o...