Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out traitors with vodka. The disintegration of Richard Nixon and Boris Yeltsin was largely down to drink. Winston Churchill was famous for his drinking, often taking a whisky and soda first thing in the morning and champagne ritually with dinner. But...

Ben Wright’s Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status anxieties, market changes, biracial cooperation, an...

The God Road by David GullenThe City of Flesh is falling apart. Food and resources are running out. With LucasAna's enemies gaining the upper hand, there seems little choice for him and his people but to leave the city and take their chances in the outside world.But the God Road is a dangerous place, even for mighty six-legged warriors. Faced with deadly horrors at every turn, their survival skills and the bonds of love and friendship will be tested to the limit.To ...

The smell of iron emanates from blood, and humanity has always tried to purge it. We have fought, we have created, and we have seen ourselves in our creations, a hazy mirror reflecting what we choose to ignore. In an iron face, we see the best and worst of mankind: the search for connection, For kindness, For grace ... but also cold detachment, cruelty, and love distorted through metallic shine. For years we have dreamed of the final version of this mirror, the ultimate si...

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."- Ernest Hemingway
What does it mean to break, to fall, to fail, to suffer? When we emerge from life's trials, are we the same people we were before they began? In Strong at Broken Places, members from across the League of Utah Writers explore challenges and adversity, illuminating the hope, joy, and triumph of finding strength in the choices we make.Featuring fiction, poetry, a...

Martha, Emily and Ben are thriving teachers. In Thrive they share their personal experiences and demonstrate how you too can thrive during the tricky training year, the daunting NQT year and the crucial RQT year. Using their collective insights, and plenty of evidence-informed strategies and advice, they detail how you can get to grips with the classroom basics - from behaviour management and lesson planning to differentiation and providing for SEND - and effectively continue your...

"The relationship between religion and politics is often perceived as that of water and oil. Compassionately, yet courageously, the author allows the characters in the book to show us the Walls of Lilliput - the Beautiful Lies behind politics, and the Ugly Truths behind religion. The yearning of the characters for Politics and Religion to once more be made Beautiful and Truthful, is a compelling spiritual vision throughout the book. The reader is invited into this world and becomes a chara...

Martha, Emily and Ben are thriving teachers. In Thrive they share their personal experiences and demonstrate how you too can thrive during the tricky training year, the daunting NQT year and the crucial RQT year. Using their collective insights, and plenty of evidence-informed strategies and advice, they detail how you can get to grips with the classroom basics - from behaviour management and lesson planning to differentiation and providing for SEND - and effectively continue your...

Gnomes hold a mysterious position in folklore and modern pop culture. Some say they are tiny inventors trying to navigate a human-sized world, while others say they are bold adventurers exploring the realms of fantasy. Unfortunately, we still don't know much about them, and even what you think you know may not be true!In What the Gnomes Know, we have assembled a team of talented cartoonist...

NO SECRETS ARE SAFE!Detective Cedric Dustin is a cop with a future: clever, cocky, and opportunistic. So when he receives an anonymous letter accusing a major financial figure of fraud, he jumps at the opportunity to advance his position. As he investigates, however, he discovers that he’s not the only recipient of a letter from the mysterious “L”, and he becomes entangled in the chaos that arises when dark truths are brought to light.

Born with a silver knife in his back, Ben Wright's exploits and ordeals in his rites of passage toward self-discovery, range from the extreme to the bizarre. His adventures were enhanced and refined by extraordinary encounters with such Twentieth Century luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Admiral Ruthven Libby, Jonas Salk, G. Gordon Liddy, Ray Charles, Paul Robeson, Colonel Robbie Reisner, Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, "Free-Wheeling" Frank Reynol...

L IS BACK!It's been several years since the L Letters Case shook everyone to their very core. In a single day, some of the city's most powerful and corrupt figures found themselves laid low, losing their freedom, their futures, and, in some cases, their lives. The mysterious mastermind known only as "L" still inspires fear in many, while others hold him up as a symbol of rebellion.Malina Quinn, a college senior studying Criminology, is writing her thesis on the L Letters Ca...