Maplewood Estates looks perfect.The lawns are trimmed.The neighbors smile.The rules keep everyone safe.At least, that's what Jamal Carter is told when he and his wife move into the quiet suburban neighborhood where community comes first. But beneath the politeness lies something far more unsettling—constant observation, subtle corrections, and a system designed not to punish… but to perfect.As Jamal pushes back against Maplewo...

Captain Evelyn Cross has spent decades teaching detectives how to find killers. She just never expected them to find hers.Respected. Decorated. Trusted.Evelyn Cross has built an extraordinary career in law enforcement, rising through the ranks to become one of Tampa's most respected police leaders. Detective Marcus Bell is one of her finest protégés—a relentless investigator shaped by everything she taught him about evidence, instinct, and the lies people t...

Plastic Cars and Plywood Houses is less about plastic cars and plywood houses, and more about other stuff. The book follows the life journey of a blundering, bumbling “trust fund kid” from private boarding school through middle age. There is quite a bit of allusion to recreational drug consumption and alcohol abuse humorously, but discouragingly depicted. In fact, deadpan humor is the driving force of the book, offering more gags for the dollar than just about anything else in print, and t...

Maplewood was only the beginning.Jamal Carter thought he understood the system. He knew how it watched, how it corrected resistance, and how silence could become a weapon.But outside Maplewood, control no longer looks like control.It looks like convenience.Across the city, people willingly wear the technology that monitors their emotions, rewards stability, and quietly teaches them which feelings are acceptable. There are no fences. No neigh...

Private investigator Eddie Fisk thought he was looking into a routine missing-person case.When a respected New Orleans doctor vanishes, Eddie is hired to find him. The investigation leads from the fog-shrouded streets of the French Quarter to the doorstep of a secretive company known as The Siebenkäs Group.What begins as a search for a missing man quickly becomes a deadly game involving murder, revenge, and identities that can no longer be trusted. As people die and danger ...

A Courageous Journey - Unleash God's Power to Heal Emotional Wounds is a 52-week Bible study designed to help women experience deep emotional and spiritual healing through God's truth. Many women carry wounds from rejection, betrayal, abuse, and the pressure to constantly perform or please others. This study offers a compassionate, step-by-step path toward freedom.Each week includes five days of personal study with Scripture, guided journaling, prayer, and practical applic...

We Evangelicals struggle with mysteries. Answers are sought, meanings defined, and theology put in nice, neat boxes for clarification, or simply to justify our denominational notions. As Augustine notes, we are talking about God, after all. Why is it surprising that we do not understand? If we did understand, then it would not be God. Mysteries remind us that God is bigger than our preconceived ideas about his involvement with those created in his image. Divine Mysteries: Concise and Thoug...

In a day of hopelessness, 50 Days with God is a source of fresh running water, cool and calm, stimulating peace, and hope. It empowers the believer to stay the course, snuggling with God, feeling safe and secure.

What can parents and other concerned adults do to prevent the next Sandy Hook? Are there red flags that warn us if our children might become victims or perpetrators of bullying, or of sexual assault? How do we know when a child or young adult is at risk for suicide, or just moody? These are certainly questions most parents have wondered about, especially at a time when childhood dangers seem increasingly hard to predict or control.Warning Signs is the first comprehensive b...

The outbreak of the American Civil War was destined to cast a long shadow over the earlier, shorter Mexican–American War (1846—1848), as evidenced by today’s relatively slight historiography on the conflict. As for Tennessee’s role in the war, history remembers little more than its large contribution of volunteers and subsequent state moniker as “The Volunteer State.” Today, beliefs persist that the Mexican–American War was simply a colossal land grab for the United States in its pursuit o...

More Than Just a Game tells the story of the 100-year football rivalry between NCA&T and NCCU through never-before-seen photographs and images. The work seeks to honor the many coaches, players, and participants in this storied rivalry. These vintage images illustrate the importance of the schools' rare and special rivalry, something students and alumni already know. Written with the fans of both institutions in mind, this book seeks to recount the jubilant victories and heartbreaking loss...

From humor to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D. Johnson features 14 tales. Though many are dark, they pull one through the light, if only for a moment, to visit the next vista, a new world, or this one recast in an uncertain future. Whether it be the lengths a woman will go to for performance art or how best to communicate the Middle Passage's horrors to the privileged, darkness has room to breathe here and br...