He's the greatest fighter never chosen. In a world where your deepest struggle becomes a monster you must kill, Jack Vael has mastered every blade technique known to man, yet still doesn't know what's broken inside him. Everyone called him Confused Jack. Until the day the armor chooses him, and the fight he's spent his whole life avoiding finally finds him.

Dante is one perfect trade away from being a billionaire, he's sure of it. His girlfriend is one bad trade from kicking him out while trying to keep the lights on. Two broke dreamers trying not to lose each other.A darkly funny, painfully relatable story about ambition, addiction to the dream, and learning the difference between chasing wealth and building a life.

Explore the past, present, and future of Georgia's wetlands and their amazing flora and faunaJourney with geotechnical engineer and Smithsonian secretary emeritus G. Wayne Clough up the coastal wetlands of his home state of Georgia as he explores how nature has transformed the coast across millions of years and how human impact continues to shape its future. Along the way he meets the conservationists, wildlife experts, and people living there today who are helping...

This book gives you 18 brutally honest commandments for staying exactly where you are: broke, stuck, and blaming everyone else. Follow them and nothing changes. Do the opposite and everything does. Read it and you will see yourself on every page, whether you want to or not.

Memphis is well known for its cuisine, and there is no end to the iconic restaurants that hold a place in the hearts of locals. Johnny Mills Barbecue was home to the "barbecue king of Beale Street." Gaston's Restaurant was owned by John Gaston, the "prince of Memphis restaurateurs." Leonard's Pit Barbecue was operated by Leonard Heuberger, the man who invented the pulled pork sandwich. Gayhawk Drive-In was hugely popular with African Americans during segregation. Author G. Wayne Dowdy deta...

Assess ecological effects of co-occurring stressors in complex environmental systemsOrganisms face simultaneous chemical, physical, biological, and societal stressors whose interactions produce ecological effects that single-stressor assessments cannot predict. Multiple Stressors in the Environment: Assessing Ecological Effects in Complex Systems, edited by a team of environmental scientists and ecotoxicologists each with decades of research and consulting...

Volume 1 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer and who’s who.The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century.One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the Chronology traces J.R.R. Tolkien's progress from his birth in South Africa in 1892, to the battlefields of France and...

The world thinks the House of Valdris is worth $180 billion. They're wrong by $200 billion, and that's not even their darkest secret. This war could expose it all.

A no-nonsense guide to the documented anomalies that the mainstream keeps not explaining. Ancient stones that shouldn't exist, craft that shouldn't fly, and a scientific record that keeps pointing somewhere nobody wants to look. No conspiracy theories. Just the evidence, clearly labeled, and the questions it demands.

Love burns bright. Then it fractures.In Fractured Flames: Broken Bonds & Bombshells, G Wayne delivers 15 raw, unfiltered stories of Black love unraveling. From late-night calls that end everything, to restaurant meltdowns, ghosting gone wrong, cheating caught in the act, and petty revenge that backfires spectacularly—these tales expose every messy, hilarious, and heartbreaking side of letting go.Dual perspectives. No heroes. No villains. Just real people breaking—a...

In a world that has stripped men of their fire, "Being A Man" is your brutal wake-up call. G Wayne, writing from the trenches, exposes the lies of modern masculinity—the absent fathers, the "nice guy" trap, the rot of comfort, and the void of uninitiated boys. This raw guide rebuilds you: secure your finances as oxygen, kill the inner victim, master emotional stoicism, build a wolf pack, and forge a legacy. No fluff, no excuses—just the desert of the real. Step up, or stay lost.

When Rose O'Reilly White, a respected member of the small-town Deer Isle, Maine, community, died at age 97, she left many secrets, some monstrous and others magical, including her first love, a young woman who died in a tragic fire in 1942. This woman was her teacher; Rose was a teenager. Another secret was her later long involvement with an African-American woman. A third was her poisoning and killing a Catholic priest of many years ago after Rose learned he was a serial pedophile and wan...