DRAGONS, ASSASSINS, AND NINJAS!By a Baen Fantasy and Adventure Finalist and Indie StarCover by Dungeons and Dragons artist Todd LockwoodThey call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold.Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon.They taught me the art of disappearing: how t...

"The Death of the Admiral is a fast, entertaining read, set against a historical backdrop that isn't used often enough. I really loved the story for its quick pace and for the brilliant selection of the post-Civil War period and location in Washington, where it was possible to move from fancy parlors to taverns and back again as the story unfolded. Bravo."-Charles Fancher, author of Red ClayWashington, D.C., 1885. A dead admiral. A missing ...

Murder Most Criminous: The Cases of William Roughead, Father of Modern True Crime LiteratureJim Stovall, Ed Caudill, William RougheadWilliam Roughead is among the founders and one of the great popularizers of the "true crime" genre as it blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By those truly familiar with the genre, he is well-known as the father of modern true-crime writing.Roughead called himself a "historian of homic...

A simple and sustainable path to a deep and satisfying walk with ChristThere are thousands of how-to books for improving various areas of life--self, relationships, finances, fitness, business, marriage, family. And there are nearly as many books written for believers offering a framework for the "right" approach to a new life in God.What if it were possible, Pastor Stovall Weems asks, to boil it all down to one practical, uncomplicate...

The women in this volume of the Heads and Tales series have a way with words. They are remarkable women, all with remarkable and sometimes extraordinary stories.Jim Stovall, in this volume, brings us his unique journalistic and artistic vision of women who whose writings and lives were always notable, sometimes notorious, and occasionally astonishing. Some of these women, such as Louisa May Alcott, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Eleanor Roosevelt, you will h...

**What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life?Jason Stevens is about to find out.**Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom his great-uncle Stevens believed might be the last vestige of hope in the family."Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse for anything I would call promising, there does seem ...

For more than 150 years, Americans have been told a simple story about the Civil War: that the South rose as one to defend its land, its people, and its way of life.That story is a myth.The Dissenting South: Southern Opposition to the Confederacy Before and During the Civil War reveals a very different reality—a South divided against itself. In every Confederate state, men and women refused to go along with secession. They denounced rebellion, defied local a...

Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Pythians.In the summer of 1869, a team of young Black men took the field against white opponents in Philadelphia—the first recorded interracial baseball game in American history. They called themselves the Pythians, and their captain was Octavius Valentine Catto: scholar, athlete, Civil War veteran, and the most dangerous Black man in Philadelphia.Catto and his teammates weren't just playing baseball. They were waging ...

Stop hitting the spiritual snooze button.Would you describe your walk with God as fresh and exciting? Would you describe your spiritual life as vibrant and passionate? If not, would you like these attributes to be the norm in your everyday relationship with God?Are you ready to experience an awakening?Awakening helps you stir up your slumbering soul. You’ll discover how to break out of your season of dryness or get off to a great start eith...

It is here—the final chapter in the trilogy! Following the highly-rated world-wide hits The Ultimate Gift and The Ultimate Life comes The Ultimate Legacy! The epic of Jason Stevens’ (Logan Bartholomew, Hallmark’s Love’s Long Journey and Love’s Abiding Joy) life carries on. Having dealt with the tragedies and perils of his own family, he must try to help a friend along a similar journey. This touching conclusion shows that if we learn something, ...

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth ce...

Why leave a legacy when you can live one right now?When you realize that your success journey is really a journey of giving, you will unlock the potential for profound riches. The world’s top entrepreneurs and leaders derive their success and fulfillment from the alignment of their professional endeavors with their search for meaning and impact. Rather than waiting until they feel they have something to offer, they consistently share their resources to better the lives of ...