Have you ever thought about quitting your job, buying a sailboat and sailing away to an island paradise? I did it and found out that Island Sailing is Not All Rum and Bananas. This book contains funny stories that all started with my first midlife crisis that I had when I turned 30, quit my job and sailed off to the Bahamas on a 36 foot Leaky Teaky sailboat named the Oh Kay. This book contains 22 fun to read sea tales and color pictures about exploding toilets, sharks, flaming alcohol stov...

Volume 2 of Island Sailing is NOT all rum and Bananas is loaded with 37 funny stories of our sailing adventures onboard our second sailboat named Wild Thing. Join us as we try to escape the real world of Texas to sail 1200 miles upwind to the Bahamas, sail to the Chesapeake Bay, then turn around and sail to the Caribbean to live the dream of island sailing. Only to find out that living the dream means working on the sailboat in St Somewhere. It is not all rum and bananas. The stories are f...

The hilarious story of an airline pilot and his pretty flight attendant wife who sail to a small Bahamian island and decide to move there full time to "live the dream life". It turns out that living the dream life in the Caribbean involves drinking rum, sailing, sex, running drugs, infidelity, lying, cheating, divorce, arrest, midlife crisis, weddings and courtroom drama. You will meet an assortment of quirky, funny characters who's hijinks generate laugh out loud moments . It is a fast pa...

FOUR GUYS, A DOG, AND A BOAT… ... and 26,000 miles of high seas between Hong Kong and Miami. THE YEAR WAS 1960. William Holden was the latest cinema heartthrob and his movie “The World of Suzie Wong” was all the rage. It was also the year four young men hatched a plan to sail halfway around the world. Never mind that they weren’t sailors or that one of them couldn’t swim. These four young men jumped at the chance to prove something to the world and to themselves. Armed with not much more t...

"Beware of the Narcissist: Mastering the Art of Identifying and Counteracting Narcissism in Relationships and in One Self" uniquely merges two insightful books into one indispensable guide, offering a comprehensive understanding of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) from both an interpersonal and personal standpoint. This two-in-one volume, authored by Michael Wright and Larry Tate, becomes an essential tool for navigating the complexities of narcissism.In the...

In the blood-soaked fields of Virginia, where the fate of a nation hung in the balance, one Texas regiment carved its name into Civil War legend with unprecedented courage and sacrifice. The First Texas Regiment of Hood's Brigade stood as a thunderbolt in the Army of Northern Virginia, their battle flags torn by bullets, their ranks decimated by devotion to duty that bordered on the supernatural. This extraordinary military history captures the raw essence of these frontier warriors who ma...

The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few "bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats" and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent philosopher George Yancy, Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations emphasizes the i...

It’s been suggested that current poultry production must increase by at least 2.5% per year until 2030 to meet demand from a rapidly growing population. However, whilst modern, more intensive production systems offer the potential to meet this demand, they also bring with them increased safety and environmental risks.Improving poultry meat safety and sustainability provides a comprehensive overview of how best to deal with zoonotic diseases which continue ...

It began with the breaking of the bread and became a movement.During a global Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Australian entrepreneur Philip Ryall and his wife Jennie invited more than sixty church leaders from various Christian backgrounds and denominations into their home.Like yeast leavening a loaf of bread, out of that meal grew a deepening inspiration for the book Dear Unity: Overdue Love Letters to Heal a Divided Church, a collection of t...

How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as they examine it with a critical lens. Rather than breaking with prior anarchist practic...

41 writers. One cause.We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.Powerful stories from George Pelecanos, Andrew Vachss, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles de Lint, Ken Bruen, Chet Williamson, James Reasoner, Charlie Stella, Michael A. Black, Wayne Dundee, Roxane Gay, Ray Banks, Tony Black, Les Edgerton ...

Evangelical Christians are active across all spheres of intellectual and public life today. But a disconnect remains: the work they produce too often fails to inform their broader communities. In the midst of a divisive culture and a related crisis within evangelicalism, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play—within the church and beyond. What does it look like to embrace such a vocation out of a commitment to the common ...