Misadventures with Mets is a coming-of-age memoir that captures the adventurous, humorous, and sometimes rebellious escapades of Michael and his best friend, Mets. Set against the backdrop of 1970s-1980s Minnesota, the story unfolds through vivid snapshots of adolescence-fishing trips, icy misadventures, boyhood mischief, and the unbreakable bond of friendship.Blending nostalgic storytelling with Midwestern charm, the memoir explores themes of resilience, curiosity, and identity. I...

A beautifully illustrated guide to the diverse and numerous freshwater fish species in Virginia.In Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, the foremost experts on Commonwealth fishes bring their decades of field experience to readers, offering a complete reference to the fishes of the entire state of Virginia. Gathering information that until now could only be found scattered across numerous reference works and online databases, this book provides ev...

Get unstuck from procrastination and perfectionism, improve your relationships, and find deeper meaning in your life with this evidence-based workbook.If you have obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), you may struggle with debilitating self-judgment, doubt and indecision, perfectionism, and an inability to finish tasks. You may fear situations where you don’t have complete control. And you may feel chronically frustrated and “stuck.” If OCPD has negativ...

A beautifully illustrated guide to the diverse and numerous freshwater fish species in Virginia.In Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, the foremost experts on Commonwealth fishes bring their decades of field experience to readers, offering a complete reference to the fishes of the entire state of Virginia. Gathering information that until now could only be found scattered across numerous reference works and online databases, this book provides ev...

An engaging look at the rise and fall of cultural diversity in the colonial South and its role in shaping a distinct southern identityThe 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared process of immigration, adaptation,...

Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thoughtful ambivalence and humor. Altogether, the various threads of Home Movies—image, tangibility, fame, nostalgia, simulation, marijuana, and cinema history—pull together into a mo...

The Holy Spirit is reintroducing the church to Pentecostal Fire!When many consider modern Christianity, they rightly wonder how we have come so far from the dynamic, supernatural community pictured in the Book of Acts. God did not change between then and now. What happened? Could it be that, in our quest to be relevant, entertaining, hip and appealing to modern culture, we have lowered the standard for the Christian life?We need a true revival that...

Detective Cord Wheaton is assigned to a Halloween zombie party, Thrill St. Pete, and his new girlfriend is one of the zombie dancers. Cord seeks to uncover the mystery of the zombies while suffering teasing from within his department. When things turn ugly, he has to decide who is the real zombie and who is in costume. Filled with humor, romance, mystery and zombies, this is episode 2 in the saga.

Luxuriant EnvironmentalismMake a huge, positive, global difference from your own home! Prioritize comfort over sacrifice while saving thousands of dollars. Explore dozens of solutions and their impacts on carbon footprint, petroleum footprint, toxic footprint, and other environmental issues.If 20% of the population implemented half the solutions in this book, it would solve the biggest global problems. All without writing to politicians, joining protest...

This book is a compilation of the first 7 episodes of The Cord Wheaton Saga - this being part of the pre-apocalyptic world as the zombies come into creation. Follow Detective Cord Wheaton as he attempts to discover the source of the zombies, who is behind them and why, while he fights for his girlfriend and his own life. He faces ridicule within his department as he tries to convince the skeptical that zombies do exist.A unique twist on the zombie genre - these undead don't die wit...

Detective Cord Wheaton is invited to visit his girlfriend's uncle's farm for Thanksgiving in episode 3 of The Cord Wheaton Saga. Reminiscent of horror movie farmhouses, while there Cord discovers zombies are real - coming face to face with a familiar zombie, and uncovering other links to previous encounters. His romance in disrepair, he puts up a front while trying to survive the weekend.

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by George R. R. Martin and Gardner DozoisFrom pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age scien...