What really happens when you take on a system — without a lawyer?Fired by text message.No warning. No explanation. No way back.At 46, Ryan Lee watched his career end in a single moment. No severance. No support. No legal representation.Most people don't fight the system.They don't know how.Or they can't afford to.He had neither option.What followed was a six-year battle across three co...

What really happens when you take on a system -- without a lawyer?Fired by text message.No warning. No explanation. No way back.At 46, Ryan Lee watched his career end in a single moment. No severance. No support. No legal representation.Most people don’t fight the system.They don’t know how.Or they can’t afford to.He had neither option.What followed was a six-year battle across three c...

In a post-industrial world of energy scarcity, one man finds himself marooned on his island home. Once a major global hub for trade and finance, the island city now lies in decay, its remaining inhabitants cut off from the world and struggling for existence. Faced with dwindling prospects and with nothing to lose, he leaves for another land, in search of a new beginning.The Exodus is a short story that follows a man's journey across a landscape vastly different from today. Along th...

In a post-industrial world of energy scarcity, one man finds himself marooned on his island home. Once a major global hub for trade and finance, the island city now lies in decay, its remaining inhabitants cut off from the world and struggling for existence. Faced with dwindling prospects and with nothing to lose, he leaves for another land, in search of a new beginning.The Exodus is a short story that follows a man's journey across a landscape vastly different from today. Along th...

An ex-army pilot on his next adventure. A dog trainer establishing her mark. Can they rely on each other when a rescue mission turns deadly?Bjørn Rebel has achieved his lifelong dreams: a helicopter of his own and a business showing-off his beloved Alaska.When the local search and rescue team asks for air support, he jumps at the chance to volunteer. Not only will his experience flying evac missions for an elite division of the army give se...

Ryan Lee is a hot mess.In another lifetime, Ryan had it all. He was a child star in one of the biggest sitcoms on the planet. Now he’s an adult, unemployed, and a poster child for bad decisions. Okay, so he hasn’t robbed a convenience store yet, but only because he’s always either too high or too hungover. When the opportunity to film a reunion show comes up, Ryan jumps at the chance. He needs the money, but more than that, it might be what he needs to drag his career—and himself—o...

**Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelHow can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful—and funny—debut novel of generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-age**Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of...

Ryan Lee is a hot mess.In another lifetime, Ryan had it all. He was a child star in one of the biggest sitcoms on the planet. Now he's an adult, unemployed, and a poster child for bad decisions. Okay, so he hasn't robbed a convenience store yet, but only because he's always either too high or too hungover. When the opportunity to film a reunion show comes up, Ryan jumps at the chance. He needs the money, but more than that, it might be what he needs to drag his career—and himself—o...

Keep your peace of mind by learning proven safety methods to help you prepare your home, evaluate damage, and recover after a flood.In a world where extreme weather events are increasingly unpredictable, being ready for natural disasters is a necessity for every homeowner. The Flood Prevention Handbook is a comprehensive guide that covers each phase of flood safety, so that you can know exactly how to prepare yourself for every stage of the storm. Using step-by-step instructions and expert...

The queer recluse, the shambling farmer, the clannish hill folk—white rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination, alternately revered as moral, healthy, and hardworking, and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth. In Peculiar Places, Ryan Lee Cartwright examines the deep archive of these contrary formations, mapping racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural twentieth-century United States.Sensationalized ...

De Colores! See in color and in light; bring an end to the darkness and to the night. Change your perception, get out of your detention, and remember to the Good News the Lord has mentioned.The Cursillo is a short course in Christianity founded by Roman Catholic laymen in 1944 in Majorca, Spain, with the goal of improving ways to train Christian leaders. The primary objective of the three-day session to ask the Cursillo participants, or cursillistas, to go back into the world and pr...

We are called to encourage one another and that is what this book does! It lifts our spirits so we can be the best we can be and shine like the sun! The Encouragement Page presents seven hip-hop poetry verses designed to help kids shine and know that they are talented, gifted, and blessed. With a little help from these songs kids can be inspired to follow their dreams. These seven hip hop poetry songs carry an uplifting message so kids can believe and achieve! • Do what you love to do! • D...