The character, Danny, shares a story of adventure in the deep south. A son of a single mother, She leaves Danny with grandparents on a farm in the backwoods. The life of a country boy has many twists and turns. A story of prejudice, fun and heart breaking situations.The story elevates into a story of a stepchild forced to leave the dirt road life and live with his mother.As Danny marries, masters a craft and eventually starts a small business. The corporate world of highly educated people ...

Written by a team of leading China specialists, this updated 2nd edition of Chinese Politics explores the dynamics of state power and politics in contemporary China, focusing on the Xi Jinping era.Through its multi-disciplinary contributions, this book explores the extent to which Xi has reshaped the political, economic, socio-cultural, and demographic terrains of the PRC, as well as Beijing’s foreign policy. The book will help readers to think productively about the traje...

Earning a higher salary rarely solves financial stress; in fact, it usually exacerbates it. As our income grows, so do our tastes, leading to an invisible phenomenon known as lifestyle creep. We upgrade our cars, our homes, and our wardrobes, entirely trapping ourselves in a high-stress cycle where we must work relentlessly just to maintain an inflated baseline of consumption. Intentional Wealth provides a roadmap for escaping this exhausting financial treadmill. True wealth is not measure...

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship ca...

Just when something feels played out, a fresh viewpoint can revitalize it. That's the power of being a writer. You get to show people a way of perceiving the world they had never considered before. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow of TWOS, retaining none of TWOS’s form but most of i...

From the bestselling author of The Spaceship Next Door:“I don’t know how old I am.My earliest memory is something along the lines of fire good, ice bad, so I think I predate written history, but I don’t know by how much. I like to brag that I’ve been there from the beginning, and while this may very well be true, I generally just say it to pick up girls.” --Adam the ImmortalSurviving sixty thousand years takes cunning and more than a little luck. But in the twenty-first cen...

This book is about people suffering with the death of a loved one, or a relationship that has ended. It also offers comfort to know that grief does'nt have to last forever, the pain will still be there, but we can all move forward and get through with the help of family and friends. And owners who have lost a pet.

Love Poems to Rip Your Heart OutFind a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters’s 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins’s beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . .

When Harry discovers that the most evil villain in the galaxy, Galactic Gary, has escaped from prison, it’s not just humankind that is in danger, but time itself.Galactic Gary is trying to discover the whereabouts of a special time bomb that muddles the days of the week. Wednesday can become Saturday and Sunday can become Tuesday! The parts of the bomb are hidden on three different planets and the boys are in a rapid race to recover them. It’s up to Harry and Colin...

Back like he never left, young A.C. brings us more poetic relatability in a similar fashion with this new book. Though not rushed, A.C. stated that the concept for this book came to him over night. He went on to say that he hoped some of his own logic lodged inside the book is absorbed rather than to be misconstrued.

Mighty the cat is a talented slacker who could win an award for his stellar resting skills. He also excels at rambling on about humans, his life, and cat toys. One day he finds himself extremely bored, but he never dreams that by the end of the day he would be granted three wishes even though only two wishes were promised. However, the last wish is not one that Mighty chooses, and it certainly is not one that he has ever even heard about. This wish leads Mighty to one of the coolest new pl...

More lyrics from my personal view on life and events. Lyric writing is an escape from the daily grind of everyday life for me. A way to relax and express what I find difficult to say vocally.