Vivian Bowles has never been the same since losing her daughter to a hit-and-run accident. Her marriage died, her business crumbled, and she tumbled into a deep well of sorrow and despair.She sustained herself by channeling her grief into a singular mission: finding and punishing the person responsible for her daughter's death.Her quest for answers has taken her from Cape Coral to Denver, where she plans to teach Sheldon and Terri James a hard lesson in personal loss.

On an otherwise ordinary spring day in sunny Jacksonville, Florida, an unhinged gunman shreds the fabric of a nation in yet another outburst of senseless gun violence.His victims are primarily children—innocents walking home from school in those final fleeting days before the promise of spring break and time spent with family and friends.When the families of the loved and the lost unite in a push for meaningful reform in the national gun laws, the National Rifle Association...

Corruption, greed, and runaway technology have come to a breaking point in the not-too-distant future... When a seemingly random murder in the area known as "Techslum" turns out to be much more than it appears, investigating FBI agent Vera Morales becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could very well change the course of human evolution.

All they wanted was a vacation to the Grand Canyon. Instead, they found themselves on a collision course with a terrible, timeless darkness.Welcome to Adrienne, home to history's worst serial killers and mass murderers. Nestled in an isolated meadow high in the Sierra Nevada, Adrienne is sort of like a cosmic lint trap. It collects the universe's negative energy—all of our blackest human impulses—before purging that darkness back into the world in a yearly lottery. From Hitler to B...

Corruption, greed, and runaway technology have come to a breaking point in the not-too-distant future...From Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer Daniel Powell (Ugly Americans, Life & Beth) and newcomer Erin Foley-Chan, along with fan-favorite artist Dennis Calero (Spider-Man Noir, Assassin's Creed, X-Factor), comes a sci-fi noir series like no other ...A seemingly random murder in the area known as the Techslum turns out to be much more than it appears, as the corpse is d...

Horror Culture in the New Millennium: Digital Dissonance and Technohorror explores the myriad ways in which technology is altering the human experience as articulated in horrific storytelling. The text surveys a variety of emerging trends and story forms in the field, through both a series of critical essays and personal interviews with scholars, editors, authors, and artists now creating and refining horror stories in the new millennium.The project posits a rationale for the prese...

After the war, a sickly mother gives birth to twins. Realizing they can’t care for both boys, the parents keep one child and give the other, who was considered to be not normal, to a family member.Though he was well cared for and was given an education and the best of everything, he was resentful of not being raised by his birth family. In addition, he seemed to have inherited some of his mother’s mental instability. He was caught in the grips of changing morals, discovering the su...

On Thursday, June 21, 2016, our Catholic parish of St. John Neumann, Lancaster, PA started a transformation when Fr. Daniel F. X. Powell, Jr. became our pastor. What was most impressive were his Sunday homilies—sermons that explain the Bible readings at Mass. He often suggested we look inside ourselves and meet the Lord to enrich our spirituality. It was also apparent his suggestions could be a meditative guide in prayer for any Christian denomination, but especially for Catholic Eucharist...

Transparent Teaching of Adolescents is a combination of philosophy, method, and application of research-based strategies that follow the progression of the school year. A global, collaborative effort, the dialogue between this teacher and her former students presents both the wholeness of teaching and a model of how to build rapport, engage high school students in their experience, and enrich their learning at the secondary level of education.

Transparent Teaching of Adolescents is a philosophy, method, and timely application of strategies that span the school year. A collaborative effort from all over the globe, the dialogue between this teacher and her former students presents both the wholeness of teaching and a model of how to build rapport, engage high school students in their experience, and enrich learning at the secondary level of education.

*Children’s Book Council Favorites Award*That quokka may be cute, but does it want a hug? The quokka says "No!"In Don't Hug the Quokka!, young readers get a lighthearted and friendly introduction to the concept of consent, learning that even the most adorable creatures might not want a hug—unless they say so!Consent is a really important topic for parents to introduce to young children, but it can be tricky to do so in a wa...

Art hacks life when two filmmakers launch a project to cancel more than £1m of high-interest debt from their local community.Bank Job is a white-knuckle ride into the dark heart of our financial system, in which filmmaker and artist duo Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn risk their sanity to buy up and abolish debt by printing their own money in a disused bank in Walthamstow, London. Tired of struggling in an economic system that leaves creative people on the ...