"For Ella and all the innocents slain by soulless men."It's the dedication of the book on the Salvadoran civil war retired reporter Carlton Marsh was writing before he committed suicide.A shocking death. Marsh had asked Declan Shaw to come to Old Mapleton, Connecticut to help him with research. He looked forward to Declan's visit: "See you at cocktail time, a fine whiskey's waiting." They talked on the phone a few hours before the man blew his head off.Now Declan st...

Women everywhere have busy lives full of activity and distraction and often devoid of retreat or refreshment. Every life needs time for renewal, a time to gain perspective-to take a deep breath and relax. What better time to do this than the time spent with the Lord?It is vital to spend time with the Lord-to seek His help, strength and wisdom. In Seeing His Heart In Yours intense forty days of verse and meditation, readers will find a breather and emerge refreshed and ready to take...

A HIDDEN SIDE OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONIn an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. From university professors to women forced to remain in shadow to heretic monks to mad wanderers, all explored realms beyond the senses. All challenged authority. The most fortunate found acclaim in the New Science, their names recorded in immortal stone. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil, discovering the dark nerve fibers that underpin thi...

What connects these twenty-four stories is an exploration of place. It can be a location nearby like in Boardwalk Oracle where a clanging candy dispensing machine plays matchmaker in a story that flirts with magical realism. Or the depth of a glacier on a faraway planet in Icebound, where science fiction turns into crime fiction. Or a tourist destination with dark ancient roots in Where the Gods Live.The collection opens with A Book to Live By, a...

NOVELSHunter at Large, by Thomas B. DeweyDetective Mickey Phillips seeks revenge after a deadly attack leaves his world in ruins. A classic noir crime novel.That Worlds May Live, by Nelson S. BondScientists race to save Earth from mysterious cosmic rays. An interplanetary adventure filled with bold heroes, alien civilizations, and stunning revelations.SERIAL ...

NOVELSHunter at Large, by Thomas B. DeweyDetective Mickey Phillips seeks revenge after a deadly attack leaves his world in ruins. A classic noir crime novel. That Worlds May Live, by Nelson S. BondScientists race to save Earth from mysterious cosmic rays. An interplanetary adventure filled with bold heroes, alien civilizations, and stunning revelations.SERIAL NOVEL

Blood ties. The family we've been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The twenty-six stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery or even the possibility of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love stories.The collection opens with "Spy Head," a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In "Texas Two-Step," brotherhood leads to a wicked double-cross. "Razorbills" shows a young woman seeking freed...

When you're doing something that's out of the ordinary, your mental programing, your paradigm, will try and stop you. If you want to win, you must keep going. Your paradigms may be masked in complacency, fear, worry, anxiety, insecurities, self-doubt, mental hurry and self-loathing—the result is keeping you STUCK....locked in a box and starved of your dreams and ambitions. To change your life—you MUST change your paradigm. The change is not easy, but it's worth it, and the...

Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, MarkVictor Hansen of Chicken Soup For the Soul, the master storyteller; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is the masterthinker. When it comes to systematizing life, no one else can touch him. He is simply the best. Bob Proctorcollects thoughts like Imelda Marcos used to collect shoes. He strings them together in exquisite arrays;one thought leading logically to the next until a whole method ...

I love the work, but I hate the business. Maybe you have said those words about your own job. But if you are a sportscaster, that phrase has probably become your mantra.Known best as the longtime play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Bullets, Proctor also called games for the Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, and Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball and the New Jersey Nets and Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. Proctor has also enjoyed a long career as a ...

Scratch the surface of North Texas and the stereotypes of wide-open Western spaces with lots of football disappear, replaced by an endless series of contrasting images. Gleaming glass towers rise over stockyards redolent with the smell of livestock. Suburbs full of families sit just a few blocks from neon-lit nightlife districts. In any given neighborhood, you might hear conjunto music competing with country and western tunes. There are grimy bars and gleaming churches, funky stores and ne...

Since the release of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins in 2005, there has been a pronounced surge in alternative uses of the computer term ‘reboot,’ a surge that has witnessed the term deployed in new contexts and new signifying practices, involving politics, fashion, sex, nature, sport, business, and media. As a narrative concept, however, reboot terminology remains widely misused, misunderstood, and misinterpreted across popular, journalistic, and academic discourses, being recklessly an...