"Shovel bums" endure weeks of flea-bitten motel beds, greasy roadhouse food, tempermental field vehicles, and long stretches of boredom to practice that most romantic of intellectual endeavors-archaeology. Ignored by the profession, working for low wages and little respect, they represent the vast majority of practicing archaeologists in North America. But, unlike unwed welfare mothers and highway underpass junkies, their plight is unknown and unheralded. No longer. The comix Shovel Bu...

The world flooded long ago—further back in time than anyone can remember.A scattered humanity continues to carve out its existence on wooden rigs high above the sea and on wayfaring ships that plot their course on the currents of the ocean.The young captain Abner has only just inherited his own ship when it is fatally damaged during a storm. Without a sea-worthy vessel, all his hopes and dreams for life as a captain appear to be dashed and sunk until he meets the enigmatic ...

Richard hasn't been able to move on after the passing of his wife.Sam can't seem to let go after the death of her mother.But the two of them blame one another for the distance between them.After Sam's defiant behavior in school leads to her suspension, Richard has the idea to go back to his hometown for the holidays. Once arriving back in Lebanon, Richard's life turns upside down when he reconnects with an old flame, pushing Sam further and further away.With...

Amelia doesn't understand why her husband seems so distant. But when she discovers that he is about to have an affair, she can either fight or fly. Hoping to salvage what she believes is a normal marriage, she is willing to do anything, even trusting in God.Everything changes when a man named Abner arrives. Abner is willing to take Amelia to great lengths to understand the emotional distance her husband has created between them, even if it means seeing and changing her husband's di...

Country singer Johnny Wales can't seem to put his guilt behind him.The only thing that is constant in Johnny's life has been his taste for alcohol. Plagued with one wrong decision after the next, Johnny's finally ready to quit losing and start over. Johnny doesn't know where to begin, especially when temptation is lurking around every corner. After Johnny finally hits rock bottom, it's time for him to stick to his guns. But Johnny needs help along the way.When a stranger na...

Matt can't seem to live any kind of life after the accidental death of his son, Chad. To Matt, forgiveness isn't the answer, but after discovering the impact Chad had on the community and his peers, Matt wonders if he really ever knew his son at all. After Matt finds a secret journal in Chad's room that reveals his son's beliefs, Matt decides to put his own faith to the test.When Matt starts building a skate park in memory of his son, a mysterious man named Abner arrives. Abner is ...

The ISMC Wants You!Abner Fortis joined the International Space Marine Corps for two reasons: to escape a life of drudgery building biodomes for his father’s company and to pay off several billion credits in student loans, which the ISMC promised to do.Every Space Marine starts out as a cherry, though, and Abner is no different. When he makes his first combat drop, or cherry drop, he’s a know-nothing second lieutenant added to the mission roster as an aftert...

Lieutenant Fortis Is Back!Fresh from fighting bugs and clones on Pada-Pada, Second Lieutenant Abner Fortis and Third Platoon look forward to some well-deserved liberty on Eros-69, a plutoid colony built to provide all the earthly pleasures available in the far reaches of space.When Fortis’s nemesis reroutes Third Platoon to Eros-28 instead, though, the Space Marines discover they’ve been sent to an industrial colony with limited R&R opportunities and no way...

“It took us three thousand years to find an intelligent species among the stars and only three months to pick a fight with them.”After the United Nations of Terra (UNT) Fleet Frigate Nelson reported an encounter with an alien spaceship, she disappeared without a trace. An alien race called the Maltaani have made their presence known by landing a mass of troops on Balfan-48, a desert planet located far too close to Terra Earth for comfort. Tensions are risi...

23 Essays Demonstrate How God's Voice Guides Every Area of Life, from Science and Economics to Marriage and the ArtsWhat we think shapes who we are. That's why the Bible tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind" (Romans 12:2a). In a time of differing voices competing for our allegiance, we must learn to "think biblically" so we can distinguish good from evil.In this collection of essays, John MacArthur and ...

They called him an anomaly. They were wrong.From Nero's Rome to Trump's America, Trumpus Nero is a historical, psychological, and geopolitical diagnosis of how exhausted civilizations create the rulers who burn them.This is not simply a book about Donald Trump. It is a book about a recurring political archetype: the spectacle ruler. Two thousand years ago, Rome produced Nero, an emperor who transformed power into performance, politics into theatre, and catastrophe into spec...