How can people of faith connect their religious traditions with the rise of overtly fascist violence in the United States? That's the question this book takes up. With first-hand accounts from the largest white supremacist gathering in modern American history at Unite the Right in Charlottesville, Virginia, it shares how the clergy resisting Nazis and the KKK point a way forward for Christians in particular. But The Writing on the Wall expands outward to ask what churches can learn from an...

A coming of age novella inspired by Miles Davis' album KIND OF BLUE, each chapter of Martin's book evokes the atmosphere and themes of a track from the classic acoustic jazz album.

Several years before the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, Carson a young Sergeant in the Army Rangers, goes out on his last mission in Afghanistan before separating from the military. Something happens on his last deployment that he hadn't dealt with before, leaving him traumatized and full of guilt. His original plan of getting out and becoming a paid MMA fighter starts to crumble as he tries to drown his troubles with alcohol, but all that changes when he comes across a beautiful...

Dissecting the false narratives around success, "Stop Hustling" is written as an intervention for the workaholic, the overachiever, and anyone who has mistaken an unwavering grind for a virtue. It offers the reader a different framework for success—one that prioritizes emotional well-being, work-life harmony, and long-term prosperity. This book questions ingrained notions that have influenced our workplace culture, from dissecting the all-powerful "Pareto Principle" to highlighting the ben...

After separating from the United States Army, I started to struggle with my mental health and writing these poems helped me cope. My goal writing these poems is for the Veteran community, and anyone struggling with mental health, or heartbreak to find empathy.

A boy, weak of body, became a pillar of strength.As the first century approached, a sickly boy was born while the Roman Republic was nearing its ultimate demise. The boy's life and the country both hung in the balance.But the strong and determined young man grew to be the Republic's fiercest defender. With his dogged determination and towering intellect, Marcus Tullius Cicero became a famed statesman, celebrated orator, and an esteemed philosopher.Surviving...

Almost broken from the relentless pressure to perform, an anxious child prodigy struggles to break free and find her true calling.All Maria Agnesi wants to do is stay in her room and read books. But her father has other plans for his "little genius." Thrust into Milan's elite academic and social circles, the shy introvert performs dutifully for astonished audiences—at the expense of her own physical and emotional health.Having easily mastered multi...

Take Adaptive Leadership to the Next Level and Seize Your Leadership Moment“Each of us has the potential for a leadership moment. Reading this book will help you find yours.” ―Dr. Marty Linsky, faculty at Harvard Kennedy School & author of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership#1 New Release in Business & Money Skills and Office ManagementAdaptive Leadership was introduced to the world in 1994 by Ron...

Influence Your Organization and Lead ChangeAnyone can be a leader. You don't have to be a CEO or work in a management position to have influence. Your Leadership Moment provides practical tools, techniques and inspiration to discover your leadership potential. It combines personal and real-world anecdotes with a framework for leadership that can help anyone learn to lead.Anyone can be an influencer. Author and lead...

Chimney sweep Shane McCarthy has three great loves in life: a whip-smart wife named Lou, pickup basketball, and his booming hometown, San Francisco. While Lou hunts easy millions at the height of the dot-com frenzy, Shane fills his extra hours searching for a troubled player from his weekly hoops game — a twenty-year-old named Sampson whos disappeared, leaving only a bulging duffle bag behind. Following a trail that winds through Pacific Heights parties and the projects, Shane unravels a myst...

Eric B. Martins sweeping and highly praised debut novel of young love and family feuds lays bare the new race and class wars of a swiftly changing south. By turns lyrical and brutal, 'Luck' echoes with the voices of unexpected characters: the self-assured musings of Hermelinda Salmeron; local wise guy Harvey Dickerson philosophizing from beyond the grave; and a chorus of the countys consciousness at Eddies Bar-N-Q.

A novel about crossing the border in the opposite direction: from wealthy, suburban Texas into the wild heart of Mexico. Alma Price is seventeen — shes smart, shes angry, and shes going to Mexico. Her grandfather lives there, or so she thinks, although its hard to know whats true with a lying mother who raised her amongst the blond brigade of their rich Texas neighborhood. Sick of suburbia, Alma hops a bus, crosses the border, gets a disguise, and winds through the thugs and witches and whore...