A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities.The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot a half mile away from Milwaukee’s largest public housing proje...

A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur "Genius Award" winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities.The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot a half mile away from Milwaukee's largest public housing proje...

The system fails. We all know it. Most of us accept it. But when the system fails those he loves, John McConnell is compelled to act. He's no superhero, but he does have that certain something. Enlisting the aid of a reclusive hacker, McConnell embarks on a vigilante journey into the shadowlands of American Empire, revealing the conspiracy theories are not as bad as people think, they're far worse. The American empire has taken a dark turn, selling out its soldiers, murdering its citizens....

By the time the police arrive, the rain is already working on the blood.It disappears into the cracks like the ground is trying to swallow what happened.Outside South Barrow High, two boys lie under silver emergency blankets while sirens cut through the dark. A third boy is missing. On the pavement: a chalk warning, a black velvet pouch, and the first ugly hint that this wasn't random violence.Gavin Marks has seen violence before.He knows th...

The Prince's Speech is a stirring, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful call to action from one of the world's leading proponents of sustainable farming practices, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. Redeeming the Great Emancipator enumerates Lincoln's anti-slavery credentials, showing that a deeply held belief in the God-given rights of all people steeled the president in his commitment to emancipation and his hope f...

A former basketball star, Farmer Will Allen is an innovator, educator, and community builder.When he looked at an abandoned city lot he saw a huge table, big enough to feed the whole world.With clear and lively text and bright, engaging illustrations, this inspiring story of his determination to bring good food to every table inspires as it informs.A Live Oak Media audio production.

By the time the night staff realizes what's happening, the witness is already on the floor and the blood is spreading beneath the chairs.Inside a locked psychiatric hospital in Tacoma, a buried federal witness is nearly beaten to death by a patient who should never have been able to reach her.It looks like random madness.Gavin Marks knows better.The woman was supposed to be hidden. Protected. Forgotten by the men she helped destroy years ago...

Imagine a world, exactly like ours, but different…Welcome to the H2LiftShips series, a cosmic romp fans have compared to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for its witty quirkiness, and that critics hail as "The most unique and weirdest book series out there."Captain Graciela is where she wants to be, far from her controlling mother, in a rented solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. It can be lonely in the void, but the crew on the H2Lift...

John McConnell has killed three men. Granted, they had it coming. Reconciled with his daughter, dating a beautiful woman he doesn't deserve, stolen money in the bank, McConnell's ready to hang up his guns. But the American Doctrine for Democracy are still murdering Americans. The reclusive hacker Hammurabi convinces McConnell to return to the shadowy highways and byways of America one more time to try and rectify that. Killing bad people for good reason is still murder and FBI agent Oral D...

After writing a pioneering TV drama series in the nineties and knowing nothing but success afterwards, Adam Donovan mysteriously abandons Hollywood for his hometown of Redmond, Washington.When attorney Natalie Summers asks him to take in three roughed-up orphan girls from L.A., Adam is as surprised as anyone when he says yes. The oldest is rude and shrewd--she threatened to kill him the first night they met--but maybe that's why he's drawn to her.Natalie soon develops misgi...

Dilton Doiley has always been a little…borderline, but when his science teacher tells the class about an astronomical event they'll be observing, Dilton's worst fears are confirmed—the end of the world is nigh! As he takes drastic steps to prepare, Jughead is caught in a dilemma—should he humor Dilton or try to stop him? And what if Dilton’s right…?